Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

It finally became so intense that while preaching one hot July in a white tent in Alabama, I stopped preaching and told the seven hundred to seven hundred fifty attendees that I was fighting a terrible battle and needed God to deliver me from it. After giving an altar invitation, I was headed to the church on the hill to change out of my wet clothes when a group of about sixteen of my closest friends said, “You are not going anywhere until we pray for you!” They grabbed the bottle of anointing oil and drenched my hair, laid hands upon me, and prayed with such energy and force that I began laughing—not out of disrespect, but out of what this scene must look like to the Lord. As I arrived minutes later in the pastor’s office, I looked into the mirror and laughed so hard when I saw my greasy hair, disheveled shirt, and the sawdust from the tent floor covering my pants legs. When departing that night, a precious friend said to me, “You did the right thing. Now the enemy has nowhere to hide because you exposed him to the light!” I have had many years since my freedom from depression to think about what it means to expose it to the light . This spiritual principle is the first in the foundation of your personal freedom—exposing what is hidden to the light. Our adversary is connected to darkness. Spiritual ignorance is a form of darkness. The common Greek word for “darkness” in the New Testament is skot’os , from a word that literally and figuratively means to be “shady or obscure.” Darkness is a result of a lack of or the omission of light. Satan’s kingdom is