Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

moving and eventually voices cursing. On several occasions there were visible manifestations of spirits cloaked in dark garments and hoods and hiding their faces. This was not my imagination, but it was literal and very mentally tormenting and frightening. At that time my mother was secretary at a state office where a powerful man of God, Floyd Lawhon, served as evangelism director for a major Full Gospel denomination. She went to him privately and said, “Could you talk to Perry? He is obsessed with the subject of demons and is having all types of strange things beginning to happen to him.” Floyd called me in his office, and I will never forget what he said as he looked at me: “Perry, as long as you concentrate on demons, they will show up. If you preach and concentrate on Jesus, then He will show up!” I realized I was giving the adversary too much attention, and he was accommodating my interest. I began to preach faith, Jesus and His authority, and as Floyd Lahon said, the presence of Christ began to manifest and deliver individuals from the oppression of the enemy. Herein is the point. Those who focus their attention on activity in the spirit world, including searching for “ghosts” in a “haunted house,” will eventually have a spirit encounter of some type. However, this ghost is not a former member of the community whose spirit is in limbo traveling the sphere of time and light attempting to discover a place of rest. It is a spirit, but not one to be encountered or entertained. The fact that the authority of God’s Word, Christ’s blood, and a believer’s