Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

truth and has dull spiritual understanding, there is a pattern for how I should pray for that person. First, I should pray that the “eyes of their understanding will be enlightened,” a prayer that Paul prayed for the believers in Ephesus in Ephesians 1:18. The word enlightened is the Greek word photizo , which is used to indicate shedding rays of light on something to brighten it up. It is also translated as “illuminated” in Hebrews 10:32. I like to use the illustration of the cameras we used before the digital age. Light-sensitive film was placed in the camera, surrounded by total darkness. However, when the shutter opened, the light-sensitive film produced an image called a negative, which was later developed into a photograph. If a photo came out too dark, it was due to a lack of the proper amount of light coming through the shutter or the opening. The film is your mind, the shutter is your eyes of understanding, and the light is the powerful revelation from the Bible. If you will open the shutter of your mind and allow the light of the Word of God in, your mind will become impressed with the right images and imaginations, which is the first process to your freedom! After praying for the eyes of a person’s understanding to be opened, we should then pray for the person to be filled with the knowledge of the Lord. Paul prayed for the Ephesians’ understanding to be opened that “you may know ” (Eph. 1:18, emphasis added)! Spiritual strongholds are established to exalt themselves against the knowledge of God (2 Cor. 10:5). I have traveled through Europe and toured castles and fortresses.