How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

brain may have been impacted by three strokes, but his inner spirit was alive, and he heard—not just with his natural ears but also with his spiritual ears! I found it interesting that when a person is about to depart this life, under normal circumstances their hearing is the last physical responder to cease. This is important information for any family member standing near the deathbed of a dying loved one. If that individual never made a public profession of faith, then the believer should speak into his or her ear and instruct the dying loved one to pray a prayer in his or her mind. As long as the spirit has not departed from the physical shell (see 1 Corinthians 5:3; 2 Corinthians 5:6), God knows the “thoughts and intents of the heart” (Heb. 4:12) and can hear a prayer of repentance prayed from a person’s mind. In the Bible we read where it says, “Jesus, knowing their thoughts…” (Matt. 9:4). Richard Madison, a minister friend of mine, was in a terrible headon collision on April 13, 1986. He was rushed to the hospital and was pronounced brain dead upon arrival. Due to numerous serious injuries and broken bones, he remained in a brain-dead coma for twentyseven days. His Christian mother would come into his room every four hours and anoint him, believing God to raise him up—which God did! Richard describes how on one occasion his soul came out of his body and walked down the hall of the hospital, going to the hospital chapel where his mother and others were praying. He could hear his mother praying, and he actually stood beside her, watching her pray as she asked the Lord to “save Richard and bring him out of the coma.” It was at that moment—while he