How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

from the pastor’s house. Thus our own spirits were sensitive to the very atmosphere in the area. In the late 1980s we began ministering in the Tampa area. The area we were ministering in and staying in was located in South Tampa. At the time this was perhaps the darkest and most oppressive atmosphere I had ever encountered. Our son was still an infant, and each night at exactly twelve thirty he would awake, screaming and shaking. This went on the entire time we were in the city and ceased when we departed. I soon discovered that the Tampa area was noted for being a very seductive area, with one man in particular in charge of numerous adult strip clubs and other forms of pornography that surrounded us in every direction. It was a city where certain types of people came out at night to party, drink, take drugs, and pack out the strip clubs. It was also rumored that the Mafia had moved their center to Tampa because of the drugs being run through Florida. It appears that often the atmosphere in major cities can be traced to the types of sins, iniquities, and carnal pleasures that dominate or control those living in those particular areas. Sin is more than a three-letter word. It involves carnal thoughts that lead to actions that impact the person and alter the person’s personality, which in return alters the spiritual atmosphere. When there are numerous believers influencing the morals and laws of a community, there will follow a spirit of peace and tranquility throughout the region. When drugs are being sold on street corners, gangs roam like hungry wolves, bars are filled with drunken men, and seducing spirits capture the imagination of the youth, then a covering of spiritual evil can