Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

very gifted in understanding the operation of spiritual gifts. Our ministry, the Voice of Evangelism, has two large facilities and a seventy-eight-acre piece of land with plans for constructing the Omega Center International, a youth church and a major Christian youth camp facility. Years ago Dad came by the office to see all the Lord had done through His blessing upon the ministry. Dad said, “Son, I would have loved to have accomplished this in my ministry, but I did not have the faith to believe for finances and the strength to do what you have done.” Here was a man who had prayed a prayer of faith and had seen sixteen people healed of cancer in the last fifteen years of his ministry, yet he had difficulty believing for finances on a large scale! I have not stepped out into any ministry project until I have heard from the Holy Spirit, but I have also never been concerned about finances. I believe that if God plans it, then He pays for it! That’s just my personal faith level. There will be times when your answer to prayer will be linked to the proper timing of the event or situation. Thus your answer can be delayed but not necessarily denied. At age seventy-five Abraham received the promise of God for a son. Ten years later Sarah was still barren and Abraham was still fatherless (Gen. 16:3). Finally, at age ninety-nine, the Lord appeared to Abraham and reconfirmed a son through Sarah, nearly twenty-four years after the initial promise. I always questioned the reason for