Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

such a long delay. Then I read:

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. —G ENESIS 18:11

Literally, Sarah had gone through menopause and was past the age of having a child. This was the purpose for a twenty-five-year wait for Isaac to be born. (Abraham was one hundred, Gen. 21:5.) God desired for the circumstances to be completely impossible for the couple to have a son. That way both Abraham and Sarah—and all who would hear—would know that the child was a gift and promise from God. The Almighty delayed the timing so that He alone would be glorified. The name Isaac means “laughter,” as Sarah laughed when God told her she would bear a son in her old age (Gen. 18:13–15). In Hebrew, his name is Yitzach ; a person cannot say Yitzach without opening their mouth and saying a phrase that sounds like you are laughing. Yitzahhch ! Delayed answers are not denials—they are simply pauses in the action. There are reasons God puts you on hold. In 1988 I was in Zephyrhills, Florida, preaching for Pastor Tom Jammes. One night Tom and I went to the church at 11:00 p.m. to have an all-night prayer meeting. We were burdened for