Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

taped prophetic videos that were offered on Christian stations for numerous years. Over time this provided income to purchase our own television equipment. The entire process took twelve years. We initiated the Mannafest program with a Hebraic/prophetic format, including programs taped on location in Israel. It was during one of those times that I remembered a statement I had made in the early 1990s. Since age eighteen I have published a newsletter called The Voice of Evangelism . It began as a simple four-page leaflet and has turned into a twenty-eight-page, full-color, bimonthly publication. In each early issue I spent time researching a prophetic update, detailing events according to Bible prophecy. After years of this process, I once told my wife, “Why am I wasting time doing this? Only a few people are reading what I am spending hours studying.” She replied, “Maybe the Lord is going to use what you are learning down the road at some point.” Twelve years later when I saw the format that the Lord laid out for us for the weekly telecast, I knew He had directed my footsteps. God’s no is not always a no; it can be a delay, such as with Moses and Miriam and David and his son. The second point is that God’s no to you may be a yes to someone in your bloodline. T HE U NEXPLAINABLE “N O”