Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

double up our prayers for the firstborn sons and all firstborn children. Often siblings will carefully watch and mimic the ways of the older ones in the family. If the adversary can chain a bondage around the firstborn, then the younger siblings see the captivity and may be drawn into a similar prison. The battle for the firstborn will never end—at least in this life. However, the weapons to defeat the adversary are at our disposal. B REAKING THE S ATANIC H EDGE If you have two children, one may be compliant and the other defiant. One may be easy to discipline, and the other may challenge your authority. Often in a large family, one child will struggle more with addictions, rebellion, and personal sins than the others. Why is it difficult to penetrate their intellect to understand the truth? What is the unseen hindrance that prevents them from reaching out for help? Sometime back while meditating on this question, I saw in my spirit how the adversary attempts to build a hedge around your unsaved children (or child), almost like an invisible cage, to prevent you from reaching them and to prevent them from getting out of their bondage. I compare this type of hedge to the hedge surrounding Job. The man Job was the greatest man in the East (Job 1:1–3), with massive wealth including land, animals, houses, and ten