Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

possible with God, for with “God all things are possible” (Matt. 19:26). It is impossible for an entire nation to cross the Red Sea, but not when Moses raises his rod and commands the sea to open (Exod. 14:16–22). It is impossible to feed six hundred thousand men in a dry desert, but not when God has angel’s food called manna being baked in heaven and sprinkled on the ground six out of seven days a week for forty years (Exod. 16:35). It is impossible to break a forty-two-month famine in one day, but God reversed the poverty of Samaria using four men with leprosy (2 Kings 7:3–10). Three hundred men cannot take on a foreign army, but Gideon took three hundred and did the impossible (Judg. 7:7). The entire Bible is a book of the impossible made possible. I have met numerous individuals who have bumped into a solid wall of impossibility and turned their attention to God to find a divine intervention that made the impossible possible. The first thing a person must do is realize that with God nothing is impossible (Luke 1:37). The reason we don’t always ask God to perform the impossible is because we are afraid to ask because we fear failure. “What if I pray and it doesn’t happen? If it doesn’t happen, I may become discouraged and be disappointed in God!” The fact is, when things are at the impossibility level, what harm will it do if you have to ask God and believe Him for a divine reversal? When the Syrian general Naaman had leprosy, he preconceived in his mind how he would be healed. Elisha would walk outside his house, lay his hand over