Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone
some not even completing high-school-level educations. Yet when they preached, it was evident that the anointing was their teacher, and you would have thought they had attended both college and seminary. They were self taught men (and women), and they amazed even their critics with their knowledge. In Acts 10:38 we read, “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.” Christ was anointed to preach but given power from the Holy Spirit to perform miracles. T HE U SE OF H ANDKERCHIEFS AND A PRONS
Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them. —A CTS 19:11–12
It is impossible for a minister bodily to be in two places at once. If Christ was ministering in Capernaum, He could not at the same time be in Nazareth. A human is limited to the ability to be in one location at a time. In one biblical narrative, a Roman centurion beseeched Christ to heal his dying servant. When
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