Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

any foreign language. I spent more than two hours with him three months before his death and asked him to pray for me. I bent over his bed, and he laid hands on me and began to pray in the Spirit. He stopped and said, “Son, what is the Holy Spirit saying?” I replied that I didn’t know. He rebuked me and said, “The Spirit is praying in Latin, and you need to know the language and how to interpret it!” This was the man my father ministered with in the early 1950s, and he also taught Dad to pray for the interpretation. I cannot count the times my father would pray in a prayer language and then interpret by the Holy Spirit to me and others in the prayer meeting exactly what the Spirit was revealing. Many times it was a warning of something that was coming in the future for the family, the church, the nation, and, at times, for a foreign nation. My father saw the assassination of Yitzak Rabin by a fellow Jew three months prior to the actual assassination; he even shared the warning with Jewish believers from Israel. After praying in the Spirit, he predicted “great darkness coming from Lebanon,” at a time when Lebanon had been stable and in a peaceful state for several years. Weeks later a democratic leader was killed, and the country when into chaos. I recall Dad praying in a home and saying that the Holy Spirit was revealing a clash between the two leading Palestinian groups in Israel. Weeks later the unexpected clashes began. Praying in the Spirit also opened his mind and spirit to