Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

CHAPTER 10

Twelve Significant and Effective Insights My Dad Taught Me About Prayer After this manner therefore pray ye … —M ATTHEW 6:9, KJV

F RED STONE WAS the greatest male prayer warrior and intercessor I have ever known. Dad was converted in 1949 in a southern West Virginia coal field revival that continued nightly for fortytwo consecutive months. My father had only a tenth-grade education, never attended Bible school, but amassed thousands of books, read continually, and was gifted with wisdom that often amazed the highest among the academic elite he encountered. From the time of a teenager until his retirement due to physical disabilities, Dad was noted throughout America as a man who could get hold of God and a man to whom God revealed secrets. In his early ministry he was blessed with several older mentors, but his chief teacher of spiritual gifts and their operation was his uncle, Rufus Dunford. Uncle Rufe, as he was called, was miraculously healed of a brain tumor in the early 1930s and accepted a call into the ministry at the