Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

prayer breaks up and they return to their seats. This may be because our minds are geared to television programming, which is interrupted about every thirteen to fourteen minutes for a commercial. You must pray beyond the commercial breaks to effectively intercede. 4. P RAY AS L ONG AS THE B URDEN S TAYS Dad never quit praying as long as he felt a prayer burden. This is one aspect of prayer that too many Christians ignore. No one enjoys carrying a burden. For some, the burden is a heaviness concerning how they will provide for their families. For others, it is a burden they must live with such as when caring for a family member in ill health. A prayer burden is not a mental pressure, like a depression or a feeling of oppression; it is a spiritual pressure, almost a discomfort in the heart of your spirit or innermost being. You feel a churning within your belly . A burden may also be a signal of a change or possible difficulty that is coming. Dad taught me that one of the ways God informs a person on earth of some form of danger, trouble, or satanic attack is by placing a pressure in a person’s spirit that is not some normal type of feeling. The weight can become so heavy that a person cannot think or work clearly. It may begin to manifest as restlessness and uneasiness that cannot be explained by any circumstances occurring for that individual at that moment. In fact, the strangest part of the burden is that