Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

through the Judean wilderness like a hunter seeking a prey. Eventually Saul gave David’s wife to another man. David had to take his family to a special place, hiding them from Saul’s soldiers. Prior to his ascension to the throne, he experienced his worst trial when an invading army burnt down the town where he and sixhundred of his men were living, capturing the wives and children and spoiling all their goods. Ziklag would be David’s lowest point prior to taking the hill of Zion and becoming king. The prophecy doesn’t lie when the promise appears to die. God told Moses to tell Pharaoh, “Let My people go” (Exod. 5:1). However, the king of Egypt hardened his heart —not once but ten times (Exod. 7:13)! I wonder if Moses ever thought he was wasting his time and should just return to his career as a shepherd for Jethro. When Abraham was seventy-five, he was told he would have a son, but when he was ninety-nine, Sarah was still barren. Sarah felt she was too old and even laughed when the Lord told her she would become pregnant (Gen. 18:12). Some things that seem wrong are actually things that are right (circumstances, not sins). Let’s go back to Joseph. He was cast into a pit—that doesn’t seem right. Then he was sold to a traveling band of the sons of Ishmael, and this really doesn’t seem right. As a teenager, he ended up a slave in another nation—not only does that not seem right, but it also doesn’t seem fair. Why would God allow him to be accused of something he never did, be arrested and thrown into a jail, and practically