Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

delivered from drugs. A prostitute hears one gospel message, repents, and instantly loses the desire to sell her body. An alcoholic kneels at an altar, repents of his or her sins, and suddenly feels the chains of alcoholism snap by the power of God. The fact that a sixty-minute message and a sixtysecond prayer can do this is proof that there is power in the gospel message and that Christ is alive and still changing hearts today!” In no other world religion does the message impact the hearer in such a short time. This is because the Word of God is “quick [alive] and powerful [energized]” (Heb. 4:12, KJV ). The very life of God is released through the preaching and the speaking of the Word. A F AITH L ESSON F ROM A C HILD Our small 421 twin-engine plane was departing from Nashville, Tennessee, after I had hosted a live television airing on TBN that had gone around the world via satellite. It was nearly 10:00 p.m. central time, 11:00 p.m. eastern standard time. Although it was just a brief hop of thirty-five minutes to Chattanooga, Tennessee, the entire sky between Nashville and the airport was covered in a string of storms, like black pearls lined side by side on a necklace. Normally the pilot simply punches through the lower clouds and ascends up to eighteen thousand feet, above the average storm. Because this trip was brief, we would never climb above eight thousand feet. My entire family boarded the plane for the flight, which we would later nickname