Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

R ESULTS OF M ISINFORMATION It is easy for a believer who has no root in the Word to take a scriptural truth and apply it in an improper manner or, worse yet, to stretch the interpretation beyond its context. Often when the promised results do not come, a believer becomes despondent. Soon the enemy tells that person that “all that giving stuff” is not true and doesn’t work. I have received numerous e-mails and letters over the years from people who sincerely believed the words of a “prophet” speaking in the name of the Lord who promised that if they released a large offering, they would receive a great miracle or financial breakthrough. People acted in good faith on the word of the person, and too many times nothing resulted. The key may be that they acted on a word that was not from the Lord but was from the heart of the person speaking. Th e prophetic utterance may have been from the spirit of the man and not from the Spirit of God. S HOW M E THE C ASH Perhaps one of the most disturbing trends occurring from time to time involves the North American money prophets . There is a small group of ministers who claim to have a special anointing that few humans in the church are permitted to carry. They claim superior spiritual authority in what they declare with their mouths—claiming that their very words create healings, jobs, and money out of nowhere. Of course there is