Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

one small catch—you have to pay them a large seed donation to receive a personal prophecy from them. They claim there are several levels of prophecy based, of course, upon the amount in your checkbook. One recognized “prophet” can’t waste his anointing giving a “word” on a mere ten-or twenty-dollar offering. His “powerful personal prophecies” begin at a hundred dollars and go as high as five thousand dollars per prophecy, per night. The larger the check, the longer and more detailed the prophecy! Those investing five thousand dollars will be placed on a prophetic mailing list to receive a personal word each month—along with a postage-paid envelope to ensure the prophecies keep coming into your home. The amazing fact is that these prophets for profit are filling up large churches and raking in thousands of dollars each night from gullible souls who are so hungry to hear from God that they clean out their checkbooks, hoping it will gain the attention of the Lord and bring an unexpected financial blessing. Let me be clear. In this case there is no difference between the Christians in a church paying for an alleged prophecy than paying a fortune-teller or a psychic for a word . Both are wrong! The idea that self-appointed and selfanointed money-seeking prophets would charge money to operate in some type of prophetic gift or word of knowledge not only goes against every precept of the gospel, but it also falls under the category of merchandising the gospel . Peter gave this warning: