Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

In my earlier ministry I heard extended teaching on faith that emphasized the importance of operating by faith and not by sight (2 Cor. 5:7). At that time there was a strong emphasis that believers should never lean at all upon any of their five senses, as faith was the opposite of sense knowledge and hindered spiritual knowledge . I was once told, “Don’t pay any attention to your five senses.” I later realized that without my God-given five senses, I would be considered physically dead! I do realize that we must set a guard on what we see and hear. There are spiritual eyes that must be opened to understand spiritual truths (Eph. 1:18) and spiritual ears that must be opened to hear what the Spirit is saying. When addressing the seven churches in Revelation, seven times Christ said, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches” (Rev. 2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22). Notice the words Paul wrote about the senses in Hebrews 5:14:

But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. The Amplified Bible explains the verse in this manner: But solid food is for full-grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and