Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

He told me that he just knew that the largest arrows were coming from the many Christians in the United States! However, when he saw the outline of the continents, he saw that the arrows falling back toward earth and not making it through the floor of heaven were coming from America. He saw that the greatest missiles were coming from the Soviet Union and areas where there was great persecution of saints on earth (this was before the fall of Communism). He said, “Lord, this is impossible, because these people are atheists and are not Christians.” He heard these words, “You don’t know how many true believers are in those nations!” When he inquired why so much praise from America never made it to heaven, he heard the Lord say, “It is because in America too many worship Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me!” At that moment he turned over and saw a light of God’s glory and observed the large arrows of praise entering the light and being received by the Lord Himself! Another time when I was preaching in Nairobi, Kenya, at the Lighthouse Church, I listened as one of the ministers on staff shared an amazing event. He was taken to the hospital at the point of death. He was lying on a medical bed and being worked on by doctors and nurses. Suddenly he could hear the voices of his mother, his pastor, and others praying for him—and they were not in the room! He could hear them crying out for God to heal him and raise him up. He said it was the oddest thing, because he heard them praying all at once but could also