Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

meaning, “the same kind,” and logos , the Greek word for “words.” It means to speak and say the same words. In this case, it would mean to speak and confess the Word of God, and by speaking it, you are coming into agreement with God. As a teenage minister, I recall a strong teaching that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s explaining the importance of confession . After hearing many messages on the subject and watching people at times confessing some of the most unusual and selfish things, I realized some were turning a spiritual principle into a religious ritual. An individual can speak and confess all he wishes until he loses his voice, but if faith and agreement are not in his heart, and the promise has no biblical basis, the sounds emitting from his voice are simply flat words without power. There is a deeper reason why a person must “hold fast the confession … without wavering.” It has to do with time—light travel. Understand that distance does not matter in prayer. If God lives two blocks down the road or lives, as He does, billions of light-years from you, it does not matter—distance has no meaning in the realm of spirits. One reason is because spirit beings operate in a different realm than human beings. They not only travel at the speed of light (Ezek. 1:13– 14), which is more than 186,000 miles per second, but spirits also can transport themselves at the speed of thought, which enables them to move from the top of heaven’s ladder to earth and back