Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

to the gate of heaven within seconds of time. I once heard an explanation of why distance has no bearing on prayer. The speaker explained, “Picture a long hollow tube stretching from your home to the center of the throne room in heaven, filled with marbles. There is a second tube twelve inches long that is also filled with marbles. If one person stood at the bottom of each tube, each person holding a marble in his hands, and on the count of three, each person pushed their single marble into their tube, what would happen at the top?” I answered, “A marble would be pushed out at the top.” The man noted, “And both marbles would come out of the top at the same time !” I knew his point. Distance did not matter, because God can hear the moment we open our mouth from anywhere on the planet—at the same moment and time. There is also an interesting concept based upon the theory of how fast light travels through the universe. Light travels through the vacuum of space at 186,282 miles per second. At this speed, light can travel at approximately 700 million miles per hour. At this speed it would take 100,000 years to travel across the Milky Way. Let me explain these distances using a single sheet of paper. The thickness of one piece of paper represents the distance from the earth to the sun, which is approximately 93 million miles. From the earth to the nearest star, the stack of paper would be 71 feet high. To cover the diameter of the Milky Way, the stack would be 310 miles