Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

can words be “spirit”? A spirit being is invisible to the natural eye, and words can be heard but are not seen (invisible) to the natural eye. A spirit can travel at the speed of thought, and your words travel from earth to heaven at the speed of thought. A spirit can be felt when its presence is near you, and your words have the power to create a negative or positive presence. Just as angelic spirits travel from the bottom of the ladder to the top of the ladder from earth to heaven, as quickly as thoughts, your words actually travel with such speed and distances. Maintaining your confession Picture yourself on earth praying a prayer of faith to receive a needed answer from the Lord. You have petitioned the Father in heaven, and you are thanking Him for hearing your prayer. For the next several weeks you begin to speak faith words indicating your expectation of a possible, sudden visitation from God bringing a much needed answer to prayer. However, the weeks turn to months, and the months turn into a year. After a year passes by, your faith begins wavering, and your confession changes. You begin to say, “God is not hearing me. I am weary of waiting and tired of believing … I am going to give up … ” In your earthly time dimension, twelve months have passed. But how has God perceived this twelve months that has passed? Scripture indicates that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as