Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

eye where the nerve was severed. It feels like small insects moving in the eyeball!” I knew something was occurring. I asked the two women to help her walk the aisle of the church and begin praising God for her healing. Within about thirty minutes, as I was on the platform, I felt a set of hands grab me around the chest. It stunned me for a moment, and I turned to see Mrs. Thacker lifting her bad eyelid with her thumb and saying, “I can see outlines of things … I can see … some color … ” Then she yelled, “Oh, my, I can see you!” Not only was she healed, but she remained healed until her death. Her son, Jackie Thacker, is a minister, and he always comments on how that moment changed his mother’s life! I remember the expectation I felt that something good was going to happen that night. I recall her excitement and her anticipation to receive prayer. My father came out of the great revivals in the 1940s, which had a healing emphasis. One of the often overlooked keys to the revival was the spirit of expectation that built in the hearts of the people. They believed that if they could get to the big tent and be prayed for, the Lord would touch them. This is the same expectation the woman with the issue of blood had, who said to herself, “If only I may touch His [Christ’s] garment, I shall be made well” (Matt. 9:21). The spiritual principles and laws of prayer listed above are keys to receiving answers to prayer. However, if you pray without the anticipation that the answer is coming,