Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

words (Num. 12:15). David could not raise his departed son from the grave, but God in His mercy gave David and Bathsheba another son named Solomon, meaning, “beloved of God,” and this son became the king of Israel after David’s death (2 Sam. 12:24; 1 Kings 1:43). God said no, but He still worked His plan. There will be times when we pray and it will seem that God is not moving in the direction we are asking. This is often because God works in three dimensions and we humans work in one. Our earthly realm operates only in the now. We cannot undo the past, we cannot see or predict events for the future, but we can only live for the moment. We may plan for the future, but often what we plan is not where things end up. Every day I plan for 15 percent of my day to be taken up with the unexpected events. The future is uncertain in the sense we can plan, we can prepare, but we can’t go out into the future, alter it, and return to the now with the assurance of knowing exactly what will occur. However, God has been in ages past , lives in the now, and knows the future . Let me say again, the Lord knows the future—all of it. This is how He calls things that do not exist as though they did (Rom. 4:17). Christ was called the “Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Rev. 13:8). This expression means He was ordained from the beginning to become the final offering for mankind (Heb. 10:10). God planned the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ when He formed the world!