Opening the Gates of Heaven: Walk in the favor of answered prayer and blessing by Stone Perry

Author:Stone, Perry [Stone, Perry]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: ebook, Christian Life, General, Religion, book, Prayer, Christianity, Spiritual Growth, Christian Theology
Publisher: Charisma House
Published: 2012-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Twelve Significant and

Effective Insights My Dad

Taught Me About Prayer

After this manner therefore pray ye …

—MATTHEW 6:9, KJV

FRED STONE WAS the greatest male prayer warrior and intercessor I have ever known. Dad was converted in 1949 in a southern West Virginia coal field revival that continued nightly for fortytwo consecutive months. My father had only a tenth-grade education, never attended Bible school, but amassed thousands of books, read continually, and was gifted with wisdom that often amazed the highest among the academic elite he encountered. From the time of a teenager until his retirement due to physical disabilities, Dad was noted throughout America as a man who could get hold of God and a man to whom God revealed secrets.

In his early ministry he was blessed with several older mentors, but his chief teacher of spiritual gifts and their operation was his uncle, Rufus Dunford. Uncle Rufe, as he was called, was miraculously healed of a brain tumor in the early 1930s and accepted a call into the ministry at the moment he was healed. God imparted a unique spiritual gift to Rufus, as this humble man with a third-grade education could witness to foreigners working in the coal mines through the gift of divers kinds of tongues, which enabled him to speak fluently in the language of the other person although he had never formally or privately studied that language. Dad was with Rufus in Norton, Virginia, when he was impressed of the Holy Spirit to enter a shoe repair store and speak to a German man working in the store. Rufus had never been in the store, yet he knew by the Holy Spirit that a German man worked there. In a brief span of time Dad saw Rufus carrying on a conversation in fluent German, witnessing to the man about the virgin birth, the death, and resurrection of Christ and then inviting him to repent and receive Christ. The man refused, and Rufus instructed Dad that both of them were to leave the store as the man was about to become violent.

It was through observing the old-time preachers pray and the powerful intercessory prayers of Rufus that Dad learned and developed a daily life of prayer, learning the principles for approaching the gate of heaven and receiving answers from the heavenly temple! Just as men and women of God served as his example to pattern, I was honored to live with this great man and observe his actions and methods of prayer, and I have patterned much of my own prayer routines after him. In this section I wish to share the twelve most significant aspects, patterns, and methods of prayer that I learned from my father.

1. BOW YOUR KNEES IN PRAYER

My dad believed you should bow your knees in prayer. I am a walker when I pray. I find it difficult to remain in one spot or location, and thus in a sanctuary, my private office, or basement of my home I often walk when I pray.

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