For instance, the Cross can be a deterrent to the supernatural. Why? Because you can become so familiar with Jesus who died on the cross that you don’t recognize Jesus who rose in power. Sometimes we become so familiar with the God who saves, that we cannot recognize and accept the God who heals. We become one dimensional in our beliefs when ALL things are possible with Him. Its possible to be historically correct and experientially wrong.

I want to see honor restored to the sons and daughters of God. I want the church to be a community of honor that creates a culture of honor.
Honor is not merely being nice to one another. Has to do with value. Honor is showing value to another. Honor elevates the status of others. If you give honor, you will receive honor.

Honor carries with it great rewards. Honor is the key to either full or partial reward. Honor is the essential key to receiving from God.
Honor or dishonor can be displayed in thought, deed or word, but all honor originates in the heart.

Five years after Pentecost, Peter moved into another level of anointing. His shadow began to release the presence of Jesus to such an extent, that the city was greatly affected. Five years of walking in His presence. Pressing through rejection, persecution until endurance began to perfect him. What was the result? Glory moved from something He experienced to something he released.

He is summoning us into a new way of life. New ways of living not just new experiences at church. If its hard for you to step into at church, it will be impossible for you out there. We must learn to do some things where it’s the safest and easiest so we can do it out there when the resistance is much greater.

Goals, giftings and ambitions are all legal, but they’re not all that great. It’s awesome to see someone healed. It is incredible to see people saved and filled with the Holy Spirit. But it all pales in light of His glory manifested. Anyone who has ever experienced the glory, you long for nothing else. You’re ruined for religion.

Let the greatest ambition you have, be for His presence. Like Joshua, stay as long as possible. Religious activity will pale in light of His glory and grace. May you be ruined for religion and made fully alive unto His presence and may you like Moses declare, “if Your presence doesn’t go with me, I am not going”.

Its one thing to say the presence of the Lord is the most important thing in my life and value being in His glory. But it’s equally important to recognize that presence on you and value it the same. You will know the presence of the Lord is of supreme value when you learn to recognize it on somebody else and press into their breakthrough for yours.

Everything evolves around valuing the presence.

You say; “I just don’t know how to have an encounter”. “I don’t feel like God is even near to me”. What do I do? I am so weak spiritually.

First, Stop looking for a reason to stay the same. Are you learning more or experiencing more? Often we mis-interpret learning more as the key to transformation which is very deceptive. It puts us in the position to agree with things we have not experienced and leads us to assume we are more like Jesus because we know something.

Experiencing His presence, His Word, His revelation not as a spectator or intellectual but as a passionate lover of His presence, produces transformation. Quit looking for a good reason to stay the same is the first step. More tomorrow. Walk out a spiritual truth today that if God doesn’t come through, you will be totally embarrassed. Then you will start to step into a life of faith that God intended for you to live. Blessings!

At salvation, we did not just get access to heaven. We received entrance “into the kingdom of the Son he loves.” The word “kingdom” comes from two words: king and dominion. Anywhere the king has dominion, therein lies the kingdom. Dominion does not just refer to power. It refers to everything about the king being reflected in his kingdom. It is a mindset, a pattern of thinking, a culture.

Because Pharaoh valued Joseph, everyone in the kingdom of Pharaoh valued Joseph. All the dignitaries of Egypt accompanied Joseph when he returned to Canaan to bury his father Jacob. But in Ex.1:8 it says, “Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt.” Because the king changed, the kingdom would also be changing. The result was four hundred years of slavery for Joseph’s people.

If we are wise, we will guard against thinking that because He did something one way, or spoke to us in a certain way, that we can expect the same again. I think we would be much better off to understand that “He is new every morning” (see Lamentations 3:23). This does not mean that He ever changes, but that there is so much more to Him that we cannot reduce Him down to our own narrow-minded concepts. In a relationship when we become too set in our ways, it will become boring and lukewarm. Our God is so awesome that those who stay close to Him will never be bored!

When we forget His works and His wonders, we quit living out of the testimony of Jesus and move into a place of unbelief that causes us to retreat in the day of battle even though we are equipped for battle. All Pastors and leaders want their people to be passionate about God. Why is it not working generally speaking? Because far too many leaders have not experienced the supernatural that exposes them to the invasion of power into impossible situations so they have no stories of supernatural acts of God.

When you stop telling the stories, you reduce expectations. With no expectations, you then establish a theological belief system that supports your unbelief and justifies your ineffectiveness. Without the stories, you wont take risk. The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophesy.

Little did I know that one of the main leaders of the Omega youth ministry was in the room at the time of Dad’s passing. Jason had wanted Dad to impart a special blessing to him, but because of his schedule and Dad’s condition, it seemed it would not occur. But this particular day, the Lord told him that, instead of going to lunch, he should immediately go see Fred at Life Care. When I entered the room, Jason had been crying, and he was being moved by the Glory of the Lord. He said, “I was disappointed that Fred never was able to pray for me. But while I was driving here the Lord kept giving me the verse He gave to Elisha when Elijah was about to depart, “If you shall see me when I am taken up, you shall receive…” Moments before Dad departed, Jason had spoken in Dad’s ear, telling him that the words he preached would not fall to the ground and would be carried on by the next generation. Dad’s lips began to move as though he was trying to say something. Within moments, Dad breathed his final breath. That is when the anointing came over Jason.

We must never forget those who paved the way for us through fasting, prayer, obedience, and preaching of the Gospel.

I was upset that I had not been in the room, but I heard a word from deep in my spirit that I know was the voice of the precious Holy Spirit:

“Son, you already received a special impartation from Rufus Dunford at age 18, and you carry the DNA of your father. He prayed thousands of prayers for you from the time you were born. His impartation must go to others that will be linked to where I am leading you in the future.”

Someone heard this and became critical saying, “How can a person impart when they cannot even speak?” Ask the man who was raised from the dead when he was dropped in the grave of a dead prophet named Elisha. When the dead soldier touched the bones of the prophet, he came back to life (2 Kings 13:21). Someone said, “Well, your father wasn’t Elisha.” No, he was Fred, but anyone who attempts to downplay the anointing on Dad’s life simply didn’t know him or sit under his ministry. Dad could speak in countless dialects through the Holy Ghost (in tongues) and then interpret what the Spirit was saying. He saw events prior to them happening. He saw people healed through the prayer of faith, including sixteen people who were healed of cancer, just since he lived in Cleveland, Tennessee. All of this describes Fred Stone. He was my dad, so I knew him well. I prayed with him, and he traveled with me. I know these stories to be fact. I am also aware of dreams where he received warnings of certain national events, and his dreams gained the attention of men in high positions in our nation.

I personally saw as many as eight of the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 12:7-10) operate through his ministry in one service alone! This is why those that knew him desired that he pray with them before his departure, in the same manner as Jacob blessed his sons (Gen 49). Anyone asking for an impartation always receives according to the faith of the person who is the seeker.

On behalf of my family, we want to express our gratitude for the e-mails, letters, cards, phone calls, and flowers that have poured in. Also, we want to thank those who sent a Memorial Gift for the Omega ranch in Dad’s name. We are going to put a “Hall of Faith” in the new center, where we will tell the stories of many different men and women of God. Of course, Fred Stone’s story will be part of this. We must never forget those who paved the way for us through fasting, prayer, obedience, and preaching of the Gospel. Thank you for honoring a great man.

Sincerely,

Perry Stone

We tend to look for concepts and ideas so we can get it mentally and not get it spiritually. If you chose to process intellectually, you will not be transformed. If you only feed yourself on things you understand and agree with, then you have stunted your own spiritual growth. When you only say amen or nod your head to the things you comprehend then you just decided to live an inferior Christian life…….Because you just fashioned God in your image, You create a God you can fully understand.