Our Guest Perry Stone
SID: You heard seven angel words that have changed your history. Tell me about that.
PERRY: Robert Kimberling was pastoring a church years ago in South Dakota. This happened to a woman who was a member of this church. It was in the 1920s during the Dust Bowl. Her cow had gotten cut on a fence, had maggots, was dying. Her husband had tuberculosis, was dying. They were about to lose their farm. She was seeking God, and I’m really abbreviating this. She saw … They called it a dust devil. It’s that wind that just starts stirring like a little tornado, and it starts coming toward her, and she says, “Lord, what else can I take?” And all of a sudden, the dust ceased, and a man stepped out of it, and it was an angel of the Lord. Told her that her husband would be healed and they would live to birth more children. Told her that the cow was going to be healed, and by the way, the maggots fell out of the cow’s belly. God stitched the cow supernaturally and the cow lived.
SID: You’re stretching a lot of people.
PERRY: Oh, listen, listen. Hey, and this is what … ’cause she promised to give the cow to world missions if God healed it. Now, what she said to this man who was an angel of God, “If God heals this cow, I’ll sell it for world missions.” The angel got angry at her, and looked at her and said, “Liz,” seven words, “there are no ifs in God’s plan.” There are no ifs. And when Brother Kimberling told me this, and it’s a lot more detailed than that. Her husband got healed, they had more kids. But when he told me this, God changed my life, and let me explain why.
PERRY: I was praying a lot of prayers over my boy that was addicted to alcohol and drugs, who’s now delivered. But I was praying back then, “Lord, if you’ll just touch him.” And I would say to my armor bearer, Robby, “Robby, if the Lord touches Jonathan.” And I kept saying if, if, if. And there would be so many times I’d say it. We’re going to build this building if the money comes in. And the Lord told me, he said, “When you say if, you are always delaying it and you’re questioning me.” He said, “Think about if. If I … You’re saying what God can’t do.” He said, “Do you realize the reason your boy has not been delivered is Satan can come before me and say, ‘He don’t even believe you. Perry Stone doesn’t even believe you because he’s questioning if you’re even able.'” And I said, “Lord, how do I change my prayer?” He said, “Quit saying if and say when.”
PERRY: I’d say, “When my boy gets delivered, when my son comes to God, when that money comes in.” And I’m telling you, everything started changing, Sid, when I took the if out. See, a man came to Jesus and said, “If you will make me whole,” and Jesus said, “I will.” He took the if out. And so there’s the if of Satan. The if of Satan is, “If you be the son of God,” if you. The if of Satan is always making you doubt the word. The only if God has is conditional on if my people are called by my name. The condition is not on God, ’cause he doesn’t have the if. The condition is on us, are we going to obey? Okay?
PERRY: And so, when I began to take the if out, and those seven words, I told Brother Kimberling, I said, “You just changed my life.” That story from 1929, right around ’29, the Depression. And I want people to know that when you pray, quit praying if. Quit talking if after you pray, and start using the phrase. Brother, let me tell you something. When God gets ready, when God does this, when this comes through, here’s what we’re going to do. And he taught me a lesson that I still to this day will catch myself. And I’ll say, “God, forgive me. You have no ifs in your plan.” You know how I know he has no ifs? Because it says the promises of God are yea and amen.
SID: Amen. Amen means So be it.
PERRY: So be it.