Evangelist Perry Stone is warning believers that the United States is under an unprecedented level of spiritual warfare, with specific cities being targeted by high-ranking demonic entities known as “prince spirits.”
In a recent episode of Manna-Fest, Stone said, “There are prince spirits that are moving into cities in the United States. They have been over areas and regions, but now they are targeting particular cities.”
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Referencing Ephesians 6:12, Stone explained that spiritual warfare operates through a hierarchy of demonic forces. “A prince spirit is a spirit that is one of the highest ranking spirits directly under Satan who is given more authority,” he said. “There’s levels of authority. There’s levels of wickedness.”
Three Reasons Cities Are Being Targeted
Stone outlined three main reasons why these principalities are focusing their efforts on U.S. cities:
- High Spiritual Activity: “They position themselves over cities where there is spiritual activity and it’s very high,” he said, noting the presence of large churches and ministries.
- Spiritual Threat Assessment: “The threat assessment was—we have to keep his ministry out of this area,” Stone recalled from a past attack on a fellow minister.
- Opposition to God’s Plan: “They position in an area to hinder the movement of God’s plan… God’s heart is the harvest. Satan’s plan is to stop the harvest.”
Stone says it’s not just people falling into sin—it’s much deeper. “We don’t wrestle against flesh and blood,” he warns. “We wrestle against the spirit that’s moving or motivating the flesh and blood.”
What Can Be Done?
Prayer isn’t optional, it’s essential.
Stone credits much of his ministry’s protection to the prayers of a woman he called Aunt Bee, who organized 1,800 intercessors in the “Daughters of Rachel” prayer team. “Because of her prayers, we lost an engine in a plane and God showed her it happened. She prayed for one hour and a half… She was on it the moment the engine failed until we landed.”
And when it comes to breaking the power of these prince spirits, Stone is clear: “Daniel, in order to break the prince spirits, he did two things. He went on a 21-day fast and he prayed continually.”
He emphasized that online speculation or public commentary is not enough.
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“If all you do is this—we get nowhere. We do nothing. Everything comes to a halt,” he said. “I’m asking some praying saints… to get together in your local churches. Ask your pastor and say, ‘We need to have prayer meetings and we’re going to be praying every day to break the back of this spirit.’”
Spiritual warfare isn’t a side issue, it’s the battlefield of our times. It’s time the church gets back to fighting where it counts: in the spirit.
James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.
