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Faith Food – February 29 By Rhema Team, Feb 29, 2020 Promise Of Prosperity Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.  — PSALM 1:1-3 When God’s Word has a part in your life, and when you live by those principles of the Word, then what the Bible promises will come to pass in your life. Whatever you do shall prosper! One translation of the last portion of Joshua 1:8 reads, “. . . Thou shalt be able to deal wisely in the affairs of life.” The Bible says concerning King Uzziah, “ . . . as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper ” (2 Chron. 26:5). The Bible says of Joseph, “ . . . that which he did, the Lord made it to

Health Food – February 29 By Rhema Team, Feb 29, 2020 We Died To Our Old Nature Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new . — 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 When we were born again, we died to our old nature. We died to our diseases. And we rose in the fullness of life, free from our sins and diseases. I was reading a sermon by a Methodist minister once. In his sermon, he shared the following story. “I was in bondage to tobacco. I was in a large city at a Methodist conference and wanted a cigarette. So I went into the back alley and smoked a cigarette. [If any of the brethren had seen him, they would have taken his ordination papers away from him.] Afterwards, I felt so condemned. I said to the Lord, ‘Lord, I’ve done my best. I know that I don’t need that and I shouldn’t be bound by anything. And yet, I’m under bondage. I’ve prayed and fasted sometimes as long as two weeks and I still go right back to it.’ Then I heard th

Faith Food – February 28 By Rhema Team, Feb 28, 2020 Promise Of Protection Read Psalm 91. Paul said, in writing to the Church “ . . . ye are God’s husbandry  [garden, farm],  ye are God’s building ” (1 Cor. 3:9). That means we belong to God. Now, if you have a building worth anything, even your own home, you are going to protect it every way you possibly can. And God, in His Holy Word, has promised us protection. I think the greatest such promise is Psalm 91. Many years ago, I read this Psalm from a Swedish translation. I found that verse 10 translated in the King James Version as “ There shall no evil befall thee . . .  ,” was translated in the Swedish version as, “There shall no accident overtake thee . . . .” I researched it and found that this meaning is, indeed, included in the original text. I then claimed this protection. Some years later, I did some checking and found that I had driven nearly two million miles preaching the Gospel without having a single accident! Understand, I

Health Food – February 28 By Rhema Team, Feb 28, 2020 Keep The Switch Of Faith Turned On Then enquired he [Jesus] of them the hour when he began to amend. . . .  — JOHN 4:52 Because healing is not always instantaneous, many people lose the beginning of their healing because they don’t know that. Unfortunately, whenever I say that, people usually respond, “Well, Brother Hagin, under the ministry of Jesus, Jesus always healed everybody instantly.” But I read in the Bible that under the ministry of Jesus, the nobleman’s son began to “amend from that hour” (John 4:52). That means that he began to get better until he was finally all right. Many people miss out on God’s blessings because they don’t receive an instant manifestation. But through the years, our ministry has had innumerable people healed of terminal cancer, and of all of those cases of healing, only one person was healed instantly. I remember laying hands on a woman in Illinois as I ministered the healing power of God to her bod

Faith Food – February 27 By Rhema Team, Feb 27, 2020 Is Your Profit Showing? Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.  — 1 TIMOTHY 4:15 If your profiting is to appear to all, then it is to show! Why is godliness profitable? Why is living for God, being God’s child, walking in fellowship with God, keeping God’s commandments, profitable? It is because God has made some promises to His faithful children. Notice the word “promise” in yesterday’s text: “ . . . having PROMISE of the life that now is . . . ” (1 Tim. 4:8). God has made us promises in this life. Our profiting is because of these promises. And when our profiting (which is due to God’s promises) appears to all, we are able to show the world there is a God in the Church — just as when Israel was walking with God, she could show the earth “there is a God in Israel” (1 Sam. 17:46). Confession:  I will meditate upon God’s promises and give myself wholly to them, that my profiting

Health Food – February 27 By Rhema Team, Feb 27, 2020 Jesus Came To Destroy The Works Of The Devil . . . For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.  — 1 JOHN 3:8 A number of years ago, I knew a man in Texas who was in the healing ministry. When a tornado came along in the spring of the year, it blew down the tent in which he held revival meetings. He didn’t have any insurance for the 20,000-seat tent, because no one would insure tents at that time. So we took up an offering to help him buy another tent. During the service, I almost fell off the pew as this supposed great man of faith said, “I don’t know whether the devil or God blew my tent down.” Well, God is not out blowing Gospel tents down; He is putting them up. No, God wasn’t in that destruction. Floods, earthquakes, and other destructive acts are not acts of God. Where do things that hurt and destroy come from? The devil! The Bible says that when the devil is finally eliminated

Faith Food – February 26 By Rhema Team, Feb 26, 2020 Godliness Is Profitable For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.  — 1 TIMOTHY 4:8 Some people would have you believe that godliness — living for God, being born again, walking in fellowship with the Lord — has no profit in this life. They think we must simply endure life with all its ups and downs, struggles and trials, always bearing in mind that “this life will soon be o’er.” I’m glad Paul gave us a balanced viewpoint by saying that godliness is not only profitable “over yonder” in the next life, but it has promise of “ . . . the life that now is . . . . ” As sinners, we were bankrupt, but God had mercy on us, and He sent Jesus to redeem us. Jesus came not only to save us from our sins — but to live within us (Col. 1:27). And Jesus wants us to bring as much glory to His Name, and to pay as rich dividends to Him as possibl

Health Food – February 26 By Rhema Team, Feb 26, 2020 You Ought To Be Loosed! And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?  — LUKE 13:16 The woman in this account was bowed together and could not lift herself up. Jesus said, “You ought to be loosed.” Jesus is saying the same thing today. If you’re bound with sickness, if you’re bound with disease, you ought to be loosed. Jesus said that this woman ought to be healed because she was a daughter of Abraham. If you’re a son or a daughter of Abraham, you ought to be loosed. Galatians 3:29 says, “And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Galatians 3:7 says, “Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.” We’re the seed of Abraham. We’re the children of Abraham. As a son of Abraham, and a seed of Abraham, I ought to be free. Jesus died to set me free, and,

Faith Food – February 25 By Rhema Team, Feb 25, 2020 Don’t Talk Fear Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.  — PROVERBS 6:2 With your mouth , you are either going to give God or Satan dominion over you. When you were born again, you confessed the lordship of Jesus Christ (Rom. 10:9,10). You confessed Jesus as your Lord. Jesus began to have dominion over you and to rule in your life. But, when you confess Satan’s ability to hinder you, to keep you from success, to cause you to fear — even though you are a Christian — you are giving Satan dominion over you. And, naturally, when Satan has dominion over you, you are filled with weakness and fear. Don’t ever confess your fears. “But what if I’m afraid?” you might ask. “You” are not really afraid. The Bible says that God has not given you — the real “you” — the spirit of fear, but He’s given you the spirit of power, of love, and of a sound mind. Fear isn’t something that is coming from the in

Health Food – February 25 By Rhema Team, Feb 25, 2020 God Is Still In The Healing Business . . . for I am the Lord that healeth thee.  — EXODUS 15:26 For I am the Lord, I change not. . . .  — MALACHI 3:6 The Lord said to Israel, “I am the Lord that healeth thee.” God was Israel’s healer, so God provided physical healing under the Old Covenant. But some people don’t believe that the Lord heals today under the New Covenant. Now the children of Israel were never sons of God; they were only servants of God. Since God did not want His servants sick—since He had made provision for them to be well and live their full life out down here on earth without sickness or disease—why would He want something less for His sons? Wouldn’t it be strange for God to want His servants to be well, but His sons to be sick? Under the New Covenant, we are God’s sons. In the New Testament, Peter says, “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing al

Faith Food – February 24 By Rhema Team, Feb 24, 2020 Resisting Fear For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.  — 2 TIMOTHY 1:7 Today’s text calls fear a spirit, and it states definitely that the spirit of fear does not come from God. Today’s faith thought is a confession you can use to successfully resist fear when it attempts to come upon you. Fear, I resist you, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. In His mighty Name, I resist you. I refuse to fear; I refuse to be afraid. It is written in His Holy Word that He hath not given me the spirit of fear; But of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. I no longer have the spirit of fear. I have the spirit of love. I have the spirit of power. I have the spirit of a sound mind. Source: Faith Food Devotions by Kenneth E. Hagin.

Health Food – February 24 By Rhema Team, Feb 24, 2020 Have The Tenacity Of A Bulldog! And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force . — MATTHEW 11:12 Sometimes in the area of healing, particularly when chronic illness is involved, you have to do what the Scripture says: You have to take it by force! Sometimes you just have to get violent about it, and have the tenacity of a bulldog—grab hold of God and His Word and don’t ever turn loose! I’ll tell you what I literally did on one occasion. Some time after I was healed as a teenager, all of my heart symptoms came back, and the devil kept bringing to my mind everything that the doctors had said. The devil said, “Now you’ve got all these symptoms and you’re going to die, just like the doctors said. There isn’t anything that medical science can do. They’ve already told you that, so there’s no use to look to medical science. You’re going to die.” I said, “Mr. Devil,

Faith Food – February 23 By Rhema Team, Feb 23, 2020 Fear Not But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.  — MATTHEW 14:27 God never comes with a message of fear. You can start in the Old Testament and trace all the way down through the New, and you will see that every time God manifested Himself to people, or sent angels or Jesus Himself, they always came with the message, “Be not afraid! Fear not!” Fear doesn’t come from God. It comes from the devil. And Christians, including preachers and teachers, have no business going around putting fear into people. We hear so much fear preached: Fear of sickness and disease; fear of what’s going to happen in the world; and fear of the devil. The way some people preach about demons causes people to be afraid. I preach about the devil and demons, too, but I preach that we’ve got authority over them. I preach that we should always remember, in all our encounters with the devil, that He’s a defeated foe.

Health Food – February 23 By Rhema Team, Feb 23, 2020 Don’t Shut The Door On God While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation . — HEBREWS 3:15 Over the years, I’ve had frustrated saints say to me: “I knew So-and-so twenty years ago. They used to come here to church, but they haven’t been to church for years, while I’ve been faithful and have been here every Sunday. Yet they came to the altar the other night and got healed, and I’ve been seeking healing for almost a quarter of a century. Why won’t the Lord heal me?” I say to them, “The Lord has already done all He’s ever going to do about healing you. The Bible says, ‘Himself took your infirmities and bare your sicknesses’ [Matt. 8:17]. God laid your sickness and disease on Jesus nearly two thousand years ago, so He’s already purchased healing for you. It’s yours. God has your healing already packaged up in a nice package with your name on it. He’s just waiting for you to come and cla

Health Food – February 21 By Rhema Team, Feb 21, 2020 A Well Wife Is Better Than A Sick Wife Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning . — JAMES 1:17 I knew a woman years ago who became desperately sick. She couldn’t do her housework, she couldn’t get up and cook breakfast for her unsaved husband, or do much of anything, for that matter. One night she said to me, “Brother Hagin, you may have wondered why I haven’t been in the healing line.” I said, “I sure have.” “Well,” she said, “you know I’ve suffered. I’ve been sick for nineteen years. I’ve finally decided that the Lord made me sick so my husband would get saved.” I said, “Dear Lord! Your husband would come closer to getting saved with a well wife than he would with a sick wife. That’s not God. You’re letting the devil rob you of your healing and cheat you out of your husband’s salvation. For goodness’ sake, don’t tell him

Faith Food – February 20 By Rhema Team, Feb 20, 2020 A Second Look . . . Love . . . is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].  — 1 CORINTHIANS 13:5 (Amplified) The subject of walking in the God-kind of love is so important — and so overlooked by Christians — that we’re going to take some extra time examining it. “. . . Love . . . takes no account of the evil done to it . . . .” This has to be the God-kind of love, because we were enemies of God, and God didn’t take account of the evil we had done to Him. He sent Jesus to redeem us. He loved us while we were yet sinners. “. . . Love . . . pays no attention to a suffered wrong . . . .” We might just as well admit it — there aren’t too many people walking in God’s love, even though they have it! No, they’re walking in natural human love, and they surely pay attention to a suffered wrong! They get huffy about it. A husband and wife, both Christians, will be

Health Food – February 20 By Rhema Team, Feb 20, 2020 Is God Using Sickness To Teach You Something? Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning . — JAMES 1:17 Some would say, “If Jesus took my infirmities and bore my sicknesses, then why am I still sick?” Because you don’t believe it yet! Now you might mentally agree and say, “Yeah, that’s right.” But you don’t really believe it in your heart, because if you believed it in your heart, you would agree with God and say out of your mouth, “He took my infirmities and bore my sicknesses, so I don’t have them anymore.” A person who believes that Jesus took his infirmities and sicknesses will hold fast to his confession even when he’s still hurting. He knows that Jesus bore his sicknesses. And those symptoms will disappear if he’ll hold fast to that confession. Many people think that God wants them sick. But when I ask them why in the

Faith Food – February 19 By Rhema Team, Feb 19, 2020 Love Gauge . . . Love . . . is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].  — 1 CORINTHIANS 13:5 (Amplified) Here is the love thermometer — the love gauge! It’s very easy to find out whether or not you’re walking in love. When you begin to take account of the evil done to you, you’re not walking in love. As long as you walk in God and stay full of the Holy Spirit, you won’t take account of the evil done to you. Through the years when unjust things have happened to me, people have told me, “I wouldn’t take that. I wouldn’t put up with that — not me!” But I just kept my mouth shut and never said a word, smiled, and stayed happy. Why, I wouldn’t take time to deny it if they claimed I’d killed my grandma! I’d just keep shouting, “Hallelujah! Praise God! Glory to God!” I suggest you walk in love, too, toward those who treat you in an evil manner. If you walk in

Health Food – February 19 By Rhema Team, Feb 19, 2020 Accept God’s Word As Truth Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth . — JOHN 17:17 God laid on Jesus the cause of our sicknesses, our pains, and our diseases, and Jesus bore them. Since God wanted Jesus to bear them, does He want you and me to bear them also? No! The reason Jesus bore our sicknesses and infirmities was so that we wouldn’t have to. But, instead of accepting God’s Word just the way it reads and saying, “Yes! That’s what the Word says,” we are prone to say, “Yes, but. . . .” Well, I can’t find a “yes, but . . .” in that scripture anywhere. Why not just accept what it says? A person said to me once, “But, Brother Hagin, that’s not the way I interpret that verse.” I replied, “I’m not interpreting it. It plainly says, ‘Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses.’ I’m not interpreting it; I’m quoting it.” The person said, “Yes, but I don’t interpret that to mean what you say it means.” I said, “I didn’t

Health Food – February 18 By Rhema Team, Feb 18, 2020 You Are God’s Garden For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building  . — 1 CORINTHIANS 3:9 When Paul wrote to the Church at Corinth, he said, “. . . ye are God’s husbandry. . . .” Now that’s a little bit blind to us today, but another translation says, “Ye are God’s garden.” You are God’s garden. Picture in your mind a garden. Have you ever seen anyone plant a garden one day and the next day go out and reap something from it? No, of course not. In First Corinthians 3:6, Paul said, “I have planted [talking about the seed of the Gospel], Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.” Well, what did he plant? What was his seed? The Word of God was his seed. Paul planted the seed of the Word into people’s hearts. Then Apollos came along preaching to them and watered the Word that had already been preached to them, or planted, by Paul. And God gave the increase, or caused the seed to bear fruit. Psalm

Faith Food – February 17 By Rhema Team, Feb 17, 2020 Love Arises Love . . . is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly  . . . . — 1 CORINTHIANS 13:4,5 (Amplified) It’s always flesh that is boastful, haughty, conceited, arrogant, inflated with pride, rude, and unmannerly. And by an act of your own will, you can decide not to give in to these fleshly temptations. You can decide rather to walk in love — to walk in the Spirit. The battle is there between your human spirit and your flesh. But the Bible says, “. . . Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh” (Gal. 5:16). Decide to allow your spirit to dominate. When the temptation comes, stand still a moment and begin to speak the Word of God. Begin to say, “I am born of love. I will allow the love of God within me to dominate.” When the temptation comes, begin to speak the Word of

Health Food – February 17 By Rhema Team, Feb 17, 2020 Say What The Bible Says Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised.)  — HEBREWS 10:23 When you know what the Word of God says, and someone asks, “How do you feel?” you can say, “I’m well, thank you.” Even if you are experiencing some symptoms, you’re not lying. You’re stating that you’re well because the Bible says that Jesus took your infirmities and bare your sicknesses. And what He bore, you need not bear. You see, since Jesus bore your infirmities, you don’t have to have them anymore. But as long as you confess them—as long as you say, “I have them”—you will have them. That’s the reason people go through the process of trying to get rid of sickness and disease over and over again. They are prayed for, they have hands laid on them, they are anointed with oil, but they keep holding on to what they have. They don’t turn the sickness loose. If you will believe that Jesus took you

Monday 17th February, 2019 The Word of Life Daily Devotional Take your Bitterness to the Lord Memory Verse:  -  Ex 15:25 And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them. Bible Reading:  - 1 Samuel 1: 1 – 28 Message The memory verse of today tells us how the Israelites came to Marah three days journey from the red sea without water; they murmured against Moses their leader. They eventually saw water at Marah, but it was bitter and they could not drink from it, Moses the servant of God prayed and God gave him solution to the problem. Also in the Bible passage of today, Hannah came to God and poured her heartache and bitter problems she had to God and God hearkened unto her request. Faithfulness of God in answering prayers of his people was hereby revealed. He said in Jeremiah 33: 3 that  “call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew

Faith Food – February 16 By Rhema Team, Feb 16, 2020 An Exposé On Love Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy  . . . . — 1 CORINTHIANS 13:4 (Amplified) What about this God-kind of love? What are its characteristics? They are given to us in First Corinthians 13. It is to be regretted that the translators of the King James Version translated the Greek word for divine love, agape, as “charity.” My favorite translation on this “exposé on love” is found in The Amplified Bible. I think every Christian should read the Amplified translation of First Corinthians 13 every few days, if not every day — and practice it! Let’s look at it, beginning with verse four: “Love endures long and is patient and kind . . . .” Many people endure long — but they aren’t very kind while they’re doing it! They just suffer along with people and things because they have to. A wife will put up with a husband, but she’s not too kind while she does it (and vice ver

Health Food – February 15 By Rhema Team, Feb 15, 2020 The Importance Of God’s Word My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh . — PROVERBS 4:20–22 Knowing the written Word of God for yourself is very important. I’ve had people attend my meetings who were there every single service, but they didn’t bring their Bibles. Now I didn’t tell them, but I knew that if I could get them to bring their Bible one time so they could see for themselves what God says, they would receive their healing. I remember one fellow in particular. He had been in twenty-one services, yet still failed to receive his healing. I said to him, “Bring your Bible.” He responded, “Well, the only time I take my Bible to church with me is on Sunday morning.” I said, “Bring it with you.” I knew he wouldn’t accept what I was saying if I just told him, beca

Faith Food – February 15 By Rhema Team, Feb 15, 2020 The Bretheren We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.  . . . . — 1 JOHN 3:14,15 A minister’s wife came to me greatly disturbed. “Brother Hagin,” she said, “I can’t go to Heaven. I hate my mother-in-law!” After letting her stew a little, I was able to help her. I asked her to look me straight in the eye and say, “I hate my mother-in-law.” And I asked her to check on the inside of her — in her spirit — as she was saying that. She said, “I hate my mother-in-law.” Then she exclaimed, “Why, something seems to be ‘scratching’ me on the inside!” “Yes,” I said, “that’s the love of God in your born-again human spirit that loves everyone. The real you doesn’t hate your mother-in-law. But you’re letting the outward man dominate the situation.” “You’re

Health Food – February 14 By Rhema Team, Feb 14, 2020 Take Your Thoughts Captive For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations [reasonings], and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ . — 2 CORINTHIANS 10:4–5 When you’re believing God for healing, reason will tell you that it can’t happen—that you can’t be healed. But you have to cast down reasonings. I didn’t say it was easy. (If you’re looking for something easy, you’d better just quit now.) Now what does Paul mean when he says, “Casting down every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God”? He’s talking about any kind of knowledge that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and His Word. He’s talking about human knowledge here. Some people call it “sense knowledge.” If it’s in opposition to what God’s Word reveals, then cast it do

Faith Food – February 13 By Rhema Team, Feb 13, 2020 Known By Our Love By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.  — JOHN 13:35 How is the world going to know us? By our love. By this divine love. By this God-kind of love. By this unselfish love. “God so loved — He gave.” Now, His love isn’t natural human love. Natural human love is selfish. As a usual thing, even a mother’s love is a natural human love. It’s selfish: “That’s my baby!” But if we would learn to let the divine love of God which is shed abroad in our hearts dominate us, it would make a real difference in our lives. It would cure the ills in our homes. Natural human love can turn to hatred when it doesn’t get its way. It will fight and fuss, claw and knock, “cuss” and be mean. Divine love, when it is reviled, reviles not again. The God-kind of love is not interested in what I can get, but in what I can give. Do you see how that can solve all the problems in your home? As children o

Health Food – February 13 By Rhema Team, Feb 13, 2020 Casting Down Reasonings Casting down imaginations [reasonings], and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ . — 2 CORINTHIANS 10:5 Many people’s minds have never been renewed with the Word of God. They may be saved, filled with the Holy Ghost, and members of a Full Gospel church, but their minds still need to be renewed with the Word of God. Second Corinthians 10:4 and 5 says, “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” Many people are in a battle between their head and their heart. This is spiritual warfare, and these verses say that our weapons are not carnal, or natural. They’re not guns, swords, or even

Faith Food – February 12 By Rhema Team, Feb 12, 2020 The Love Law A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another  — JOHN 13:34 God’s family is a love family. And the love law of the family of God is, “. . . That ye love one another; as I have loved you . . . .” How did God love us? Did He love us because we deserved it? No. God loved us while we were yet unlovely. God loved us while we were yet sinners! (And think about this: If God loved us with so great a love while we were yet sinners and unlovely — when we were His enemies— do you think He loves us any less now that we are His children? No, a thousand times no!) Love is the only commandment of the love family. If you love another person, you won’t steal from him. If you love someone, you won’t kill him. You won’t covet his house. You won’t tell a lie about him. Therefore, divine love is the fulfilling of the law. Since love is the law of the family of God, one step ou

Health Food – February 12 By Rhema Team, Feb 12, 2020 Don’t Reject God’s Word Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck . — 1 TIMOTHY 1:19 I’ve had church folks say to me, “Well, Brother Hagin, if Jesus took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses, why are so many Christians still sick?” It’s because they don’t know what Jesus did. You see, healing doesn’t just fall on you because Jesus took your infirmities and bare your sicknesses. The same is true regarding salvation. Jesus died and bore the sins of the worst sinner today just as much as He did your sins and mine. Well, if He did, why isn’t that sinner saved? Either because he hasn’t heard about God’s gift of salvation and what Jesus did for him, or he did hear and rejected it. Let me give you an example. Years ago, two ministers of the Gospel I knew were facing death. One was in his forties, and the other was in his fifties. I shared with both ministers the same truths abo

Faith Food – February 11 By Rhema Team, Feb 11, 2020 Maturing Fruit But the fruit of the Spirit is love  . . . . — GALATIANS 5:22 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit  . . . . — JOHN 15:5 Love is the fruit of the recreated human spirit, produced because of the life of Christ within. Picture a fruit tree. Where does the fruit grow? Fruit grows on the branches. Jesus used the illustration of the tree. Who are the branches? We are. How does natural fruit grow on the branch? It receives nourishment from the trunk — the vine — of the tree. Life from the trunk flows out into the branches. It’s the same in the spiritual realm. God is life. God is love. His life and love flow out to the believers — the branches. Fruit grows. It doesn’t come fully mature. The Bible says, “But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected . . .” (1 John 2:5). The word “perfected” means matured. John was talking about matu

Health Food – February 11 By Rhema Team, Feb 11, 2020 Believe The Truth Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases . — PSALM 103:2–3 Some time later, Dr. A.B. Simpson was invited to speak at a luncheon. He preached from Matthew 8:17: “Himself [Jesus] took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses.” He told the people at the luncheon that he had heard it preached all his life that “Himself took our sins,” but during his intensive two-week study of the Bible, he had come to see that “Himself also took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses.” Then he said, “I’m in my mid-forties, but I want you to know that Himself took my diseases and my heart condition. Therefore, I don’t have them anymore.” When he said that, he still felt weak. He knew his heart was still not beating right. His head said, “You’ve played the fool. You got up and told these folks that you’re healed and that Jesus took your infirmities. But

Faith Food – February 10 By Rhema Team, Feb 10, 2020 Love Born . . . God is love.  — 1 JOHN 4:8 . . . The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost . . . .  — ROMANS 5:5 When you were born again, God became your Father. God is a love God. You are a love child of a love God. You are born of God, and God is love; therefore, you are born of love. The nature of God is in you — and the nature of God is love. In fact, you can’t say you don’t have this divine love, because everyone in the family of God has it — or else they’re not in the family! They may not be exercising it. They may be like the man who wrapped his one talent in a napkin and buried it (Matt. 25:25), but the Bible says that the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. That means the God-kind of love has been shed abroad in our heart, our spirit, our inner man. Romans 5:5 is not talking about the baptism in the Holy Spirit. It’s talking about the New Birth — when you are born of the S

Health Food – February 10 By Rhema Team, Feb 10, 2020 Jesus Is Your Healer Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases . — PSALM 103:2–3 I remember reading the testimony of Dr. A.B. Simpson, founder of the Christian Missionary Alliance. He was a Presbyterian minister and pastor, and in his mid-forties, he developed a serious heart condition. The best specialist of that day said nothing could be done for him. Dr. Simpson knew nothing at all about the subject of healing. He had never examined the Bible on that subject, even though he was a minister of the Gospel and a graduate of a seminary. Now many in his own Presbyterian church congregation had testified of being healed. And he knew they were healed, because he knew something about their conditions. So he decided to take a leave of absence from his church and go back to his farm, where every single day, he spent ten to twelve hours examining the Scripture

Monday February 10th 2020 The Word of Life Daily Devotional Give Attendance to Reading Memory verse: -  1Ti 4:13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Bible Reading: - 1Tim 4: 1 – 16 Message We are commanded in the scriptures to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ and for this to happen we must desire the sincere milk of the word that can make us grow thereby. Paul was used of God tremendously because he gave himself to reading of the word, prayer and ministry. Daniel discover in the book of Jeremy that seventy years was prophesied for the captivity of his people in bondage at his time which had been fulfilled already and began to pray about it, then God moved and they were released from captivity; they would have remained in that captivity if nobody had prayed about it; and how would he had prayed if he had not read in the book of Jeremiah the prophet. And in  Isaiah 5:13 God said “therefore my people are gone into captivity, bec

Faith Food – February 9 By Rhema Team, Feb 9, 2020 Keeping His Word . . . I am watching over my word to perform it.  — JEREMIAH 1:12 (NASV) You may be certain that if you accept God’s Word and act on it, He is watching over that Word to make it good in your life. All you need to do is to act on the Word. It is very important that you learn this simple little lesson. Acting on the Word is not struggling. It is not crying. It is not praying. It is simply acting on what God has spoken, and that brings results. Several years ago, after I had spent hours struggling and praying about finances and healing for my family, I lay exhausted on the altar of a church. Once I was finally quiet, the Lord could speak to me. “What are you doing?” He asked. “I came out here to pray through,” I said. “What do you mean by ‘pray through’?” “I guess I was going to pray until I had some kind of feeling or a witness that these needs are met. I’m 365 miles from home. I thought I would know somehow when my child

Health Food – February 9 By Rhema Team, Feb 9, 2020 Get The Word In You If ye abide in me  [Jesus] , and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you . — JOHN 15:7 In twelve years of pastoral work, my wife and I did not bury even one church member. We even had eighty-year-old church members who were healed of cancer, lived out their lives, and died in their nineties without sickness or disease. We taught them that was the will of God for them. Now many of those people didn’t receive their healing right away. They had to be taught how to receive. You see, God occasionally does initiate some things on His own. But I can only think of two people during those twelve years of pastoral work who were healed because God initiated their healing. We had to teach the majority of them and get the Word into them. As their pastor, I would say to them, “You give me the same opportunity and the same chance that you give the doctor, and you’ll be healed every time. It

Faith Food – February 7 By Rhema Team, Feb 7, 2020 Swinging Free Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.  — EPHESIANS 6:10 One day in 1932, two hundred sailors were holding onto ropes attached to the dirigible, the USS Akron, as they attempted to moor the giant airship to a steel mast in San Diego. Suddenly, however, the dirigible shot straight up into the air. Some of the men hung onto the lines and were swept up with the ship, soon falling to the ground. Several were killed. After all the rest had fallen, one man kept hanging on. He could be seen as the dirigible soared high in the sky. People were screaming and fainting. They knew this sailor couldn’t hold on much longer, and any minute he might fall back to the earth and certain death. But after an hour and forty-five minutes, when they were able to pull the dirigible back to its mooring, the sailor was still dangling from the airship. An ambulance was waiting to take him to the hospital, but he

Health Food – February 7 By Rhema Team, Feb 7, 2020 God Is Working In You For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure . — PHILIPPIANS 2:13 I remember the story of a man who had a malignant growth on the side of his face. It looked like a big purple eggplant, and had grown almost as big as his head. The doctors wouldn’t touch it. They had done preliminary examinations, but said that he’d live longer if they left it alone. The man had been in all kinds of healing meetings, because he believed in divine healing. Healing evangelists had laid hands on him; the pastor had anointed him with oil and prayed; many people had prayed. Then one day the pastor said to me, “I noticed that the growth, though it was still there, began to shrivel. I could see that it was shriveling. The whole church could see it. Within a three-or four-month period, we saw that thing get smaller and smaller. Finally, the man came to church one day, and there wasn’t a thing in the world

Giving Back What Is His Billy Graham's Daily Devotion Feb 07, 2020 "But if someone who is supposed to be a Christian has money enough to live well, and sees a brother in need, and won't help him - how can God's love be within him?" –1 John 3:17 (TLB) You know that the hardest thing for you to give up is  your money . It represents your time, your energy, your talents, your total personality converted into currency. We usually hold on to it tenaciously, yet it is uncertain in value and we cannot take it into the next world. The Scripture teaches that we are stewards for a little while of all we earn. If we misuse it, as did the man who buried his talent, it brings upon us the severest judgment of God. The tithe is the Lord's. If you use it for yourself, you are robbing God. We are to take the tithe as a standard, but to go beyond the tithe is an indication of our gratefulness for God's gifts to us. In the midst of sorrow and trouble, this life has many bles

Faith Food – February 6 By Rhema Team, Feb 6, 2020 Strengthened . . . The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?  — PSALM 27:1 . . . Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.  — ROMANS 9:33 The language of faith says, “I can do all things in Christ. The Lord strengthens me. I cannot be conquered. I cannot be defeated. If a natural force comes against me, it can’t defeat me, because there aren’t enough natural forces in all the world that could conquer the Christ who dwells within me! “Greater is He who is in me, than he who is in the world. I am fortified from within. I’ve learned how to put Christ to work for me and in me. I have, dwelling in me, the Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead! I have God’s wisdom, strength, and ability in me. I’m learning how to let that wisdom govern my intellect. I’m letting God speak through my lips. I’m daring to think God’s thoughts after Him. “He is the strength of my life, whom shall I fear? God has made me greater

Health Food – February 6 By Rhema Team, Feb 6, 2020 Only Believe The following are two psalms the Holy Spirit gave me: Fear and doubt— The two tormenting twins of Satan that have come down here to buffet you about. Fear and doubt— Weapons of the enemy to unsettle your faith and cause you trouble and worry and sickness too. Fear and doubt come not from Heaven above, but from Satan below. Fear and doubt are not of God, as you well know. But faith and love come from the Lord above. Faith and love— Walk in love and live by faith. Shout above the turmoil. Shout above the doubt. Shout above the fear. It is done! It is mine! What God has promised, He’s able to perform down here. Fear not; only believe. Only believe. Two little words—so simple and easy to receive. “Only believe” is not enough for some who think they know. Intellectuality said, “We must do something. Yea, arise and work and strive and seek.” But “Only believe” are the words that fell from the lips of the Master for you to recei

Health Food – February 5 By Rhema Team, Feb 5, 2020 Fear Not As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe . — MARK 5:36 In Mark chapter 5, when Jesus crossed over the Sea of Galilee, He met Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue. Jairus said, “My little daughter lies at home sick; she’s at the point of death. Come and lay Thy hand on her that she may be healed” (Mark 5:23). Jairus believed that when Jesus laid His hands on the girl, she would be healed. So Jesus went with him to his house. While they were on their way, someone from Jairus’ house came to him and said, “Trouble the Master no longer. Your little daughter is already dead” (Mark 5:35). In the face of such a tragedy, Jesus spoke the simplest, yet most profound statement to Jairus. Jesus said, “Fear not. Only believe” (v. 36). Jesus was a faith preacher! He was encouraging Jairus to believe, even under adverse circumstances. He was encouraging Jairus to have

Health Food – February 4 By Rhema Team, Feb 4, 2020 Individual Cases Of Healing And he [Jesus] said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague . — MARK 5:34 I encourage you to go through the four Gospels carefully and underline with a red pencil all the individual cases of healing. Or better yet, you could write them all down on a sheet of paper. Some examples are the woman with the issue of blood, Jairus’ daughter, the centurion who came on behalf of his servant, and the two blind men who followed Jesus. You’ll find that there are nineteen specific cases of healing mentioned. You might think that there are a lot more, but Matthew, Mark, and Luke often recorded the same incident. For instance, Matthew, Mark, and Luke all recorded the healing of the woman with the issue of blood, but it was only one incident. They were all talking about the same thing. After reading through the Gospels and writing down each incident of healing, you’ll fin

Faith Food – February 3 By Rhema Team, Feb 3, 2020 Commitment Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.  — PSALM 37:5 A marginal note in the King James Version reads, “Roll thy way upon the Lord.” Cast. Commit. Roll. Just roll your cares, your burdens, your anxieties, your worries, upon God. Isn’t that what the Word tells us to do? But God won’t take your cares away from you. Some people have asked me, “Please pray that the Lord will lighten this load I’m carrying.” God won’t do that. God tells you what to do about your burdens. And if you don’t do something about them, nothing will be done. “You” is the understood subject of today’s text: You commit your way unto the Lord. You roll your way upon the Lord. You cast all your care upon Him. Some people don’t get an answer to their prayers because they’re not praying in line with God’s Word. They’re not doing what God said to do about cares, anxieties, worries, and so forth. But it won’t do any good t

Health Food – February 3 By Rhema Team, Feb 3, 2020 The Ministry Of Jesus And he [Jesus] could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them . — MARK 6:5 Many people are healed by a mutual faith—by their faith and the faith of whoever is ministering to them. Most people are healed by knowing and receiving for themselves what the Word of God says. You see, that’s the way the majority of people were healed under the ministry of Jesus. Some people say, “Oh, if only I could have been there when Jesus was on the earth, I would have been healed because everybody always got healed under His ministry, regardless of their faith.” A person who says that has never read the Bible very closely. Mark 6:5 in the Greek reads that Jesus could do no mighty work except lay His hands on a few sick people with minor ailments. Those are the only ones who got healed under the ministry of Jesus in His hometown of Nazareth. Well, why didn’t others get healed? Let’s