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May 31 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.—MARK 11:23 Have Faith in God Several years ago, I was hemorrhaging from my body. I had serious pain symptoms. It was almost intolerable. The devil was giving me mental visions of cancer. I didn’t have any kind of inspiration and all the feelings I had were negative. Now I learned the multiplication table many years ago. It still works. Three time three is still nine. I don’t ever stop to think, Will that work? Do you suppose three times three is still nine? Do you suppose the multiplication table will work today? I can’t get it to work for me. I see it working for others, but it won’t work for me. No, if multiplication doesn’t work for you, it’s because you don’t know the principle well enough. I said to myself as I was lyi...

May 302021 For verily I [Jesus] say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.—MARK 11:23 The Principle of Faith Once I invited a pastor to go with me to a preaching engagement in California. This pastor was fifty-six years old. At the age of thirty-nine, he discovered that he had diabetes. So for seventeen years, he had given himself a shot of insulin every day. This pastor was a good man and had a wonderful church. But somehow, he had failed to grasp healing. Now I didn’t talk to him personally. I think that sometimes people are sitting around waiting for God to initiate something. And sometimes God does initiate something on His own. But people don’t have to just sit around and wait on Him. I wanted to teach this pastor about the authority he has in Christ. I know the authority I have, ...

May 29, 2021 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.—MARK 16:17–18 A Gradual Healing Several years ago, I received a letter from a woman who had attended one of my meetings in Houston, Texas. She wrote, “I was healed of lung cancer at your meeting. Now I’m not saying that I was healed instantly; I wasn’t. But the manifestation began the moment you laid hands on me. I am a thirty-two-year- old mother of two young daughters, and my condition was very serious. In fact, the doctors expected me to live only a few weeks. I had multiple malignant tumors in my lungs.” She continued, “Now I was skeptical of your tactics. Each night you laid hands on me [evidently, she got in the healing line every night], I felt nothing. And then the last night, you taught on Mark 16:15...

May 28,2021 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.—EPHESIANS 5:17 Should You Take Your Medicine? People are always asking me if they should take their medicine or not. I tell them to wait until the Lord tells them to stop taking it. Don’t stop taking your medicine because I told you to do it. I’m not going to tell you what to do. I’m not opposed to doctors. Thank God for medical science. They’re against the same things I’m against; they’re fighting sickness and disease too. Nowadays, it’s exciting that more and more doctors also believe in prayer and divine healing. When people’s faith is strong enough and they come to the knowledge of the truth, they may not need medical help. I was healed of two serious organic heart troubles, a body that was almost totally paralyzed, and an incurable blood disease. I never ran and played like other little children. I became bedfast at the age of fifteen. The doctors said that nobody in my condition ever lived pas...

May 27, 2021 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me [Jesus], because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.—LUKE 4:18 Jesus Is in the Delivering Business I received a letter from a gentleman who had attended a meeting I held in Phoenix, Arizona, many years ago. This gentleman mentioned that he had been an officer in the United States Army. At the time of the meeting in Phoenix, he was retired and had just gotten out of the veterans’ hospital for the third time. He had been in the hospital trying to be cured of alcoholism. But he came out drinking. He had also admitted himself into three different private hospitals trying to be cured of alcoholism. He finally got down on his knees and began to pray. He said, “Lord, I knew You when I was young. Take me back. I’m a wayward child. Forgive me. Like the prodigal son of old,...

May 26,2021 Then touched he [Jesus] their eyes, saying, ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH be it unto you.—MATTHEW 9:29 You Receive ‘According to Your Faith’ At a meeting in California, a seventy-two-year-old woman who wore a hearing aid approached me. She couldn’t hear without her hearing aid. In fact, she said, “I can’t even get half the message with my hearing aid on and sitting right under the speaker. I need to hear the Word.” I laid hands on her ears. Instantly, she could hear a watch tick out of either ear! That was quite obvious. She was there two more weeks in every service. She didn’t need her hearing aid. She was talking to everyone in normal tones. Now she had fallen and broken her hip some time before, so she used a walking stick to walk. As she walked away, I said, “Wait a minute!” She turned and looked. I said, “Don’t you want something else?” She said, “No, I got what I came after.” I said, “What about that hip?” She said, “Oh, I can live with that, but I really needed to hear.” I...

May 24, 2021 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.—2 CORINTHIANS 4:18 Don’t Base Your Faith on What You Can See I remember an Assembly of God woman down in east Texas who had double pneumonia. This was back in the late 1930s before miracle drugs. She just grew steadily worse. Of course, in those days, we didn’t have the hospitals we have today. Doctors made house calls at that time. Well, the doctor came and did what he could do. The doctor told the husband that unless there was a change, she would not live past midnight that night. The husband, who wasn’t saved, decided to call the church and ask if some Christians could go over to the house. The pastor and several members went to the house. They anointed the woman with oil, laid hands on her, and prayed. Now she had been almost unconscious, but she came right out of it and began to laugh and sing ...

May 23,2021 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.—MARK 11:24 Healing Must Be Received to Be Enjoyed My wife and I laid hands on Ruth. I could feel the life of God pouring out of me. My wife sensed it too. We could both sense that life pouring out of us into her. I said, “Ruth, there’s your healing. There’s your healing.” You see, I could administer the healing power to her, but I couldn’t accept it for her. Spiritual things are just as real as material things are. Many people think that if you have something, you can just give it to another person. But, no, the other person must accept it. If he doesn’t, then he won’t have it. The same thing is true in the Spirit. And you can know when people take hold and when they don’t take hold. My wife said, “There it is, Ruth.” Ruth said, “All right, I accept it. I receive it.” Instantly, Ruth’s body relaxed and straightened out. That’s when I saw that her hands...

May 21,2021 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life. . . .—DEUTERONOMY 30:19 We Each Have Free Choice In September 1950, there was a meeting in Rockwall, Texas. On a Thursday night, my wife and I went, but my children and my niece Ruth, who was living with us at the time, went to their local church. When the service was over, we stayed and prayed at the altar. I heard an automobile outside. It was in the street in front of the tent. I heard all four wheels spinning to a stop. I looked up and saw a young person,a friend of my niece’s, coming into the tent. He ran up to where I was kneeling at the altar and said, “Ruth had an attack of appendicitis. She fell off the pew at church. They prayed for her and then they took her home. Some of the Christians at the house prayed for her again. But she’s getting worse instead of better. She’s calling for you and your wife.” We rushed to the hous...

May 20, 2021 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands . . . —HEBREWS 6:2 Any Believer Can Lay Hands on the Sick While the husband was lying on the ground, the wife said, “Lord, Mark 16:18 says that believers shall lay hands on the sick. I don’t know what has happened to him, but in the Name of Jesus, I lay hands on him and expect him to be healed right now.” She hadn’t gotten those words out of her mouth when he suddenly revived. He said, “What happened?” She said, “I don’t know. The lawnmower was running in one spot and you were lying in the front yard.” “Well,” he said, “I felt myself getting sick and I just passed out. Right now, though, I feel so good. I’ve never felt better in my life.” And he went on and mowed the yard. The husband said to me, “You know, Brother Hagin, I feel so good. I believe I could just go to work without going home and sleeping tonight. I’m so refreshed and full of life.” Confession: I lay hands on the sick according to Mark 16:18 and expect th...

May 19,2021 . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.—MARK 16:18 Who Is Qualified to Lay Hands on the Sick? We’ve looked at this scripture before in explaining that not all healings are instantaneous. Now let’s look at the previous verse, Mark 16:17. “And these signs shall follow THEM THAT BELIEVE. . . .” These signs, such as laying hands on the sick, shall follow believers. Who shall lay hands on the sick? Believers shall lay hands on the sick. You see, laying on of hands is more than a sign. It is also a New Testament doctrine. It’s one of the fundamental principles of the doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hebrews 6:1 and 2 says, “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands. . . .” The doctrine of laying on of hands belongs to the whole Church. Any believer has the right to l...

May 18,2021 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?—DEUTERONOMY 32:30 The Power of Agreement After a meeting one time, a woman came up to me and said, “Brother Hagin, I have an incurable condition in my body. It isn’t fatal; that is, it wouldn’t kill me. But it might shorten my life five or ten years. And with the right medication, I can control it. But it is incurable. “I’ve been believing God, trying to appropriate healing. But when you told the story about that little girl who stood in the healing line for agreement, it triggered something inside me. I thought, I’m going down there for him to agree with me that I’m healed.” So I prayed, agreeing with her that she was healed. Some time later, this woman wrote a letter to me and said, “From the moment you agreed with me in the prayer line until now, I haven’t had another symptom. In fact, I’ve been back to the same doctors, and they can’t find...

May 17,2021 . . . because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith . . .—ROMANS 11:20 Stay in Faith While I was holding a meeting in Pasadena, Texas, a woman called from Canton, Texas, and said, “Brother Hagin, would it be all right for me to bring my little daughter down there for prayer? She has epilepsy. Now by faith, my prayer group has claimed her healing, but the manifestation hasn’t come yet; she still has the seizures. We don’t want to get into unbelief. Would it be all right for us to bring her down there for you to lay hands on her?” I said, “Yes, but only under certain circumstances. I’ll not be able to counsel with you while you’re here. I just don’t have time. When you come into the prayer line, say to the Lord, ‘Now Lord, we’re not coming down here to receive healing like the rest of the people, because by faith, we already believe that we have received healing. We’re coming down here to agree that she is healed.’” Well, she came to the meeting and bro...

May 16, 2021 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.—ACTS 16:25–26 Praise God for Your Healing While lying there in the grass trying to get enough strength to whisper a prayer, this preacher started thinking about all the people who said they were going to pray for him. He figured that if they all prayed only five minutes a day, there’s no telling how many hundreds of hours had gone up in prayer. He thought, If all that praying can’t get the job done, there is no use in me praying. I’m not going to pray at all. I’m going to lie here on my back and just praise God for my healing. He could have prayed and died; he would have been praying in unbelief. Prayer had already been made. He needed to “change gears” now. So instead of praying, he decided to praise God for ...

May 15,2021 . . . and the sheep follow him [the shepherd]: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.—JOHN 10:4–5 Don’t Listen to the Devil I knew a preacher who had an outstanding healing testimony. In the early 1930s when tuberculosis was rampant, he was raised up from his deathbed. He was a young married man. He and his wife had a little baby. And it was discovered that the man had tuberculosis. He requested prayer from every church where he’d ever held a revival. Every outstanding healing evangelist in the world laid hands on him. But he grew worse instead of better. Finally, he just came to the point where he couldn’t go any longer; he became bedfast. He went to his in-laws’ home to stay. They were farmers in Corsicana, Texas. One day as he was lying in bed, he looked out the window and saw a clump of bushes and trees about a quarter of a mile away from the house. He said to God, “If You’ll give m...

May 14,2021 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.— ISAIAH 53:5 Jesus Already Obtained Our Healing! While I was lying in bed at that pastor’s home, the devil said, “Remember the doctors told you that nothing could help you. They said your symptoms would come back and you would die. This is one time you’re not going to get your healing.” I just covered my head and started saying, “Ha, ha, ha, ha.” I said that over and over again. I must have laughed that way ten minutes. Then the devil said to me, “What are you laughing about?” I said, “Mr. Devil, I’m laughing at you, because you said that I’m not going to get my healing.” I laughed another ten minutes. And all the time, I was experiencing serious, alarming symptoms in my body. The devil asked me again, “What are you laughing about?” I said, “I’m laughing at you. You said that I’m not going to get my healing. I wasn’t p...

May 13 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.—JAMES 1:22 Act on What the Word Says There are a number of different methods whereby healing can be obtained through the Word of God. One way is to simply know what the Word of God says for yourself and then act on it. You don’t have to pray. You don’t have to get anyone else to pray. Simply act on what the Word says: “. . . by whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24). In February 1955, I held a meeting for a pastor. I stayed in the parsonage with him and his wife. One night, I was awakened at 1:30 with alarming symptoms in my body. The devil said to me, “Now this is one time you’re not going to be healed.” You know, the devil will try every way in the world that he can to talk you out of healing. He’ll try every way he can to rob you of any of the blessings of God. Do you know what I did when the devil said that to me? I pulled the covers over my head and started laughing. I didn’t feel like laugh...

May 12,2021 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?— NUMBERS 23:19 Refuse to Be Denied When I was sixteen years old and on the bed of sickness, I said to the Lord, “Lord, if Your Word is so, I’m coming off this bed. If I don’t come off this bed, it will be because You lied. And if the Bible is no good, I might as well throw it in the trash can and burn it up.” You need to settle on the integrity of the Word and then go after it “tooth and toenail.” Do not be deterred. Don’t let anything stop you. If the Bible said it, then believe it.  That settles it. After that pastor and I had counted that same offering three times, he said, “Let’s count it again. We’ve missed it somewhere.” About that time, I remembered that I had an envelope in my pocket. A woman had given me the envelope at my book table. She had purchased a Bible for her husband and said, “I ow...

May 10,2021 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?—AMOS 3:3 Agree and Then Don’t Back Down! In 1949 I was holding a meeting in Plainview, Texas, at the First Assembly of God Church. Christmas was coming up, and I needed some extra money for Christmas presents. I wrote to my wife, “At three o’clock on Sunday afternoon, you open your Bible there in Garland, Texas, to Matthew 18:19, and I’ll open my Bible here in Plainview. We’ll agree that the offering will be a particular amount on Sunday night.” You see, you can be in agreement in spirit and not be with the other person physically. I preached on the last Sunday night before Christmas. And in all the hustle and bustle of special Christmas programs, the ushers forgot to count the offering. The pastor found the offering plates and brought them back to the parsonage. He dumped all the money out on the dining room table and said, “Let’s count it.” He counted half and I counted the other half. He wrote down his amount, and I wrote dow...

May 9,2021 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.—MATTHEW 18:19–20 God Keeps His Word The negative side of Matthew 18:19 and 20 is that if you don’t agree, it won’t be done. Isn’t that simple? You see, we try to make the truth of God so complicated, but He has made it so simple. Time and time again, as I have acted on these verses of Scripture—as I have agreed with someone in prayer—such marvelous things have happened. And it will work for you too! God said that He watches over His Word to make it good. Jeremiah 1:12 says, “. . . for I will hasten my word to perform it.” The margin says, “I watch over my Word to perform it.” If we would look for as many reasons for God to keep His Word and for it to work as we do for it not to work, God’s Word would always work for us. Many ...

May 8,2021 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.—MATTHEW 18:19–20 The Importance of Agreement Jesus said that wherever two or three people are gathered together in His Name, He is there in the midst of them. What is Jesus doing there in the midst of them? He’s there to make good on what they ask and agree upon, because He said in John 14:14, “If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.” Many times, though, people lack agreement. For example, if something you’re agreeing on concerns another person, that other person will have to agree with you too. It won’t work in disagreement. Get him or her to agree with you. Notice that Matthew 18:19 says that it shall be done—not that it might be done or that there is a possibility of it being done. It shall be done! I’ve had pe...

May 7, 2021 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.—JOHN 10:10 Take Back What the Devil Has Stolen! Years ago, while I was holding a meeting in Port Arthur, Texas, a Methodist woman came up to me and said, “Brother Hagin, I don’t know much about healing. For seventeen years I haven’t been able to do my housework or cook breakfast for my husband. I haven’t been able to function as a wife and mother because of bad health. And after spending thousands of dollars, doctors have admitted that they just can’t help me. I’ve been in the prayer lines of some of the most outstanding healing evangelists of our day. But I didn’t realize how important the Word of God was in receiving healing until I heard you teach today. I’m coming back tomorrow.” Well, she came back the third day and the fourth day. Every day she came, she got stronger. I never even prayed for her. She never got in the he...

May 6,2021 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.—JOHN 14:14 Ask in Jesus’ Name! As a believer, you have the right to ask God the Father for healing or any other blessing. And if you ask in the Name of Jesus, you have the absolute guarantee that God the Father will hear and answer your petition. Many people add to the Scriptures or take away from them, because they have been religiously brainwashed instaead of New Testament taught. Even in Charismatic circles, former religious teaching can hinder people. People have a tendency to revert to what they were taught early in life. One time I awoke in the middle of the night and found myself praying about something. It was something I had been praying about for two or three weeks. I said to myself, What’s wrong with you? You know that kind of praying won’t work. You see, I had unconsciously reverted to a kind of praying I’d been taught years before. I said, “That kind of praying won’t work. Satan, I demand my rights.” I had a sc...

May 5, 2021 And his [Jesus’] name, through faith in his name, hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.—ACTS 3:16 ‘ Through Faith in His Name’ Smith Wigglesworth learned of a man in Wales known as Lazarus. He had worked by day in the tin mines and preached at night until he wore himself out physically. He contracted TB, and became bedfast for seven years. Once as Wigglesworth was in Wales preaching, the Lord said to him, “I want you to go raise up Lazarus.” Wigglesworth found other believers and went to Lazarus’ house. They surrounded his bed and repeated the Name of Jesus until the power of God fell. Wigglesworth then said to the man, “There’s your healing.” Lazarus began to speak faintly, so Wigglesworth drew closer to hear his words. The man said, “I’ve been bitter.” You see, he once had believed in divine healing. Someone had anointed him with oil, but it didn’t work. He was mad ...

May 4, 2021 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight. . . .—DEUTERONOMY 32:30 Find Someone Who Will Agree With You Once a woman in Fort Worth said to me, “Brother Hagin, I realize that I haven’t been standing in faith.” She had an incurable condition in her body. It wasn’t terminal, but it was an incurable condition she’d had most of her life. Doctors in the Dallas/Fort Worth area had treated her. She and her husband had spent thousands of dollars. She said to me, “I thought I had been standing in faith for nineteen years and the manifestation just hadn’t come. But when I heard you teaching, I realized that I was praying for my healing over and over again instead of just agreeing that it was done. I decided to find someone to agree with me that I’m healed. And within three days, that incurable condition was gone! The specialists couldn’t find a trace of it in my body!” What happened? The Bible says that one can put a thousand to flight and two can put ten tho...

May 3,2021 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.—JAMES 1:8 A Double-Minded Man As soon as the pastor began praying, I heard the following in my spirit: “Now they’ve taken her out of My hands and she’ll die. Within three days, she’ll be dead.” I knew it was the voice of the Lord speaking to me. On the third day, the woman died, just as the Lord said. You see, we had placed her in God’s hands and then we took her out of God’s hands. What should we have done? Instead of praying for her complete healing again, we should have stood in agreement and said, “We are going to stand up and agree that she is well. We are going to thank God for it.” That way, we would have stayed in faith. Many times, a whole church places a person in God’s hands and then turns right around and takes him out of God’s hands. God wants to heal the person, but He can’t. Why? God operates on certain laws and principles. Confession: I cooperate with God and stay in faith. Instead of praying for my healing ove...