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June 29 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou  hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant  was healed in the selfsame hour. —MATTHEW 8:13 Jesus’ Healings Were Spiritual It’s a remarkable fact that when Jesus came on the scene as Healer, He demanded faith again and again. To the woman with the issue of blood, He declared, “Thy faith has made thee whole” (Mark 5:34). To the man who came with his lunatic son, Jesus said, “. . . If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth” (Mark 9:23). You see, the man came to Jesus and said, “If thou canst do anything, have mercy on us and help us” (Mark 9:22). Jesus said to him, in so many words, “It’s not so much a matter of what I can do as it is of what you can believe. All things are possible to him that believeth.” To the nobleman who came on behalf of his son, Jesus said, “. . . Go thy way; thy son liveth . . .” (John 4:50). The man believed the word that Jesus spoke unto him, and ...

June 28 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.—1 CORINTHIANS 13:9–10 Doctors Help Nature Do Its Job  Now I’m not opposed to medical healing. But doctors have just learned by experimentation what kinds of medicines will help nature do its job. God put into the human body what we call “nature.” Naturally, any body—whether the person is saved or not—will help heal itself. And most doctors will tell you that. I’ve had more than one doctor say, “I don’t know of any medicines that will heal anyone of anything, and no other doctor does. We help nature do its work. If nature doesn’t respond, there’s nothing we can do.” I’ll never forget when my father-in-law lay in a hospital room dead. The surgeon performed an operation on him that had never been done before in the region where he lived. (Today, they do that kind of operation all the time.) The surgeon who performed the surgery had a type of dipl...

June 27 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.—JOHN 4:24 Divine Healing Is Spiritual Divine healing, though it is manifested in the physical, is spiritual. It is not mental, as Christian Science and other metaphysical teachers claim. Now don’t misunderstand me. People get some results through mental science. The mind does, to a great extent, control the body, and a person could get some results that way. I know people who seemed to be miraculously healed through metaphysical cults. And I’ve heard people say, “If they’re healed, God must have done it.” But, no, not necessarily. If it’s mental healing, their minds produced it. I would rather stay sick and not be healed than to be healed through some unbelieving cult. Metaphysical religions such as Christian Science are not biblical. They believe that God is mind, and, in effect, that their mind is God. They believe that Jesus Christ is an idea in the divine mind of God and that He did not actu...

June 26 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.—JOHN 5:14 Get Lined Up With God When Gary was fifteen or sixteen years old, he left home. He got away from God and became involved in the hippie movement. He actually denounced God. And that same kidney trouble that he was healed of as a nine-year-old boy came back on him. I went to Dallas to preach, and Gary came to my meeting. He wasn’t right with God. I knew he wasn’t. He tried to fake it, but he didn’t fool me a bit. He was seventeen or eighteen years old at the time. I said to him, “No, I’m not going to pray for you. You’re not going to get healed under the present conditions, because you’re just faking it. You haven’t made things right with God.” He admitted I was right. He said, “You’ve told the truth about it. I haven’t. There are a lot of things in me that should not be in me. I’m not right with God, and I know I’m not right with Go...

June 25, I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord. —PSALM 118:17 ‘I Shall Live and Not Die’ Years ago while I was ministering at a youth camp in the Sierra Mountains near Sonora, California, I received an emergency telephone call. The voice on the other end said, “Brother Hagin, do you remember Gary?” I did. The man was talking about his oldest boy who was nine. “Well,” he said, “he had a sore throat and we prayed about it. But it got worse. We carried him to the doctor, and the doctor said that the infection went to his kidneys. Now his kidneys have stopped functioning. The doctor said that he will be dead in a matter of minutes. He is in intensive care, and we want you to agree with us. We believe that Gary will live and not die.” I said, “I believe with you that he will live and not die.” I was at this youth camp for several weeks. Before I left, I received a little reel-to-reel tape recording in the mail. On it, the man said to me, “Brother Hagin, they would onl...

June 24 And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.—LUKE 17:14 Instant Healings Can Be a Curse I’ve observed many times that the Lord will begin a healing in a person’s body, and as the person learns to walk in faith and walk close to Him, the healing will be completely manifested. The person receives a great spiritual blessing out of it as well as a physical blessing. I’m inclined to agree with one minister who said that instant healings oftentimes are a curse to us. You see, many times people come to a healing meeting and are instantly healed. Many of them don’t even know how they got it. Then they go away without consecrating or dedicating themselves to God, and they wind up with the same condition or something worse. But in a gradual healing, people learn to walk close to God. They learn to exercise their faith. And they learn a great spiritual lesson in addition to having their physical healing. Confession: As I walk in faith, and as I walk close to God, the heali...

June 23 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.—JOHN 5:14 ‘ Go and Sin No More’ Very often, God will begin a healing in a person’s life, but if he doesn’t walk in obedience, he will lose it. I remember a Full Gospel businessman who had a daughter who was about eight years old. He and his wife came from ninety miles away to bring their daughter to our meeting. She had not developed right. I don’t know whether the child had brain damage or something else was the matter with her, but she couldn’t talk. All she could do was make sounds. She couldn’t say one word that I could understand. And she couldn’t use her hands, chew her food, dress herself, or even hold anything to feed herself. And she couldn’t walk by herself. After I laid hands on her, she didn’t seem to be much better. I knew the power of God went into her. We did notice that she was standing up straight and walking better. On thei...

June 22 But he [Elisha] said, As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it;but he refused.—2 KINGS 5:16 You Can’t Pay for God’s Blessings If we read this scripture in context, we’ll find that Naaman wanted to pay Elisha for his healing. People try to do the same thing today. They would give thousands of dollars just to be healed. But they don’t understand that they cannot pay for God’s blessings. One time in a healing line, a guy put a roll of bills in my hand. I don’t know how many bills there were or whether they were all large or not. But he handed me a huge roll of bills with a rubber band around them. I said, “No, you take that back. I can’t take that. No, sir. You take that money back. I can’t take it.” He did it because he was so thrilled that he had received healing. But ministers shouldn’t take money in exchange for ministering healing to someone. Now if someone wants to put money in the offering, and the minister doesn’t know about...

June 21 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.— ACTS 24:16 Don’t Become Offended A number of years ago, a mother and her sick little boy came to our Campmeeting. They stood in the healing line. Before I ever got to them, I got tired and turned the ministering to the sick over to others. Well, the mother almost missed it. She got mad and thought, He doesn’t care anything about us. People forget that I’m human. I’m still living inside a physical, mortal body. I get tired, just as anyone else does. And when a person gets tired, he can’t yield to the Spirit of God like he can when he’s rested. The devil told her, “He doesn’t care.” And she almost missed it. I turned the healing line over to some RHEMA students who’d been working with me in Healing School. We found out later that the devil told the mother,“ Now this young man’s going to say that your boy is demon-possessed. He’s going to make a scene right here in front of ev...

June 20 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands . . . —HEBREWS 6:2 Let God Do It His Way! Let’s read the following Bible account about a man named Naaman who had leprosy. 2 KINGS 5:1, 9–14 1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper. . . . 9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. 10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. 11 But NAAMAN WAS WROTH, AND WENT AWAY, AND SAID, Behold, I THOUGHT, HE WILL SURELY COME OUT TO ME, AND STAND, AND CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD HIS GOD, AND STRIKE HIS HAND OVER THE PLACE, AND RECOVER THE LEPER. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in the...

June 19 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.—PSALM 107:17–19 Don’t Be a Fool! I remember praying for a sixteen-year-old girl who had a venereal disease. Now when she came up to the prayer line, I didn’t know anything about her. I found out later that at the age of fifteen, she got involved with a gang. Now she was saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, but she had gotten involved in all kinds of sin and sexual immorality. At sixteen, the doctors wanted to take out all her female organs. They were damaged. Of course, if those organs were removed, she could never become a mother. As she stood in the prayer line, the Spirit of God said to me, “Fools, because of their iniquities, because of their transgressions, are afflicted. Say to her, ‘Confess, “I’m that fool,” and y...

June 18 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.— JAMES 1:25 Put the Word Into Practice I was asked to preach at a certain convention in California. They wanted me to come and teach on the subject of faith. I didn’t have a “laying on of hands” service. I didn’t have a “preaching” or a “ministering” service. I just taught on the subject of faith. There was a woman there who was a member of the First Foursquare Church of Pueblo, Colorado. She had said, “I’ll go to that convention and get Brother Hagin to lay hands on me.” She had terminal cancer. Well, she came, but I wasn’t having a laying-on-of-hands service. I was simply teaching the Word. So she said to herself, I’ll just put that Word into practice myself. She acted on the Word she heard and was completely healed. Two years later, I happened to be at this woman’s church in Pueblo, Colorado, and she was th...

June 17 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake. . . .—1 PETER 2:13 Obey the Laws of the Land At the age of forty-two or forty-three, one of my uncles was working at a power plant north of McKinney, Texas. He was one of the two men who worked the graveyard shift from midnight to 8:00 a.m. The following was painted on a wall at the plant: DO NOT PULL THIS SWITCH UNLESS THE RUBBER MAT IS IN PLACE. At about 4:00 a.m. one morning, my uncle stepped outside to get a little fresh air. The grass was wet with dew so his feet got wet. He came back in and pulled that switch without the rubber mat being in place. Hundreds of volts of electricity went through him. The man upstairs heard him hollering. He ran downstairs, grabbed a pole to ground and protect himself from that powerful voltage, and knocked my uncle loose. Then he called an ambulance. My uncle was still conscious at the time. They put him in the ambulance and headed toward the hospital. He realized he was dying,...

June 16 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.—ROMANS 8:1 ‘ I Could Have Done More’ This businessman said, “You don’t understand what I’ve done.” I thought from the way this man talked that he had committed some terrible sins. So I said, “Just what awful sins have you committed?” “Brother Hagin,” he said with tears, “It’s not so much sins of commission. I don’t know if I’ve done anything wrong. It’s sins of omission. The Bible says, ‘Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin’ [James 4:17]. Now I’m a businessman and I’ve always had money. I have supported the church and paid tithes, but I could have given much more money. I could have prayed more. I could have been more faithful to my church.” I said, “I want to ask you a question.Have you committed the sin of omission four hundred and ninety times in one day?” He said, “No, I haven’t done that four hundred and ninet...

June 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.—JAMES 5:15 Don’t Dwell on Past Failures! The doctors had told this businessman that he could fall dead any minute because of a severe heart condition. He also had high blood pressure and a severe kidney condition. The doctors said that if he would sell his business, stay on his medication, and just lie around, he might possibly live another two years. That’s about the best they could offer. If he didn’t do that, he could fall dead in his place of business any minute. I asked him the question that the Lord had asked me: “Do you believe that God would require you to do something that He wouldn’t do?” “Why, no, certainly not,” he said. We turned to Matthew 18:21 and 22 and read where Peter asked how often he should forgive his brother. Then we turned to James 5:14 and 15 and read that if a person has committed any sins, they will be forgiven him....

June 14,2021 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.—MATTHEW 18:21—22 God Is Willing to Forgive I was holding a meeting in Houston, Texas, and a fine businessman came up to me and asked if he could talk to me. I said, “I just don’t have time right now. But I tell you what I’ll do. I’ll come thirty minutes early tomorrow night, and I’ll meet you in the pastor’s office. I can talk to you for thirty minutes, but that’s all.” The next night as I was getting ready, the Lord said to me, “Do you think that I’d require you to do something that I wouldn’t be willing to do?” I said to the Lord, “Well, no, certainly not. That wouldn’t be right. That would be unjust. And You are not unjust.” The Lord asked me that question three more times, and I replied in the same way. The final time He asked me the question, He also said, “Re...

June 12 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.—GENESIS 25:8 You Can Die Without Sickness and Disease Older people are eventually going to live their life out and go home to Heaven, but they don’t have to die with sickness and disease. Grandma Jeffcoat is a good example of this. She had stomach cancer. She came to live with her daughter who attended my church. Grandma Jeffcoat had just come from Brother J.R. Goodwin’s church. He was her former pastor. Grandma Jeffcoat was so far gone physically that her family had already called Brother Goodwin to preach at her funeral. Her daughter said to me, “Brother Hagin, I want you to go see Mom.” Well, I began to talk to her mom, Grandma Jeffcoat, about healing. “Brother Hagin,” she said, “Just leave me alone. I’m eighty-two years old, and I’ve suffered so with cancer of the stomach. Please leave me alone and let me die. I’m saved and ready for Heaven. Let me go o...

June 11 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.—1 SAMUEL 15:22 It Pays to Obey God I remember a dear, precious saint of God. She was saved and filled with the Holy Ghost. It was a joy to sit down and talk to her about the things of God. I don’t know how many times over a period of several years that I prayed with that dear woman for healing. I could help her momentarily, but I never could get her completely healed. She would be all right for a little while, and then she would lose it. I wondered why she had been in such bad health for so many years. She was eighty years old, and for many years, she had never really lived. Sickness and disease had incapacitated her. One day while standing over her bedside, she said, “I never did what God asked me to do. I wasn’t willing. God called me to be a missionary when I was twelve years old...

June 10 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.— JAMES 2:17 Act on Your Faith Years ago, when my mother-in-law had a goiter, the Lord said to me, “Tell her to go to the altar at your church on Wednesday night, and I will fill her with the Holy Ghost and complete her healing.” Now if you stopped to analyze some things, you might talk yourself right out of God’s blessings. Why did she have to go to the altar at the Full Gospel church on Wednesday night in order to receive? I didn’t know why at the time, but I told her what the Lord told me. On Wednesday night, we had a time of testifying and singing. I ministered a short sermon. My mother-in-law could tell that I was about to finish. She didn’t even wait for me to say anything. She suddenly stood to her feet and said, “I can’t wait.” She came out from between the pews and just sprawled out on the altar. By the time her knees hit the floor, she was talking in tongues. Later I learned why God had her go to the altar. She...

June 9 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.— PROVERBS 3:5 The Hand of Faith I said to this pastor when I laid hands on him, “Will you be healed now as I lay hands on you and pray?” He said, “Brother Hagin, I sure hope so.” “Well,” I said, “you won’t be.” He responded, “I’m not going to say I’m going to receive something when I don’t know whether I am or not.” I said to him, “Let me ask you a question.” I held up a hymnal and said, “Let’s say this songbook I’m holding is mine. And let’s imagine that there are some songs in here that no other songbook has. You’re a pastor and you’d like your congregation to learn some of these songs, but the songbook is out of print. So I decide to give it to you. It’s yours. Would you say, ‘I don’t know whether I’m going to receive it or not. I hope I am’?” “No, I’d just reach out and take it,” he answered. “Well, when it comes to spiritual things, you can’t reach out your physical hand and take it,” I said....

June 8 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.—ROMANS 3:27 The Law of Faith At the same meeting in which I laid hands on the seventy-two- year-old man, I laid hands on his pastor. But the pastor did not receive healing. Five years later, he decided to resign his church. He said to me, “I’ve had this physical condition for so many years, and I just can’t get healed. I feel like I’m doing the church an injustice because I can’t do my job properly. I’m just going to retire.” He was in his mid-fifties. He did retire and I never heard of him again. Someone might ask, “Well, why could you get that church member healed, but not the pastor?” I’ll tell you exactly why. When I dealt with the pastor, I laid hands on him, prayed for him, and asked him the same questions I asked the man who was a member of his church. The pastor heard me talk to the man. He saw the man healed. He knew his physical condition. He knew that there was nothing that co...

June 7 And said, Verily I [Jesus] say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.—MATTHEW 18:3 Have Childlike Faith At a meeting in Oklahoma, a gentleman came up to me and said that he was so hard of hearing that he couldn’t hear it thunder without a hearing aid. Well, I laid hands on him and his ears were perfectly healed; he could hear. I saw him five years later when he was seventy-seven years old, and he still didn’t need a hearing aid. I saw him after another five years (when he was eighty-two years old), and he was still all right. Not only that, but when I laid hands on him at the age of seventy-two, he could not walk by himself. He’d had a cane that he walked with, but he couldn’t even walk with the cane anymore. He couldn’t walk twelve or fifteen feet without falling. His daughter, who was with him, had to hold him up. The doctor said he should be in a wheelchair. The doctor told him at his last examination th...

June 6 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.—JOHN 4:24 Healing Starts in Your Spirit Healing starts in your spirit. Before it’s ever manifested in your body, you believe you have it in your spirit. That’s how I have received some of the greatest things that have ever happened to me in my life. I have received physical healing, finances, and many other things this way. I received them in my spirit first. I knew on the inside of me that I had “it” (whatever “it” was) before I ever saw it with my physical eyes. I was calm; I was at rest. I had a peace, an assurance, a conviction on the inside of me. And when the devil came to my mind trying to make me question it, I would start laughing. You may ask, “I want that kind of faith. How can I get it?” Romans 10:17 says, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” If you’ll meditate on the Bible, the Word of God, it will build conviction and assurance into your spirit. You’ll ...

June 5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.—PROVERBS 3:5 Enter Into Rest “Your own understanding” is your own reasoning, your own thinking, or your own head or mind. In other words, you could say, “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine own head”! I think most Christians try to practice that in reverse. They trust in the Lord with all their head and lean not to their own heart. That’s not what God said to do. Hebrews 4:3 says, “For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.” How can you tell if people are believing in their heart or just saying it from their head? The Scripture says that those who have believed “do enter into rest.”Remember, I said that the laying on of hands is a point of contact. That’s the point where you start believing that you receive your healing. That’s t...

June 4,2021 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.— ROMANS 10:10 Faith Is Not of the Head; It’s of the Heart Something that hinders many people is that they mentally try to believe they receive. They are just imitating someone else. With their mind, they say, “Yes, I believe.” You can usually tell when people are talking out of their mind or when they are talking out of their spirit. You see, your heart is your spirit, and your spirit is your heart. With the heart, man believeth. There will be a lack of conviction—a lack of assurance —when a person is speaking out of his or her mind. There will be hesitancy. When I lay hands on people to be healed, I sometimes say to them, “Will you be healed now when I lay hands on you?” Some people say, “Well, uh, yes, I believe.” But I know they’re not in faith. I’ve had other people say, “I sure will! Just lay your hands on me and watch it! I’ll be healed right now!” That’s assuran...

June 2,2021 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.—JOHN 14:13 Exercise Your Authority You have a right to freedom from pain and sickness. In Jesus’ Name, you can command them to leave. Many people are always trying to get someone else to do it for them. Sometimes you can exercise your authority for someone else, and sometimes you can’t. If you could always receive the blessings of God for others, that would relieve them of all responsibility. But the Bible teaches individual responsibility. You have certain rights in the natural. For example, as a United States citizen, you have the right to vote in elections. I can’t vote for you. You must be the one who exercises your rights, not someone else. That’s also true in the spiritual. God the Father has given you authority over demon forces in the Name of Jesus. So you can use that Name to break the power of the devil, because sickness is caused by satanic oppression. You can use...