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December 1 And the whole multitude sought to touch him [Jesus]: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.—LUKE 6:19 The Tangibility of the Power of God There is a parallel between electricity in the natural realm and the anointing, or power of God, in the spiritual realm. There are spiritual laws that govern the power of God, just as there are natural laws that govern the operation of electricity. The Lord Jesus Christ and the apostle Paul revealed and applied the laws of the Spirit of God and the power of God. The power of God is a tangible substance. It is a heavenly materiality. The word “tangible” means capable of being touched and perceptible to the touch. It has to be tangible, because Jesus knew immediately when that power went out of him into the woman with the issue of blood (Mark 5:30). If it weren’t tangible, how would He have known? Not only was He aware of the outflow, the woman with the issue of blood was aware of the reception (vv. 29, 33). The healing power...

November 30 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power.—2 THESSALONIANS 1:11 Faith and Power I remember one gentleman whom I laid hands on fifteen or sixteen times during the course of an extended meeting we held. I thought to myself, That poor fellow! Dear Lord, I’ve laid hands on him, and every time, it’s like laying hands on a doorknob. But somehow, he eventually got his faith into action. I was standing on the platform and laying hands on people as they walked by. Usually, I lay hands on people and pray, but since I had already laid hands on this man many times, I intended to just touch him and send him on his way. I thought, He is not going to get anything, anyway. But when I touched the man’s forehead, he jerked the power of God out of me until all I could see in my eyes was what looked like lightning. I felt as if I had gotten hold of an electric wi...

November 29 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.—PSALM 63:2 ‘ They Jerked the Power of God Out of Me!’ I’ve laid hands on people for healing, ministering to them by faith the healing power of God. And I knew it when that healing power went into them. I felt it in my hands as it went into them. But somehow, many weren’t even conscious of it. It was like I had laid my hands on a doorknob. There was no response. I’ve seen those same people come back with their faith active and say, “Just put your hand on me. I’ll receive right now.” I’d reach out to touch them, and it seemed like they jerked the power of God out of me!I remember one woman in particular. I didn’t know it was going to happen. I didn’t even know what had happened afterward until I started getting up! You see, when I laid hands on her, the power of God came out of me so strong that she fell, and I fell on top of her! I didn’t even know I had fallen; I didn’t have a consciousness of falling....

November 28 . . . and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.—LUKE 5:17 The Power Has a Purpose I remember an Assembly of God traveling minister who received a thrilling revelation concerning the power of God. One Saturday night, he was ministering in a certain church. As the congregation was singing, he was sitting on the platform. Suddenly, a surge of power came into the little church room and went through his body.He could have jumped up and started shouting, but he didn’t. He just held steady. They kept on singing, and a surge of power swept over the whole crowd. “The third time, that power swept over me again,” he said, “I could have shouted, jumped, run, or done all three at one time! I literally had to hold on to the pew to keep myself down. It seemed like I was going to float away.” He said to the Lord, “I know You must have some purpose for this other than for me to just shout and have a good time in the Lord. I believe in shouting, but no one else is shouting right no...

November 27, 2021 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord. —PSALM 118:17 Live and Declare the Works of the Lord In this Reader’s Digest article, it also stated that a person couldn’t be an officer in the United States Navy if he’d ever had a deadly disease. So after he was healed, this admiral couldn’t go back to being an officer. He appeared before Congress. I was impressed by the speech that he made. He told them about his healing and then he said, “Since being out of the hospital and reading the Bible daily, I’ve found that God has promised us at least seventy or eighty years, and I’m not even half that old. I could get a pension and sit down the rest of my life. But I want you gentlemen to know that I’m going to live my life out. I’m going to live for God first and my country second. Serving my country is all I’ve ever been trained for, and I want to serve my country. But I’m going to serve God first.” By a unanimous vote, they voted to reinstate him to his for...

November 26 The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.—PROVERBS 20:27 Listen to Your Spirit This young admiral who was dying of liver cancer then said to the Lord, “I know the doctor said that ninety percent of my liver is already eaten up with cancer and that I’m operating on ten percent of it. I know the doctor said that I’ll be dead in ten days. I’m not afraid to die now. But I just can’t believe that it is Your will for me to die at my age and leave my wife and two children. I can’t believe that. I know that You can do anything. I know that if I had a headache, You could heal a headache. I’m sure You have that much power. But it would be just as easy for You to heal cancer of the liver as it would be to heal a headache. I’m going to ask You to heal me, and believe that You’ll do it.” Scriptures began to come back to him that he learned as a child in Sunday school. He began to quote them. The next day, his wife came in and broke down in...

November 25 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.—LUKE 15:32 The Prodigal Son In the 1950s, I read a testimony in Reader’s Digest which was endorsed by the Secretary of the Navy. He stated, “All of these facts are true, and we endorse this article to show what faithband prayer will do.” One of the youngest officers ever in the United States Navy —an admiral—got cancer. Ninety percent of his liver was gone. He was functioning on ten percent of his liver when the  cancer was discovered. They put him in the “terminal ward” at the hospital. Everyone who was placed there was given up to die. The doctors said that he would be dead in ten days. The young officer shared, “The fear in that death ward was so much in manifestation that it seemed you could cut it with a knife. The very atmosphere was filled with fear. I was too! But as I lay there in the night, I remembered that I knew the Lord as a yo...

November 24 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.—NUMBERS 13:30 No Comparison! In Numbers chapter 13, we read that twelve spies were sent to spy out the land of Canaan. Ten of them brought back an evil report; they came back talking doubt. They said, “We can’t take the land. We aren’t able to do it.” But two of the spies, Joshua and Caleb, said, “Let us go up at once and possess it. For we are well able to overcome it.” That means, “We can do it!” You know, the crises of life come to all of us. Don’t think you are just going to float through life on flowery beds of ease. But my faith has been buoyed up and my confidence strengthened by just simply looking that problem, test, or trial in the face and saying, “Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4). Then I begin shouting about it. While I’m shouting, I look around and the problems are all gone. If you measure the dise...

November 23 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.  HEBREWS 4:2 Mix Faith With the Power Some time later, I was preaching in what was then my home church in Garland, Texas. After the service, the pastor and his wife along with my wife and I decided to go to Dallas to eat lunch. We were sitting at a restaurant and a young woman walked into the restaurant with her mother and father. It wasnthis young woman I had prayed for! She was walking just as well as anyone. She came over to the table and talked to us. She said, “Brother Hagin, do you remember telling me that I would walk?” I said, “I sure do. I knew that you would if you mixed your faith with God’s power. I knew that the power of God was ministered to you.” It was the next morning when her faith gave action to the power that had already been ministered to her body. If her faith wasn’t there to give action to that pow...

November 21 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. JAMES 5:16 Don’t Stop Praying! In the spring of 1953, I was preaching in Dallas, Texas, and two gentlemen came up to me and said, “Brother Hagin, I don’t know whether you heard about it or not, but about two years ago, some of our young people were in an automobile accident. A young woman’s back was broken in two places and her neck was also broken.” All across town, people prayed for this young woman. One doctor said, “You should just leave her alone and let her die. [He realized that the people’s prayers were holding her here.] We don’t think she will ever regain consciousness. And even if she does, she won’t know anything. Her mind will not function right, and she will be like a vegetable.” But the people just couldn’t give up on her. They kept praying. Eventually, she revived and her mind was clear. She spent a year in the h...

November 20 Then enquired he [the father] of them the hour when he [his son] began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth. . . .—JOHN 4:52–53 You Can Begin to Amend I want you to remember the woman I told you about who came by ambulance to a meeting I held in California. As I said before, she had a special nurse with her. I never saw so much medical equipment at a church service! I mean, she had a machine that was breathing for her, and it made a lot of noise. Without that machine, she would die. As I was laying hands on people, I went over to this woman. I asked the nurse, “Can she hear and understand what someone says?” She said, “Yes, she can understand. She can’t respond much, but she can understand you.” I bent down close to her ear because the machine was making so much noise. I said to her, “I’m going to lay hands on you. Did you hear wha...

November 19 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.—MARK 5:34 Add Faith to the Power Over the years, I’ve noticed that many people think that just because they feel the power of God go into them, they are automatically healed. Again and again, I’ve had people get tripped up by this and say to me, “Brother Hagin, can you help me?” I always say, “Well, I will if I can.” They respond, “When you prayed for me, I felt the power of God go through me. I felt a warm glow go all over me, and every symptom I had disappeared. For several days, I never felt better in my life. But now, every symptom has come back on me. I’m worse than I ever was. Can you help me?” I say, “Yes, I sure can. Now you thought that just because you felt the power, you were healed. Is that right?” “Yes, I sure did,” they say. “Well,” I said, “that’s fine. But you didn’t add any faith to it. You just thought that the power was going to do it by itself. But yo...

November 18 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength . . . . they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.—ISAIAH 40:29– 31 A Surge of Strength The pastor had this man who had never walked before testify. He said, “I knew the power went into me. I felt it go all over me, like a warm glow. Yet I still couldn’t walk. I wasn’t any better. They took me home, and my youngest brother put me to bed.” You see, this young man was helpless enough that he couldn’t get dressed and undressed by himself. He continued, “The last thing I said before I went to sleep was, ‘The healing power of God was ministered to my body and is working in me to heal me.’ When I woke up the next morning, my family got me out of bed, dressed me, and put me in my chair. Then at several different times in the day, I said, ‘That power was ministered to my body. That healing power is working in my body to heal me.’ At times, when I would say that, I could fe...

November 17 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.— JOHN 5:8 He Can Walk! A pastor friend of mine asked me to come by his Assembly of God church and preach Sunday through Wednesday night. In that church, there was a man there who was forty-eight years old who had never walked one step in his life. He had been a member of that church most of his life. Now I knew when I laid hands on him on Monday night that the healing power of God went into him. And I told him it did. As I went on to others in the healing line, some of the men of the church got him up and tried to get him to walk, but he couldn’t. When they turned him loose, he fell in a heap on the floor. They finally gave up on him, sat him back in his chair, and left him alone. They carried him home. The next night they carried him to church. The pastor and I drove to the side of the church to park. We were sitting there talking about a particular verse of Scripture. Now his church building was very old. It had high ...

November 16 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.— MATTHEW 18:19 Two People in Agreement The daughter, her mother, my wife, and I walked down the street to the woman’s house. We went in, and the daughter introduced us. I couldn’t hear what the woman said. I had to get on my knees and put my ear close to her mouth. Even talking in a whisper took so much of her strength. She didn’t have enough strength to lift her hand to shake hands with us. She was lying on the bed, wasting away. She was skin and bones, so to speak. When I put my ear close to her mouth, I heard her say, “Ever since Sister ______ told me about you, I told her that if you’d come and pray for me, I know I’ll be healed.” Well, was I going to say, “No, you won’t”? No, I said, “Yes, you will!” If two people are agreeing on something, they’ll get it. My wife and I knelt by the bed. I laid my hand on th...

November 15 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.—MATTHEW 9:29 The Ability to Believe The daughter continued to share, “The second clinic’s results didn’t satisfy the husband, either. So he put his wife in an ambulance and took her to another clinic in another city, even farther away from home. They said the same thing: ‘You might as well take her back home. She has a blood disease in the last stages. She’ll not live many more days.’ So he brought her back home.” The daughter found out about this woman’s situation and went to visit. She discovered that the woman was saved and filled with the Holy Ghost. Her pastor had already anointed her with oil and prayed. I don’t know why she hadn’t received. The daughter began to tell this woman what was going on in our church. Every weekend, people were getting saved, healed, and filled with the Holy Ghost. Miracles were happening constantly. Well, it was almost six o’clock and we had a night service to condu...

November 14 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord. —PSALM 118:17 There Was Nothing the Doctors Could Do In 1943, God sent my wife and I back to Farmersville, Texas—a little farming town in the blackland of north central Texas. One of the women in our church lived fifteen miles away in Greenville, Texas, but her mother lived right behind the church in Farmersville. When the mother learned that my wife and I were going to Greenville to do a little shopping, she said, “Brother Hagin, I don’t want to impose on you, but could I ride over there with you and visit my daughter? She only lives two blocks from the highway. Just let me off there and I’ll walk to her house.” “Well,” I said, “sure, you can go.” We took her right to her daughter’s house and then went on and did our shopping. Later in the afternoon, at about six o’clock in the evening, we went by to pick up the mother. The daughter said, “Brother Hagin, there’s a woman right down the street here who is bedfast....

November 13 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.—2 KINGS 13:21 Raised From the Dead Sometime after the prophet Elisha was buried, a certain man died. As some Israelites took him out to bury him, they spotted a Moabite raiding party. The Israelites quickly looked around for a place to put this man. They saw Elisha’s sepulchre and threw him in the tomb with Elisha! When the dead man touchedElisha’s bones, the man revived. He was raised from the dead! You see, even though Elisha’s flesh had already rotted off his bones, there was enough power left in his bones—enough residue of anointing—to raise that man from the dead. Some people say, “Well, why didn’t that power raise Elisha?” Did you ever notice in the Bible that elderly people were never raised from the dead? It was always children...

November 12 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.—ROMANS 8:11 Stay Open to God Don’t try to dictate to God the way in which you’ll receive healing. I’ve had the Lord say to me sometimes in the area of healing, “Now this is the only way you’re going to get it this time. And if you don’t get it this way, then you just won’t get it. You’ll do without it.” Well, I got lined up with Him in a hurry and got my healing. We need to stay open to the Spirit of God and let Him guide us and direct us. We need to realize that the healing power of God is just as real today as it ever was. It didn’t cease to exist when Jesus died on the Cross. I’ve heard people say, “Yes, but Jesus was anointed with healing power.” But that healing power didn’t come from Him; it came from God. Acts 10:38 says, “How GOD ANOINTED JESUS OF NAZARETH with the Holy Ghost and wi...

November 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.—ISAIAH 10:27 The Anointing of God’s Spirit One time while I was preaching in east Texas in one of the Assembly of God churches, the pastor said to me, “Brother Hagin, do you remember my son?” I said, “Yes, I remember.” He continued, “He’s away at college now. He goes to Texas Tech in Lubbock. You know, ever since he was twelve years of age, he has had asthma and related respiratory conditions. I’ve prayed and fasted. Many people have laid hands on him and prayed for him. Well, he just called us. He’s had another terrible attack.” The pastor said, “Here’s one of his handkerchiefs. I want youto lay hands on it, and I’ll send it to him.” So I laid hands on it, and he sent it to him. Several years later, I was preaching a meeting for that same pastor. His son was out of college and in the bus...

November 11 . . . Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.—ZECHARIAH 4:6 By the Spirit of God When I was in Louisville, Kentucky, a woman came up to me at a church service and said, “There is a woman in my prayer group who has cancer of both lungs. She has lapsed into a coma and is in the hospital under an oxygen tent. The doctors say that she’ll not live past midnight. Will you come and pray for her?” I said, “No, I can’t go, but do you have a handkerchief?” She said, “Just a regular lady’s handkerchief? I have a clean one right here in my purse.” I said, “All right. I’ll lay my hands on it when we are ministering under the anointing, and you take it and lay it on her.” She said, “Will that work?” I said, “Just as good as if I’d laid hands on her in person.” So I laid hands on the handkerchief. She took the handkerchief and went to the hospital. At 9:30 p.m., she lifted up the oxygen tent and laid the handkerchief on the woman. Two hours later, the woman ...

November 9 So that from his [Paul’s] body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.—ACTS 19:12 A Mind Made Whole The mentally handicapped sister spent four years in the mental institution in Oklahoma and another three years either shut up in her bedroom or outside when the weather was good. This woman at my meeting shared with me, “Before my sister lost her mind, she and I seemed closer than any of our other sisters. But after she lost her mind, I couldn’t even visit her at my youngest sister’s house. If she saw me, she would jump on me like a wild animal and start tearing my clothes off. The only time I could ever see her was from the other side of the fence when she was in the backyard.” Then she said, “Brother Hagin, I want you to lay hands on this handkerchief.” I said, “Okay, I’ll lay hands on it tomorrow night when I begin ministering to the sick.” After I laid hands on the handkerchief, she cam...

November 8 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.—ROMANS 8:14 Be Led by the Spirit of God At a meeting I was conducting in Oklahoma in September 1950, a woman came up to me and said, “Brother Hagin, I’ve never been to one of these kinds of meetings before in my life. I’ve never been to a Full Gospel church. I’m Methodist. But when I read the advertisement in the newspaper about the meeting, the Spirit of God witnessed to me that I should come.” She continued, “I’ve been wondering why the Lord wanted me to come. But tonight, when you were relating how the Lord appeared to you and so on, the Lord spoke to my heart and said, ‘That’s why I wanted you to come. I want you to take a handkerchief to your sister.’” You see, this woman had a sister who had spent several years in a mental institution in Oklahoma. And after four years, the state authorities contacted her relatives and said, “If one of you can keep your sister in your home, the state will pay you for...

November 6 So that from his [Paul’s] body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.—ACTS 19:12 Five Handkerchiefs Charged With the Power of God One year, a Lutheran pastor from Omaha, Nebraska, attended our annual Campmeeting. He and his wife had received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and several people in his church had become charismatic, so they all came to Campmeeting. The pastor brought five handkerchiefs and laid them on the platform. He had five people in his congregation who were ill. I laid hands on them with the anointing of God’s healing power. When the meeting was over, the Lutheran pastor’s wife came down to retrieve the five handkerchiefs. She had them pinned together with each person’s name on each handkerchief. She reached down to pick up the handkerchiefs and felt somethingcome out of them. It scared her, and she jumped back. (She later said it felt like electricity.) Her husband was...

November 5 And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God.— LUKE 9:43 The Power of God in Manifestation The sick woman’s sister picked up the handkerchief, laid it on the pillow next to her sister’s head, and went to get her husband, who was the only other believer in the house. She called for her husband who was outside working on his car. His hands were greasy, so he had to take a little extra time to get cleaned up. While he was washing his hands, they heard someone jumping and shouting in another part of the house. Well, they knew it couldn’t be the sister, because she was bedfast. She couldn’t get out of bed. She was totally helpless. They rushed toward the sound of the noise, and the sister was jumping, leaping, and praising God all over the bedroom! She was yelling, “I’m healed! I’m healed! I’m healed!” And she was healed. Two years later, she was still healed. Her sister asked her, “What happened?” She said, “You were hardly out of the room when I felt something coming out...

November 4 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God.—2 CORINTHIANS 1:21 A Handkerchief Full of the Power of God I remember a woman who attended one of Smith Wigglesworth’s meetings the last time he was in the United States. She knew that he was a man of God. It was quite obvious that he was anointed by the power of God. After the meeting, he returned to England, his native country. Over a year later, it was discovered that this woman had cancer. By the time the cancer was found, it was too late, from a natural standpoint. Medically speaking, nothing could be done about it. She had become bedfast in her sister’s home. She decided to contact the headquarters of the Assemblies of God in Springfield, Missouri, to find the address of Wigglesworth in England. She wrote him a letter, sent him a handkerchief, and asked him to lay his hands on the handkerchief. When he received the letter, he laid his hands on the handkerchief and sent it back to America. Whe...

November 3 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul.— ACTS 19:11 Anointed With Power We can learn something from the Lord Jesus Christ’s ministry and from the apostle Paul’s ministry. Notice the similarity between Acts 19:11 and Acts 10:38. Acts 19:11 and 12 says, “And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.” Acts 10:38 says, “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.” Many people read these verses without really looking at them and say, “Yes, but that was Jesus and Paul. Jesus was the Son of God, and Paul was an apostle.” They miss the whole thing. They say, “That couldn’t happen today, because I’m not Jesus, and I’m not an apostle.” But notice that these verses do not tell you something ...

November 2 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?—MARK 5:30 God’s Power Is Tangible Is God available to men today? Yes, He is available to men today. Is God’s power any less available to us today? No, God has not deprived us of His power. His power is available to us today. John G. Lake said, “It’s one of the most difficult things in all the world for people who are not familiar with the ministry of healing to comprehend that the power of God is tangible, actual, and a living quantity. It is just as real as electricity or any other native force. Yes, and a great deal more so. It is the life principle that stands behind all manifestations of life everywhere.” Dr. Lake went on to say, “If we could make the world understand the pregnant vitality of the Spirit of God, or the healing power of God, men would discover that healing is not only a matter of faith and a matter of the grace of God,...