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June 1 GOD IS A SPIRIT But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. — JOHN 4:23,24 God is a Spirit. Spiritual things are more real than material things. They have to be, because God, who is a Spirit, created all material things. God’s unseen ability brought into being everything we know upon the earth in the natural realm by simply saying, “Let there be . . . .” You cannot know God, or touch God, or become acquainted with God physically. You cannot know God, or touch God, or communicate with God mentally. God is a Spirit. And, thank God, you can reach Him with your spirit. Your human spirit can come to know God. Your spirit can become acquainted with God. Your spirit can communicate with God. Your spirit can worship God! Confession: The hour now is when the true worshippers worship the Father in sp

May 31 WORKING IN ME For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. — PHILIPPIANS 2:13 Another translation of this verse reads, “For it is God who is at work within you . . . .” I like to put Philippians 2:13 together with First John 4:4: “. . . greater is he that is in you [and that means me] . . . .” God is in me! What is God doing in me? He is at work in me. What is God working at? Both to will and to do of His own good pleasure. What is His own good pleasure? His pleasure is that I have everything the Word of God says I can have — that I do everything the Word of God says I can do. God is enabling me! God is in me, and my spirit rejoices. My heart is glad that I can turn God loose in me. I can let God have right-of-way in me. I can put God to work even to a greater degree in my life. How can I do this? First, I can do it by believing in my heart that God is in there, and that the Word of God is true. Then, I can boldly confess with my mouth, for I w

May 30 MORE THAN CONQUERORS Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. — ROMANS 8:37 If God’s Word had just told us we were conquerors, it would have been enough — but it tells us that we are more than conquerors through Jesus Christ. Rather than saying, “I’m defeated,” rise up and say what the Bible says about you. Say, “I am a conqueror!” It may not seem to you that you are a conqueror, but yourconfession of it because of what you see in God’s Word will create the reality of it in your life. Sooner or later you will become what you confess! You will not be afraid of any circumstances, if you make the right confession. You will not be afraid of any disease, if you make the right confession. You will not be afraid of any conditions, if you make the right confession. You will face life fearlessly, as a conqueror! Confession: In all things I am more than a conqueror through Him that loves me. I am not afraid of any circumstances. I am not afraid of an

May 29 THE LAW OF LIFE For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. — ROMANS 8:2 Dr. John G. Lake went as a missionary to Africa in 1908. The deadly bubonic plague broke out in his area. Hundreds died. He cared for the sick and buried the dead. Finally the British sent a relief ship with medical supplies and a corps of doctors. The doctors sent for Lake to come aboard. They asked him, “What have you been using to protect yourself?” “Sirs,” Lake replied, “I believe the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. And as long as I walk in the light of that law of life, no germ will attach itself to me.” “You had better use our preventatives,” the doctors urged. “No,” Lake said, “but I think you would like to experiment with me. Take some of the foam that comes from the victims’ lungs after death, and examine it under the microscope. You will find the masses of living germs remain alive for a

May 28 NO ACCIDENT The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. — PSALM 34:7 In May 1952, my wife and children were traveling with me to a tent meeting in New Mexico. When my mother learned of our travel plans, she said, “Be careful on the road! There are so many wrecks. When you’re traveling, I stay awake all night praying for your safety and just waiting for the phone to ring with the news that you’ve been in a wreck. But I know that you’re praying every minute you’re on the road.” “No, I never do,” I replied. “Oh, Son, what’s gotten into you?” she said. “Nothing but the Word,” I said, “Jesus has already said, ‘ . . . I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee’ (Heb. 13:5). So I don’t have to go down the road begging Jesus to be with me. I always start out by saying, ‘Heavenly Father, I’m so thankful for Your Word. I’m so glad Jesus is with me. I’m so glad the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are inside me.’ Then I go singing and rejoicing. God has

May 27 TRAVEL SAFETY And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. — MARK 4:35 Jesus got into a ship with His disciples and said, “Let us pass over unto the other side.” And that settled it! Jesus did not say, “Let us go halfway and sink.” Therefore, when a storm arose and Jesus’ disciples were frightened, He rebuked them, saying, “How is it that you have no faith?” At a Full Gospel Business Men’s convention, a woman asked me to pray for her. She said, “I’m a nervous wreck. It just scares me to death to travel by plane. I actually become sick withfright. I’m not going to attend any more conventions, even though I love to, because I’m so afraid to fly.” “You don’t have to be afraid,” I replied. “And really, you don’t even have to pray about it. All you have to do is get on the plane and say, ‘Let us pass over to Los Angeles or Chicago or wherever.’ And the plane can’t go down. Then you can do just what Jesus did: You can go to sleep,

May 26 BY HIS STRIPES Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. — 1 PETER 2:24 Some years ago, I was awakened at 1:30 a.m. with severe symptoms in my heart and chest. I knew something about such symptoms because I had been bedfast and given up to die with a heart condition as a teenager. The devil said to my mind, “You’re going to die. This is one time you’re not going to get your healing.” I pulled the covers over my head and began to laugh. I didn’t feel like laughing, but I just laughed anyway for about ten minutes. Finally, the devil asked me what I was laughing about. “I’m laughing at you!” I said. “You said I wasn’t going to get my healing. Ha, ha, Mr. Devil. I don’t expect to get my healing! Jesus already got it for me! Now, in case you can’t read, I’ll quote First Peter 2:24 for you.” And I did. After quoting the last phrase, “. . . by whose stripes ye were healed,” I

May 25 HIMSELF TOOK . . . AND BARE That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. — MATTHEW 8:17 In our text today, Matthew is quoting Isaiah 53. When I first understood what this verse really meant, I rejoiced in it. Because when I read it, I was able to emphasize the word “our.” Jesus took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses. I am included in that “our”! He took my infirmities, and bore my sicknesses! At this realization, I felt as the elderly woman did who suddenly turned up missing in London during World War II. Her neighbors didn’t see her in the bomb shelters during enemy air raids, so they assumed she had either been killed or had left town. When some of them saw her on the street several days later, they asked her where she had been. She answered that she hadn’t been anywhere. “But what did you do during the bombing?” they asked. She said, “I just stayed in bed and slept.” “Weren’t you afraid

May 24 ONLY OUR DISEASES He was despised and shunned by men; a man of pains, and acquainted with disease; and as one who hid his face from us was he despised, and we esteemed him not. But only our diseases did he bear himself, and our pains he carried: while we indeed esteemed him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Yet he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement for our peace was upon him; and through his bruises was healing granted to us. — ISAIAH 53:3-5 (Leeser) I want to boldly state that it is not the will of God my Father that we should suffer from cancer and other dread diseases that bring pain and anguish. It is God’s will that we be healed! How do I know? Because healing is provided for us under the New Covenant. Isaiah chapter 53 gives us a graphic picture of the coming Messiah. This chapter deals with the disease and sin problemsthat confront the Church today. God dealt with man’s body, as well as with his spirit and soul.

May 23 FORGIVENESS AND HEALING Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases. — PSALM 103:3 Disease came upon the children of Israel when they disobeyed the law. Forgiveness for their disobedience meant the healing of their diseases. It was when the children of Israel took themselves out from under the protection of their covenant by wrongdoing that their distresses came (Ps. 107:11,17,18). But when they cried unto the Lord, “. . . he saveth them out of their distresses. He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions” (Ps. 107:19,20). We have protection under our better covenant — but it is possible to take ourselves out from under the protection of our covenant. Since I have known the truth of God’s Word concerning divine health and healing, the only time some physical disorder touched me was when I got out from under God’s protection. Now, I don’t mean I stole something or told a lie; I just wasn’t obeying God like I should have been.

Faith Food Devotions May 22 GOD’S STAMP He [God] brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. — PSALM 105:37 You can see from the Scriptures that it was God’s plan for everything connected with Israel to bear the stamp of prosperity and success. Furthermore, disease and sickness were not to be tolerated among them. And so it should be with the Church. Everything connected with the Body of Christ, the New Testament Church, should bear the stamp of prosperity, success, healing, surplus, and health. What God said concerning Israel, He said in so many words concerning the Church. Romans 1:16 says, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation . . . .” Scofield’s footnote on the word “salvation” states that the Greek and Hebrew words translated “salvation” imply the ideas of deliverance, safety, preservation, healing, and health (soundness). The Gospel of Jesus Christ, then, is the power of G

May 21 JOINT-HEIRS The Spirit itself [Himself] beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ . . . . — ROMANS 8:16,17 Do you think the people who lived under the Old Covenant could be more blessed than those in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you think the people who lived under the Old Covenant could be blessed financially, and be well and healed, but those in the Church couldn’t? Do you think that the Church, the Body of Christ, the Body of the Son of God, the Body of the Beloved, would have to struggle through life poverty-stricken, emaciated, wasted away with starvation, sick and afflicted, singing, “Here I wander, like a beggar, through the heat and cold”? Away with such ideas! The Bible declares that we are joint-heirs with Christ! Sons of God! Children of God! In the Kingdom of God! We’re not beggars! We’re new creatures. We’re blessed above all people. Confession: The Holy Spirit

May 20 FOR MY BENEFIT And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put [permit] none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee . . . . — DEUTERONOMY 7:13-15 “And he will love thee . . . .” Love thee! Love thee! And put sickness upon you? And cause you to die when you’re a baby? And cause some of you to be stillborn, and some of you to be sick and crippled? No! No! No! That’s not the Holy Scriptures! “But that’s not for us today, Brother Hagin.” Are you sure? First Corinthians is in the New Testament, isn’t it? Let’s look at First Corinthians 10:11 to see if divine h

May 19 WITH LONG LIFE The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years . . . . — PSALM 90:10 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. — PSALM 91:16 If Jesus tarries His coming, I don’t mind telling you at all, I’ll live to a great age. And I’ll know before I go. I will tell everyone good-bye and before I leave here, I’ll look over there and say, “There it is, folks — and I’m going. I want to leave you all shouting and happy, because that’s the way I’m going.” “But, Brother Hagin, you can’t ever tell.” Oh yes, you can! You can have what God said you can have. We’ve got a better covenant than Israel had. If it was God’s plan for Israel — who were servants, not sons, and who lived under a covenant not as good as ours — to live out their full length of time with no sickness, then what a plan God must have for us, the sons of God! If God didn’t want His servants sick, I don’t believe He wants His sons sick! I belie

May 18 COVENANT BLESSING And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and hy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. — EXODUS 23:25,26 As long as Israel walked in the covenant, there was no sickness among them. There is no record of a premature death as long as they kept the covenant. No babies, no young people, no middle-aged people died. With sickness taken away from the midst of them, they lived their whole lives out without disease, and then they just fell asleep in death. When it was time for them to go, they would lay hands on their children, pronounce blessings upon them, gather their feet up into bed, give up the ghost, and go home. What does that have to do with us? God is the same God now that He was then! The Bible says that He does not change. God was against sin in the Old Testament (Old Covenant), and God is against sin in the

May 17 THE LORD THAT HEALETH . . . If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put [literal Hebrew: I will permit] none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought [permitted] upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee. — EXODUS 15:26 When Israel crossed the Red Sea and started toward their homeland, the Lord spoke these words to them and revealed Himself as Jehovah-Rapha. Jehovah-Rapha translated is, “I am the Lord thy Physician,” or “I am the Lord that healeth thee.” God didn’t put diseases upon Israel or upon the Egyptians. It is Satan, the god of this world, who makes man sick. Jehovah declares that He is the Healer. In his book Christ the Healer, F. F. Bosworth said, “This name [Jehovah- Rapha] is given to reveal to us our redemptive privilege of being healed. . . . The fact is, that the very first covenant God gave after t

May 16 WHAT ABOUT PAUL’S THORN? But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. — NUMBERS 33:55 “Don’t you remember, though, Brother Hagin — Paul was sick all his life.” “No, I don’t remember that.” “But he had a thorn in the flesh.” “Where did you ever read in the Bible that a thorn in the flesh is sickness? Nowhere!” Study the Scriptures. See how the Bible uses that term. In the Old Testament, God said to Israel, “If you don’t kill those Canaanites when you possess the land, they will be thorns in your side. They will torment you” (Num. 33:55; Joshua 23:13; Judges 2:3). Paul tells exactly what the thorn was: “. . . the messenger of Satan to buffet me . . .” (2 Cor. 12:7). Everywhere Paul went to preach, this evil spirit went before and behind him, and stirred up everything it could. (And Pa

May 15 HOW ABOUT JOB? And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. — JOB 42:10 “But you’ve forgotten, Brother Hagin, that God made Job sick,” someone said. “No, He didn’t — the devil did.” “Yeah, but God gave him permission!” But God didn’t commission Job’s problem. God will permit you to rob a gas station (you have a free will), but He won’t commission you to do it. Actually, God has only given the devil “permission” in a sense. If you allow Satan to attack you, God will permit it, because Satan is the godof this world (2 Cor. 4:4), and you are living on his territory. Job himself opened the door to the devil by being afraid. Job said, “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me” (Job 3:25). Many Bible scholars agree that the entire Book of Job took place over a nine- to eighteen-month period. Afterwards, we see that God turned Job’s captivity.

May 14, 2022 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.                LUKE13:  34 - 35 There's a beautiful picture hidden in verse 4 of Psalm 91. It's a picture of a mother hen protecting her chicks. The Scriptures above record how the Lord Jesus looked at Jerusalem and lamented over it. Later, Jesus wept over Jerusalem, saying, "For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation&qu

May 13 CHASTENING That he might sanctify and cleanse it [the Church] with the washing of water by the word. — EPHESIANS 5:26 “You’ve forgotten,” someone said to me. “What did I forget?” “In the Book of Hebrews it says, ‘ . . .whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth . . .’” (Heb. 12:6). “No, I didn’t forget. That verse is still in there. But it doesn’t say, ‘whom the Lord loveth He makes sick.’” People put their own interpretation on verses. “Chasten” in the Greek means to child train, to educate. You train your children. You send them to school. But did you ever tell the teacher, “If Johnny doesn’t do right, knock his eye out,” or “If Johnny is disobedient, break his leg,” or “Give him cancer.” No! That isn’t the way you discipline or train a child! And that’s not the way God does it either! Confession: I am trained by the Word and the Spirit of God. I am educated by the Word and the Spirit of God. I am disciplined by the Word and the Spirit of God. With the washing of water by the Word, I

May 12 ANY Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 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 5:14,15 “Is any sick among you?” Among whom? The Church! Then it must be God’s will to heal “any” of the sick in the Church! And it can’t be God’s will for “any” in the Church to be sick! “But, Brother Hagin, you’ve forgotten,” one person said. “Forgotten what?” “The Bible says that if we suffer with Him, we’ll reign with Him.” “No, I haven’t forgotten,” I explained. “Let’s read it again: ‘ . . . if . . . we suffer WITH HIM . . .’ (Rom. 8:17). Suffer what: Pneumonia? Cancer? Tuberculosis? No! Jesus didn’t suffer from any of these things. What did Jesus suffer? Persecution. And you will, too, if you live right. Especially if you preach divine healing, the gifts of the Spirit, and faith. I’ve suffe

May 11 SET AGAINST SICKNESS And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. . . . And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. — MARK 16:15,17,18 Let’s stop and analyze something here: Which of the sick did Jesus say we were to lay hands on? Jesus just said “the sick” — period. Then, if God were the author of sickness — if God did put sickness and disease on people — if it were the will of God for some to be sick — this statement would be confusing. Because in it, Jesus authorized us to lay hands on ALL sick. If God weren’t in the healing business, Jesus would have had to say something like, “Lay your hands on those that it is the will of God to heal, and they shall recover. And those that it isn’t — they won’t recover.” But, no! God set the Church against sickness — period! Confession: God is in the healing business. God is not in the sickness business. God is in the

May 9 SOURCE OF SICKNESS 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 Bible is progressive revelation. It is in the New Testament that we get full light, full truth, and full revelation. There Jesus plainly taught that sickness is of the devil, not God. In Luke 13, we see Jesus going into the synagogue on the Sabbath. A woman was there whose body was bowed together in a fixed position. She couldn’t straighten up. She may have had arthritis. Jesus called her to Him, and said, “Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity!” Then Jesus laid hands on her, and immediately she stood straight. The ruler of the synagogue, like the leaders of some churches today, got angry about it! Then, as recorded in our text, Jesus elaborated on the fact that Satan is the author of sickness. Jesus made three enlightening statements: (1) The woman ought to be loosed; she ought not to be bou

May 8 PURPOSE . . . For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. — 1 JOHN 3:8 During the Korean Conflict, I read an article by a well-known newspaper columnist. He said, “I don’t claim to be a Christian, but I’m not an atheist or an agnostic either. The atheist says there is no God. The agnostic says there may be a God; he doesn’t know. I believe there is a God. I don’t believe everything just happened into being. What hinders me from being a Christian is what I hear preachers say. They say that God is running everything. Well, if He is, He’s sure got things in a mess.” Then the columnist alluded to the wars, children being killed, poverty, disease, and so forth, that plague the world. He said, “I believe there is a Supreme Being somewhere, and that everything He made was beautiful and good. I can’t believe these other things are the works of God.” No, these things came with the fall, when Satan became the god of this world (2 Cor. 4:4).

May 7 DON’T BLAME GOD . . . He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. . . . Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. — JOHN14:9,10 Many of the laws that govern this earth today came into being when Adam sinned and the curse came upon the earth. Because people don’t understand this, they accuse God of causing accidents, sicknesses, the death of loved ones, storms, catastrophes, earthquakes, floods, etc. Even insurance policies call such things “acts of God.” They are not acts of God! They are acts of the devil! Jesus set aside these natural laws to bless humanity. We don’t see Jesus bringing any storms on people. In fact, we see Jesus stilling the storms. Therefore, God didn’t send the storm. Jesus wouldn’t rebuke something God did! But Jesus did rebuke what the devil stirred up. When you see Jesus at work, you see God at work. Jesus’ description of th

May 6 HEALING: GOD’S WILL For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. — JOHN 6:38 Healing the sick is God’s will. Yet Christians who need healing have said to me, “Maybe God put this sickness on me for some purpose.” Did Jesus ever put sickness on anyone? When people came to Jesus for healing, did He ever turn even one away, saying, “No, it’s not My will. Just suffer a little longer. Wait until your piety gets deepened enough”? No! Not once! Do you want to know what God is like? Look at Jesus. Do you want to see God at work? Look at Jesus! Did Jesus go about making people sick? No! He went about doing good and healing (Acts 10:38). Do you want to know the will of God? Look at Jesus. Jesus is the will of God in action. We can pray for healing with great confidence — knowing it is the will of God! Confession: When I pray concerning healing, I know that I pray according to God’s will. It is God’s will that we have what Jesus bought for us. There

May 5 HIS RICHES A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. — PROVERBS 13:22 The Lord Jesus said to me once as He came and sat by my bedside and talked to me for an hour and a half about being led of the Spirit, “My Spirit will lead all of My children. The Bible says, ‘For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God’ (Rom. 8:14). I will lead you, and not only you, but any child of God. I will show you what to do with your money. I will show you how to invest it. In fact, if you’ll listen to Me, I will make you rich. I am not opposed to My children being rich. I am opposed to their being covetous.” (Someone could be covetous and not have a dime.) People misquote the Bible when they claim that it says, “Money is the root of all evil.” But the Bible doesn’t say that at all. It says, “For the love of money is the root of all evil . . .” (1Tim. 6:10). It is all right for you to have money. It is w

May 4 THE GOOD If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. — ISAIAH 1:19 If you are willing and obedient, it is God’s will that you have the best. (Of course, you can’t walk in disobedience and enjoy the good things of God.) God is not a miser or a tightwad. And He didn’t put everything here in this world for the devil and his crowd to enjoy. Some people have the idea that if you’re a Christian, you should never have anything, financially or materially. They believe that you should go through life poor and beaten down. But Jesus said, “If ye then, being evil [natural], know how to give good gifts unto your children, HOW MUCH MORE shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?” (Matt. 7:11). Oh, God wants to give us good gifts! He wants us to have the best! He wants us to prosper and have the good things of this life! But we must cooperate with Him. Confession: I am willing to love and serve God my Father. I am obedient to walk in the l

May 2 SAVING THE LOST The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. — 2 PETER 3:9 We know that saving the lost is God’s will — because it was to save the lost that Jesus laid down His life. Therefore, knowing this, we would not pray, “God, save my mother, if it is Your will. Don’t let her go to hell, if it is Your will. If it’s not Your will, let her go to hell.” No! Why? Because we know God’s will in the matter. God’s will — His Word — makes it clear in such scriptures as John 3:16 and Second Peter 3:9. It is God’s will for men and women to be saved. Therefore, we can pray for the lost with great boldness. Believers especially can exercise great authority in praying for the salvation of their families. I used some of the scriptures we have been studying as I prayed for my relatives. I said something like this: “This is the confidence that we have in