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February 1 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.—JOHN 5:4 God’s Sovereignty God in His own right of divine sovereignty saw fit to send an angel down to trouble the waters. I don’t know how often He did it, but he apparently didn’t send the angel on any kind of a set schedule. If He had, there wouldn’t have been any need for the sick people to be out there every day. They could have just gone on a certain day when they knew the angel would show up. But they were there all the time because the angel might come at any time. When an angel came down from Heaven and troubled the waters of this pool, the first person in got healed. No one else got healed until next time around. Why did God do it that way? The Scripture doesn’t say why, but if God wanted to do it that way, He certainly could! Sometimes God moves this way as a sign. He initiat

January 31 And these signs shall follow them that believe; . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.—MARK   16:17–18 They Shall Recover’ In 1953, I was ministering at the Oakcliff Assembly of God Church in Dallas, when a young woman was brought to the service in an ambulance. She had been bedfast two years due to an automobile accident that broke her neck and her back. After being in the hospital for two years and at home for almost a year, she regained the use of her arms. But from her shoulders down, she was unable to move. When I knelt by her stretcher and laid hands on her, I had the impression that it would not be an instant healing. When I laid my hands on her feet, I felt a “warmth” go into her. She didn’t have any feeling in her feet. But her legs began to tingle and she said, “I feel that warmth coming out of your hands and up my legs.” I said to her, “That’s the healing power of God going into you. Move your feet.” Well, she moved both feet. Then I said,

January 29 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.—JOHN 8:32 The Truth Shall Make You Free Jesus is the truth, and Satan is the oppressor. Sickness comes from Satan—who is the author of it—not God. You see, the more truth you get into you, the more free you’ll be. You’ll know the truth, and the truth will make you free. Confession: It is God’s will that I be well. It is God’s will that I be healed. That’s God’s plan and purpose. For it is written, “Himself took my infirmities and bare my sicknesses.” What He bore, I need not bear. It is God’s will that I walk in health. It is His will that I not be oppressed by the devil. Sickness is satanic oppression, for sickness comes from the devil. Satan is the author of sickness. It is not the will of God that any of His children be under the dominion of Satan. It is not the will of God that I as His child be under the dominion of Satan—under the dominion of sickness and disease. For Jesus took my infirmities and bore my

January 28 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 Sickness Is Bondage Jesus went into the synagogue on the Sabbath, and a woman came in whose body was bowed together. She couldn’t lift herself up. She must have been bound with something like arthritis, because she couldn’t stand up straight. Who bowed this woman together? Was it the will of God that her body be bowed together so that she couldn’t stand up straight like other humans? Did God put that on her? No! Jesus said to this woman, “Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity” (Luke 13:12). Then He touched her, she was healed, and immediately she straightened up. The rulers of the synagogue became angry because Jesus had healed the woman on the Sabbath. (You know, some people think more of a day than they do of the Lord.) Notice that Jesus then said that Satan had bound this woman for eighteen years (Luke 13:16)

January 27 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. —ACTS 10:38 Jesus Healed Them All What did Jesus do with this anointing of the Holy Ghost and power? He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil. First, this scripture tells us that every person was healed. The words “every” and “all” are interchangeable. Second, we learn that sickness is oppression of the devil. Satan is the oppressor, but Jesus is the Deliverer. Satan is the oppressor, but Jesus is the Healer. We know from this scripture that God wants us well. He doesn’t want His Church to be under the oppression of the devil. Acts 10:38 tells us the source of sickness. Even if we didn’t have any more scriptures to rely upon, this text tells us that sickness comes from Satan and that Satan is the author of sickness. Dr. John Alexander Dowie said, “Sickness is the foul offspri

January 26 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.—JAMES 1:17 Don’t Accept What Comes From the Devil Well, naturally, after eating that nice juicy peach, I had peach juice on my hands. After a while, I went home but never thought to wash my hands. Momma said, “Young man, did you get into Mr. _____’s peaches?” “No,” I said, “I didn’t. _____ did.” And I called my cousin’s name. She said, “You go knock on that man’s door and tell him you’ve come to pay for that peach you ate.” So I got my nickel and cried all the way to Mr. _____’s house, hoping that he wouldn’t be there. I knocked on the door and didn’t hear anything for a while, so I knocked again. I was about to turn around and go home when I heard footsteps coming from the back of the house. When the man opened the door, I said, “Sir, we picked one of your peaches and ate it. I’m sorry. Here’s a nickel; I want to pay you f

January 25 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.—JAMES 1:17 Where Does Sickness Come From? Sickness comes from Satan. It doesn’t come from God. Sometimes, if you find out where something comes from, you won’t be so quick to accept it or acknowledge it. Not only that, but I remember that my mother taught me as a little boy that it was wrong to have something that belonged to someone else. I remember once when I was eight years old, and wanted to go up the street to play with my cousin. It was just a couple of blocks, and my cousin lived next door to a man who had some prize peach trees in his backyard. People would come from several counties to see his peach trees. Well, my cousin and I climbed up a ladder to get on top of a tool shed, which was built right up against his fence. Some of the limbs on one of the peach trees were hanging over the fence. They weren’t touching

January 24 For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.—PSALM 119:89 Sickness Is Not From God I like to say, “Himself took my infirmities (as though I were the only person in the world) and Himself bare my sicknesses.” That means it’s the will of God to heal me and for me to have what Jesus purchased for me. God wants me well. Don’t let your head think any other way. Because people have been religiously brainwashed instead of New Testament-taught, they think, Well, maybe God has some purpose in this sickness. God doesn’t have any purpose in it, because God didn’t put that sickness on you to begin with. Sickness and disease are not of God—they do not come from God—nor do they come from Heaven, because there isn’t any sickness there. When you get it settled once and for all that it is God’s will to heal you, you have won at least fifty percent of the battle. Settle on the fact that God wants you well, and that it is not the will of God for you to be sick. Settle it, not based on what

January 23 Then touched he [Jesus] their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. —MATTHEW 9:29 According to Your Faith Sixteen years later, the woman who had polio and was paralyzed wrote me a letter, which read, “Brother Hagin, I just wanted you to know that I’m out of my wheelchair.” It took her many years to get out. No, it didn’t take God that long; it took her that long. She couldn’t believe that God wanted to heal her and that she could be healed as quickly as her daughter had been healed. She continued to say, “A woman came to my house because I couldn’t do any housework. I couldn’t even use my hand to put a tape in the tape player, so she helped me. Every day, this woman came to my house, put a tape in the player, and I kept listening to tapes from your services. Over the course of several years, I received my healing. I’m out of my wheelchair, and I’m doing all my housework. It’s so wonderful to get up in the morning and fix my husband’s breakfast before he leave

January 21 O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.—Ps 107:1 God’s Goodness and Mercy When we think about the goodness and mercy of God, we instinctively think about His goodness and mercy in remitting our sins as sinners and forgiving our sins as Christians. But God’s goodness and mercy go further than that; it’s stated a number of times in the four Gospels as those who were sick cried out to Jesus, “Have mercy on us” (Mark 10:47). Again and again, Jesus had compassion on people and healed them (Matt. 14:14; 20:34; Mark 1:41). Now the New Testament was originally written in Greek. And in the Greek, the word “compassion” is translated mercy. So literally, the original Scriptures read, “He had mercy on them and healed them.” That’s what Jesus did. People cried out for mercy, and He had mercy on them and healed them. I want you to think about God’s goodness in healing—about His healing mercy. Acts 10:38 says, “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with t

January 20 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. —1 CORINTHIANS 11:31 Judge Yourself That You Be Not Judged Years ago, God told me to talk to one of the most outstanding healing evangelists of that time in America. In his ministry, I saw some of the greatest healings I have ever seen—blind eyes opened and deaf-mute people healed instantly! God said to me, “You go tell that man that if he doesn’t judge himself, he won’t live much longer. First, tell him to walk in love toward his fellow man, particularly his fellow ministers. Second, tell him to judge himself on money. And, third, tell him to judge himself on diet.” Well, he didn’t judge himself. Within three years time, he was dead. Was it the will of God? No. Yet there were many healings and miracles under this man’s ministry. Brother Oral Roberts said to me, “I believe that man was the greatest man of faith. He had more faith than anyone I’ve ever seen.” I said, “I guarantee that’s true. He was a man of faith; he

January 19 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.—1 CORINTHIANS 11:29–30 Rightly Discern the Lord’s Body Paul is inferring that there shouldn’t be any physically weak or sickly among the Church of Jesus Christ. There shouldn’t be any who die prematurely. He indicates that many people are weak and sickly because they aren’t rightly discerning the body. This observation has a twofold application. First, Paul is talking about the Lord’s Supper. The broken bread represents Jesus’ broken body that was broken for your physical sustenance. You can partake of that broken body just as a routine ceremony, and it won’t mean a thing in the world to you; it will just be a ritual. Or when you hold that piece of broken bread in your hand, you can say, “Thank God, the body of Jesus was broken for my physical sustenance. His blood wasshed for the remission of

January 18 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak.—2 CORINTHIANS 4:13 Speak in Faith Every time Brother Kemp and his wife would start to pray over their food, she would burst out laughing. She would say, “I’m healed. The Word says I’m healed.” On the tenth day after I laid hands on her, every single symptom disappeared. Afterward, she said, “I knew according to the Word of God that I was healed when you laid hands on me; the power of God came on me. Yet I had all the symptoms I ever had.” You see, this woman could have reasoned, Well, if I’m healed, why am I still sitting here? She could have reasoned herself right out of her healing. But she began to praise God. She began to say, “Oh, I’m so glad I’m well. I’m so glad I can walk. I’m so glad I’m not bound to this chair anymore.” She was speaking in faith because she believed what First Peter 2:24 says. Confession: It is written in Fi

January 17 For we walk by faith, not by sight.—2 CORINTHIANS 5:7 Walk by Faith In 1971, I was preaching at the First Assembly of God Church in Pasadena, Texas. I had known the pastor of that church, Rev. R.V. Kemp, and his wife for a number of years. His wife had been operated on twice for cancer at a well-known cancer hospital in Houston, Texas. When the cancer came back a third time, the doctors said that it had spread to every gland in her body, and gave her three months to live. Brother Kemp brought his wife to one of the services. When my wife and I saw her, we almost wept; she looked like the picture of death. She came forward, and I laid hands on her. The power of God fell on her and she said, “This is it. This is it. I know according to the Word of God I’m healed.” Yet she still had all the symptoms. She was still helpless. Her husband had to get her out of bed and dress her. He had to prepare her meals, then pick her up in his arms, and sit her down in a chair at the table. Co

January 16 Who his own self [Jesus] 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 The Best Way to Be Healed In this scripture, Peter is looking back to the sacrifice of Christ. He’s looking back to the time before Jesus went to the Cross, after stripes were laid upon His back. And Peter said, “. . . by whose stripes ye were healed.” He didn’t say, “You’re going to be healed.” He said, “You were healed.” This means that in the mind of God, your healing was accomplished back then. There are a number of scriptural methods by which healing can be obtained. But the best one is when we simply know for ourselves—when we know what has been secured for us and what belongs to us. Then we can thank God our Father for our perfect healing and perfect deliverance. And if Satan endeavors to put sickness or disease upon us, we can simply laugh at him because we know what the Word of God says. Matth

January 15 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.— JOHN 5:8 You Were Healed Before this woman got the revelation of First Peter 2:24, and received healing, I said to her, “I’ll just get the Bible and prove to you that you’re healed.” I opened it to First Peter 2:24, laid it on her lap as she sat in that wheelchair, and said, “Read First Peter 2:24 aloud for me.” And she did. Then I said, “Notice the last clause of that verse. What does it say?” She said, “By whose stripes, ye were healed.” I said, “Now is ‘were’ past tense, future tense, or present tense?” She looked at me, startled, and said, “Why, it’s past tense. If we were healed, then I was.” I said, “That’s it exactly! Just lift up both of your hands and begin to praise God because according to First Peter 2:24, you are healed. You’re not going to be; by whose stripes, you were healed. In the mind of God, you were healed when the stripes were laid on Jesus. You’re already healed.” She lifted up her hands and began

January 13 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. —ACTS10:34 God Is No Respecter of Persons There are many methods of healing. For example, you can be healed by prayer (James 5:14–15), and you can also be healed by the laying on of hands (Mark 16:18). These are just two Bible methods of receiving healing. But you can also be healed by believing Isaiah 53:4 and 5, Matthew 8:17, and First Peter 2:24 without anyone praying for you—just by acting on these verses yourself. In fact, that’s really the best way, because after you are healed, you can then go out and tell someone how you were healed, and they can receive their healing the same way you did. Healing belongs to every one of us. Some people say, “Well, that just means spiritual healing; the Scripture isn’t talking about physical healing.” I shared First Peter 2:24 with a woman in Oklahoma who was crippled. The doctors in Oklahoma City had said, “She’ll never walk another ste

January 12 Surely he [Jesus] hath borne our griefs [sicknesses], and carried our sorrows [pains]: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 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 53:4–5 Healing Is in God’s Redemptive Plan It is the will of God for you to be healed. It is God’s will that you be in health. The biggest thing that hinders people is that they question God’s will. They think, Maybe God has some great purpose in this illness or disease. But let the Word of God settle the issue for you. It is God’s will to heal you because healing is provided for you in His redemptive plan. These verses in Isaiah have to do with God’s redemptive plan. Isaiah chapter 53 gives us a picture of the coming Messiah. This passage of Scripture not only tells us that He bore our sins, but that He bore our sicknesses and carried our pains. He was wounded for

January 10 And he [Jesus] said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace. — LUKE 8:48 Your Faith Can Make You Whole Many years ago, I read an article in a secular magazine. The article was written by a group of doctors from the University of Minnesota. They had a grant for several thousand dollars from the government to study alternative healing methods. In the article, the doctors said, in effect, “We went back and examined all the old American Indian remedies. And we found that some of them that we had said wouldn’t work did work. After running them through our laboratory, we found out why they worked. We even tried old wives’ remedies. We didn’t turn any of them down. We’re in the healing business.” They continued, “We also found out that divine healing works. We have records of people who were in the last stages of cancer, and were going to die. But after a man of God came in, anointed them with oil, and laid hands on them, these people got

January 9 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised.)—HEBREWS 10:23 ‘ It’s Mine’ The father of the boy from Massachusetts continued to share his story with me: “Now there was some medication available that my boy could take that would help keep him going a little better. So he was taking this medication. After we left the service in Syracuse, the time came for him to take his medication, but he said to me, ‘No, I don’t need it. I’m healed.’” The father said, “Son, you’ll begin suffering if you don’t take it. You’ll begin to hurt.” The son responded, “No, I won’t begin to hurt. I’m healed.” “Well, how do you know you are?” the father asked. The son said, “Didn’t you hear Brother Hagin preach that Jesus took my infirmities and bore my sicknesses? I stood right there and confessed it with my mouth. So I know it’s mine!” That boy never had another symptom. They took him back to be examined, and doctors couldn’t find anything wrong! In

January 8 For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.—PSALM119:89 God’s Word Never Changes I was preaching at a convention in St. Louis on one occasion. After the service was over, a gentleman stopped me in the lobby of the hotel to speak with me. He said, “I want you to meet my wife and three children. Last year when you were in Syracuse, New York, teaching on faith, we came to hear you. We’re from Boston, Massachusetts, and it was the first Full Gospel meeting we had ever been to. At that time, my boy was thirteen and a half years old, and doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with him. They encouraged me to take him to some specialists in New York City, so I did.” The gentleman continued, “The specialists said that he had an incurable disease and there was nothing they could do for him. In fact, the doctors said that they only knew of three people on the North American continent who had ever had this disease. They told us that he would be dead by the time he turned fifteen

January 7 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself [Jesus] took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.—MATTHEW 8:17 Jesus Bore Your Sicknesses Jesus took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses. Since He bore them, why should we bear them? Isaiah 53:4 says, “Surely he hath borne our GRIEFS, and carried our SORROWS: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.” In the Hebrew, the words “griefs” and “sorrows” mean sicknesses and pains. So Jesus bore our sicknesses and carried our pains. That’s the same thing as saying, “. . . Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses” (Matt. 8:17). Another reference in the New Testament is First Peter 2:24: “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.” The Bible says, “In the mouth of two or three witnesses let every word be established” (Matt.18:16). I’ve given you three

January 6 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.—PHILIPPIANS 2:13 Why People Fail to Receive Healing The number one reason people fail to receive their healing is that they do not believe that it’s God’s will for them to be healed. Many say, “Well, maybe God has some purpose in this.” No, He doesn’t! God’s will is for you and me to be in health. So I stay in health because I know that’s what His will is. According to Philippians 2:13, God is working in me, both to will and to do of His own good pleasure. He is working in me every day to will and to do of His own good pleasure. You need to settle the question about God’s will concerning healing for you. How are you going to settle it? How are you going to find out what God’s will is? Go to the will of God, the New Testament, and find out. At the reading of a will, someone reads the last will and testament of the deceased. A testament is a will, and the New Testament is the will of God. It is His

January 5 Faith Comes by Hearing So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.—ROMANS 10:17 Two years later, I went back to that same church in Oklahoma and noticed that the young woman who had refused to believe anything was there. Again, the meeting ran four weeks. I noticed her sitting there with her Bible and a notebook; she was taking notes as I taught in both the day and night services. For two solid weeks, this young woman sat there, listened, and took notes. On Friday night of the second week, she positioned herself on the front pew. One of the ushers put his hands under her arms, lifted her to her feet, and helped her up onto her crutches. She was the first person in the healing line that night. She said, “I’ve come for my healing. Just put your hands on me and I’ll be healed.” She lifted her hands and began to praise God. One crutch fell one way, and one fell the other way. And she walked off completely well! You see, she listened to the Word of God and got

January 4 YOU MUST BELIEVE Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.—MARK 9:23 MESSAGE I remember that while preaching in a large Full Gospel church in Oklahoma in 1950, I saw a young woman in the services. I didn’t know whether or not she was a member of the church, but I saw that she was on crutches. She could swing her body along between crutches by putting enough weight on her feet to move the crutches along. It would take her about ten minutes to go twenty or twenty-five feet. Well, I noticed that she didn’t get in any of the healing lines, although she was in the services. One night, she stopped me as I went out the side door after the service. She had positioned herself there because she knew that I would go out that door. She said, “Brother Hagin, who’s going to have faith for my healing—me or you?” I said, “Most of the time, people are healed by a mutual faith— in other words, a combination of both yours and mine. I’m going to h

January 3 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. —PSALM 91:16 Live Long on the Earth At ninety-four years of age, Sister Foster’s grandmother insisted on making up her own bed and sweeping her own floor. She also washed the breakfast dishes while Sister Foster cleaned up the rest of the house. They had a big house with lots of kids, about eight children all together. At ninety-four, she was washing the dishes and cleaning up the kitchen! She was still very alert! Each morning at about 10:00 a.m., they would be done with the cleaning, so they would go into the sewing room. Sister Foster would darn socks and patch overalls, while Grandma would read the Bible to her. But one day at the breakfast table, Grandma said, “I’m going home today.” Mr. Foster, who wasn’t saved then, said, “Well, this is your home.” They thought she was getting old and senile. After the kitchen was cleaned, Grandma went into the sewing room with her Bible. Sister Foster sewed some of the boys

January 2 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 Accept Christ as Your Healer While pastoring a Full Gospel church in north central Texas, I visited a dear woman and her husband in their home in the country. They had several children and many acres of farmland. They were wonderful people. Sister Foster had a Methodist background. She said to me, “You know, Brother Hagin, my grandmother lived with us right in this very house. I remember the time someone came to town, rented a store building, and had a meeting there. Grandma was ninety-three years old then. My husband and I went to the meeting, and I came back and told Grandma about it. She said, ‘Sounds like old-fashioned Methodism to me.’ She encouraged us to go back. “We went back, and the man announced that he was going to have a healing service. He was going to lay hands on the sick and anoint them with oil