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March 1 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL (K. HAGIN) TOPIC: GOD EXPECTS SOMETHING OF YOU TEXT: Mark 16:18 . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. MESSAGE: As I was preaching one time in Pasadena, Texas, a man and his wife brought to the meeting their little girl who was afflicted. This eight-year-old girl didn’t have much use of her body, and was even unable to feed herself. As I laid hands on her and prayed, I knew the power of God went into her, but she didn’t seem to be any better. She was still helpless.After the service, the family stopped to get some hamburgers before driving back to their home in Beaumont, Texas. When they ordered their food, they got a hamburger for the little girl. Ordinarily, the mother would feed her because the girl couldn’t even handle a fork and had great difficulty swallowing. The mother would pinch off small bites of whatever she was eating, put it into her daughter’s mouth, and coax her to swallow. But this time, to their utter amazement,

February 28 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL TOPIC: KEEP THE SWITCH OF FAITH TURNED ON Then enquired he [Jesus] of them the hour when he began to amend. . . . —JOHN 4:52 MESSAGE: Because healing is not always instantaneous, many people lose the beginning of their healing because they don’t know that. Unfortunately, whenever I say that, people usually respond, “Well, Brother Hagin, under the ministry of Jesus, Jesus always healed everybody instantly.” But I read in the Bible that under the ministry of Jesus, the nobleman’s son began to “amend from that hour” (John 4:52). That means that he began to get better until he was finally all right. Many people miss out on God’s blessings because they don’t receive an instant manifestation. But through the years, our ministry has had innumerable people healed of terminal cancer, and of all of those cases of healing, only one person was healed instantly. I remember laying hands on a woman in Illinois as I ministered the healing power of God to her body. El

February 27 TOPIC: JESUS CAME TO DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL . . . For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.—1 JOHN 3:8 MESSAGE: A number of years ago, I knew a man in Texas who was in the healing ministry. When a tornado came along in the spring of the year, it blew down the tent in which he held revival meetings. He didn’t have any insurance for the 20,000-seat tent, because no one would insure tents at that time. So we took up an offering to help him buy another tent. During the service, I almost fell off the pew as this supposed great man of faith said, “I don’t know whether the devil or God blew my tent down.” Well, God is not out blowing Gospel tents down; He is putting them up. No, God wasn’t in that destruction. Floods, earthquakes, and other destructive acts are not acts of God. Where do things that hurt and destroy come from? The devil! The Bible says that when the devil is finally eliminated from human contact, or from t

February 25 TOPIC: God Is Still in the Healing Business TEXT . . . for I am the Lord that healeth thee.—EXODUS 15:26 For I am the Lord, I change not. .—MAL 3:6 MESSAGE: The Lord said to Israel, “I am the Lord that healeth thee.” God was Israel’s healer, so God provided physical healing under the Old Covenant. But some people don’t believe that the Lord heals today under the New Covenant. Now the children of Israel were never sons of God; they were only servants of God. Since God did not want His servants sick —since He had made provision for them to be well and live their full life out down here on earth without sickness or diseasewhy would He want something less for His sons? Wouldn’t it be strange for God to want His servants to be well, but His sons to be sick? Under the New Covenant, we are God’s sons. In the New Testament, Peter 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

February 24 HAVE THE TENACITY OF A BULLDOG And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.—MAT 11:12 MESSAGE: Sometimes in the area of healing, particularly when chronic illness is involved, you have to do what the Scripture says: You have to take it by force! Sometimes you just have to get violent about it, and have the tenacity of a bulldog—grab hold of God and His Word and don’t ever turn loose! I’ll tell you what I literally did on one occasion. Some time after I was healed as a teenager, all of my heart symptoms came back, and the devil kept bringing to my mind everything that the doctors had said. The devil said, “Now you’ve got all these symptoms and you’re going to die, just like the doctors said. There isn’t anything that medical science can do. They’ve already told you that, so there’s no use to look to medical science. You’re going to die.” I said, “Mr. Devil, the Bible said, ‘Himself took my infirmi

February 23 Don’t Shut the Door on God While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.—HEBREWS 3:15 MESSAGE: Over the years, I’ve had frustrated saints say to me: “I knew So-and-so twenty years ago. They used to come here to church, but they haven’t been to church for years, while I’ve been faithful and have been here every Sunday. Yet they came to the altar the other night and got healed, and I’ve been seeking healing for almost a quarter of a century. Why won’t the Lord heal me?” I say to them, “The Lord has already done all He’s ever going to do about healing you. The Bible says, ‘Himself took your infirmities and bare your sicknesses’ [Matt. 8:17]. God laid your sickness and disease on Jesus nearly two thousand years ago, so He’s already purchased healing for you. It’s yours. God has your healing already packaged up in a nice package with your name on it. He’s just waiting for you to come and claim your possession.” They respond, “

January 22 IT'S EASY TO RECEIVE HEALING Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.—MARK 9:23 MESSAGE When I was preaching down in Texas in the early 1950s, a woman was brought to my service in a wheelchair. In 1950, the polio vaccine had not been invented yet, so polio was rampant. Not only did this woman have polio and was paralyzed, her six- year-old daughter also had polio and could not walk. In the meeting, the little girl was healed. She jumped down off her mother’s lap and ran up and down the aisles of the church. But the mother was still in the wheelchair. However, when I laid hands on her, the mother received the Holy Ghost and spoke with other tongues. I kept saying to her, “You can receive healing just as easily as you received the baptism of the Holy Ghost and spoke in other tongues. You can receive healing justas easily as your daughter did.” She said, “Brother Hagin, I wish I could believe that.” You see, she was saved an

February 21 MESSAGE A WELL WIFE IS BETTER THAN A SICK WIFE 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 I knew a woman years ago who became desperately sick. She couldn’t do her housework, she couldn’t get up and cook breakfast for her unsaved husband, or do much of anything, for that matter. One night she said to me, “Brother Hagin, you may have wondered why I haven’t been in the healing line.” I said, “I sure have.” “Well,” she said, “you know I’ve suffered. I’ve been sick for nineteen years. I’ve finally decided that the Lord made me sick so my husband would get saved.” I said, “Dear Lord! Your husband would come closer to getting saved with a well wife than he would with a sick wife. That’s not God. You’re letting the devil rob you of your healing and cheat you out of your husband’s salvation. For goodness’ sake, don’t tell him that God made you sick so he would g

February 20 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 Is God Using Sickness to Teach You Something? Some would say, “If Jesus took my infirmities and bore my sicknesses, then why am I still sick?” Because you don’t believe it yet! Now you might mentally agree and say, “Yeah, that’s right.” But you don’t really believe it in your heart, because if you believed it in your heart, you would agree with God and say out of your mouth, “He took my infirmities and bore my sicknesses, so I don’t have them anymore.” A person who believes that Jesus took his infirmities and sicknesses will hold fast to his confession even when he’s still hurting. He knows that Jesus bore his sicknesses. And those symptoms will disappear if he’ll hold fast to that confession. Many people think that God wants them sick. But when I ask them why in the world He would want them sick, they don’t hav

February 17 Say What the Bible Says Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised.)—HEBREWS 10:23 MESSAGE: When you know what the Word of God says, and someone asks, “How do you feel?” you can say, “I’m well, thank you.” Even if you are experiencing some symptoms, you’re not lying. You’re stating that you’re well because the Bible says that Jesus took your infirmities and bare your sicknesses. And what He bore, you need not bear. You see, since Jesus bore your infirmities, you don’t have to have them anymore. But as long as you confess them—as long as you say, “I have them”—you will have them. That’s the reason people go through the process of trying to get rid of sickness and disease over and over again. They are prayed for, they have hands laid on them, they are anointed with oil, but they keep holding on to what they have. They don’t turn the sickness loose. If you will believe that Jesus took your infirmities and bare your sickness

February 16 How Do You Know Jesus Took Your Infirmities? That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.—MATTHEW 8:17 Message God wants you to know that Jesus took your infirmities and bare your sicknesses. Some people say, “But I didn’t see Him do it.” Even those who were there when Jesus died didn’t see Him take our diseases and sicknesses. They saw Jesus physically die, but they couldn’t see what happened to Him spiritually. Natural human knowledge can’t comprehend what Jesus did. That kind of knowledge is beyond natural human truth. You could never prove from natural human truth that your diseases and sicknesses were laid on Jesus. Because you can’t see it with your eyes, you have no comprehension of it from the natural standpoint. So how do you know that He took your infirmities? Eventhough it doesn’t look like He took them because you still have symptoms in your body, it is revealed to you in the Ho

February 15 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.—PROVERBS 4:20–22 The Importance of God’s Word Knowing the written Word of God for yourself is very important. I’ve had people attend my meetings who were there every single service, but they didn’t bring their Bibles. Now I didn’t tell them, but I knew that if I could get them to bring their Bible one time so they could see for themselves what God says, they would receive their healing. I remember one fellow in particular. He had been in twenty- one services, yet still failed to receive his healing. I said to him, “Bring your Bible.” He responded, “Well, the only time I take my Bible to church with me is on Sunday morning.” I said, “Bring it with you.” I knew he wouldn’t accept what I was saying if I just told him, because he thought certain scriptures read a cer

February 14 Take Your Thoughts Captive For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations [reasonings], and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.—2 CORINTHIANS 10:4–5 Take Your Thoughts Captive When you’re believing God for healing, reason will tell you that it can’t happen—that you can’t be healed. But you have to cast down reasonings. I didn’t say it was easy. (If you’re looking for something easy, you’d better just quit now.) Now what does Paul mean when he says, “Casting down every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God”? He’s talking about any kind of knowledge that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and His Word. He’s talking about human knowledge here. Some people call it “sense knowledge.” If it’s in opposition to what God’s Word reveals, then cast it down, or throw it aw

February 13 Casting down imaginations [reasonings], and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.—2 COR10:5 Casting Down Reasonings Many people’s minds have never been renewed with the Word of God. They may be saved, filled with the Holy Ghost, and members of a Full Gospel church, but their minds still need to be renewed with the Word of God. Second Corinthians 10:4 and 5 says, “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” Many people are in a battle between their head and their heart. This is spiritual warfare, and these verses say that our weapons are not carnal, or natural. They’re not guns, swords, or even fists. But our weapons are mighty through God to the p

February 11 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thydiseases.—PSALM 103:2–3 Believe the Truth Some time later, Dr. A.B. Simpson was invited to speak at a luncheon. He preached from Matthew 8:17: “Himself [Jesus] took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses.” He told the people at the luncheon that he had heard it preached all his life that “Himself took our sins,” but during his intensive two-week study of the Bible, he had come to see that “Himself also took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses.” Then he said, “I’m in my mid-forties, but I want you to know that Himself took my diseases and my heart condition. Therefore, I don’t have them anymore.” When he said that, he still felt weak. He knew his heart was still not beating right. His head said, “You’ve played the fool. You got up and told these folks that you’re healed and that Jesus took your infirmities But you’ve still got them.” But on the inside of hi

February 10 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases. —PSALM 103:2–3 Jesus Is Your Healer I remember reading the testimony of Dr. A.B. Simpson, founder of the Christian Missionary Alliance.He was a Presbyterian minister and pastor, and in his mid-forties, he developed a serious heart condition. The best specialist of that day said nothing could be done for him. Dr. Simpson knew nothing at all about the subject of healing. He had never examined the Bible on that subject, even though he was a minister of the Gospel and a graduate of a seminary. Now many in his own Presbyterian church congregation had testified of being healed. And he knew they were healed, because he knew something about their conditions. So he decided to take a leave of absence from his church and go back to his farm, where every single day, he spent ten to twelve hours examining the Scriptures on the subject of healing. He would take hi

February 9 If ye abide in me [Jesus], and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.— JOHN 15:7 Get the Word in You In twelve years of pastoral work, my wife and I did not bury even one church member. We even had eighty-year-old church members who were healed of cancer, lived out their lives, and died in their nineties without sickness or disease. We taught them that was the will of God for them. Now many of those people didn’t receive their healing right away. They had to be taught how to receive. You see, God occasionally does initiate some things on His own. But I can only think of two people during those twelve years of pastoral work who were healed because God initiated their healing. We had to teach the majority of them and get the Word into them. As their pastor, I would say to them, “You give me the same opportunity and the same chance that you give the doctor, and you’ll be healed every time. It won’t cost you a dime.” You see, folks go to

February 7 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.—PHILIPPIANS 2:13 God Is Working in You I remember the story of a man who had a malignant growth on the side of his face. It looked like a big purple eggplant, and had grown almost as big as his head. The doctors wouldn’t touch it. They had done preliminary examinations, but said that he’d live longer if they left it alone. The man had been in all kinds of healing meetings, because he believed in divine healing. Healing evangelists had laid hands on him; the pastor had anointed him with oil and prayed; many people had prayed. Then one day the pastor said to me, “I noticed that the growth, though it was still there, began to shrivel. I could see that it was shriveling. The whole church could see it. Within a three-or four-month period, we saw that thing get smaller and smaller. Finally, the man came to church one day, and there wasn’t a thing in the world wrong with his face. Every bit of that tumo

February 6 Only Believe The following are two psalms the Holy Spirit gave me: Fear and doubt— The two tormenting twins of Satan that have come down here to buffet you about. Fear and doubt— Weapons of the enemy to unsettle your faith and cause you trouble and worry and sickness too. Fear and doubt come not from Heaven above, but from Satan below. Fear and doubt are not of God, as you well know. But faith and love come from the Lord above. Faith and love— Walk in love and live by faith. Shout above the turmoil. Shout above the doubt. Shout above the fear. It is done! It is mine! What God has promised, He’s able to perform down here. Fear not; only believe. Only believe. Two little words—so simple and easy to receive. “Only believe” is not enough for some who think they know. Intellectuality said, “We must do something. Yea, arise and work and strive and seek.” But “Only believe” are the words that fell from the lips of the Master for you to receive. So receive His Words and only believe

February 5 As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.—MARK 5:36 Fear Not In Mark chapter 5, when Jesus crossed over the Sea of Galilee, He met Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue. Jairus said, “My little daughter lies at home sick; she’s at the point of death.Come and lay Thy hand on her that she may be healed” (Mark 5:23). Jairus believed that when Jesus laid His hands on the girl, she would be healed. So Jesus went with him to his house. While they were on their way, someone from Jairus’ house came to him and said, “Trouble the Master no longer. Your little daughter is already dead” (Mark 5:35). In the face of such a tragedy, Jesus spoke the simplest, yetmost profound statement to Jairus. Jesus said, “Fear not. Only believe” (v. 36). Jesus was a faith preacher! He was encouraging Jairus to believe, even under adverse circumstances. He was encouraging Jairus to have faith, to believe. God never comes with a mess

February 4 And he [Jesus] said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. —MARK 5:34 Individual Cases of Healing I encourage you to go through the four Gospels carefully and underline with a red pencil all the individual cases of healing. Or better yet, you could write them all down on a sheet of paper. Some examples are the woman with the issue of blood, Jairus’ daughter, the centurion who came on behalf of his servant, and the two blind men who followed Jesus. You’ll find that there are nineteen specific cases of healing mentioned. You might think that there are a lot more, but Matthew, Mark, and Luke often recorded the same incident. For instance, Matthew, Mark, and Luke all recorded the healing of the woman with the issue of blood, but it was only one incident. They were all talking about the same thing. After reading through the Gospels and writing down each incident of healing, you’ll find that twelve out of the nineteen incidents

February 3 And he [Jesus] could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.(MARK 6:5) The Ministry of Jesus Many people are healed by a mutual faith—by their faith and the faith of whoever is ministering to them. Most people are healed by knowing and receiving for themselves what the Word of God says. You see, that’s the way the majority of people were healed under the ministry of Jesus. Some people say, “Oh, if only I could have been there when Jesus was on the earth, I would have been healed because everybody always got healed under His ministry, regardless of their faith.” A person who says that has never read the Bible very closely. Mark 6:5 in the Greek reads that Jesus could do no mighty work except lay His hands on a few sick people with minor ailments. Those are the only ones who got healed under the ministry of Jesus in His hometown of Nazareth. Well, why didn’t others get healed? Let’s look at the next verse. “And he marveled be

February 2 . . . with his [Jesus’] stripes we are healed.—ISAIAH 53:5 You Can Initiate Healing God wants you to be well. Some people say, “If God wants me well, why doesn’t He heal me?” Well, according to the Bible, God wants everyone saved. Then why aren’t all saved? Because they have something to do with it. God has provided salvation for all, but they have a part to play in receiving it. In the same way, when it comes to healing, we often want to leave it all up to God. Well, although God may initiate healings on His own some of the time, that’s not the main way that God heals. This is where a lot of people miss it: They know God initiates some things on His own, because they’ve seen Him do it, so they’re waiting for Him to initiate something for them. Unfortunately, they might die while they’re waiting. But you can initiate healing yourself. You don’t have to wait for God to initiate it; you can claim what belongs to you based on His Word. Isaiah 53:4 says, “Surely he hath borne ou