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March 30 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: THE NEVER FAILING REMEDY OF GOD'S WORD TEXT: Mark 11:23 . . . he shall have whatsoever he saith. MESSAGE: The next morning, Dr. Yeomans and her sister fed their patients breakfast. Then Dr. Yeomans asked this particular woman if she had been saying what she told her to say. She said, “Oh, it seemed like I didn’t sleep but ten minutes last night. I must have said it ten thousand times, but it doesn’t mean a thing in the world to me. I don’t understand it.” Dr. Yeomans said, “That’s all right, honey. You just keep saying it over and over again, every waking moment.” If people would work at receiving divine healing like they ought to, it would work for them. But so many times, they only do it half-heartedly and then go on thinking about something else. In that case, it won’t work for them. They have to get down to business. Well, on the third day, Dr. Yeomans went to this woman’s room again and read scriptures on the subject of healing

March 28 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: GOD SENT HIS WORD TO HEAL YOU TEXT: Psalm 107:20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.  MESSAGE: Dr. Yeomans and her sister were both doctors and had a beautiful home in southern California—actually a two-story mansion—which they turned into a “faith home.” They would take patients into their home to get them healed by divine power, not by medicine. They could only handle four patients at a time because Dr. Yeomans traveled and taught most of the time. Her sister, Amy Yeomans, was the one whotook care of the patients. What did they do to get people healed? They simply taught them from the Word of God. It wasn’t the Holy Ghost initiating anything, such as a gift of the Spirit (1 Cor. 12:9–11). The people were healed by initiating their own healing on the basis of their faith in the Word of God. In Dr. Yeomans’ day, tuberculosis was the number-two killer in America. As soon as a patient was healed,

March 27 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: DIVINE HEALING TEXT: 1 COR 2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. MESSAGE: Dr. Lilian B. Yeomans was a medical doctor who was born and raised in Canada and then moved to the United States. Her mother and father were doctors, and her grandfather had been a medical doctor too. In her mid-forties, Dr. Yeomans practiced medicine in a large New York hospital. She began to take stimulants and narcotics to energize her and, eventually, became a dope addict. Othe complications set in, and medical science of the day gave her up to die. An older gentleman told her about divine healing. She knew something about medical healing, but she had never heard about divine healing. This older gentleman asked her if she wanted him to pray with her. She said, “I’d better pray myself first, because I’ve gotten away from God. I knew God when I was a little girl, but I haven’t known Him for years.” She spent part of t

March 26 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: AS THE SPIRIT WILLS TEXT: 1COR. 12:11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. MESSAGE: The gifts of the Spirit are listed in First Corinthians 12. These gifts belong to the Church, and are manifested through individuals as the Spirit wills, not as man wills. I have had them manifest through me at times, and at other times, I would try to manifest these gifts myself. I would push every button, pull every lever, say everything I had said before, but nothing would happen. Why? Because the Spirit and the anointing weren’t present to manifest these gifts. First Corinthians 12:8 says, “For to one is given by the Spirit. . . .” No man controls the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit; the manifestation is given as the Spirit wills. I have been in meetings where people ministered with the word of knowledge or the gifts of healing. The minister would only call out four or five people

March 25 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: GOD DOES SOME THINGS AS A SIGN TEXT: John 5:4 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. MESSAGE: I was preaching down in east Texas one time, and just as I closed my sermon, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, “There’s a sinner man standing outside this building, looking at you through those open doors. He has a double hernia. Call him in here and lay your hands on him, and the double hernia will disappear instantly.” Well, I just repeated what I had heard and that fellow came in. After I laid hands on him, some of the men took him into the back room and examined him, but they couldn’t find the hernia. It had disappeared! The next day, the pastor said, “Brother Hagin, nearly every man in this community knows this fellow, because he is the biggest landowner in this county. And if the g

March 24 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC: YOU CAN RECEIVE HEALING ANYTIME TEXT: MARK 5:29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague . MESSAGE: Healings may also be initiated by man. In Mark chapter 5, we have the account of the woman with the issue of blood, who initiated her own healing. Notice verse 27: “When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.” This woman started the ball rolling by doing something. She said, “. . . If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole” (v. 28). Jesus responded to her and said, “. . . Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague” (v.34). You, too, can initiate your own healing by acting on God’s Word. You don’t have to sit around like those at the pool of Bethesda and wait for God to initiate something. No, you can receive healing from God at any time by acting on His Word. Confession: I can reach o

March 23 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC: GOD INITIATES SOME HEALINGS ON HIS OWN Text: John 5:4 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. MESSAGE: There is a difference between God initiating healing and you initiating healing. In John chapter 5, the Bible tells us that there was a pool called Bethesda in Jerusalem. And around this pool were five porches full of the weak, sick, and maimed. They were all waiting for an angel to come down periodically and trouble the water. And then the first person in would be healed. Everyone else had to wait until the angel came down again. God initiated that on His own. He didn’t ask you or me whether He could or not. He didn’t ask the Sanhedrin or anybody else whether He could or not, because He is God. God can do whatever He wants to do, and we know that whatever He does will not violate His

March 22 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC: YOU MUST BE IN POSITION TO RECEIVE TEXT: Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his [Jesus’] own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. MESSAGE: Because healing was purchased for us, it belongs to everyone, but not every person is in position to receive his healing. Sometimes we have to move people into position to receive what already belongs to them. You know, sometimes we don’t have as much sense when it comes to spiritual things as we do natural things. That’s why Jesus used natural things to explain spiritual things. Sometimes people have the idea that if something belongs to them spiritually, it’s just going to automatically fall on them, even though things don’t automatically fall on us in the natural. I want you to know that salvation belongs to the meanest person in your hometown just as much as it does to you or me. But he hasn’t accepted it, and he may n

March 21 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC: HEALING DOESN'T JUST FALL ON YOU TEXT: Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. MESSAGE: I remember a man who wrote us from the penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was in the penitentiary because he killed somebody. He was not only a murderer, but was also a gambler and a thief. He said in his letter, “I’ve tried it all and haven’t found satisfaction. I don’t know if there is a God or not, but if there is, I want you to help me find Him.” Well, we were able to help him find God. Now we didn’t write and tell him, “You’ve murdered people. You’ve been living in sin and immorality. You’ll have to wait for Jesus to die for you to purchase your salvation.” No! God had already purchased this man’s salvation through Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. His new birth was waiting; it was wrapped up with his name on it. God was just waiting for him to accept it. Salvati

March 20 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC: THE PROBLEM IS NOT WITH GOD TEXT: John 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. MESSAGE: Many years ago, when I was pastoring a church, I was praying about a certain thing. I was praying just like everyone else does—leaving it more up to God than me—and God just dropped the following illustration down into my heart: One day after church, my wife discovers that the diamond of the engagement ring I gave her is gone. She knows it was there before she left for church because she noticed it. The diamond must have fallen out somewhere between the parsonage and the church. What do I do? I search for it. I go over the ground carefully and, if necessary, get down on my knees. I divide every blade of grass, going over the area carefully, because I know it has to be there somewhere. Then I heard something on the inside of me say, “Similarly, it’s in ‘this’ area that you’re missing

March 19 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC: A MINOR ADJUSTMENT TEXT: Songs of Solomon 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines. . . . MESSAGE: The Bible says that the little foxes spoil the vines. So sometimes, we just need to make a little adjustment to receive our answer to prayer. Then we’ll receive our healing. I remember a person who was seeking healing. Now, he was saved and filled with the Holy Ghost. But if people were automatically healed because they were saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, then all Spirit-filled people would be healed. As I was talking with this person seeking healing, suddenly, he said, “That’s it! That’s it right there!” I really didn’t know what he was talking about. He wasn’t asking any questions; we were just discussing the Bible. But, all of a sudden, this person saw where he had failed to make the prayer connection. So he made the connection and he got results. If you aren’t getting results, the problem is not with God. T

March 17 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC: SICKNESS IS THE WORK OF THE DEVIL TEXT: Acts 10:38 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.  MESSAGE: Right after Rev. Dowie heard from the Spirit of God concerning the bubonic plague, there was a knock on his door. Three young men burst into his study. One of the young men said to Rev. Dowie, “Come quickly, Mary is dying, and Momma wants you to come.” Mary was a twelve-year-old girl who had the bubonic plague. Rev. Dowie jumped from his desk, hatless and coatless, and ran down the street with the young men. He ran into the house, where the little girl lay on the bed in convulsions. That’s the way people died with the bubonic plague; they died in convulsions with bloody froth running out their mouth. The doctor said to Rev. Dowie, “In what mysterious ways God moves, His wonders to perform.” Rev. Dowie, having

March 16 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC: SETTLE THE ISSUE Memory Verse: Acts 10:38 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 MESSAGE: I have read about Rev. John Alexander Dowie, a Congregationalist pastor in Australia in the 1870s, when a bubonic plague came to Australia. People were dying like flies during that epidemic. Rev. Dowie had already buried forty-three members of his congregation, and had four more waiting to be buried. While sitting at the desk in his study one day, he began to cry out to God. “Dear God, is my whole church going to die? Did You send this plague? Is this Your will? Are You going to call them all home?” He didn’t know who was to blame for it. He had read in the Old Testament how plagues could sometimes be stayed. Could this plague be stayed? He wept for the members of his congregation. The Spirit of God spoke on

March 15 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC: DO YOU BELIEVE IN DIVINE HEALING? TEXT: 1Timothy 5:22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure. MESSAGE: As I sat down to talk with the mother and her daughter, I said to the daughter, “Do you believe in divine healing?” “Well,” she said, “To be honest with you, no, I don’t. I didn’t want to hurt Momma’s feelings, so I thought I would just go ahead and have you lay hands on me.” “That’s the reason I’m not going to pray for you,” I said. “You understand that God can heal you though, don’t you?” “No, no,” she said. “We don’t preach healing in our church. But I have great confidence in my pastor, because he’s a man of God. And if divine healing were so, he would have told me about it.” I replied, “I’m sure your pastor is a good man who loves the Lord with all his heart and is walking in all the light he has, but there was a time I didn’t see some things in the Bible that I now know to be true

March 14 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC: DON'T LAY HANDS ON OTHERS SUDDENLY TEXT: 1Timothy 5:22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure. MESSAGE: In writing to Timothy, Paul said, “Lay hands suddenly on no man. . . .” If you read the whole context of this verse, Paul is not talking about laying hands on someone to do the person harm; he’s talking about the doctrine of the laying on of hands. He is instructing Timothy not to be quick to lay hands on people and pray for them. I believe it is important that people are ready to receive when hands are laid on them. I remember a woman who brought her daughter to me to be healed. The daughter was facing major surgery, and the woman wanted me to pray for her. Well, I endeavor to keep my spirit open to the Spirit of God, so before the mother said anything, I knew on the inside of me that the daughter didn’t believe in divine healing and was just coming to please her mother. So I said

March 13 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC: THE FOUNDATION FOR HEALING TEXT: Matthew 8:17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. MESSAGE: Our faith is not founded on what man says, but on what God says. In Isaiah 53:4 and 5, Matthew 8:17, and First Peter 2:24, God says that it is His will that we be well. So don’t question that healing is the will of God! I’ve found again and again in my dealings with people that the majority of people are hung up on this issue of whether or not it’s God’s will to heal them. Even though they’re seekinghealing and want to be healed, they’re not really sure if it’s God’s will. Something lurks in the back of their minds that was probably put there by religious teaching. Even though they may have seen others receive healing, they still aren’t sure that healing is for them. And, of course, the devil will do his best to talk them out of healing. If he can get the

March 12 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC: WE HAVE A BETTER COVENANT TEXT: Hebrews 8:6 . . . he [Jesus] is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. MESSAGE: Under the Old Covenant, the Israelites were servants of God; they weren’t sons of God, as we are today. The Bible says concerning us, “Beloved, now are we the sons of God . . .” (1John 3:2). Since God made provision under the Old Covenant for His servants to be healed and well, He has surely made provision for us as His sons. Under the Old Covenant, God said, “. . . 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” (Exod. 23:25–26). He made provision for their healing, saying, “. . . I am the Lord that healeth thee” (Exod. 15:26).God made provision under the Old Covenant whereby Israel could live out their full length of time down here on earth without sickness and disease. Now since H

March 11 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC: HEALING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT TEXT: James 5:14 - 15 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. MESSAGE: An inward intuition, that inward witness on the inside of me, told me that the answer was in the Book—in the Bible. And that was the difference between life and death for me. Most folks would have given up and died at fifteen years of age. But I got into the Book. I slept with it in my arms; I hugged it to my bosom; I hung on to it in the night. Praise God for the Book, for the Word of God. I found out that God not only dealt with sickness in the Old Testament, but He also dealt with sickness in the New Testament, under the New Covenant. Now I had read James 5:14 and 15 in the New Testament many times be

March 10 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC: BIBLE PRINCIPLES WORK TEXT: Proverbs 4:20 - 22 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. MESSAGE: Begin to see yourself well and confess that you are well according to Proverbs 4:20 through 22. What is not supposed to depart from your eyes? God’s words, which say that by Jesus’ stripes, you were healed (1 Peter 2:24). The word “were” is past tense, so if that scripture doesn’t depart from before your eyes, you will soon see yourself well. It’s amazing to me how people out in the world will unknowingly take Bible principles, put them into practice, and get results. I remember reading about a new therapy technique some hospitals were using on cancer patients. They would teach the patients to visualize themselves well. I don’t know whether or not they knew the source of

March 9 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC:GOD HEALS YOU THROUGH YOUR SPIRIT TEXT: PS 107:20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. MESSAGE: As you say the following confession, notice what happens on the inside of you: God’s Word works. Psalm 107:20 says, “He sent His Word and healed them,” so I know He sent His Word and healed me. I no longer have ____________ [fill in the particular sickness or disease]. Did something start to leap and jump on the inside of you? That’s your spirit getting excited. Your spirit knows you’re on the right road. Now your mind may not have grasped what you confessed. In fact, your mind may still be trying to get hold of what you said. Your head may be saying, “I don’t understand it.” But if you’ll listen on the inside of you, you’ll find that there’s something down in there that’s thrilled. Why? Your spirit knows the truth of your confession. God’s healing is spirit healing, not mental healing or physical heali

March 8 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC: LISTEN TO YOUR HEART, NOT YOUR HEAD TEXT: 1Peter 3:4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. More than sixty-eight years ago when I was on the bed of sickness, I began to get a little glimpse of light from the Word of God concerning healing. So I began to talk to other Christians about it. They would tell me, “Well, yes, God did heal under the Old Covenant, but that was just for the Jews. That’s not for us nowadays.” Now many might have responded by thinking, Well, I guess that’s a closed subject then. They’re Christians, and they ought to know what they’re talking about. But, you see, I was no longer religious. I wasn’t just a church person anymore. I had become a Christian. There’s a difference between the two. Unfortunately, many church people have been religiously brainwashed; they’ve never really been taugh

March 7 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K. HAGIN TOPIC: THE AUTHOR OF SICKNESS TEXT: Psalm 41:8 A thing of Belial is poured out on him. . .  (Young’s Literal Translation) MESSAGE : Second Corinthians 13:1 says, “. . . In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.” So let’s look at some more scriptures that tell us that sickness comes from Satan—that he is the author of it. 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 THIEF [Satan] COMETH NOT, BUT FOR TO STEAL, AND TO KILL, AND TO DESTROY: I [Jesus] am come that they  might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly . —John 10:10 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that HE MIGHT DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL. —1 John 3:8 Confession: Satan is the author of sickness and disease. According to Luke

March 5 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K. HAGIN TOPIC: FAITH IS BASED ON BIBLE FACTS, NOT THEORIES MEMORY VERSE: 1Peter 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. Faith Is Based on Bible Facts, Not Theories Faith is built on fact, not theory. A fact is a conclusion deduced  from evidence. (My definition of a theory is a supposition established on ignorance of the subject under discussion!) Faith is based on the facts of God’s Word, but theory about God’s Word is based on suppositions. It is a Bible fact that by Jesus’ stripes, we were healed (1 Peter 2:24). It is a Bible fact that surely He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains (Isa. 53:4). It is a Bible fact that Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses (Matt. 8:17). These are Bible facts, not theories. Start believing these facts—even while you still have the symptoms. Although your body may be telling y

March 4 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K. HAGIN TOPIC: HEALING IS THE WILL OF GOD FOR YOU. TEXT: MATTHEW 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee . . . healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. MESSAGE: I know from more than sixty-five years’ experience in the ministry that the thing that keeps most people from being healed is they do not know for sure if it is God’s will to heal them. If they’re sick, naturally, they want to be healed, especially if they have a terminal disease and medical science can’t help them. So they look everywhere they can for help. I don’t blame them. I did too when I was given up to die. And I found the answer in the Word of God. Many times, people are just seeking in the dark, hoping something will happen. They say, “Well, I may or may not get healed. And if it doesn’t happen, I’m going to die.” They are prayed for many times, and hands are laid on them, but nothing seems to work. And under those conditions, nothing will, because the

March 3 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL TOPIC: GOD HEARS AND ANSWERS PRAYER . . . the Lord will hear when I call unto him.—PSALM 4:3 MESSAGE: A number of years ago, our ministry received a letter from a dear woman. A portion of the letter read: “I am a widow woman with only one son. He is fifty-seven years old, lives in Indiana, and has cancer and a heart problem. The doctors say that he will die. At my age, it’s difficult for me to travel, so in talking to my daughter-in-law on the phone, I asked her if it would be possible to move him to a hospital closer to me so that I could see him one last time before he dies. My daughter-in-law talked to the doctors, and they said, ‘No.’ But my son wanted to see me. So after talking to the doctors many times, they finally said, ‘Well, we don’t believe he will make it, but if you want to try it, we’ll put him in an ambulance and hook him up to the necessary equipment. We hope he gets there before he dies.’ So they did.” When she wrote in asking us to pray

March 2 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL TOPIC: HEARING THE WORD OVER AND OVER TEXT: ROMANS 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God MESSAGE: A denominational pastor I knew daily visited the home of awoman with terminal cancer to pray with her and read the Word to her. As this woman was bedfast, he would also bring her a different cassette tape every day to listen to. He said to me, “I really didn’t know or understand the leading of the Lord at the time. But something on the inside kept saying, ‘So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing,’ and it stopped right there [Rom. 10:17]. That went on over and over inside of me for three days, and on the third day, I finally decided that God was trying to get something across to me. I decided that God was trying to tell me that this woman needed to hear one tape over and over again, instead of me changing the tape each day.” When he asked the Lord which tape he should play over and over, he felt impressed in his spirit to pl