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April 30 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: DEMAND YOUR RIGHTS TEXT: John 26:23 - 24 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. —JOHN 16:23–24 MESSAGE: The word “ask” comes from the same Greek word that istranslated “demand” and means to demand something due. In other words, Jesus was saying, “Whatever you demand in My Name, I will do it.” In Acts chapter 3, a crippled man was sitting at the gate as Peter and John were going into the temple. The crippled man was begging for alms. Peter said to him, “Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have, give I thee. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!” Peter took the crippled man by the hand and lifted him up. Peter demanded that the man get up in Jesus’ Name. Whatever you ask in Jesus’ Name, He will do it! Our faith in th...

April 29 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: THE MERCY OF GOD TEXT: Psalm 107:19 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.—PSALM 107:20 Message: Let’s back up a few verses. PSALM 107:17–19 17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. 18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. 19 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses. God said this to the Israelites. He told them, “Walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and I’ll take sickness away from the midst of thee. The rest of your days will be fulfilled” (Exod. 23:25–26). But they were foolish. They sinned and broke their covenant with God. They took themselves out of the protection of God—out of His healing power. Verse 18 says that they drew near to the gates of death. They were almost dead. Then they cried unto the Lord for help and He saved them! Isn’t God w...

April 28 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: DON'T ACCEPT SICKNESS AND DISEASE TEXT: James 4:7 . . . Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. MESSAGE: When I was a teenager, the doctors said I wouldn’t live. But I proved them wrong! I had two serious organic heart troubles and an incurable blood disease. I was also paralyzed. The doctors said that my white corpuscles were eating up my red corpuscles faster than I could build them up and faster than anything could be done about it medically. They said, “We’ll be honest with you. If you didn’t have the heart condition, if you didn’t have the paralysis, the incurable blood disease alone would prove fatal to you.” But it didn’t prove fatal to me. In sixty-eight years, I have not had one single headache. I’ve proved God’s Word works. The last headache I had was in August 1933. I’m not bragging on me. I’m bragging on what I learned from the Bible. Someone might say, “What would you do if you had a headache?” Well, first, I wouldn...

April 27 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: A FACT, NOT A PROMISE TEXT: 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. MESSAGE: By Jesus’ stripes, you are healed. You don’t have to pray. You don’t have to have someone else pray. It’s not necessary to pray when you know this fact as you ought to know it. Simply thank God for perfect deliverance. The afflictions in your body were laid on Jesus. And He bore them. You do not need to bear them. All you need to do is recognize and accept the fact that Jesus has already borne your sicknesses and diseases. Therefore, you do not have to bear them. That’s a fact, not a theory. It’s a Bible fact. I’ve heard people say, “Well, I know the Lord promised to heal me.” No, He didn’t. He didn’t promise. First Peter 2:24 is a statement of fact. It tells you what happened. A promise tells you about something that’s going to happen. A...

April 24 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: PRAYING FOR FAITH TO BE HEALED 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: I asked this couple, “Are you folks Christians?” “Yes, we’ve been born again,” they said. I asked the husband, “When you went down to that altar to get saved, did you pray, ‘God, give me and my wife faith so we can be saved’?” “No, the man just preached Jesus,” the husband shared. “He said that whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved [Rom. 10:13]. We knew before we went down there what the Lord would do.” “Good,” I said. “That’s exactly what I wanted you to say. You didn’t have to pray for God to give you faith to be saved. Why then would you have to pray for God to give you faith to be healed?” He jumped up and said, “You know, that whole prayer isn’t worth a dime, is it? We’re going to have to throw that whole prayer away!” I sa...

April 22 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: HAVE YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE TEXT: Matthew 9:29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. MESSAGE: As I said before, I never felt so dull, listless, and unspiritual in all my life as I ministered to this couple! If I had been going by feelings, I would have said, “No, I can’t pray. There’s no use in me praying.” But, thank God, I know the Word. The Word of God works. The husband said, “Ever since we heard you on the radio, we’ve been praying every night that if it is God’s will to heal my wife, God would give us faith so that she can be healed.” Well, that prayer is unscriptural. If you’ll learn to locate people and move them into a position to receive, you’ll get results. I located this couple by what he said. I had already proven by giving scriptures on the radio broadcast that it was God’s will to heal her and everyone else that is sick. But they hadn’t quite caught that. Now another thing was that the hu...

April 21 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: LOCATING PEOPLE TEXT: 2 Tim 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. MESSAGE: I began to speak with this couple. You see, you can locate people, or find out where they are in their faith, by asking them questions. People need to be located before you pray for them. Now if I had had some manifestations of the Spirit, I wouldn’t have had to locate them, because God would have already told me what to do. But I didn’t have any manifestations of the Spirit. I didn’t sense any anointing. To tell you the truth about it, I never felt so dead. I never felt so unspiritual in all my life. If I had been going by feeling, I would have gotten them to pray for me. But the Bible will work —whether it is quickened to you or not. For example, in the natural, I don’t have to have some kind of feeling to get the multiplication table to work for me. Is Go...

April 20 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: IT'S THE WILL OF GOD TO HEAL EVERYONE TEXT: Like 6:19 And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all. MESSAGE: On one occasion, I was preaching at the Oakcliffe Assembly of God Church in Dallas, Texas. After the Friday night service, several of us were in the pastor’s office. There was a knock on the door. It was one of the ushers. He said that a couple wanted to speak to me. I followed the usher out of the pastor’s office and into the main auditorium. The usher introduced me to this couple. The husband said, “Brother Hagin, we’ve been listening to you on the radio. [I had been speaking on the subject of healing for a week or two.] About ten days ago as I was driving to work, I was listening to the radio. I was just changing the dials on the radio when I heard some beautiful singing, so I tuned into that station. The minute the singing stopped, you came on. You said, ‘It’s the will ...

April 19 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: Your Faith Can Make You Whole TEXT: Mark 5:25 - 34 Let’s look at the woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5:25 - 34 25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, 26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, 27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. 28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. 29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. 30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? 31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? 32 And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. 33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowin...

April 18 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: " LORD, HELP MY UNBELIEF" TEXT: Mark 9:24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. MESSAGE: The next morning, while I was getting ready for the morning service, I heard running footsteps. I heard the pastor’s voice calling me. He came into the house and said, “Brother Hagin, that woman who was at last night’s meeting with her little girl is at the church now, and her little girl is perfectly healed. The girl doesn’t have any braces, and her left leg has grown out as long as the other one.” The mother shared, “By the time we got home, it was late and the child was asleep. I put her to bed. When I got up this morning and got my husband off to work, she was still asleep. As my custom is, I woke her up at eight o’clock to give her a bath, because she’s helpless. I picked her up in her braces and carried her into the bathroom. I pulled off her braces. She wasn’...

April 15 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: RELEASE YOUR FAITH TEXT: James 5:15 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: As this dear woman started to speak, I interrupted her, saying, “Wait a minute, sister; don’t say a word.” I realized later on that I was inspired by the Spirit of God to say what I did. I said, “I know you’re hurting worse than you were when I came through this door a few seconds ago. [I don’t know how I knew that. It surprised me that I said it.] But Jesus said, ‘If you ask anything in My Name, I’ll do it.’ So He has done it. The next time I see you, you’ll tell me it’s so. Goodbye.” I hurried out, slamming the door behind me. I ran up the alley, across the street, and went in the side door of the church. I looked at my watch and it was exactly time to start church. I went to the pulpit and started the service. I said, “Let’s have three testimonies before w...

April 14 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: Ask in Jesus' Name Text: John 15:16 . . . that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. Message: One day I was at home in the parsonage getting ready for church. I heard my wife let someone in. Without even looking up, I knew who it was. It was that little cotton-headed boy. He came back to where I was in the house and said, “Momma wants you to come and pray for her.” Before I could say, “Will it be all right to wait until after church to come and pray for her?” the boy said, “She said to come over before church. She’s hurting awfully bad!” I looked at my watch. I didn’t have much time. I had an automobile, but I thought it would be faster to run down the back alley. There was an old path down there. So I ran to herhome, knocked on the door, and she said, “Come in.” By the time I got the door open, I had that little bottle of oil out of my pocket. There’s no telling how many times I had anointed her—hundr...

April 13 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC:PUT YOUR FAITH IN THE WORD FIRST TEXT: James 5:14 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.—JAMES 5:14 MESSAGE: The same day that I prayed for that woman, about the middle of the afternoon, there was another knock on my door. I went to the door and there stood that “cotton-headed” boy. He said, “Momma wants you to come and pray for her.” I said, “I thought she got healed this morning.” He said, “Well, she did, but she’s hurting worse now.” I went back down to her house and prayed another hour and a half until I prayed the power down. I tried to get by just by anointing her with oil and laying hands on her, praying the prayer of faith, but she didn’t believe. Her faith wasn’t in God’s Word. It was in the power. Well, the power of God certainly has something to do with healing, but a person’s faith must be in the Word first. This “praying the...

April 12 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.—JAMES 5:14 Praying the Power Down My wife and I had just moved into the parsonage of a Full Gospel church in the blackland of northcentral Texas. There was a knock on the door. I went to the door and a little cotton- headed—blond-haired—boy stood there. He said, “Momma wants you to come and pray for her. She’s sick.” Well, I didn’t recognize him. So I said, “Who is Momma?” He told me and I recognized the name. She was one of my Sunday school teachers. I said, “Son, you stand right there. I’ll put on my tie and coat, and you can show me to your house.” I was a stranger in town and I didn’t know my way around. So he took me to his house. I had a little bottle of olive oil in my pocket that I used to anoint people when I prayed for them. I took it out and anointed the woman’s forehead. I knelt by the bed and prayed. Then I said, “In Jesus’ ...

April 11 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: DON'T TRY TO FIGURE GOD OUT TEXT: 1John 4:4 . . . greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. MESSAGE: Many people jump over into the arena of reason and try to figure God out. For example, they’ll think, Why did God heal the blind woman instantly and not the little boy? I don’t understand that. They’ll sit around and try to figure it out in their head and miss their own healing. Don’t ever try to figure God out. We can’t figure Him out in our little peanut brain! We should just go ahead and rejoice in what He does do, whether it’s instantaneous or over a period of time. The problem is not with God. In the case of the blind woman and the little boy, one of them probably took hold of healing instantly, and the other probably took hold of it gradually. You see, oftentimes, the healing power of God is administered to a person, and the healing process becomes evident later on. Healing is by degrees and it is based on two ...

April 10 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC:HOLD FAST TO YOUR CONFESSION TEXT: Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised. MESSAGE: The same night that the blind woman was healed in my meeting, there was a young couple that brought their little boy to be healed. He had two clubbed feet. I’d never seen anotherchild afflicted that way; I’ve seen children with one clubbed foot, but never two. With the same anointing that I had when I laid hands on the blind woman, I laid hands on this little boy. I held those little feet in my hands. And I felt the power of God go into his feet. I opened my hands and looked at them, and they looked just as crippled as they had before I prayed. I told the young couple, “Now I know that the blind woman received an instant healing. To encourage you, I can tell you what the Bible says and what God has said to me. I can’t go beyond that. When Jesus appeared to me in a vision and laid the fi...

April 9 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: SOME INSTANT MANIFESTATIONS TEXT: John 9:7 And [Jesus] said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam,(which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. MESSAGE: The previous verse says, “When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay” (John 9:6). Jesus spat on the ground and made clay out of His “spittle” or saliva. He then rubbed it into the blind man’s eyes and said, “Go wash it off in the pool of Siloam.” The blind man obeyed and came out seeing! Was this blind man healed instantly—was he healed right on the spot when Jesus ministered to him? No. Let me ask you another question. Would this blind man have been healed if he had not done what Jesus told him to do? No. This blind man “went his way”—he went to the pool of Siloam as Jesus instructed—washed, and came out seeing. That infers that if he had not gone hi...

April 8 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: THE LAYING ON OF HANDS TO HEAL TEXT: Mark 16:18 . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. MESSAGE: There are many methods of healing. The laying on of hands is only one of them. When it comes to the laying on of hands to heal, there are some things to remember. One can be especially anointed as Jesus was. He was anointed with the Holy Ghost and power (Acts 10:38). Jesus can give a person a special anointing to minister to the sick. Jesus appeared to me in a vision in 1952 in Rockwall, Texas, and laid the finger of His right hand in the palm of each one of my hands. He said, “I have called thee and have anointed thee. I have given thee a special anointing to minister to the sick. However, it won’t work unless you tell people exactly what I told you. If they’ll believe it and receive it, that power will flow from your hands into their bodies and heal them.” Ministering with a special anointing by the laying on of hands...

March 7 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: THE AUTHOR OF SICKNESS TEXT: PS 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...

March 6 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: Jesus Is the Deliverer 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: What is another Bible fact? The fact that healing belongs to us, because sickness comes from Satan. Satan is the author of sickness and disease, not God. Could it ever be the will of God for a child of His to be under the dominion of Satan? Could it ever be the will of God for a child of His to have anything that comes from Satan? No! Acts 10:38 says, “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.” What did God do? He anointed Jesus of Nazarethwith the Holy Ghost and power. Then Jesus went about doing good. What is the good that Jesus did? He healed people. It is a fact that God is a healing God. Jesus...

March 5 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC:FAITH IS BASED ON BIBLE FACTS NOT THEORIES TEXT: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. MESSAGE: 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 (1Peter 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 you that you are not healed, continue to believe th...

April 4 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: HEALING THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE TEXT: 1John 3:8 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.  MESSAGE: The works of the devil include sin and sickness. Jesus was manifested that He might destroy the works of the devil. Jesus went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil (Acts 10:38). Sickness does not come from God. Sickness does not come from Heaven. There isn’t any sickness up there. No, sickness comes from the devil. I remember a Baptist minister saying to me once, “You know, Brother Hagin, I just read the New Testament through for the second time. I’m saved and filled with the Holy Ghost. God is blessing me. I believe in healing and I know God heals. I pray for the sick. But I can’t see healing in the Bible like you do. I just read it through twice and I can’t see it.” I said to hi...

April 3 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: RESIST SICKNESS JUST AS YOU RESIST CONDEMNATION TEXT: Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. MESSAGE: Sickness doesn’t have any right to impose itself upon us. And Satan, who is the author of sickness and disease, doesn’t have any right to put sickness and disease on us. Why? Because we’re free! And when symptoms of sickness or disease come, all we need to do is treat them exactly the same as we would treat our old sins. It’s the easiest thing in the world to do. You see, the devil may try to put you under condemnation by reminding you of your past sins. But you can say, “Satan, there is therefore now no condemnation to me, for I am in Christ Jesus.” Jesus has dealt with those sins and put them away. And you can say to Satan, “You can’t get them. Jesus put those sins away. He hid them in the depths of the sea—in the sea of forgetfulness.” God...

APRIL April 1 Health Food Devotions by K Hagin TOPIC: Jesus is the Word of God Text: Psalm 107:20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. Message: Under the Old Testament, the Word that God sent was spoken through the prophets. Under the New Testament, the Word He sent was the Lord Jesus Christ. John’s Gospel says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made” (John 1:1–3). Then verse 14 says, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. . . .” The Lord Jesus Christ is called “The Word.” So how did God send His Word to heal you? He sent Jesus to take your infirmities and bear your sicknesses (Matt. 8:17). In the mind of God, you’re already healed. First Peter 2:24 says, “. . . by whose stripes ye WERE healed.” God sent His Word and healed you. If you need healing, I dare you to hold fast...