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August 1 And when he [Jesus] had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.—MATTHEW 10:1 We Have Power—Faith Activates the Power! In Matthew chapter 17, we read that Jesus took Peter, James, and John to what became known as the Mount of Transfiguration, where Jesus was transfigured before them. The only disciples on the mountain with Jesus were Peter, James, and John. During this experience, the other nine disciples were at the foot of the mountain, where a man brought his son for them to minister to the boy, but they failed. Let’s pick up with verse 14. MATTHEW 17:14–16 14 And when they [Jesus, Peter, James, and John] were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, 15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. 16 And I brought him to thy d

July 31 And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching. —MARK 6:6 The Cure for Unbelief After I left the last church I pastored in 1949, I primarily held meetings in Full Gospel churches until 1962. Again and again, I had pastors say to me, “Brother Hagin, I don’t want to hinder you. I’m so full of unbelief. I’ll just get completely out of the way and sit in the back of the auditorium.” And some of them got completely out of the church services. Isn’t that a tragedy? I’ve laid hands on people with the pastor standing behind me and breathing the hot breath of unbelief down my neck. But God sent me to help them. And I tried to help them. When they come before the Judgment Seat of Christ, they can’t say, “We didn’t know.” You see, doubt and unbelief have not only robbed individuals and cities, but doubt and unbelief have also robbed entire churches of the blessings God intended they should have. My wife once said to me, “Honey, it just dawned on

July 30 And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. And he marvelled because of their unbelief. . . .—MARK 6:5 Unbelief Will Keep You From the Blessings of God Let’s look at a city that was robbed of God’s best. According to Mark 6:5, when Jesus left the city of Nazareth, He left people languishing on beds of sickness and disease. These were people who could have been healed and should have been healed. It was the will of God to heal them. Now many people say, “God is all powerful and if He wanted to heal them, He could have.” Well, wasn’t Jesus God in the flesh? Yes! Jesus said, “He that has seen Me has seen the Father. If you want to see God working, look at Me” (John 14:9). Yet Jesus didn’t heal these people. Why? It was because of their unbelief. The unbelief of that city robbed them of the blessings of God. Unbelief robbed them of the healing God wanted to bring to them. Confession: It is God’s will to heal me. But I hav

July 28 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?—MATTHEW 14:31 Don’t Let Doubt Rob You Many times a miracle begins in a person’s life, and then doubt robs him or her of the full blessing. A miracle began in the life of Peter. He was walking on the water. But that miracle was never consummated. That miracle never came into full fruition. Why? According to Matthew 14:31, he let doubt get in. I was preaching along this line one time, and an Assembly of God pastor said, “I understand something now that I didn’t understand before. As a young preacher, there were two women in my church. Both of them had cancer of the liver. By the time they both found out about it, they each had only a few weeks to live. About that time, a healing evangelist came to the church. He prayed for the sick by the laying on of hands. And both women were gloriously and marvelously healed. At the time this pastor spoke to me

July 26 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.—HEBREWS 3:19 Don’t Miss God’s Best Doubt and unbelief can rob you of the blessing God intended you should have. Doubt and unbelief will cause you to receive something less than God’s best. Let’s look at an example of this in the Bible. MATTHEW 14:25–31 25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. 26 And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear. 27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid. 28 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. 29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. 30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. 31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him,

July 24 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.—1 CORINTHIANS 2:5 Healed by Faith—Power Imogene’s mother, Mrs. Alexander, finally spoke up and said, “Imogene, I’d be careful if I were you. Maybe Kenneth knows something that we don’t know. When he was bedfast, I remember the doctor said, ‘That young man has the strongest willpower of any person I’ve ever seen in my life. He should have been dead months ago. I don’t know how he’s lived. I’ll give him ninety days at the most.’” Well, those ninety days have stretched into more than sixty- five years! I wasn’t healed by willpower. I was healed by faith- power. Don’t substitute willpower for faith-power. You can go a while on willpower if you’re strong-willed, but it will break sooner or later. I do know something about faith. It has worked for me for more than sixty-five years. It’s not that I’m so smart. I just read it in the Bible. And I can share what I’ve learned with you. I went home that night a

July 22 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.—ROMANS 4:21 Act in Faith When the pastor said, “Amen,” I said in faith, “Thank God, it’s gone.” What does it mean to say something in faith? It means to call those things that be not as though they were. Many honest Christians are afraid to act because they don’t know what faith is. Someone might ask, “Well, was the paralysis gone?” “No, the right side of my face was still dead.” “You were lying, then,” someone might respond. No! I was acting on the Word. After the service, everyone rushed up to me. They said, “Did the Lord really heal you when Pastor laid his hands on you andanointed you with oil?” I said, “He sure did.” “Well, you don’t look any different. Do you feel any different?” they asked. “Not that I can tell,” I said. They said, “If you don’t look any different and you don’t feel any different, what makes you think the Lord has healed you?” I said, “I don’t think He has; I know He has.”

July 21 . . . God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.—ROMANS 4:17 Turn Your Faith Loose When I was a Baptist minister, I had an interesting experience that will help you in your own faith. I went to bed one Sunday night after church feeling fine. But I woke up on Monday morning, and the right side of my face was paralyzed. It was numb. I could reach up there and pinch it without feeling a thing. I tried to wrinkle up my forehead, but the right side wouldn’t wrinkle. The right side of my mouth wouldn’t move, either. I said to myself, I know what I’ll do. I’ll go down to the Full Gospel Tabernacle on Wednesday night and have the pastor anoint me with oil. He can lay hands on me and I’ll be healed. So on Wednesday night, I went down to the Full Gospel Tabernacle. They weren’t having a healing service, but when the service was over, I stood up in the back and said, “Pastor, I want you to pray for my healing before we go.” Now when I opened m

July 20 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.—JAMES 5:15 The Prayer of Faith Notice that this scripture says, “The prayer of faith will save the sick.” It’s not the anointing with oil that does it. It’s not the elders’ hands or even the elders. It’s the prayer of faith that does it. You can pray that prayer as well as anyone can. Many people reason that if they don’t get healed after someone lays hands on them, anoints them with oil, and prays, then the person who ministered to them didn’t pray the prayer of faith. What is the prayer of faith? Let’s substitute God’s definition of faith in Hebrews 11:1 for the word “faith” in this scripture. In other words, “The prayer of the evidence of things not seen will heal the sick.” Or we could substitute Romans 4:17 in there: “The prayer that calls those things that be not as though they were will heal the sick.” That’s what the prayer of faith is

July 19 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.—HEBREWS 11:1 Now Faith Is . . . This scripture gives us God’s definition of faith. Notice that faith is present tense: It is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The New English Bible says, “Faith is giving substance to things hoped for.” You see, hope doesn’t have any substance. Hope has to be there, but faith is what gives substance to the things hoped for. How does faith give substance to the things you’re hoping for? In Mark 11:23, Jesus said, “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; HE SHALL HAVE WHATSOEVER HE SAITH.” It is by believing in your heart and speaking with your mouth that you see those unseen things manifest before your eyes. Let’s continue reading in Mark. “Therefore I

July 18 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.—EPHESIANS 1:3 The Eye of Faith Faith is the hand, so to speak, that takes from God. In the natural realm, if someone offers you something, you can reach out your physical hand and take it, because you can see it. In the spirit realm, you have to see with the eye of faith. You can’t see in the spirit realm with the physical eye. You can only see physical and material things with the physical eye. But we know from God’s Word that there are things available to us in the spirit realm.For instance, in the spirit world, there is healing. It has already been purchased. It has already been paid for. God already has it wrapped up with your name on it. It’s just waiting for you to take it. Well, how are you going to see that? You can’t see it with your physical eye like you would a birthday gift all wrapped up and packaged for you. So how do you know it’s

July 17 As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.—ROMANS 4:17 Limiting God in the Faith Walk Let me give you some examples of God calling those things that be not as though they were. Revelation 13:8 says, “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” The Bible speaks of Jesus as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. And yet, Jesus did not hang on the Cross until thousands of years later. Ephesians 1:4 says, “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” We were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. We weren’t even born yet. Well, was God lying when He said that? No, He wasn’t. Sin is disobeying God. And holiness is simply ob

July 15 For they [God’s words] are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.—PROVERBS 4:22 See Yourself Well In May 1958, I was at a meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, and was  straightening up my book table when I saw two women coming. I didn’t recognize either one of them, so I kept on with my work. About that time, a woman threw her arms around me and hugged me. I pushed away from her, surprised, and she said to me, “You don’t recognize me, do you?” I didn’t recognize her. When she told me who she was, I threw my arms around her, and we just had a “hallelujah” spell right there! She was the 82-year-old evangelist I had ministered toseveral months earlier! She who had been bedfast and given up to die now looked so young and pretty! She said, “I’m sure glad you didn’t let me die! It would have been the easiest thing in the world for me just to die and go on to Heaven. But I started thinking after you left. And every time I looked at that huge stomach, I saw it flat. I

July 14 For they [God’s words] are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.—PROVERBS 4:22 Don’t Let the Word Depart From Your Eyes Another thing that God said in Proverbs chapter 4 is, “Let My words, My sayings, not depart from before your eyes” (v. 21). If you don’t let Matthew 8:17—”Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses”—depart from before your eyes, you’re bound to see yourself well. If you don’t see yourself well, then that Word has departed from before your eyes, and, that being the case, you no longer have any guarantee of an answer. I was preaching in a church in Fort Worth, Texas, and the pastor said to me, “Brother Hagin, I want you to go with me to visit a dear eighty-two year old woman. She used to be an Assembly of God evangelist. This dear woman is one of the greatest soul-winners I’ve ever met in my life. I came into the family of God under her ministry. Many people who are preaching the Gospel today came in under her ministry. But sh

July 13 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. —JOHN 10:10 The Devil Doesn’t Heal People Many years ago, a healing evangelist was holding a meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. One of the ranchers there had a foreman who had a little girl who was lame. Well, this rancher started attending the evangelist’s tent meetings. Then the rancher went to his ranch and got his foreman, his foreman’s wife, and their lame little girl. He brought them to the meeting, and the twelve- year-old girl was healed. The rancher owned five different ranches and was very wealthy. He attended one of the churches there in town. After the rancher told several people about the little girl who was healed, his pastor decided to get up and preach on it. He said, “I don’t doubt that the child got healed, all right, but the devil did it.” After the service, the wealthy rancher went up to the pastor and said, “I want

July 12 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.—1CORINTHIANS 15:26 Death Is an Enemy I remember hearing about a woman who was saved and went to church, but her husband was unsaved. Their four-year-old son was sick. He was the only child they had. The unsaved husband would say to the wife, “You go on to church. I’ll keep the boy.” The child grew worse until, finally, the doctor said, “I’ll just be honest with you. I don’t know what’s wrong with this child. I can’t find out what’s the matter with him. I don’t know what to do, but he’s going to die if he keeps going the way he is.” Well, the child surprisingly got better, and the husband told his wife one night, “Go on to church. I’ll stay here with him. He’s doing fine.” When the service was over, they were praying around the altar and someone came to the pastor and said that the little boy had just died. So the pastor went over to where the wife was kneeling and told her about it. Then the pastor and several of the church membe

July 11 And this will we do, if God permit.—HEBREWS 6:3 Permission Versus Commission There are many verbs in the Old Testament that are translated in the causative sense in the King James Version. But the original verbs are in the permissive sense. Let’s look at a few of them so you can understand what I’m saying. In Isaiah 45:7, God said, “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.” Does God create evil? No. If you know your Bible well enough, you know that the Bible doesn’t teach that. Well, this verse said that He does. If God creates evil, then that would make God a devil. The Bible teaches that the devil is responsible for all that’s evil. God may permit evil, but He doesn’t create it. And when you understand, as Dr. Robert Young pointed out, that the verb is in the permissive sense rather than in the causative sense, you’ll see that God doesn’t cause evil. He merely permits it. Let’s look at another verse of Scripture. Am

July 8 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.—PSALM 119:128 Reverence the Bible The reverence we have toward the Bible, the Book of life, could mean the difference in our own life between life and death. God spoke to me while I was praying at the altar one time. He said, “After you preach your next meeting, you’ll go into the city of Dallas for a meeting. After you preach that meeting, you’ll come back to a certain place [He named the place] for a meeting. While you’re there, a pastor from hundreds of miles away will call and want you to come. I want you to go there to him.” I wrote it all down, dated it, and put it in my billfold. I didn’t say a word to my wife or anyone about it. Well, everything came to pass exactly as the Lord had spoken to me. Now the pastor who called me wanted me to come and minister to his wife who had terminal cancer. I did just that, but she didn’t get healed. Now it would seem that since God so mira

July 7 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.—ACTS 3:19 You Must Change the Situation In the Old Testament, we read that God told Isaiah, “You go tell Hezekiah to set his house in order because he’s going to die” (Isa. 38:1). Well, Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and repented. He cried and prayed. Before Isaiah got out of the courtyard, the Lord said to him, “You go back and tell Hezekiah that I’m going to give him fifteen more years” (v. 5). That sounds like a paradox to the casual reader. One time God said Hezekiah was going to die, and the next time He said that he was going to live. Did God change? No. He wanted Hezekiah to live to begin with. God simply told Isaiah what was going to happen under the circumstances. And notice that Isaiah, the prophet of God, couldn’t change it. Only Hezekiah could change it. That doesn’t mean that it was God’s will, His highest and best, f

July 6 TOPIC: GOD'S WORD MUST BE IN YOUR MOUTH AND YOUR HEART. TEXT: Romans 10: 6-8 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach. MESSAGE My own sister died with cancer at the age of fifty-five. Now five years before, when she was only fifty years of age, she had a different type of cancer. The doctor said that there was no connection between the two cancers. When she had cancer at the age of fifty, I prayed about it. The Lord said to me, “Because you asked Me, I’m going to heal her. I’m going to give her five more years. But she’s going to have to do something herself then.” She was saved and filled with the Holy Ghost. She was a Sunday school teacher in a Ful

July 5 And he [Jesus] said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you:and unto you that hear shall more be given.—MARK 4:24 Learn the Word for Yourself Dr. Lilian B. Yeomans was a medical doctor. She was healed and raised up from her deathbed. Then she devoted the rest of her life to teaching the Word of God on healing. I remember Dr. Yeomans saying that it made her mad when she was teaching on an important subject like healing, and some people just sat there and thumbed through the songbook or looked out the church window. Well, the same dear people who are so nonchalant and unresponsive are going to need help some day. They’re going to run around trying to find someone to help them and God won’t allow it, because they could have learned for themselves. But they didn’t learn. You know, you can get things for people on your faith the first time if they don’t know any better. But the next time around, they’ll have to do it on their own fait

July 4 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.—REVELATION 3:11 Hold Fast to What Belongs to You! I remember a man who was marvelously healed in one of my meetings in Oklahoma. He couldn’t walk by himself, but he was instantly healed and could walk just as good as anyone. Also, he couldn’t hear without a hearing aid. He couldn’t even hear it thunder. He hadn’t heard for seven years without his hearing aid. Instantly, his ears were opened and he could hear. About ten days later, the same man was back in my meeting. He couldn’t walk by himself, and he couldn’t hear without his hearing aid. He’d lost it all. Now he had maintained it for ten days and was perfectly all right. But, you see, without good teaching about what belonged to him and how to hold fast to it, he lost his healing. Matthew chapter 12 gives us an example of a man who was delivered but then became worse than he was to begin with. MATTHEW 12:43–45 43 When the unclean spirit is gon

July 3 TOPIC: How to Keep Your Healing When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.— LUKE 11:24 MESSAGE: In 1970 while I was at a meeting in New York, I met this woman who had been healed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of the rare disease. She said to me, “Brother Hagin, I haven’t said one word to my husband about it, but it’s all come back on me. In fact, every symptom I ever had has come back. I’m worse than I ever was. Can you help me?” You see, people must develop a faith of their own in order to keep their healing, or else it will come right back on them. I said, “Yes, I can help you. Just be present in these daytime teaching services.” I knew the Word would do it. I was there for several weeks. Before I left, she came to me and said, “I’m perfectly well. Every symptom has disappeared. And this time, I got it by my own faith. I know now how to keep it.” You see, p

July 2 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONAL BY K HAGIN TOPIC: The Word of Knowledge TEXT: 1Corinthians 12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit. MESSAGE: A woman in New York found out that she had a rare disease. At the time, only seven or eight people in the world had ever had this disease. There was no cure for it. The disease wouldn’t kill her the next day, but the doctors said to her, “We have no way of knowing how fast it’s going to progress. Don’t expect to live more than ten years, although you could die sooner because the disease could progress faster.” Someone told her about Kathryn Kuhlman’s meetings in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Some of her friends took her to Pittsburgh. And in the very first service she attended, Miss Kuhlman began to minister and pointed in her direction. She said, “There’s a woman over here who has a very rare disease. In fact, doctors have told you that only seven or eight people in the world have e

July 1 HEALTH FOOD DEVOTIONS BY K HAGIN TOPIC: HEALING WORKS FROM THE INSIDE OUT TEXT: 2CORINTHIANS 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. MESSAGE: Healing starts on the inside and then it appears or manifests on the outside. Everything you receive from God works that way. It starts on the inside and then moves to the outside. When people are born again, it’s their spirit that is reborn. You can’t tell they’re a new creature in Christ by looking at their body. You can’t even tell by looking at them right at the moment they appear to have an experience with God. Many times, I’ve seen people come to the altar and get emotionally stirred up—they jump up and down the aisles hugging everyone in sight. Then I never see them again. They didn’t get a thing in the world, but some kind of emotional high. I’ve had other people come to the altar and I’ve th