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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 de...

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...