Today I want to share this from Kenneth E. Hagin's Health Food devotional. This lesson is very important if you desire to walk in divine healing and health.
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. (Rom. 3:27)At the same meeting in which I laid hands on the seventy-two-year-old man, I laid hands on his pastor. But the pastor did not receive healing. Five years later, he decided to resign his church. He said to me, "I've had this physical condition for so many years, and I just can't get healed. I feel like I'm doing the church an injustice because I can't do my job properly. I'm just going to retire." He was in his mid-fifties. He did retire and I never heard of him again. Someone might ask, "Well, why could you get that church member healed, but not the pastor?"
I'll tell you exactly why. When I dealt with the pastor, I laid hands on him, prayed for him, and asked him the same questions I asked the man who was a member of his church. The pastor heard me talk to the man. He saw the man healed. He knew his physical condition. He knew that there was nothing that could be done from a medical standpoint - that it had to be supernatural. Yet the pastor sat right there and missed it. Why? He was too much in the mental realm. Spiritual things were not real to him even though he was saved, filled with the Holy Ghost, and pastoring a Full Gospel church.
Why didn't God just go ahead and heal him because he was such a good person? God operates by certain laws. One of those laws is the law of faith. This pastor didn't work that law.
Confession: I base my faith on what I know from God's Word. I don't base my faith on human reasoning or understanding. I operate out of my spirit, not my head.
Make sure that YOU are basing everything that you believe on the Word of God, and ONLY the Word of God! Never go by the experience of others. Their experiences CAN be a source of encouragement IF they line up with what the Word says, but they will NOT bring faith. Faith comes by the Word! Romans 10:17:
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
When you have settled it in your own heart that the Word is TRUE, no matter what your physical senses tell you, then you WILL see the manifestation of what you believe. IF the Word promises it, then you CAN have it! 1 John 5:14-15:
14 And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us.15 And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him.
Make the life-changing decision today to put the Word of God as your Final Authority! You will NEVER regret that decision! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with an older song called "Everyday":
Shalom in Him!
