Kenneth E Hagin Holy Ghost Meetings 1998 Jackson MS 100998

[Music] he touched my mind please save me trust me each day [Music] one the minute you got in it you'd earn it amen amen well it's just too much carnality well i said wasn't the church at corinth the new testament church paul said there's all carnal amen you've got to give people an opportunity to develop and to grow amen amen praise god baby christians you know nobody's born a full-grown christian anymore and you're born a full-grown human you know the bible said his newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby and then the bible talks about later on being no longer children he's not talking about physical children he's talking about spiritually god wants us to grow now some folks grow faster than others just like some folks learn faster than others developing mentally amen but praise god just by helping folks now the last church i pastored i i uh another pastor and i went to to a camp meeting in a to visit you know not the whole count but for a few days in another state now he lived well i guess about 120 miles from me but going to this other state we went you know had to go right by him so i just stopped by and picked him up by previous agreement and coming on back from camp meeting we know we were talking as pastors wouldn't discussing different things and there was a man in my church that now when i'm there he's he's one of my deacons he's sunday school superintendent and actually he's the only sunday school superintendent i had in 12 years oh yeah we we had we had a sunday school superintendent who was a figurehead but never didn't do anything we just but this this man i mean sometimes he'd get out during the week and visit everybody that he could that was happening from sunday school on sunday to find out why this happens i mean he's a worker then not only that but he gave he put 30 percent had a good job in the oil company made good money he put 30 of his income into the church amen praise god hallelujah well in talking about him this pastor said to me i don't understand that i can't understand that he said you know when i pas he pastored the same church some years before a number of years before he said when i pastored him he he didn't come to church well maybe once every three weeks on sunday night about every three weeks he'd come to church if he ever put more than a dollar in the offering i don't know him but now how did he develop into such a stalwart christian actually the best christian in the church tell the truth about that most reliable and and then i remember this pastor stopped you know and saw the grin he said i'll tell you one thing he said when he didn't show up i was laying for him beat him over the head you know you can take the bible and beat people over the head with it i said oh brother ferguson i said the difference was after you left some of us fellas come along and start feeding him i said an old hog would have enough sense if every time he came up to eat you took a ball bat and beat him over the head he'd have enough sense to quit coming afterward but i said we begin to feed him he's just in a baby hood said i may have been saved for some time but he's still just in the babyhood state of development and we got to feed him and he got to growing and he outgrew some of those traits and become the most stalwart amen uh if you come to camp meeting you know uh every year just about i i i have him stand up paul hinton from farmersville texas now way back 1939 1940 i pastored farm to phil well paul was backslid we got him back to god hallelujah and he's been with god ever since then hallelujah and he's still amen is with god and with us hallelujah amen but these men a number of these men that never had amounted anything we were able to help every single one of them and every single one of them became steady stalwart christians which before they were in and out see like i said paul was backslid but every single one of them every single one of those men in that church every single one of them and they weren't there but you see i walked with faith and not besides i didn't see them as they are i saw them growing i saw them develop praise god and then you put something in them hallelujah now here's something that's interesting too about this uh paul like i said was backslid and he uh got back into fellowship with god never had been filled spirit then got him filled with the holy ghost praise god now he's a farmer well anything you know you know you know when you first get saved you know i mean praise god about all you want to do is go to church amen and anything i had to do i mean he's there to help and we were doing some work and i like to do it i'd learn through the years my grandfather in depression days when i pastored out there in the country see i was pastor there nearly three years never took up one single offering for myself we didn't have an offering plate i'm a great faith person i didn't know i was a great stupid person amen see i'm going to live by faith i'm going to walk by faith this is going to believe god and after i got away from that church god gave me a whipping he said i want you to go back and ask those people to forgive you you robbed them of blessings see you can't get blessed financially if you don't pay tithes and give them offerings you got to sow seed you can't reap a crop if you don't sow seed amen the law of sowing and reaping and it works in every area of life and so i had to go back and do it something but i did and then teach on tithes and offerings he met so i was i i worked on the side you know now you talking about depression days dollar a day i don't mean you worked eight hours i mean you work from sun up to sun down a dollar a day now there's the the streets are full of men i mean you can have a street service every day because they don't have any anything to do no work and and uh they'd be glad they would be glad to work for a dollar a day sun up to sundown i've done it to many a day well my grandfather uh he he owned two three houses along here on the main street and he had little wells quite quite a bit of acreage behind it and he decided to build some small rent houses and so he got a man of his acquaintance that was a carpenter and contractor and carpenter and then he hired me and the two of us built these houses and so i learned carpenter i learned electricity i learned plumbing i learned because i didn't know any and i learned paper hanging come in handy sometime need a little extra money just go out and hang a little paper glory to god i could do it all and but if i had anything so i you know rather than get somebody at the church and he did not just do it i mean i can pray while i'm doing it i enjoyed it amen painting let me get somebody to come paint the church just paint it bless god myself other parsons amen hallelujah but i said that to say this anything i'm doing paul was right there i mean he if he found out i'm doing he he'd come in he'd be right there i mean you turned around there yes you almost stepped on it and so his father-in-law his father-in-law who also was a a farmer and one of my deacons said to her brother brother hagin he said i'm afraid paul's going to lose his crop see you got to cultivate the crop see you got it planted but you got to stay with it i'm afraid he's going to lose his crop so i talked to paul i said paul don't neglect your crop you know okay you can't afford to lose your crop i mean that's your livelihood oh brother hagin i'm not going to lose it so his father kept persisting and but but he stayed with me well before the crop ever came off we left so i asked the pastor that followed him i said how did paul hinton how did paul's crop turn out he said brother hagin he's the only one that made a crop he said you know you know it had no irrigation you got to depend on rain he said in the rain on his farm wouldn't rain anywhere else he said actually on sunday on sunday people you know sunday afternoon is like a parade going by his farm the farm right next to it no cotton was king no cotton and his just looks wonderful he's got he paid ties he gave offerings hallelujah he put god now we don't neglect you understand that but he said i'm not neglected praise god forevermore hallelujah hallelujah well you see like i said there's more than one way to sow seed and it brings forth the results glory to god but like i said i appreciate the fact that i work for a dollar a day hallelujah now i had another little job that uh you know after we got those houses built that i worked just two hours in the afternoon monday through friday two hours and i got for these time i got two dollars and fifty cents a week now you can believe it or not but on two dollars and fifty cents a week i fed me my mother my youngest brother and sometime oldest brothers there yeah that's right i'd get paid every friday and my brother would meet me at the grocery store because i can't carry them all home you can't get that much for 250 now but see you get a loaf of bread for a nickel you can get a loaf of bread for a nickel amen and i couldn't carry him all home so he'd meet me and help me carry those groceries home amen hallelujah well it's hard for you young folks to imagine because you haven't been there but that's one reason that that makes some of us more conservative you know when we left the room we turned the light out i do that yet i can't leave it on you know what you know the bible said train up a child a way to go when he's old he'll not depart from it the same thing's true in this area you you just can't you just you i just you i never make a telephone call unless it's necessary never never i just can't do it i was trained that way when you're old you're not department some of these young folks that's all they do they stay on i mean long distance call i never make a call it bugs me sometimes the folks at the office i just stay away from it i never make a call unless it's necessary amen well after all i know you can be too overly that way and i'm probably too much that way but right on the other hand it's god's money we ought to be wasting it we ought to be able to conserve it and use it rightly amen well amen see what else i can stir up [Laughter] hallelujah praise god anyhow hallelujah it's hard for me you know because we we'd you know find where they got gas on sale you know because you could buy a gallon we had white gas and unlit it but you could buy a gallon of gas from six to nine cents and if somebody you know had it for six cents you'd drive to get there and it's hard for me yet not to do that but yet right on the other hand caused motivation amen hallelujah but uh but it it it's hard to depart from your training amen now you know back in those days the more electricity you use the cheaper it was you know when and the electric bill wasn't very high now this church i was talking about there in 1939 1940 i practiced one of my deacons worked for the railroad now see railroads were still where still booming in those days he had a good work job with the railroad but his shower was 37.50 a month 37.50 a month he had three children he drove an automobile they lived in a nice place he paid five dollars a month for the house nice house three bedroom home his electric bill is 97 cents a month they seldom ever run over a dollar amen gas bill 50 cents mother you could cook now in the winter time a little bit higher you know because you had to heat but but the summer time actually up for six months out of the year 50 cents 57 cents amen my uncle was a first vice president of local bank actually ran the bank the president was just sort of a figurehead so he maintained that position but yet yet and his salary ninety dollars a month amen so uh depression days you come up in them you get trained a certain way as a child you see it's hard to depart from it same thing's true spiritually train up a child the way he'll go when he's old he'll not depart from it amen amen praise god well let's look back at the scripture here being let go they went where they knew where to go that's got to their own company you need your own company amen i don't know about you but i like the company i run with i like the company i keep praise god amen hallelujah amen hallelujah now some of you uh rhema graduates may remember you know on back therefore we have started you know full-fledged church we always had a sunday night service and then we would have wednesday night prayer meeting we had it on monday night to begin with then we changed it to wednesday night primarily for the students you know but anybody else wanted to come from outside prior meeting that is we met to pray that's what you ought to have his prayer meeting somebody said well we're going to have an intercessory prayer me how do you know you are god may want you to go a different direction he might want you to have a supplicating the bible teaches supplications you have anybody teach on supplication no a lot of what they call intercession is supplication amen no just have a prior meeting and then pray any way that the lord would lead you but anyway we'd have this prayer meeting now now now we have a lot of people praying we have prayer groups of at least two see if two of you shall agree or three and sometimes more people uh we we we have uh two or three hundred prayer groups praying every day they take certain things to pray for in other words we have over 500 people you see every single day come sometime another to prayer and healing center and pray some of them pray over these about these meetings just pray about one thing some of them pray for our board members some of them free for all of our graduates hallelujah amen and and then some of them pray over requests that are phoned in and mailed in see well back there then we didn't have all this so so we would take these requests on wednesday night we we had them all you know stacked up you know we'd take these requests to god pray over them and uh i i said we started healing school then in 1979 and to begin with we had a combination prayer and healing school now we still have prayer and healing school but we have them separate we have prior school at one o'clock every day and then we have healing school at 2 15 every day but we'd have them together we didn't have all to begin with we didn't have all the buildings and so on we have now and so we'd have them together and was trying to work it out sometimes didn't work just right but uh you know uh you you just feel like something's not right about prayer and healing school i sort of liking that to washing your feet with your socks on you don't feel right you know something's wrong but don't know what it is you know and so i uh i would say to them as we would wind up praying over these other things and so on but before we go you know pray with us about healing school here in prayer school something here is not right we we need some direction here and so we'd pray about it over you know over several weeks and so one time one night then i'm kneeling on the platform praying and the lord said to me open your bible to the fifth chapter of james so i hope my bible the fifth chapter of james and he said to me you know we we've quoted and read many times james 5 14 15. endeavoring to prove that healing you know is for us james 5 14 15 says is in his sick among you let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him and aren't all in the name of the lord the prayer of faith shall save or heal the sick and the lord shall raise him up and if you've committed sin it shall be forgiven him but he said to me read the 13th verse well i read the 13th verse he says is any among you afflicted let him pray is any mary let him sing psalms then the next is in his sick see he's talking about three different things is any afflicted is any merry is any sick now the greek word translated afflicted means is any of you going through a trial if any is any of you being tested let him pray we're always wanting somebody else to pray amen now you can fall into doing things sometimes that god don't want you to do see we started as i said healing school we'd i didn't minister to the sick every day usually just on friday i would personally minister the sick but some people come and they can't come back and so some of our workers in an adjoining room would pray with them but they got the counseling people now the lord said to me i told you to have healing school and he said you notice the scripture there the word counseling is not in their verses it's prayer faith and healing now quit counseling people now if some of the students need some counseling you know got to settle for some of the professors who do that but don't counsel people from the outside because if they need counseling they ought to be counseled in their own sheepfold now you know we use a term like that we'd say in your own church but that's what the spirit said if they do need counseling they ought to be counseled in their own sheepfold well see after all they come to you you just hear one side of the story amen now then here's what i want you to get here's what he said if they need counseling they should be counseled in their own cheap folk and if they don't have a sheepfold that's where their problem is a lot of times the folks you know in their own sheepfold they wouldn't even need counter they heard the word preached and it would have helped them enlighten them amen if they don't have a sheepfold that's where their problem is you've got too many people that's just floaters they'll never mount anything saying in the world you know rolling stone never gathers any morse amen last church i i left the last church i pastored 1949 february and i had a meeting in february in the suburb to dallas and then i went on into dallas in march with a meeting well i saw this couple sitting in the congregation and i just supposed to note this coming there to church this time this church was in the western part of the city i knew they had lived in another part so when the meeting very first meeting very first meeting very first sunday night we started on sunday night when the meeting was over they came to me you know said you remember us i said surely surely uh i remember you know because that church i was talking about i passed in farmersville this couple came because her mother and daddy were a member of our church and she's living within it you know people think a lot of that's new but maybe i didn't have as much of it but but she was living with this man but they came to the altar and got saved and then they got married praise god amen and they'd come back to visit every once in a while and come to church and so i i said to them well now uh you know are y'all you know going here to no no i said we just came because we saw the advertisement paper that you were coming well i said where do you go to church well i said nowhere said we just just go here and there i said well where do you pay your tithes well i said the little church that we pastored said i mean that we went to the close to home that the pastor backslid and the church just folded up and said we haven't paid tires since then well i said there's no use you backslidden sliding just because your pastor did amen i worked them over real good no he's you backsliding just because your pastor did you need to get in the good church you need to pay your tithes this is a good church here and i said to him a rolling stone never gathers any morse amen praise god what am i saying you need your own company you need your own company amen well like i said i've had people say i can't find i just can't find any church that suits me i always say to why don't you get saved get filled with the holy people that's filled with the holy ghost are not so hard to please now they may have been filled with the holy ghost but it's all leaked out amen you know the bible said there in the acts you remember as the church grew they had all things common and some of them felt like they're being neglected the daily administration so the apostles said look you out seven men of honest report full of the holy ghost so on that we may have a point over this this business now notice what i said and the saying pleased the whole multitude isn't that something the preacher said something that pleased the whole crowd and they had a big crowd you read it they had at least eight thousand one hundred and twenty because it's 120 got the holy ghost on day of pentecost and since then they were three thousand added to the lord one time and five thousand another time so we know they had a minimum of eight thousand one hundred and twenty but we also believe there was more because the bible said the lord added daily to the church such as should be saved but you think about eight thousand one hundred and twenty and the preacher said something pleased everybody they must have been filled with the spirit folks filled with the spirit are not so hard to please amen praise god forevermore hallelujah say it out loud i need my own company now i don't know where you are but we'll stir you up bless god to find your own company hallelujah amen i don't know about you but i just don't j hall with some folks you don't want me for that expression that's a good texas colloquial expression at least amen they went into their own company that's a good place to be when you're in trouble they'll help you they'll pray for you they'll pray with you they'll believe god with you glory to god and so they the whole company lifted up their voice with one accord unto god hallelujah now i've been in the ministry actually completed 64 years i'm i've started on on the eighth day of august of this year i started my 65th year i won't complete that till next august you know you'd learn a few things in 65 years i mean you wouldn't have to be too smart to just stumble over if you think nothing else and learn that way amen i'll tell you what i found out i've seen it happen again and again the very people that you thought you didn't need see i'm talking about your needs your own god you thought you didn't need the time will come you'll have to turn to them for help and the very people that you criticize and preachers that you criticize you'll have to turn to them for help amen sooner or later i've seen it happen i don't mean a few isolated incidents i mean i've seen it happen again and again and again and again amen praise god hallelujah say it out loud i need my own company amen i was preaching a meeting in the california full gospel church we were there for three weeks then i'm back in california about 15 or 16 months later in a meeting and then i'm i'm going up to uh northern part of california mountains and speakers of youth counts for the summer so this pastor where i had been 15 months before knew i was closing out and i was going to take a week off between times and he said come by here because it's on my way going up north come by here and preach for us you know for the this week i said no no i promised the family they were traveling with me then we'd take it off take the week off well come by and just preach when monday tuesday and wednesday i said no no i told him i was going to take a he said well let me tell you why i want you to come by he said you remember brother so-and-so and he mentioned one of the men of his church an older man and it's i think 63 years old a sunday school superintendent also one of his board members i said oh yeah i remember him he said well just as soon as that meeting was over you were here last year 15 months before but last calendar year and he said he called me down to his house and he said i resent you having that fella hagin in here now we my wife and i know we've been saved filled the holy ghost 37 years but we know we're baby christians but we like it that way we get sick we expect you to do your praying for us and the pastor was just a young man and he said i just blew up i lost my temper and i i what i said was right but the way i said it was wrong and he said i said yeah you're right you're the biggest i've got to spend more time with you and your wife than everybody else in the church in fact everybody else combined you're the biggest babies and i'm not going to pray for you but don't call me got up my left well he said i got home cooled off i had to call back and apologize but then i uh you know not for what i said what i said was right waya said it was wrong and so he said then he tried to get up a petition to put me out as pastor you see now he had to have about two-thirds of the congregation to sign the petition for it to but he just got two people the church just had two punks in it now you're pretty good you're you're in good shape if you ain't got but two punks amen now you may think that's not a good term but it is did you ever look the word punk up in the dictionary i looked it up one of them big dictionary about that thick you know it gave a number of different definitions i finally found the one i was looking for him it said punk is rotten lumber you can't build anything with punk with rotten lumber and you can't build anything with people like that they're rotten lumber they're punks amen some of you folks have tried it and found out amen but you're fortunate if you ain't got but two of them and so that didn't work well he tried to turn the church board against him and that didn't work and so in the process of time this man worked in a factory there in fact he was one of the supervisors this this factory was three stories high and he was a supervisor over the second story i don't know what all what they produced but they had big machines you know one of them had stopped in fact he was on the graveyard shift working from 11 to 7 next morning and one of these machines had stopped and so he and the men who supposed to operate were trying to get it started and the second floor collapsed and they all fell down in on the first floor well about four o'clock in the morning his wife called the pastor because he's in intensive care and the doctor said his back was broken in two places his neck was broken and then he had uh concussion you know unconscious in intensive care and they don't think he's gonna live well of course the pastor got up went down there and so he said uh i uh i i would set up with him they wanted someone there all the time though he's in intensive care because they think he's gonna die in a minute and so he said his wife stayed in the daytime and i stayed at night and so brother anderson said the third night about four o'clock in the morning i was sitting over in the corner just praying quietly to myself in other tongues i said everything i knew to say in english and so just praying in tongues and the nurse said because i had a nurse with him constantly a nurse said well he seemed to be arrested i'm gonna go get me a cup of coffee. so brother anderson said when she left the room i lifted my voice just a little bit you know not loud just just and said suddenly the man on the bed said brother anderson is that you and i kind of went over to the bed he's conscious and i knew the doctors had said if he regained consciousness he'd be paralyzed from his neck down because his neck was broken his back's broken in two places but said he reached his hand out got a hold of my hand began to cry and said i'm healed and he said i said to him can you move yeah he said he pulled up his leg his knees you know under the sheets you know yes i told you i'm here and with tears he said brother anderson i want you to forgive me he said just before i came to and heard you praying jesus appeared to me right here by the bed and said jesus said if you'll ask the pastor to forgive you if you'll ask the church to forgive you if you'll ask the church board to forgive you and if you'll ask brother hagin to forgive you i'll heal you and he said i'll do it and said the lord trust me said be healed and i woke up and heard you praying i came to his unconscious now see god will heal you on the credit [Applause] yeah he'll do it see he just promised him he'd do it he hadn't done it yet so brother anderson forgive me so he said then said he got up publicly and asked the church to forgive him and he asked the church board to forgive him and he wants to ask you to forgive him because he said the lord said if you'll ask them to forgive you i'll heal you so he wants to finish paying up see see god believes in credit some of you folks don't believe in it now you ought to know how to handle it but he'll heal you on the credit he'll fill you with the holy ghost on the credit amen amen i said okay okay i'll come by there then close here sunday night i'll come by there monday and we'll have services monday tuesday and wednesday so monday we went early before anybody got to church he and his wife was there and then he told me the same story brother anderson did say now brother hagin you're the last one i want you to forgive me i didn't even know it yet he told him asked him to forgive him the very person you see that he spoke against he had to turn to for help let's just stay in good fellowship with everybody they may not be in fellowship with me but i'm in fellowship with everybody glory to god hallelujah amen praise god hallelujah we moved to tulsa 1966 and after we moved to tulsa we were back in garland texas suburb to dallas now it's all the metroplex but uh visiting and and one of my wife's relatives live that lived two blocks from what was our home church when we lived there in garland for 17 years and this relative said to my wife said i guess a person would just lie up here and die nobody from that church would come to visit him or see about him well i didn't say anything it's not my relative let my wife tend to it's her relative she's better at that than i am anyway and so she said are you a member up there well no well how often do you go to church up there well about once every three weeks you know sunday night service sometime once a month well she said you're not used to coming so you don't go they just think you know you know you go up there and join the church and then you go sunday morning sunday night wednesday night or whenever they have weeknight service get in with the ladies the ladies group then if you miss they'll know something's wrong because you're used to coming every time and they'll see about you see your own company will see about you but if you just show up once in a while you're really not one of the company amen and then my wife said i just stood there and listened where do you go to church save now speaks with tongues where do you go to church if you don't go up there well a group of wee ladies go into dallas now a large city that away this they're having revival some church constantly i mean it's full of full gospel and pentecostal churches this revival stops another one starts you can read the advertisement in the paper hear it on the radio and they went to church every night yeah we go to church every night go to church every night out of the will of god amen yeah we go every night but you see you still don't have your own company amen well thank god that relative my wife did what she told you she went up there and joined the church and stayed right in there well of course nazi she was an older person some of the ladies saw after i mean they'd go to pay their utilities they'd come by and get hers they'd go to store shopping if she happened to miss they know something's wrong with us so here they are on monday to check on them actually saved their life because the process of time she fell on the floor and would have laid there until she died but one of them came by to see about her glory to god i'm saying that to say this you need your own company you need your own company hallelujah now then they lifted up their voice with one accord they lifted up there that's plural isn't it there's something about united prayer hallelujah that just gets the job done praise god now then they didn't start talking about the problem the first thing they did in their prayer was talk about god how big he is the lord thou art god who hath made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all them in them is lord you've made it all see you talk about how big god is and it gets bigger well can god be any bigger yeah i'll tell you he can amen can he be any more real yeah to you he can and to me he can but see you talk about your problems and the more you talk about the bigger it again bigger they get i pastored 12 years like i said not just one church several different churches one i was there four years another one three years one or two of them just one year but you know a church has the same problems that a fam you know a natural family because the church is a family church family and it's made up of families i mean in your natural physical family did you ever have any financial problems yeah did you ever have any discipline problems you may be the one that needed to be displaced well you'll find out that a church is a family and you'll have financial problems and you'll have discipline problems and you'll have all kinds of problems now if you didn't have any people you'd have it made but how are you going to make it no people you wouldn't have any problems if you didn't have people but as long as you've got people you're going to have problems amen and so sometimes at a board meeting you know these uh they're discussing the problems i remember the last church we pastored and so he went around you know yeah and the further you talked about the more you talked about the bigger god and finally they got to the last board member who is sitting to my right and uh he said to me looked at me and said oh my god brother hagin what in the world are we going to do and i just laughed and i said we're just going to act like the bible so and you know everybody around the table just do a wrong boy you know what he is isn't it hallelujah just act like the bible soul praise god forevermore well it was a custom you don't go in changing customs you know i've just come there to pastor you may not uh think that things are just right you may not think that it's just the best church government in the world but now don't be like one of the rhema graduates he called me he took a church bless his heart that he he was a an assistant there and uh the main guy left so they just elected him pastor he had 1500 on sunday but he said brother hagin they don't have the right church government i'm going to change this well i said it seemed like doing pretty good you got 1500. well yeah but now god can't bless us like he wants to you know unless we get lined up with the right church government and he told what he thought the right church government was and it was just as wrong as the government they had i did my best talk him out of it but he went ahead and changed this and in six months time he's running 150. yeah he but but he's correct now and god can god can bless him now that's really ignorance gone to seed amen i'll be honest with you i never pastored a church that i thought they had really correct new testament government but god blessed us and every church grew and every church developed we got people saved filled the spirit and i just lived with it amen well we you know we discuss now the spiritual part belongs to me they appointed hearing the acts over this business the church has business and so uh you know some of them one particular fellow on the board whichever way he went all the rest of them followed him he had some ideas that i didn't agree with necessarily well i didn't say you were wrong i just said i need to have a meeting once at least once a month discuss these different things and so i said now why don't we just i'm not saying god told me i really believed he did but i said why don't we do it this way and if it don't work we can always change you know and so we went along with after six months after six months now we had this monthly meeting and this man that the rest of them followed and always had some different kind of idea all right he said man brother hagin never suggested anything didn't work i mean just worked perfect almost he said no you just meeting every month this just turned over him let him go we never had another one for that for three years glory to god yeah i mean you proved to people you know you love them and you're out to help them they'll stay with you but you are going to fuss around you know and it's well you've got an argument on your hand amen well i'm still talking about your own company the more you talk about your problems the bigger they'll get the more you talk about god the bigger he'll get they talked about god first i mean even in their prior they talked about how big he is how big he is uh john g lake said he he he don't he just got mad he don't know whether he just really mad or whether it's his righteous ignition but he said mad yeah angry at people that christians had preachers sometimes he said to hear them talk the devil some great big fellow giant oh the devil the devil the devil it's all he can talk about and god some little fellow here about two inches tall they're always talking about the devil the devil the devil the devil they magnify the devil this magnify god the more you magnify the devil the more you give place to him and he'll take amen i left the last church i pastored and went on the field as we say holding revival meetings from church to church well a lot of things are just natural it's not necessarily the devil you take the wintertime particulars cold outside and men sometimes worked all day you know you come into a warm building you just naturally get sleepy you know the congregation is a little sleepy little congregation's unresponsive i've had the song i don't mean an isolated incident i mean it happened again and again and again and again and again and and the song leader said i'll tell you the devil's got this thing bound up because you know the folks weren't responding to saying i'll tell you and the the pastor got up said i'll tell you the devil's got this thing i don't know about how brother hagin's going to preach finally they got upset said well i'm going to turn brother hagin loose i said no you're not going to turn me loose i never was bound to begin with i've been loose all the time just turn it over to me just turn it over to me but you see the more they talked about the devil the more people slumped down in their seats and i got up and said well it's been said that the devil's here i said sure he is he's faithful he never misses a service but i said god's here jesus is here the holy ghost is here if you didn't bring him with you i brought him with me and he's bigger than the devil and the more you talk they just rolls up before you know it to shout glory to god glory to god glory to god magnify god magnify god now then they got down to that 29th verse of that fourth chapter of acts and they go down to the problem brought it up last and now lord behold their threatenings help us to form some kind of committee here so we can go meet with them and reach some kind of a compromise no they're not going to back up a bit grant that thy servants shall be unable to speak thy word with boldness by stretching forth your hand to heal this man god heal his help some more of it glory to god glory to god this man got healed his hand some more amen stretching forth your hand to heal that signs and wonders will be wrought in the name of thy holy child jesus glory to god glory to god hallelujah now luke wrote acts as well as writing the gospel that bears his name he didn't write this in chapter and verses man divided in chapter verses for reference sake so you go on into what we call the fifth chapter of acts and you see the answer to their prayer now notice the 12th verse and by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people and then it goes on to tell you about healing that the shadow of peter as many as his shadow fell upon were healed and they went to the cities and villages around about jerusalem and gathered up the sick and brought them into the city and laid them out on the streets if by any means peter's shadow might fall upon him and as many as his shadow fell upon where healed everyone now here's something i want you to see folks said well in that marvelous the apostles by the hands of the apostles the apostles had that kind of power no they didn't they were called see the greek word apostolus means they sent one they were sent to be eyewitnesses to bear witness of jesus from the time he's baptized of john until he ascended up to heaven that's the purpose they were sent for no these miracles and healings happened because the church prayed not because they were apostles it's an answer to their prayer it's the answer to their prayer what if they hadn't prayed there wouldn't have been any answer yeah but the apostles had that kind of power that's ignorance gone to seed amen yeah look what peter did peter didn't do a thing amen his shadow fell on folks glory to god that's god stretching forth his hand to heal hallelujah it came as an answer to their prayer amen what if they hadn't prayed amen that church i was telling you about there where paul hinton was you know our pianist sister ratliff it was discovered they sent her away to a large city and finally discovered that she had a tumor in her left lung her husband brother ratner said to me doctor doubled up his fist said it's bigger than than a you know than her fist being a woman's got a smaller fit and then said he showed me this film you know and i could see this looked like a wasp nest in this lung tumor 1939 operations weren't as successful then we're now only about 50 50 chance so they're taking treatments for supposed to shrink it if they don't shrink it next thing's in operation she'd go tuesday and thursday of every week to take these treatments well i wondered she never did ask for prayer and we'd have you know people would come have healing lines of time she never did we'd pray in a general way for her you know maybe her daughter would on wednesday night would come because she wasn't feeling well and play the piano and she'd just say pray for mama we'd pray far in a general way well one sunday morning i finished my sermon it's 10 minutes after 12. because now usually we'd come around the altar and pray but because of the lateness of the hour i said just everybody stand we'd be dismissed and we all stood and i began my benediction and right in the middle of my prayer never had it happen before but it's just like somebody's standing behind me there's nobody back there i heard the voice say there's a woman here i want to heal before you go today now if i had to stop and thought about it because that's new i'd never seen that happen i'd never had it happen to me i never had to have i've known no one ever happened if i had time to think about i'd talk myself out of it i just said well now if there's some woman here won't you don't he know who it is why not just tell you but without thinking i just said the lord just said there's a woman here he wants to heal before we go today well we had three sections of seats and a lady stood up and started down the aisle over there and on the inside of me and that still small voice now said she's not the one i said sister you're not the one he's talking about but you come on we'll anoint you with oil lay hands on because healing belongs to you now about that time sister ratner stood up and started down this aisle and that still small voice like he speaks to everyone said she's the one i said sister rightly if you're the one i anointed her with or laid hands on her she went back tuesday and uh to take these treatments but she said to the doctor i want you to take an x-ray of my lung well we don't need yeah i want i'm going to pay for it so he took brother rightly told me later the doctor came now it took him longer to develop those films and all the way back there you know 1939 and said the doctor came out after a while now we got there when they opened up eight o'clock in the morning and stayed till 2 30 in the afternoon and the doctor came out and said you know mr antler with your permission we'd like to change her in a little different angle you know this won't cost you anything and then they come out we'd like to take one from the back and they found up taking five and afterwards brother rightly said they called him in the room and they got all this film hanging up and they said every film is clear that lung's clear that tumor is gone they said they said we wouldn't believe she ever had it if we didn't have this one here to prove it she was healed sorry years later she's still healed praise god forevermore now there's two important sequels to the story first i learned later that this 16 year old daughter on this thursday before she's here no money had fasted all that day and prayed all that day and on sunday the lord stretched forth his hand see he's not going to reach a hand out from heaven the lord's hands is in his body just like your hands are jesus is the head we're the body of christ we are the body of christ amen hallelujah that came as a result isn't that wonderful how god used brother hagin no no it came as a result of her praying we're not getting results like we should just because we're not praying like we should amen hallelujah now then secondly sister ratliff said brother hagin you may wonder why i never did come for prayer for healing i said i did i thought about at times asking you and something you know what happened you'd fail do something well we have brother keith preached a masterful sermon last night along this line she said i made such a mess of my life i've been married and divorced four times i was just sure god wouldn't heal me but he did not that he's encouraging divorce but when folks turn to him thank god his mercy reaches him amen i said amen hallelujah but you see the devil talks people out of things fedora hadn't prayed through on the situation she could have died amen hallelujah wellness everybody stand up praise god forevermore now i tell about the fact that 1943 the winner of 42 and 43 i started in november and then all of december then all of january and up to the 23rd day of february so in other words about three good months and i didn't have any leading i didn't have any sometimes you have a leading to pray sometimes you have a we call it a burden to pray sometimes you have a prompting to pray i didn't have any of them i just took it upon myself to get up every morning between anywhere from two to four o'clock and pray for an hour and here's what i prayed i said lord thank you for the gifts and manifestations of the spirit now we have the revelation gifts manifestation pretty constant the vocal gifts prophecy divers kind of tongue interpretation of tongue in fact we didn't have a service that didn't happen hardly without interpretation about tongue interpretation which is equivalent to prophecy but now the power gifts gift of faith king james taught it our amplified called his special faith working americans gifts of healing thank god for what we do see but we see very little of this now i pray that these power gifts will be in manifestation in a greater measure than what we've seen here before i'd pray that it'll take you a few minutes to pray that in english and then i'd say lord i've said everything i know to say with my understanding paul said if i pray an unknown tongue my spirit prayer but understanding is untruthful the next verse he said what is it then i'll pray with the spirit i pray with the understanding also so i prayed with my understanding now i'm going to trust the holy ghost who lives in me to give me utterance anything else that needs to be prayed or said in this area or in any other area you want me to pray and i start praying in tongues and spend the rest of the hour praying in tongues and i did that monday through friday anywhere from two to four o'clock in the morning every single night or every single morning amen one morning i woke up in the living i'd get up and go into the living room you know winter time had a little we had stoves and had fire on there see and uh i woke up by the couch and i said to himself how did i get here i must have been such a habit just got up one in there in my sleep amen but on the 23rd day of february praying 5 hours and 45 minutes in other tongues i hear the gusher glory to god hallelujah amen hitler gusher glory to god and the lord said to me and i grabbed my pen and pencil wrote it down he said at the close of world war number two there will come a revival of divine healing to america it came as a result of me and others are praying hallelujah john wesley said it seems that god's limited by our prayer life he can do nothing glory for humanity unless somebody asked it hallelujah hallelujah so this ask him let's ask him let's ask him glory [Laughter] let's ask him glory to god hallelujah hallelujah glory [Music] [Laughter] hallelujah hallelujah [Applause] [Laughter] hallelujah [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] hallelujah glory to god glory [Laughter] glory [Laughter] [Applause] hallelujah hahahahahahahahaha my mama [Music] [Laughter] hallelujah [Laughter] glory glory [Laughter] hallelujah [Laughter] oh my god [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] glory oh glory hallelujah glory [Laughter] praise god let's come gather around here and pray let's ask him stretch forth your hand to heal signs and wonders wrought the name the name of the lord jesus christ praise god praise god thank you father thank you father thank you thank you father thank you father thank you glory to god blessed is goddess remembering all a soup to life some vacate the soup to life esteem pretty soon hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah we give you glory we give you glory we give you glory say my holy [Music] [Music] hey [Music] daisy goma [Music] we sing praises [Music] oh lord for your name is great and greatly to be praised we sing praises to your day o praises to your name oh lord for your name is great and greatly to be praised [Music] [Music] is [Music] we give glory we give glory to you glory to you [Music] is [Music] for your needs for your name is greatly to be [Music] is [Music] praise god lord you are worthy to be praised we thank you so much for what we've already received this week we come back tonight with expectation and anticipation and next week as well we love you and praise you and thank you this morning in the wonderful name of jesus and everybody said amen and amen praise god we're going to be back tonight at seven o'clock you come come expect what the lord has done he healed my body he touched my mind he saved me trust me 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