Kenneth E Hagin What To Do When Faith Seems Weak and Victory Lost 1

[Music] go teach my people faith that's the charge which has compelled kenneth e hagin for more than 55 years of ministry kenneth hagin has established his life and ministry on the simple truths of unchanging integrity of god's word from streets tents churches and auditoriums the locations have changed but the message remains the same the impact of kennel pagan ministries is felt around the world through books tapes daily radio broadcasts and the rhema bible training center beginning with only 58 graduates in 1975 rhema bible training center has grown to occupy a beautiful campus near tulsa oklahoma and now has graduates on every inhabited continent of the globe rhema offers a two-year curriculum designed to prepare men and women of all ages to fulfill god's call on their [Music] [Applause] [Music] lives there are two sections of scripture i want you to open to second corinthians chapter four and ephesians chapter six these are scriptures that you're well familiar with but do not help us not hurt us the least bit in the world but will help us to review them a little and especially to walk in the light thereof in second corinthians chapter 4 verse 4 the scripture said in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not lest the light of the glorious gospel of christ who is the image of god should shine unto them here he's talking about satan and says that he is the god of this world then in ephesians chapter 6 beginning to read with the 10th verse finally my brethren be strong in the lord and in the power of his might put on the whole armor of god that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places wherefore take unto you the whole armor of god that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace above all taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of god hallelujah i want to talk to you tonight about what to do when faith seems weak and victory seems lost praise god now the first thing that you need to do is to recognize the source of the opposition as being satan and stand your ground the scripture we read said that satan is the god of this world and then the scriptures we went on to read said having done all to stand stand you know many people so many people even christians even spirit-filled christians they don't know whether god or the devil is doing certain things they don't know just exactly who to contribute to well they say maybe the lord is trying to teach me something i remember years ago in the days of the healing revival voice of healing one evangelist one of the vandalists had a large tent in fact it if he put every section in he could seat up to 20 000 people well he had the whole thing up in one of our largest cities here in the southwest but you know he had it up in the springtime about this time a little later than now and of course down here in the southwest anytime april may and june you know is tornado time and he didn't have any insurance on the tent because the only people that would carry insurance was lloyd's of england and they lost so many tents that they quit carrying them so you couldn't get any insurance sure enough a tornado came along and blew his tent away well i remember he came by a convention we was having in fact they asked him to speak one night so he spoke and in the course of what he was saying he i almost fell off of the pew when he said it he said i don't know whether the god or whether the devil blew my tent away well i thought to myself god's not out blowing gospel tents away he's out putting them up amen i said amen but that's the thing that gets people confused they hear preachers say things like that i know another minister they were just going to have their uh well they had redone the main auditorium and had built a new sunday school annex and so they just finished it up they're going to have a dedication service and about four o'clock on sunday morning the uh chief of police called his home or parsonage and said the church is on fire well he told me i turned the corner he he put took me by to where it was it had burned and all's left was the foundation he said i just turned the corner there sorry the whole thing fall in and he said someone because don't sound like a lot of money now but you go back to 1953 and that's about you know 36 years ago and 200 and 225 250 000 a lot of money and and so they had spent that much money refurbishing and redoing the main auditorium and building a new sunday school annex and uh they come to find out somebody made the mistake that didn't have it insured so they lost the whole thing he didn't know whether god or the devil burned his church down god's not out burning churches down he's out helping folks build them amen but you see that's the reason folks get confused they hear preachers sometimes make statements like that somebody said well yeah but now god allowed it well yeah he'd allow you to stop buying rob a filming station on the way home in church tonight if you want to but he won't commission it or amen i don't mean anything to say yes god allowed it though don't be the thing in the world amen god is not the god of this world ii corinthians 4 4 we just read it called satan the god of this world and you need to realize that the laws governing the earth today very largely came into being with the fall of man and with the curse that was placed upon the earth and it's because that people do not understand that that they accuse god of accidents they accuse god of sickness of the death of loved ones of storms of catastrophes of earthquakes and floods that continually occur but remember that god is not responsible for nor the author of any of these things you notice just recently in the news about the oil tanker there in in alaska and uh the the the captain of that ship you know was drunk and exxon called it an act of god well god don't get drunk i never have figured out why insurance companies you know a flood's an act of god it's no more act of god than you're an astronaut [Applause] amen said amen now whenever it was necessary these natural laws as we know them jesus set them aside in order to bless humanity you remember jesus stood on board the ship we're not going to detail about but you remember and he rebuked the storm saying peace be still and the wind ceased well you see uh according to john the 14th chapter and the 10th verse it was god in jesus that did the work because jesus said my father in me he doeth the works and so if god caused the storm and then god in jesus is doing the works god would be working against himself in causing it to cease it was the same thing with the healings that jesus performed god was in him my father in me he said doeth the words all the healings all of the miracles all the works that jesus did god did my father in me he doeth the works well if god were the author of sickness and the author of disease and god healed people through jesus then god worked against himself that cannot be jesus said if a kingdom mark the third chapter the 24th and 24th verses if a kingdom be divided against itself that kingdom cannot stand and if a house be divided against itself that house cannot stand so determine the source it's easy to find out where these things come from don't you know that the word of god tells us that when satan is finally eliminated from the earth and from human contact there shall be nothing that will hurt or destroy hallelujah praise god amen jesus himself said and there can be more than one application to this but he said in john 10 10 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 you know jesus on one occasion said i must work the works of him that sent me while it's day the night cometh when no man can work and he proceeded to heal a blind man on another occasion one of the disciples said to jesus show us the father and in the 14th chapter of john's gospel the 9th and 10th verses jesus said he that has seen me has seen the father the father that dwelleth in me he doeth the works if you want to see god at work then look at jesus hallelujah and he's the same now that he always was praise god it would absolutely erase all confusion as to where any of a thing or things are coming from if we would listen to the word of god most of us however from the time that we were little children our we came to the age and the ability where we could read for ourselves get into god's word for herself we listen to others instead of listening to god's word and we became religiously brainwashed instead of bible taught we've heard on scriptural things said all of our life and sometimes unscriptural things even preach from the pulpit now what we heard was just simply the human mind trying to solve spiritual problems and the human mind cannot solve spiritual problems if you will get into the word of god the word of god will straighten your thinking out the bible talks about us getting our minds renewed with the word of god amen so think in line with god's word and say what the what the word of god says ask yourself the question what does the word of god say no matter what happens in life and the crisis of life comes to all of us but train yourself so that in whatever predicament or whatever situation or whatever crisis or whatever just ask yourself the question what does the word of god have to say too many times we run around to get in everybody else's opinion except god's and as a last resort we turn to him amen we're sort of like the story they tell you know about pat and mike you know it's on board ship the ship sunk you know just the two of them nobody else was in a lifeboat with them they got in that lifeboat and it sprung a leak and it started doing something it's it they saw there's gonna drown you know and so one of them said the other said we ought to do something religious and one of the other said well let's take up an offering but the other said no no no i said let's pray as a last resort let's pray amen well sometimes in spite of it not because of it god helps us praise god for that amen but let's examine the word let's examine what jesus said notice that really he's contrasting his works because god and jesus are not thieves and he said the thief is come but for to kill and to steal and to destroy but i am come that you might have life and you might have it more abundantly the thief well anything that would rob you is a thief amen and this can be the devil or can have other applications you understand that but you see god jesus is certainly not calling god a thief because it was g god in jesus that was doing the works amen and so the thief cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy so that which steals and kills and destroys is a thief and it's certainly not god now you need to realize that amen amen now many times particularly in the old testament and you've got to realize this that the bible is progressive revelation you don't get the full revelation in the old testament it's only types and shadows of that which is to come amen it's when you get over into the new testament the word of god teaches us that even the prophets in the old testament prophet about some of these things and they didn't understand it desired to look into it but it's revealed unto us by the holy ghost praise god but many times particularly the old testament when it talks about god doing something he did not actually do it in other words he he was not the agent who did it he did not send evil on anyone god already had warned them if you sin if you do these things then these things will happen to you but it wasn't his will it was his will that they live right and enjoy the blessings can you say amen now you suppose for instance a man climbs up on top of his house he's doing some work and he falls off and breaks his leg well god you know made this world and he put in motion the law of gravity but the man could not say god broke my leg god pushed me off the roof or god did it because god didn't no god put in motion the law of gravity the man violated it and reaped the results thereof and god tells us that whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap amen amen and so it's true that god is the author of the law of gravity but he did not intend for the man to break his leg he did not intend for him to fall the man fell off accidentally or because he was careless some reason another so it's the same thing when certain things happen in life such as sickness disease catastrophe people say god did it no he didn't do it that happened because man sinned not the individual necessarily i mean the person present not necessarily that he said he may have or may not but you see it happened because adam's sinned in the beginning and sold us out and all mankind fell air to the terrible results of adam's fall amen as john alexander dow we said sickness is the foul offspring of its mother sin and its father satan and the word of god tells us in romans the third chapter the 23rd verse that we've all sinned i mean though he's pointing a finger at somebody else the bible said we've all sinned say it out loud we've all sinned romans 3 23 said we've all sinned and come short of the glory of god how many of us have done that well what are you criticizing me about then you're in the same boat i'm in we've all sinned and come short of the glory of god but you see god did not intend that we would sin god warned even warned adam to begin with what would happen if he sinned he warned man these things would happen but he did not intend that they would happen they happened because man listened to the devil listen to the wrong voice satan was not originally the god of this world adam was now you go back to the book of genesis back to the book of beginnings god made the world and the fullness thereof and the bible said it was good there was not anything that was bad it was good then he made his men adam and he said adam i give you dominion over all the work of my hands that means over the earth and everything and he went on to say that he was to dominate adam was to dominate in other words he's just simply saying to adam i'm making you the god of this world you run it but adam committed high treason and he sold out to the devil and by so doing he sold us out now he didn't have a moral right to do it but he had the legal right to do it and so he did it and the devil began to rule upon the earth and the devil began to dominate on the earth and here in the new testament which is progressive revelation we find the word of god saying that satan is the god of this world he became the god of this world now the bible record turn to luke the fourth chapter i want you to notice something now luke the fourth chapter the fifth through the eighth verses the bible records here the temptation of jesus and it sheds light on facts that we need to see about satan's dominion upon the earth gives us further insight i notice the fifth verse and the devil taketh him that is jesus up into a high mountain taking him jesus up the high mountain showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time now notice verse 6 and the devil said unto them all of this power are that word translated power here greek word can also be translated authority all of this authority will i give thee what authority the authority of the nations of this world kingdoms of this world all this authority will i give thee and the glory of them for that now notice that underline that that is delivered unto me it was delivered unto me he didn't have it to begin with it was delivered unto him and to whomsoever i will i give it if thou therefore will worship me all shall be thine all the kingdoms of this world the power the authority and the glory of them will be yours 8 and jesus answered and said unto him get thee behind me satan for it is written thou shalt worship the lord thy god and him only shalt thou serve now many years ago i heard the radio preacher someone preached on the radio say talking about this very scripture said satan was the lion he just lied said that didn't belong to satan it belonged to god well now if that was the case then jesus would have known it and there wouldn't have been any temptation amen but the bible says that jesus was tempted now that poor radio preacher unconsciously accused the lord jesus christ of being a partner to a fraud becoming a partner to a lie and being dishonest because if this was not a real temptation then jesus was dishonest amen because jesus did not dispute for one moment that this was delivered unto satan that sixth verse satan said for it's delivered unto me if it wasn't delivered unto him and if he didn't have that dominion then if jesus is the son of god he had known it and there wouldn't have been any temptation to it but notice he didn't describe he didn't dispute it at all now who delivered it to satan god no adam did it was adam's god had given it to him and he delivered to say and so the bible tells us remember i said it before mother repeated the bible tells us that when satan is finally eliminated from the earth there will be nothing that will hurt or destroy glory to god won't that be a great day but thank god we don't have to let satan dominate us now [Applause] even though he is the god of this world he does not have the right to dominate us as believers so stand your ground amen it's important to recognize the source of the opposition is satan and stand your ground too many times people are ready to give up on something instead of recognizing that it's satan who's trying to keep them from the blessing that god promised them many of these things that we pray about finances healing and so on have to come to pass in this world realm it's in this world that i need money amen i said amen it's here down here that i need money to pay my bill it's in this world this body that i need healing and satan is at work here he'll put up every block he can amen every roadblock to keep it from happening keep the money from coming keep the healing from being manifested or defeat you in any way then if there is a least bit of delay sometimes in things happening when folks pray i've heard them say well maybe god doesn't want me to have it after all but if you've got god's word for it that says it is yours then it's his will that you do have it stand your ground don't give up too many times christians lose out and they are defeated when they should have recognized that the source of all opposition is satan and they should not allowed him to defeat him i begin here by reading from this sixth chapter of ephesians which declares the fact that it is satan with whom we have to deal now notice that tenth verse let's go back to that sixth chapter of ephesians paul writing this letter to the church at ephesus it applies to the church in tulsa in broken arrow or wherever you're from or wherever you're watching believers everywhere notice that 10th verse finally my brethren be strong in the lord well i hear somebody say oh i'm trying to be strong does it say a word in the world about you being strong or even trying to be strong that's where people miss it they drop back in the natural and they try to do it themselves it does not say anything about the individual being strong in himself it said finally my brethren be strong in the lord and in the power of his mind notice it doesn't say be strong in yourself be strong in the lord and the power of his mind we used to in pentecostal circles and having testimony meetings you'd hear people sometimes say pray for me that i'll hold out faithful to the end anybody over here well some of these folks been around pentecost have heard statements like that well bless their hearts too many times they're just a working and a struggling trying to hold on trying to hold out they didn't know whether they could or whether they couldn't i used this illustration quite frequently years ago back in the mid 30s the united states government you know after the germans made the great uh you know durgable the ziplin and came over here actually and united states had some experimenting in these lighter-than-air aircraft and i saw a picture out on the front page of the dallas morning news they were trying to moor one of them there in akron ohio to a steel tower and uh they had about a couple hundred soldiers or men in uniform you know with rope trying to hold the thing down while they secured it to this steel tower but something happened and suddenly the thing shot back up in the air well some of those servicemen had enough sense to turn loose of the rope and they were fine some of them held on and then their way up there they're too high in the air to turn loose finally they couldn't hold on any longer and they dropped many were injured several were killed but they was one of them just kept holding on i mean that thing got way up there he looked like a little tin toy soldier about that big way up there and and women fainted and kid babies cried and uh you know and children you know hit their face and wouldn't look that they know just any minute he's going to plummet to the ground and as high as he is and when he hits that cement brother they ain't going to find anything but agrees [Laughter] and uh and they marvel i mean 30 minutes went by 45 minutes went by he's still swinging up there and about an hour went by a little better he's still swinging by that rope they can't figure it out they don't understand it finally somewhere another they got back some about that gondola back there and they pulled this rope up pulled him up into the gondola got the thing back down there secured it to the steel tower i mean they've got the ambulance backed up there waiting on him when they brought him down they laid them down on the stretcher they know he's give out he hung about that rope he he's trying to hold on well he said i'm all right nothing wrong with me i'm fine fine well how in the world did you hold on so long he said i didn't hold on he said i was holding on to that thing and there's about three or four foot of rope down here when i saw that we were too high for me to let go i held on to one hand grabbed the end of that rope mother and throw it around my waist and tied it i didn't hold it it held me amen too many christians are trying to hold on pray for me that i'll hold out faithful to the end when what they need to do is wrap themselves in the promises of god hallelujah hallelujah you see while those folks on the ground were screaming and crying while the women were fainting and children crying grown men almost hiding their face and refusing to look he was up there enjoying the scenery just looking the situation over he wasn't trusting in himself to hold on he was trusting the rope to hold him he was swinging free that's what god's word talking about when it said be strong in the lord hallelujah and in the power of his mind glory to god wrap yourself in the promises of god and just swing free enjoy yourself if you try to hold on you'll tire out after a while you'll give out yeah sure we have the devil arrayed against us but thank god we can stand against him amen now why can't we because jesus defeated him for us well somebody said i've done all i know to do what am i going to do now well notice what ephesians said and having done all to stand stand just keep on standing that's what you do now incidentally i told that here that illustration about the man here and and someone actually the man himself the man himself that was swinging free sent a clipping from the newspaper here to us and he lives out over at sand springs hallelujah amen and he sent that in to us i think he read that illustration on our paper or something he's the man well thank god you can be the man hallelujah praise god that swung free amen having done all stand well how long just keep on standing that's what you do just stand you know uh my daddy left when i was six years old i don't remember too much in connection with him and my mother tried to make a living for f for four children she had a complete nervous physical and mental breakdown and we had to go live with the grandparents on my mother's side of the family and this will make a great impression upon a little six-year-old see we didn't start the school in my day till you're seven years old started in the first grade at seven and we didn't have any because see i'm talking about 19 23 24. we didn't have any kindergarten or preschool and so my grandmother and we didn't have washers and dryers like we do today and granny would go hang clothes out on the line you know and she would position me a little six-year-old in the door went into the kitchen because you see mama would she was she'd have these spells and get depressed and then she'd just go and just don't know what she's doing and she had tried to get into the kitchen and get a butcher knife to cut her throat to kill herself well i'd have to go run calling granny granny granny and and that makes an impression on on a little child you understand and so mama had these problems well i remember we were members of the first baptist church at mckinney texas and so finally the church sent her to dallas to the baylor hospital which is baptist hospital and the leading nerve specialist in the southwestern part of the united states in fact i noticed that at a great age about 93 years of age dr kerry after we come to tulsa i read that he had died at 93. well we're talking about 1928 when they sent her down there i'm talking about 1923 when i was six years old but they sent her down to the hospital and so dr kerry after all examinations in fact she was we talked about 1928 now this is common procedure today but she's the first person in that hospital that they bored into her backbone took some of the mayor out to run some tests we're talking about 1928 now and so uh dr carey said to her now i'm just going to you're with the lady i'm just going to be perfectly honest with you and tell you the truth about and he was considered the number one specialist in the southwest part of the united states he said as far as you're concerned if you do want to take something uh just get you a bottle of nerving take that that'll be got to do you just much good as anything but the doctor said now think about this the doctor said he said i'm going to tell you exactly what to do i am going to give you a diet because you're so nervous you need a little extra along some lines and so he gave her this diet if you do want to take something this is inexpensive and no prescription just take nerving but he said the best thing in the world that you can do now here's a doctor baptist he said i'm just going to tell you the truth about the matter ephesians the sixth chapter very scripture i'm telling you said having done all to stand stand there for now you see she would get depressed why would she get depressed she began to think about all the things that happened to her you see all of the past and she gets depressed first goes into this spell of depression and then before you know it she don't know what she's doing i remember she lived to be 80 years old when she's about 79. i brought up the subject and began to talk about her you know times like that she tried to kill herself and she spoke up and said my son you know better now i wouldn't have tried anything like that i know better than that you know i'm a christian i wouldn't commit suicide but somebody said what if she had a committed suicide would she have been saved why certainly dear lord if you got sick at your stomach and died wouldn't you go to heaven well you can get sick in your head and die you get sick your stomach can do funny things i know i've been sick in my stomach well you get sick in your head you do funnier things but that don't mean you're not saved or you're listening to me now that don't mean you're not a christian amen so dr kerry said just simply talk to yourself dear lord he knew more than the preachers of his day he knew something about the power of confession he said you begin to get depressed you begin to think about those things he said just talk to yourself stand your ground having done all gabriel the scripture our preacher didn't know enough about the bible to help her but the doctor thanked god he did thank god for christian doctors he said just say i refuse to be depressed i refuse stand your ground you know she started doing that was completely delivered say who delivered there that's god she delivered herself on the word of god amen she'd just stand their ground and never have any more of those spells and finally got to the place she wasn't depressed anymore but how did she do it but doing just what the bible said do by acting on god's word amen thank god for his word i said thank god for his word praise the lord stand your ground now the doctor said when you feel these attacks coming on say to yourself no i'm not going to have an attack i refuse to be depressed talk to yourself he said just say i stand my ground in the name of the lord jesus christ well thank god she did that and was completely delivered amen well if it worked for the baptist it'll work for anybody it'll work god's word works for everybody see she simply stood her ground thank god for that christian doctor i wish our pastor had that much sense but the doctor at least knew enough to give her scripture to stand against the thing that was destroying her well jesus said see the doctor recognized that as an enemy not as a friend the thief has come to kill to destroy i'm come that you might have a life the doctor instructed her stand against it talk to yourself say i'm not going to have another attack i'm not going to do it she stood aground it was simply left 45 nearly 50 years later praise god she's still free from that went home to be with the lord at about 80. well the doctor really helped her see where the opposition was he knew enough about the scripture at least he helped her understand that she could stand against it see you do not have to yield to things that are wrong you can stand against them too often we limit our idea of what is right or what is wrong or what is evil to things like lying stealing adultery murder and of course all that is evil and all that is wrong but there are many other things that are wrong and the bible tells us that if we've offended in one we're guilty of all of it you know the bible tells us that doubt is evil you remember the story we're not going to it but you remember the story of the 12 spies that were sent into canaan's land two of them brought back a good report 10 of them brought back an evil report the bible said it was evil well what was it it's just simply a report of doubt that's all the world it was amen god said that was evil well doubt's evil so stand against it don't entertain it amen fear is not right the bible said god's not given us a spirit of fear well if it didn't come from god then it's wrong isn't it but he's given us a spirit of power and of love and of a sound mind i'm glad i got a hold of these truths when i was just a youngster i mean before i ever knew anything about the baptist old ghost i heard the word pentecost the full gospel just a baptist boy but i'd been healed been raised up from a from a death bed and i got a hold of these truths and if doubt came because doubt will attacked any of us i mean i'd just stop wherever i was i mean and sometimes in the middle of the street sometimes in the middle of the room or wherever i was now if i was alone i'd say it out loud but nobody around me if somebody's around me i'd say it quietly you know people are thinking you're not you wouldn't be a nut amen just to spouting off around folks i just stop and say doubt i resist you in the name of jesus stand my ground i refuse to doubt doubt i resist you well you see i recognize the source of my opposition it's of the enemy and it is an enemy doubts an enemy and i'm not going to yield to it if fear came and i'm tempted to be afraid just as much as anyone else is always have been and always will be as long as i'm in the flesh so will you amen but you've got to learn how to deal with it i fear i would say i resist you see i recognize that fear doubt and fear are evil i'd say i resist you i refuse to doubt i refuse to fear and i learned as a baptist boy it would leave me hallelujah praise god stand against it where i got the thought to stand against it was what the doctor told the baptist doctor told dr kerry told my mother now you know as well as i know that if the thought to steal came to me or came to you i would not yield to it would you and you know it's it's possible that it would because it's just like the devil i mean what if you was visiting over my house and you saw a hundred dollar bill lying on table you know i've got them laying around everywhere i wish i could find them but you know we're just imagining you understand and so the thought came to you i believe i'll get that nobody will see me brother hagin left the room no you wouldn't yield to that you would resist it wouldn't you and you wouldn't get up in church and testify and say i want y'all to pray for me the devil's trying to get me to steal a hundred dollars and brother hagin i want y'all to pray it i won't do it now you'd be embarrassed you'd be ashamed of it you would be ashamed to get up and say i want you all to pray for me so the devil's tempted me to rob the filling station down on the corner i almost did it i pulled right up there in the driveway and stopped then i got cold feet i want all you to pray for me that i won't rob that gas station no the very minute that such a thought came you would stand against it and those thoughts come because satan's the god of this world yeah every kind of thought in the world he'll he'll bring to you but you see you would stand against it because you recognize its source well now if a thought of doubt comes you do the same way if a thought of fear comes you'll resist it in the same way and don't get up and testify about it you know i'm tempted to doubt and i'm just full of doubt and fear you all pray for me amen might as well get up and testify about all the other things that's trying to happen to you no speak to it and say no i'll not entertain that thought i'll not entertain that recognize that if you want to walk in victory that the source of all everybody say all how much all the source of all opposition is satan and you stand against it you stand against it satan is the god of this world we read that you see he has a right to be here till adam's lease runs out on the earth he has a right to be here and he's going to stay a man said to me one time in a meeting after the meeting one of the morning sessions with all seriousness brother hagin i want you to pray for me well i said what far brother well tears came to his eyes he said i wanted you to pray for me that i won't ever have any more trouble with the devil i said you want me to pray you'll die no he said i don't die so that's the only way in the world that you'll never have any more trouble with the devil is just simply go ahead and die and leave this world go on to heaven amen as long as you're in this world as long as you're in this life you're going to have trouble with him he's the god of this world and there's no use you're praying that you won't have any more trouble with him he'll show up on every corner he has a right to be here you can't run him off i'm talking about from the earth and from the world you can from your life because you see until adam's lease runs out he has a right now notice matthew the chapter and 29th verse and you'll see this demons which possessed people would recognize jesus and cry out to him here in matthew 8 29 noted these demons cried out what have we to do with thee jesus thy son of god now notice art thou come hither to torment us before the time see their time hadn't run out yet have you come to term in us before the time the time was not yet come when adam's lease runs out then thank god the devil will be a goner amen that's it until then he has a right to be here but blessed be the name of our father god we need to realize that we have authority over the devil in the name of the lord jesus christ we can stand against him say it out loud we have authority over the devil in the name of the lord jesus christ we can stands against him we can be victorious through the blood of the lord jesus christ hallelujah the scripture said and they overcame him by the blood of the lamb one trinity said because of the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony hallelujah i said hallelujah praise god so then know this first of all where your opposition's coming from who is the source of your opposition stand and refuse to be moved that's the first step to take now here's step number two be sure the promises of god that is the scriptures covers the thing you ask for and are believing for faith bible faith is based on the word of god it comes by hearing the word of god now a lot of people in the world and in false religions and cults and one thing or another they say some things that the bible said even quote scripture but mis interpret it they say some things that we say well if we're quoting bible they're quoting bible they're bound to say some things we say but they mean something else by it but then they think when we make certain statements that that's what we're talking about now you know out in the world that we we hear folks talk about i i hear coaches sometimes both basketball coaches football coaches baseball coaches talking about getting players to be positive because you see if they're negative you know you can't play up to your full capability because you're thinking i can't do it i remember a number of years ago i was watching world series boston red sox and the st louis cardinals and one particular picture the picture for boston he had won two games and then they wanted him to pitch this seventh game he came down seven again wanted him to pitch that seventh game you know with just three days rest and he said i can't do it when i when i heard him say it i heard him say that because they talked to him on on television i'm you know beforehand and i and and i said well he he won't win see it hasn't got a thing or i'll do whether he's a christian or what or not i mean in this world system i mean if you're negative you're going to lose that's all there is to it and you're trained to be negative and when i'm talking about being positive and i'm talking about positive confession i'm not talking about the same thing they're talking about they're talking about having faith in themselves they're talking about having faith in their ability or not having faith in themselves or not having faith in their ability and of course that does work to a certain extent but i'm talking about being positive bless god that the bible is true amen i'm talking about being positive hallelujah that the lord jesus christ came in the flesh that he died for our sins according to the scriptures that he was raised from the dead for our justification that he ascended on high with his own blood and entered the heavenly holies of whole is once and for all to obtain an eternal redemption for us i'm talking about being positive that the word of god's true amen i'm talking about being positive that himself took our infirmities and bear our sicknesses because the bible said so i'm not talking about believing in something way off out here apart from the word that's the reason i said i've said it for over 50 years i'm going to keep on saying it whatever you're praying for whatever you're endeavoring to believe for find scriptures that covers your case find scriptures that promise you the things you're praying for and you've got a solid foundation for faith faith bible faith is based on the word of god it comes by hearing the word of god romans 10 17 said so then faith cometh how does it come by hearing and hearing by the word of god now if you get out beyond the word of god you don't have any basis for faith and you'll be in trouble it seems to me that people have a little bit of sense i don't understand how some people go around spouting off all the time endeavoring to believe and calling it faith when it's only presumption and folly i know it's a 15 year old boy just four months old in the lord i knew better than that any baby christian or no better than that amen i knew i know for instance this is the first account that i can remember other than believing for salvation you understand heard salvation preached all my this is the first account of exercising faith that i can remember i'd been bedfast four months i stayed bed fast 16 months altogether and this happened almost on it on my 16th birthday month of august of 1933 i'd been bed fast since april well being bed fast naturally the doctor wanted me to be on a soft diet some of the things he wanted me to eat i didn't like i would almost have to hold my nose if certain food was brought to me but he wanted me to have it under normal circumstances it would make me sick there's two particular items he had on the diet that one of me wanted me to have every day and any one of those two would make me sick if i ate those food i guess due to allergies and other things whatever just the smell of it made me sick in my stomach but i'd pray before i ate i'd say now lord the doctor says i need this it's the right kind of food there's food value in it it's valuable to my physical being so i pray and claim by faith that this food will have no ill effect upon me i'll not be sick in any way shape farm or fashion and then i eat it but i've been eating those same food ever since then all these years they've never made me sick again amen that's where i started with the faith life amen my faith worked praise god i said amen and i'm not i'm not out beyond the word i'm not in the word because first timothy chapter 4 verse 4 and 5 said that the word that the food is sanctified by the word of god and prayer now it worked now why did it work because it was something that was good and necessary now right i'll relate another incident happening this different situation to show you what i'm talking about from the time i was four years old until i was 15 i drank coffee as a little boy you know had a lot of milk in it by the time i was 11 or 12 i was drinking coffee as strong as grandpa and grandma but i got up one morning before i you know in the winter of 32 and 33 before i became bed fat i got it one more and eat breakfast same as that same thing i'd been eating for years drink coffee just like always had about just after i got up from the table i'd eat my breakfast i had an attack of acute indigestion i was so sick it seemed like dying would be a relief i mean you're almost afraid you won't die well i couldn't figure out you know what's wrong with i've been eating i mean i haven't eaten anything different same thing i've been eating all time what's the matter well the next morning the same thing happened as soon as i finished breakfast and went my way i just deathly sick so i left off this item and i was still sick i left off another item breakfast as a last resort i left off the coffee the moment i did everything was all right never got sick i didn't have another attack i thought well maybe it's because i drink too much coffee on an empty stomach so i'll eat my meal and then drink my coffee so i ate my meal and drink my coffee and i'm sick as a horse then i eat my meal and just took a little sup along every once in a while but i got up i'm sick as a horse i'm still sick only thing i could do was just leave off the coffee and turn entirely so i left it off but now this happened while i was living with my other grandma and going to school in that area but school was out and i'd come back to my mother grand mother's mother this grandma and so when the doctor gave me this diet no coffee was on it but my grandmother said doctor could he have a cup of coffee you know no i don't want to have any coffee well he's drink coffee though all of his life oh well said if he's drunk coffee all his life he can have a weak cup of coffee for breakfast so they brought me a weak cup of coffee and i drank that and like died well now why didn't you believe i had enough sense i was only four months old in the lord a baby christian i had enough sense to know i could believe god for that food had food value to it it did me some good but i had enough sense to know that coffin to have any food value to it didn't eat it anyway i didn't even try to believe for it it would have been folly and presumptuous i just left it alone amen i said amen and so i know i remember years later so i'd leave cola drinks alone because they have caffeine in them and so i remember i was holding meeting here way up in 1951. see that happened way back 1933 1951 i was holding a meeting here in oklahoma they had a fellowship meeting this day i i preached at night with holding revival and they had a dinner on the ground had a lot of cold drinks left i'd been somewhere and come back and i thought i'd get me a cold drink but there wasn't anything but dr pepper i thought i could find an orange or something and i thought well that's been 15 20 years well i've been 18 years reading and so i'll just drink i drink that dr pepper and like to die and right in the middle of it i said dear god if you'll forgive me i'll never drink a dog dr pepper longest day i live and i didn't get to i mean fast you snapped your finger i was all right well now you're a man of faith why don't you just believe god go ahead because i don't need that caffeine that's the reason i don't ugly amen don't do you a bit of good in the world well i had enough sins i mean four months old in the lord a baby christian never been to church since had been saved goodness bedfast that took the bed they got me there i'm tied to the bed i had enough to sense to know that my faith wouldn't work coffee didn't have any food value doctor didn't want me to have it in the first place it's not on my diet i knew on the inside of me i i i started early listening on the inside of me in here just as a 15 year old boy i knew in here that my faith wouldn't work on that food it had on that because it didn't have any food value my body didn't need it but i knew my faith would work on that food because my body needed it amen are you still out there you're going home hallelujah thank you lord jesus now i remember a fellow said to us one time i want to show you the presumption this fellow was new he had just come in to uh to uh pentecost really he was a of a baptist same as mike graduated from baylor university had his degrees and all he got the baptism of the holy ghost come over into the pentecost and did like i did got the left foot of fellowship from among the baptists and so we were holding a meeting in his city and we're eating with him one day my wife and i you see when you get out beyond the word of god you get into trouble and so he's doing some teaching and some home groups and wherever the door opens for him to preach the team more of a teacher this preacher and so uh we had become acquainted with him so he said to us i i'm going to get married because he had never been married i said you are my wife said you are oh yes yes yes he just thrilled going to get married well now who is this lucky girl you know well he said i don't know her name don't know her name no but once you think well i i go to this church on sunday he's speaking weeknights and different prayer groups whoever do and so he goes to this full gospel church and this lady sang in the choir and he fasted his eyes on her and claimed her dear god he ought to get up close she may not look so good up close amen and so my wife said have you ever had a date with no have you ever met her no never even shook hands with it but he's going to marry her yeah you're getting married he's making a faith statement why he's no more making a faith statement amen and because of that what some folks think that's what we're preaching we're not preaching that at all fellow have to be ignorant to think we are amen i said amen amen praise god well you see he got out beyond the word you go get out beyond the word you're going to get in trouble or you're listening to me after all she may have been looking over the crowd and saw somebody else and claimed him wonder which claim god's going to honor amen they made both of them get in trouble they wind up like that story i tell about mary you know amen you get out beyond what the scripture said what am i saying i'm saying find it in the bible find scriptures that promise you that covers your case that promise you the things you're praying for and then you can believe god for it i know one fellow you know a friend of mine he is nice guy satan felt the holy ghost all right but he's going to believe along a certain line didn't amount to anything too much but i just want to use the illustration i held up my bible i said to him can you find that in the bible give me chapter and verse a man said to me oh you'll not find that in the bible well i said if you won't find it in the bible you haven't got any business with it you better just forget it but you know what god has promised to supply all of our need according to his riches in glory by christ jesus if you can't find any more find that one philippians 4 19 because that'll cover every need that you may have amen now stand up everybody i've talked long enough i'll pick up here tomorrow night i didn't get through you know that praise god say it out loud the bible is true the bible belongs to me and you the bible it is acting on the word [Applause] and becoming a doer thereof that causes all the blessings of heaven at my disposal to be so i act on the word [Applause] put it into practice stand against the enemies and i'm sure of the victory so what remains for me but praise yea i will lift my voice and i'll praise him for he watches over his word to make it good hallelujah now put up both your hands and praise the lord kenneth hagin ministries reaches out to take the gospel of jesus christ around the world with books audio and video cassettes radio television and the word of faith magazine each month kenne pagan ministries publishes this free 24-page teaching magazine the word of faith offers a variety of practical teachings from the word of god exciting news from kenneth hagin ministries and feature articles about how this ministry is affecting the lives of people like you you'll also find a complete listing of the ministry's international radio program faith seminar of the air on faith seminar of the air reverend kenneth e hagin brings solid scriptural teaching to encourage you in your daily walk with god the word of faith magazine also contains an up-to-date listing of the all-faith crusades in your area the impact of reverend hagin's ministry is powerfully displayed through these all-faith crusades which are conducted across the united states with reverend kenneth e hagin his crusade team and the rhema singers in band the printed page is a far-reaching means of spreading the gospel currently more than 36 million faith library books are in distribution in 25 foreign languages and dialects in addition approximately a half a million messages on cassette tapes are sent each year throughout the world the teaching from god's word and faith library books and tapes will bless and transform your life just as it has blessed and transformed the lives of countless people around the world if you would like to receive more information about kennel pagan ministries rhema bible training center or if you would like to receive our free monthly magazine the word of faith please write kenneth hagin ministries post office box 50126 tulsa oklahoma [Music] [Applause] 74150126 [Music] you

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