I WISHED I HAD THE BOLDNESS OF SMITH WIGGLESWORTH- Kenneth E Hagin
Then I found out that folks will state that they believe one thing, while they practice something else.
For example, I received light on divine healing on the bed of sickness. I was a denominational boy reading Grandma’s Bible, and I received my healing. I then began to fellowship with Full Gospel people because they believed in divine healing. And when I found out that they also believed in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, I was filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke in other tongues.
Then I began preaching in Full Gospel circles, and I would hold healing services to minister to the sick. And someone would invariably come forward for healing after the service was over.
Once a young woman came forward with a baby in her arms. The baby was sick, and the woman wanted me and the pastor to pray for the healing of this child. Actually, the woman came to the pastor, and he said, “Brother Hagin, pray with me for this child.”
The pastor and I laid hands on the baby. I began to pray in faith, believing the Word, that Jesus Christ Himself took that child’s infirmities and bare that child’s sicknesses and diseases, so that baby would not have to bear them.
I was appropriating that promise, but I heard this pastor say, “Lord, heal this child if it is Your will.” How I wished at that time for the boldness of Smith Wigglesworth!
Wigglesworth was quite bold and in similar cases would yell right out loud, “Stop him! Stop him! Oh, God, stop him right now! He is charging the atmosphere with unbelief!” And at times that needs to be done.
A pastor who knew Wigglesworth personally said they went out to eat together and Wigglesworth asked this pastor to pray. So this pastor quietly bowed his head and prayed softly. He said Wigglesworth just shouted right out loud so that everyone in the restaurant could hear him, “My God, young man, if you are going to pray, pray! Don’t sit there and mumble over your food.”
Wigglesworth then jumped to his feet and lifted both of his hands and started praying at the top of his voice right there in the restaurant. He believed if you are going to do something, do it with all your might. And if you are not going to do it that way, then don’t do it at all. I don’t know but what Wigglesworth was right about that!
Wigglesworth tells about one such incident in his book, Ever Increasing Faith. (If you don’t have a copy, I encourage you to get one.) I have worn out four or five copies of this book, reading it extensively. I just keep reading it over and over again because it feeds my spirit.
After all, in the natural I keep going back to the table and eating at mealtime. For instance, I have had eggs for breakfast many times over the years. But I am not going to quit eating eggs for breakfast just because I already have had eggs for breakfast before. Are you going to quit eating bacon because you’ve eaten bacon before? No, many times over the years I have eaten bacon for breakfast, and I still eat it. I like it.
Do you see what I am talking about? So don’t just read these books, such as Ever Increasing Faith and lay them down and forget them. If you do, they won’t do you much good.
If you stopped eating food just because you’ve eaten food before in the past, you’d starve to death. If you just ate a big meal last week and said, “Well, I ate last week and there is no use in eating anymore. I am going to wait until next year before I eat again,” you would be dead before next year gets here. In the same sense, keep feeding along these lines spiritually, so that your faith is constantly being built up.
Therefore, we know that it is God’s will to heal the sick because His Word says so. So when this young woman came forward after the service with her sick baby for prayer and the pastor prayed a prayer filled with unbelief, I thought to myself, I hope she didn’t listen to this pastor’s prayer. He had prayed in unbelief because he prayed, “Lord, heal this baby if it’s Your will.”
I didn’t have the boldness to call him down and correct him, and yet I suppose I should have. However, one would have to do something like that in an attitude of love because if it weren’t done in love, it could do more harm than good.
I said to myself, I trust she didn’t listen to his prayer, because if she did, he injected his doubt into her mind. That pastor was telling her that it might not be God’s will to heal her child because he said, “Lord, heal this child, if it be Your will.”
Praying like that when the Word clearly says what the will of God is, won’t produce any results. That pastor might as well have said, “Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are.”
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Then I found out that folks will state that they believe one thing, while they practice something else.
For example, I received light on divine healing on the bed of sickness. I was a denominational boy reading Grandma’s Bible, and I received my healing. I then began to fellowship with Full Gospel people because they believed in divine healing. And when I found out that they also believed in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, I was filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke in other tongues.
Then I began preaching in Full Gospel circles, and I would hold healing services to minister to the sick. And someone would invariably come forward for healing after the service was over.
Once a young woman came forward with a baby in her arms. The baby was sick, and the woman wanted me and the pastor to pray for the healing of this child. Actually, the woman came to the pastor, and he said, “Brother Hagin, pray with me for this child.”
The pastor and I laid hands on the baby. I began to pray in faith, believing the Word, that Jesus Christ Himself took that child’s infirmities and bare that child’s sicknesses and diseases, so that baby would not have to bear them.
I was appropriating that promise, but I heard this pastor say, “Lord, heal this child if it is Your will.” How I wished at that time for the boldness of Smith Wigglesworth!
Wigglesworth was quite bold and in similar cases would yell right out loud, “Stop him! Stop him! Oh, God, stop him right now! He is charging the atmosphere with unbelief!” And at times that needs to be done.
A pastor who knew Wigglesworth personally said they went out to eat together and Wigglesworth asked this pastor to pray. So this pastor quietly bowed his head and prayed softly. He said Wigglesworth just shouted right out loud so that everyone in the restaurant could hear him, “My God, young man, if you are going to pray, pray! Don’t sit there and mumble over your food.”
Wigglesworth then jumped to his feet and lifted both of his hands and started praying at the top of his voice right there in the restaurant. He believed if you are going to do something, do it with all your might. And if you are not going to do it that way, then don’t do it at all. I don’t know but what Wigglesworth was right about that!
Wigglesworth tells about one such incident in his book, Ever Increasing Faith. (If you don’t have a copy, I encourage you to get one.) I have worn out four or five copies of this book, reading it extensively. I just keep reading it over and over again because it feeds my spirit.
After all, in the natural I keep going back to the table and eating at mealtime. For instance, I have had eggs for breakfast many times over the years. But I am not going to quit eating eggs for breakfast just because I already have had eggs for breakfast before. Are you going to quit eating bacon because you’ve eaten bacon before? No, many times over the years I have eaten bacon for breakfast, and I still eat it. I like it.
Do you see what I am talking about? So don’t just read these books, such as Ever Increasing Faith and lay them down and forget them. If you do, they won’t do you much good.
If you stopped eating food just because you’ve eaten food before in the past, you’d starve to death. If you just ate a big meal last week and said, “Well, I ate last week and there is no use in eating anymore. I am going to wait until next year before I eat again,” you would be dead before next year gets here. In the same sense, keep feeding along these lines spiritually, so that your faith is constantly being built up.
Therefore, we know that it is God’s will to heal the sick because His Word says so. So when this young woman came forward after the service with her sick baby for prayer and the pastor prayed a prayer filled with unbelief, I thought to myself, I hope she didn’t listen to this pastor’s prayer. He had prayed in unbelief because he prayed, “Lord, heal this baby if it’s Your will.”
I didn’t have the boldness to call him down and correct him, and yet I suppose I should have. However, one would have to do something like that in an attitude of love because if it weren’t done in love, it could do more harm than good.
I said to myself, I trust she didn’t listen to his prayer, because if she did, he injected his doubt into her mind. That pastor was telling her that it might not be God’s will to heal her child because he said, “Lord, heal this child, if it be Your will.”
Praying like that when the Word clearly says what the will of God is, won’t produce any results. That pastor might as well have said, “Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are.”
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I WISHED I HAD THE BOLDNESS OF SMITH WIGGLESWORTH- Kenneth E Hagin
Then I found out that folks will state that they believe one thing, while they practice something else.
For example, I received light on divine healing on the bed of sickness. I was a denominational boy reading Grandma’s Bible, and I received my healing. I then began to fellowship with Full Gospel people because they believed in divine healing. And when I found out that they also believed in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, I was filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke in other tongues.
Then I began preaching in Full Gospel circles, and I would hold healing services to minister to the sick. And someone would invariably come forward for healing after the service was over.
Once a young woman came forward with a baby in her arms. The baby was sick, and the woman wanted me and the pastor to pray for the healing of this child. Actually, the woman came to the pastor, and he said, “Brother Hagin, pray with me for this child.”
The pastor and I laid hands on the baby. I began to pray in faith, believing the Word, that Jesus Christ Himself took that child’s infirmities and bare that child’s sicknesses and diseases, so that baby would not have to bear them.
I was appropriating that promise, but I heard this pastor say, “Lord, heal this child if it is Your will.” How I wished at that time for the boldness of Smith Wigglesworth!
Wigglesworth was quite bold and in similar cases would yell right out loud, “Stop him! Stop him! Oh, God, stop him right now! He is charging the atmosphere with unbelief!” And at times that needs to be done.
A pastor who knew Wigglesworth personally said they went out to eat together and Wigglesworth asked this pastor to pray. So this pastor quietly bowed his head and prayed softly. He said Wigglesworth just shouted right out loud so that everyone in the restaurant could hear him, “My God, young man, if you are going to pray, pray! Don’t sit there and mumble over your food.”
Wigglesworth then jumped to his feet and lifted both of his hands and started praying at the top of his voice right there in the restaurant. He believed if you are going to do something, do it with all your might. And if you are not going to do it that way, then don’t do it at all. I don’t know but what Wigglesworth was right about that!
Wigglesworth tells about one such incident in his book, Ever Increasing Faith. (If you don’t have a copy, I encourage you to get one.) I have worn out four or five copies of this book, reading it extensively. I just keep reading it over and over again because it feeds my spirit.
After all, in the natural I keep going back to the table and eating at mealtime. For instance, I have had eggs for breakfast many times over the years. But I am not going to quit eating eggs for breakfast just because I already have had eggs for breakfast before. Are you going to quit eating bacon because you’ve eaten bacon before? No, many times over the years I have eaten bacon for breakfast, and I still eat it. I like it.
Do you see what I am talking about? So don’t just read these books, such as Ever Increasing Faith and lay them down and forget them. If you do, they won’t do you much good.
If you stopped eating food just because you’ve eaten food before in the past, you’d starve to death. If you just ate a big meal last week and said, “Well, I ate last week and there is no use in eating anymore. I am going to wait until next year before I eat again,” you would be dead before next year gets here. In the same sense, keep feeding along these lines spiritually, so that your faith is constantly being built up.
Therefore, we know that it is God’s will to heal the sick because His Word says so. So when this young woman came forward after the service with her sick baby for prayer and the pastor prayed a prayer filled with unbelief, I thought to myself, I hope she didn’t listen to this pastor’s prayer. He had prayed in unbelief because he prayed, “Lord, heal this baby if it’s Your will.”
I didn’t have the boldness to call him down and correct him, and yet I suppose I should have. However, one would have to do something like that in an attitude of love because if it weren’t done in love, it could do more harm than good.
I said to myself, I trust she didn’t listen to his prayer, because if she did, he injected his doubt into her mind. That pastor was telling her that it might not be God’s will to heal her child because he said, “Lord, heal this child, if it be Your will.”
Praying like that when the Word clearly says what the will of God is, won’t produce any results. That pastor might as well have said, “Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are.”
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