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Apostolic Church History Podcast

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Faith Activates The Power

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

FAITH ACTIVATES THE POWER!

Let me give you an illustration along this line. In March 1971, I was preaching in Tyler, Texas, in the grand ballroom of the old Carlton Hotel. After ministering one night and sending folks to the prayer room to be saved, we invited the sick to come forward to be prayed for.

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When I called for folks to get in the healing line, I noticed a lady sitting right in the front, in the first couple of rows. But this woman couldn’t get up. Her husband was trying without much success to help her get up.

Finally, one of the ushers helped, and the two men together got her to her feet. She had a cane in one hand, and with her husband holding her by one arm and the usher holding her by the other arm, she slowly made her way into the healing line.

The people were lined up straight across the room, and I went down the line, laying hands upon them. Well, when I laid hands on her, it was just like I had laid hands on a doorknob — there was no receptivity on her part whatsoever.

I went on down the line, laying hands on folks and praying. I didn’t have time to stop and preach her a sermon. I knew that in her case, it was a matter of her not having faith. You see, faith receives when you pray, you believe you receive! The Bible says that then — after you believe you receive — you shall have whatever it is you were desiring (Mark 11:24).

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Believing is receiving. Receiving is believing. If there is no receiving, then there’s been no believing. If there’s no believing, then there is no receiving. It’s just that simple — so simple, we stumble over the simplicity of it.

I finished the healing line in that meeting in Tyler and went back to the platform to get my Bible, my notebook, and my watch. This crippled woman was still standing there with her husband by her side to hold her up. With great effort and with her husband’s help, she moved a little closer to me and said, “Brother Hagin, I want you to lay hands on me again.”

I remembered when I laid hands on her a few moments before, there was just no response. So I said, “Well, I’ve already laid hands on you,” and then I tried to encourage her to believe. You see, she had a part to play in receiving her healing.

Then she said to me, “This is the very first time I’ve ever been in one of these kinds of meetings. I’m Presbyterian, and I’ve never been to a meeting like this. But I’ll tell you why I came.

“I have arthritis,” she explained. “That’s the reason I couldn’t get up out of my seat. That’s why my body is so stiff.”

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She continued: “But I saw one of my neighbors walking down the street this afternoon. She was just about as bad off with arthritis as I am maybe worse. I knew she couldn’t walk, yet there she was walking down the street perfectly, with nobody helping her!

“I sent my husband to go get her so I could talk to her. I thought she’d gotten hold of some new medicine somewhere or found some doctor who was an expert with arthritis. “I asked her about it, and she said, ‘No, I was just down there at the grand ballroom of the Carlton Hotel last night. And a minister laid his hands on me, and the Lord healed me instantly. I fell on the floor, and when I got up, the arthritis was gone.’

“When she told me that,” this woman continued, “I said to my husband, ‘Well, you just get me down there; we’ll have that minister lay hands on me too.’ “That’s why I came tonight. I came here to try you out to see what you could do.”

I said, “Well, you found out what I could do, didn’t you?” “Yes,” she said, “nothing.” You see, so many times that’s the case. Folks just want to see what the minister can do instead of believing God for themselves and believing in His power.

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Then this woman said to me: “In this meeting, I heard you say that the Lord appeared to you.”

“Well,” I said, “He did appear to me. I’d be lying if I said He didn’t.”

She said, “I heard you say that He laid the finger of His right hand in the palm of each one of your hands.”

I said, “He sure did. A fellow would go to hell for lying just as quick as he would for stealing. And I’d be lying if I said Jesus didn’t lay the finger of His right hand in the palm of each one of my hands.”

She continued: “I heard you say that Jesus told you to tell us that if we’d believe that and receive it, then that same anointing would flow from your hands into our bodies and drive out the sickness and disease.”

I answered, “I said that, all right. Jesus told me to say it. If I said He didn’t, I’d be lying about it.”

“Well,” she said, “I’ll tell you, I’m ready to believe it. Just put your hand on me.”

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I could see that she was ready. I could see her earnestness, so I just reached out toward her, and, really, I barely touched her. I barely brushed her forehead with my hand, and I was conscious of the anointing just rushing into her. You see, she pulled it out of me, and it just rushed into her.

Then she fell backward onto the floor and lay there for a little bit. When she made an effort to get up, her husband and another lady nearby helped her. When she got up, her husband tried to hand her that cane. She pulled away from it and said, “Can’t you see I don’t need that?” Her body was just as limber and free as mine was — all the arthritis had disappeared! Every bit of it was gone, glory to God! Well now, what activated that power or anointing? Faith did. Faith activates the power!

Now I was anointed with that healing power the first time I laid hands on the woman. In fact, although I didn’t tell her, the anointing on me was stronger when I laid hands on her the first time than it was the second time when she finally received.

Well, why didn’t that anointing heal her the first time? Because she came to the meeting to see what I could do — to try me out. But when she put her faith in God and His power, and she acted upon her faith, she received her healing. Why? Because faith activates the power!

Remember Jesus said to the woman with the issue of blood, “Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole.” Her faith in God and His power is what activated the anointing on her behalf to drive out her disease and heal her.

- Kenneth E Hagin ( The Healing Anointing)

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Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Your Switch Of Faith

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

KEEP YOUR SWITCH OF FAITH TURNED ON!

We read in Acts 19:12 that the Apostle Paul was anointed with the heavenly power or anointing and that “. . . from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them."

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We already know that Paul was anointed in a similar manner as Jesus was anointed. And there’s no doubt about it — as soon as the diseases departed from those who came in contact with the handkerchiefs of Paul, the bodies of those who were sick started getting well.

Many times people fail to realize that it takes time for bodies to respond after disease has departed from them. Even after the diseases have departed, especially in cancer cases, the symptoms will often persist because damage has already been done to the bodies.

Sometimes a person’s body is healed instantly, but sometimes it just heals up gradually by itself. On many occasions, I’ve ministered to sick people, and I’ve known that their diseases had departed. Yet the people still had their symptoms for a little while. Sometimes it was ten minutes, an hour, or maybe three days before a person was all right. But I knew all the while that the disease had departed.

People need to be taught properly so they can keep the switch of faith turned on, because if they begin to doubt, the disease will come back.

As I said, when I minister the healing anointing to a person, and he receives the anointing in faith, the healing may be manifested right away or it may not be manifested right away. That’s the reason I’ve said to people, “Keep the switch of faith turned on.”

I didn’t think up that phrase “Keep the switch of faith turned on” on my own. It just sprung up in my spirit during a meeting my wife and I held several years ago. The meeting was held in a certain denominational church in which several hundred members of the congregation had received the baptism in the Holy Ghost and turned Charismatic!

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We laid hands on the sick each night during the meeting, and one particular night, there was a blind woman in the healing line. I laid hands on her, and she fell on the floor under the power of God. When she got up, you didn’t have to ask her if she received. Her face was lit up like a neon sign in the dark, and she was shouting, “I can see! I can see!”

We learned later that she’d been blind for three years. She’d been able to detect an object if it was in front of her, but she couldn’t tell if it was a man, woman, boy, girl, horse, cow, or automobile. That was pretty blind, wasn’t it? But after I laid hands on her, she could see clearly! She was instantly healed!.

That same night, a young couple brought their only child to be prayed for. Both of his little feet were clubbed — deformed. I held those little feet in my hands and ministered God’s healing power to them. When I opened my eyes, I saw that those feet looked just as crippled as they were to begin with.

I said to the parents, “If it will help you any, I’ll tell you this: I have a stronger anointing on me right now than I had when I laid hands on that woman who was blind. I’m just going to hold these little feet in my hands for a few moments.” After I did that, those feet looked just as crippled and deformed as they ever were.

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Well, what are you going to tell people in a situation like that? I said to them, “All I know is what Jesus told me when He appeared to me in the vision and gave me a special anointing to minister to the sick. He told me, ‘When you feel that power go out of your hands into them, you know they’re healed.’”

I continued: “I felt that power go out of my hands into the child’s feet. So keep the switch of faith turned on. Every time you think of it, say, ‘The healing power of God has been ministered to those feet, and the power is working in them right now.’”

That was on a Thursday night, and we closed the meeting on the following Sunday and went on our way. Several months later, the son of the pastor of that church was in one of our meetings. He said, “That couple came back to church the following Sunday, came up to the platform, and asked for the privilege to show the child to the congregation. They held the child up so everyone could see, and both of his feet were perfect!”

Well, that couple kept the switch of faith turned on!

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This is their testimony:

“We did just what Brother Hagin said to do.” (Actually, it wasn’t me who said it; it was the Holy Ghost. I didn’t even know I was going to say it. It just came up out of my spirit: “Keep the switch of faith turned on.”)

This young couple said, “Every time we looked at our son’s feet, we’d say, ‘Thank God, the healing power of God was ministered to those feet Thursday night, and that power is working in those feet now to effect a healing and a cure.’

“We kept saying that morning and night — every time we thought about it. After three days, his feet started changing. It wasn’t instant, but little by little over the next three or four days, they continued to change until they were just as perfect as feet can be!”

Well, Mark 16:18 said, “. . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they SHALL RECOVER.” Now that blind woman in my meeting was healed instantly, but the young couple kept the switch of faith turned on, and their son recovered!

So if you get an instant healing, just thank God for it. But if you don’t, don’t turn off the switch of faith! Keep saying, “The power of God is working in me,” and keep the switch of faith turned on.

- Kenneth E Hagin ( The Healing Anointing)

Friday, September 25, 2026

Confidence In God's Word

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

I remember a denominational minister in my home county — just a country preacher — who never had an opportunity to pastor a very large church. Most of his churches were small community churches. His limited high school education prevented any promotion by his denomination that he might otherwise have had.

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However, this preacher was in constant demand for revival meetings because of his success in soul winning. He would go to a church where no one was being saved, where no one had been saved for years, and would have a landslide meeting and many people would be brought into the Kingdom of God. You can understand why he was in demand.

I talked to him when he was in his early sixties, and he was still having phenomenal success in revival meetings winning the lost. In his own churches he had altar services as we used to have in Pentecostal circles. He would get the people in his church on their knees, praying.

He said, “People are always asking me my secret. It is a very simple thing. I just apply faith in the area of soul winning like I apply faith in the areas of healing or whatever I am believing God for. It never entered my mind to doubt that people will come to be saved. If the doubt does try to come, I resist it in the Name of Jesus. It is just that simple.”

He said, “I don’t do a great deal of praying, any more than others do, but I do pray. I do seek God. However, I attribute my success to that one point — I just have confidence that people will come to be saved. By the eye of faith, I see the people coming to my services; I see the altar filling up with those who want to be saved."

“If the meetings aren’t going like I think they should and people aren’t coming forward like at other times, I don’t necessarily increase my praying or seeking God about it; I just exercise more faith. When I begin to give the invitation, I can just see the people coming, and they come.”

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What this minister said and did was an expression of his confidence and his faith in God. He had prayed, all right, but not excessively. Many times in our praying, we keep looking at the wrong things. We keep looking at the circumstances, and we keep looking at what is not happening.

Someone might say, “Well, hardly anyone came to the meeting last night, and people probably won’t come tonight either.”

Or in the area of finances, someone might say, “Well, the finances haven’t manifested yet. When I get the money, then I’ll believe I have it.”

Or if it is in the area of praying for the lost, someone might say, “Well, when I see my family and friends saved, or when I see a change in them, then I’ll believe God has heard my prayer and is dealing with them.”

You see, that kind of attitude doesn’t demonstrate any confidence in God’s Word. That kind of attitude isn’t letting the Word of God dwell in you at all. That attitude or way of thinking is nothing more than having faith in what you see.

Oftentimes people undo all of their prayers by doing that very thing — by walking by sight when they should be walking by faith in God’s Word. But instead of looking at the circumstances when they pray and looking at what is not happening, they should be seeing with the eye of faith what God’s doing on their behalf in answer to their prayers.

- Kenneth E Hagin ( Bible Prayer Study Course )

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Apostolic Church History Podcast

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

How The Anointing Led Me

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

HOW THE ANOINTING LED ME.

The text we just studied from First John says, "the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth IN you... [and] teacheth you of all things." What is that anointing for? It's to teach you all things!

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I remember the night I was born again: I was born again the 22nd day of April 1933. I know that an unction or anointing came into me that very night. I am just as conscious of it on the

inside of me as I am of my two ears on the outside of me.

The Holy Spirit began to try to teach me a lot of things, but my head wouldn't go along with it. I didn't know to listen to Him. So often we have been religiously brainwashed. Our heads are all cluttered up with religious things, and we have not been trained to listen to and follow our spirits. But it was there on that bed of sickness as a 15- and 16-year- old invalid that I got into the Word. The spirit of God taught me about divine healing.

Five doctors had told me,

"You're going to die—that's all there is to it. You can't live. There's not one chance in a million for you to live."

But something inside me—that anointing that teaches you all things—that inward "something"—said,

"You don't have to die. Not now. Not at this age. Not as a teenager. You can live. You can be healed!"

I said,

"Can I?"

Something inside me said,

"It's all in the Book. Get in the Book. The Bible—that's where it is!"

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And thank God I got in there, and He taught me. I didn't have an earthly teacher. It was difficult, however. It's easier to learn spiritual things if you have a human teacher, because you can see the teacher, listen to him or her, and the witness of the Holy Spirit on the inside of you will let you know whether or not they're teaching what is right. Thank God, He taught me. I listened to Him, and He led me right into the Word, right into faith—and right into healing.

What if I never had listened? I never would have been taught; I would have died and gone on to glory and missed doing what God called me to do; and we wouldn't have any RHEMA

Bible Training Center. I'm so glad I learned to listen!

I saw after my healing that if I had listened to what that "something" on the inside of me had been trying to tell me, I would have been out of that bed a lot sooner. I was an invalid 16 long months before I was healed.

I'll challenge anybody anywhere that if they've got the Holy Spirit living inside them—the One who is the Author of the Bible—He'll lead them right into divine healing. If it's the same Holy Spirit who authored this Book, He's going to teach you what's in there.

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When He opened the Word to me, I acted upon the Word. I didn't know anybody who believed in divine healing, so I didn't have anybody to pray for me. I learned to listen, thank God, to

my spirit.

On the inside of me was this voice teaching me. It said, "You believe all right as far as you know, but that last clause of Mark 11:24—"and ye shall have them"—goes with the preceding clause, "believe that ye receive them."

MARK 11:24

"Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."

Like a flash, I saw it. What I'd been trying to do was get healed first—have it first—and then I was going to believe it. He said, "Believe it first, and then you'll have it."

So I began to say, right out loud in my room, "I believe. believe. I believe that I receive healing for the deformed heart. I believe I receive healing for the paralysis. I believe I receive healing for the incurable blood disease."

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And while I was saying that and praising God for it, that anointing in me—IN me—said,

"Arise. People who are well ought to be up at 10:30 in the morning."

I thought for a moment, How am I going to get up? I'm paralyzed.

But when I made the effort and acted upon the Word, the power of God came down on me and went through me like a bolt of electricity!

I stood upright on my feet and was healed—and I have been healed ever since. I say this to the glory of God: I've had half a century of divine health. The last headache I had was in August 1933, but don't misunderstand me: I'm not opposed to doctors. Thank God for them. Medical science will help people as much as it can. If I'd have needed to go to a doctor in the past half century, I would have gone—but I haven't needed to. I've sent other people to the doctor, however, paid their bills, and bought their medicine.

(Doctors often can keep people alive until we can get enough word in them to get them healed.)

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My healing came about by my listening to that inward anointing that teaches you all things. I listened, obeyed, and off the bed I came. I would challenge anybody who is born again (because you're born of the Holy Spirit): The Spirit will lead you into the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It was that same Spirit—that same anointing that teaches—who led me into the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

After my healing, I began to seek out the fellowship of those who believed like I did. Some Full Gospel people had come to our town. Even though there were a lot of things about them that I didn't understand and didn't agree with, I didn't criticize them. I welcomed them with open arms. I was glad to find somebody who believed in faith and healing that I could fellowship with. We need fellowship.

Now, you don't have to go to Full Gospel services too long until people start preaching and testifying about the baptism in the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues. When they did, I closed my ears, because I didn't know whether it was right or wrong. I thought, I'd just put up with a little fanaticism to have a little fellowship around faith and healing. I was about to enroll in a Baptist seminary.

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Yes, you can be thoroughly saved, get people saved, and healed every Sunday, see miracles performed, and still close your ears to other things of the Word. God will bless you all He can, because He's out to bless you. He's not out to "get" you, praise the Lord. He'll confirm His Word. If you preach about salvation, people will get saved. If you preach about healing, people will get healed.

I preached water baptism, and people got baptized in water. I preached prayer, and people prayed. I preached living right, and people lived right. But none of them got baptized with the Holy Spirit, because I never said anything about it!

KENNETH E. HAGIN ( Understanding the Anointing)

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Tuesday, September 1, 2026

The Anointing To Teach

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

THE ANOINTING TO TEACH.

Even though I wasn't a teacher to begin with, I always had the greatest respect for the Word of God, and always was very studious. I spent hours studying and reading, digging things out for myself in my early years as a pastor, but I didn't teach those things. I had no unction or leading to teach.

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I did teach a Bible class in the church, however. That's the custom in most Pentecostal churches. Sometimes Full Gospel, Pentecostal people criticize denominational people for formality and ritualism, yet Pentecostals are bound with customs! They'll fight for their customs. All these things are bad.

I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and spoke in other tongues in 1937, and in 1939, as I say humorously, I received "the left foot of fellowship" from among the Baptists and came over among the Pentecostals. My wife and I accepted the pastorate of a little Pentecostal church in North Texas.

The people said, "It's a custom that the pastor teach the men's Bible class and the pastor's wife teach the older ladies' Bible class."

"Well," I replied, "I just changed the custom." I hadn't been around Pentecostals too long at that stage, and I thought they were all sprouting wings. I found out later those were just their shoulder blades sticking out. They weren't about to grow any wings.

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And I found out if you start changing their customs, you're in for it. So I had to maneuver and speak softly, but finally I got it over to them that my wife didn't teach. They said, "Well, we'll

tell you what we'll do. We'll just combine the older men and the older ladies and have an auditorium class, and you teach it."

I'd rather have done almost anything else, but I taught it. never was so glad of anything in my life as I was when that class was over each Sunday morning. I'd lay that teacher's quarterly down and say, "Whew, now I can relax for another week."

I so detested teaching that I wouldn't look at the Sunday School quarterly for the whole week. Sometimes I didn't pick it up to study it until just before the class started the next Sunday morning!

I could get by with that because I had developed a unique ability—after I was born again—of being able to read something once and never forget it. I didn't have that talent before I got born again. But afterwards I could read a chapter in my high school history book once and recite it word for word for the teacher. It was because I learned to walk in the life of God.

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Doing that will increase your mentality. I could hardly remember anything before. So I could read the teacher's lesson once from the quarterly and rattle it off. Then I'd say, "I'm glad that's over! Now I can get back to preaching!" And I'd preach up a storm, going like an air hammer, waving my arms like a windmill. (I thought it wasn't preaching unless you did that.) I was a preacher, and I loved it.

I'd have rather preached than eaten. I preached for nine years. All I had was the evangelistic message. I never preached anything else. I didn't have anything else! But I remember one Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. (The year was 1943. I had been preaching since 1934.),

I'd been lying down. I walked across the parsonage living room and into the kitchen for a drink of water. As I was coming back across the living room, right in the middle of the room, something dropped down on me and inside me. It just clicked down on the inside of me like a coin drops inside a pay phone. I stopped dead still. I knew what it was. It was a teaching gift. The anointing to teach had dropped inside me. I said, "Now I can teach."

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If I get any gift from God, I prove it out first, and I would encourage you to do the same. Prove what you've got from God,and then you can talk about it. But if it's never proved, proclaiming it won't make it so. I never said a word about having the anointing to teach.

We had a little prayer group of seven or eight women who met Wednesday afternoons from 2 to 4 at the church. People would turn in requests and they would pray over the requests

and pray about the church and the services for a few hours. My wife always met with them, and I usually met with them.

We trained this little group to pray. They became expert prayer warriors. If you didn't want something, you'd better not turn in a prayer request to them, because they'd get it for you!

I suggested to them that we have a Bible lesson for an hour before our prayer time, but I didn't invite anybody else to come.

It wasn't an announced meeting. I started teaching those seven or eight women, and the anointing would come on me. I hadn't known you could stand in one spot and just teach the Word and get that strongly anointed to teach. I thought you were supposed to be hollering at the top of your voice, waving your arms like a windmill, and "spitting cotton," as in preaching.

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But just standing there with a handful, teaching them the Word, the anointing would come on me so strongly I couldn't stand it. I'd have to say, "Lord, turn it off—I can't stand it anymore!"

You talk about getting blessed! It was like getting hold of electric current. That anointing and the Word flowed out to the women. They went home and told their husbands and others.

Still we never announced the Wednesday afternoon Bible study. Nobody was invited to come.

But people started coming Wednesday afternoons in spite of the fact that we had regular Wednesday night services, too. The women's husbands would take off from work to get in on that afternoon service. It wasn't long until we filled the building. We had a bigger crowd Wednesday afternoon than we did Wednesday night!

I proved my teaching gift. It worked. I started out by faith and kept going, and the building filled up in the afternoon. That proved the gift, didn't it? I began to do more and more teaching as a pastor until the ratio was probably about half teaching and half preaching. Now I seldom get the anointing to preach anymore. Thank God for that teaching anointing! It's a little different, but it's still the same Spirit who anoints you for whatever He calls you to do.

- KENNETH E. HAGIN ( understanding the Anointing)

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The Trucking Tango

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

The Inward Witness

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

THE INWARD WITNESS.

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my

conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost.

—Romans 9:1

The number one way the Spirit guides us is through the inward witness. Number two is by the inward voice. The inward man, who is a spirit man, has a voice—just as the outward man has a voice. We call this voice of the inward man conscience. We call this voice the still small

voice.

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Your spirit has a voice. Your spirit will speak to you.

In September 1966 we moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, from Garland, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. We had lived there 17 years. The move came about like this: My wife and I were in Tulsa on business. The ministry was growing and I had already figured out in my head what I would do with my office and home in Texas to accommodate the growth. But a friend with whom we were staying in Tulsa, said, "Brother Hagin, you ought to move to Tulsa. Brother T. L. Osborn's old office building is for sale. His business manager asked me to sell it for them. "Then he quoted their price. It was extremely low. But I was not interested.

Finally, he said, "Let's go look at it." I went along just to humor him.

The minute I stood inside that building a buzzer went off inside of me. (Sometimes that inward witness is so real it can almost sound like an inward "buzzer.") I knew as well as I knew my name, this is it! But I didn't want to

listen to it; I wanted to stay in Garland.

(That's why we don't hear a lot of times. We don't want to hear. We say we do, but we don't.)

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Back at our friend's home, my wife asked me about the building.

"Oh, no. I've already got it all figured out. We'll stay where we are. We'll turn our whole home into an office. And we'll just stay in Garland."

We went to bed that night, but I couldn't sleep. Ordinarily, I have no trouble sleeping. The Bible says,

"... he giveth his beloved sleep" (Ps. 127:2). I am His beloved. So are you. "... he hath made us accepted in the beloved'' (Eph. 1:6).

So I always claim the promise of God and say,

"Lord, I'm Your beloved. So I take You at Your Word. I thank You for sleep."

And I always go to sleep. But this time, I couldn't. My conscience was hurting. My conscience is the voice of my spirit. My spirit knows I didn't listen to it. Lying there quietly in the nighttime, I said,

"Lord, if you want me to move to Tulsa, I will. In the natural, I don't want to move there, but I wouldn't want to stand in Your way."

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Then on the inside of me I heard the still small voice. Now I'm not talking about the Spirit of God speaking.

When the Holy Spirit speaks it is more authoritative. The still small voice is the voice of our own spirit speaking. But our own spirit picks it up from the Holy Spirit who is in us.

That still small voice, that inward voice, not

authoritative, just something on the inside of me said, "I am going to give you that building."

I laughed. I know there is a lot of unbelief about this, but I said, "Okay. When you do, I'll believe it."

That inward voice, picking up on what the Holy Spirit was saying, said,

"You watch me."

Without going into all the details, it would surprise you how God gave us that building.

-Kenneth E Hagin ( How to be Led by the Spirit of God )

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