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Faith Food Devotions

May 24

ONLY OUR DISEASES

He was despised and shunned by men; a man of pains, and acquainted with disease; and as one who hid his face from us was he despised, and we esteemed him not. But only our diseases did he bear himself, and our pains he carried: while we indeed esteemed him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Yet he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement for our peace was upon him; and through his bruises was healing granted to us. — ISAIAH 53:3-5 (Leeser)

I want to boldly state that it is not the will of God my Father that we should suffer from cancer and other dread diseases that bring pain and anguish. It is God’s will that we be healed!

How do I know? Because healing is provided for us under the New Covenant.

Isaiah chapter 53 gives us a graphic picture of the coming Messiah. This chapter deals with the disease and sin problems that confront the Church today.

God dealt with man’s body, as well as with his spirit and soul. God laid our iniquities and our sins upon Jesus — and Jesus bore them. God laid our diseases and our sicknesses upon Jesus — and Jesus bore them. Why? So that we might be free!

Confession:
Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, bore my sins and iniquities. So I don’t have to bear them. He also bore my diseases and pains. So I don’t have to bear them. Because of Jesus, I am free. By His stripes, I was healed!

Source: Faith Food Devotions by Kenneth E. Hagin. Excerpt permission granted by Faith Library Publications. Copyright ©️ 1988 RHEMA Bible Church AKA Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc. All rights reserved. Please visit www.faithlibrary.org for additional materials.

Health Food Devotions

May 24

Don’t Base Your Faith on What You Can See

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.—2 CORINTHIANS 4:18

I remember an Assembly of God woman down in east Texas who had double pneumonia. This was back in the late 1930s before miracle drugs. She just grew steadily worse. Of course, in those days, we didn’t have the hospitals we have today. Doctors made house calls at that time.

Well, the doctor came and did what he could do. The doctor told the husband that unless there was a change, she would not live past midnight that night The husband, who wasn’t saved, decided to call the church and ask if some Christians could go over to the house.

The pastor and several members went to the house. They anointed the woman with oil, laid hands on her, and prayed. Now she had been almost unconscious, but she came right out of it and began to laugh and sing in tongues. She sat up in bed and said, “I’m healed. I’m healed.”

The doctor who was expecting her to die that night came back to see her the next day. She was sitting up in bed talking. He listened to her lungs and said to the husband, “I don’t understand it. Her lungs seem to be just as bad as they were. Sometimes I’ve seen people revive right before they die. She’ll die soon.”

He came back the next day and said the same thing. For three days, she sat up in bed, laughed, and talked. She told everyone she met that she was healed. On the third day, every symptom she had disappeared.

Now what if she had based her faith on what she saw or felt—or on what the doctor said? She would have missed it. But she chose instead to believe the Word.

Confession:
I base my faith on what God says in His Word. I don’t base my faith on what I see, hear, or feel. Things in this sense realm are temporal and fleeting, but things in the spirit realm are eternal and everlasting.

Source: Health Food Devotions by Kenneth E. Hagin. Excerpt permission granted by Faith Library Publications. Copyright © 2002, 2007 RHEMA Bible Church AKA Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc. All rights reserved. Please visit www.faithlibrary.org for additional materials.

Faith Food Devotions

May 23

FORGIVENESS AND HEALING

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases. — PSALM 103:3

Disease came upon the children of Israel when they disobeyed the law. Forgiveness for their disobedience meant the healing of their diseases.

It was when the children of Israel took themselves out from under the protection of their covenant by wrongdoing that their distresses came (Ps. 107:11,17,18). But when they cried unto the Lord, “. . . he saveth them out of their distresses. He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions” (Ps. 107:19,20).

We have protection under our better covenant — but it is possible to take ourselves out from under the protection of our covenant.

Since I have known the truth of God’s Word concerning divine health and healing, the only time some physical disorder touched me was when I got out from under God’s protection. Now, I don’t mean I stole something or told a lie; I just wasn’t obeying God like I should have been. (Usually, I wasn’t ministering the way God said to minister.) Therefore, I got out from under the protection of the covenant and opened myself up to the enemy’s attacks. So I had to repent and get back in line. The moment I did, I was healed physically.

Confession:
God forgives iniquities. God heals diseases. He sent His Word and healed me. He delivered me from destruction.

Source: Faith Food Devotions by Kenneth E. Hagin. Excerpt permission granted by Faith Library Publications. Copyright ©️ 1988 RHEMA Bible Church AKA Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc. All rights reserved. Please visit www.faithlibrary.org for additional materials.

Health Food Devotions

May 23

Healing Must Be Received to Be Enjoyed

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.—MARK 11:24

My wife and I laid hands on Ruth. I could feel the life of God pouring out of me. My wife sensed it too. We could both sense that life pouring out of us into her. I said, “Ruth, there’s your healing. There’s your healing.” You see, I could administer the healing power to her, but I couldn’t accept it for her.

Spiritual things are just as real as material things are. Many people think that if you have something, you can just give it to another person. But, no, the other person must accept it. If he doesn’t, then he won’t have it. The same thing is true in the Spirit. And you can know when people take hold and when they don’t take hold.

My wife said, “There it is, Ruth.”

Ruth said, “All right, I accept it. I receive it.”

Instantly, Ruth’s body relaxed and straightened out. That’s when I saw that her hands were bleeding because her nails had dug into them as she clenched her fists in pain. She was instantly healed. And she never had another attack of appendicitis.

Every believer has the life of God abiding in him or her. It doesn’t just belong to the preacher. Now the reason you may feel the life of God pouring into another person’s body is, the life of God is in you. But it makes no difference whether there is a tangible manifestation of power or not. Whether you sense anything pouring out of you or not, if you go ahead and believe the Word of God, the healing will come into manifestation.

Confession:
Laying on of hands belongs to the whole Church. Laying on of hands belongs to me. I lay hands on the sick and they will recover whether I sense anything or not, because I believe the Word of God. The healing will come into manifestation.

Source: Health Food Devotions by Kenneth E. Hagin. Excerpt permission granted by Faith Library Publications. Copyright © 2002, 2007 RHEMA Bible Church AKA Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc. All rights reserved. Please visit www.faithlibrary.org for additional materials.

Health Food Devotions

May 22

Action Must Spring From Faith in Your Heart

The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.—PROVERBS 20:27

My wife spoke to my niece, Ruth, and said, “Ruth, you know you’re not our child. You don’t belong to us. We can’t make decisions for you. Also, you’re eighteen years old. You’re an adult now. You can make your own decisions. Don’t say, ‘I want to trust God’ just because Uncle Ken teaches divine healing. Don’t say that because you think that’s what we want you to do. What do you want to do from your heart?”

You have to get action from people’s hearts, not their heads. And it may take time to do this. People can mentally go along with you and say things, but their heart not be in it. And it won’t work.

So my wife asked Ruth, “What do you want to do?” Ruth insisted that she wanted to trust God.

Then I said, “All right, let’s get busy and get your healing or else go to the hospital.” I knew, you see, that her appendix could burst at any time. I knew we had to work fast.

Confession:
My spirit is the candle of the Lord. I listen to my spirit, not my head. And I respond from my spirit, not my head.

Source: Health Food Devotions by Kenneth E. Hagin. Excerpt permission granted by Faith Library Publications. Copyright © 2002, 2007 RHEMA Bible Church AKA Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc. All rights reserved. Please visit www.faithlibrary.org for additional materials.

Faith Food Devotions

May 22

GOD’S STAMP

He [God] brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. — PSALM 105:37

You can see from the Scriptures that it was God’s plan for everything connected with Israel to bear the stamp of prosperity and success. Furthermore, disease and sickness were not to be tolerated among them.

And so it should be with the Church. Everything connected with the Body of Christ, the New Testament Church, should bear the stamp of prosperity, success, healing, surplus, and health.

What God said concerning Israel, He said in so many words concerning the Church. Romans 1:16 says, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation . . . .” Scofield’s footnote on the word “salvation” states that the Greek and Hebrew words translated “salvation” imply the ideas of deliverance, safety, preservation, healing, and health (soundness). The Gospel of Jesus Christ, then, is the power of God unto deliverance. It is the power of God unto safety and preservation. It is the power of God unto healing and health.

Confession:
I am a child of God. I am a member of the Body of Christ. I bear the stamp of prosperity, success, healing, surplus, and health. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God unto deliverance, safety, preservation, healing, and health for me.

Source: Faith Food Devotions by Kenneth E. Hagin. Excerpt permission granted by Faith Library Publications. Copyright ©️ 1988 RHEMA Bible Church AKA Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc. All rights reserved. Please visit www.faithlibrary.org for additional materials.

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Faith Food Devotions

May 21

JOINT-HEIRS

The Spirit itself [Himself] beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ . . . . — ROMANS 8:16,17

Do you think the people who lived under the Old Covenant could be more blessed than those in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ?

Do you think the people who lived under the Old Covenant could be blessed financially, and be well and healed, but those in the Church couldn’t?

Do you think that the Church, the Body of Christ, the Body of the Son of God, the Body of the Beloved, would have to struggle through life poverty-stricken, emaciated, wasted away with starvation, sick and afflicted, singing, “Here I wander, like a beggar, through the heat and cold”?

Away with such ideas!

The Bible declares that we are joint-heirs with Christ! Sons of God! Children of God! In the Kingdom of God!

We’re not beggars! We’re new creatures.

We’re blessed above all people.

Confession:
The Holy Spirit Himself bears witness with my spirit that I am a child of God. God is my very own Father. I am His very own child. And since I am His child, then I am His heir. I am an heir of God — the Creator of the universe — and I am a joint-heir with Jesus Christ!

Source: Faith Food Devotions by Kenneth E. Hagin. Excerpt permission granted by Faith Library Publications. Copyright ©️ 1988 RHEMA Bible Church AKA Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc. All rights reserved. Please visit www.faithlibrary.org for additional materials.

Health Food Devotions

May 21

We Each Have Free Choice

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life. . . .—DEUTERONOMY 30:19

In September 1950, there was a meeting in Rockwall, Texas. On a Thursday night, my wife and I went, but my children and my niece Ruth, who was living with us at the time, went to their local church. When the service was over, we stayed and prayed at the altar.

I heard an automobile outside. It was in the street in front of the tent. I heard all four wheels spinning to a stop. I looked up and saw a young person, a friend of my niece’s, coming into the tent. He ran up to where I was kneeling at the altar and said, “Ruth had an attack of appendicitis. She fell off the pew at church. They prayed for her and then they took her home. Some of the Christians at the house prayed for her again. But she’s getting worse instead of better. She’s calling for you and your wife.”

We rushed to the house, went into the room, and saw her with her knees drawn up to her chest. She was writhing in pain and clenching her fists.

My wife and I knelt by the bed and I said, “Now Ruth, do you want to go to the hospital?” You see, a person can’t get healed just because you believe in divine healing. You cannot force your desires onto someone else. People have a will of their own. I said, “Ruth, if you want to, I’ll take you to the hospital emergency room.”

“No,” she said. “I want to be healed. I want to believe God.”

Confession:
I choose to believe God. But I cannot force my desires onto someone else. I must follow my heart and allow others to follow their heart.

Source: Health Food Devotions by Kenneth E. Hagin. Excerpt permission granted by Faith Library Publications. Copyright © 2002, 2007 RHEMA Bible Church AKA Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc. All rights reserved. Please visit www.faithlibrary.org for additional materials.

Faith Food Devotions

May 20

FOR MY BENEFIT

And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put [permit] none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee . . . . — DEUTERONOMY 7:13-15

“And he will love thee . . . .” Love thee! Love thee!

And put sickness upon you? And cause you to die when you’re a baby? And cause some of you to be stillborn, and some of you to be sick and crippled?

No! No! No! That’s not the Holy Scriptures!

“But that’s not for us today, Brother Hagin.”

Are you sure? First Corinthians is in the New Testament, isn’t it? Let’s look at First Corinthians 10:11 to see if divine health is for us: “Now all these things happened unto them [Israel] for ensamples [examples, types]: and they are written [Who are they written for — the Jews? No!] for OUR admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”

Glory! Deuteronomy 7:13-15 was written for my benefit. It was written for my admonition!

Confession:
(Make your own confession of Deuteronomy 7:13-15. The Lord loves me . . . He blesses me . . . He blesses my children . . . and so on).

Source: Faith Food Devotions by Kenneth E. Hagin. Excerpt permission granted by Faith Library Publications. Copyright ©️ 1988 RHEMA Bible Church AKA Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc. All rights reserved. Please visit www.faithlibrary.org for additional materials.