ARE YOU BELIEVING GOD FOR A HEALING, BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, A JOB, A MIRACLE, BREAKTHROUGH, SCHOLARSHIP, DELIVERANCE, PROTECTION, VICTORY, MARRIAGE, FINANCIAL BREAKTHROUGH, DIVINE PROVISION, SALVATION OF LOVED ONES OR ANY ANSWER FROM GOD?? THEN YOU MUST READ THIS! LONG BUT WORTH READING.. (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) Chapter 1 JESUS APPEARS TO ME One night as some friends were preparing to serve refreshments after a service in Phoenix, Arizona, I had an unusually strong urge from the Holy Spirit to pray. I have to pray. I must pray. I have got to pray now, I told my friends. Lets just all pray, then, they agreed.My knees had hardly touched the floor until I was in the Spirit. Do you know what it means to be in the Spirit? John was in the Spirit on the Lords day (Rev. 1:10). It seemed to me like I knelt in a white cloud as I began to speak in tongues.First the Lord showed me a detailed vision of a 72-year-old man who was going to be saved in the coming Sunday night service.Then the Lord Jesus Himself appeared to me. I saw him as clearly as I would see you. He stood within three feet of me. He discussed things concerning my ministry and finances, and He even discussed things concerning our United States government. All of these things came to pass just as He said they would. He concluded by exhorting me, Be faithful, and fulfill thy ministry, my son, for the time is short. This vision took place in December 1953. Jesus turned around to walk away, and I said, Dear Lord Jesus, before You go, may I please ask You a question?He retraced His steps, stood close to where I was kneeling, and said, You may.I said, Dear Lord, I have two sermons I preach concerning the woman who touched Your clothes and was healed when You were on earth. I received both of these sermons by inspiration. I preach them everywhere I go. And every time I preach them, I seem to be conscious in my spirit that the Holy Spirit is trying to get another sermon from this fifth chapter of Mark to me-a sermon that would complement the first two.Then, at times of prayer when I have a great anointing, I said, I will come to the place where it seems I am going to receive that message into my spirit, but somehow or other, I fail to. If I am right about this, I wish You would give me that sermon. He said, You are correct. My Spirit, the Holy Spirit, has endeavored to get another sermon into your spirit, but you have failed to pick it up. While I am here, I will do what you ask. I will give you that sermon outline. Now get your pencil and paper and write it down. I opened my eyes to ask for paper and pencil. I didnt see Jesus any longer; I saw the people who were praying with me. When I closed my eyes, there Jesus stood as before. This was a spiritual vision.There are three types of visions: (1) a spiritual vision, when you see with the eyes of your spirit; (2) a trance, when your physical senses are suspended, and you do not know, at that moment, that you have a body; and (3) what I call an open vision, the highest type of vision, when your physical senses are all intact. You are not in a trance. Your eyes are wide open, yet you see into the spirit realm. I am not smart enough to have figured all of this out. One time when Jesus appeared to me in a vision, He told me there are three kinds of visions. He explained them to me and proved them with Scriptures. But you do not have to accept this just because I said so. Do not accept anything anyone tells you just because they had a vision if it cannot be proven by the Word of God. If Jesus tells you anything-if the Spirit of God brings any revelation to you-it must be in line with the Bible, or it is not from the Spirit of God. Holy men of old wrote the Scripture as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:21), and the Holy Spirit is not going to contradict Himself, or make Himself out a liar. Jesus said, Write down:1, 2,3,4. With my eyes shut, I wrote down 1, 2, 3, 4. I knew the sermon had four points. He said, If anybody, anywhere, will take these four steps or put these four principles into operation, he will always receive whatever he wants from Me or from God the Father.I need to explain here that these four steps He gave me can be put into operation immediately, and you can receive anything in the present tense, such as salvation, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, healing for your body, spiritual victory, or finances. Anything that the Bible promises you now, you can receive now by taking these four steps.However, some things, such as some financial needs and the manifestation of some healings, etc., may take time to develop. Then the four steps become principles that you must put into practice over a period of time. (A farmer cannot go out tomorrow and start picking cotton or thrashing wheat until it has had time to grow.) But, thank God, whether they are steps to be taken immediately, or principles to be practiced over time, you can have what you say. You can write your own ticket with God. Jesus said, Step 1: Say it. It is so simple it almost seems foolish. Every one of the four steps is simple. After all, Jesus, in all of His preaching, never brought out anything very complicated. Did you ever notice that? He talked in terms that even the uneducated could understand, because few of the people He preached to had the advantage of an education. Jesus talked about vineyards and orchards, sheepfolds and shepherds. He illustrated spiritual verities in such a simple way that the common people could understand Him. God never gives anybody anything so complicated that it cannot be understood. If it comes from the Father, it will be clear, concise, and simple.We think sometimes that Jesus always initiated healings on His own; that the people had nothing to do with it. We may not stop to think that the people then, as now, had something to do with it; they had their part to play. What if the blind man had not washed the clay off his eyes in the pool of Siloam (John 9)? Would he have seen? No, he would not have seen. What about the man lying by the pool of Bethesda (John 5)? What if he had said, I cant get up! Did he have any part to play? Yes, he did! Jesus asked me this question: What was the first step the woman with the issue of blood took toward receiving her healing?The Bible says that someone had told her about Jesus (Mark 5:27). She knew about Jesus. She knew He was healing people. The 28th verse tells us, For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. That is the first thing she did: She said. In my vision, Jesus said, Positive or negative, it is up to the individual. According to what the individual says, that shall he receive.He said, This woman could have made a negative confession instead of a positive one, and that would have been what she received. She could have said, `Theres no use for me to go. Ive suffered so long. Twelve years Ive been sick. All the best doctors have given up on my case. Ive spent all of my living upon physicians. Im not better, but growing worse. I have nothing to live for. I might as well die. He said, If that had been what she said, that would have been what she received. But she did not speak negatively. She spoke pos-itively. For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. And it came to pass!For you can have what you say. You can write your own ticket with God. And the first step in writing your own ticket with God is: Say it. Chapter 2 YOUR VICTORIOUS CONFESSION You see, there are two parts to everything you receive from God: the part God plays and the part you play. God is not going to fail in doing His part. You know that. If you do your part, you can be sure of an answer and the victory. Now, if you are defeated, you are defeated with your own lips. You have defeated yourself. The Bible says in Proverbs 6:2, Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth. (Or, Thou art taken captive with the words of thy mouth.)One writer put it this way: You said that you could not, and the moment you said it, you were whipped. You said that you did not have faith, and doubt rose up like a giant, and bound you. You talked failure, and failure held you in bondage. If you talk about your trials, your diffi-culties, your lack of faith, your lack of money-your faith will shrivel and dry up. But, bless God, if you talk about the Word of God, your lovely Heavenly Father and what He can do-your faith will grow by leaps and bounds.If you confess sickness, it will develop sickness in your system. If you talk about your doubts and fears, they will grow and become stronger. If you confess lack of finances, it will stop the money from coming in. Although that may sound like a paradox, it is not. It is the truth. I have proven it true again and again. Chapter 3 ACCORDING TO YOUR ACTIONS Step 2: Do it. Jesus dictated to me during my vision, Your action defeats you or puts you over. According to your action, you receive or you are kept from receiving. That is important! Let me state it again: Your action defeats you or puts you over. According to your action, you receive or you are kept from receiving. This woman in Mark 5 had a number of obstacles to overcome. She did not pray that God would remove the obstacles; she just got up and walked over the top of them.A woman with an issue of blood was regarded in the same category as a leper and was not to mix in public, according to the teaching of her religion. But her actions said, Religion or no religion, Im going to get my healing.In that day, women did not have the privilege to mingle publicly. But again her actions said, Custom or no custom, Im going to get my healing.When she got there, a multitude of people crowded between her and Jesus. In her weakened physical condition, that would have been enough to cause her to give up. But, blessed be God, her actions said, Crowd or no crowd, Im getting to Jesus, and she elbowed her way through. This womans actions showed her faith. Now get up and walk on top of the obstacles that have been standing between you and Jesus, and you and healing. Put actions as well as words with your faith.It would not have done the woman with the issue of blood any good to have said, If I may touch but his clothes (v. 28) if she had not acted on what she said. She did it, praise God, and she received. Step 3: Receive it. Say it. Do it. Receive it. She felt in her body that she was healed of that plague (v. 29).Jesus said, Virtue has gone out of me. Somebody has touched me (v. 30). (Or as a marginal note reads, He said, Power has gone out of me.) I want you to notice something. Notice that the feeling and the healing followed the coming and the doing.The woman said it first. She came for it second. Then she received, and felt in her body that she was healed. Most people want the feeling and the healing first, before the saying and doing, but thats not how it works. You have to have the saying and action first. Then you will have the healing and feeling.Jesus said, Power has gone out of me. At that time, Jesus was the only representative of the Godhead at work on earth. He was anointed by the Holy Spirit. When He was on earth, if you wanted to go where the power was, you had to go where He was. In Luke 5:17, the Bible, says He was teaching on a certain day, and the Pharisees and doctors of the law from every town in Galilee and Judea were gathered to hear him. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them. Jesus delegated a certain amount of that power to the 12 and sent them out, and He delegated a certain amount to the 70 and sent them out. Then, before He went away, He said, 7s is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, she Comforter will not come unto you (John 16:7). When Jesus returned to heaven, He sent the third person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit, to this earth. The Holy Spirit is the only person of the Godhead at work on the earth today.Now, as Jesus said to me, Power is always present everywhere. Oh, if people could only realize that! He is everywhere! And wherever He is, there is power. The whole world is concerned about ra-dioactive material that is released when nuclear bombs are exploded in the atmosphere. This is a power that cannot be seen or felt, yet it is a power that is deadly and dangerous.There is a power at work on the earth today that is neither deadly nor dangerous-a good power, a power that heals, delivers, and sets free. And this unseen, unheard power-this supernatural power-is always present every-where. It is like plugging into an electrical outlet. If we can learn how to plug into this supernatural power, we can put it to work for us, and we can be healed. If every sick person in every sick room in the world just knew about this power and how to tap into it, it would heal them of every disease. If people in institutions only knew it, there is power right there in that room where they are: more than enough power to heal them, to cure the insane, to drive out demons, and to deliver those who are bound. If the power is there, you will ask, why isnt everyone healed? Lets return to this crowd where the sick woman pushed her way to Jesus.Daughter, Jesus said, try faith hash made thee whole (v. 34). There is a secret here. It was her faith that caused that power to flow out to her. Jesus said to me, Power is always present everywhere. Power to deliver from every sickness; power to deliver from every demon and everything that hurts or destroys. Faith gives it action. Now we know the secret. It is not a hidden secret. It may be a secret to some,but it has been revealed to us and to all who will listen.Jesus said, Who touched me? (v. 30), and the disciples replied, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? (v. 31). Many people touched Jesus that day; some through curiosity, some accidentally, and some to see if something would happen. But no power flowed until there came a touch of faith! The minute there was a touch of faith, the power flowed out.That day in 1934 when healing power enveloped my body and every symptom of distress, deficiency and physical wrongness was driven out of my body, I didnt realize what I was doing. I know now. I simply acted on Mark 11:23,24. I began to say, I believe God. I believe 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. Those were the only three things the doctors had told me. In case I missed something, I said, I believe I receive healing from the top of my head to the soles of my feet.I knew I was acting on those Scriptures, and that is faith. Faith is acting on Gods Word. Glory to God, I plugged into the power hose of heaven. I felt a warm glow strike me on the top of my head and ooze down over my body like somebody above me was pouring honey on me. It oozed over my head, down over my shoulders, down my arms, out to the ends of my fingers, and down my body. Feeling returned to the upper part of my body, where I had had per-haps 75 percent feeling. From my waist down, I felt nothing; I was dead. But when this power went down my body and out the ends of my toes, feeling returned, the paralysis disappeared and I found myself standing in the middle of the room with my hands uplifted, praising God. Im still healed after more than 55 years.Do you think God sent that healing power from heaven just that day? No! That power was in that room every day of those 16 months I was bedfast. Why didnt it do something? Because I hadnt turned the switch of faith on.Many have died waiting for healing to come ,o them, saying, I believe God is going to heal me sometime. That is an unscriptural state-ment and contains no faith. It will not work. People say, Brother Hagin, do you know why the Lord wont heal me? Sometimes I shock them by replying, God has already done all He is ever going to do about healing you.Their eyes get big. You mean Hes not going to heal me? I tell them, I didnt say that. I said that He has done all He is ever going to do about healing you. You see, He sent Jesus to earth nearly 2,000 years ago, and He laid your sickness and your disease on Jesus, and Jesus bore them away. Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses (Matt. 8:17). God already has done something about your sicknesses. Why wont you accept what He has done? God is not going to do anything about it, because He already has done something about it. He has done something about salvation, the Holy Spirit, healing, and deliverance from demons. It is now up to you to plug in. Faith is the plug, praise God. Just plug in. How do you plug in? Say it. Do it. Receive it. PART 2 COMING SOON! Kenneth E Hagin: How to write your own ticket with GOD.
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