Day 11 Kenneth E. Hagin

Day 11  Kenneth E. Hagin

“And faith calls those things which be not as though they were!” Kenneth E. Hagin

Here brother Hagin is almost directly quoting from Romans 4:17.  It says, “As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.”  Here we see God speaking to Abraham and calling him a father of many nations, when in the natural reality of things, he didn't even have  a single child.  Not only that, Abraham and Sarah were nearly 100 years old!  God was speaking into existence what was not really there.  God was calling into being things that were not.

As I read things on the internet and hear from other ministers about doctrine and the things of God, I see many men of God who have a real problem with the idea what we as believers word’s play a part in prayers being answered.  I do not like extremes to much.  There are some extremes that we should all strive for, such as loving God in an extreme way.  We should be completely extreme in our dedication to live our lives for the glory of God.  

But there are some doctrinal truths and are truths, but when bent and twisted and stretched to far, they become lies.  When I see people preaching things that have obviously been stretched so far that they are no longer Biblical truth it really frustrates me.  My initial reaction is to want to preach hard against those things.  But as I want to do that, it is so easy to swing completely the other way to almost make up for their terrible error.  So much doctrine and teaching these days is based, not on the literal word of God, but it’s based on combating false teaching.  For instance if we hear some preacher preaching fire and brimstone and preaching only about the destruction of the wicked and God’s hatred for sin (with no additional teaching about God’s love and mercy), than we have people that will preach only about God’s love and mercy and totally forget that God is angry with sin and that sinners will face a terrible judgment in hell for eternity.  It can get all out of wack, all out of balance.  

So we hear some preacher saying some things that are stretched so far by false teaching that we close down and shut ourselves off to anything that even closely resembles that type of teaching.  I see this happen to many people concerning the gifts of the Spirit.  They see craziness and abuses and say, that’s it, it’s all of the devil.  So error closes them off the the genuine move of the Holy Spirit.

There is a reality that what brother Hagin is talking about is truth.  Faith always calls things which are not as though they were!  Saints of old would call this prevailing prayer.  It is when God places something on your heart that He is doing in your life that you know is happening.  We can know God’s answer to our prayers when we pray according to His will for our life, through the Bible.  What He has promised, we can expect to receive!  God doesn’t just say things to say them.  If God has promised us things in His word, than by faith we can reach hold of them and take them as our own.  

In order for us to do that, we have to be speaking the right things!  Can I just randomly speak something, and confess something if I don't really believe it?  Well I can confess it , sure, but nothing will happen.  I do believer our words are important.  Jesus said whats in our heart will come out of our mouths.  But I am not unrealistic either.  People say all the time to actors in a play, ‘break a leg out there tonight.‘  Should we be saying, whoa, whoa don’t say that your words will cause them to break their leg.  No way!  That is just silly.

However it is very true that true Bible faith will always speak God’s will and God’s word, no matter how many contrary circumstances there are!  I think one of the best prayers we can ask God for is to be closer with Him; to have more love and passion for Him!  That is a Bible promise we can stand on.  It says in Jeremiah 29:13, “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”   So we pray and ask God for more of Him.  A week goes by.  A friend asks us if we are grower closer to God.  If we are truly in faith are we going to say the opposite of what we are believing God for?  If we are in faith are we going to say, no actually I am not getting closer to God?  Absolutely not, we would be saying we don't believe in Gods word.  If we believe the Word that says if we seek God we will find Him, then to be saying the opposite just shows we do not have faith in Gods word.  

True faith always believes God’s word.  True faith will take a person to God in prayer and fellowship.  And as that faith fills the heart of a man, he will as a result speak what he is believing.  He will not speak doubt.  Even if all the world seems to be contradicting the word of God, the man who is faith will still call that which is not as though it will be!

Scripture of the day:  Romans 4:17-21

“As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.”He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not. 18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. 20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21 being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.”