Kenneth E. Hagin, Prophet, Teacher, Healer

by Frederick Hoehn, copyright 2013, all rights reserved.

Chapter 1

By my calculations, Kenneth E. Hagin was born around 1917, with an incurable heart disease.  He could never run and play like the other little children.  He was always out of breath.  

Hagin never had a normal childhood.  

He told about one of his persecutors.  Hagin ambushed him and clobbered him with a piece of wood.  Hagin said, "I meant to kill him."

Someone might say, "That's not Christian behavior."  That's right, because God said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay says the Lord." (Rom 12:19, Lev 19:18, Deut 32:35)  Jews and Christians aren't supposed to avenge themselves.  

Unbelievers who avenge themselves are going against God's rules.  It's my understanding that Muslims avenge themselves, but God still says not to.  

Someone could say, "Well, in our religion it's OK to avenge yourself."  If that's what you say, then your religion is wrong in the sight of God, says God in his book, the Bible.    

But you see, Hagin was not yet a Christian at that time.  

As a teenager, Hagin became bedfast.  They had to bring him his food in bed.  They had to bathe him in bed.  

Five doctors told Hagin that the medical condition he had would kill him before age twenty one.  Medical science could do nothing for him.  Not the Mayo Clinic, or anyone else.    

So Hagin reasoned, "If medical science can't do anything for me, maybe I could get God to heal me."  

So he started reading the Bible, beginning with the New Testament.  

Somewhere along the line, Hagin's spirit left his body, and he went down, down, down to the gates of hell.  

Hagin wrote about this in a little book titled, "I Went to Hell."  

As Hagin was descending to hell, he prayed, "But God, I'm a member of (such and such a church)"  But, you see, church membership doesn't get you to heaven instead of hell.  

Jesus said, "You must be born again." (John chapter 3)  

When Hagin reached the gates of hell, a creature tried to come out and grab him to take him into hell.  

But God said something from heaven that shook hell, and Hagin's spirit went back up and into his body.  When Hagin got back into his body, he started praying a sinner's prayer, asking the Lord to save him, and accept him as a Christian.

So Hagin got born again, thank God.  

As Hagin was reading the New Testament, he got up to Mark 11:24, "When you pray, believe that you receive the things you ask for, and you shall have them."  

Hagin said, "That sounds like if I would pray and believe, I can be healed."  He wondered if that's what it meant.  

He tried to get an answer to that question from three preachers.  Two of them never showed up.  

The one that did show up wasn't patient enough to let Hagin get the question out.  He just told Hagin to stay ready to die.  

Hagin said later that it was probably good that he didn't get that preacher to answer the question because he found out that preacher didn't believe in divine healing, and might have talked him out of believing for his healing.  

Hagin had heard talk that healing had been done away with.  Not good for him if healing had been done away with.  

But the Lord helped Hagin by asking him a question.  The Lord said, "Did you ever notice in the Bible that the woman with the issue of blood got healed by her faith?" (The woman's bleeding wouldn't stop.)

Hagin said, "No, I never noticed that."  Hagin looked it up, and sure enough, the Lord had told the woman that her faith had healed her.  

Then the Lord asked Hagin, "Have you ever heard that faith has been done away with?"  Hagin said, "No, I've never heard that faith has been done away with."

Well, there was Hagin's answer.  If the woman's faith had healed her, and faith hasn't been done away with, THEN HEALING HASN'T BEEN DONE AWAY WITH.  

So, Hagin decided to believe for God to heal him, according to Mark 11:24.  It took about a year and four months from the time Hagin started seeking the Lord for healing to the time that he got his miraculous healing.  

The Lord also showed Hagin about that woman with the issue of blood that not only did she make a good confession, "If I can just touch the border of Jesus garment, I'll be healed," but also the woman put legs to her faith.  

She took corresponding action.  She went to where Jesus was, pushed through the crowd, and touched Jesus' garment.  

When she did, healing power went out of Jesus, and into the woman, and she was healed.  (Matt chapt 9)  

After about sixteen months, the Lord asked Hagin, "Well, do you really believe you're healed."

Hagin said, "Oh, yes Lord, I believe I'm healed," and quoted scripture like 1 Pet 2:24, "...by whose stripes you were healed."  

The Lord said, "Well what are you still doing in bed?  It's ten o'clock in the morning.  Well people are supposed to be up by ten o'clock in the morning."

So Hagin saw that it was time to put legs to his faith.  

Hagin pulled himself up with the bedstead.  He pushed one leg off the bed and it hit the floor like a chunk of wood.  He pushed the other leg of the bed, and same thing.  

All the time, the devil was telling him, "Healing's been done away with, you can't be healed." And, "Healing is for the Jews, you're not a Jew."

Hagin was screaming, "Healing is mine, I have it now.  Healing is mine."  Hagin was resisting the devil.  We are told to "Resist the devil, and he will run from you." in James 4:7.  

And then, Hagin said it felt like a jar of warm honey was poured on his head.  It ran all the way down to his feet, and Hagin was healed.  

Then, the Lord told Hagin, "Now go teach my people faith."  So Hagin taught faith for about seventy years.  

Hagin wrote nearly a hundred books.  His books are available at www.Rhema.org   Also CD's and DVD's.  

There is also a Kenneth W. Hagin (KWH), Hagin's son, but I think I get more out of the books of Kenneth E. Hagin (KEH).

Hagin got many people born again, and healed, and cast out demons from people.  

Hagin founded Rhema Bible Training Center in Broken Arrow, OK, near Tulsa.  

One of Hagin's books is titled, "I Believe in Visions."  It's a lot like reading the Bible, because it's about visions that the Lord gave Hagin, in which the Lord is teaching Hagin many things.  

Chapter 2

Hagin was interested in a young woman with the possibility of marrying her.  But the Lord gave Hagin a vision where she committed adultery with someone, so Hagin saw that she was not the one for him.  

It wasn't just a picture of something happening off in the distance.  The Lord put Hagin in the rear seat of the same car where the adultery was happening in the front seat.  

Young people ought to consult with the Lord about whom to marry.  And older people, too.  

Hagin had a friend, Norvel Hayes, whose mother had died of cancer when she was only thirty eight, and Norvel was about eleven.  His mother was a wonderful Christian who loved the Lord, and passed out tracts.

But Norvel became an orphan, and sort of got away from the Lord.  But later, after achieving some financial success, Norvel got closer to the Lord.  (Draw near to God, and he'll draw near to you, James 4:8)

It began to look like the Lord had some kind of public ministry for Norvel.  But Norvel still had some bitterness in his heart toward the Lord.  He said he prayed for three days about it.  

He prayed like this, "Lord, what do you want me to do?  Do you want me to stand up in front of people and tell them about you?  Why did you kill my mother with cancer?"  

Hayes said that on the third day, the Lord answered him.  The Lord said, "Son, I didn't kill your mother with cancer.  I had nothing to do with it.  The devil put those tumors in your mother's body, and your mother couldn't be healed because she had never been taught how to receive healing from God.  

Norvel's mother went to a church where they knew about Jesus the Savior, but they didn't know about Jesus the Healer.  

Brother Norvel's website is www.nhm.cc

You can be a wonderful Christian like Norvel's mother, but if you don't know anything about, or don't believe in divine healing, you can die of some disease. ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6)  

Psalm 103:3 tells us, "Who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases..."

This verse in Psalms tells us that not only is the Lord our Savior, the Lord is also our healer.  

Look at Exodus 15:26, "...for I am the Lord that heals you."  

Most people in their lifetimes will have some physical problems.  You can put your trust in the doctors, or you can learn to get your healings from God.  

If you know and believe the scriptures on divine healing, then you don't need medical insurance because you get your healing for yourself and your family from God.  But you'll have to apply faith.  

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.  (Rom 10:17)

Another way to increase your faith is by praying in unknown tongues, which you can do after Jesus baptizes you with the Holy Ghost. (Jude vs 20)

In discussing casting out demons with his disciples, Jesus showed that prayer and fasting increases faith. (Matt 17:20,21)

Also, Galatians tells us that faith works by love. (Gal 5:6)  

Doctors don't make house calls much anymore, but Jesus does.  And the Lord is a better doctor than any earthly doctor.  

And many people are believing the Bible and trusting the Lord for their healing.  That is why I say that Obamacare is unconstitutional, because it violates one's Constitutional right to Freedom of Religion.  

Consider Romans 8:2.  "For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death."  

Sickness comes from the curse of the law (Deut chapt 28)

Jesus has made us free of the curse.  

But Galatians 3:13,14  tells us that, "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree, so that the blessing of Abraham would come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ..."

You get it?   DEVINE HEALING BELONGS TO US IF WE'RE CHRISTIANS.    

No one has the right to force me to buy health insurance because the Lord is the Lord who heals me. (Ex 15:26) 

Someone might say, "But the Supreme Court has found Obamacare to be Constitutional."  

The Supreme Court heard arguments for and arguments against.  I rather think no one presented this argument against Obamacare to the Supreme Court.  

Too bad they didn't consult with someone who knows the Bible.  

The Supreme Court came to the wrong decision because Obamacare violates people's right to Freedom of Religion.  

I'm not trying to force people who don't believe in divine healing to convert to my religion.  But let no one try to force me to give up my right to Freedom of Religion.  I know that divine healing belongs to me as a Christian.  

What do they think, that because of a court decision I'm going to give up Jesus and going to heaven, and divine healing for my body?  

No, I'll stick with Jesus and the Bible, thank you.  

Does a court decision overturn the Constitution and its Amendments?  No, the Constitution and its Amendments will stand against that erroneous court decision.  

God himself will punish those who try to deprive me of my right to Freedom of Religion.  

I know that Obamacare is unconstitutional, whether the Supreme Court does or not.  My knowledge comes from God's word, the Bible.  Some people up there are ignorant of the Bible, and what God has to say on the subject.  That's not my fault.  

Kenneth E. Hagin had pastored at two churches.  But then the Lord told Hagin that He had never called Hagin to pastor, but to be a Teacher.  

He told Hagin to leave his pastorate and go out on the road.  Other Pastors would have Hagin come and teach at their churches.  

So, Hagin obeyed the Lord.  But after about a year of that, Hagin was poorer financially than when he had been a Pastor.  

So Hagin prayed for three days about his finances.  This is in a little book he wrote, "How God Taught me about Prosperity."  

Hagin had found a scripture in Isaiah 1:19 that said, "If you're willing and obedient, you'll eat the good of the land."  Hagin kept using that in his prayer to God about his finances.  

On the third day, the Lord answered him and showed Hagin how he wasn't really willing because of talking like some others who said, "I don't want any of this world's goods," thinking that you're more spiritual if you don't have much.  

So Hagin got willing right away.  The Lord also showed him how he hadn't been applying his faith to his finances.  

The Lord gave Hagin a plan.  The Lord said, "I don't want you to pray about finances anymore, not like you've been praying.  Here's what I want you to do:  1)  Claim whatever it is you want or need.  2)  Say, Satan, take your hands off my finances.  3)  Say, Go ministering spirits and cause the money to come."   

Hagin answered, "What do you mean, Go ministering spirits and cause the money to come?"

The Lord reminded Hagin about the ministering spirits in (the angels) Hebrews 1:14.  So, Hagin saw that he could give his angels assignments.  

He followed the Lord's plan, and started prospering.  He and his wife bought a house instead of renting.  

At one of his meetings, Kenneth E. Hagin cured a woman of lung cancer.  The Lord opened Hagin's eyes to see into the spirit world.  

The Apostle Paul speaks of things visible, and things invisible. (Col 1:16)  The spirit world is normally invisible.  

When God opened Hagin's eyes to see into the spirit world, he saw a demon in the area of the woman's chest (she had lung cancer).  He commanded the demon to go, the woman recovered, and lived another twenty years.  

Kenneth E. Hagin used to be one of the regular guest speakers when I was attending Lakewood Church in Houston, TX, in about '79 through '81.  

I've learned some from other Teachers, Pastors, and Preachers, but I think I've learned more from Kenneth E. Hagin than from any other man.  

I'll be looking him up when I get to heaven.  

___James chapter 1
 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are dispersed around, greetings.
 2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations,
 3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience.
 4 But let patience have its perfect work, so you'll be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives to all men liberally, and won't find fault, and it shall be given to him.
 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.  For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
 7 For let that man not think that he'll receive anything from the Lord.
 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
 9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,
 10 But the rich, in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he'll pass away.
 11 For the sun has no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes, so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
 12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for after he's been tested, he'll receive the crown of life, that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man,
 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
 15 Then when lust has conceived, it produces sin, and sin when it's finished, produces death.
 16 Do not err, my beloved brothers.
 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.
 18 He chose to father us with the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
 19 So, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
 20 For the anger of man doesn't accomplish the righteousness of God.
 21 So, lay apart all filthiness and the unnecessary naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man seeing his natural face in a mirror,
 24 For he sees himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
 25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
 26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is for nothing.
 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

___James chapter 2
 1 My brothers, don't have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
 2 For if a man with a gold ring comes to your assembly in fancy clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes comes in also,
 3 And you have respect to him that wears the fancy clothes, and say to him, "Sit here in a good place," and say to the poor, "Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,"
 4 Aren't you then partial in yourselves, and have become judges with evil thoughts?
 5 Listen, my beloved brothers, hasn't God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
 6 But you have despised the poor.  Don't rich men oppress you, and bring you before the judgment seats?
 7 Don't they blaspheme that worthy name by which you're called?
 8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor like yourself," you do well,
 9 But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as sinners.
 10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
 11 For he that said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not kill."  Now if you don't commit adultery, yet if you kill, you've become a breaker of the law.
 12 Speak in such a way, and do, as those who'll be judged by the law of liberty.
 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has shown no mercy, and mercy rejoices against judgment.
 14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man says he has faith, and doesn't have works?  Can faith save him?
 15 If a brother or sister needs clothes, and lacks daily food,
 16 And one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you don't give them the things that are needed for the body, what good is that?
 17 Even so faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead, being alone.
 18 Yes, a man could say, "You have faith, and I have works, show me your faith without your works, and I'll show you my faith by my works."
 19 You believe that there is one God, you do well, the devils also believe, and tremble.
 20 But don't you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
 21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar?
 22 Do you see how faith worked with his deeds, and by works faith was made perfect?
 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God."
 24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
 25 Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
 26 For like the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

___James chapter 3
 1 My brothers, don't be many masters, knowing that we'll receive the greater condemnation.
 2 For in many things we offend all.  If any man doesn't offend in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
 3 See, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so they'll obey us, and we turn around their whole bodies.
 4 Look also at the ships, which though they're so large, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they're turned around by a very small helm, wherever the captain wants.
 5 Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things.  See how great a matter a little fire kindles!
 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, so is the tongue among our members that it makes dirty the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire by hell.
 7 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of snakes, and of things in the sea, gets tamed, and has been tamed by mankind,
 8 But no man can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
 9 With it we bless God, the Father, and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.
 10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.  My brothers, these things ought not to be.
 11 Does a fountain send out at the same place sweet water and bitter?
 12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, produce olive berries?  Or a vine, figs?  So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.
 13 Who is a wise man, possessing knowledge among you?  Let him show out of a good lifestyle his works with meekness of wisdom.
 14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, don't glory, and don't lie against the truth.
 15 This wisdom doesn't descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be reasoned with, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those who make peace.

___James chapter 4
 1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from?  Don't they come from your lusts that war in your members?
 2 You lust, and don't have, you kill, and desire to have, and can't obtain, you fight and war, yet you don't have, because you don't ask.
 3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask wrongly, so you can consume it on your lusts.
 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God?  Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God.
 5 Do you think that the scripture says for nothing, "The spirit that lives in us lusts to envy?"
 6 But he gives more grace.  So he says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.  Resist the devil, and he'll run away from you.
 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.  Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded.
 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and cry, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he'll lift you up.
 11 Don't speak evil about each other, brothers.  He that speaks evil about his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil about the law, and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you're not a doer of the law, but a judge.
 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy, who are you that judges someone else?
 13 Go on now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we'll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and make a profit,"
 14 Actually, you don't know what will happen tomorrow.  For what is your life?  It is a puff of steam, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
 15 For you ought to say, "Lord willing, we'll live, and do this, or that."
 16 But now you rejoice in your boastings, all such rejoicing is evil.
 17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

___James chapter 5
 1 Go on now, you rich men, cry and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.
 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your clothes are moth eaten.
 3 Your gold and silver are rusted, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire.  You've heaped treasure together for the last days.
 4 See, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you've kept back by fraud, shouts, and the shouts of those who've reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.
 5 You've lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton, you've nourished your hearts, like in a day of slaughter.
 6 You've condemned and killed the just, and he doesn't resist you.
 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord.  See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.
 8 You also be patient.  Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is getting near.
 9 Don't grudge against each other, brothers, so you won't be condemned, see, the judge stands at the door.
 10 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who've spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
 11 See, we count them happy that endure.  You've heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
 12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, not by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and your no, no, so that you don't fall into condemnation.
 13 Is anyone among you afflicted?  Let him pray.  Is anyone merry?  Let him sing psalms.
 14 Is anyone sick among you?  Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he'll be forgiven.
 16 Confess your faults to each other, and pray for each other so you'll be healed.  The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is does a lot of good.
 17 Elijah was a man subject to the same kind of passions that we are, and he prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.
 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
 19 Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, and someone converts him,
 20 Let him know, that he that converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.