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The Believer’s Authority Have Faith in God // CRAIG W. HAGIN
Regarding Finances // KENNETH E. HAGIN Let Him Work Out the Details
Fighting the Good Fight of Faith
In First Timothy 6:12, the Apostle Paul told Timothy, “Fight the good fight of faith.” And for
as long as I can remember, my dad, Kenneth E. Hagin, taught me through example how to do
that. I remember times when I was growing up and things were tough financially. Sometimes
we didn’t have food in our kitchen cupboards. But never once did I see my father tell anyone
we were in need. He always trusted the Lord to meet our needs, and God always came through
for us.
Dad never quit fighting the good fight of faith, though he faced many hardships. We need to
cultivate that same kind of tenacity in our faith walk. When the enemy tries to put pressure
on us, we must look him square in the face and say, “Mr. Devil, we’ve just begun to fight!”
The great American naval officer John Paul Jones is credited with saying similar words
as he faced what seemed to be certain defeat during the Revolutionary War. During a major
sea battle, Jones’ ship sustained heavy damage and looked as if it would sink any minute.
Thinking his victory was assured, the British commander sent Jones the message, “Are you
ready to give up?”
But John Paul Jones sent back the courageous reply, “I have not yet begun to fight!”
Despite the damage inflicted on his ship, Jones went on to capture the British warship and
win the battle.
The devil will try to buffet us until it looks as though we are about
to sink. When this happens, we have to take a courageous stand
on God’s Word. Instead of giving up, we can raise our victory flag
high and say, “Devil, you can’t defeat us! We have not yet begun
to fight!”
The good fight of faith is the only fight God has called us to.
We can never take a vacation from that fight, because our enemy
never does. We won’t be able to let our guard down. Satan is always
prowling about, looking for someone to devour. But he does not
have to devour us!
The Lord once said to me, “If you learn how to follow Me,
troubles and afflictions . . . will only mean greater victo-
ries.” So let’s determine never to back down when the
devil attacks. When we stand strong, we will see some
of our greatest victories!
Kenneth W. Hagin
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Amanda King Kenneth W. Hagin
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Julie Snowden King David had more than his share of trouble. We can learn from his
Amber Warner example and discover how to always triumph in adversity.
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Finding
Strength
in
GOD
s long as we live on this earth, at one
time or another we are going to en-
counter trouble. Although adver-
sity comes to all of us, people react differently
to it. Some people try to solve the problem on
their own. Others look to friends or family
for help. Still others rely on the Lord. A good
example of someone who always triumphed in // KENNETH W. HAGIN
adversity is David. And by looking at his life,
we can learn how to come out of trouble victo-
riously every time.
David had more than his share of prob- David was deeply distressed when he real-
lems. King Saul was jealous of him and ized what had happened. And his men were so
repeatedly tried to kill him. On several occa- upset that they spoke of stoning him. David,
sions, David escaped death by hiding in the however, “. . . found strength in the Lord his
wilderness. One time David’s entire family God” (1 Sam. 30:6 NIV). The Amplified Bible
was kidnapped. He suffered the shame of says, “David encouraged and strengthened
adultery and murder. His son Amnon raped himself in the Lord his God.” And through the
his daughter Tamar. Two years later, David’s
Lord, the situation was turned around.
son Absalom killed Amnon because of what
This is only one example of how David
was done to Tamar. Absalom later tried to
looked to God in times of trouble. Every time
overthrow King David but was killed in battle.
he sought God, he was strengthened and
In many ways, David was not much differ-
ent from us. He experienced temptation, had found the answer to his problem. David wrote
a lot of problems, and was extremely grieved many of the psalms as he found strength in
by the things that were happening to him. God during troubled times.
But in spite of his shortcomings and difficul- When David was being pursued by Saul,
ties, he survived. The Lord called David a he wrote Psalm 59. When he was in prison in
man after His own heart (1 Sam. 13:14; Gath, he wrote Psalm 56. When David was
Acts 13:22). How could this be? Because David fleeing Absalom, he wrote Psalm 3. When he
constantly looked to God and relied on Him in was hiding in the wilderness of Judea, he
every situation. We see an example of this in wrote Psalm 63. Over and over, we see David
the Book of First Samuel. gain strength as he poured his heart out to
At this time in David’s life, he and his men God in a psalm.
had gone to live with the Philistines to escape David wrote these psalms when men were
King Saul. However, the Philistine army com- coming against him. However, as David direct-
manders didn’t trust David. They believed ed his thoughts toward God, he realized that
that David and his men would turn against mere men could not harm him.
them in the midst of a battle. David and his
men were ordered to leave. So they returned PSALM 56:3–4 (NIV)
to Ziklag where they were living. As David 3 When I am afraid, I will trust in you.
and his men approached Ziklag, they discov- 4 In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust;
ered that the Amalekites had kidnapped their I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do
wives and children and destroyed their town to me?
(see 1 Sam. 29:1–30:6).
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David began his day by singing about the power of God.
PSALM 59:16–17 (NIV)
16 But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will
sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in
times of trouble.
17 O my Strength, I sing praise to you; you, O God, are
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Through Jesus’ death on the Cross, believers have
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have that authority and then
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principalities and powers, he made a shew
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hear this, I am reminded of Mark 11:22 where the
Bible instructs us to “. . . Have faith in God.”
Although some Christians are saying and believing
the right thing, their faith really isn’t in God. They’ve
moved away from simple faith and trust in their
Heavenly Father, and they are trying to convince God
to move on their behalf because of the things they do
and say. They’ll make loud confessions and pray long
and hard. They’ll stomp and even do somersaults if
they have to. But what these Christians don’t realize
is that they have left God out of the picture. You can
make faith confessions and pray in your own strength
all day long. But it’s through God’s power that our an-
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According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, faith
means “unquestioning belief.” And having faith in God
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‘God, let this be a testimony . . .
thyroid. A virus might have attacked his
heart, Larry was told, or the thyroid could
have short-circuited his heart and caused
it to become enlarged. To get his physical
condition under control, Larry was given a
nuclear iodine pill that killed his thyroid.
Larry went from taking no medications
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and continued to take the medicine, but
he grew steadily worse. “I got to the point
where I could not eat or sleep, and I was lit-
erally wasting away. But during this whole
time my wife and I were crying out, ‘God,
let this be a testimony for You!’ ”
“You’ve had a heart attack, and you need to go The following month, Larry was re-
admitted to the hospital. More tests
to the emergency room immediately!” showed that he had now lost 88 percent
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of his heart muscle. The doctor told Larry
that he was losing his kidney and liver
hen his doctor told him those function and that he would probably need
words, Larry Bjorklund was a heart transplant.
floored. Larry had struggled Larry told the doctor, “Get me to where
sleeping for a few weeks—his lungs burn- I can eat and sleep. Then I’ll go home, turn
ing so intensely that he would wake up my face to the wall just like Hezekiah,
often throughout the night. His symptoms and I will get my healing” (see Isa. 38:1–8).
finally worsened to such a degree that he One month later, Larry found himself
had to see a doctor. in the hospital again. Doctors inserted
Upon receiving the news that he had a Swan-Ganz catheter into his heart to
had a heart attack, Larry and his wife, monitor its function and blood flow. They
Judy, drove to the emergency room. After placed a defibrillator next to his heart, be-
nine hours of tests, Larry was admitted to cause they were concerned his heart would
the hospital. The test results showed his go into arrhythmia. They also inserted a
heart was enlarged with one valve continu- Hickman catheter and connected it to an IV
ously open. pump to inject medication 24 hours a day.
“At this point, we were asking all kinds After being in the hospital for nine days,
of questions,” Larry said. “We wanted to Larry was told again he needed a heart
know how this happened and what caused transplant. After another series of tests,
it.” There was no heart disease on either Larry was told doctors wanted to put him
side of his family. Because Larry was other- on a transplant list immediately.
wise in excellent physical condition, he nev- “I had been confessing all along that
er would have suspected heart disease. “We the Lord is the strength of my heart, it
were already praying and believing for my shall not fail,” Larry said. “I did not have
complete healing,” he said. peace about being on a transplant list, so I
Larry was in the hospital for four days. asked if I could wait until I saw the doctor
After all the tests, he was told that he had face-to-face.”
lost 80 percent of his heart muscle function. With only 17 days until his next ap-
The doctor also found a goiter on Larry’s pointment, Larry prayed, “Okay, God, we
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for You!’
have 17 days. We need to be able to show thyroid medication. We will check again
them improvement.” in three months and adjust the meds ac-
Larry felt led to have a specific person cordingly.” They checked his thyroid three
pray for him. At the same time, he received months later and it continued to work
a prayer cloth from Kenneth Hagin perfectly.
Ministries. “From the moment I received Four months later, Larry went skiing
the cloth, I kept it with me all the time,” in Colorado with his wife and son. One
he said. “I wore shirts that had a pocket year after feeling the first symptoms, he
over my heart, and I would wear it over my was told by an internist, “I cannot wait
heart and at night put it under my pillow. until they do an echocardiogram on you.
This cloth was a point of focus to help me You have the
continue to stay in faith. I hung on to that heart of an
prayer cloth and kept the switch of faith athlete.” ‘I hung on to that prayer cloth
turned on.” and kept the switch of faith
At Larry’s next appointment, his wife
told the doctor she had seen a noticeable turned on.’
change in her husband and asked that his
heart be retested. The doctor said, “I would
test him if he was doing more exercise or
cutting the lawn, but he isn’t. So we’re not
going to test his heart right now.” The doc-
tor told Larry to go home and get ready for
K enneth H agin M inistries’
Winter Bible
the heart transplant.
Determined he wasn’t going to need a
heart transplant, Larry went home and im-
Seminar
mediately cut his lawn. “It was a chore just
to get the riding lawn mower out and cut a
little bit of the back yard,” he said. “Then
I got out the push mower just to prove I
could do it. I took the push mower to the
front and mowed for a short amount of Make Your Plans Now!
time, and I was totally spent. At least it
was a start. I did something. From that day
on, I started to walk some every day.” February 14–19, 2010
Larry had put action to his faith. Two On the RHEMA USA campus
months later, the doctors retested his heart.
Previously his heart had been working Visit www.rhema.org/wbs for more details
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been. The test showed it was working at
25 percent, to the amazement of his doctor.
“This just doesn’t happen,” the doctor said.
“It was too late. You needed to have a heart
transplant. This is not normal.”
Larry also scheduled an appointment
to see another doctor about his thyroid.
Again, his doctor was amazed. “We killed
your thyroid and now it is working per-
fectly,” she said. “I am taking you off the
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P A H P U R E D R R H “I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKING”
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