You’re not going to receive any final deliverance or help without developing your own faith and your own prayer life.
I want you to call upon God. He will hear you. Praise God, He loves you. God doesn’t love one person any more than He loves another person; because “He’s no respector of persons” (Acts 10:34).
Many times people think, God will hear Brother Hagin pray, but He won’t hear me. Yes He will. He doesn’t like me any better than He loves you. He will hear your prayer just as quickly as He will mine. And He will answer your prayer just as quickly has He will mine. He’s your God just as much as He’s my God.
God doesn’t belong to me any more than He belongs to you. God doesn’t have any favorites.
We Shouldn’t Either
People should not do it, but I’ve seen people who have favorite children or grandchildren. A grandparent may give all his or her attention to this one child, excluding the others. This creates confusion and problems. It turns relatives away from one another.
But I want you to know that God doesn’t have any favorite children. Every one of us is His favorite! I want you to know you’re a favorite of His, glory to God, because of Jesus.
Here’s a confession for you to repeat out loud:
He is my Father.
He is my very own Father.
I am His very own child.
I am a favorite with my Father.
We are all favorites with Him.
He loves every one of us with the same love.
He will hear every one of us pray.
My Father loves me.
My Father hears me when I pray.
My Father answers
Oh, hallelujah, He is my Father.
He is my God.
Jesus is my Lord.
I am accepted in Jesus.
We preach and teach the Word of God from different directions, showing different methods of receiving healing, because it’s all in the Word. Sometimes I think we talk about laying on of hands so much that people think that’s all there is in the Bible. But that’s just part of the biblical teaching on healing.
Nobody laid hands on Hezekiah. As far as I know, nobody prayed for him!
Jesus Is The Healer, Not Man
From October 1979 through March 1982, I conducted daily Prayer and Healing School services on the Rhema campus. However, I did not personally pray for people every day. Some days I would have our staff of healing instructors minister to the people.
On day a couple drove down from Missouri to attend the services. I was here and spoke, but I didn’t lay hands on the sick that day. I asked the healing instructors to do it.
The woman was so disappointed. She went into a prayer room, and one of our instructors taught her that only the Lord does the healing. The woman, however, was crying. Her feelings were hurt because Brother Hagin hadn’t laid hands on her and prayed for her healing. And her husband was angry about it.
But the instructor prayed for the woman and cursed the massive tumor that was in her body. Afterwards, the couple drove back to Missouri.
Later the woman wrote and thanked the instructor. She said she had cried nearly all the way home – her husband was still mad – because Brother Hagin hadn’t laid hands on her.
She had been scheduled for surgery. When she returned to her physician, the tumor had disappeared – and Brother Hagin didn’t do it. So now the woman was very apologetic. Healing instructors, have faith too, praise God.
After all, the Bible doesn’t say, “These signs shall follow Brother Hagin. He’s the only one who will lay hands on the sick.” No, it says, “These signs shall follow them that believe” (Mark 16:17).
You see, Jesus is the Healer, not man.
Excerpt permission granted by Faith Library Publications
Rev. Hagin served in Christian ministry for nearly 70 years and was known as the "father of the modern faith movement." His teachings and books are filled with vivid stories that show God's power and truth working in his life and the lives of others.
Rev. Hagin was born on Aug. 20, 1917, in McKinney, Texas, a son of the late Lillie Viola Drake Hagin and Jess Hagin.
Rev. Hagin was sickly as a child, suffering from a deformed heart and an incurable blood disease. He was not expected to live and became bedfast at age 15. In April 1933 during a dramatic conversion experience, he reported dying three times in 10 minutes, each time seeing the horrors of hell and then returning to life.
In August of 1934, Rev. Hagin was miraculously healed, raised off a deathbed by the power of God and the revelation of faith in God's Word. Two years later, he preached his first sermon as pastor of a small community church in Roland, Texas.
In 1937, Rev. Hagin was baptized in the Holy Spirit and began ministering in Pentecostal churches. During the next 12 years he pastored five churches in Texas: in the cities of Tom Bean, Farmersville (twice), Talco, Greggton, and Van. In 1949, he began an itinerant ministry as a Bible teacher and evangelist.
During the next 14 years, Jesus appeared to Rev. Hagin eight times in visions that changed the course of his ministry. In 1966, he moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he opened a ministry office. That same year, he taught for the first time on radio—on KSKY in Dallas. In 1967, he began a regular radio broadcast that continues today as Faith Seminar of the Air. Teaching by his son, Rev. Kenneth W. Hagin, is also heard on the program.
In 1968, Rev. Hagin published the first issues of The Word of Faith magazine, which now has a monthly circulation of more than 250,000. The publishing outreach he founded, Faith Library Publications, has circulated more than 65 million copies of books by Rev. Hagin, Rev. Hagin Jr., and several other authors worldwide. Faith Library Publications also has produced more than 9 million audio teaching tapes and CDs.
Other outreaches of Kenneth Hagin Ministries include RHEMA Praise, a weekly television broadcast hosted by Rev. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Hagin; RHEMA Correspondence Bible School; RHEMA Alumni Association; RHEMA Ministerial Association International; RHEMA Supportive Ministries Association; the RHEMA Prayer and Healing Center; and a prison ministry.
In 1974, Rev. Hagin founded RHEMA Bible Training Center USA and in 1976 moved the school and ministry offices to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, where they remain. To date, RHEMA Bible Training Center USA has 23,000 alumni, and RHEMA Bible Training Centers have opened in 13 other nations: Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Romania, Samoa, Singapore, South Africa, and Thailand. Together, the 14 schools have more than 28,000 graduates worldwide.
RHEMA Bible Church, pastored by Rev. Hagin Jr., began holding services in October of 1985 on the RHEMA campus in Broken Arrow and has since grown to become a thriving congregation with more than 8,000 members.
Rev. Hagin's daughter and son-in-law, Pat Harrison and the late Doyle "Buddy" Harrison, founded Harrison House Publishers in 1975 and Faith Christian Fellowship International Church in 1977. Both organizations are based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Until shortly before his death in September 2003, Rev. Hagin continued to travel and teach throughout the United States and into Canada conducting All Faiths' Crusades and other special meetings.