Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
(Heb. 10:35)
After I said that to Margene’s mother, my wife would say, “I wonder what happened to Margene’s mother?”
I would always answer, “I’ll tell you exactly what happened to her. She was healed. Her mind was restored.”
She would say, “Well, we haven’t heard anything.”
I would say, “I don’t have to hear anything. I spoke it. That’s it. That’s all I need.”
About a month after I spoke with Margene and her mother, my wife received a letter from Margene. It read, “Brother and Sister Hagin, I would like to come down and have you all pray with me about something, if that’s all right with you.” So my wife wrote back and told her to come.
Margene didn’t say anything about her mother in the letter. When she drove up in front of the parsonage, we went out there to greet her. My wife and I both said at the same time, “What ever happened to your mother?”
She said, “Brother and Sister Hagin, let me tell you. I took her home, and the next day she wasn’t any better. The third day at 3:00 p.m., we were in the living room in my house, and, all of a sudden, her mind was all right. It happened in an instant! She got down on her knees and wanted me to pray with her. The Lord saved her and filled her with the Holy Ghost!
“Then, my dad, who also lives with us, got saved and filled with the Holy Ghost. He had claimed that he was an infidel, but when he saw what God had done for Mama, he got down on his knees and said to me, ‘Put your hand on my head and pray.’ God saved Dad and filled him with the Holy Ghost too!”
Later, Margene’s mom and dad lived in their own house. Her mama began doing all the housework and the cooking. Years later, they were both in good health. They were in church every Sunday morning and every Sunday night. They paid their tithes and supported the house of God.
Confession:
I cast not away my confidence, for it hath great recompense of reward!
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.