Kenneth E Hagin - Leaflet - Mountain Moving Faith Forgives

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mountainmoving faith: FORGIVES -by KENNETH HAGIN

MARK11:22-26

22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith In God.

23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto

this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the

sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that

those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shal l have

whatsoever he saith.

24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire,

when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have

them.

25 And when ye stand praying, forgi ve, if ye have aught

against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may

forgive you your trespasses.

26 But if ye do not forgive, neither wil l your Father which

is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

In this series of lessons, we are studying theseven most important things you should know

about faith. Before we begin the study inthis lesson of the fourth point, I will reviewthe first three.

1) This faithmountain moving faithisthe God kind of faith and every believer has ameasure of it.

2) The believer can increase his faith by(a) feeding on the Word of God, and (b) exercising his faith, putting it into action.

3) Faith is of the heart and not the head.On this point we want to remember this verysignificant fact: Faith will work in your heartwith doubt in your head.

And now we'll get down to the fourth pointwhich is: Faith will not work when there isan "unforgiveness" about you.

Notice that Jesus said, "And when ye standpraying, forgive.. . ." He made those marvelousstatements which are thrill ing, amazing, and

astounding: f irs t, "That whosoever shall say...and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believethat those things which he saith shall cometo pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith"(Verse 23), and then, "What things soever yedesire, when ye pray, believe that ye receivethem, and ye shall have them" (Verse 24).

(Part IV of the se ri es : TheMost Important ThingsYou ShouldKnow About Faith)

And those are marvelous statements, aren'tthey. No one has ever yet plumbed the depthof those statements. But yet, at the same time,at the same scene, and with the same breathJesua said, "And when ye stand praying, forgive. . . . " (Verse25).

If there is a spirit, or an air of "unforgive-ness" about you, then your faith won't work.Your prayers won'twork. Of all the statementsJesus made about faith (and you can read themin the four Gospels) this is the only hindranceHe ever mentioned. So therefore this onemust

be of primary importance. I always tel lpeople that if my prayers and my faith didn'twork, this would be the first place I'd look.

But I just never will permit anything into mymind at al l about anyone. I refuse to thinkanything evil or resentful about anyone. Nomatter what they do to me or what they sayabout me, I won't permit it to affect me. Isimplywon't permit that.

About three months after I had begun to pastormy first Full Gospel church, a lady in the congregation came by the parsonage one day andafter visiting awhile she said she had a question

she'd like to ask."I knowyou've only been here a short while,"

she began. "But you'vebeen here long enough^to find out some things, and I think you'llagree with what I'm about to say concerningmy mother. My mother and her sister andsome of the other members of her family havebeen in this church for 23 years. Now I'msure you'll agree that there's not any morefaithful Christians than Mama and some of therest of her family. They never miss a service.You've seen how faithful they've been these fourmonths and they've been just that consistentover a 23 year per iod. They never fail to titheand support the church."

I agreed with what she said. And then too,her mother was averyspiritualwoman.Variousgifts of the Spirit were in manifestation inher life at times. I pastored nearly 12 years

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and have been in the ministry 40 years, and tobe perfectly honest with you in many waysI sti ll consider this woman's mother to be one ofthe most spiritual, most gifted persons I everpastored. I believe I saw more manifestationsof the Spirit in her life than in most peopleI've met, including about 8 out of 10 preachers.She was averydedicated, consecrated, separatedwomanunto God.

"Now," she continued, "youdon'tknowanyonein myhusband's family besides him. His motherwent home to be with Jesus and some of the

res t of the family moved away before youcame here. But my husband's family (the"M" family) has been in this church tooover aperiodof 23 years."

She went on to tell how her family, the "H"family, was faithful, dedicated, consecrated andseparated. And that her husband's family, the"M" family were good people, saved and filledwith the Spirit, all right, but theywerethe mostunfaithful people you'dever seen. You couldn'tdepend on them for anything when it came to

church work. They might not evenshow up fora service in three or fourweeks. And when they

did come they didn't give anything to supportthe church. You just couldn't depend on them.About the time you thought they were going toget in and reall y go all out, then theywouldgetout and wouldn't come for a while. And thenabout the time you thought theywouldnever beback, here they'd come.

"Now, I'm getting to my question," she said."In this 23 year period if anybody in our familyever got healed, I don't know it . We ' re the oneswho always wind up going to the hospital,being operated on, or dying. But now in this'M ' family, over the same 23 year period if

any one of them ever failed to get healed I don'tknow it . Now can you explain that to me?"

Well, I first told her that I wouldn't knowspecificallywhy one person gets healed and another one doesn't unless God revealed it tome. And that He hadn't revealed it to me.

Now let me give you a litt le side thought onthat. Once when the Lord appeared to me in avision, I asked Him about a loved one ofmine who failed to receive healing and had tohave a very serious operation. TheLord hadappeared to me to talk with me about somethingelse and then I asked Him why this loved one(I'd prayed so earnestly and used all the faithI had) had to have this operation. Why didn't

this born again, Spirit-filled, consecrated, dedicatedChristian receive healing?

And in the vision the Lord saidtojne, "That'sbetween that person and Me. It isn't any of

your business." He was just that plain about it.(You see, we 'realways trying to tend to somebody else's business.) He said to me, "Didn'tyou ever read in myWord that the secret thingsbelong unto the Lord, but those things whichare revealed belong unto us and to our childrenfor ever?"

"Yes, Lord," I said. "That is Deuteronomy29:29. I've read it."

"Al l right," He said, "That's a secret between that person and Me . If I'd wanted you toknow I wouldhave told you. If I didn't tell you,don't even think about it . Don'teven touch it inthought life. But what is revealed to you, youpreach. Go ahead and preach healingjust likeyou are preaching it. It's right. However,ifpeople don't get healed, don't even think aboutit . Don't even touch it in thought life. It isnone of your business. Youare not healing themanyway, you're just preaching it." That's whatHe told me to do, and that's what Iwilldo.

Now back to this woman's question, I saidto her, "Sister, I wouldn't know specificallywhy this 'H' family never receivedhealing and

the 'M' family always received healing unlessthe Lord revealed it to me. However, withoutany specific revelation on it, I do know somegeneral rules that are laid down in God'sWord.And without knowing your husband's family, Iwould say this, that this 'M' family had twooutstanding character ist ics. Fir st, I wouldsay that they were quick to repent and to forgive. And secondly, that they were quick tobelieve."

I remember thather eyes got asbigas saucersalmost. And she said, "Why, Brother Hagin,you'vehit the nail right on the head."

"No, I didn't hit the nail on the head. The Bibledid. God did in HisWord. I gotthatout of theWord." (I got it right out of this portion of the_Scripture we are using for our text.)

"You know, Brother Hagin," she said, "Ibelieve they were the quickest people I'veeverseen in my life to forgive. And if they eventhought they had hurt or offended you in anyway, they would repent and ask you to forgivethem, and they thoroughly meant it. And Ibelieve they could be out of church the longest,and then come to church and get in the altarand repent the fastest, and believe God the

quickest of anyone I've ever seen. And theycould get blessed the most...

"But now, you take Mama and us. It 's surehard on us to forgive. We wouldn't hardly forgive anybody. That 's just sort of our naturalmake-up. It's just anaturalcharacteristic with

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our whole family. We 're just that way. Oh,we know we have to forgive eventually becausethe Bible says to, but we hold out as lon- aswe can.

"And when it oomes to believing, it's thehardest thing in the world for us to believeanything."

Well, she'd answered her own question.

Jesus said, "When you stand praying, forgive."

"Yeah, but I just can't do it . Ican't do it,"some will say.

One lady said to me, "Brother Hagin, Ijustwish you'd cast this old unforgiving spirit outof me. I' ve got something against a ladyhere at the church and I' ve tried and tried andI can't forgive her. I just don't seem to havethe ability to forgive."

"Well," I asked her, "do you ever have to

forgive your husband for anything?"

"Oh, yesf she said, "I have to forgive himand he has to forgive me."

"You can forgive your husband then?""Yes .""Well, I thought you couldn't forgive."

Then she laughed and said, "You know Ican, can't I?"

"Certainly, if you can forgive one person,you can forgive another."

She saw it and said, " I can. I do. That 's it. "

And it is just that simple. We complicatematters a lot of times, friends. Jesus said,"When yestandpraying, forgive." So thereforethat means that we can forgive. He didn'task us to do something we can't do, did He?No. If He asked us to do something we couldn'tdo. He would be unjust.

You see, a lot of times peoplejust don't want

to go to the trouble to do something. Theywant somebody else to get it for them, or doit for them, when it 's their responsibili ty.

A minister's wife said to me, "Brother Hagin,since hearing you preach and teach I'm confused.You've gotten me all confused."

But I hadn't gotten her confused. She wasconfused before I came there. The light ofGod's Word just showed it up. You know youcan take a flashlight and go into a basementor attic which has been closed up with junkaccumulated in it, and there will be dust anddirt and junk there. But you don't say, "Mylook what that flashlight has done." No, it wasthere all the time. The flashlight didn't do it.It was there before the flashlight got there.She was confused before I got there and thelightof God'sWord just showed it up.

"I 'm just in an awful shape," she said. "I

can't forgive my mother-in-law. Ijusthateher."(You know that's an old proverbial question,

thatmother-in-law question.)She said, "You used thatScripture, 'Whoso

ever hateth his brother is a murderer: andye know that no murderer hath eternal lifeabiding in him' (1 John 3:15), so I don't evenknow whether I am saved or not because Ihatemy mother-in-law."

Well, I just let her get in a litt le deeperbefore I got her out.

"My, I'm just in an awful shape," she went on.

"I 've got an unforgiving spirit about me and Ijustcan't forgive her. I'm in an awful shape."

Well I had met the family and I couldunderstand why some things were like they were.Her husband was the only boy in his family.He had two or three si sters. His daddy diedwhen he was just a littlehoyT five or^six yearsold. And this mother and these sisters hadraised this boy. All these women had sort ofrun him and then when he got married hiswife wanted to run him and tel l him what to do.There was a conflict. Now he's married andhis wife is wanting to tell him what to do

but his mother is still wanting to tell him whatto do. He's between the rock and the hardplace. So I could understand the situation.

But I also knew thatthis wife was saved andfilled with the Spirit within her heart, herspirit. And that she was just letting the devilthrough her mind and flesh -dominate- her."

She and her husband and my wife and Iwent out after church for a sandwich. As wesat in the restaurant I said to her, after Isaw that she had gotten to the place where shebegan to doubt whether she'd ever had anythingfromGod or not, "Lookme right in the eye and

say out loud, ' I hate my mother-in-law.' Andwhen you do, check up on the inside of you, inyour spir it, (for the Bible says that the loveof God has been shed abroad in our hearts,not in our heads) and tell me what is going oninside you."

So she looked me right in the face and said," I hate my mother-in-law."

Then I asked her, "What happened on theinside?"

She said, "There's something scratching medown there."

"Yes , Iknow," I said."Yousee, there is something on the inside of you trying to get yourattention. Because the love of God that is inyou wants to dominate you and you are lettingyour mind dominateit's all in your head. Fromyour heart you love everybody, don't you?"

"Yes , " she exclaimed, "I believe that I do!"

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"But in your mind," I said, "you've let alltherse things build up."

"What am Igoingto do?""Act in love," I said. "Let your heart

dominate younot your head."

A few nights later she phoned mywife at themotel. "Would you come out to the house afterthe servi ce tonight. I' ve invited myhusband'smother and his twosisters and theirhusbands."

Now previously she wouldn't have anything todowith them.

We went and had a splendid time. After awhile she came around and whispered to me ,

"You were exactly right. It was in my heartall the time. I was just letting my head dominate me. And I wouldn't have anything muchto do with them because I resented them."

Actually the man's mother was a whole lotthe same way. She was saved and filled withthe Spirit all right, but she was letting thenatural dominate her . Sometimes if you've

just got one boy, you know, there are somemothers who think that there is no girl in allthe world good enough for myboy,and they don'tmind expressing themselves sometimes. And"thaTrdoesn't help mattersout you know.

"But," she went on, "I 've found out that theyare very lovelypeople and Iwasjustall wrong."

Now there is a sequel tothis story that willhelp you. This couple had adopted a little girl.Whenthey took her as a baby she was physicallyperfect as far as doctors could ascertain. Butat about the age of two-and-a-half she began tohave some kind of spells later diagnosed asepilepsy. One of the leading specialists on theWest Coast said that he 'd never seen a worsecase.

Well, at the time of this incident, the childwas on medication. She sti ll had seizures ,

but they wouldn't be as bad. Her mother wantedher to receive healing and she was prayed for.Now, not because someone told her to do sobut because it was her faith she was acting on,she seemed to be led to take her daughter offthe medication. And she was doing fine. Shewent for days with no symptoms whatsoever.

But one day the mother called us. We hadknown these ministers before and they werepretty close to us. "Please come," she cried."My daughter is having a spell ." (Before themain epileptic seizure there was a preliminary

attack with symptoms which could be seen.)

On the wayover to her house the Lord spoketo me and said, "Don't pray. Don't pray atall. Tell her that in the Old Testament Godtold Israelthatiftheywouldkeep Hisstatutes andcommandments, ' . . . I will take sickness away

from the midst of thee.. .the number of thy daysI will fulfil' (Ex. 23: 25-26). Translate thatover under the new covenant for her and tellher that the New Testament has only onecommandment."

You see Jesus said in John 13:34-35, "A newcommandment I give unto you, That ye loveone another; as I have loved you, that ye alsolove one another. By this shall all men knowthat ye are my disc iples, if ye have loveoneto another."

"Oh," someone has said, "do you mean wedon't have to keep the Ten Commandments?"

Well, the new commandment is love. If youlove me no one has to say to you, "Thou shaltnot lie on Brother Hagin." If you love me,you're not going to lie on me. And if you loveme, you aren't going to steal from me. Ifyou walk in the law of love, you'll never violateany rule that was given to curb sin. You don'thave to worry about any other commandments.It's just that simple. Jesus said, "Igiveyou anew commandment." And what is that newcommandment? That you love one another!And John said, "We knowthatwe have passedfrom death unto life, because we love the

brethren..." (1John 3:14).And in that car on the wayover to her house

Jesus said to me, through the Spirit, "Translate that over under the new covenant and tellher, 'If you'll keep my commandment of loveI ' l l take sickness away from your midst andthe number of your days you shall fulfill."

And so I told her . I said to her, "We're notgoing to pray. You're walking in love now.You've gotten all this straightened out betweenyou and your mother-in-law and your si ste rs-in-law, and you're walking in love. And thechild is not going to have an attack. As long

as you walk in love there will be no sicknesshere."

While we were yet talking the preliminarysymptoms left her! We stayed inthatmeetingthree more weeks and she had no more attacks.

Five years later we saw thefamilyagain whenthe little girl was around 9 years old. Nowwhen she had had these attacks between two-and-a-half and four, she had seemed almost retarded. Her coordination was not right. Hereyes were dull. But when we vis ited in theirhome five years later and saw this little girlat 9, she was making the highest grades in her

classstraight A's on everything. Her eyeswere bright and she was lively and full of life.We asked her mother if she had ever had another attack.

"Never," she replied. | |

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