Ken Hagin, Jr
"We with our mouth's control our destiny and control what happens to us. In proverbs it says that we live or die by our words."
(Kenneth Hagin, Jr., "Annointed To Speak Irresistable Words," CFaith.com)
"People frequently credit my father, Kenneth E. Hagin, with being the 'father' of the so-called faith movement. However, as he points out, it's nothing new; it's just the preaching of the simple ageless gospel. But he has had a great effect on many of the well-known ministers of today. Almost every major faith ministry of the United State has been influenced by his ministry."
"A poverty stricken student from Oral Roberts University attended my father's Tulsa seminars in the mid '60s and got turned onto the Word of God. The student was deeply in debt, but he desperately wanted my father's tapes. He offered to trade the title of his car for them. Buddy Harrison, my brother-in-law, was managing the ministry then. He took one look at the old car and told him, 'Just go ahead and take the tapes. Bring the money when you can.' So young Kenneth Copeland memorized those tapes and another great ministry was launched."
"Other people have gotten started because of my Dad's ministry. They'll even admit it. They have preached his sermons almost verbatim from his tapes. Ken Copeland did."
"They teach that it is only appropriate to pray "Lord, Thy will be done," because we can never know the will of God. Therefore, to pray for anything specific may be praying against the will of god. For example, these people teach that you may be praying for God to meet a financial need in your life, while God may want you to be poor. So they believe God may want to teach you something by allowing you to suffer with lack and poverty. Therefore, they say that if you pray for God to meet your financial needs, you could be praying against the will of God. According to this teaching, you can never pray about anything specific with any confidence. You can only pray, "Lord, Your will be done." And you can never know what God's will is because "God moves in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform." But one problem with this teaching is that people assume that whatever the outcome, it must be God's will!...Faith begins where the will of God is known, and if you know what His Word promises, then you know you can receive your specific petition. This is what the Bible teaches!"
(Ken Hagin Jr., "What Faith is Not," Article C-Faith)
"You may be doing something, but is it the right something? You're making the wrong move if you're speaking doubt and unbelief. And when you make the wrong move, God can't move. You've got to make the right move - that is, you've got to believe God and say what His Word says about your situation. You can't speak doubt and unbelief and expect to receive from God."
(Ken Hagin Jr., "Keep on Moving With God," Article C-Faith)
"Many saved, Spirit-filled people have heard teaching about the things of faith, but all they know is what the natural man says. They know all the "formulas" and all the faith confessions in their heads, but not in their hearts (or spirits), so it's not doing them any good to make those faith confessions...I believe in prosperity as strongly as anybody. I dress good; I drive good; I eat good; and I will continue to do so, because God's Word says so."
(Ken Hagin Jr., "How To Win the War Between Flesh and Spirit," Article C-Faith)
"Jesus Christ also left us an inheritance of healing. First Peter 2:24 says, "by whose [His] stripes ye were healed."
(Ken Hagin Jr., "Get Acquainted With God," Article C-Faith)
"That's why you see empty words with no power and no supernatural manifestations in so many churches. People are trying to understand God with the intellect."
(Ken Hagin Jr., "Get Acquainted With God," Article C-Faith)
Note: "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool," Isaiah 1:18. See also: 1 Peter 1:13, 3:15, Matthew 22:36-37, 1 Thessalonians 5:21, 1 Timothy 6:20, Malachi 3:18, 1 John 4:1, Acts 17:11.
"I'm tired of people who are sitting around doing nothing, getting spiritually fat and lazy until they become stagnant, sleeping on the church pew, hollering "Amen" every so often.
We have come to the place where people won't listen to anything except what their ears want to hear - and all they want to hear is faith. They don't want to hear anything about judgment, right living, the Second Coming, or other things in the Word of God. All they want to hear about is faith so they can live on some kind of an excited high that is false.
There are many people talking about faith who don't know what they're talking about, because they've never experienced it. They're mouthing words they heard somebody else say.
They'll hear somebody give a good testimony about how God gave them a new house, so they'll immediately say, "Oh, I confess one for me, too."
They're starting out wrong. They're basing their confession on somebody's testimony, not on the Word of God, so it isn't going to work. In other words, their confession of faith is based on somebody's experience that got them emotionally high; it's not based on the Word of God...
If you're going to be successful in life, you've got to learn how to be guided by the voice of God. However, not everybody who is running around saying, "God told me to do this" really heard from God. God is getting blamed for a lot of things He never did - and even the devil's getting blamed for things he wasn't directly responsible for!
Unfortunately, there are many in charismatic circles saying, "God told me to do this," and God really hasn't told them to do it. They're doing it because it's what they want to do, so they say God told them."
(Ken Hagin Jr., "How To Be A Success In Life," Article C-Faith)
