Divine Healing

South AfricA 1985 regionAl cAmp meeting

At The Rhema BiBle institute
A Transcribed sermon by Kenneth e hagin
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Published by Rhema Ministries

Kenneth Hagin Ministries / Rhema

1025 West Kenosha
Broken Arrow, OK 74012

Primarily people are healed under two headings. There are subdivisions of these. However, these are
the two main methods. People get healed either by ::1. Their own faith in Gods Holy Word
2. Special manifestation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit
We believe in both of them. Faith begins when the will of God is known to a man. I cant produce a
manifestation of the Holy Ghost. Only the Holy Ghost can give that to you. I will yield to the Holy
Spirit and the gifts will be regulated by the Holy Spirit. But thank God I can teach you the Word.
Thats why I said to the woman Let God heal you and then die if you want to. There are people who
are standing in the healing line who are not ready to be healed. They dont get healed because they are
not ready to get healed. The problem is we dont have time. I dont have 6 months to stand by each
one of them and tutor them! So I pass by and move on to pray for the next person. I use to tell my
people Give me the same opportunity that you give the doctor and Ill get you healed every single time
and it wont cost you a penny. You go to the doctor and the doctor says to come back Wednesday and
you go on Wednesday and the doctor says to come back on Sunday. When you go on Sunday, the
doctor asks you to come back next Wednesday. Then come on Wednesday the doctor said come back
on Sunday. If you can give the same opportunity that you give the doctor to come to church every
Sunday and Wednesday, you cannot be sick. Why? Im putting Gods medicine in you. The word of
God in you carries His Life and its healing to all the sickness. Proverbs 4:20 22 says My son
attend to my words; incline thine ear to my sayings. Let them not depart from thine heart. For they
are life unto those that find them and healing to all their flesh.
As I told you folks are healed either by their own faith in Gods word or by supernatural
manifestation of the Holy Ghost. Thank God He does supernaturally manifest Himself.
1 Corinthians 12:7 says But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal
The Holy Spirit manifests Himself in these ways
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The word of wisdom

The word of knowledge
Discerning of spirits
Diverse kinds of tongues
Interpretation of tongues
Prophecy
Gift of special faith
Gifts of healings
Working of miracles

Dont confuse the special faith with the faith that every Christian has. Every Christian has the saving
faith, the general faith or Bible faith. This is different. For this faith you need special revelation
beyond what is written in the Bible. This is a very special gift.
The 11th verse reads But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man
severally as He will. Dividing the manifestations to every man as the Holy Spirit wills.
Smith Wigglesworth said when the gift of special faith is in manifestation you will know ahead of
time what God is going to do. Its like when Im ministering somebody just came by me and put a
cloak on me. I can feel it all over me. Most amazing things happen when that happens. One time there
were 4 ladies on wheel chairs and this manifestation took place. I pointed at one particular lady there
and told her In the name of Jesus rise up and walk and she just took off of the wheelchair and
started walking. The further she walked the better she walked and she finally walked perfectly. Now it
was not her faith and it was not my faith either! I didnt believe and she didnt believe either. I can tell
it because she said 3 days later to some of the workers I still cant believe it so it couldnt have
been her faith. If it were my faith I could have done the same thing with the rest of the 3 women in
wheelchairs. But I couldnt so I stopped. I could lay hands on them in faith and I can teach them the
word but I cant produce a manifestation.
In my first 12 years as a pastor only 2 or 3 were healed by the manifestations of the Holy Ghost and
yet they were all healed. One time when I was shopping with my wife, a visitor came to us and said
Theres a lady over here. Come and pray for her and lay your hands on her. She is desperate. Shes
in the last stages of terminal blood disease. But she believes that if you come and pray for her shell
be healed. So my wife and I went. I laid my hand on her forehead and my wife laid her hands on her
body. This woman was born again and a Spirit filled Christian. So we prayed in faith. I only said few
words and suddenly the word of the Lord came unto me. Its like somebody standing beside me and
the voice came to me from my right shoulder and said Dont pray! Dont lay hands on her! Get up!
Say to her thus saith the Lord you are well arise and walk Ive never had this experience before.
So I did and she got healed immediately. I never taught the word to her. It was a manifestation of the
Holy Ghost. Thank God He manifests himself.
Thats why I teach faith to my people so that they dont need to wait till the manifestation of the Holy
Ghost. If the Holy Spirit wants to manifest Himself, thats very well. Long time ago I was a Baptist
preacher. I got people healed as a Baptist. If you read my book Tongues youll read more about this.
Then at that time I didnt speak in tongues let alone didnt believe in tongues. What you are not up on
you are down on. Thats the nature of a man. When you cant you dont believe. Its very easy to
criticise the media. They dont know what we are talking about. They come to our churches and get
all kinds of impressions and repressions and obsessions and every kind of sessions. At that time
although I didnt speak in tongues I was saved. I laid hands on people and got people healed. But I
was always down on tongues at that time. I criticised them for that. That doesnt mean that I was a
bad person and neither does it mean that I wont get to heaven if I die. I was saved. I was walking on
the light ahead and when the light came I walked on in it and accepted the truth of tongues. But now
then after I received the left foot of fellowship from among the Baptist and came over among the
Pentecostals, I found out that in talking to Pentecostal full gospel pastors that I would say I was
getting more people healed. It was like a 5:1 ratio. It all happened when I started speaking in tongues.
I got out to myself the first day and I said to myself that Im going to speak in tongues and I got on
my knees and prayed in tongues for 5 hours and 45 minutes in tongues. At 5 hours and 30 minutes I
hit a gusher. You know what a gusher is? Thats what a lot of folks dont do. They dont speak in
tongues long enough to hit a gusher. Since being filled with the Holy Ghost I would begin to have
these manifestations, but at the same time I kept on teaching people the word as I always did and I got
more people healed by teaching them the word of God on the subject than those Pentecostals who
waited for the special manifestations or the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
I got married on a Friday night November the 25th 1938 and on Monday the 28th of November I
moved my belongings to my Father-in-laws little farm house. We started to pray at about 9.30 at
night. Ive been baptised in the Holy Ghost since April 1937 and this is November 1938. I havent one

single manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit except the word of knowledge which operated almost
constantly. Now my wife wasnt baptised in the Holy Ghost at that time and the word of the Lord
came to me saying Lay your hands on your wife and I will fill her with the Holy Ghost Now at this
time I was not used to be interrupted while I was praying and so I kept on praying without paying any
attention to that voice. I knew it was the Holy Spirit. Again I heard the voice saying Lay your hands
on your wife and I will fill her with the Holy Ghost I thought maybe if I dont pay attention to the
voice, it will go away. You see we Baptist have an extreme slow movement. Third time the voice
came to me Lay your hands on your wife and I will fill her with the Holy Ghost I said Dear Lord,
I dont think you believe that I will do that.. I mean right in this Methodist home of my Father-inLaw? So I prayed again and heard the voice again. Ive never done this before. I just reached my
right hand and laid it on her head. Never said anything. When I did she immediately raised both her
hands and started to speak in tongues. Never said anything in English. Spoke 1 hours in tongues
and sang 3 songs in tongues.
Here we need to learn something. People dont understand because they never read the Bible and
dont have the Holy Ghost to teach them. We need to learn something. We need to learn to flow with
the move of the Holy Spirit. Understand what He is doing and why He is doing certain things. Healing
belongs to us. God wants His people to walk in health. God wants His people not even to be sick. In
the last 51 years Ive never been sick except under two circumstances.
1. Acted stupid. Is anybody here who has not acted stupid? Raise your hand because I want to
put you to the top of my list so that I could pray for you for telling lies. Amen. First we act
stupid a lot of times acting stupid not listening to our wives. Wives ought to say Amen!
2. When I got out of the will of God.
Sometimes I can just get on for 5 to 7 years not knowing that Ive even got a body. No pains, fatigue
or anything. Everything single time I got attacked was when I got out of the will of God in the
ministry. When you get out of the will of God the faith principles wont work! And I would say Lord
Im sorry I missed my way somewhere..
Lets say someone is telling that hes been claiming his healing by faith for 19 years and never got
healed. From Johannesburg to Durban its 400 miles. Lets say a fellow got on a car from
Johannesburg and went to Durban and for 19 years he has not gotten there yet! You dont have to
have much intelligence to understand that you are on the wrong road. Same with healing. Why dont
these people have sense when it comes to spiritual things that they claim to have in the natural sense?
For 19 years? You have got to realise that you have missed your turn at some point. Stop and look at
the map! The Bible is your map. You know when you have missed your way when you hear that still
small voice from your inside. Every Christian has got it. Romans 8:14 says As many as are led by the
Spirit of God are the sons of God. Not one single time I had the voice from my right shoulder. No!
Always the inward witness when it comes to this. The strong voice as I told you before is a
manifestation. Ill tell you most church people wont know the Holy Spirit, even if they saw Him
coming on the street with a red hat on. They wouldnt recognise Him.
If you dont want to accept Gods word, I cant help you. Just forget it.
Both your physical health and prosperity is based on your spiritual prosperity. Why did the Lord say
to me Lay your hands on your wife and Ill fill her with the holy Ghost.? She was a Methodist. The
minute I laid my hand on her. Never instructed her, never said a word and never told what to believe
and what not to believe. The Holy Ghost came on her. One time my Mother-in-Law was on her way
to the hospital for a surgery. To remove a goitre on her neck. The Lord asked me to pray for her at
home and immediately the goitre was reduced to of its original size. Then the Lord spoke to me
and instructed me to ask her to come to church alter during the service and receive the Holy Ghost and
the healing shall be complete. Why didnt God healed her completely that time? That completion is
contingent upon her spiritual walk. Oh.. How many times Ive seen this..!

A 9 year old girl was once brought to me by her parents. She never walked a step in her life, never
said a word in her life and never eaten by herself. Always had to be fed. I laid my hands on her but
didnt seem to get any better. They put her in the car. Theyve come from 90 miles away and they
stopped by a fast food restaurant because they hadnt eaten. The mother would take something like a
little piece of a hamburger and put it in the childs mouth. Suddenly the girl cried Give me that!.
She had never spoken in her life. They brought her back the same week and she ran down the aisle of
our church. Gods my witness. She ran down the aisle and threw her arms around me and hugged me
and said I love you.. I love you.. Then I saw that girl couple of years later lose that healing because
her parents didnt walk on with God. Her daddy got with something with some old preachers. I dont
criticise anybody. I dont judge anybody. All the preachers are wrong and everybody is wrong and the
poor girl just lost her healing. Im convinced that the minute your pastor laid hands on you, your
healing begins.
Now my Mother-in-Law came to our church Wednesday night. She just walked up to the alter and fell
down. So when we came down to pray for her e found out that she was already speaking in tongues.
When she got up I checked for that goitre and it was gone. Now shes 90 years old and its still gone.
What is if she didnt do what God asked to do? Thats the reason many times thats the reason
healings are not completed though they began or though they dont begin sometimes. Because there is
a blockage there.

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