Excerpt from the pamphlet, Words, by Kenneth Hagin, Chapter 3, The Tongue of the Wise is Health, pages 23 & 24.
“Worry will kill you. More than one doctor has said to me (and I’ve read it in periodicals), “There are more people in mental institutions, and there are more people in the grave because of worry than any other one thing.”
What do people worry about? Circumstances. They worry about tomorrow. They worry about the things they face.
I’ve been tempted to worry about tomorrow and about things I knew I faced. But then I remembered what the Bible said is inside of me. I didn’t even have to pray about it. I just looked trouble and seeming impossibilities in the face, and I couldn’t help from laughing, praise God.”
1 John 4:4 KJV
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
From Chapter 3, page 25:
“Adverse circumstances are in the world. Seeming impossibilities are in the world. But I’m not of the world. I may be in the world, but I’m not of the world. My citizenship is in heaven, glory to God! And while I’m down here in the world, I have the GREATER ONE living in me. He is greater than he that is in the world. He will put me over. He will make me a success. Hallelujah, I cannot be defeated.”
Because Kenneth Hagin believed the benefits of the gospel as expressed in God’s Word with absolutely no doubt, he couldn’t help but laugh when confronted with adversities and impossibilities.
Excerpt from the pamphlet, Words, by Kenneth Hagin, Chapter 3, The Tongue of the Wise is Health, page 17:
“Did you ever notice that we are programmed wrong? (I’m talking from the natural standpoint.) We are programmed negatively.”
From page 20:
“Many people who think they are so separated from the world are sometimes the most worldly people of all. As I said, the whole world is programmed negatively, and if you are not careful, you will make the same mistake the world does. You see, the world without God is in spiritual death. They are programmed to death instead of life.”
Nehemiah 8:10 asserts, “The joy of the Lord is our strength.” But there is no strength in being predisposed to react negatively to adverse circumstances. Your negative, rather than confident, reaction releases a scent that reveals your spiritual status as prey to the one who seeks whom he may devour.
Example:
Jeanine Palazzi of Restoration Ranch of Arkansas, https://www.rroar.one/, was crushed when her four-wheeler rolled over her down a hill and crushed her pelvis and many bones. But she quoted God's promises and refused to submit to the painful trauma. The four-wheeler was upright and still running at the bottom of the hill. Although she was crushed, she stood up, climbed back on the machine and continued on her way to retrieve some horses. When she returned home, she placed frozen food on her body to reduce the pain but so relied upon Jesus, that she sought no medical help. I was later with her at a minister's conference, I could not detect any sign of injury. She gave her testimony at the conference. The conference is on YouTube: Holy Spirit Led Ministries.
Jeanine Palazzi Testimony starts at 35:55
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When I have pain in my hip, I do not go slowly and tenderly down the stairs. I exercise my faith. I palazzi down the stairs as though no pain existed!!
How you feel is the biggest red herring that the devil can drag across your path. It directs your attention away from God and causes your soul to churn upon the problem instead of the solution. This is why Peter began to sink after Jesus called him out of the boat. Peter turned his attention from Jesus to the boisterous wind and became afraid. How you react to trouble tells demons whether or not you are lunch.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 KJV
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Is the affliction light or heavy?
Death and life are in the power of the tongue and those that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
It has been shown that people who say their health is excellent, live longer and do better. We will be held accountable for every word because words create reality.
We overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. If your confession is that of illness, you will be music to the devil's ears who brought sickness upon you without authority to do so. Spoken complaint encourages the devil to increase your difficulty so that you will speak even more music to his ears.
You don't wait to see whether the fire goes out. Determined to win, you fight the fire until it goes out. You never ever cancel your faith by saying, "It isn't working." God already worked it. It has no choice if you give it no choice. It is pre-defeated by Jesus. He gave you the win if and only if you chose to believe He did.
-Paul Lowery
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