Quotes from Kenneth E. Hagin

Smith Wigglesworth said once that there is something about faith that will cause God to pass over a million people just to get to one person who is in faith. You see, the cry of faith will bring God on the scene. The cry of faith invokes a blessing. The word "invoke" means to call forth, to put into operation, or to bring about.

Jesus is talking about how you as an individual can receive the desires of your heart. Many times, people read something else into Mark 11:24. They think God might answer their prayer if it's His will. Well, it must have been His will to answer their prayers or Jesus never would have said to ask!

So I'm paying my tithes because I love You. And I love the church, and I want to see it go forward and succeed.

That's why I'm paying tithes and giving offerings. And I expect You to honor Your Word, and I thank You for doing it. You said, "Them that honor Me, I'll honor.

I know from experience, dear friends, if you're going to walk in health, you're going to have to walk in love and pray for those who persecute you and despitefully use you. Pray for them: That's the best way in the world to overcome the problem.

the scriptures... when properly examined and rightly divided, do not portray Jesus as a poverty-stricken individual. On the contrary, Jesus is seen as a Man whose needs were met and who was regularly involved in meeting the needs of others.

Notice the Scripture says, "Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing." If they "rail" on you, don't rail on them, "but contrariwise blessing." Blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing.

Proverbs 3:9 says, "Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase." He said, "Them that honor Me, I'll honor" (1 Sam. 2:30).

1 JOHN 4:4 4 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.

Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3).

what was Abraham's blessing. Well, we know it was a threefold blessing. First, God promised Abraham that He was going to make him rich (Gen. 12:2,3; 13:2).

The majority of Christians—though sincere—are weak. This is because they never really dared confess what God's Word says about them. They have never dared confess that they are what the Bible says they are—that they are who the Bible says they are—and that they have what the Bible says they have.

believe and exercise my spiritual authority in the area of finances.

The Lord said to me, "Don't pray about money like you have been. Whatever you need, claim it in Jesus' Name. And then you say, 'Satan, take your hands off my money.' And then say, 'Go, ministering spirits, and cause the money to come.

You see, you can't always go by what it looks like. There always comes a test to your faith. The trial of your faith, the Bible said, is more precious than gold.

The love of money is the root of all evil. It is not wrong to have money; it is wrong for money to have you. It is wrong for money to be your master.

Isaiah 1:19 says, "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land." But we sure weren't eating the good of the land!

Now notice Proverbs 6:2. In the margin of my Bible, that verse reads, "Thou art taken captive with the words of thy mouth." In other words, you said the wrong thing, and as a result, you were taken captive.

You see, for the Word to work for you, it's got to be both in your mouth and in your heart. It can't just be in your mouth.

Faith that receives the promises of God will only work by believing and saying.

If you're saved, you already have that spirit of faith.

Since we have that spirit of faith, we ought to speak the things we believe. Never talk failure.

You should constantly be confessing who you are. On no, not who you are physically—the son or daughter of John Doe who lives on such-and-such street. No! But who you are according to the Word of God. That's the confession we're to hold fast to.

If you talk about sickness, it will develop sickness in your system. If you talk about your doubts, your doubts will become stronger, and they will destroy your faith. If you talk about your lack of finances, it will stop the money from coming in.