Heart To Heart

By Kenneth W. Hagin

My dad, Kenneth E. Hagin, ministered extensively during the healing revival that swept the United States during the 1950s. I remember hearing him say that it was easy to get people healed back then. He said it seemed as though healing was in the air.

However, Dad also noticed that many people who had received miraculous healings often lost their healing. And after the symptoms came back on them, they were usually worse off than before they were healed! That’s why my dad changed the way he ministered. Sure, he could have advertised healing revivals and filled large auditoriums.

But he knew that the people wouldn’t keep their healing. So he began holding smaller meetings where he could both minister to the sick and teach the people. In these smaller meetings, Dad often saw people who had been miraculously healed by notable healing evangelists but had lost their healing. He would take his time and teach them line upon line, precept upon precept. Not only did most of them get healed a second time, but they also knew how to keep their healing.

I remember hearing Dad say on more than one occasion, “No one can maintain a healingwhich has come as a result of another’s faith, gifts of the Spirit, and so on, unless his faith is developed through the Word of God to the point where he can maintain his own rights.”

And that’s one of the main reasons why Prayer and Healing School was started 30 years ago. We’ve simply provided a place where people can come and be built up in the Word concerning healing and learn how to stand against the devil’s attacks on their own.

Not much has changed since October 1, 1979. Oh, people have come and gone, but the same Word is being taught day in and day out. And people are getting healed and staying healed. Dad often said, “We’re going to be here until Jesus comes.” And ifJesus tarries His coming another 30 years, we’ll still be here teaching the same Word of healing.