How to Be a Success in Life by Kenneth Hagin Jr

Author:Kenneth Hagin Jr. [Hagin, Kenneth Jr.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-01-03T16:45:52+00:00

Chapter 4

PRACTICE THE WORD

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.

As I state in my book Itching Ears, 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.

James says, "For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was" (James 1:23,24).

That's a good description of a man who's not practicing the Word.

Some people are trying to get by on the Word they learned 20 years ago; they haven't studied lately. I'm not interested in the "good old days" or the future. I'm interested in the here and now. I need help for my hurts now. I need something now —not future "pie in the sky," and I'm not interested in what happened to somebody 20 years ago. I want to know what can happen to me now.

Jesus Christ said that if we'd get into the Word, we could have success in our lives now.

The principal thing you must learn in order to be successful is the one commandment of the New Testament. It's spelled l-o-v-e. LOVE. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

Did you know you can't love anybody else until you love yourself? That's what's wrong with the world today. People place no value on their own life, so they have no value on anybody else's life. The Word says I'm to first love myself and then I can love my neighbor. I want myself to eat good, dress good, feel good, and have the best there is. If I love myself this way, I'll love the world this way.

The Word of God says when you see a brother in need, you're in trouble if you have the means to help him and don't. I'm not referring to the "giving to get" philosophy; I'm talking about ministering to somebody when you have the means.

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