Understanding the Anointing by Kenneth E. Hagin

Author:Kenneth E. Hagin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: miracles, Bible, anointing, Christ, Jesus, signs, Christianity, Understanding the Anointing, wonders
Published: 2011-09-30T10:54:10+00:00

I've seen things like that happen under my own ministry, and I'm thoroughly convinced that as we learn how to cooperate better with the Spirit of God, there will be even greater manifestations of these things in the last days.

Struck Speechless by the Spirit

Sometimes when I'm preaching, the Spirit of God comes on me, arrests my attention, and I can't say a word in English. I can speak in tongues, but I can't speak in English (I've tried to.) I can think in English, but I can't say a single word in English—I just absolutely can't. I've been that way sometimes for several hours.

It happened in a great way at our 1981 Campmeeting. I simply couldn't speak in English. The longest time was at Fred Price's church in Inglewood, California, the following month, August 1981.

I had finished my sermon and was laying hands on the sick when suddenly that anointing came on me, and I could not say one word in English.

I turned around and said in tongues to Fred (for I could speak in tongues, but not in English), "You go ahead and lay hands on the people and finish the healing line."

Fred understood me as if I had spoken to him in English. He said to me in tongues—and I heard it as if he were speaking in English, although everybody else heard it in tongues—"All right, you lay your finger in my hands that I may minister with the same anointing, and I will pray for them." I did so, he began to minister, and it seemed as if there were a stronger surge of power than before. I stood there and watched the whole thing, but still couldn't speak in English.

After the service, we went to Fred's home to fellowship and eat. I would start to say something, and I'd say it in tongues.

When we were ready to eat, I still couldn't talk to Fred and his family. I began wondering if I'd ever get back to where I could communicate in English again.

When I first came back over into English at Fred Price's home an hour and a half later, I could only speak a word or two.

I still couldn't even put sentences together.

Many times when I'm preaching or teaching and the anointing is stronger, a tiny manifestation of this occurs. It's not a matter of what I want to do—I cannot speak in English. I can think in English, but I speak in tongues. That comes out of your spirit.

As a teenager, I had been paralyzed and bedfast. My tongue became paralyzed and my throat partially paralyzed. Only the people who spent time around me could understand me. When the Holy Spirit is on me so strongly, it's almost that same feeling, except it's not a matter of paralysis.

What is the purpose of becoming speechless? Well, what purpose was there for the Holy Spirit's coming upon Ezekiel in the evening, opening his mouth, and making him remain that way all night until the man came in the morning? The Bible doesn't tell us what the purpose was.

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