Welcome To God's Family by Hagin Kenneth E

Author:Hagin, Kenneth E
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Faith Library Publications
Published: 2013-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

Your Children

When Ken Jr. was just two and a half hours old, I held that little fellow up in my hands and said, “Lord, thank You for this boy. I realize that You’ve given to my wife and me this new life that I hold in my hands. I realize that he’s my responsibility, because I know the Bible. It says to train up this child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it [Prov. 22:6].

“I realize that Your Word says to bring children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord [Eph. 6:4], and I’m going to do it. I’m going to do it, because children are trained not only by precept, but also by example. I’m going to live right in front of him. I’m going to do what’s right. And I’ll be honest with You and him if I miss it.”

When our little girl, Pat, was born, I took her into my hands immediately, and said the same thing over her that I’d said over Ken: “I’ll do right; I’ll raise her right. I’ll train her. I’ll set the right example in front of her and teach her precepts from the Word of God. I will also teach her by example.

“I know you can have what you say, so I say that this child, like Ken, will grow up strong physically, without sickness or disease. She will be alert mentally and stalwart spiritually.”

Years afterward, even our kinfolk, who felt we had ruined everything by going off with that “tongue-talking bunch,” said to us, “There is something to that; there has to be. Your children are never sick.”

I never prayed in my life that either of my children would be saved—not one single prayer. I never prayed a prayer that either one of them would be filled with the Spirit. They’re adults now with families of their own, and I don’t believe I prayed more than half a dozen times for both of them in all these years.

Why? Because you can have what you say—and I had already said it! If I were to pray about it now, it would mean that I didn’t mean what I said back then. But I did mean it, because I know I can have what I say. And both Ken and Pat got saved and filled with the Spirit at an early age.

In raising our children, sometimes if I lost my temper, I had to go to them and say, “Forgive me; Daddy acted ugly.” I had to say, “I’ve set the wrong example. I’ve asked the Lord to forgive me, and He’s forgiven me. Will you forgive me?”

And those little children would say, “All right.”

I never told my children not to do something “just because I told you not to.” I sat down and read the Bible to them, proving to them that I had their interests at heart.

If I had to reprimand them or even spank them, I said, “It says right here in Ephesians 6, ‘Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

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