Laying on of Hands by Kenneth E. Hagin

Author:Kenneth E. Hagin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Jesus, Bible, Laying on of Hands, Christ, ministry
Published: 2011-09-30T10:50:04+00:00

I never was so thrilled in my life to finally meet somebody who had enough sense to believe the Bible! I knew she was arriving on a certain day, so I went over late that afternoon. It was about 1935—the middle of the Depression—and those folks were sitting in rockers on their front porch, enjoying the cool of the day.

After I was introduced, I said to this dear old lady, "Grandma, tell me your story."

"Well," she said, "we came out here to Texas many, many years ago (about 1865). My Dad settled up some land; you could get it for little or nothing. It was 40 miles to the nearest school, so I didn't go. I didn't get any education.

"I grew up, married a neighbor boy whose folks also owned a lot of land, and we had our family. I still didn't know how to read or write, but I sent our children to school. They were all grown when some people came along and started what they called a brush arbor meeting. They put up some posts, strung some wires from post to post, and put brush on top of it. I got saved and baptized with the Holy Ghost.

"And you know, when I got baptized with the Holy Ghost and spoke with other tongues, God taught me to read the Bible. I can read the Bible and never make a mistake, but it's all I can read. I can't read anything else.

"Then we moved to town. My husband and the boys would go out to work the farm in the daytime, and I'd be left alone. I got to asking the Lord, 'Lord, is there something I can do?' I couldn't sing in the church, because I didn't have any voice for music. I couldn't teach a Sunday School class because they used a quarterly, and I couldn't read the quarterly.

"One day I was at home praying and reading the Bible from Mark here, and I read, 'these signs shall follow them that believe ... they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.' And I thought, It doesn't take any education to lay hands on folks.

"It says believers will lay hands on the sick, so I just went through the neighborhood and inquired about any sick folk I could find. I would spend from 9 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon every day visiting sick people and reading the Bible to them on the subject of healing. Usually they had never heard about it.

"After reading to them about three days, I would say, 'Now would you like for me to lay hands on you?'

You know, practically everybody I laid hands on got healed! The amazing thing about it is that most of the people I was laying hands on were bedfast and given up to die by the doctors."

Here was a little uneducated woman who wasn't a minister of the Gospel—she had never even taught a Sunday School class—but she was laying hands on the sick and they were recovering.

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