Must Christians Suffer? by Kenneth E. Hagin

Author:Kenneth E. Hagin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Faith, Must Christians Suffer?, Bible, Christ, perseverance, Jesus, Suffering, tribulation, persecution
Published: 2011-09-30T10:51:52+00:00

people can choke to death on too much. When I would see they were slipping from me, I'd get back on some old Baptist sermons like "The Marriage Supper of the Lamb" and "The Second Coming of Jesus." I'd get them with me again, and then I'd drop a little more faith on them.

Finally I announced two or three nights ahead of time that I would be speaking on a certain subject. I had put it off as long as I could, but God had said, "Do it! Do it!"

I said, "Lord, why did You send me to this place to begin with?" I didn't know that you could hurt in so many places and still be in the will of God. But these are the things that will perfect you. They'll put some stamina in you. This is what it means to be led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil; led by the Holy Spirit into a trial.

I remember something that happened when I was pastoring my last church. I was making plans to go to a fall Bible conference. I had preached on a Sunday night, and my wife and I were planning to leave for the conference the next Tuesday morning.

I stopped by my church office on Monday, and just as I started to go in, the Spirit of God said to me, "Fast the next few days. They're going to ask you to pray for the sick at the convention."

I stepped inside the church, and said, "Well, Lord, if they do, that's going to be more than they ever did before. They haven't even asked me to pray in the past. There are hundreds of preachers there."

My wife and I got to the conference on Tuesday and sat down in back because the building was full. In a little while it was time for the main speaker to begin, and the fellow who was introducing him said, "I saw Brother Hagin come in awhile ago.

The Lord has been dealing with me the last day or two to have him minister to the sick tonight; to have a healing meeting." He added that another man would be the main speaker for the evening, and asked me if I would prefer to have the healing service before or after the sermon. The Scriptures say to prefer your brother before yourself, so I said I would go afterwards—and I made a mistake.

You talk about suffering! The speaker was upset because he thought I might ruin his sermon. He didn't like the idea of my having a healing service. He did choose a healing text—the woman with the issue of blood. And he did all right for awhile.

He talked about miracles he'd seen in the early days of the Pentecostal movement.

But then he said, "I guess we shouldn't expect things like that in these times. Every movement is at its best in its beginning; then it starts to wane."

He began by getting people in

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