I SAW JESUS! It was 6:30 in the evening. I was sitting up in bed studying. My eyes were wide open. (There are three types of visions. The highest type is an open vision. In an open vision, ones physical senses are not suspended, and his physical eyes are not closed. He possesses all of his physical capabilities, yet sees into the realm of the spirit.) I heard footsteps. The door to my room was ajar twelve to fourteen inches, so I looked to see who was coming into my room. I expected to see some literal, physical person. But as I looked to see who it was, I saw Jesus. It seemed as if the hair on my neck and head stood straight up on end. Chill bumps popped out all over my body. I saw Him. He had on a white robe. He wore Roman sandals. (Jesus has appeared to me eight times. Every time, except this time, His feet were bare. This time He had on sandals; thats what I had heard as He approached my door.) He seemed to be about 5 feet 11 inches tall. He looked as if He weighed about 180 pounds. He came through the door and pushed it back until it was almost shut. He walked around the foot of my bed. I followed Him with my eyes—almost spellbound. He took ahold of a straight chair and pushed it up close to my bed. Then He sat down on it, folded His hands, and began His conversation with me by saying, I told you in the automobile the other night.... The automobile had been full. My wife and I and others were driving along within two blocks of where I now was, as Jesus sat by my bedside talking to me. In the car, I had heard the Spirit of God speak to me. I thought everyone in the car had heard it and I said, Did you all hear that? They said, No, we didnt hear anything. In the Old Testament the prophets would say, And the Word of the Lord came unto me saying.... Did you ever wonder how it came? It could not have been literally audible. If it had been audible everyone present would have heard it—the prophet would not have had to tell the people what the Spirit said. The Word of the Lord came to the prophets spirit from the Spirit of God. It is so real that it seems audible at the time. The Word of the Lord was so real to me, I thought everyone in the car with me had heard it too. As Jesus sat at my bedside, He said, I spoke to you the night before last in the automobile and told you certain things. I told you, by my Spirit, that later I would talk to you further. So now I have come to talk to you about this... It was concerning the ministry of the prophet. Jesus sat there in that chair and talked to me for an hour and a half. And I talked to Him. I asked questions in reference to what He was saying. He answered them. I will not go into all He said about the prophets ministry; that is another message. But I will get into some of it. Jesus said to me, The prophet of the New Testament is very similar to the prophet of the Old Testament in that the prophet of the Old Testament was called a seer because he saw and knew things supernaturally. The prophet of the New Testament also sees and knows things supernaturally. But the prophet of the New Testament does not have the same status as the prophet of the Old Testament, in that I did not set prophets in the Church to guide the Church. A Christian under the New Testament need not seek guidance through prophets. He might receive guidance through prophets, but he should not seek it. It is unscriptural to do so. The ministry of the New Testament prophet in this area is only to confirm what people already have in their own spirits. Under the Old Covenant, only the priest, the prophet, and the king were anointed by the Holy Spirit to stand in those offices. What you would call the laity did not have the Spirit of God upon them or in them. Therefore, under the Old Covenant, people would seek guidance through the prophet because he had the Spirit of God. Under the New Testament, thanks be to God, we not only have the Spirit of God upon us—we have Him in us! Jesus also said to me, Under the New Covenant, it does not say, As many as are led by prophets, they are the sons of God. The New Testament says, For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God (Rom. 8:14). Then He said, The number one way, the primary way, that I lead all of My children is by the inward witness. I am going to show you how that works so you wont make the mistakes you have made in the past. Jesus explained to me that to stand in the office of the prophet, one is first of all a minister of the gospel separated and called to the ministry with the call of God upon his life. Secondly, he has at least two of the revelation gifts—the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, the discerning of spirits—plus the gift of prophecy, operating in his ministry. Then He called my attention to something that had been happening to me for the previous three days. For the past three days, I had sat down to write a letter to a pastor confirming a date to hold a meeting for him. Somehow, the first day, I got about half a page written, then I tore it up and threw it into the wastebasket. The next day I did the same thing. The third day I did the same thing. Then it was the day that the Lord was here in the room talking to me. Jesus said, You see Me sitting here talking to you. This is a manifestation of the Spirit called discerning of spirits. (Discerning of spirits is seeing into the spirit realm.) This is the prophets ministry in operation. You are seeing into the realm of the spirit. You see Me. You hear Me talking. I am bringing you, through the vision, a word of knowledge and also a word of wisdom. I am telling you not to go to that church. The pastor would not accept the way you would minister when you got there. But I am never going to lead you this way again. (He never has, and that was many years ago.) From now on, Im going to lead you by the inward witness. You had the inward witness all the time. You had a check in your spirit. Thats the reason you tore up the letter three times. You had something on the inside, a check, a red light, a stop signal. It wasnt even a voice that said, Dont go. It was just an inward intuition. Then Jesus reminded me of another invitation. I had preached a convention for one of the Full Gospel denominations the previous year. Nearly every pastor there asked me if I would come and hold a meeting. I had hundreds of calls, I suppose. One fellow came up to me and said, Brother Hagin, do you ever go to small churches? I said, I go anywhere the Lord says to go. Well, we only run seventy to ninety in Sunday School. But if God ever speaks to you, we want you to come. I dismissed that conversation along with many others. Several months later, however, while praying in the church one day about my services that night, that conversation came back to me. Then every day it continued to come back to me. Finally, after about thirty or forty days, I said, Lord, do You want me to go to that little church for a meeting? The more I would pray about it and the more I would think about it, as we say, the better I would feel about it on the inside of me. It wasnt a physical feeling, but it was a feeling in my spirit. Sitting by my bedside, Jesus referred to this: The more you thought about it, the better you felt about it. You had a velvety-like feeling in your spirit. Thats the green light. Thats the go-ahead signal Thats the witness of the Spirit to go. Now you see Me sitting here, you hear Me talking to you, and I am telling you to go to that church. But I am never going to lead you to go anywhere like this again. (He never has.) From now on, I am going to lead you just like I do every other Christian—by the inward witness. Then the Lord said this to me, which is not just for my benefit, but also for yours: IF YOU WILL LEARN TO FOLLOW THAT INWARD WITNESS, I WILL MAKE YOU RICH. I WILL GUIDE YOU IN ALL THE AFFAIRS OF LIFE, FINANCIAL AS WELL AS SPIRITUAL. [Some think God is only interested in their spiritual well-being, and nothing else. But He is interested in everything we are interested in.] I AM NOT OPPOSED TO MY CHILDREN BEING RICH; I AM OPPOSED TO THEIR BEING COVETOUS. (K. E. Hagin)
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:07:59 +0000
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