“Having faith in your faith” is exactly what Jesus taught: “Have faith in God.” – obviously you need to have faith that your faith will work and have confidence that you can have a relationship with God. Hagin teaches that for a pastor or anyone to drive a Chevrolet instead of a luxury car isn’t “being humble, that’s being ignorant” of God’s “law of prosperity” that works for “whoever you are,” saint or sinner. In Hagin’s book, Having Faith in Your Faith, he teaches from the Bible that anyone can develop universal “laws of faith” to get what he wants. Kenyon, William Branham, and the Manifest Sons of God/Latter Rain Movement. It has not involved the Peale/Schuller-Positive/Possibility thinkers although some ignorant people might think they are Word of Faith because they do not pay attention, although their roots are not in New Thought, and the Hagin/Copeland Positive Confession and Word-Faith groups, which have their roots in the Biblical based teaching of E.W. – Word-Faith is the fastest-growing movement within the professing church, because it is clearly based in the Bible. You can have what you say” ( Mark 11.23-24). Word-Faith believers view their positive confessions as a tool (some non-Christians would use the word incantation but they don’t really know the Word of God) by which they can conjure up anything they desire: “Believe it in your heart say it with your mouth. Then God is required to answer ( John 14.14). Your “confessions,” that is, the things you say - especially the favors you demand of God - must all be stated positively and without wavering. What you say, Jesus claims, determines everything that happens to you.
Obviously, Jesus Christ Himself said that our words matter and we can have what we say, but some people do not accept the simple words of Jesus! A favorite term in the Word-Faith movement is “positive confession.” It refers to the Biblical teaching that words have creative power. – As the name “Word-Faith” does not imply but some people have clearly erroneously inferred, this movement does not teach that faith is a matter of what we say more that whom we trust or what truths we embrace and affirm in our hearts. (Reported in the 2/1/93, Calvary Contender.) Hagin says: “Your confession of faith in God’s Word will bring healing or whatever it is you need from God into the present tense and make it a reality in your life!” (12/92). (See endnote for a detailed description of the Hagin ministry.) In his The Word of Faith magazine, Hagin taught the following Biblical truths: Receiving healing, just as receiving salvation, is simply a matter of appropriating what already belongs to us (6/90) healing is included in the gospel (8/92) God does not afflict people with sickness and disease (12/90) he (Hagin) went to heaven and talked with his sister (6/91) Jesus appeared to him in a vision in 1950 (8/91) he once went to hell in an out-of-body experience (9/91) he does not believe in sickness and disease (7/92) it is always God’s will to heal the sick (12/92) believers have a legal and redemptive right to divine healing (1/93). (Because his influence in charismatic circles will never die, and because his son and grandson carry on with Kenneth Hagin’s teachings, this report will remain posted.) He was well known as the father of the “Word-Faith”/”Positive Confession” movement. – Tongues-speaking charismatic Kenneth E. I tidied up the article for you all and made it more accurate so that it would be a source of blessing to people and not confusion! It unfortunately misrepresents this man and his teaching a remarkable amount. There is an article doing the rounds again about Kenneth Hagin.
Principles of Local Church 12 Love When You Are Winning.Principles of Local Church 13: Be a Bit Less Cocky.Principles of Local Church 14 Focus on the Invisible.Principles of Success 01: Success is Your Right as a Christian (and your responsibility).Principles of Success 02: See You The Way God Sees You.Principles of Success 03 Never Be Ashamed of the Size of our God!.Principles of Success 04 Submit to the Flow.Principles of Success 05: Make Good Choices.