Sometime after Kenneth E. Hagin, a young Baptist boy who was raised up off of his death bed totally healed by a revelation of Mark 11:23-24, awoke one morning to find the left side of his face paralyzed—the right side took all the motion. When he smiled the right side of his face would go all the way up to his ear because the left side was completely dead. He said that he could have stood in faith himself for a healing, but he felt led to go have Pastor Connor, who was the pastor of a local, full Gospel church, anoint him with oil.

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He walked to church that evening and stopped to pick up a young girl, Immajean Alexander. They arrived at church and at the end of the service the pastor would usually have the people come around the altar and pray, but because they had some church business to discuss the pastor announced that they would dismiss, and then start the business meeting. 

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Kenneth Hagin said he was waiting for the pastor to call for those who needed prayer because he wanted his pastor to lay hands on him and pray, but instead the pastor started to dismiss the people. Kenneth Hagin raised his hand, and asked the pastor if he would anoint him with oil, and pray the prayer of faith. He agreed.  His pastor laid hands on him and prayed. Kenneth Hagin said he was waiting for him to say amen because that was his queue to start calling those things which be not as though they were, Romans 4:17.  He said, “When the prayer of faith is finished that is my queue to start saying it’s done.” He wasn’t waiting for his body to tell him it’s done; he was waiting for the prayer of faith to be done because that was his point of receiving. At that point he raised his hands and said, “Thank God it’s done!” His pastor asked him if he would pray the prayer of dismissal. Kenneth Hagin turned toward the people and prayed, but still the right side of his face had all the movement—the left side was still paralyzed. It looked to everyone like he was not healed, but he raised his hands and said, “Thank God it’s done!” He was acting within his measure of faith—he was not imitating anyone. (Romans 12:3)

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Immajean, and several of the youth were walking home with Kenneth when they walked under a street light while he was laughing, and one side of his mouth went all the way up to his ear. One of the youth said, “Ken, I thought you said that God healed you when Pastor laid hands on you, but when we were under that street light back there you laughed, and we could tell your mouth went all the way up to your ear, and we can tell you’re not healed. What makes you say that your healed?” Kenneth said, “The word of God makes me say that.” They said, “We don’t understand.” He said, “I don’t either, but thank God it works.” 

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He continued to walk Immajean home. When they arrived, she asked Kenneth to come in the house. She pulled her mother over to him, and asked, “Mamma does Ken look any different now than he did earlier before church?” She said, “Well, not that I can tell.” Instructed by Immajean Kenneth Hagin got down under the light. So they all hunkered down under a table lamp—looking at Kenneth; her mother asked, “Immajean, I feel silly what am I looking for?” Immajean said, “Well, he thinks he’s healed, but we can tell he’s not healed.”  Her mother said, “Immajean, if I were you I’d be careful.  When your brother took ill, and the doctor came, I asked him how that Hagin boy was doing and he said, ‘Ms. Alexander, he ought to have been dead. That boy has more will power than anyone I’ve ever seen. I don’t know how he’s alive.’” She went on to say, “So he must know something about faith that we don’t. If I were you I’d be careful and leave him alone.”

Kenneth Hagin said, “Immajean you’ve got to see it to believe it, but I don’t.”

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You see, that’s acting faith, not just a faith confession. That’s the outflow of a life of faith. He said to Immajean, “The next time you see me, even, you’ll say it’s true.”

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He went to bed that night, and when he closed his eyes, the left eyelid wouldn’t close because the left side of his face was paralyzed. He pulled his eyelid down, and it slowly opened back up, so he rolled his eye back up in his head, and went to sleep.

How many people would have that kind of peace to roll their eyeball up, and go to sleep, and not wonder why it wasn’t working? He could do this because his action was one of faith, and not just intention or desire. Desire is not faith. You might want to be healed, or have your need met, but that’s not faith that’s just human desire.

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He said he went off to sleep praising God, and woke up the next morning with every symptom gone. The first thing he did was go back to Immajean’s house. She saw him and said, “Oh I see you’re healed.” He said, “Yes, last night when my pastor anointed me with oil God healed me.”

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Listen, this is not about a onetime act. We need to keep acting and acting and acting. How long do you have to act? You keep acting until your answer shows up.

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Mark 11:23
  23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

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Just keep believing until the “It shall come to pass” shows up. The Holy Spirit is working to get us to the point of “It Shall Come to Pass.” Our part is to follow the Holy Spirit into acting; we can then say, “It showed up.” I am living in an “It came to pass moment.”

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Your body is not authorized to tell you it’s not healed – the Word of God says, “You’re healed.” (I Peter 2:24, Matthew 8:17, Psalm 107:20)

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Have a great week and remember Jesus is coming soon!!!