One of the things that helps me a lot listening to Kenneth Hagin is he talks a lot about when he was a pastor. As a pastor, that’s really helpful. He was a pastor in the 1940s and he used to regularly pray for hours in tongues. Once he had prayed in tongues one hour, and he had so much work to do, but he was in the church praying. The devil told him it would be better to do the work of ministry than pray in tongues so he prayed another hour in tongues. During that second hour of praying in tongues, the Lord spoke to him and said “At the end of the second world war, there will be a healing revival” – and the Lord told him a lot of information about this healing revival.
So Brother Hagin went to a minister’s conference shortly after that, and read the prophetic word he got in that second hour. All the pastors in the room fell to their knees and started to pray for a healing revival. Those of you who know church history know that with three years of the end of WWII, in America was the largest, most powerful healing revival the world has seen. That did not just fall out the sky, it came because someone prayed the second hour, and then many others praying in tongues for hours on end.
Probably the number one question I have been asked in all my years of ministry is “why can I not hear God” – the answer is normally because your prayer time is ten-fifteen minutes of you talking at God, and not having a relationship with Him, not spending the time necessary to hear His voice. We, as leaders, have to be willing to pray long enough in prayer until they hear the Lord to hear things that will change their life.
It is not right to leave the place of prayer, then go on your business, without hearing from God first. Kenneth Hagin said that the Lord is looking for people to speak to about what He is doing on the earth, and for them to pray about it, and if you are praying extra time, then God will choose you. I agree.
Selah.
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