I said, “Let’s all lift our hands and praise God, because she is healed.” The neighbor ladies lifted up her hands while holding up their own hands to praise God.
Well, what do you do at such times? It looked as though nothing had worked. As the neighbor ladies held her up, her knees sagged almost to the floor. This dear woman had wasted away to almost nothing. Then they lifted her out of bed and called me back into the room. I stepped outside while one of the ladies went to the closet and got her robe and slippers, and my wife and the neighbor ladies helped her put them on. Two of her neighbors were also in the room. Arise and walk.'”Īfter I stood up and told the woman what the Lord had said, she had only enough strength to kick one foot out from under the covers. Stand up and say to her, ‘The Lord told me to tell you you’re healed. As I laid my hands on her and began to pray, the Word of the Lord came unto me, saying, “Take your hands off of her. When my wife, Oretha, and I went to pray for her, I knelt by the head of her bed and Oretha knelt beside me. It took all of her strength to speak in a barely audible whisper. This woman was so weak that you had to put your ear just above her mouth to hear what she was saying. The doctors in all of the clinics said the same thing: “Nothing more can be done for her.” Her husband had taken her by ambulance to three different clinics in three different cities. One time in 1943 my wife and I went to the home of a woman who was on her deathbed. “Walk in His strength.” It takes faith to do that. “Don’t walk in your strength,” I would tell them. I had to encourage them to keep their eyes on Jesus. And as some of them attempted to rise, we had to hold them up. The faith of the paralytic man’s friends brought him to the feet of Jesus, but it was his own faith that took him off his bed of affliction.Īt times I have been led by the Spirit of God to tell people to arise and walk. It wasn’t until the man made an effort to rise up off his mat that the power of God was released. The paralytic man was not healed the moment Jesus said, “Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house” (Luke 5:24). His healing was the result of his own exercise of bold, obedient faith. Now this paralytic man was not, as is commonly supposed, healed through the faith of the men who brought him to Jesus. So they carried their friend to the top of the house, broke through the roof, and lowered him in front of Jesus (see Luke 5:17-26). However, when they reached the home where Jesus was, the place was so crowded that they couldn’t get in. Along the way, Brother Hagin addresses common objections to and misconceptions about tongues, and he explains the true scriptural purposes of tongues.The Book of Luke records the story of a paralytic man whose four friends tried to bring him before Jesus. Then he leads you beyond the Upper Room into the Throne Room of the Father-a realm in the Spirit that can be entered and explored as you yield to the Holy Spirit and pray in other tongues. Hagin uses the Scriptures and powerful illustrations from his own prayer life and the lives of other respected ministers to explain clearly and simply what it means to speak in tongues.īrother Hagin leads you to the Upper Room-the place where 120 believers were mightily filled with the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. In Tongues: Beyond the Upper Room, Kenneth E. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier.
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