In January 1951, I was holding a meeting in Beaumont, Texas, and a lady brought her nine-year-old daughter to be prayed for. This was shortly after the Salk vaccine was developed, but this little girl had contracted polio as a baby. As a result, her legs never developed. In fact, her mother had carried this nine-year-old girl to the healing line; the girl couldn’t walk. I took the child out of her mother’s arms and set her on my lap. The girl’s little limbs looked like pipe stems and flopped like a rag doll. I laid my hands on those deformed limbs, and I felt the power go into her. I felt it leave my hands and go into those little legs.
Now Jesus had said to me, “When that power that anointing leaves your hands and goes into the people, you know they’re healed.” That means, as far as He’s concerned, it’s done! As I was ministering to this little girl, I thought about something. This girl was her mother’s only child. I had a little girl about the same age, and I had the utmost compassion for this mother. I said to the congregation, “Reach out your hands toward this little girl. What if this were your child? If it were, you wouldn’t just sit there. No, you’d be interested in getting her healed. You’d be participating in her healing.”
After that, I said to this little girl’s mother, “The healing power was ministered to those limbs in Jesus’ Name,” and I handed the girl back to her mother – the child’s legs just as crippled and deformed as they ever were. The woman took the child and went back to her seat.
The Miracle at Home
Here is that mother’s testimony: “After the meeting last night when you prayed for our little girl, my husband put her in the back seat of the car. By the time we got home, she was asleep.
“When I lifted her out of the car, she was seemingly no better. I got her into her nightclothes and put her to bed. “The next morning, I let her sleep in while I fixed breakfast for my husband. At about eight o’clock, I woke her up, picked her up in my arms, and carried her into the bathroom. I’d already drawn her bathwater, so I removed her nightclothes and sat her in the tub. “I was there on my knees bathing her, and I began to cry. The tears that poured from my eyes streamed down my cheeks and into the water. I said, ‘Oh, Lord, why didn’t You heal my baby? I so wanted her to be healed.’”
You see, one of the girl’s legs as much shorter than the other one, and it sort of dangled outward like a tentacle. Well, in ten days, doctors were going to pull that leg down and straighten it out and fuse the girl’s hip. That procedure is similar to welding. Once they did that, her hip would always be stiff.
The Power of Belief
The mother continued, “There I was crying beside the tub when something on the inside of me spoke up and said, ‘Do you believe Brother Hagin is a man of God?” “Why, certainly I believe that,” she answered. She related: “That ‘Something’ spoke to me again and said, ‘Do you believe Brother Hagin is a prophet of God?’
“I answered, ‘Yes, I believe that too.’ “Then Something on the inside of me said, ‘Do you believe that Brother Hagin sat right there on the plat-form and held your child in his arms and told a lie?’ “I said, ‘No, I don’t believe he lied.'””Well,’ that voice said, ‘if he didn’t lie, then that power was ministered to your child last night.’. “I dried up my tears and said with joy, ‘Yes, that’s right! I believe the healing power of God was ministered to my child’s body last night. I believe that power flowed out of Brother Hagin’s hands into her body to effect a healing and a cure.’
“After I said that, I heard something popping. It sounded like dry sticks breaking. I looked down, and right there before my eyes, both of those legs straightened out and grew out to normal size! Hundreds of people were witnesses. Hundreds of people saw that girl’s new legs who had seen her legs crippled just the night before!
Believe in the Lord your God, and you will be established; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.
2 Chronicles 20:20b
Miraculous Monday: 15th May 2023
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