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I think Kenneth Hagin is a man of God. Probably a great man of God. I think a lot of his disciples have taken his teachings and jumped off the cliff with them . . . including his son. I'm underwhelmed by what I hear and observe with such 2nd generation folk.

And, Kenneth Hagin doesn't advertise the caveats. One time Kenneth prayed earnestly for an elderly lady who had cancer. Kenneth knew that the lady believed THE WORD and prayed THE WORD (including "Hagin 11:24"--Mark 11:24) and that her faith was as strong as anyone's.

She died. He asked The Father about it and The Father very sternly and bluntly said it was none of Kenneth's business and furthermore, Kenneth was not to ask God about it or mention it to God ever again. Period. That's kind of a neat out for Kenneth but I don't doubt the validity of the story. This story is on one of his tapes--a very short bit. He's been faithful to avoid getting stuck on it. So Kenneth knows that things are not always as tidy as even he would like.

But there are people who are walking, hearing, seeing for the first time in their lives because Kenneth was led of The Lord to pray and apply Scirptures tenaciously, relentlessly.

It's clear that doing so results in far more miracles than not doing so. It doesn't mean that 100% of the time will things go the way one is praying they will go. Kenneth himself would have died had he not learned to apply THE WORD as he did. Thousands of others would have died untimely deaths had they not learned to pray accordingly.

Yeah, name-it-and-claim-it jumps off the deep end. So does deny it and run from it.

But there are people who are walking, hearing, seeing for the first time in their lives because Kenneth was led of The Lord to pray and apply Scirptures tenaciously, relentlessly.

Could God have worked without Kenneth?

***I think Kenneth Hagin is a man of God.***

Ever hear the name E.W. Kenyon?

Even though we think (and believe) we are praying according to all the correct and infallible Biblical principles, results for prayer do not always occur in the ways we predict. This is because God is God, and we are not, and there is always more to learn about His ways and our relationship to Him in prayer, and how prayer "works."