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moving faith:

Is O f The Heart
-by

KENNETH HAGIN

(Part III of the series: The Most Important Things About Faith)
MARK 11:22-26
22 And Jesus answering salth unto them, Have faith In
God.
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 l a his heart, but shall believe
that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall
have whatsoever he saith.
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire,
when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall
have them.
25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught
against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may
forgive you your trespasses.
26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which
is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

In this series of lessons, we are study

ing the seven most important things you should
know about faith. We're down to number three,
however, let's quickly review the first two.
1) Every believer has a measure of the
"God kind of faith." We looked at scriptures
(Rom. 12:3; Eph. 2:8; Rom. 10:17; II C o r . 4:13)
which prove that every believer has a measure
of the God kind of faiththat every believer
has a measure of the kind of faith that created
the world in the beginningthat every believer
has a measure of mountain moving faith!
2) This measure of faith which the believer
has can be increased by (a) feeding it on the
Word of God and (b) exercising it; putting it
into practice in everyday life.
And now for number threeFaith (real
faith, Bible faith, Scriptural faith, spiritual
faiths is of the heart and not the head.
Notice that right in the middle of Mark 11:23
it says, "...and shall not doubt in his heart,
but shall believe...." That i s , believe in his
heart.
Romans 10:10 says, "For with the heart
man believeth "
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Just what is the heart of man? Well, first

of all, it is not the physical heart which pumps
blood through your body and keeps you alive.
That is not what God is talking about when
He talks about the heart. You couldn't believe
with your physical heart any more than you
could believe with your physical hand, or eye,
or ear, or nose, or foot.
Let's let God tell us what the heart i s .
God tells us in I Peter 3:4 that the heart is
a man.
1 P E T E R 3:4
4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which
is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet
spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

Notice that God says this man of the heart

is a "hidden" man.
That i s , he is "hidden"
to the physical senses. You cannot see him
with your physical eye, nor feel him with your
physical hand. And that is because, you see,
he is not a physical being. He is the "inward
man." The hidden man of the heart is a spirit
man.
Paul put it this way in II C o r . 4:16, "...but
though our outward man perish, yet the inward
man is renewed day by day."
These two expressions, "the inward man"
and "hidden man of the heart", give us God's
definition of the human spirit.
Man is a spirit being. He has a soul and
he lives in a body.
We contact the spiritual world with our
spirits. We contact the physical world with our
physical bodies. We contact the intellectual
world with our souls. Those are the only
three worlds we live in.
Man doesn't contact any other realms except
the physical, the spiritual, and the mental.
Are you contacting any other realms? No,
you are not, because there are no more.

Man is a spirit being, created in the image

of God Who is a Spirit.
It helped my faith just to think like that
because faith is of the heart, or the spirit,
or the inward man.
It is not of the head.
It is not of the body.
Now write this fact down and don't forget
it: Faith will work in your heart with doubt
in your head.
Many Christians are defeated because when a
doubt enters their minds they say, "I'm doubt
ing, I know I am."
No!
He didn't say a thing in the world
about not doubting in your head.
He didn't
say, "and shall not doubt in his head." He
said, "...and shall not doubt in his heart, but
shall believe...."
It is heart faith that gets the job done
not head faith!
Proverbs 3:5 says,
"Trust in the Lord
with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine
own understanding." Your own understanding is
just simply your own mental processes, your
own human thinking, isn't it? Then in other
words you could read that verse like this,
"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and
lean not unto thine own head."
And that is exactly where most Christians
miss it. When they are given the Scriptures
that will help in their situations they say,
"Yeah, but...."
The best way in the world to help people
is with God's Word. It is not what we feel,
nor what we think that counts, but only what
God's Word says. Our faith must not be in
our feelings; as sure as it is we'll be defeated.
A lady came to the front of the church one
night after the service and asked me to pray
for her.
When I asked her what she wanted
me to pray for she said, "Do I have to tell
you?"
" Y e s , " I replied, " I ' m not going to pray
unless you do because really it wouldn't do
any good."
(I want to emphasize that. I want to show
you why it would do no good to pray. If you
want me to pray about something you are e x
pecting me to do one of two things. You're
either expecting me to have faith for it, or you
are expecting me to agree with you that it will
come to pass. Well, how in the world am I
going to have faith for something if I don't
even know what I am believing for? You can't.
You can't have faith for something when you
don't know what you're believing for and you
can't agree on something when you don't know
what you're agreeing on.)
"Well," she said, " I ' l l tell you." And
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she went on to explain. "I've been saved for

about seven years now and filled with the Holy
Ghost about five years. I teach a Sunday School
class here in this church. My husband and
I were not Christians when we were married.
In fact, we were married 14 years before I
was saved. He never has been saved. He's
a good man, a good provider, and I love him.
He even comes to church with me on Sunday
nights most of the time, but he has never made
a move toward God.
"Before I was a Christian, I was awfully
high tempered. But in the last seven years,
I hadn't last my temper one time. Oh, I'd
come close to it a few times, but I held on to
it.
I'd never really lost it.
Although my
husband has always taken a drink or two with
the fellows, he has never come home drunk
or anything like that. And here a while back
he had taken a drink or two, but when he came
in he pretended that he was really lit up good
and I thought that he was.
"In all our 21 years of married life he had
never done anything like that and I was angry.
Just to be honest with you, I lost my temper and
I lit in on him. I'll tell you I turned him every
way but loose. He finally hollered, ' I ' m just
pretending! I'm just pretending! I'm not really
drunk.'
And that made me more angry than
ever to think he'd do me that way. So after
I'd given him another good piece of my mind,
I went into my bedroom, slammed the door
and locked it.
"After two or three hours I cooled off and then
I was ashamed of myself. Words kept coming
back to me that I had said. I could hear my
self saying them, and I said a lot of things
that I should never have said. They were
wrong.
So I got out of bed and got down on
my knees and I prayed the rest of the night
that God would forgive me.
"The next morning at breakfast I apologized
to my husband and asked him to forgive me.
To make the story shorter he insisted that he
was to blame and asked me to forgive him.
Brother Hagin, what I want you to pray is
that God will give me some kind of a feeling
so that I will know that He has forgiven me.
I have never felt yet, on the inside, like the
Lord has forgiven me."
"Why," I said to her, " I ' m not going to do
any such thing. I'm not going to pray a lick
about it.
You've already got the answer to
your problem. The Bible says, 'If we confess
our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us
our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrigh
teousness' (I John 1:9)."
"Oh, I know that verse is in there, Brother

Hagin, but...."
(You cannot help people when they take sides
against the Word. You must side in with God's
Word if you want it to work for you.)
So I said to her, "Sister, your trouble is
that you are not willing to forgive yourself.

The Lord forgave youor else He Had about

it, and I don't believe He lied. Do you think
your husband lied when you asked him to for
give you and he said he would?"
"No," she answered, " I don't think he did."
"Then you've got more faith in an unsaved
husband than you have in God. God said that
if we'd confess our sins He would forgive us.
And then there is something else here you're
telling me. You are telling me that God may
have lied about it, but that your feelings don't
J i e . Your feelings say that He hasn't forgiven
you. God says He has, but you can believe
your feelings and can't believe what God says."
Well, she got it.
She saw how terrible
it was.
Our faith must not be in our feelings! Our
faith must be in what God says! And faith in
what God says will work in your heart with a
doubt in your head.
Some of the greatest things which ever
happened to me (healing for my body for one,
a body practically totally paralyzed with two
serious organic heart troubles and an incur
able blood disease) came when I began to say,
"I believe from my heart that I receive my
healing." Yet my head was saying, "It's not
so. It's not so. It's not so." Oh, I had trouble
with my head. Did you ever have trouble with
your head? Just trust in the Lord with all your
heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.
HEAD FAITH vs HEART FAITH
JOHN 20:25-29
25 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have
seen the Lord.
But he said unto them, Except I shall see
in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger Into
the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I
will not believe.
26 And after eight days again his disciples were within,
and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being
shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and
behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it
into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and
my God.
29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me,
thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and
yet have believed.
ROMANS 4:17-21
17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many
nations,)
before him whom he believed, even God, who

quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not

as though they were.
18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become
the father of many nations, according to that which was
spoken, So shall thy seed be.
19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own
body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old,

neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:

20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief;
but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised,
he was able also to perform.

In the two preceding passages we have a

contrast of two kinds of faith. Here we see
examples of head faith and heart faith.
Thomas' faith was a head faith.
Jesus,
after His resurrection had appeared to His
disciples when Thomas wasn't with them. The
disciples told Thomas they had seen the Lord
and he had said, " I ' l l not believe unless I
can see the print or the wound of the nail
in His hand and put my finger into that nail
hole. And unless I see the wound in His side
and thrust mv hand into it, I will not believe."
About eight days later, the disciples were
in a room with the door shut. Suddenly Jesus
appeared in their midst and said, "Peace be
unto you." And He spoke to Thomas for He
knew what Thomas had said even though He
wasn't
physically present when he said it.
"Thomas, reach hither thy finger, and behold
my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust
it into my side: and be not faithless, but
believing."
When Thomas then said,
"My Lord and
my God," Jesus said to him, "Thomas, be
cause thou hast seen me, thou hast believed:
blessed are they that have not seen, and yet
have believed."
Jesus did not commend Thomas' kind of
faith.
He said, "You have believed because
you have seen."
Anyone can have that kind
of faith, saint or sinner. That kind of faith
is a head faith.
It is believing what your
physical senses tell you. Jesus said, "Blessed
are they which have not seen, yet do believe."
The passage we just read in Romans 4
is God's own account of Abraham and his faith.
Paul, inspired by the Spirit of God is writing
and the l t h verse reads, "(As it is written,
I have made thee a father of many nations
"
Notice, " I have made thee," not, " I am
going to do it."
You can read an account of this back in
the 17th chapter of Genesis. When Abram
was ninety years old and nine, the Lord God
appeared to Abram and said, "Neither shall
thy name any more be called Abram, but thy
name shall be Abraham (which means Father
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of many nations); for a father of many nations

have I made thee."
Now think on that a little bit. It's different
than human reasoning and human thinking. You
will have to meditate on it a little for it to
dawn on you.
Let's come back and read that 17th verse
again, "...before him whom he believed, even
God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth
those things which be not as though they were."
You see, He did not say, " I am going to
make you the father of many nations." He said,
"I have made you the father of many nations."
Faith is always present tense.
Those people who are always "going to get
something" never get it. Some who say, " I ' m
going to get the baptism of the Holy Ghost
sometime," have been going to do it for years
and they have never got there yet.
"I'm going to get my healing sometime,"
some say. And I know people like that who
are still sick, and some who have died.
"I believe I will be saved sometime," a
man told me. Bless his darling heart, I tried
to get him to accept salvation, but he died
and went to hell. Right now he is in hell,
lifting up his eyes in torment he is there.
Yet he said to me, " I am not planning on going
to hell. I'm going to get saved sometime."
But he didn't. He didn't.
That's not faith. Some have called it be
lieving, but it isn't; it's just hope.
Hebrews 11:1 says, "Now faith is
Now
faith i s . . . . "
If it's not NOW, it's not faith.
Faith is NOW. NOW faith ispresent tense!
Abraham believed. The 18th verse says
that he believed. What did he believe? He
believed
"...according to that which was
spoken...."
He did not believe according to what he
could see. He did not believe according to
what he could feel. He did not believe accord
ing to what his physical senses told him. He
did not believe according to what his head,
or his mind, told him. He believed according
to what God said. He believed according to
what was spoken.
If he balieved according to what was spoken,
exactly what did he believe? He didn't have
any children. Yet he didn't believe he was
"going to be" a father.
He had to believe
that God had already done it. He had made
him the father of many nations. If he believed
what was spoken then he believed he "was
made" the father of many nations.
You see, faith calleth those things which
be not as though they were.
That is what
causes them to come into being.
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"Yeah," people have said to me,

"but,
Brother Hagin, common sense will tell you so
and so."
And I've said, " I know it. But where did
you ever read in the Bible that we are told
to Walk by common sense?"
You've never read it anywhere for the Bible
says that we walk by faith and not by sight.
Common sense is based on sighton what
your physical senses tell you.
Common sense will tell you that a man
100 years old and a woman 90 years old aren't
going to become poppa and momma. Common
sense will tell you that. But Abraham didn't
walk by common sense. He trusted the Lord
with all his heart and leaned not to his own
understanding.
He believed according to that which was
spoken!
That has brought me through many a hard
place.
I've just stood my ground when the
opposition and contradicting circumstances said,
"No, you don't have it." All my feelings said,
"No, you don't have it." My sight said, "No,
you don't have it." And I said from my heart,
" I believe according to that which is spoken."
That' which is spoken is God's Word. I
believe according to that which is spoken.
I believe according to that which is written.
That's what I believe.
I am not moved by what I see. I am not
moved by what I feel. I am moved only by what I
believe. And what a difference that makes!
And when you can get folks to act on God's
Word, it is the most simple thing in the world
to get them healed.
Y e s , we believe in the gifts of the Spirit.
We believe in praying with an anointing of the
Spirit. There are various ways of administering
healing. And those things will work for some,
but God's Word will always work.
In a certain series of meetings several years
ago, some pastors told me they were going to
bring a lady from their church some distance
away. She was past 70 and hadn't walked a step
in four years. Doctors said she would never
walk again. The night they brought her I was
ministering at the end of the service as we
do with an anointing of healing power. But
there were many people to pray for that night
and after a while, the anointing will sort of
lift from you. To be honest with you, by the
time I got to her, the anointing was gone.
Well, I knew that I couldn't minister to her
under the anointing and I knew they couldn't
bring her back another night so I asked them
to place her down there and I spoke to her.
Among other things I finally said to her.

"Sister, did you know that you are healed?"

I remember how she looked at me. Her
eyes got big because there she sat, crippled.
"Oh," she said, "am I ? "
"You sure are. You are healed. And I'll
just prove it to you by the Bible."
Opening my Bible to I Peter 2:24 I laid it
on her lap and asked her to read it aloud.
She read, "Who his own self bare our sins
in his own body on the tree, that we, being
dead to sins, should live unto righteousness:
by whose stripes ye were healed."
"Did you notice," I asked her, "that the
last clause says, 'by whose stripes ye were
healed' ?"
"Yes."
"Is 'were' past tense, future tense, or pre
sent tense?"
"It is past tense," she said. And then she
continued, "If we were healedthen I was!"
(You see, if you are going to believe accord
ing to what God said about healing, that is
what you are going to believe. You have to
believe that we were healed, or that I was
healed. "Yeah, but I ' m still sick," you might
say.
Then you see, you are not believing
with your heart, you have gone back to your
head. A moment before you might have said
from your heart that you believe God's Word
but then you switched right back over to what
your head told you. You turned right back
around and started walking by sight instead
of by faith.)
This woman said, "If we were healedthen I
was!"
And quickly, before Satan could put a doubt
into her mind, (before he could dominate her
through her mind by causing her to doubt and
say, "Well, if I'm healed why can't I walk?
Why am I still crippled? Why isn't it here?")
I said, "Lift both of your hands and tiegirrto
praise God because you are healed. "
I wish you could have seen that dear lady.
A s simply as a little child she lifted her hands.
Her face lit up as she closed her eyes and
looking up to heaven with her hands raised
she said, "Oh, Dear Lord. Oh, I am so glad
I am healed. I am so glad I can walk again.
(She hadn't walked a step. But you see, she
is talking out of her heart. She believes what
the Word says, according to that which is
written, according to that which is spoken,
that by His stripes I was healed.) Lord, You know
how tired I got of sitting around helpless all
those four years.
(She's got it in the right
tense now. It will work for you when you get
it in the right tense.)"
Turning to the congregation I said, " L e t ' s

all lift our hands and praise God with her because
she is healed."
A s we lifted our hands she continued to say,
"Thank You, Lord. I'm so glad I am no longer
helpless and that I don't have to be waited on any
more. I am so glad I can wait on myself. I'm
so glad I am no longer crippled."
After we had praised God with her for a few
moments I turned to her and said, "Now my
sister, rise and walk."
And instantly, God is my witness and about
700 people, she leaped to her feet! She leaped
to her feet! Praise the Lord!
Then she sat back down real quick! Then
she jumped up again! Then she sat down and
jumped up again! Most 72 year old folks couldn't
have done that if they hadn't been crippled.
Up and down she went. Then she ran over a
few steps, stood there, then danced a little jig
for joy. For about 10 minutes she would run
in different directions, coming back and sitting
down in the same place and then jumping up
again. And we just all shouted and laughed
and hollered and cried with her. Praise the
Lord!
And I think some of us might have
jumped a little with her too.
Now here is a little lady who had been
sitting around helpless for four years. Doctors
said she would never walk again, yet here
she is walking and jumping and praising God
like the man who went into the temple walk
ing and leaping and praising God.
Someone went off and said, "That fellow
Hagin healed a crippled woman over there
last night."
I didn't have a thing in the world to do with
it.
I didn't have any more to do with it than
you could have had to do with it. All I did was
just bring her the Word. The Word did it!
She just found out what belonged to her and
what had been hers all the time. She was
really, in the mind of God, healed all those
four years she was sitting around there. She
just hadn't believed it yet. She just hadn't
gotten her believing in the right tense. All
that time she was "seeking" healing.
God's Word I S . Faith IS. Now faith IS
present tense.
And faith is of the heart.
Faith will work in your heart with doubt in
your head.
One preacher said,
"Brother Hagin, I'm
not going to believe I've got something my
physical senses don't tell me I have. I'm not
going to believe I've got something I don't
see."
"Do you believe you have any brains?" I
asked him.
"Certainly," he said.
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"Have you ever seen them?"

"Oh," he said, "that's different."
Abraham did. Abraham believed something
he couldn't see. Thomas wouldn't do it. And
Thomas' name is not listed in the gallery of
the heroes of faith, the eleventh chapter of
Hebrews, but Abraham'sis. He believed accord
ing to that which was spoken, "...before him
whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the
dead, and calleth those things which be not as
though they were" (verse 17).
One person said to me, "Well, it would be
all right for God, because He is God, to call
those things which be not as though they were,
but it would be wrong for me to do it."
If it's wrong for you to do it, it's wrong
for God to do it.
Children of the devil act
like the devil. Shouldn't children of God act
like God? God is a faith God. And we are
faith children of a faith God. Because we are
faith children of a faith God, we are to act
in faith. And faith calls those things which
be not as though they were.
"But," some have said, "my problem is I
don't have any faith."
As we have seen in the first lesson in this
series,
if you are
saved you have faith.
Ephesians 2:8 says,
"For by grace are ye
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God...."
And then some will say, as one lady in
particular did, " I guess I do have faith, but
I'm so weak in faith. I want you to pray that
I will grow stronger in faith."
"No," I replied, " I ' m not going to do that.
To tell you the truth about it, Sister, you're
strong in faith. You just don't know it. May
I ask you a question?"
" Y e s , of course," she said.,
"Are you persuaded, fully persuaded* khal
what God has promised He is a b l e to p e r f o r m ? "

do anything He said He would do. And I know

He will do it."
"Then let me ask you this question. Can
you say 'glory to God' and praise God for it?"
"Certainly, I do that every day."
"Well," I said, "then you are strong in faith.
Just read the 20th and 21st verses of the 4th
chapter of Romans. There it tells you what strong
faith i s . It says that Abraham was 'strong in
faith....' (Doing what? What is 'strong in faith'?)
'Giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded
that, what He had promised, He was able also
to perform.' "
Some have thought Abraham could believe
God because
Abraham was a great saint of
old, but that they could not. However the Bible
says he was strong in faith "giving glory to
God and being fully persuaded." That's what
the Bible says strong faith i s .
First, are you fully persuaded that what God
has promised He is able to do? That whatever
He has promised in His Word He can do?
If you are, then you are half-strong in faith.
That is half of it.
Secondly, can you give glory to God? That
means "praise God." Can you say, "Thank You,
God, for Your promise"?
Can you thank
Him for His Word? If you can, then you are
strong in faith.
If you can meet these two requirements,
then you are strong in faith.
Make a confession of your faith. Say aloud
with your mouth so that your ears can hear,
" I am a believer, I am not a doubter. I am
fully persuaded that what God has promised,
He is able to perform. I can give glory to God.
I am strong in faith. I have the Abraham kind
of faith.
I have a measure of the kind of
faith that created the worlds in the beginning.
I have a measure of the mountain-moving
faith."

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