SOUL Winning and Discipleship

Dad Hagin thought a lot of Sister Jeanne Wilkerson, she was an awesome Prophetess! There were times she would come in a service of Dad Hagin's and sit in the back of the room. Dad Hagin would stop in the middle of his message and say, "Sister Wilkerson, I know your here because I felt you when you can into the room. Come up here and deliver whatever the Lord has placed in your heart." He was so sensitive to the Spirit of God he knew when that woman of God was there in the service and had a word from the Lord! Wow, we need more people sensitive like that, that they'll know by the Spirit someone in the in service has a Word from the Lord besides them. That's what you call being Spirit led!!

Kenneth Hagin shared a prophecy he once received from this great prophetess 👇
I had a supernatural experience years ago
At a seminar in 1968, Sister Jeanne Wilkerson, an established Bible teacher and prophetess (who has since gone on to be with the Lord), prophesied that in the fall of that year I would have an experience similar to Enoch’s in that I would be caught up to Heaven. Enoch was caught away in the flesh — his physical body departed from this earth (Gen. 5:24; Heb. 11:5). But Sister Wilkerson prophesied that I would be caught away in the Spirit and would receive revelation from God.

I didn’t do anything to try to make that prophecy come to pass. I just continued to serve God. Then in the fall of that year, my only sister, Oleta, died of cancer when she was only fifty-five years of age.
Oleta had been sick once before and had almost died. When I prayed for her, she was healed. She was a spiritual babe in Christ at that time, so I could get her healed on my faith in the Word. But this time when she got sick, she was no longer a spiritual baby, so I couldn’t get her healed on my faith. We won’t be able to carry other people on our faith indefinitely because God expects each of us to grow up in faith.
So my sister died in the fall of that year. In fact, our family was all gathered around my sister’s bed on the evening she drew her last breath. About 1:30 the next morning, I was lying in bed thinking about what it must have been like for my sister as her spirit left her body, and she ascended to Heaven to be with the Lord.
I thought about the time my own heart stopped beating on August 16, 1933, as I lay on the bed of sickness. When my heart stopped, my spirit left my body, and as I looked back down, I could see my body lying there on the bed. I saw my mother holding my hand. Then I thought about my sister again. When she died and left her body, she must have looked down upon all of us gathered around her bed and seen our love and concern.
As I was thinking about this, suddenly a bright, golden beam of light from Heaven about as big as an elevator shaft penetrated right through the ceiling. When that light touched me, my spirit left my body. I went right up through that beam of light as if I were going up an elevator, until I reached Heaven.
In Heaven, I saw my sister talking to Jesus. When I walked up to them, Jesus stopped talking to her and looked at me. When Jesus looked at me, my sister turned around to see who Jesus was looking at and saw me.
The first thing my sister said to me was, “Ken, don’t feel so badly that you couldn’t pray the prayer of faith for me. There was a reason why you couldn’t.” (She didn’t tell me what the reason was.)
Sometimes God doesn’t reveal to us the reason why some people don’t receive their healing. Deuteronomy 29:29 says, “The secret things belong unto the Lord our God. . . .”
My sister told me she had already seen Granny and Grandpa, my mother’s parents. She also said she had seen her grandson, Jason, who had died when he was three years old. Then she said, “Kenneth, I saw Ann.” Ann was her daughter who had died as a result of an automobile accident when she was only twenty- five years old, leaving behind two small children.
My sister continued, “The first thing Ann said to me was, ‘How are kenneth and children?’ (Bill was Ann’s husband.) I didn’t tell Ann that Bill had remarried.”
Then my sister said something that came as a real revelation to me. She told me, “You see, people up here are not interested in the natural side of life of those living on the earth. They are not concerned about whether or not you buy a new dress or a new suit, or how much money you have in the bank.
“They are concerned about spiritual things. They don’t know what happens in your life in the natural realm, but they know everything you do spiritually. They know when you make a decision for Christ.”
My sister was talking about the cloud of witnesses in Heaven watching us as we run our spiritual race. That was the revelation Sister Wilkerson had prophesied I would receive during this experience. Before this experience of being caught up to Heaven, I’d only had a hint or glimpse of that revelation.

Incidentally, when Sister Wilkerson prophesied that I would be caught up to Heaven like Enoch and receive revelation, she also said that another person would be involved in a similar supernatural experience. My older brother, Dub, was that person. The same night I was caught up to Heaven, Dub had a similar experience. Dub was also caught up to Heaven and had a conversation with our sister, just as I had a short time earlier.

At the time this happened to Dub, no one could have accused him of being spiritual! Dub didn’t understand much about spiritual things, and his experience in Heaven unnerved him. He called me the next day to tell me about it. He had no idea I’d had a similar experience the same night.

Kenneth Hagin Kenneth Hagin Ministries

The sermon cannot rise in its life-giving forces
above the man. Dead men give out dead sermons, and dead sermons kill. Everything depends on the spiritual character of the preacher. Under the Jewish dispensation the high priest had inscribed in jeweled letters on a golden frontlet: “Holiness to the Lord.” So
every preacher in Christ’s ministry must be molded intoand mastered by this same holy motto. It is a crying shame for the Christian ministry to fall lower in holiness of character and holiness of aim than the Jewish priesthood.

Jonathan Edwards said: “I went on with my eager pursuit after more holiness and conformity to Christ. The heaven I desired was a heaven of holiness.”

The gospel of Christ does not move by popular waves.
It has no self-propagating power. It moves as the men who have charge of it move. The preacher must impersonate the gospel. Its divine, most distinctive features must be embodied in him. The constraining power of love must be in the preacher as a projecting,
eccentric, an all-commanding, self-oblivious force. The energy of self-denial must be his being, his heart and blood and bones. He must go forth as a man among men, clothed with humility, abiding in meekness, wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove; the bonds of a servant with the spirit of a king, a king in high, royal, in dependent bearing, with the simplicity and sweetness of a child. The preacher must throw himself, with all the abandon of a perfect, self-emptying faith and a self- consuming zeal, into his work for the salvation of men.
Hearty, heroic, compassionate, fearless martyrs must the men be who take hold of and shape a generation for God. If they be timid time servers, place seekers, if they be men pleasers or men fearers, if their faith has a weakhold on God or his Word, if their denial be broken by any phase of self or the world, they cannot take hold of the Church nor the world for God.
The preacher’s sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate,laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.
The training of the twelve was the great, difficult, and enduring work of Christ. Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity,
great for God—men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.

- E.M. BOUNDS (Complete Works of E. M. Bounds on Prayer)

I love what Kenneth Copeland shared one time when he was visiting our church. He told us that, at one time, he had been uptight with God and had said, “God, You deal with me about
every little thing I do. Other ministries get away with things, but You are always on my back.” The Lord had spoken back to him, “The reason I am always on your back is because your mother is on My back!” Kenneth Copeland’s mother had been praying white-hot prayers on her son’s behalf, keeping him in the place where he could do what God had destined him to do.
Have you ever heard Kenneth Copeland’s testimony? As a young man, he was as wild and rebellious as anyone I’ve ever heard of. He even rode a motorcycle down the halls of his high school because he’d seen his movie “idol” do it. Ken soon became involved in drugs, drinking, smoking, and the whole mess! But can you guess what his mother was doing whenever he came home at two or three o’clock in the morning? You guessed it—she was on her knees, marking her son for God's service. She said, “God, my son is marked. It doesn’t matter what is going on around him; I have marked Ken for You, and he is not going to get away!”
Her white-hot prayers kept God’s attention focused on her son. God turned Kenneth Copeland’s life around, and he has become a powerful man of God.

Similarly, Hannah’s white-hot prayers moved God to remember her, and she became pregnant with Samuel. (See 1 Samuel 1:19–20.) I believe Hannah continued to pray white-hot prayers for Samuel while he was with Eli. Undoubtedly, Samuel knew he was marked. He began to know the voice of God at a very young age, when “the Lord called Samuel. And he answered, ‘Here I am!’” (1 Samuel 3:4).

Just as marking Samuel worked for Hannah and marking Kenneth Copeland worked for his mother, marking our children worked for Wally and me. And marking your children will work
for you!
The prophet Jeremiah also had been marked, and he recorded the Lord’s revelation to him about that truth: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I
sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations” (Jeremiah 1:5).
The word sanctify means “to set apart to a sacred purpose or to religious use.” Doesn’t that sound familiar? Remember,destine also means “to set apart.”

- Marilyn Hickey (Spiritual Warfare)
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