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Don't Listen to the Devil
By Rev.
Kenneth E. Hagin
...And the sheep follow him [the shepherd]: for they know his voice. And
a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know
not the voice of strangers.(John 10:4-5)
I
knew a preacher who had an outstanding healing testimony. In the early
1930s when tuberculosis was rampant, he was raised up from his deathbed.
He was a young married man. He and his wife had a little baby. And it
was discovered that the man had tuberculosis. He requested prayer from
every church where he'd ever held a revival. Every outstanding healing
evangelist in the world laid hands on him.
But he grew worse instead of better. Finally, he just came to the point
where he couldn't go any longer; he became bedfast. He went to his
in-laws' home to stay. They were farmers in Corsicana, Texas.
One day as he was lying in bed, he looked out the window and saw a clump
of bushes and trees about a quarter of a mile away from the house. He
said to God, "If You'll give me enough strength to get up and get to
that clump of trees, I'll pray until I get healed."
He made an effort to get up, and he dragged himself to that clump of
trees. Then he fell down, exhausted.
Lying there on his back, the devil said, "Now you've done it! Nobody
knows where you are.
You're going to die right here behind these bushes. The only way they'll
find you is when the buzzards lead them to you after you're dead."
This was not the voice of Jesus the Good Shepherd talking to this man.
It was the voice of a stranger, the voice of the enemy, the devil. Thank
God, this man finally recognized this voice as the voice of the devil.
Confession: I know the voice of my Good Shepherd, Jesus. And the
voice of a stranger I do not follow. I do not listen to the voice of the
devil. He is a liar and the father of lies.
(Taken by permission from
RHEMA Bible Church , aka Kenneth Hagin Ministries , Tulsa, OK , USA.
www.rhema.org )
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