Bible Faith Study Course by Kenneth E. Hagin
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If you want to understand biblical faith and learn how to put it into practice, Kenneth E. Hagin’s Faith Bible Study Guide provides a detailed study of what the Bible teaches about believing God, receiving from Him, acting on His Word, and developing a consistent life of faith.
Throughout this extensive Bible study, Hagin examines faith from both a biblical and practical perspective. He begins with one of the foundational Scriptures on the subject: Romans 10:17, which teaches that faith comes by hearing the Word of God. From there, he develops the subject through Scripture, personal experiences, and practical instruction designed to help believers understand how faith operates in everyday Christian life.
The Faith Bible Study Guide covers far more than a basic definition of faith. It addresses what faith is, where faith comes from, what it means to believe with the heart, how believing and speaking work together, why actions must agree with faith, what can hinder faith, and how believers can train the human spirit through the Word of God.
Learn How Faith Comes Through God’s Word
One of the central teachings in the Faith Bible Study Guide is that faith comes through hearing God’s Word. Hagin develops this principle from Romans 10:17 and applies it to salvation, healing, prayer, and receiving from God.
The study explains why knowledge of Scripture is essential to faith. A believer must know what God has said before there can be a solid basis for believing Him. Hagin uses biblical examples such as Cornelius, the man at Lystra, and the woman with the issue of blood to show the relationship between hearing the Word, believing, and responding in faith.
The book also distinguishes between natural human faith and Bible faith. Natural faith depends heavily on information received through the physical senses. Bible faith is based on God’s Word and continues to believe what God has said even when circumstances have not yet changed.
Understand What Biblical Faith Is
Hebrews 11:1 provides another major foundation for Hagin’s teaching. He emphasizes that faith operates in the present and explains the difference between faith and hope.
Hope has a proper place in Christian life, but Hagin teaches that hope cannot take the place of faith when receiving from God. The book examines Mark 11:23–24 and the importance of believing that you receive when you pray.
Readers will also study the difference between mental agreement and heart faith. Hagin explains that a person can intellectually agree that the Bible is true while still struggling to rely personally on what God has said. Biblical faith involves believing from the heart and responding to the Word accordingly.
Discover What It Means To Believe With The Heart
The Faith Bible Study Guide gives considerable attention to the biblical meaning of the heart. Hagin identifies the heart with the human spirit and teaches that man is a spirit, has a soul, and lives in a body.
This section addresses the inward man, the renewing of the mind, human reasoning, spiritual understanding, and the importance of feeding the human spirit with Scripture. Readers are encouraged to bring their thoughts into agreement with God’s Word and to recognize when feelings, physical circumstances, or natural reasoning are influencing what they believe.
This teaching provides an important foundation for understanding many of the subjects developed later in the book.
Learn The Connection Between Faith And Your Words
Hagin repeatedly connects believing in the heart with speaking through the mouth. In his teaching on How To Turn Your Faith Loose, he examines confession and explains why a believer’s thinking, believing, and speaking should agree with God’s Word.
The study addresses confession concerning salvation, identity in Christ, redemption, righteousness, healing, forgiveness, fear, doubt, and the believer’s rights and privileges in Christ.
Hagin also examines Mark 11:23 and teaches that words often reveal what a person genuinely believes. Later chapters continue this subject through examples such as Joshua and Caleb, the woman with the issue of blood, and Hagin’s own experiences in healing, ministry, finances, and family life.
Identify Hindrances That Can Affect Faith
The Faith Bible Study Guide also examines several areas that Hagin identifies as major hindrances to faith. These include a lack of understanding concerning the new creation, the believer’s place in Christ, righteousness, authority in the Name of Jesus, acting on the Word, and holding firmly to a confession of faith.
These chapters encourage believers to understand what Scripture says about who they are in Christ and what has been provided through redemption.
Doubt and unbelief receive particular attention. Hagin uses Peter walking on the water and other biblical examples to show how attention to circumstances can affect faith. His repeated instruction is to return to what God has said and continue acting on the Word.
Put Faith Into Action
Faith is presented throughout the book as something that produces corresponding action. Hagin uses James 2 to teach that faith without corresponding actions is dead.
Readers are challenged to examine whether their actions agree with what they say they believe. Hagin applies this principle to prayer, worry, finances, healing, confession, difficult circumstances, and practical decisions.
The chapter Actions That Correspond With Faith makes this especially clear. Hearing the Word is important. Believing the Word is important. The believer must also become a doer of the Word.
This practical emphasis continues in Hagin’s four-part pattern of say it, do it, receive it, and tell it, developed from the account of the woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5.
Train The Human Spirit
The final major section of the Faith Bible Study Guide is one of its most practical. Hagin gives four steps for training the human spirit:
Meditate on the Word.
Practice the Word.
Give the Word first place in your life.
Instantly obey the voice of your spirit.
Hagin teaches that the human spirit can be educated and developed through consistent attention to Scripture. He discusses meditation, becoming a doer of the Word, dealing with worry, controlling the thought life, making decisions according to Scripture, and learning to recognize inward guidance.
This final section brings together many of the principles taught throughout the book. God’s Word remains central to developing faith, renewing the mind, guiding decisions, and training the human spirit.
A Comprehensive Study Of Biblical Faith
Kenneth E. Hagin’s Faith Bible Study Guide is designed for believers who want to study the subject of faith in depth. It can be used for personal Bible study, ministry training, small-group study, teaching preparation, or as a reference when studying Scripture concerning faith.
The book addresses faith from beginning to end: how faith comes, what faith is, how faith is believed in the heart, how it is expressed through words, how it produces corresponding action, what can hinder it, and how believers can continue developing spiritually through God’s Word.
If you want a detailed Bible study that will help you examine what you believe, what you say, how you respond to circumstances, and how consistently you act on Scripture, the Faith Bible Study Guide by Kenneth E. Hagin provides a thorough resource for continued study and practical application.