"You will have what you say" was a key sermon preached by Kenneth Hagin.
Contrary to the distorted understanding of those how discredit faith and want to stand in their own strength, Hagin never taught people to speak for any fleshy or material interest.
It was all about claiming all that God's Word has promised for us.
The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, dividing soul from spirit, and granting us revelation of all that God has blessed us (Ephesians 1: 3) as opposed to the fleshy demands which can never be satisfied:
"1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. " (James 4: 1-3)
Death and life are in our mouths, in what we say:
"A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." (Proverbs 18: 20-21)
When I was meditating on this passage, I realized another evil reason why the AA cult has infiltrated members' minds and frustrates their capacities to break away.
The constant repetition of mantras, and deeper than that, the false identity which the program imposes on people
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change."
Excuse me? God's grace is superabounding in our lives. Where do we get the idea that we cannot pray to God in desperate times, and He will move mountains for us?
Joshua told the sun and moon to stop, and they stopped.
Moses held out his rod, and the Red Sea parted.
God is not interested in us enduring all our circumstances. He is interested in us seeing how He has overcome and surrounded all circumstances:
"The courage to change the things I can."
There is more to life than changing things in our own strength. Much of the time, God wants us to change our focus on our efforts, to seeing what He is doing.
God is more than a help-meet, but the Helper, whom we receive through His Spirit.
No one will ever hear this in an AA meeting.
What else do members in AA hear over and over?
"I am an alcoholic."
That is an evil and false statement. There is no identity in what we do, and there is no identity even in our sins, for which Jesus died, all of them.
"We are like men who have lost their legs. We don't grow new ones."
Wow! Can you imagine sitting in meeting after meeting and hearing all this empty drudgery?
"I am an alcoholic."
Identity is a crucial aspect of a person, one which informs what they think and feel.
This mantra is poisonous.
Indeed, death and life are in the tongue, and AA teaches people to preach death and thus many members eat the fruit thereof: they binge on other things (eating, smoking, sex) or they take this speech to its fullest extent: death.
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