Foundations for Faith

by Kenneth E. Hagin

Faith makes the difference between defeat and victory in a Christian's life. And this study guide explains why receiving from God is dependent upon the faith of the believer.

Genres: Faith

80 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2003

About the author

Rev. Kenneth Erwin Hagin, known as the “father of the modern faith movement,” served in Christian ministry for nearly 70 years.

In 1968, Rev. Hagin published the first issues of The Word of Faith magazine, which now has a monthly circulation of more than 300,000. The publishing outreach he founded, Faith Library Publications, has circulated worldwide more than 65 million copies of books by Rev. Hagin, Rev. Kenneth W. Hagin, and several other authors. Faith Library Publications also has produced more than 9 million audio teaching CDs.

Reviews

[Mary Pauline M · Rating 5 out of 5]

Required reading for a course. Couldn't put this down. The title says it all. Find myself going back to review my notes from the original read.

[Dianelys · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just amazing! Like all of Brother Kenneth Hagin's books.

“Real faith is built on the Word. We should meditate on the Word, dig deeply into it, and feed upon it. Then the Word becomes a part of us, just as natural food becomes a part of our physical body when we eat. What natural food is to the physical man, the Word of God is to the spiritual man.”

[EbereGod Excel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a must read...the book brought about every dead things in my life became alive some years back...it works like fire.

[Carolyn Woods · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good read. I enjoyed this book and I plan to read it over and over again. I highly recommend this book.May GOD continue to BLESS everything you touch.

[Jaspreet virdee · Rating 5 out of 5]

ANOINTED

Another powerful ministry gift of God. The presence of God is all over this book, and I have found the same anointing of the author come on me every time I read.

[Chrystal Cargill · Rating 5 out of 5]

In reading this book, one is able to understand how important it is to have faith for without faith, it is impossible to please God. The book reveals how to activate your faith and includes many excellent truths about faith backed by the Word of God.

[Madeline · Rating 3 out of 5]

While Hagin challenges a lot of the excuses I have for not having faith, and does a good job of biblically defining the nature of faith and belief, he gets into a bit of Christian platonism in the middle, particularly by claiming that man is a spirit more than he is body. “The New Birth,” he says, referring to the born-again experience Jesus talks about in John 3, “is not a rebirth of the body, but of the spirit,” because as Nicodemus asks, how can a man reenter his mother’s womb and be born again? This is true in part. For now rebirth is just of the spirit—but in eternity, our bodies will be raised up, born again. Baptism is not just a symbol of a spiritual reality, but a foreshadowing of our coming physical reality. I think that Hagin oversimplifies man’s person, rather than saying that man is wholly and indivisibly body, mind, spirit, emotions, and relations.
Still, his challenge to have true faith is excellent. Hope is of the future, belief is in the present. If we say, “I believe that God will heal me someday,” we’re not really believing, we’re hoping. Hope sustains us, but there are times that God commands us to believe now, particularly our salvation. We should not merely “hope that we’ll get to heaven,” we should “believe that God has ransomed us, and we are his.”