Inspired Laughter
HE FILLS OUR MOUTHS WITH LAUGHTER
| Job 8:21 NKJV He will yet fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing. |
Wayne shared with me something he heard from a Kenneth Hagin sermon. Brother Hagin woke up in the middle of the night when he was sleeping in a parsonage where others were also sleeping. He woke up with heart failure symptoms, the same as he experienced in his youth when he was bed ridden. The enemy said to him you are not going to get healed this time. Brother Hagin put the covers over his head and put the pillow over his mouth. Then he opened his mouth and said, “HA!” (Pause) “Ha, Ha!” (Pause)
Ps 2:4 AMP
He Who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord has them in derision [and in supreme contempt He mocks them].
“Ha, Ha, Ha!” He kept doing this for several minutes. The enemy asked him why he was laughing. Hagin said, “What you said to me!” And then he repeated “Ha, Ha!” for several minutes. The enemy asked again, and Kenneth repeated. It was about 30 minutes this took place.
By the time Kenneth is REALLY laughing and not just declaring “Ha-Ha’s”. He replied, “I know I am not going to get healed this time because I was already healed 2,000 years ago, it’s already been done!” So the enemy packed up his symptoms and went home. Brother Hagin turned over and went back to sleep.
Prov 17:22 NKJV
A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.
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I can remember one time when the Spirit of the Lord touched me and I began to laugh so deep that suddenly a deep, deep pain was dislodged from my inner man and started to surface. I began to sob deep gut wrenching sobs, and then the Spirit swept over me again and I was laughing hysterically. This went back and forth and finally that horrendous pain left. I knew the Lord had delivered me from either a demon, or some kind of a wound that was so deep I could not identify it. We are coming to a time in history where the Lord is going to deliver many people through laughter. I think one of the deepest deliverance they will receive will be deliverance from a root of bitterness. I have known the Lord to deliver people from the root of bitterness through both tears and laughter, and of course forgiveness.
Heb 12:14-16 NKJV
Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: 15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled.
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HE SPEAKS THROUGH JOYOUS EMOTIONS
The Lord spoke to me through my joyous emotions one time when my young son was taking his annual swimming lessons. He knew how to kick, reach and pull and float; he just didn’t know how to do them all at once! This season was also a time in my life when the Lord was teaching me to stand against satan and tell him, “No.” I was learning how to use the authority God has given to all believers. Sometimes I felt like I was barely keeping my head above water and that water looked too deep. (He would reassure me I had a spiritual life jacket on and that did help.)
As I was beginning to connect with what He was teaching me, I kept turning to the scripture, “In that hour Jesus rejoiced1 in the Spirit and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes.” (Luke 10:21 NKJV) Jesus said this to the Father when He sent His disciples out with His authority for the first time.
I was too busy keeping my head above water to pay much attention to the scripture. The reality of Jesus’ joy over me had not yet touched my life when He so wanted to reach me with His joy and approval. One day at my son’s swimming lessons a miracle happened. Suddenly I saw him swim! All his movements came together and he swam beautifully half way across the pool. It was an indoor pool in a confined area, and I stood to my feet shouting and clapping with great joy!
Yet the Lord’s excitement over my own overcoming still hadn’t touched my heart. He loved me so much, He kept trying to send me encouragement. Even though the Lord kept giving me this verse I was still in the doldrums feeling not at all up to par. One day I was thinking about how happy I felt about my son swimming. As I opened my Bible again, there was that scripture about Jesus’ great rejoicing. I thought, “Is it possible the Lord is feeling that way about me?”
An hour later I went to church and the pastor shared a little story before the service. He had video taped his son’s soccer game. He asked what we thought was the most outstanding part of the tape. Of course, we thought he was going to say his son! He said it was the cheering parents’ voices. I cried, as the Lord’s Word finally reached my heart.
