I agree with Dave L here.
HOW do you know when you're hearing the RHEMA, and when you're hearing your own voice?
I think you're very lucky to know the difference so well; not putting you down for it.
I just think some persons don't know the difference and it CAN be dangerous.
Also, I don't care for WoF because when someone does NOT get healed, somehow or other it's THEIR fault -- not enough faith,,,some sin,,,didn't pray properly,,,etc.
So we go from everything being God's fault ...calvinism
to everything being our fault...WoF
Funny stuff.
Dave was referring to what Hagin teaches, not what WOF teaches. I'm with you on WOF. I'm against Dave's abuse of Hagin. And I teach WOFers that you must receive rhemas. Hagin has been gone quite a while, and the WOF church evolved downhill, but it is coming back up to the truth about waiting on the Lord and listening for His rhemas. It has gone from the original teaching about rhemas from Hagin, to name it and claim it from Charles Capps. Here is the main verse.
1 John 15:7
7 If you abide in Me, and My
words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
We westerners see the word, "words," and see that as long as you are a Christian and believe the Bible, the word of God, anything you want must be given to you if you just have enough faith. That is WOF. It makes God our slave. WRONG! The word is not logos, as in Bible, but rhema - a specific spoken word, and in this case directly from Jesus. Therefore, He tells you what He desires for you, and that desire becomes your desire, you pray His words to your spiritual ears and it comes to pass.
I understand your objection to everyone saying, God told me so and so to validate what they are saying. The only way to know if someone is actually discerning God's voice, over their own, is through answers.
In my case, God interrupts my own thoughts with His voice. They are not my own thoughts. That is how I know it is from Him. After 41 years, I KNOW His voice. And when He starts speaking, LISTEN. Ask God to teach you through experience. It is the only way you know 100% that your prayer will be answered, and it is.