So many ministers who came up in my day failed in ministry because they didn't have a foundation in the word; they built their ministries on spiritual gifts. They were marvellous people and had marvellous gifts of the spirit operating in their lives. But they didn't have a foundation of the word in them, so one by one they eventually got into error and deception and fell by the wayside.
I told some of them, "when you have come and gone, I'll still be out there preaching and teaching because I'm building my ministry on the Word of God, not on spiritual gifts".
Kenneth Hagin
