Since its inception, his organization, Kenneth Hagin Ministries, grew to include numerous media outreaches and ministries. Critics of the ' Prosperity Gospel' movement consider his teachings to be controversial, even heretical. Hagin was considered by his followers to be a dynamic preacher, teacher, and prophet known for preaching healing and prosperity through asking God for financial gifts, then claiming them by faith. There is no evidence known to exist regarding the original diagnosis.
He also claimed that he was raised from a deathbed in 1934 by 'the revelation of faith in God's Word'. Hagin began his ministry after, he claimed, God miraculously healed him of a deformed heart and an incurable blood disease at the age of 17. He is often referred to as the 'father of the modern Word of faith movement'. Hagin ( AugSeptember 13, 2003) was a Pentecostal minister for about seventy years.