Man a Revelation of God 4/1 Friday Faith

From the day that a man becomes a child of God, baptized in the Holy Ghost, it was God's intention through Jesus Christ that man should be a revelation of Jesus.
If you were looking to know whether a man was baptized in the Holy Ghost or not, what would you look for?  You would look for God in him.  You would look for a revelation of the personality of God.  God moving in him, God speaking in him, God speaking through him, God using his hands, God using his feet -- a mind in harmony with God, a soul in touch with heaven, a spirit united and unified with and in Jesus Christ.

-- John G. Lake 

The Biggest Gift 3/31 Thursday Thoughts

A Christian is not a reformed man.  A Christian is a man renewed, remade by the Spirit of God.  A Christian is a man indwelt by God -- the house of God, the tabernacle of the Most High!  Man, indwelt by God, becomes the hands and the heart and the feet and the mind of Jesus Christ.  God descends into man; man ascends into God!  This is the purpose and power of the baptism in the Holy Ghost.  A soul is saved.  How does Jesus reach them?  Through your hands, through your heart, through your faith.  When God baptized you in the Holy Ghost, He gave you the biggest gift that heaven or earth ever possessed.  He gave you Himself!  He joins you by the one Spirit to Himself forever.


-- John G. Lake

The Object of Healing 3/30 Wednesday Wisdom

Healing in any department of the nature whether spirit, soul, or body is but a means to an end.  The object of healing is health, abiding health of body, soul, and spirit.  The healing of the spirit unites the spirit of man to God forever.  The healing of the soul corrects psychic disorder and brings the soul processes into harmony with the mind of God.  And healing of the body completes the union of man with God when the Holy Spirit possesses all.

--John G. Lake

The Real Christian 3/29 Tuesday Truth

In the highest sense of the word, he is a real Christian whose body, soul, and spirit alike are filled with the life of God.

--John G. Lake

God's Divine Generator 3/28 Monday Meditation

Back from most of a week at our daugher's and granddaughters' in Florida.  See Facebook for pictures.

Do you know what prayer is?  It is not begging God for this and that.  The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging, until a little faith moves into your soul.  Prayer is God's divine generator.  The spirit of man is God's divine dynamo.  When you go to pray, your spirit gets into motion.  Not ten thousand revolutions per minute, but possibly one hundred thousand.  The voltage of heaven comes to your heart and it flows from your hands, it burns into the souls of men, and God Almighty's Spirit is applied through you to their need.

--John G. Lake

Generating Agency of the Power of God 3/18 Friday Faith

I said, "My God, my soul begins to see.  The Church is the ministering presence of the Son of God in the world.  The Church is the generating agency of the power of God in the world.  The Church has been negligent in one great trust.  She has not prayed the power of God out of heaven."
--John G. Lake
This will be my last post until after Easter.  We will be on vacation Palm Sunday through Good Friday.  Read the appropriate passages in the Gospels each day.

A Higher Place in God 3/17 Thursday Thoughts

Beloved, God is calling men and women to a holier consecration, to a higher place in God, and I am one of God's candidates for that holy place in God.  I want to get to the throne of God.  Oh yes, God baptized me in the Holy Ghost with a wonderful baptism, according to the understanding I possessed ten or fifteen years ago.  But I am a candidate today for a new baptism in the Holy Ghost that comes out of the heart of the glorified Christ in the lightnings of God, everlasting overcoming on the throne with Jesus.
And that is the experience that is going to make the sons of God in the world.  That is the reason they will take the world for Jesus Christ, and the kingdom will be established, and they will put the crown on the Son of God and declare Him "King of kings and Lord of lords forever.  Amen.

--John G. Lake 

The Triumphant One 3/14 Monday Meditation

Jesus was the triumphant One.  Did you ever stop to think of Jesus at the throne of God?  I like to think of the twentieth century Christ -- not the Jesus that lived in the world two thousand years ago, not the humiliated Jesus, not Jesus dying on the cross for my sin, but the glorified, exalted Son of God at the throne of God who stands declaring, "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death" (Rev. 1:18)

And that is the Christ that breathes His power into your soul and mine, and that is the consciousness that is breathed from heaven in the Holy Ghost when it comes to your heart.  Amen.

-- John G. Lake

Keep in Touch with the Powers of God 3/11 Friday Faith

We have not yet learned to keep in touch with the powers of God.  Once in awhile our soul rises, and we see the flame of God accomplish this wonder and that.  But beloved, Jesus Christ lived in the presence of God every hour of the day and night.  Never a word proceeded from the mouth of Jesus Christ but what was God's Word.  "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life."  (John 6:63)

When you and I are lost in the Son of God, and the fires of Jesus burn in our hearts like they did in Him, our words will be the words of life and of spirit, and there will be no death in them.  But, beloved, we are on the way.

--John G. Lake

Holy Triumph 3/10 Thursday Thoughts

In those early centuries of Christianity, Christianity did not go into the world apologizing.  It went to slay the powers of darkness and undo the works of the devil, and it lived in holy triumph.

--John G. Lake

The Real Christian 3/9 Wednesday Wisdom

So the real Christian ought to be the kingliest man in the whole earth, the princeliest man in the whole earth -- as kingly and princely and lovely and holy as the Son of God -- as big as Jesus, with the power of Jesus, and the love of Jesus.

--John G. Lake 

The Marvel 3/8 Tuesday Truth

The very first thing He did after His reappearance among them was to breathe on them.  He said, "Let Me give it to you.  Let Me breathe it into your life.  Receive ye the Holy Ghost." (John 20:22 paraphrased)  Let me put it into your hearts, burn it into your soul, establish it into your nature.  His victory over death had wrought the marvel. 

--John G. Lake

God's Ideal of a Christian 3/7 Monday Meditation

God's ideal of a Christian is not a man who is ready to go to heaven, nor a man who lives a good life in this world, nor a man who has victory over sin, nor victory over disease.  It includes all these things, but it is ten thousand times more than that...

...that somehow in God's divine grace, by the wonderful processes of His Spirit, He is going to help me to grow up out of babyhood and infancy into the stature of Jesus Christ.  And that is God's ideal for the Christian.

--John G. Lake

Selfish Reasons for Salvation 3/4 Friday Faith

When I was a boy, I thought the sole aim and object of the Gospel was to keep from going to hell.  A good many other folks observe Christianity from the point of view yet.  After awhile, evangelists changed the idea somewhat. They began to teach that the object of being a Christian was not to keep from going to hell, but to go to heaven.  Then I began reasoning.  I said, "One is just as selfish as the other."  The one gets saved to keep from going to hell and the other one gets saved to get to heaven.  Both are wholly selfish and neither one is the real purpose of Jesus.

Jesus gave one final reason for men being Christians, and strangely very few people have ever discovered, even from the Word of God, what that real purpose is...

To manifest the righteousness of God is the real reason for a man's desiring to be a Christian -- not to go to heaven when he dies or to keep out of hell, but to reveal the righteousness of God in this world.  And then heaven and all our rewards will be the natural result of having lived in unity with God and having revealed His righteousness in this world.

--John G. Lake

Sleeplessness Solution 3/3 Thursday Thougths

Yesterday, Brother Fogwill quoted that wonderful scripture that, "He giveth his beloved sleep." (Psalm 127:2).  And last night after retiring it was impossible for me to sleep.  I said, "Dear Lord, I am Your beloved, and I want to sleep," and I slept like a child all night. If you have any trouble with sleeplessness, and you are the beloved of God, just make God come through with His promise.

--John G. Lake

Enthusiast for the Son of God 3/2 Wednesday Wisdom

So I have become an enthusiast for the Son of God.  His salvation to me is the mightiest conception that ever dawned in the nature of man or God.  And I long and pray and rejoice in the expectation of a day to come when the universal race of man and the angels in heaven and creatures of earth will join in one glad song of holy power and glory to the Son of God, saying as the Scriptures indicate, "Honor and might and glory and blessing be unto Him who liveth forever and ever.  Amen."  (See Revelation 5:12-14)

--  John G. Lake