The Less Holy Spirit We Have... 2/28 Friday Faith

Breaking with my usual quotes for a day...

The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.

--Reinhard Bonnke

Healing of Spirit, Soul, or Body 2/27 Thursday Thoughts

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

Filled With the Life of God 2/26 Wednesday Wisdom

The life of God, the Spirit of God, the nature of God are sufficient for every need of man.
In the highest sense word, he is a real Christian whose body, soul, and spirit alike are filled with the life of God.

-- John G. Lake

What Prayer Is 2/25 Tuesday Truth

Do you know what prayer is?  It is not begging God for this and that.  The first thing that we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in 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

The Church Has Been Negligent 2/24 Monday Meditation

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

A Higher Place in God 2/21 Friday Faith

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 wondrous 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.

-- John G. Lake

A Greater Body 2/20 Thursday Thoughts

Jesus was the first body.  He was the human body through which God revealed Himself to the world.  After He passed on to glory, He undertook to bring into being again a new body -- not a lesser body nor a weaker body, but a body greater than the body of Jesus, a person greater than the power of Jesus.  That is is the meaning of the words of Jesus:  "Greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my Father:" (John 14:12)

-- John G. Lake

You Are Necessary to God 2/29 Wednesday Wisdom

You are just as necessary to God in His plan for the salvation of mankind as God is necessary to you.  That is a tremendous statement.  I want to repeat it.  Christians are just as necessary to Almighty God in order to accomplish His purpose in the world as God is necessary to the Christian.  Without God we would not be saved.  Without God we would never reach a maturity in God.  Without man, God would have no medium through which He could express Himself to the world, by which He could minister the Spirit of the living God to the world.

-- John G. Lake

Accomplish What God Intended 2/18 Tuesday Truth

The purpose of the Lord and Savior was not only to redeem us out of filth and sin, but that we should grow up into manhood and womanhood in God and take a place in the world and accomplish the thing that God intended us to accomplish and fellowship with Him on His plane of understanding.

-- John G. Lake

Jesus at the Throne of God 2/17 Monday Meditation

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)  Blessed be God.
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

In Touch With the Powers of God 2/14 Friday Faith

We have not yet learned to keep in touch with the powers of God.  Once in a while our soul rises, and we see the flame of God accomplish this wonder or 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

He Gives His Beloved Sleep 2/13 Thursday Thoughts

"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     [I have shared this Scripture with many who have sleep problems.  --Lep]

Enthusiast for the Son of God 2/12 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" (Revelation 5:12-14).
-- John G. Lake

Jesus Is the Eternal Healer 2/11 Tuesday Truth

To my heart Jesus Christ is the Eternal healer.  He was the Healer in the beginning.  He was the Healer before there was any flood.  He was the Healer after the flood.  He was the Healer during His earth life.  He is the Healer in this dispensation.  He is the Healer forever!  Bless God.  So long as need of healing exists, Jesus is the Healer.  Blessed by His name.

-- John G. Lake

Members of the Family 2/10 Monday Meditation

Brethren of the Lord Jesus Christ.  He the elder brother, we the younger members of the family of the same Father, begotten by the same Spirit,  energized by the same divine life of God, qualified through the Holy Ghost to perform the same blessed ministry.

-- John G. Lake

Man the Crowning Creation 2/7 Friday Faith

I once listened to an eminent divine preaching from the text, "What is man?" and when he got through I had a feeling that man was a kind of whipped cur with his tail between his legs, sneaking out to throw himself into the lake saying, "Here goes nothing."   I said, "He has never caught the fire of the thing Jesus is endeavoring to teach through the apostle -- that man was the crowning creation of God.  That God endowed him with a nature and qualities that by the grace of God can express more of God than any other of God's creations."

-- John G. Lake

Not Acts, But Being 2/6 Thursday Thoughts

Men are afraid to say yes to God.  When a young man, I sat in a little meeting one night when the Spirit was talking to my heart.  I said, "If I am going to be a Christian, I cannot do this, and I cannot do that."  Oh, mighty God, it almost makes my soul vomit in these days to think of the average conception a man has of Christianity.
About ninety percent of so-called Christianity is all spelled with four letters, d-o-n'-t.  Don't do this and don't do that... Why bless God, religion is all contained in two letters, b-e.  Not performing acts, but being the thing that God purposed.

-- John G. Lake

A Christ-Man 2/5 Wednesday Wisdom

When a person gives himself to the Lord and becomes a child of God, a Christian, he is a Christ-man.  All that he does and all that he says from that time forth should be the will and the words and the doings of Jesus, just as absolutely and entirely as He spoke and did the will of the Father.

-- John G. Lake

As Simple As Can Be 2/4 Tuesday Truth

Men have mystified and philosophized the Gospel of Jesus, but the Gospel is as simple as can be.  Just as God lived and operated through the body of the man, Jesus, so Jesus, the Man on the throne, operated in and through the Christian, also through His body, the Church, in the world.  Just as Jesus was the representative of God the Father, so the Church is the representative of Christ.  And as Jesus yielded Himself unto all righteousness, so the Church should yield herself to do all the will of God.

-- John G. Lake

Co-partner With God 2/3 Monday Meditation

Isn't it a marvelous, wonderful thing that God has ordained an arrangement whereby man becomes God's own co-partner and co-laborer in the ministry of the Spirit?  "The Church which is His body." (See Col. 1:24.)  Just as Jesus Christ was the human body through which the living Spirit was ministered to mankind, so God has arranged that the living Church -- not the dead member, but the living Church, alive with the Spirit of the living God -- should minister that quickening life to another and thereby become a co-partner, a co-laborer together with God.  Blessed be His name forever.

-- John G. Lake