Final John G. Lake Quote 5/1 Friday Faith

This is my final quote from John G. Lake.  I will be starting with another "Pentecostal pioneer" from the early 1900's on Monday.

Indeed, I have this in my heart, that the low state of Christian experience that is common among men is mostly accounted for by this one fact:  that Christians have failed to grasp the exalted place into which Jesus Christ puts us when we have been made sons of God.

-- John G. Lake

Victory of His Resurrection 4/30 Thursday Thoughts

On this side of the cross is the victory of His resurrection, the marvel of all victories, the victory over death by which He took death captive.  A living man, Himself, He came forth the Conqueror of death itself, having put all things under His feet.  What an ascent into triumph!  What a change in His consciousness!  What a distinction between the Redeemer and the redeemed! No longer subject to death, but triumphing over it.  No longer subject to humiliation, but now becoming the exalted One, bless God.

-- John G. Lake

On the Other Side of the Cross 4/29 Wednesday Wisdom

This is a quote that I was wanting to use for Good Friday but couldn't find.  Tomorrow's quote is the one I wanted to use for Easter.

On this side of the cross we see all the marvel of opposites to what we see in the Christ on the other side of the cross.  On the other side of the cross we see a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, bearing our sicknesses, carrying our sorrows.  He had nowhere to lay his head. Poverty was one of His characteristics.  Nobody ever stops to think, or rarely so, that He bore His poverty, and what for? "That through His poverty we might be made rich." (2 Cor. 8:9)  He bore our sorrows, what for?  That we through His sorrows might be made glad.  (See Isa. 35:10, Psalm 30:11) He bore our suffering, for what?  That we through His stripes might be healed (Isa. 53:5).  He gave His life a sacrifice for sins, for what?  That we should know no sin. (Heb. 10:12-18) Then having completed the redemption, or purchasing the redemption, the redemption becomes manifest this side of Calvary.

-- John G. Lake

Let the Fire Fall 4/28 Tuesday Truth

It is up to the Church of Jesus Christ and the ministry of the Son of God to demonstrate that there is a power in the blood of Jesus Christ to save men and heal men unto the uttermost -- not half-healed or half the people healed, but I pray and believe that God's time has come for God's challenge to mankind and that challenge of the Christian Church to the world is to come on, and if it is God, let the fire fall.

-- John G. Lake

The Power That Will Revive the Church 4/27 Monday Meditation

 
The only power that will revive the church in this land and the word is that which she will receive when she throws her heart open to God as the people of Israel did and says, "Lord God, we have sinned."

-- John G. Lake

The Ultimate of the Gospel 4/24 Friday Faith

This startles some people.  But the ultimate of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate of the redemption of the Son of God, is to reproduce and make every man who is bound by sin and held by sensousness and enslaved by the flesh, like Himself in deed and in truth -- sons of God.

-- John G. Lake

Talking Unbelief 4/23 Thursday Thoughts

This is what we have done.  We have sung unbelief.  We have talked unbelief until we have robbed ourselves of our strength and Him of His glory.

-- John G. Lake

You Are In the Family 4/22 Wednesday Wisdom

You are in the family of God.  You have a right to the use of the name of Jesus just like a pass belongs to you when you work for the railroad... You have a right to the name of Jesus.  That is the pass.  It carries you up into the Holy of Holies.

-- John G. Lake

Jesus Is Your Righteousness 4/21 Tuesday Truth

God automatically, when you confess Jesus and accept Him as your Lord, becomes your righteousness.  And the moment that God becomes your righteousness, that moment your standing is like the standing of the Son of God.
For years I hunted for this thing I have given you tonight.  That ounce of unfitness and unworthiness (or as we call it in psychology, that inferiority complex) swamped me.  But when I saw that God became my righteousness I said, "I want you to know, Satan, that you have lost your case."  I know what I am now.

-- John G. Lake

If Jesus Rose ... 4/20 Monday Meditation

I want to make a few deductions.  What are the implications if Jesus Christ rose from the dead?  What then?  Here are three things.  We know He is the Son of God.  We know that "He died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and rose again for our justification."  We know that every man who accepts Jesus Christ, God redeems that man, and we know that Romans 3:26 is true:
That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
God automatically, when you confess Jesus and accept Him as your Lord, becomes your righteousness.  And the moment that God becomes your righteousness, that moment your standing is like the standing of the Son of God.

-- John G. Lake

Divine Health 4/17 Friday Faith

Divine healing is the removal, in the power of God, of the disease that has come upon the body.  But divine health is to live day by day and hour by hour in touch with God, so that the life of God flows into the body just as the life of God flows into the mind or flows into the spirit.

-- John G. Lake

The Real Christian 4/16 Thursday Thoughts

The real Christian is a separated man.  He is separated forever unto God in all the departments of his life, and so his body and his soul and his spirit are forever committed to God.  Therefore, from the day that he commits himself to God, he can go to no other power for help or healing, except to God.

-- John G. Lake

Secret of How to Live 4/15 Wednesday Wisdom

Jesus gave us the secret of how to live this kind of life.  Jesus showed us that the only way to live this life was to commit oneself, as He did, to the will of God and not walk in his own ways at all, but walk in God's ways.  So the one who is going to be a Christ-man in the best sense and let the world  see Jesus in him, must walk in all the ways of Jesus and follow Him. He must be a Christ-man, a Christian, or Christ-one.

-- John G. Lake

A Christ-Man 4/14 Tuesday Truth

When one 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 on should be the will and the words and the doings of Jesus, just as absolutely, just as entirely as He spoke and did the will of the Father.

-- John G. Lake

The Secret Is In Being 4/13 Monday Meditation

A low standard of Christianity is responsible for all the shame and sin and wickedness in the world.  Many Christians think it is all right if they pattern after Jesus in a sort-of way.  They imitate Him and they do the things which He did; that is, they outwardly do them. They perform kind acts and they do other things which Jesus did.  But the secret of Christianity is not in doing, the secret is in being.  Real Christianity is in being a possessor of the nature of Jesus Christ.  In other words, it is being Christ in character, Christ in demonstration, Christ in agency of transmission. 

-- John G. Lake

The Name 4/10 Good Friday Faith

Peter and John were hustled to jail. The church prayed for them in "the Name".  They were released.  They went to church.  The entire church prayed that signs and wonders might be done.  How did they pray?  In "the Name".  They used it legally.  The vital response was instantaneous.  The place was shaken as by an earthquake.  Tremendous Name!" ...
The apostles used the Name.  It worked.  The deacons at Samaria used the Name.  The fire flashed.  Believers everywhere, forever, were commanded to use it.  The Name detonated around the world.

-- John G. Lake

The Power of the Name 4/9 Thursday Thoughts

Peter and John instantly grasped the significance of His Name.  Passing into the temple they met a beggar-cripple... Peter commanded: "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk." (Acts 3:6) ... He leaped to his feet, whole.
A multitude rushed up.  They demanded, "In what name, by what name, by what power have ye done this?"  Peter and John replied, "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye slew, whom God raised up."
Matchless name!  The secret of power was in it.  When they used the name, power struck.  The dynamite of heaven exploded.

--John G. Lake

The Church Has Been Robbed 4/8 Wednesday Wisdom

We contend, by the Word of God, that the world and the Church have been robbed of the presence, power, and blessing of Jesus Christ -- a present Healer -- because the Church has falsely taught that the days of miracles are past.  The days of miracles never passed, only in the soul that lost its faith in God.  Where faith is, there ever will be the evidence of God's mighty power to save and heal.

-- John G. Lake

Vessels of Faith 4/7 Tuesday Truth

Jehovah filleth to the brim the vessels faith presents to Him.

-- John G. Lake

Jesus the Magnificent 4/7 Monday Meditation

Jesus has sometimes been made to appear as a little bigot; sometimes an impostor.  The world is still waiting to see Him as He is.  Jesus the magnificent, Jesus the giant, Jesus the compassionate, Jesus the dynamic -- the wonder of the centuries.
Take the shackles off God.
Let Him have a chance to bless mankind without limitations.

-- John G. Lake

Your Spirit Becomes Strong 4/3 Friday Faith

(conclusion)  On the other hand, your spirit life is fruitful and built up and enriched by communion with the Father and by reading His Word.  And your spirit becomes strong and vigorous.  There issues from it a faith that is triumphant and creative.  I venture to say this:  The men and women who are weak in faith, that once were mighty in faith, are so because they have stopped feeding on the Word of God and stopped close, intimate fellowship with the Father.

-- John G. Lake    I apologize.  I had used this quote, randomly out of order, in December.

Your Spirit Is Depleted 4/2 Thursday Thoughts

(continued from 4/1)  The reason people do not have rich, beautiful faith is because their spirit is denied the privilege of communion and fellowship with the Father.  You understand me?  You don't read your Bible; you don't pore over it; you don't live in it; you don't spend any time in fellowship with the Father.  Consequently your spirit is depleted and weakened.  Faith springs out of it and the faith that grows out of it is a sickly plant.  (to be continued)

-- John G. Lake