You Are Necessary to God 12/29 Friday Faith

I WILL NOT BE POSTING ON MONDAY. HAVE A BLESSED NEW YEAR. You are just as necessary to God in His plan for the salvation of mankind as God is necesary 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 necesary to the Christian. Without God we could not be saved. Without God we could not live. 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.

God's Purpose 12/28 Thursday Thoughts

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 the Triumphant 12/27 Wednesday Wisdom

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" (Revelation 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

In Touch With the Powers of God 12/22 Friday Faith

This will be the last post until Wed., 12/27. Have a blessed Christmas! 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 are 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... --John G. Lake

Holy Triumph 12/21 Thursday Thoughts

I will not be posting Monday or Tuesday. Have a blessed Christmas! 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 Kingliest Man 12/20 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. Bless God. -- John G. Lake.

Sleep 12/19 Tuesday Truth

[I have prayed this same way with many people who have sleep problems. - Lep] Yesterday, Brother Fogwill quoted that wondersul 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 12/18 Monday Meditation

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." -- John G. Lake

The Eternal Healer 12/15 Friday Faith

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 be His name. -- John G. Lake.

The Crowning Creation 12/14 Thursday Thoughts

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

Babyhood 12/13 Wednesday Wisdom

My Lord is not dead! But I'll tell you, dear hearts -- we have been satisfied to live in Christ in our babyhood, to perpetuate our babyhood, and to go on shouting like a lot of babies, instead of entering into the secrets of the heart of Jesus Christ by the grace of God and claiming from heaven the flames of God upon our souls. When that takes place, then we shall stand amazed at the action of God in our own and others' lives. -- John G. Lake

The Days of Miracles 12/12 Tuesday Truth

Ministers and churches throughout the land have seen that, although the church has taught that the days of miracles only belonged to the times of the apostles, that statement was a falsehood. They have seen that the healing power of God is as available to the honest ouul today as it was in the days of Christ on the earth. "The gifts and callings of God are without repentance," (Romans 11:29) and Jesus is the Healer still. -- John G. Lake

A New Light 12/11 Monday Meditation

A new light dawned in our souls. The church had diligently taught us that the days of miracles had passed, and believing this, eight members of the family had been permitted to die. But now, with the light of truth flashing in our hearts, we saw that as a lie, no doubt invented by the devil and diligently heralded as truth by the church, thus robbing mankind of its inheritance through the blood of Jesus. -- John G. Lake.

When You Pray 12/8 Friday Faith

Oh, beloved, when you pray, something is happening in you! It is not a myth; it is the action of God. The Almighty God, by the Spirit, comes into your soul, takes possession of your brain, and manifests Himself in the cortex cells of your brain. When you wish and will, either consciously or unconsciously, the fire of God -- the power of God, that life of God, that nature of God -- is transmitted from the cortex cells of your brain and throbs through your nerves down through your person, into every cell of your being -- into every cell of your brain, your blood, your flesh, and your bone -- into every square inch of your skin, until your are alive with God! -- John G. Lake.

What Is a Miracle? 12/7 Thursday Thoughts

What is a miracle? It is the tangible evidence of the supreme control of the Spirit of God over every character and form of materiality. Beloved, the power of such an event, such an act and sign, shows you and me that through living, positive, actual contact with the Spirit of God, all things are possible. Blessed be His name! -- John G. Lake.

A Sadness 12/6 Wednesday Wisdom

It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God. -- John G. Lake (Commentary: That is, miracles and answered prayer should be so common that we are not surprised at them. --Lep)

D-o-n'-t or B-e 12/5 Tuesday Truth

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 90% 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.

The Secret of Christianity 12/4 Monday Meditation

The secret of Christianity is in being. It 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. 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.