The Battle With Our Senses 5/15 Wednesday Wisdom

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: The Battle With Our Senses 5/15 Wednesday Wisdom So Paul continues, in Galatians 5:19, "Now the works of the senses are manifest" ... The battle that we fight in our daily walk is with our senses. I want that thing that I see. I may want to drink it. I may want to eat it. I may want to feel it. My spirit must govern my senses. My mind must be so renewed by knowing the Word and acting on the Word that I can easily conquer my senses. --E.W. Kenyon This will be my last post until Monday, May 27. If you are Pentecostal, charismatic, Word of Faith, Messianic, or just curious, you might check out my blog in my absence: www. lepsblogspot. blogspot. com. You will find articles that I have written (or some copied from elsewhere) that deal with subjects such as being "slain in the Spirit", women in ministry, gambling as a sin, tongues that do not need to be interpreted, the significance of the Hebrew feasts, and many other topics which I do not cover in my Faith Quotes.

More Than a Conqueror 5/14 Tuesday Truth

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: More Than a Conqueror 5/14 Tuesday Truth Now you can say with Paul, "I can do all things in Christ Who enables me." There is no power of Satan that can defeat you, for the Father has made you more than a conqueror through Jesus Christ. --E. W. Kenyon Wednesday's post will be my last post until Monday, May 27. If you are Pentecostal, charismatic, Word of Faith, Messianic, or just curious, you might check out my blog in my absence: www. lepsblogspot. blogspot. com. You will find articles that I have written (or some copied from elsewhere) that deal with subjects such as being "slain in the Spirit", women in ministry, gambling as a sin, tongues that do not need to be interpreted, the significance of the Hebrew feasts, and many other topics which I do not cover in my Faith Quotes.

Resurrection Ability 5/13 Monday Meditation

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Resurrection Ability 5/13 Monday Meditation As you share in His resurrection, you share in the supernatural victory over death, over Satanic power, over everything that has held man in bondage throughout the ages. That resurrection meant a new kind of life -- a resurrection life with a new kind of ability -- resurrection ability. You are sharing this with Him as you let Him come into your life and share with you. -- E.W. Kenyon Wednesday will be my last post until Monday, May 27. I can tell from my blog stats that we have several new readers. Welcome! I have been posting quotes from "Pentecostal pioneers" every Monday through Friday (except when I am away) since late 2005.

Delivered from Satan's Authority 5/2 Thursday Thoughts

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Delivered From Satan's Authority 5/2 Thursday Thoughts This will be my last post until Monday, May 13. Note carefully that we have been delivered out of the authority of Satan. He has no dominion over us... You are Redeemed. Satan has no more right to reign over you than the Pharaoh of Egypt had to reign over delivered Israel in [Israel]. We have been delivered out of Satan's authority, and we have been translated over into the kingdom of the Son of His love. Our all is now in Christ, the Son of His love, in Whom we have our Redemption. It is ours just as the money you have in your pocketbook that you earned honestly is yours. Now this Redemption from Satan is a present-tense fact, for you have this Redemption now. --E.W. Kenyon

When Jesus Arose 5/1 Wednesday Wisdom

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: When Jesus Arose 5/1 Wednesday Wisdom When Jesus arose from the dead, He arose, not only because He had put sin away, but also because He had, as a substitute, conquered Satan. It was as though we, individually, had been the conquerors, just as though we had been there in that dark region and conquered Satan, stripped him of his authority and risen from the dead. Then Christ rose from the dead and Redemption became a settled fact, a closed issue. -- E.W. Kenyon I will not be posting from Friday, May 2, until Monday, May 13.

God Inside of Me 4/30 Tuesday Truth

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: God Inside of Me 4/30 Tuesday Truth Israel could conquer all the armies that came against them, for God was with them. How much more can God do through us when we are conscious of His indwelling Presence. When things press hard, we whisper softly, "He is inside of me, and the God inside of me is mightier than all the forces that can come against me." So we rest quietly. -- E.W. Kenyon I will not be posting from Friday, May 3, until Monday, May 13.

Trusting Today and Doubting Tomorrow 4/29 Monday Meditation

I will not be posting from Friday, May 3 until Monday, May 13. Satan has tried to keep you in bondage. One thing after another has happened that has kept your pocketbook drained... If you have fearless confidence in Him, He will see that blessings shower in upon you. But if you are vacillating and trust Him today and doubt Him tomorrow, you will find yourself walking alone. --E. W. Kenyon

God Wants Firebrands 4/26 Friday Faith

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: God Wants Firebrands 4/26 Friday Faith It is a poor people who cannot praise the Lord. Suppression of praise never disturbs the devil. God wants firebrands -- lives aflame by the power of God. -- Smith Wigglesworth.

Able to Meet Every Obligation 4/25 Thursday Thoughts

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Able to Meet Every Obligation 4/25 Thursday Thoughts Psalm 46:1 is yours: "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." He is able to meet every financial obligation when you trust Him utterly. But, it will be necessary for you to go into business with Him, for you to be partners. Malachi 3:10, 11 should become a part of your daily consciousness: "Bring ye the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and prove Me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." --E.W. Kenyon

You Have His Ability 4/24 Wednesday Wisdom

He wants us to know that we have His ability, that II Corinthians 3:4,5 is ours, written especially for us. "And such confidence have we through Christ to Godward; not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God." You have His ability in life's fight ... have it in the office, in the store, in the schoolroom, in the home. The mechanic has His wisdom at the bench. The judge and the lawyer both have access to His ability. There isn't a walk in life in which the believer finds himself, but what God's ability belongs to him, and that his Father is not watching over him, meeting his every need in every crisis. --E. W. Kenyon

Taking Our Place and Responsibility 4/23 Tuesday Truth

"If any man loves me he will keep my Word." That means that we are taking our place as sons. We will take the responsibility of sons. We will bear the burden of it, and will enjoy the privileges of it. If we do that, then He will assume His place as a Father and will make His home with us, take care of us and enable us to meet our obligations, enable us to walk in love and wisdom, and to walk in the fullness of His fellowship. --E. W. Kenyon

Our Actual Father 4/22 Monday Meditation

And not only are we sons, but we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. God is our actual Father. John 16:27, "For the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved me." If we are His children and if He is our Father, then he is responsible for us. If we take our place as sons, He is bound to take His place as a Father. --E. W. Kenyon

Jesus Our Substitute 4/19 Friday Faith

Jesus was the first person ever born again. He was born twice. He was born of the virgin Mary; then on the cross He was made sin with our sin, as our Substitute. Then after He had satisfied the claims of justice, He was justified in spirit, made righteous in spirit, and made alive in spirit. This was the new birth. That is the reason that you have in Acts 13:33: "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee," speaking of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. This scripture wonderfully helped me to understand the substitutionary work of Jesus. He had actually become sin, was forsaken of God, a curse because He had hung upon the tree. After meeting every demand of justice, He was born again out of death, recreated and becomes a partaker of Eternal Life. -- E.W. Kenyon

We Are in the Family 4/18 Thursday Thoughts

We are in His kingdom. Colossians 1:13, "Who delivered us out of the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love." We have found His Righteousness. II Corinthians 5:21, "Him Who knew no sin He made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the Righteousness of God in Him." Then we are in the family. (Romans 8:14-16.) And in I John 3:1, we read, "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God: Beloved, now are we the children of God." -- E. W. Kenyon

Our Caretaker 4/17 Wednesday Wisdom

So with the heart man believes that Jesus is His Righteousness, and then he make a confession of his salvation, of the Lordship of Jesus over his life. "Lordship" really means "the bread provider," the one who sustains, protects, and cares for us". So in the very beginning of the Divine Life, Jesus assumes the responsibility of our caretaker. --E.W. Kenyon

Who We Are in Christ 4/16 Tuesday Truth

The Scripture describes the Adversary, tells us much about him. But it tells us more of what we are in Christ; and as we come to know our place in Christ, our rights and privileges, we become very conscious of any division in our walk. We know the moment we step out of love, we step into No-Man's-Land where the Adversary gains ascendancy. --E. W. Kenyon

He Is With You 4/15 Monday Meditation

Matthew 28:20, "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." He is with you in the living Word. He is with you in the presence of the mighty Spirit that lives in us. He hasn't left us alone, and He will not leave us alone. His ability is our ability; His strength is our strength. --E.W. Kenyon

Doer of the Word 4/12 Friday Faith

You are a doer of the Word. The Word is living in your lips. It is just as though the Master spoke it Himself. That man gets what he prays for. We do the things that are pleasing to Him. In other words, we are taking Jesus' place. We are Father-pleasers just as Jesus was. (John 8:29) It is a doer of the Word that receives things from God. Idle words may entertain men, but they do not reach God. --E.W. Kenyon

Our Privilege in Christ 4/11 Thursday Thoughts

"God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary and live on a lower plane can do so; but as for me, I will not." --Smith Wigglesworth

You Can Trust Him 4/10 Wednesday Wisdom

In the past I have quoted from the sermons of one preacher for about a year. Last week I concluded my quotes from the complete sermons of John G. Lake. From now on I am going to "mix up" the preachers. I am going to use Facebook Memories to rerun quotes from the same date four to fourteen years ago. From five years ago: You see, you can trust Him. You bank on Him. Your expectations are from Him. You do not turn to the beggarly help of Sense Knowledge [believing only what you can see]. We do the Word, we live the Word, we act the Word, we trust implicitly in the Word, and we know that God and His throne are back of every word. That gives us a quiet, restful confidence, --E.W. Kenyon

That Degree of Unselfishness 4/5 Friday Faith

This concludes the quotes from John G. Lake. I will not be posting for Monday or Tuesday. The greatest manifestation of the Holy Ghost-baptized life ever given to the world was not in the preaching of the apostles; it was not in the wonderful manifestation of God that took place at their hands. It was in the unselfishness manifested by the Church. Think of it! Three thousand Holy Ghost-baptized Christians in Jerusalem from the Day of Pentecost onward, who love their neighbor's children as much as their own, who were so anxious for fear their brethren did not have enough to eat that they sold their estates and brought the money and laid it at the apostles' feet. They said, "Distribute it, carry the glow and the fire and the wonder of this divine salvation to the whole world." (See Acts 2:44-45). That showed what God has wrought in their hearts. Oh, I wish we could arrive at that place, where this church was baptized in that degree of unselfishness. --John G. Lake

Treasury of the Heart of God 4/4 Thursday Thoughts

I will be concluding John G. Lake quotes on Friday. I will not be posting for Monday or Tuesday. Jesus went to heaven in order that the very treasury of the heart of the eternal God might be unlocked for your benefit and that out of the very soul of the eternal God, the streams of His life and nature would possess you from the crown of your head to the sole of your feet and that there would be just as much of the eternal God in your toenails and in your brain as each are capable of containing... Man is made alive by God and with God by the Spirit. And in the truest sense, man is the dwelling place of God, the house of God, the tabernacle of the Most High. --John G. Lake

Two Pieces of Wood 3/3 Wednesday Wisdom

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it. -- Augustus Wm. Hare

Purging Power 4/2 Tuesday Truth

Isn't it marvelous, beautiful, wonderful to realize that mankind can receive into their nature and being the power and spirit of the living Christ, which contains the purging power to drive forth from the being every particle of evil, every sensuous thing in the thought and nature so that the man becomes what Jesus was. That is what the blood of Jesus Christ is calculated to do. That is what the spirit of Christ is purposed to do in the soul of a man -- the cleansing of a nature from the power and dominion of sin. -- John G. Lake.

Receiving of the Spirit 4/1 Monday Meditation

Why, if I receive the Spirit of Jesus Christ, of the Christ who IS, I receive the spirit of victory and power and might and dominion -- of grace, of love, of power, blessed be God, of all the blessed estate of which Jesus Himself is now the conscious Master. All these things He gives to the Christian through imparting to him the Holy Ghost. -- John G. Lake.

For Now 3/29 Good Friday Faith

Wishing a blessed Resurrection Day to all of Lep's Faith Quote readers! The glory is not for the life that is coming, but for the life that is now. The victory is not for the future. It is for the now. It is not for the good days by and by. It is for the now. Not for heaven to come, but for heaven on earth now. -- John G. Lake.

Blind to the Power of God 3/28 Thursday Thoughts

Is healing a wonder? No, the marvel is that men have remained blind to the power of God so long. How was it that you and I, raised in Christian homes, reading the Word of God, praying to our Father God, failed to comprehend that the power of God through Christ was able to save a man from ALL his sins and ALL his sicknesses? --John G. Lake.

Let the Fire Fall 3/27 Wednesday Wisdom

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 the challenge of the Christian Church to the world is to come on, and if it is God, LET THE FIRE FALL. -- John G. Lake.

Just a Little Flash 3/26 Tuesday Truth

Our souls have caught just a little flash, a little larger revelation of the living God through the blessed Word and through the Holy Spirit, the divine power to make it real. But my brother, beyond our souls is the great ocean of God. We are just paddling around on the edge yet. -- John G. Lake.

Add Action to Your Prayers 3/25 Monday Meditation

In my judgment, that is the place of extreme weakness in Christian character. I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge to dodge the action of faith. And just exactly as Moses came down there and began to pray instead of honoring God's word to him by the use of his rod, so many times our prayer becomes offensive to God. Because instead of praying as Moses did, God demands us to stretch forth our hand, exercise our rod of faith, and divide the waters. -- John G. Lake

Whining or Commanding? 3/22 Friday Faith

God did not even say, "You stretch out your hand, and I will divide the sea." But God said to Moses: "Stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it." It was not an act for God to perform, but it was an act for Moses to believe for. The responsibility was not with God, it was with Moses. A weak Christianity is ever inclined to whine in prayer while God waits for the believer to command it. -- John G. Lake.

The Purpose of Jesus 3/21 Thursday Thoughts

We contend, therefore, that the purpose of Jesus was not to save souls only. His purpose was to save men -- to save their body from sickness, their soul from sin, their spirit from death. And to this end He gave eternal life to the spirit, peace to the soul, healing to the body, and all are available to every man. -- John G. Lake.

No Apologies 3/20 Wednesday Wisdom

Christianity is not a thing to be apologized for. Christianity was the living, conscious life and power of the living God, transmitted into the nature of man until, bless God, man's nature is transformed by the living touch, and the very spirit, soul, and being is energized and filled by His life. -- John G. Lake.

Union With Christ 3/19 Tuesday Truth

There is a union between the Christ and the Christian that is so deep, so pure, so sweet, so real that the very conditions of the human spirit are transmitted to His, and the conditions of the Christ's Spirit are transmitted to ours. It is because of the continuous inflow of the Spirit of Christ in our heart that we appreciate or realize His power and triumph. It lifts man above his surroundings and causes him to triumph anywhere and everywhere. -- John G. Lake.

A Faith Walker 3/18 Monday Meditation

Now let us take the next step up. Now you walk in the realm of faith. "We walk by faith, not by sight." (2 Cor. 5:7) . Sight means reason. You walk by faith, not by reason. You are a faith walker. That puts you absolutely in the class with the Lord. -- John G. Lake.

Talking Unbelief 3/12 Tuesday Truth

[This will be my last post of the week.] 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. Are you an incarnation? If you are, you are in the family, and He is yours and you are in Christ. -- John G. Lake

Of Course You Believe It 3/11 Monday Meditation

[I will be posting only Monday and Tuesday this week.] Now another thing, beloved, you do not have to try to believe the Word, do you? That would be an awful thing for me to have to try to believe my own Father. How would I feel if I were to write to my little boy and say, "Son, I am going to send you $5.00." And then he would go to his mother and say, "I want you to help me believe that papa will send me $5.00. I want you to stand with me in faith that I will believe that papa will send me the $5.00." Do you know I would get a telegram from her if he would talk like that? She would say, "John, you better pray for that boy. Something has gone wrong with his head." There must be something wrong with us when we try to believe what He says. Let's stop all that baby business. In the name of Jesus Christ, don't ever magnify the devil by letting him know you do not believe that book. Don't you ever lower the standard. Don't you weaken it. It is God's book. Of course you believe it . His people for ages and ages have believed it, and it has never failed. -- John G. Lake

You Have a Pass 3/8 Friday Faith

[I will be posting only Monday and Tuesday next week.] 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 are part of a definite system. You are in the family of God. 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.

"New" 3/7 Thursday Thoughts

[I will be posting only on Monday and Tuesday next week.] Consider the result of being born into the family of God. It means a new Father, a new Savior, a new Captain, a new armor, a new Physician, a new Comforter, a new Guide, a new Teacher, a new Truth. It brings within, a new heart, a new mind, a new grace, a new hope, a new peace, a new joy, a new calmness, a new outlook on life, and a new purpose for living and being. It is reflected in a new gentleness, a new kindness, a new cheerfulness, and a new love. This new life brings with it a new power, a new protectiion, a new message, a new responsibility, a new rest, and a new shout of victory. -- John G. Lake.

Christianity Stands Unique 3/6 Wednesday Wisdom

Christianity stands today absolutely unique. No other religion on earth has our hope, or our consciousness, or our power. I fear sometimes that we moderns somehow have lost the spirit of original Christianity. We have lost the smash of it. We have lost the charge of it. We have lost the overcoming of it. We are begging the devil for a place in the world, apologizing for our faith in God, trying to conform our religion to the mind of the world. -- John G. Lake.

You Have a Right 3/4 Monday Meditation

I say to you reverently, friends, that if you have accepted Jesus Christ and are born again, you are standing in the presence of the great eternal Father God as Jesus is. You have just as much right to step into the presence of God Almighty's presence as Jesus has. Don't you see what that means? It means that Satan cannot stand before you any more than he can stand before Jesus. Not only that, Jesus gave you the legal right to use His name. . . You have a right to your healing, to redemption, to victory. You have a right to prayer. You have a right to your Father's fellowship. -- John G. Lake.

God Becomes My Righteousness 3/1 Friday Faith

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 ounces of unfitness and unworthiness (or as they 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. "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5:21) -- John G. Lake

If Jesus Rose 2/29 Thursday Thoughts

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" (Rom. 4:25, 1 Cor. 15:3-4, para.) We know that every man who accepts Jesus Christ, God redeems that man, and know that Romans 3:26 is true: "That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." -- John G. Lake.

Exercise Dominion 2/28 Wednesday Wisdom

I tell you, beloved, it was not necessary for people to be dominated by evil, nor by evil spirits. Instead of being dominated, Christians should exercise dominion and control other forces. Even Satan has no power over them, only as they permit him to have. Jesus taught us to close the mind, to close the heart, to close the being against all that is evil; to live with an openness to God only, so that the sunight of God shines in. The glory radiance of God shines in, but everything that is dark is shut out. -- John G. Lake.

The Place of Authority 2/27 Tuesday Truth

The man with Christ in him, the Holy Ghost, is greater than any other power in the world. All other natural and evil powers are less than God; even Satan himself is a lesser power. Man with God in him is greater than Satan. That is the reason that God says to the believer, he shall cast out devils. (see Mark 16:17) "Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world." (1 John 4:4) The Christian, therefore, is a ruler; he is in the place of dominion, the place of authority, even as Jesus was. -- John G. Lake.

A Separated Man 2/26 Monday Meditation

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.

The Only Way to Live 2/23 Friday Faith

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. -- John G. Lake.

A Christ-man 2/22 Thursday Thoughts

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 of Christianity 2/21 Wednesday Wisdom

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.

God Is the Healer Still 2/20 Tuesday Truth

God always was the healer. He is the healer still, and will ever remain the healer. Healing is for you. Jesus healed "All that came to him". He never turned anyone away. He never said, "It is not God's will to heal you," or that it was better for the individual to remain sick or that they were being perfected in character through the sickness. He healed them all, thereby demonstrating forever God's unchangeable will concerning sickness and healing. -- John G. Lake.

The Original Standard 2/19 Monday Meditation

And the Church will never be a real Church, in the real power of the living God again, until she comes back again to the original standard, where Jesus was. Jesus said, "Behold, I give you authority." What authority? "Against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease" (Matthew 10:1). Jesus has vested that authority in you. You say, "Well. Lord, we understand the authority that is in your Word, but we haven't the power." But Jesus said, "Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you" (Acts 1:8). -- John G. Lake.

Jesus Without Limitations 2/16 Friday Faith

The struggle of the centuries has been to free the soul from narrow interpretations. Jesus has sometimes been made to appear as a little bigot; sometimes as 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 shakles off God. Let Him have a chance to bless mankind without limitations. -- John G. Lake.

The Power of the Name 2/15 Thursday Thoughts

Peter and John instantly grasped the significance of His Name. Passing into the temple they met a beggar-cripple. He was 40 years old and had been crippled from birth. Peter commanded: "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk." (Acts 3:6) Heaven's lightning struck the man. He leaped to his feet, whole. . . Matchless name! The secret of power was in it. When they used the name, power struck. The dynamite of heaven exploded. . . The apostles used the Name. It worked. The deacons at Samaria used the Name. (Acts 9:31) The fire flashed. Believers everywhere, forever, were commanded to use it. The Name detonated around the world. -- John G. Lake

The Days of Miracles 2/14 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.

Is God Changed? 2/13 Tuesday Truth

Is He with us still? Yes, bless God. Is He changed? No. "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever" (Hebrews 13:8). "I am the Lord, I change not" (Malachi 3:6). . . We have lost the old-time faith, that is where the trouble is! Having forsaken God to lean upon the arms of flesh, and the fountain of living waters for broken cisterns that can hold no water (Jeremiah 2:13). Let us honestly acknowledge our sin and return to the Lord our God. -- John G. Lake.

A Fleck of Dirt 2/12 Monday Meditation

One day my Reo car stopped right in traffic. A young lady sat with Mrs. Lake and she said, "Let me try it." She worked the accelerator and it wouldn't work. She said, "Wait a moment." I jumped out of the car and I raised the hood. She said, "I can tell you where it is." She just opened up the distributor, and she said, "One of those points has got a fleck of dirt on it." She brushed it off with her handkerchief and put it on again. The car started right off. That point of the distributor had some little dust, something under it, some little corroding some way that just broke the current and it was a delicate little thing, it didn't take much. It doesn't take much to break the connection of your spirit and His. God is a Spirit. You are a spirit. And something breaks the connection and the power no longer flows through. --John G. Lake

Fruitful Spirit Life 2/9 Friday Faith

(continued from Thursday) 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. Once 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.

Depleted Spirit 2/8 Thursday Thoughts

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. (to be continued) -- John G. Lake.

Joy and Happiness 2/7 Wednesday Wisdom

Joy is something in your spirit. Happiness is something connected with your surroundings. You are happy because of your surroundings. You are joyful because you are in right relation with the Father. Now faith, love, joy, hope -- all spring from your spirit being, the hidden man of the heart. All are products of your spiritual life. -- John G. Lake.

Ministry of Healing 2/6 Tuesday Truth

The value of the ministry of healing is not in the mere fact that people are healed. The value of healing is more largely in the fact that it becomes a demonstration of the living, inner, vital power of God, which should dwell in every life and make us new and mighty men in the hands of God. -- John G. Lake

An All-Time Favorite Quote 2/5 Monday Meditation

This is one of my all-time favorite quotes that I repeat about once a year. Have you been in Canada? Do you know when I went to Canada for the first time there was one thing that struck me peculiarly? The signs would read, "John Brown, Ltd." Everywhere I saw that sign... I was holding meetings in the old St. Andrew Church in Sidney. I asked them one night why they did not put their national symbol on their churches. They wondered what I meant. I said, "Every other business house is 'Ltd.'" Why don't you put it over the church?" And old Scotchman said, "We don't have to. Everybody knows it." Limited? Sure it is limited. Limit God, limit ourselves, limit His grace, limit the Word. Sure, our God is a little bit of a God. Most of us could carry Him in our vest pocket and it wouldn't bulge the pocket -- our God with the "Ltd." on Him. Brother, sister, that challenge comes to us today to let God loose. -- John G. Lake

A Good-Sized God 2/2 Friday Faith

If any saint would dare to say, "I am done with disease and sickness; I will never be sick again," 99 percent of your would say, "Keep your eyes on that person. He will be sick in a week. The devil sure will get them." You believe the devil is bigger than God. Your God is about one-and-a-half inches high, and the devil is one-and-a-half feet high. What you need to do is to change gods and change gods quick. There have been only a few folks that had a good-sized God. -- John G. Lake.

Devil Bigger Than God? 2/1 Thursday Thoughts

Another man said, "Brother, I believe in the dual nature. I believe that when I would do good, evil is always present with me, and I thank God that evil is always there." You live it and you believe it, and God cannot do anything with you. You magnify failure and you deify failure until to the majority of you the devil is bigger than God. And you are more afraid of the devil than you are of God. You have more reverance for the devil than you have for God. -- John G. Lake.

The Triple Curse 1/31 Wednesday Wisdom

Sin, sickness, and death are doomed -- doomed to death by the decree of Jesus Christ. Sin, sickness, and death are the devil's triumvirate -- the triple curse. Heaven is the absence of this triple curse -- heaven is sinless, sicklessness, and deathlessness. This is the ultimate of Christ's recemption. -- John G. Lake.

A Divine Secret 1/30 Tuesday Truth

Suppose I could get inside of Mrs. Lake. Can you imagine such a thing? She would be 190 pounds heavier than she is now. She would have a voice like a pirate, and all the other characteristics of me. She would be me. Do you see it? Oh, listen. There is a divine secret in Christ's salvation. It is Christ in fact in you by the Holy Ghost, dwelling in you, speaking in you, being in you, blazing in you, flashing from you, bless God. -- John G. Lake.

Necessity of the Holy Ghost 1/29 Monday Meditation

Every decline that has followed the history of the Christian Church has first had its inception when men began to lay down on the subject of the Holy Ghost. If you want to spell death to an organization that is now alive spiritually, all you have to do is to get them to lay down on the subject of the necessity of the Holy Ghost and the baptism of the Holy Ghost. There will soon be nothing left but a corpse. That is the history of Christianity. -- John G. Lake.

Come Up to the Throne 1/26 Friday Faith

Come up to the throne, dear ones. Let the throne life, and the throne love and the throne power and the throne spirit and the Holy Ghost in heaven possess you, and you will be a new man in Christ Jesus! And your tread will be the march of the conqueror and your song the song of victory, and your crown the crown of glory, and your power the power of God. -- John G. Lake.

Look Up 1/25 Thursday Thoughts

Friends, we need a coming up into God. This church, and the church around, needs to come up into God. We have been traveling around in a circle, digging our noses in the ground, and we have had our eyes on the ground, instead of in the clouds, instead of up at the throne. Look up to the glorified One! -- John G. Lake

The Real God Cry 1/24 Wednesday Wisdom

God's purposes come to pass when your heart and mine get the real God cry, and the real God prayer comes into our spirit, and the real God yearning gets our nature. Something is going to happen then. -- John G. Lake.

A Conquering Force 1/23 Tuesday Truth

At the end of the first three hundred years of the Christian era, there were millions of Christians. Christianity was an aggressive power. Christianity went into the heart of heathendom to undo their superstitions, to break down their psychological forces, to elevate the consciousness of Jesus Christ in the heart, to heal the sick, to raise the dead. Oh, God in heaven, bring our hearts back to it. Christianity was a conquering force. -- John G. Lake

Impregnable to Dark Powers 1/22 Monday Meditation

The Spirit of God anointing the Christian heart makes the soul impregnable to the powers of darkness. How I love to teach men that when the Lord Jesus Christ anoints your soul and baptizes you in the Holy Ghost, that the almightiness of the eternal God the Father, by the Spirit and Jesus Christ combined, has come into your soul. -- John G. Lake.

The Spirit of Power 1/19 Friday Faith

The Spirit of Power is the Holy Ghost, bless God. And not only of power, but of love and of a sound mind (2 Tim. 1:7) -- not craziness and insanity, but a sound mind by which you can look in the face of the devil and laugh. -- John G. Lake.

To Make You a Master 1/18 Thursday Thoughts

God anoints your soul. God anoints your life. God comes to dwell in your person. God comes to make you a master. That is the purpose of His indwelling in a Christian. The real child of God was to be a master over every other power of darkness in the world. It was to be subject to him. He is to be God's representative in the world. -- John G. Lake.

Divine Authority 1/17 Wednesday Wisdom

The same divine authority that wa vested in Jesus is vested by Jesus in every Christian soul. Jesus made provision for the Church of Jesus Christ to go on forever and do the very same things He did and to keep on doing them forever. That is what is the matter with the Church. The Church lost faith in that truth. The result was, they went on believing that He could save them from sin, but the other great range of Christian life was left to the doctors and the devil or anything else. And the Church will never be a real Curch, in the real power of the living God again, until she comes back again to the original standard -- where Jesus was. -- John G. Lake.

The Power of God 1/16 Tuesday Truth

The Church in general is very clear in her faith on the subject of salvation through the sacrifice of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The Christian world in general, regardless of their personal state of salvation, have a general faith and belief of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the salvation of the world. But they are ever in doubt and very inexperienced in the power of God. -- John G. Lake.

Salvation and Healing 1/15 Monday Meditation

Supposing two men came to the altar. One is sick and lame; the other is a sinner. Suppose they knelt at the altar together. The sinner says, "I want to find the Lord." Everyone in the house will immediately lend the love of their heart and the faith of their soul to help him touch God. But the lame fellow says, "I have a lame leg." Or "My spine is injured. I want healing." Instead of everybody lending their love and faith in the same way to that man, everybody puts up a question mark. That comes because of the fact that we are instructed on the Word of God concerning the salvation of the soul, but our education concerning sickness and His desire and willingness to heal has been neglected. We have gone to the eighth grade or the tenth grade or the University on the subject of salvation, but on the subject of healing we are in the ABC class. -- John G. Lake

Do You Want Him? 1/12 Friday Faith

Do you want Him? You can have Him. Oh, He will come and fill your soul. Then the Holy Ghost will take possession of your life. He will reveal the wonder of heaven and the glory of God, and the richness and purity of His holiness, and make you sweet and godlike forever. -- John G. Lake.

The Pulse of Jesus 1/11 Thursday Thoughts

You will speak with the soul of Jesus Christ. You will feel with the heart of the Son of God. Your heart will beat with a heavenly desire to bless the world, because it is the pulse of Jesus that is throbbing in your soul. -- John G. Lake.

In Harmony With God 1/10 Wednesday Wisdom

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

Renewed and Remade 1/9 Tuesday Truth

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! . . . How does Jesus reach them? Through your hands, through your heart, through your faith. -- John G. Lake

A Real Christian 1/8 Monday Meditation

The life of God, the Spirit of God, the nature of God are sufficient for every need of man. 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

Mankind's Supreme Need 1/5 Friday Faith

There is one great thing that the world is needing more than anything else, and I am convinced of it more every day I live. Mankind has one supreme need and that is the love of God. The hearts of men are dying for lack of the love of God. -- John G. Lake

What Prayer Is 1/4 Thursday Thoughts

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 in your soul. Prayer is God's divine generator. The spirit of man is God's divine dyname. When you go to pray, your spirit gets into motion. Not 10,000 revolutions per minute, but possibly 100,000. 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 1/3 Wednesday Wisdom

This marks my 19th year of posting Lep's Faith Quotes. I currently post them in seven locations. I take my quotes from volumes of the complete sermons and writings of four "Pentecostal pioneers" of the early 20th Century who are seldom quoted nowadays. I read the books long ago and marked for future use hundreds of quotes in each book which can stand alone without the context of the sermons. 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 1/2 Tuesday Truth

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 . . . 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.