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.