We Are in the ABC Class 3/10 Tuesday Truth

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 sinners 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

Sweet and Godlike 3/9 Monday Meditation

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 Greatest Manifestation 3/6 Friday Faith

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 neighbors' 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 2:44-25).  That showed what God has wrought in their hearts.  Oh, I wish we could arrive at that place, where this church was baptized to that degree of unselfishness.

-- John G. Lake

A Tenderness in Your Soul 3/5 Thursday Thoughts

(continued)  ... [W]hen you are baptized in the Holy Ghost ... I do not believe there will be a bit of inclination in your heart to turn around another child of God and say, "You are not in my class. I am baptized with the Holy Ghost."  That is as foreign to the Spirit of the Son of God as night is from day.  Beloved, if you are baptized in the Holy Ghost, there will be a tenderness in your soul so deep that you will never crush the aspiration of another..., but your soul will throb and beat and pulse in love.

-- John G. Lake

Pulse of Jesus in Your Soul 3/4 Wednesday Wisdom

...[W]hen you are baptized in the Holy Ghost... [y]ou 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.   (to be continued)

-- John G. Lake

Residence of the Spirit of God 3/3 Tuesday Truth

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.  In other words, from the very soles of your feet to the last hair on the top of your head, every cell of your being would be a residence of the Spirit of the living God.  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

He Gave You Himself 3/2 Monday Meditation

A Christian is a man indwelt by God -- the house of God, the tabernacle of the Most High!  Man, indwelt by God, becomes the hands and the heart and the feet and the mind of Jesus Christ.  God descends into man; man ascends into God!  That is the purpose and power of the baptism in the Holy Ghost.  A soul is saved.  How does Jesus reach them?  Through your hands, through your heart, through your faith.  When God baptized you in the Holy Ghost, He [gave] you the biggest gift that heaven or earth ever possessed.  He gave you Himself!  He joins you by the one Spirit to Himself forever. 

-- John G. Lake