Come Up to the Throne 3/19 Thursday Thoughts

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

Coming Up Into God 3/18 Wednesday Wisdom

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 had 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

A Sound Mind 3/17 Tuesday Truth

"God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." (2 Timothy 1:7)
The Spirit of Power is the Holy Ghost, bless God.  And not only of power, but of love and of a sound mind -- not craziness and insanity, but a sound mind by which you can look in the face of the devil and laugh.

-- John G. Lake

Back to the Original Standard 3/16 Monday Meditation

The same divine authority that was 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 Church, in the real power of the living God again, until she comes back again to the original standard -- where Jesus was.

-- John G. Lake

Charles Spurgeon quote 3/13 Friday Faith

I'm going to break with John G. Lake for a day to share this quote from Charles Spurgeon ("The Prince of Preachers") that I read today.  It goes along perfectly with this week's quotes.

When people hear about what God used to do, one of the things they say is: "Oh, that was a very long while ago." ... Has God changed?  Is he not an immutable God, the same yesterday, today and forever?  Does not that furnish an argument to prove that what God has done at one time he can do at another?  Nay, I think I may push it a little further and say what he has done once is a prophecy of what he intends to do again... Whatever God has done... is to be looked upon as a precedent... [Let us] with earnestness seek that God would restore to us the faith of the men of old, that we may richly enjoy his grace as in the days of old.

-- Charles Spurgeon

Jesus Healed All 3/12 Thursday Thoughts

Jesus Christ did not leave us in doubt about God's will, but when the Church lost her faith in God she began to teach the people that maybe it was not God's will to heal them.  So the Church introduced the phrase, "If it be Thy will" concerning healing.  But Jesus "healed all that came to Him." (Matthew 4:23, Luke 9:6, Luke 9:11)

-- John G. Lake

The Power of God 3/11 Wednesday Wisdom

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