The Second Body 11/1 Thursday Thoughts

All that Jesus was to the world He purposed that the Church of Christ should be. First, He blessed the world through His own physical personality. Second, He established a physical body, composed of many members, joined in one by the Spirit of God.


When He established the second body, the Church, He never intended that it should be of lesser authority or of lesser power than the first. It was His real purpose that the second body, the Church, should exercise and fully accomplish all that the first had done.

-- John G. Lake (This all falls under the doctrine of Kingdom Authority.)

No Groaning 10/31 Wednesday Wisdom

I have always wondered how a Christian could be anything less than an optimist. It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner I say in my heart, "God, move the man on into that place where he comprehends what Christianity is." The Christian with a groan in him never moved the world except to groans.


-- John G. Lake

Holiness and Power 10/30 Tuesday Truth

Not long ago I stood before great audiences of the churchmen of the world. They said, "Through all your ministry there is one note. It is the call for power." They said, "Do you not think it would be better if the Church was calling for holiness instead of power?"


And I replied, "She will never obtain the one without the other. There is something larger than holiness. It is the nature of God."



-- John G. Lake

Hunger 10/29 Monday Meditation

"Blessed are they that hunger." Bless God! What are we hungering for, a LITTLE BIT of God? Enough to take us through this old world where we will have the dry rot and be stunted and then squeeze into heaven? "Blessed are they that HUNGER," for the NATURE and POWER and LOVE and UNDERSTANDING of God. Why? "They shall be FILLED."


-- John G. Lake (emphasis mine)

Purging Power 10/26 Friday Faith

Think not to come within the court of God with stain upon thy garments. Think not that heaven can smile upon a nature fouled through evil contact. Think not that Christ can dwell in temples seared by flames of hate. No! The heart of man must first be purged by holy fire and washed from every stain by cleansing blood. Know ye not that he whose nature is akin to God's must ever feel the purging power of Christ within?

-- John G. Lake

A Heavenly Longing 10/25 Thursday Thoughts

Think not that thou shalt attain the highest in God until within thine own soul a heavenly longing to be like Him who gave His life for us possesses thine heart.


-- John G. Lake

Separate Yourself 10/24 Wednesday Wisdom

"Prepare ye that way of the Lord, Make His paths straight." You want God to come and bless your own life? Then separate yourself from the superficialities and formalities that have possessed your mind and taken your attention, and come back with directness and simplicity to God and He will bless your soul.


-- John G. Lake