The Eternal Healer 3/1 Tuesday Truth

To my heart Jesus Christ is the Eternal Healer.  He was the Healer in the beginning.  He was the Healer before there was any flood.  He was the Healer after the flood.  He was the Healer during His earth life.  He is the Healer in this dispensation.  He is the Healer forever!  Bless God.  So long as need of healing exists, Jesus is the Healer.  Blessed be His name.

--John G. Lake

The Book of Acts Today! 2/29 Monday Meditation

Going to take a one-day break from John G. Lake to share some really cool things I've found.

"We should be outshining what they did in the Book of Acts.  They didn't even have the completed Bible!"  -- Jim Montgomery, quoted in Word of Faith magazine, Feb/Mar 2016

Rhema Papua New Guinea's students traveled by motorboat to preach the Gospel in prisons and villages.  Students held crusades and meetings through which many were born again, healed, and set free.  One team prayed for the patients in the tuberculosis ward of a local hospital.  They went back the next day and met with a woman who was totally healed.  They followed up on the other patients and learned that everyone in the ward had been healed and had gone home!

--Word of Faith magazine, Nov/Dec 2015

Days of Miracles Past? 2/26 Friday Faith

Yet they tell us that the days of miracles have passed.  They tell us Jesus Christ is the Healer no more.  They tell us there is no such thing as a baptism in the Holy Ghost.  Who are the doubters, the Medical Fraternity? ... Who opposes the fact of healing?  Not the doctors, but the churches and the preachers.  Those who stand to represent the Son of God and proclaim His salvation.  What kind of a salvation?  A salvation without the power to deliver, a salvation without the power to save a soul from its direst distress and need, a salvation only valuable in the life to come and without the power to deliver a soul from present torment.

--John G. Lake 

I Invite You... 2/25 Thursday Thoughts

I invite you to this life of divine reality.  I invite you to enter into the Lord Jesus. I invite you to enter into His nature that you may know Him, for no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost.  It is through the revelation of the Spirit of Christ in the soul of man that he is privileged to know Jesus as the Lord.  Blessed be God. We may know Him as an historic character, we may know Him as the ideal man, we may know Him as the Christ and Savior, but we do not know Him as the living God who imparts His own nature and life and power to us until we know Him as the Scripture says, in the Holy Ghost.   (See I Corinthians 12:3)

--John G. Lake 

85% of Professing Christians 2/24 Wednesday Wisdom

The difficulty with church has been that men were induced to confess their sins to Christ and acknowledge Him as a Savior and there they stopped, there they petrified, there they withered, there they died, dry rotted.  I believe that in these phrases I have expressed the real thing that has taken place in 85 percent of professing Christians in the world.  Oh, bless God, we never saw Christ's intention.  That day away back there, when the glory light of God first shone into my soul, was a glorious day, the best I had ever known to that moment.

But, beloved, it would be a sorrowful thing in my life if I was compelled to look back to that day as the best.  No, bless God, there were better days than that.  There were days when the Lord God took me into His confidence and revealed His nature and revealed His purpose and revealed His love and revealed His ministry.  Yes, bless God, there came a day when God once more, in His loving mercy, endowed me with the Spirit of God to be and perform the things that He had planted in my soul and had revealed in His own blessed Word and life.  

--John G. Lake

As my prayer partner like to say, "the 85%" think that Christianity consists of nothing more than "be saved and be nice." 

Family of the Same Father 2/23 Tuesday Truth

Brethren of the Lord Jesus Christ.  He the elder brother, we the younger members of the family of the same Father, begotten by the same Spirit, energized by the same divine life of God, qualified through the Holy Ghost to perform the same blessed ministry.

--John G. Lake 

"Here Goes Nothing" ?? 2/22 Monday Meditation

I once listened to an eminent divine preaching from the text, "What is man?" and when he got through I had a feeling that man was a kind of whipped cur with his tail between his legs, sneaking out to throw himself into the lake saying, "Here goes nothing."  I said, "He has never caught the fire of the thing Jesus is endeavoring to teach through the apostle -- that man was the crowning creation of God.  That God endowed him with a nature and qualities that by the grace of God can express more of God than any other of God's creations.

--John G. Lake