The Ministry of the Christian 1/31 Friday Faith

The ministry of the Christian is the ministry of the Spirit.  He not only ministers words to another, but he ministers the Spirit of God.  It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit of another and reveals Christ in and through him.

-- John G. Lake

Secret of the Abundant Life 1/30 Thursday Thoughts

That is the secret of the abundant life of which Jesus spoke.  Jesus said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10).  The reason we have the more abundant life is because that, receiving God into our being, all the springs of our being are quickened by His living presence.  Consequently, if we are living today and we receive God, we live life in a fuller measure.  We live life with a greater energy, because we become the recipients of the energy of the living God in addition to our normal energy, through the reception of His being, His nature, His life into ours.

-- John G. Lake

What the Church Should Be 1/29 Wednesday Wisdom

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 itnended 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

The Power of God 1/28 Tuesday Truth

The power of God through which men are blessed is not an individual matter that belongs to you or to me.  It is the conscious presence of the living, risen Son of God dwelling in our heart by the Holy Ghost, which causes you and me to know that the power of God is equal to every emergency and is great enough for the deliverance of every soul from every oppression.

-- John G. Lake

Let God Loose! 1/27 Monday Meditation

This is one of my all-time favorite quotes.  I've repeated it many times in the 14 years that I have been posting Lep's Faith Quotes.

Have you been in Canada? Do you know when I was in Canada, there was one thing that struck me peculiarly. The signs would read, "John Brown, Limited." Everywhere I see that sign.  I was holding meetings in the old St. Andrew's Church in Sydney. 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?" An old Scotchman said, "We don't have to. Everybody knows it."

 
...Everybody knows the church is limited...
 

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

He Has Mastered the Devil 1/24 Friday Faith

"I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death" (Rev. 1:18).
That is the reason I do not spend much time in talking about the devil.  The Lord took care of him, bless God!  He has the keys of hell and of death, and He has mastered that individual and that condition once and for all.  If you and I had as much faith to believe it as we have to believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is our Savior, we would have mighty little trouble with the devil or his power while we walk through this world.  It is not worthwhile talking about a man after he is whipped out.

-- John G. Lake

Optimist or Groaner? 1/23 Thursday Thoughts

I have always wondered how a Christian could be anything less that 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 the place where he comprehends what Christianity is."  The Christian with a groan in him never moved the world except to groans.

-- John G. Lake