You Are Necessary to God 12/29 Friday Faith

I WILL NOT BE POSTING ON MONDAY. HAVE A BLESSED NEW YEAR. You are just as necessary to God in His plan for the salvation of mankind as God is necesary to you. That is a tremendous statement. I want to repeat it. Christians are just as necessary to Almighty God in order to accomplish His purpose in the world as God is necesary to the Christian. Without God we could not be saved. Without God we could not live. Without God we would never reach a maturity in God. Without man, God would have no medium through which He could express Himself to the world, by which He could minister the Spirit of the living God to the world. -- John G. Lake.

God's Purpose 12/28 Thursday Thoughts

The purpose of the Lord and Savior was not only to redeem us out of filth and sin, but that we should grow up into manhood and womanhood in God and take a place in the world and accomplish the thing that God intended us to accomplish and fellowship with Him on His plane of understanding. -- John G. Lake.

Jesus the Triumphant 12/27 Wednesday Wisdom

Jesus was the triumphant One. Did you ever stop to think of Jesus at the throne of God? I like to think of the twentieth century Christ -- not the Jesus that lived in the world two thousand years ago, not the humiliated Jesus, not Jesus dying on the cross for my sin, but the glorified, exalted Son of God at the throne of God who stands declaring, "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" (Revelation 1:18) And that is the Christ that breathes His power into your soul and mine, and that is the consciousness that is breathed from heaven in the Holy Ghost when it comes to your heart. Amen. -- John G. Lake

In Touch With the Powers of God 12/22 Friday Faith

This will be the last post until Wed., 12/27. Have a blessed Christmas! We have not yet learned to keep in touch with the powers of God. Once in awhile our soul rises, and we see the flame of God accomplish this wonder and that. But beloved, Jesus Christ lived in the presence of God every hour of the day and night. Never a word proceeded from the mouth of Jesus Christ but what was God's Word. "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." (John 6:63) When you are I are lost in the Son of God, and the fires of Jesus burn in our hearts like they did in Him, our words will be the words of life, and of spirit... --John G. Lake

Holy Triumph 12/21 Thursday Thoughts

I will not be posting Monday or Tuesday. Have a blessed Christmas! In those early centuries of Christianity, Christianity did not go into the world apologizing. It went to slay the powers of darkness and undo the works of the devil, and it lived in holy triumph. -- John G. Lake.

The Kingliest Man 12/20 Wednesday Wisdom

So the real Christian ought to be the kingliest man in the whole earth, the princeliest man in the whole earth -- as kingly and princely and lovely and holy as the Son of God -- as big as Jesus, with the power of Jesus, and the love of Jesus. Bless God. -- John G. Lake.

Sleep 12/19 Tuesday Truth

[I have prayed this same way with many people who have sleep problems. - Lep] Yesterday, Brother Fogwill quoted that wondersul scripture that, "He giveth his beloved sleep" (Psalm 127:2). And last night after retiring it was impossible for me to sleep. I said, "Dear Lord, I am Your beloved, and I want to sleep," and I slept like a child all night. If you have any trouble with sleeplessness, and you are the beloved of God, just make God come through with His promise. -- John G. Lake