John G. Lake Quotes
When I saw for the first time by the Word of God that sickness was not the Will of God, everything in my nature rose up to defeat the will of the devil.
When a Christian tries to live by reason he is moving out of God’s country into the enemy’s land. We belong in the miraculous and the supernatural realm.
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.
Jesus did not heal the sick in order to coax them to be Christians. He healed because it was His nature to heal.
Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is. You may think according to your own conscience. God thinks according to His.
We are awakening to that marvelous truth, that Christ is not in the heavens only, nor the atmosphere only, but Christ is in you.
Fear of the devil is nonsense. Fear of demons is foolish. The Spirit of God anointing the Christian heart makes the soul impregnable to the powers of darkness.
The secret of Christianity is in being. It is in being a possessor of the nature of Jesus Christ.
Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls.
For the sake of a dying, suffering world count the cost, pay the price and set the captives free
A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.
The ministry of Christianity is the ministry of the Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit of another and reveals Christ in and through him.
Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross of Jesus Christ has put more heroism in the souls of men than any other event in human history.
Salvation is not just something God gives you that is going to bless you after you die, it is having the presence of the lord now.
There is only one reality. That reality is God. The soul of man must contact God, and unless the spirit of man is truly joined to God, there is no such thing as real Christian manifestation.
The wonder is that Jesus purposed to make your heart and mine just as sweet and lovely and pure and holy as His own.
The reason that people do not have a rich, beautiful faith is that their spirit is denied the privilege of communion and fellowship with the Father.
There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it.
Lord, take every cursed thing out of my soul that keeps me from believing the Lord Jesus Christ
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 that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is."
If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship, you will have power with God, and there is no escaping it!
The invitation is not, "Give Me thine head." The invitation is, "My Son, give Me thine heart."
We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. God Almighty is trying to obtain some decent association for Himself.
Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.
It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God.
