However, though he was not yet advanced in age, he had lived an intensity that had taken its toll. A decline in the strength and vitality that had characterized his earlier ministry became apparent. He seemed unable to match his spiritual vision with the physical strength required to bring it to pass. Lake suffered a serious accident that almost took his life. He never returned to Houston.
For a while, he ministered in churches throughout California. However, the dynamic touch that he once had was lacking. He later returned to the City of Portland where he pastored for a time. Afterwards, he returned to Spokane. There he pastored until his death. On Labor Day, , Dr. Lake attended a Sunday school picnic. He came home very tired and after a hot supper, laid down to rest. A guest speaker was at the church that evening so Mrs.
Lake prevailed on him to stay at home. She went to church in his place. When she arrived home, she found that he had a stroke in her absence. He lingered for about two weeks, being unconscious most of the time, until September 16, , when he went to be with his Lord. His ministry was summed up in the brief testimony of Reverend B. Hebden who spoke at the memorial service. Lake was a strong, rugged character of loving and winning personality, and he has left his mark indelibly upon the world of Gospel Truth.
Lake came to Spokane. He found us in sin. He found us in sickness. He found us in poverty of spirit. He found us in despair, but he revealed to us such a Christ, as we had never dreamed of knowing this side of heaven. We thought victory was over there, but Dr. Lake revealed to us that victory was here, a present and possible reality.
We regarded death almost as a friend, but Dr. Lake came and revealed to us the Christ, all glorious and all powerful, that is triumphant, compassionate, and lovely, and our night was turned into day and despair was turned into laughter. How I thank Him that I ever contacted that man, unique, powerful! I will never forget the day in the Hutton Block when I was sick with several chronic complaints, and I heard that message of Christ, that His arms were under me, and I kept it and the message kept me and, instead of my being, long and long ago, gone and forgotten, I am here rejoicing and thanking our brother, Dr.
Lake, who brought that message to me. Friends, he should still speak in me, not by the pen but by the Spirit that is in me, by the Light that is in me, by the regeneration of Jesus Christ that is in me.
Let us, friends, not go and squander it by hiding it in a napkin, but let us keep it by giving it out. Lake March 18, — John G. His parents move their family to Sault Ste. October — Lake becomes a Methodist minister in Chicago, Illinois.
April — Lake takes Jennie to the healing home of John Alexander Dowie in Zion City, Illinois, where on April 28 Dowie prays for her and she is instantly healed of tuberculosis and heart disease.
Lake — John and Jennie move their family from Sault Ste. April — Lake leaves his insurance business, gives away his wealth, and goes into evangelistic work, casting himself and his family upon God to supply all their needs.
April 19, — One year after beginning his evangelistic work, Lake and his family leave Indianapolis, Indiana, and head for South Africa to do missionary work. May — John, Jennie, and their seven children arrive in South Africa. Early — Lake travels to England to hold meetings for Church of England ministers.
Lake institutions with a reputation for healing. The Investigative Council in Lourdes asks several there to attempt to heal five terminally ill people.
Lake agrees on condition that he is the last to pray for them. All of the others fail in their attempts. Lake prays for the sick and three are instantly healed, one is healed over a few days, and one dies shortly after. July — Lake returns to the United States for six months to hold evangelistic services. Sufficient funds are raised to enable him to take eight missionaries to South Africa. January — Lake and his eight missionaries travel to South Africa.
Eight hundred Native Congregations and one hundred and twenty-five White Congregations are eventually organized. He never goes back to Africa. During their marriage, they have five children. Lake May — John and Florence move to Portland, Oregon, to organize a similar church and healing rooms there. Within a few years, the healing rooms are having the same impact as the Spokane healing rooms.
About to about — Lake attempts to establish healing rooms in Texas and various places in California but without success. He goes back to Portland to pastor for a short time and then returns to Spokane. Lake dies of a stroke. Seymour and John G. Lake seated, and Brother Adams, F. Bosworth, and Tom Hezmalhalch standing. Lake John G. But as the living lava continues to boil and seethe the pressure increases until nothing can hold it down and it breaks forth with a force that rolls over everything that tries to stop its progress.
Woman with an Issue of Blood Though the woman had an issue of blood and so under the law was unclean and forbidden to be in a crowd of people, her desperation, brought about by 12 years of unsuccessful medical treatment and having no money left to pay for more treatments, drove her through the law and the crowd of people to Jesus. Lake On her feet, on her hands and knees, forbidden by the law, scorned, and discouraged by others, it did not matter.
Blind Bartimaeus It was the same with Blind Bartimaeus. Be still. Think of the wonder. The Son of God, by whom and through whom and for whom all things were created Colossians , was arrested in His journey by the desperate cry of a blind person who sat begging daily on the side of the dusty and dirty Jericho Road.
All because the blind person saw the truth of Christ the Healer! So, Jesus stood still and commanded him to be brought to Him.
Prodigal Son The prodigal son took everything his father gave him and spent it upon the pleasures of the world until the world took everything from him—as it does from everyone foolish enough to do the same. To get enough food to stay alive he was forced to take a job feeding pigs for no better food than the pigs ate. An Israelite in covenant with Almighty God through Abraham reduced by his own foolishness to feeding animals declared unclean by the Law of Moses—a spectacle to all who saw him.
Then he became desperately hungry, and that hunger caused him to see himself as he truly was, to see his desperate condition, and started him upon a journey home to his father—a father of love and healing. Make me like one of your hired servants. Bosworth] home, before Fred thought of preaching the gospel, I listened to Lillian Thistleweight [sister-in-law of Charles Parham] tell of God and His love, His sanctifying grace and power, and what real holiness is.
It was the divine holiness that came from her soul. It was the living Spirit of God that came out of her inner being. I sat back in the room as far away as I could get. I was self-satisfied, doing well in the world, prosperous with all the accompaniments that go with successful life. But that night my heart became so hungry that I fell on my knees, and those who were present will tell you that they had never heard anybody pray as desperately as I prayed.
That was the night you prayed in my home until the rafters shook, until God came down, until the fire struck, until God came in and sanctified our hearts. A moment when God comes in and makes your heart pure and takes self out of your nature, and gives you divine triumph over sin and self. That is what the baptism brought to us. That is what we coveted from God.
I set up my own home, married a beautiful woman, and our first son was born. My wife became an invalid; my son was a sickly child. Out of it all one thing developed in my nature: a cry for deliverance. My soul cried to God for deliverance. I knew nothing about the subject of healing; notwithstanding, I was a Methodist evangelist. But my heart was crying for deliverance; my soul had come to the place where I had given up depending on man.
My father had spent a fortune on the family to no avail, as if there were no stoppage to the train of hell. And let me tell you, there is no human stoppage, because the thing is settled deep in the nature of man — too deep for any material remedy to get at it.
You will not have to cry very long until you see that the mountains are being moved, and the angel of deliverance will be there. I finally got to that place where my supreme heart- cry was for deliverance. Tears were shed for deliverance for three years before the healing of God came to us. My heart cried, my soul sobbed, my spirit wept tears. I wanted help. I did not know enough to call directly on God for it.
But I did not. But one thing matured in my heart—a real hunger. Lake a law of God that is in the depths of the Spirit. God will answer the heart that cries; God will answer the soul that asks.
Christ Jesus comes to us with divine assurance and invites us when we are hungry to pray, to believe, to take from the Lord that which our soul covets and our heart yearns for. One day the Lord of heaven came our way, and in a little while the cloud of darkness, that midnight of hell, was lifted. The light of God shone into our life and into our home. We learned the truth of Jesus as a present-day healer and were able to receive the divine power of God for our needs.
No one can understand the tremendous hold that the revelation of Jesus as a present-day Healer took on my life, and what it meant to me, unless they fully understand my background. I was one of sixteen children. Our parents were strong, vigorous, healthy people. My mother died at the age of seventy-five, and at the present time [March ] my father still lives and is seventy-seven.
Before my knowledge and experience of the Lord as our healer, we buried eight members of our family. A strange train of sickness followed us and for thirty-two years, there was always some member of the family who was an invalid.
When I think back to when I was a boy and a young man I remember a nightmare of sickness, doctors, nurses, hospitals, hearses, funerals, graveyards and tombstones, a sorrowing household, a brokenhearted mother and grief-stricken father, struggling to forget the sorrows of the past, in order to assist the living members of the family, who needed their love and care. At the time Christ was revealed to us as our healer, my brother, who had been an invalid for twenty-two years, and upon whom father had spent a fortune for medical assistance, was dying.
I have never known any other man to suffer so extremely and so long as he did. At the same time, my thirty-four-year-old sister was dying with five cancers in her left breast. But it was no use. There was a large core cancer and after the operations four other heads developed—five in all. Another sister lay dying of an issue of blood. Gradually, day by day, her lifeblood flowed away until she was in the very throes of death. I had married and established my own home.
My wife, Jennie, became an invalid from heart disease and tuberculosis. Her heart would stop and she would become unconsciousness. Sometimes I would find her unconscious on the floor or in her bed. Stronger and stronger stimulants became necessary in order to revive her heart action, until finally only nitroglycerin tablets would work.
After these heart spells Jennie would remain in a semi-paralytic condition for weeks, the result of over- stimulation the physicians said. Lake in that room. Instantly, the power of God flashed through him. He arose and walked out of the place in his nightgown.
Three others, a great deal like him, were on cots. Dowie prayed for each one, and one after another received the healing touch and arose from their cots. When I saw him well, I walked on my tiptoes for about three weeks. Great joy and marvelous hope sprang up in our hearts.
A real manifestation of the healing power of God was before us. Quickly we arranged to take our sister with the five cancers to the same healing home, carrying her on a stretcher. She was taken into the healing meeting. I have not been a true Christian like others. They may be healed because of their goodness, but I fear healing is not for me.
After listening from her cot to the preaching and teaching of the Word of God on healing through Jesus Christ, hope sprang up in her soul. She was prayed for and hands laid on her. As the prayer of faith arose to God, the power of God descended upon her, thrilling her being. Her pain instantly vanished. The swelling disappeared gradually. The large core cancer turned black, and in a few days fell out. The smaller ones disappeared.
The mutilated breast began to re-grow and became a perfect breast again. Words cannot tell this story. A new faith sprang up within us — a living, dynamic faith. If God could heal our dying brother and our dying sister, and cause cancers to disappear, He could heal anything or anybody! The sister who had the issue of blood and I had been close from our childhood. She was a little older than I. The vision of Christ the Healer had just been opened to my soul.
I felt for a heartbeat but there was none. I picked up a small mirror and held it over her mouth, but there was no discoloration. I stood there stunned. Her husband knelt at the foot of the bed weeping. Her baby was asleep in the crib at the opposite side of the room. My old father and mother knelt sobbing at the side of the bed. They had seen eight of their children die; she was apparently the ninth. My soul was in a storm. I cannot accept it! It is the work of the devil and darkness.
Somehow, I just felt my spirit lay hold of the spirit of my sister. My spirit was crying out for somebody with faith in God that I could call upon to help me. That was twenty-five years ago when the individual who trusted God for healing was almost an insane person in the eyes of the Church and the world.
Bless God, it is different now. Lake together, stay together, and form a nucleus in society that has some force for God. That was John Alexander Dowie, six hundred miles away. I went to the phone, called Western Union, and told them I wanted to get a telegram through to Dr. Dowie with an answer back as quickly as possible. I believe if you will pray, God will heal her. I am praying. She will live. In the name of Jesus Christ, I abolish this death and sickness, and she shall live. Presently I observed her husband get up and tiptoe to the bed, and I knew that he had seen it.
Day by day, death silently stole over her, until the final hours had come. A brother minister was present. I thought of her whom I loved as my own soul, and a flame burned in my heart. I felt as if God had been insulted by such a suggestion. Yet, I had many things to learn. In the midst of my soul storm I returned to my home, picked up my Bible from the mantelpiece and threw it on the table.
Lake has bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond? What a faith sprang up in my heart, and what a flame of intelligence concerning the Word of God and the ministry of Jesus went over my soul.
I saw as never before why Jesus healed the sick. We decided on a. At , I knelt at her dying bed and called on the living God. The power of God came upon her, thrilling her from head to foot. Her paralysis was gone, her heart became normal, her cough ceased, her breathing was regular, her temperature was normal.
The power of God was flowing through her person, seemingly like the blood flows through the veins. As I was praying I heard a sound from her liPs. What a day! Shall I ever forget it—when the power of God thrilled our souls, and the joy of God possessed our hearts at her recovery? The news spread throughout the city and the state. The newspapers discussed it. People traveled for great distances to see Jennie and to talk with her. She was flooded with letters of inquiry.
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A small and great book for the little one who is. Let me begin by saying that our Christian experience must be translated from the four walls of the church and into our day to day lifestyle. It is in the heartbeat of our calling that we should translate the love of God as we pick it up from church and. Diary of God's General by John G.
Lake On Healing by John G. Pneumatology by John G. Lake , William Crockett Preface 4. The John G. Lake , Gordon Lindsay Editor 4. Living in God's Power by John G. Adventures in Religion by John G. John G. John G Lake. Julia Loren. Author: admin February 13, 0 Comments. Lake was an evangelist, missionary, and Pentecostal pioneer. His teachings on healing, on tongues, and on the Holy Spirit have endured for generations. While some have distanced himself on some points most especially on healing , many still believe that he was one of the most straight-forward teachers of his day.
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