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“GOD ALWAYS WAS THE HEALER. He is the healer still, and will ever remain the Healer. Healing is for YOU. Jesus healed, "all that came to Him." He never turned any one away. He never said, "It is not God's will to heal you," or that it was better for the individual to remain sick, or that they were being perfected in character through the sickness. He healed them ALL. Thereby demonstrating FOREVER God's unchangeable will concerning sickness.”
― John G. Lake, The Collected Works of John G. Lake

“The purpose of Jesus is not only to save men from their sins, but by the grace of God to begin in the souls of men that marvelous development in the nature and mind and understanding of God our Father, until by the grace of God we are able to take our place and our part in the kingdom of Jesus Christ and bear our share of responsibility.”
― John G. Lake, Spiritual Hunger, The God-men and Other Sermons

“Christ was a miracle. Every Christian is a miracle. Every answer to prayer is a miracle. Every divine illumination is a miracle. The power of Christianity in the world is a miraculous power. God help us to realise that ours is a High and Holy Calling.”
― John G. Lake, The Collected Works of John G. Lake

“Do not imprison Christ in you. Let Him live, let Him manifest Himself, let Him find vent through you.”
― John G. Lake, Spiritual Hunger, The God-men and Other Sermons

“If the church ever succeeds in doing that which God purposes we should do, it can only be when we enter into that divine compassion of the Son of God.”
― John G. Lake, Spiritual Hunger, The God-men and Other Sermons

“The life of the Christian without the indwelling power of the Spirit in the heart is a weariness to the flesh. It is an obedience to commandments and an endeavor to walk according to a pattern which you have not power to follow.”
― John G. Lake, The Collected Works of John G. Lake

“The glory of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.”
― John G Lake

“The Spirit of God at work in a man goes thousands of miles beyond psychological influence.”
― John G. Lake, Spiritual Hunger, The God-men and Other Sermons

“Christ has a purpose in you. Christ’s purpose in YOU is to reveal Himself to you, through you, in you. We repeat over and over that familiar phrase, “The church, Which is His body” [Ephesians 1:22-23], but if we realized the truth of it and power of it, this world would be a different place.”
― John G. Lake, Spiritual Hunger, The God-men and Other Sermons

“The Christian, the child of God, the Christ man who has committed his body as well as his spirit and soul to God, ought not to not be a subject for healing. He ought to be a subject of continuous, abiding health, because he is filled with the life of God.”
― John G. Lake, The Collected Works of John G. Lake

“Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ, and all the mind of Christ.”
― John G. Lake, Spiritual Hunger, The God-men and Other Sermons

“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.”
― John G. Lake, The Collected Works of John G. Lake

“Because of the fact that a man by the action of his will, puts himself purposely in contact with God, faith takes possession of his heart, and the condition of his nature is changed. Instead of being fearful, he is full of faith. Instead of being absorbent and drawing everything to himself, his spirit repels sickness and disease. The Spirit of Christ Jesus flows through the whole being, and emanates through the hands, the heart, and from every pore of the body.”
― John G. Lake, The John G. Lake Sermons: On Dominion Over Demons, Disease And Death

“The reason for the resurrection is that the kingdom of Christ is not to be in heaven entirely. It is to be in this world. And the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is to rule in this world. Consequently, while we live in this world we will need a body like our Lord’s—capable of existence here, and capable of existence over there.”
― John G. Lake, Spiritual Hunger, The God-men and Other Sermons

“There is a baptism that belongs to Jesus. It is in His supreme control. No angel or man can bestow it. It comes from Him alone. He it is which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost (John 1:33). So the individual who wants the Holy Spirit must come into definite, conscious contact with Jesus Christ Himself.”
― John G. Lake, The Collected Works of John G. Lake

“Queen Wilhelmina of Holland entered the state of motherhood six times, but was never able to carry the child to maturity. All the science of Europe could not bring the child to birth. There was a dear lady in our congregation in South Africa who had formerly been a nurse to Queen Wilhelmina. Her son was marvellously healed when dying of African fever, when he had been unconscious for six weeks. Being a friend of the queen, she wrote the story of her son’s healing, and after some correspondence we received a written request that we pray God that she might be a real mother. I brought her letter before the congregation one Sunday night, and the congregation went down to prayer. And before I arose from my knees, I turned around and said, “All right mother, you write and tell the queen, God has heard our prayer; she will bear a child.” Less than a year later the child was born, the present Princess Julianna of Holland.”
― John G. Lake, The John G. Lake Sermons: On Dominion Over Demons, Disease And Death

“We have run into false theology, we have run into "churchianity" and human interpretations, and a hundred other follies, but friends, it is a perfectly lovely and refreshing thing to get back to Jesus.”
― John G. Lake, The Collected Works of John G. Lake

“The reason people become sick is the same reason that they become sinful. They surrender to the suggestion of the thing that is evil, and it takes possession of the heart.”
― John G. Lake, The Collected Works of John G. Lake

“Henry Fosdick says, "Until the New Theology can produce the sinless character of the old theology, it stands challenged.”
― John G. Lake, The Collected Works of John G. Lake

“You know, the thing that makes the Bible the Bible is the fact that somebody had an interview with God! Somebody heard from Heaven before there was any Bible. Then the conversation or the incident was recorded, and these became the Word of God.”
― John G. Lake, The Collected Works of John G. Lake

“Christians readily admit that Jesus is the entire expression of the Law and the Life and the Will of God. As such, He demonstrated forever by His words and acts, what the mind of God toward the world is. He healed all who came to Him, never refusing a single individual, but ever bestowed the desired blessing. In healing all and never refusing one, He demonstrated forever the willingness of God to heal all. He healed because it was the nature of God to heal, not because it was a caprice of the mind of God, or because the mind of God was changed toward the individual through some special supplication.”
― John G. Lake, The John G. Lake Sermons: On Dominion Over Demons, Disease And Death

“The use of anointing oil is a matter of obedience. It is a symbol of the Spirit of God, and that is all it is. So we place upon the individual the anointing oil in order that we fulfill the symbol of the Spirit of God as the Healer, and that is all.”
― John G. Lake, John G. Lake On Healing

“Principle 4 I shall consider righteous acts as more necessary to life and happiness than food and drink,”
― John G. Lake, The Collected Works of John G. Lake

“the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up”
― John G. Lake, John G. Lake On Healing

“One of the beautiful things about the gospel of Jesus Christ is that it is progressive in its revelation and application.”
― John G. Lake, John G. Lake On Healing

“In the spiritual world, the spirit of man is the dynamo. It is set in motion by prayer, the desire of the heart Prayer is a veritable Holy Spirit controlling dynamo, attracting to itself the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God being received into the spirit of man through prayer, is distributed by the action of the will wherever desired. The Spirit of God flowed through the hands of Jesus to the ones who were sick, and healed them. It flowed from His soul, wirelessly, to the suffering ones and healed them also.”
― John G. Lake, The John G. Lake Sermons: On Dominion Over Demons, Disease And Death

“Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into man, and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.”
― John G. Lake, The Collected Works of John G. Lake

“Jesus did not heal the sick in order to coax them to be Christians. He healed because it was His nature to heal.”
― John G. Lake

“Covenant More Than Just Healing, When Sick This Covenant does not simply mean that when we are sick and dying, the Lord will come and heal us. That is a small portion of the Covenant of Healing. The Covenant has three great principles involved. The first is DIVINE HEALING. The second is a bigger thing than Divine Healing; it is DIVINE HEALTH. If God keeps your family or your city or your nation in Divine Health there is no need for Divine Healing. The third is DIVINE LIFE. Divine Life is greater than Divine Health. Divine Life is that union of the soul with God by which the recipient becomes the partaker of His life. The Unholy Brotherhood Now are involved the three underlying principles that unfold the whole subject of healing. They are Sin, Sickness and Death, an unholy brotherhood, the representatives of the Kingdom of Darkness. They are the children of the Devil and Disobedience. If you want to look for their parentage, Satan is their father and Disobedience is their mother, and out of this union, Sin, Sickness and Death are born. All three are specifically declared by the Word of God to be the enemies of God. God hates sin, and God equally hates sickness, for sickness is incipient death. The final result of the Redemption of Jesus is the destruction of these three enemies of God, this triumvirate of darkness! All the Christian world is clear on this point, that Jesus Christ came to redeem the world from sin. They may dispute His methods but on general principles they believe that Jesus Christ is the Redeemer from sin. The Christian world is not so well agreed that He is the Redeemer from sickness. The Church was agreed on that question at one time. In the early centuries of the Church’s history there was no other method of healing known among Christians, except healing through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. John Wesley says, in his notes on the New Testament, under James 5: 14-16: “The only system of physics known in the early church for four hundred years was the prayer of faith for the sick.” The early Christians had a Remedy, bless God, but it was an eternal one, the living eternal Spirit of Christ in the world, and in their heart, and in their person, when they needed Him for healing. God’s Remedy is a Person, not a material remedy. It is not an “it” but a “Him.” Beloved, receive this Spirit of God into your heart, into your life, into your being.”
― John G. Lake, The John G. Lake Sermons on Dominion Over Demons, Disease and Death

“Beloved, it is not our long prayers but our believing God that gets the answer. However,”
― John G. Lake, The John G. Lake Sermons on Dominion Over Demons, Disease and Death