Lake - The John G. Lake Sermons: On Dominion Over Demons, Disease And Death (Pentecostal Pioneers)

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Foreword
Consecration Prayer
I. How God Sent Me to Africa
II. Dominion of a Christian
III. The Value of a Covenant With God
IV. Not Try But Trust
V. Specific and Definite Grounds for Healing
VI. Hezekiahs Sickness and Healing
VII. The Tangibility of The Spirit
VIII. Naaman and the Man of God
IX. Consecration, Testing, Power, Victory
X. The Brazen Serpent
XI. The Grace of Divine Healing
XII. The Law of Life and Law of Death
XIII. The Integrity of Gods People
XIV. These Signs Shall Follow
XV. Lakes Reply to Four Questions Concerning Healing

The sermons in this volume were preached by Dr. John G. Lake during the height of his ministry. There is a special reason that I have a very personal interest in them. Early in my preaching career, as I lay apparently dying from ptomaine poisoning, a number of these sermons in typewritten form were brought to me. I had just strength enough to read a few pages at a time. The powerful truths contained in these sermons slowly sank into my consciousness. Then they came to me with great force. Suddenly I arose from my bed, and instead of dying I found that I was a well man.

Now for the first time, with two or three exceptions, those sermons appear in print, and I trust that they will be an equal blessing to the many who read them. In making these messages available to the public, I trust that in some measure I have discharged an obligation which I have owed Dr. Lake for the rich legacy of faith that his ministry brought to my soul, during my formative years. Also to his dear wife, Florence Lake, who assisted in my care during the above-mentioned serious illness

September 20, 1949 Box 4097 Shreveport, La.

My God and Father, in Jesus' Name I come to thee. Take me as I am. Make me what I ought to be in spirit, in soul, and body. Give me power to do right; if I have wronged any, to repent, to confess, to restore, no matter what it costs. Wash me in the Blood of Jesus, that I may become thy child, and manifest thee in a perfect spirit, a holy mind, a sickles body, to the glory of God. Amen.

Eight years passed after God revealed Jesus the Healer to me. I had been practicing the ministry of healing. During those eight years every answer to prayer, every miraculous touch of God, every response of my own soul to the Spirit had created within me a more intense longing for an intimacy and a consciousness of God, like I felt the disciples of Jesus and the primitive church had possessed.

He Receives Special Anointing of the Spirit

Shortly after my entrance into the ministry of healing, while attending a service where the necessity for the Baptism of the Spirit was presented, as I knelt in prayer and reconsecration to God, an anointing of the Spirit came upon me. Waves of Holy Glory passed through my being, and I was lifted into a new realm of Gods presence and power. After this, answers to prayer were frequent and miracles of healing occurred from time to time. I felt myself on the borderland of a great spiritual realm, but was unable to enter in fully, so my nature was not satisfied with the attainment.

Finally I was led to set aside certain hours of the day that I dedicated to God, as times of meditation and prayer. Thus a number of months passed, until one morning as I knelt praying the Spirit of the Lord spoke within my spirit, and said, Be patient until autumn. My heart rejoiced in this encouragement and I continued my practice of meditation and prayer as formerly. It became easy for me to detach myself from the course of life, so that while my hands and mind were engaged in the common affairs of every day, my spirit maintained its attitude of communion with God.

At this time in addition to my work as minister of the Gospel, I was engaged as manager of agents for a life insurance company. During the period of which I speak, I preached practically every night. After the services I was in the habit of joining a circle of friends who like myself were determined to pray through into God where we could receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, as we believed the early disciples had received it. I said, God, if you will baptize me in the Holy Spirit, and give me the power of God, nothing shall be permitted to stand between me and a hundred-fold obedience.

He Receives the Baptism of the Holy Ghost

One afternoon a brother minister called and invited me to accompany him to visit a lady who was sick. Arriving at the home we found the lady in a wheel chair. All her joints were set with inflammatory rheumatism. She had been in the condition for ten years.

While my friend was conversing with her, preparing her to be prayed with, that she might be healed, I sat in a deep chair on the opposite side of a large room. My soul was crying out to God in a yearning too deep for words, when suddenly it seemed to me that I had passed under a shower of warm tropical rain, which was not falling upon me but through me. My spirit and soul and body, under this influence, was soothed into such a deep still calm as I had never known. My brain, which had always been so active, became perfectly still. An awe of the presence of God settled over me. I knew it was God.

Some moments passed; I do not know how many. The Spirit said, I have heard your prayers, I have seen your tears. You are now baptized in the Holy Spirit. Then currents of power began to rush through my being from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet. The shocks of power increased in rapidity and voltage. As these currents of power would pass through me, they seemed to come upon my head, rush through my body and through my feet into the floor. The power was so great that my body began to vibrate intensely so that I believe if I had not been sitting in such a deep low chair I might have fallen upon the floor.