Indwelt by God

A new Christian is not a reformed man. A Christian is a man renewed, remade by the Spirit of God. A Christian is a man indwelt by God -- the house of God, the tabernacle of the Most High! Man, indwelt by God, becomes the hands and the heart and the feet and the mind of Jesus Christ. God descends into man; man ascends into God! That is the purpose and power of the baptism in the Holy Ghost. A soul is saved. How does Jesus reach them? Through your hands, through your heart, through your faith. When God baptized you in the Holy Ghost, He gave you the biggest gift that heaven or earth ever possessed. He gave you Himself! He joins you by the one Spirit to Himself forever.
-- John G. Lake, 1921

Ask Great Things

We need confidence to ask great things of God, and we shall get great things. Ask little things, and we shall get little things. But ask mighty showers of grace, and they will be poured out like a flood upon us.

-- Talbot W. Chambers, The New York City Noon Prayer Meeting, quoting an impromptu testimony, 1858

You Are Necessary to God

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.

You are just as necessary to God in His plan for the salvation of mankind as God is necessary 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 necessary to the Christian. Without God we would 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, 1920

Stand Firm

George Muller operated a chain of orphanages ministering to several thousand children in England in the early 1800's. He operated them entirely by faith, never asking anyone for donations or letting anyone know the needs. He depended completely on God to lay the need for funds on the right people's hearts at exactly the right time.



"I thank God for the faith He has given me, and I ask Him to uphold and increase it. Do not let Satan deceive you into thinking that you could not have the same faith. When I lose something like a key, I ask the Lord to direct me to it; and I look for an answer to my prayer. (several other examples) . . .

You may do the same, dear believing reader! Do not think that I am extraordinary or that I have privileges above God's other dear children. I encourage you to try it! Stand firm in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in Him."

-- The Autobiography of George Muller

Authority and Power are Yours

And the Church will never be a real Church, in the real power of the living God again, until she comes back again to the original standard, where Jesus was.

Jesus said, "Behold, I give you authority." What authority? "Against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease" (Matthew 10:1). Jesus has vested that authority in you. You say, "Well, Lord, we understand the authority that is in your Word, but we haven't the power." But Jesus said, "Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you" (Acts 1:8).
-- John G. Lake