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John G. Lake  -  "A man used by God to bring healing to many !"

Famous evangelist, missionary of the 1900's,

started the Spokane Healing Rooms, 

If there was ever a man who walked in the revelation of

"God in man,"it was John G. Lake.

A man of purpose, vision, strength and character,

his one goal in life was to bring the fullness

of God to every person.

He often said that the secret of heaven's power was not in the

doing, but in the being. He believed that Spirit-filled Christians

should enjoy the same type of ministry 

Jesus did while living on earth, and that this reality

could only be accomplished by seeing

themselves as God saw them. John G. Lake lived his life

and fulfilled his ministry in the earth

with this type of spiritual understanding. If we would just grasp the reality of our position through

Jesus Christ, as Lake did, every nation would ring with the praises of God.

• was responsible for raising over 1,000,000 converts, 625 churches and 

• 1,250 preachers in five years of ministry.

• because of his resurrection revelation, had a deadly plague

•  germ die in his hand, yet at the start of his ministry thought one

•  could only be healed in Dr. Dowie's Healing Home.

• had such an incredible healing ministry, that according to statistics, 

• the U.S. Government declared his city, Spokane, Washington, 

• to be the healthiest city in America.

John G. Lake was known as God's "Apostle to Africa". Born in Canada in 1870, his family

soon relocated to the United States, where he grew up. His healing and preaching ministry

spanned the years 1898 (when he saw his wife instantly healed under the ministry of 

John Alexander Dowie) until his death in 1935. In 1908, God sent him to Africa,

where his anointed miracle ministry resulted in what has been described as

"the most extensive and powerful missionary movement in all Africa

." As Gordon Lindsay wrote, "during that time he spent five history-making years

in South Africa, engaged in a ministry which in some respects rivaled that 

of the Early Church." Upon his return to America, Lake established a ministry

in Spokane, Washington which resulted in no less than 100,000 astounding

miracles of healing within the space of five or six years. He then established

a similar work in Portland, Oregon, which also attracted widespread attention.

 

 

Like Smith Wigglesworth, John G. Lake had already experienced mighty

breakthroughs, powerful anointings and a real calling from God for many years 

before Azusa Street and the Pentecostal Revival. The following is a condensed

account of the spiritual hunger and preparation that Lake was taken through

by God, near the beginning of the most anointed period of his ministry.

(Taken from the book, 'John G. Lake - Apostle to Africa', compiled by

Gordon Lindsay, and told in Lake's own words):

"Eight years passed after God revealed Jesus the Healer to me. I had been practicing

the ministry of healing. During that 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... 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 God's 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..." (Pg 16).

"Hundreds, and hundreds of people were healed by the power of God during

these ten years. But at the end of that ten years, I believe I was the hungriest man

for God that ever lived. There was such a hunger for God that as I left my offices

in Chicago, and walked down the street, my soul would break out, and I would cry,

'Oh God!' I have had people stop and look at me, and wonder. It was the yearning

passion of my soul, asking for God in a greater measure than I knew. 

But my friends would say, 'Mr. Lake, you have a beautiful Baptism of the

Holy Ghost.' Yes, it was nice as far as it went, but it was not answering the 

cry of my heart. I was growing up into a larger understanding of God, 

and my own soul's need. My soul was demanding a greater entrance into God, 

His love, Presence, and Power. And then one day an old man strolled

into my office, sat down, and in the next half hour, he revealed more 

of the knowledge of God to my soul than I had ever known before. 

When he left I said, '... God, if that is what the Baptism of the Holy Spirit 

with tongues does, I am going to possess it.'

Oh the wonder of God, that was then revealed to my heart!..."

 

 

 

 

 

 

"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... 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 before me 

and a hundred-fold obedience.'

"I prayed for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit for nine months, and if a man 

ever prayed honestly, and sincerely in the faith, I did. Finally one day I was ready 

to throw up my hands, and quit. I said, 'Lord, it may be for others, but it is not for me. 

You just cannot give it to me.' I did not blame God. One night a gentleman by the name

of Pierce said, 'Mr. Lake, I have been wishing for a long time you would come over, 

and we would spend a night in prayer together. We have been praying for the Baptism

for a whole year and there is not one of us baptized yet. Brother, I do not believe

that you are either, so we can pray for one another." I was so hungry to pray, 

so I went with all intentions of praying for the rest, but I had not been praying five minutes

until the light of God began to shine around me, I found myself in a center of an arc of light 

ten feet in diameter, the whitest light in all the universe. So white! Oh how it spoke of purity.

The remembrance of that whiteness, that wonderful whiteness, has been the ideal that

has stood before my soul, of the purity of the nature of God ever since.

"Then a Voice began to talk to me out of that light. There was no form. And the Voice

began to remind me of this incident, and that incident of disobedience to my parents, 

from a child; of my obstinacy, and dozens of instances when God brought me up to

the line of absolutely putting my body, soul, and spirit upon the altar forever. I had my body

upon the altar for ten years, and I had been a minister of the Gospel. But when

the Lord comes, He opens to the soul the depths that have never been touched in your life.

Do you know that after I was baptized in the Holy Ghost, things opened up in the

depths of my nature that had remained untouched in all my life, and that which was

shadowy, distant, and hazy became real. God got up close and let His light shine into me.

"Shortly after this experience, 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 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... Even at this late date, the awe of that hour 

rests upon my soul. My experience has truly been as Jesus said that He shall be

within you 'a well of water, springing up into everlasting life.

' That never-ceasing fountain has flowed through my spirit, soul, and body day,

and night, bringing salvation, and healing, and the Baptism of the Spirit 

in the power of God to multitudes.

"Shortly after my Baptism in the Holy Spirit, a working of the Spirit commenced in me, 

that seemed to have for it's purpose the revelation of the nature of Jesus Christ 

to me and in me. Through this tuition and remolding of the Spirit a great tenderness

for mankind was to awaken in my soul. I saw mankind through new eyes. 

They seemed to me as wandering sheep, having strayed far, in the midst 

of confusion, groping and wandering hither and thither. They had no 

definite aim and did not seem to understand what the difficulty was or how to

return to God. The desire to proclaim the message of Christ, and demonstrate His power 

to save and bless, grew in my soul until my life was swayed by this

overwhelming passion." (Pg 16-20).

 

 

 

"I found that my life began to manifest in the varied range of the gifts of the Spirit.

I spoke in tongues by the power of God, and God flowed through me

with a new force. Healings were of a more powerful order. Oh, 

God lived in me; God manifested in me; God spoke through me. 

My spirit was energized. I had a new comprehension of God's will,

a new discernment of spirit, and a new revelation of God in me.

"Then a new wonder manifested. My nature became so sensitized, 

that I could lay hands on any man, or woman, and tell what organ was 

diseased, and to what extent, and all about it. I tested it. I went into hospitals

where physicians could not diagnose a case, touched a patient, and instantly

I knew the organ that was diseased, its extent, condition, and location.

And one day it passed away. A child plays with a toy, and his joy is so 

wonderful, he sometimes forgets to eat."

 

 

 

Before obeying the call into full-time ministry, Lake felt the need to dispose 

of his very successful business interests. He sold everything, giving the money

to God's work, and embarked on full-time ministry with a heart full of the fire

of God. Soon afterward, when he was ministering in a city in Northern Illinois, 

God spoke to him clearly and distinctly: "Go to Indianapolis. Prepare for winter

campaign. Get a large hall. In the Spring you will go to Africa."

John G. Lake continues: "One morning when I came down to breakfast, 

I found my appetite had disappeared. I could not eat. I went about my work as usual.

At dinner I had no desire to eat, and no more in the evening.

This went on till the third day. But toward the evening of the third day, 

an overwhelming desire to pray took possession of me. I wanted only to

be alone to pray. Prayer flowed from my soul like a stream. I could not

cease praying. As soon as it was possible to get to a place of seclusion, 

I would kneel to pour out my heart to God for hours. Whatever I was doing, 

that stream of prayer continued flowing from my soul ... On the night of the

sixth day of this fast, that the Lord had laid on me, while in the act of 

washing my hands, the Spirit said, 'How long have you been praying to 

cast out demons?' and I replied, 'Lord a long time.' And the Spirit said,

'From henceforth, thou shalt cast out demons.' I arose and praised God."

(Pg 21). An opportunity to test this newly-given anointing to cast out demons 

came the following Sunday, when a violently insane man was brought to Lake, 

who commanded the demon to come out of him in Jesus' name. 

The man was instantly delivered, and two days later was released

from the institution that he had been confined in.

 

 

 

In April 1908, Lake and his family left for South Africa.

Though they had no visible means of support, they were miraculously provided for

every step of the way. And thus began a tremendous Revival, with

mighty healings, miracles and deliverances, which was to profoundly 

impact the African continent for years to come, even long after Lake was gone.

In 1913, following the tragic death of his wife, Lake returned to America, 

but by this time the torch had also been passed on to Elias Letwaba 

and others in Africa, and the work went on there, in great power.

 

 

 

Lake continued his ministry in North America until his death in 1935, 

and like Smith Wigglesworth, he fought an outstanding fight and ran a great race, 

right to the very end.

 

 

John G. Lake  Photo's  / Articles & Collection of Materials Frame's (4)
from interior walls of the old "Harvest Time Church" , Spokane,WA
a church site near John G. Lake's original tabernacle.
Framed Pictures -  Gift to the Divine Healing Rooms - Seattle Eastside
located at the office of  the Divine Healing Rooms !

 

Books about Lake:

John G. Lake, THE ASTOUNDING DIARY OF DR. JOHN G. LAKE (1987)

Gordon Lindsay, JOHN G. LAKE--APOSTLE TO AFRICA (1981)

Kenneth Copeland, JOHN G. LAKE: HIS LIFE, HIS SERMONS, HIS BOLDNESS OF FAITH

Roberts Liardon, JOHN G. LAKE: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF HIS LIFE TEACHINGS

Gordon Lindsay, JOHN G. LAKE: SERMONS ON DOMINION OVER DEMONS, DISEASE&DEATH

Wilford Reidt, JOHN G. LAKE: MAN WITHOUT (1989)

Larry Keefauver, THE LESSONS OF JOHN G. LAKE ON PRAYER (1997)

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