Broadcast notes 2.2.11

Dr. John G. Lake

Chicago 1920

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Regarding prayer:

"When I try to induce men to forget their little squabbles and little differences and go on praying, it is because my soul feels the burden of it. 

 

Look how beautifully this hall is lighted.

Do you know the world lived in darkness for five thousand years and they had no way of lighting a place except by torches.

But there was just as much electricity five thousand years ago as there is today. Some­body found how to handle it, discovered the laws that governed it. 

 

To this day, there is not a man who can tell us what electricity is, or what its substance is. We know we can control it this way and guide it that way, and make it do this and that, but what it is nobody can tell us. 

 

But down somewhere on the river there is a thing called a dynamo, and it draws the electricity out of the air, and transmits it over the wires, and these days they are even sending it wireless.

 

Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls. 

 

 

PRAYER is God's divine dynamo. 

 

The spirit of man is God's divine dynamo. 

 

When you go to pray, that spirit of yours gets into motion...not ten thousand revolutions or one hundred thousand thousand. The voltage of heaven comes to your heart, and it flows from your hands, it burns into the souls of men, and God Almighty moves on their behalf."

 

A dynamo (from the Greek word dynamis; meaning power), originally another name for an electrical generator, generally means a generator that produces direct current with the use of a commutator. A commutator is an electrical switch.

Cyrus B. Fockler

Over in Indiana some years ago was a farmer who used to be a friend of Brother Fockler (Cyrus B. Fockler, a ministerial companion of Dr. Lake) and myself. His son had been in South America, had a dreadful case of typhoid fever, had no proper nursing, and the result was a great fever sore developed until it was seven inches in diameter. The whole abdomen became grown up with proud flesh, (Granulation tissue that grows from the base of a wound and is able to fill wounds of almost any size it heals), 

one layer on top of another layer, until there were five layers. The nurse would lift up those layers and wash them with an antiseptic to keep the maggots out of it. When he exposed the body for me to pray for him, I had never  seen anything like that before. I was shocked. As I went to pray for him, I spread my fingers out over that sore. I prayed, 

"God, in the Name of Jesus Christ, 

blast this curse of hell and burn it up by the power of God." 

Then I took the train and came back. The next day I received a telegram saying, "Lake, the most unusual thing has happened. An hour after you left the whole print of your hand was burned into that thing a quarter of an inch deep, and it is there yet."

 

You talk about the voltage of heaven and the power of God.

 

Why, there is lightning in the soul of Jesus. The lightnings of Jesus heal men by their touch, sin dissolves, disease flees when the power of God approaches.

 

And yet we are quibbling and wondering if Jesus Christ is big enough for our needs.

Let's take the bars down.

Let God come Into your life. 

And in the Name of Jesus your heart will not be satisfied with an empty Pentecost, but the light of God 

and the 

lightnings of Jesus will flood your life. 

Amen.

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James 5:16b

“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” KJV

The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't—not a drop for three and a half years. Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again. Message

The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.  NIV

The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. New Living

The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

English Standard

The fervent supplication of the righteous man has much power. Darby

The heartfelt supplication of a righteous man exerts a mighty influence. Weymouth

Young's Literal Translation
Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

James 5:16 (Amplified Bible)

¹⁶Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].

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"God does nothing except in response to believing prayer."  John Wesley (Famous evangelist who spent 2 hours daily in prayer)    

“Prayer is where the action is." John Wesley

"Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying. Paul E. Billheimer

"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest Christian on his knees."  William Cowper

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