Broadcast notes 2.3.11 "There's A War In The Heavenlies"

Broadcast Notes: 2.3.11

Prayer, God's Dynamo

In his sermon given in Chicago in 1920, Dr. John G. Lake mentioned that prayer was like a great dynamo….just as a natural dynamo draws electricity out of the air and then transmits it over long distances, prayer, a supernatural activity, is like that great dynamo, drawing God’s saving grace and creative virtue into the lives of men and women on this earth.

Space Warp

Science fiction speaks of a ‘warp’ in time, a rip in the woof of this four dimensional world, where one can slip through into another dimension, another world, another time.

That is what happens in prayer, you slip or escape, the ‘surly bonds of earth’, the pull of earth’s gravitation, the earthiness of the sense realm with its lust of the flesh, and you escape through that rend in the heavens that Jesus made when He ascended with His Blood. 

Here let us look at that ‘rend in the heavens’ from Hebrews 10, Verses 18-22…

Now where remission of these (sins & iniquities, Vs. 17) is, there is no need for further offerings for sin. 

Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way,

which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

and having a high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith….

Hebrews 6, Verse 19, also speaks of the ‘hope’ which we have as an anchor for our soul, this hope is both sure and steadfast and has entered into that which is within the veil, where our forerunner has entered, even Jesus, made a high priest forever after the order of Melchisedec.

“A new and living way”, “through the veil”, “within the veil”, all speaks of transcending human limitation and entering to the eternity of God….even to the point of coming boldly before His Throne.

We are still speaking of prayer….the dynamo generating God’s tremendous miracle working power here on earth.

To really understand the extent or surpassing greatness of this power, we have to slip through that warp created between the natural, and enter into the supernatural…..even heaven itself, as John did when he was on the isle of Patmos.

In Revelation 4, John tells us that he was caught up to the Throne of God, the very place you are invited to enter into when you pray.

Let’s look at what he saw:

A throne set in heaven, with One sitting on the throne, Vs. 2

The One on the throne was a spirit being, the color of a jasper and sardine stone, a rainbow encircled the throne that had the appearance of a emerald, Vs. 3

Our of the throne proceeded lightenings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which were the seven manifestations of God’s Spirit, Vs. 5

Continue with Vs. 6-11

Before we begin to pray, we need to place ourselves in this place….

this is the place we come to when we come boldly before the Throne of Grace, so that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need, Heb. 4:16….

and not just for our needs, but for the ability to be God’s dynamo in prayer and release His mercy and grace in the lives of others in THEIR time of need.

If we will lift our minds up into heavenly places, BEFORE, we begin to pray….and see God’s power, His lightnings, His beauty, ….a flooding of His Spirit will take place in our hearts and we will begin to sense that heavenly dynamo beginning to turn, and the fire beginning to burn.

The old song says,

I feel a little prayer wheel turning,

I feel a little fire, a’burning.

(from "Have A Little Talk With Jesus")

The old time saints new what it was to pray like the dynamo of God.

When Dr. Lake laid his hand on the proud flesh, seven layers of it on a man’s stomach, he prayed like the dynamo of God:   

“God, in the Name of Jesus Christ, blast this curse of hell and burn it up by the power of God!”

That, my dear friends, is the prayer of faith!

An hour later, the imprint of his hand was burnt into that devilish growth….I’m sure Dr. Lake wasn’t expecting that!  He had never seen such a thing before!

He said, “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!”

We are called to generate God’s power in the earth and leave how it manifests in His hands…I'm sure Dr. Lake never expected this peculiar 'operation' of the Spirit.

Paul spoke of, ‘diversities of operation’, and ‘differences of administration’, but it was the same Holy Spirit of God who was accomplishing all these various works, 1 Corinthians 12:4-7:

⁴Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

 ⁵And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

 ⁶And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

 ⁷But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

Dr. Lake was a man who, by understanding scientific principles, and applying them to the operations of God’s Spirit, himself became a dynamo generating God’s power and then through prayer and the laying on of hands, transmitting that power to others, such as this man, for healing.

Dr. Lake saw the dynamo principle and lived a life of prayer, so as to keep generating that power…building it up within himself, so that he wasn’t laying ‘empty hands’ on people when he went to pray for them.

Empty hands would not have seen a hundred thousand people healed, and a city declared the healthiest city in the United States.

A report out of Washington, DC. said:  “Rev. Lake, through divine healing, has made Spokane the healthiest city in the world, according to United States, statistics.”

Dr. Lake, through his teachings, raised up other ‘dynamos of God’, and together as a team they functioned out of healing rooms in Spokane, ministering to people every day through the laying on of hands.

Again, I want to emphasize, that a great part of Dr. Lake’s success was based on the fact that he approached the operation of the Spirit in a scientific manner.

He raised his level of understanding the ‘operations of God’ beyond a ‘hit and miss’ operation.

If scientists operated that way, we would not have the great scientific breakthroughs we have today.  Scientists don’t do their work to ‘miss it’, but to ‘hit it’, get the breakthrough, the solution.

PRAYER ISN'T JUST A SPIRITUAL OPERATION, IT IS A SCIENTIFIC ONE, TOO.

You may still doubt this, but when you look at all the natural, scientific illustrations Jesus used to teach the principles of the Kingdom of God, you will discover that they (the principles of the Kingdom taught in the parables) had a scientific foundation.

Take the parable of the Sower….

science says to have a harvest you put seed in the ground, and it must be good ground, not thorny, rocky, scorched ground.  And then the

harvest will be varied, 30-60-100 fold.

Prayer isn’t a ‘feeling’, though you may get feelings when you pray.

Prayer is allowing God to transact some business here on earth.

James 5:16b 

The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer 

of a righteous man 

makes tremendous power available 

[dynamic in its working].

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Overcome the limitations of this world by entering into Life....Zoe,

Life in and by the Holy Spirit.

If you don't have this life, pray this prayer with me:

"Jesus, I know that you came into this world, as The Life that God was holding out to those who would believe on You.  I believe that you are also the Lamb of God, Who took away the sins of the world on the Cross.  I believe that You were raised from the dead, are alive today and seated at God's right hand in heaven.  Come into my heart, my life....I receive You and the God-kind of Life that You brought to the world.

Thank you, Jesus for forgiving my sins, coming into my heart, and making me a new person inside with a new kind of Life.

God is now my very own Father,

and I am His very own child,

through Jesus Christ, my Lord,

Amen.

(if you prayed this prayer, I would like to send you some materials to help you grow in your new life.  If you will send your name and address to me at "zoeradionetwork1@gmail.com", I would be happy to do that.

God Bless You!

Broadcast notes 2.2.11

Dr. John G. Lake

Chicago 1920

(cont'd)

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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Broadcast notes 2.1.11

My prayer for you today was taken from in the Message Bible, Eph. 1:17-20....

I ask—ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory—to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally, your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers, oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him—endless energy, boundless strength!

All this energy issues from Christ: God raised him from death and set him on a throne in deep heaven, in charge of running the universe, everything from galaxies to governments, no name and no power exempt from his rule.

OH YES!  IN JESUS NAME, AMEN!

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GOD wants your faith to be built upon HIS power:  1 Cor. 2:5

The wisdom of this world is foolishness to GOD:  1 Cor. 1:20

GOD anointed Jesus of Nazareth with power:  Acts 10:38

(to what purpose:  so that He could go about doing good and healing ALL those who were oppressed of the devil.)  (Yes, Virginia, there is a devil!)

Dr. Lake Notes, Chicago 1920 Sermon

Dr. JOHN G. LAKE

"One day I sat in Los Angeles talking to old Father Seymour. 

WILLIAM J. SEYMOUR

I told him an incident in my life of Elias Letwaba, one of our na­tive preachers, who lived in the native country. I came to his home, and his wife said, "He is not home. A little baby is hurt, and he is over praying for it."

So we went over and got down on our knees and crawled into the native hut. I saw he was kneeling in a corner by the dying child. I said, "Letwaba, it is me. What is the matter with the child?" He told me that it hurt its neck. I examined it and saw that the baby's neck was broken, and I said to Letwaba, "Why, Letwaba, the baby's neck is broken." I did not have faith for a broken neck, but the poor old Letwaba did not know the difference, and I saw he did not understand; but he discerned the spirit of doubt in my soul.

I said to myself, "I am not going to interfere with his faith. He will just feel the doubt and all the old traditional things I ever learned, so I will go out," and I did. I went and sat in another hut and kept on praying. I went to bed at one o'clock; at three o'clock Letwaba came in.

I said, "Well, Letwaba, how about the baby?" He looked at me lovingly and sweetly and said, "Why, Brother, the baby is all well." I said, "The baby is well! Take me to the baby at once." I went to the baby and took the little black thing on my arm, and I came out and prayed, 

"Lord, take every cursed thing out of my soul that keeps me from believing the Lord Jesus Christ." 

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In my meeting in Spokane is a dear man who came from Texas. He told us he was dying of pellagra. He came to Sister Etter's meeting at Dallas. Apparently on the train he died, and they laid his body in the station house, covered him with some gunny sacks, but discovered in the morning he was still alive. So they carried him to Mother Etter's meeting, and she came down off the platform and prayed for him. That man is living, and has been preaching the gospel for seven years at Spokane.

MARIA WOODWORTH-ETTER

Pellagra skin lesions

 

Why, there is more science in the Son of God in five minutes than the ignorant old world ever knew. "In Him was LIFE, and the LIFE was the light of men.

"The LIFE of God is that which the mind of men, and the keenest of them, never knew, and never discov­ered. "The world by wisdom knew not God" [1 Corinthians 1:21]. 

They could not discern His death nor understand the marvels of His life, until the Lord Jesus came and lived and died and entered into Hades and destroyed the powers of darkness and liberated the souls of men, liberated them from the chains of darkness and came forth into the world to speak God's Word and reveal God's power and show God's nature. And by the grace of God, man has been privileged to enter into the nature of Jesus, and the fires of God burn in his soul like they burned in the soul of Jesus.

The scientific world has been startled by one of the English scientists who has come forward with a formula for transmit­ting the grosser metals into gold. It did not work. Years ago this knowledge was known to the world, but somehow it disap­peared from the world. Recently men again have attempted to change lead, silver and iron, transmuting them into gold.

Beloved, that is the thing that Jesus Christ has been doing all the time. It is as old as Christianity, is as old as the Son of God. He has been coming to the hearts of men, taking the old base conditions of the nature, injecting His life into them, injecting His power into the nature, and in the mighty action of the Holy Ghost they have been changed into the pure gold of God.

If there never was another blessing that came to the world through Pentecost but this one, all the price that men could pay would be as nothing for it. For I want to tell you there has been more real divine researching by the Holy Ghost into the nature of God and the nature of men in these last fifteen years than there ever was in the whole world. 

When anyone comes to me with the statement that there is nothing in the Holy Ghost but a psycho­logical manifestation, I say, "Brother, Sister, come with me and see the gems of God and the beautiful gold that has come out of the dross and the dirty lives, and then you will know."

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In my assembly at Spokane is a dear little woman who was totally blind for nine years. She had little teaching along the line of faith in God. She sat one day with her group of six children to discover that the dirty brute of a husband had abandoned her. A debased human being is capable of things that no beast will do, for a beast will care for its own. You can imagine what that little heart was like. She was broken and bruised and bleeding. She gathered her children around her and began to pray. They were sitting on their front porch.

Presently the little one got up and said, "Oh, Mama, there is a man coming up the path, and He looks like Jesus. Oh, Mama, there is blood on His hands and blood on His feet!" And the children were frightened and ran around the corner of the house. After a while the biggest one looked around the corner and said, "Why, Mama, He is laying His hands on your eyes!" And just then her blind eyes opened.

 

And Beloved, if we could have seen the reason, we would have seen that there were some Christians at Zion Gate or some other place who were praying the power of God on a hungry world, and Jesus Christ in His search, rushed into her life and sent her forth to praise God and teach the Gospel of Jesus.

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I would not have missed my life in Africa for anything. It put me up against some of the real problems. I sat upon the Mount of Sources one night, and I counted eleven hundred native villages within the range of my eyes. I could see the color of the grass on the mountains sixty miles away. I could see the moun­tains  one hundred and fifty miles away. Then I began to figure, and I said, "Within the range of my eyes there live at least ten million native people. They never heard the Name of Jesus. In the whole land there are at least one hundred million people, perhaps two hundred million. They are being born every day at a tremendous rate. Do you know there are more heathen born
every day than are Christianized in fifty years? When are we going to catch up by our present method of building schools and teaching them to read? Never! I tell you it will never come that way. It has got to come from heaven by the power of God, by an outpouring of the Holy Ghost."

That is the reason that in my heart I rejoice in the blessed promise. "In the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh" (Acts 2:17). And every last one of the two hundred million poor black people [in Africa] are going to hear and know of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And beloved, I would rather have a place in the kingdom of God to pray that thing into existence, and to pray the power of God upon them, than anything else in the world.

I began to pray. I said, "Has God no interest in these people; and if He has an interest, why is not something done for them? What is the matter with God?" My heart was breaking under the burden of it. I said, "God, there is an explanation somewhere. What is it, Lord? Tell me about this thing."

After a while the Spirit said, "The Church, which is His Body" [Ephesians 1:22-23], and I knew that was God's answer. I said, "Yes, the Church should have sent missionaries and built schools and done this and that."

But the Spirit kept on saying, "The Church, which is His Body." 

"The Church, which is His Body." 

And I sat and listened to that voice repeat that sentence for a half-hour. I said, "My God, my soul begins to see. The Church is the generating power of God in the world; the Church has been negligent in one thing. She has not prayed the power of God out of heaven."

Then I saw that which has become a conviction in my soul from that day. 

There never was a soul born to God in the whole earth at any time 

until some soul in the world got hold of the living Spirit of God 

and generated that Spirit in saving grace and creative virtue 

until it took possession of a soul, 

no differ­ence if it was a million miles away."

Links:

WILLIAM SEYMOUR 

MARIA WOODWORTH ETTER

PELLAGRA 

 

 

Broadcast notes 1.27.11

Readings from Dr. John G. Lake's Chicago sermon given in 1920:

For twenty-five years God has kept me so that sickness, nor the devil, were able to touch me, from the day that I saw in the ninety-first Psalm a man's privilege of entering into God, not only for healing, but HEALTH, and having God and the life of God in every fiber of his being.

Scientists tell us that in a single inch of a man's skin there are one million five hundred thousand (1,500,000) cells. They have almost doubled that statement now. But be that as it may, I want you to see that the whole structure of man's life is one wonderful cellular structure. Your body, your brain, your bone is just one great cellular structure.

In the process of digestion it is something like this. The food we eat is reduced to vegetable lymph before it is absorbed by the body. But no scientist in the world has ever been able to satisfactorily explain what it is that changes the lymph and makes it LIFE. Something happens when it is in the body that changes it to life.

I want to tell you what grew up in my soul, and how I proved the fact. I could feel sometimes in the attitude of prayer just as you have felt hundreds of times, the impulse of the Spirit moving down through your brain and your person to the ends of your fingers...just little impulses of God's presence in your life. And I have said, "If there was an instrument powerful enough, I believe men could see the action of the brain cells, and see what took place."

Here is the secret of digestion. When, from the spirit of man and through the spirit of man there is being imparted to every cell of your body waves of light, waves of life, it is the movement of your spirit. Spirit impulses passing from the cortex cells of the brain to the very ends of your fingers and toes, to every cell of your body. And when they touch that vegetable lymph it is transformed into LIFE. That is common transmutation.

In the material world you can dissolve zinc and attach a wire, and transmit it to the other end of the wire. They dissolve that zinc, and the battery at the one end, and transmit the zinc to the other end of the wire, where it is deposited. How is it done? There is a process of transmutation. That is what it is called. There is change from one form to another.

My brother, you listen to me, if that is not true in the spiritual world, there is no such thing as divine LIFE. There is no such thing as salvation through the Son of God. For that which is soulish must be transformed by the Spirit of God in us, until it becomes spiritual, until it is of God.

Jesus sat with His disciples and ate with them, both bread and fish. He went to the mount and ascended before them to glory. What happened to the fish and bread that He ate? I tell you there is a transmutation. That which is natural becomes spiritual. That which was natural is changed by the power of God into the life of God, into the nature of God, into the sub­stance of God, into the glory of God.

So when I returned to this country this time, I submitted myself for this experiment. They attached to my head a powerful instru­ment that could take some kind of pictures, one after another, in order to see if possible what the action of the brain cells would be. Then I repeated things that were soothing and calculated to re­duce the action of the cortex cells to their lowest possible action. Then I went on into the scriptures to the better and richer things, until I came to the first chapter of John, and as I began to recite that, and the fires of God began to burn in my heart. Presently once again the Spirit of God came upon me, and the man who was at my back touched me. It was a signal to keep that poise until one after another could look through the instrument. And finally when I let go, and the Spirit subsided, they said, "Why man, we cannot understand this thing; but the cortex cells extend so that we can hardly imagine it possible to a human brain."

Oh, I'll tell you, when you pray, something is happening to you. It is not a myth. It is the action of God. It is scientific that the Almighty God comes into the soul, takes possession of the brain, lives in the cortex cells, and when you will or wish, either consciously or unconsciously, the fire of God, the power of God, that life of God, that nature of God, throbs through your nerves, down through your person into every cell of your being, into every million five hundred thousand cells in every square inch of your skin, and they are alive with God.

Men have treated the Gospel of Jesus Christ as though it were a sentiment and foolishness. Men who posed as being wise, have scorned the simple things that were taking place every day. But I want to tell you that no dear old mother ever knelt before the Throne of God, and raised her heart to heaven without demonstrating the finest process of the wireless of God that ever was produced.

In these days they are now able to transmit by wireless from six to seven thousand miles...and even 12,000 miles recently (1920). Once again they have been able to demonstrate that in one-tenth of a second they can transmit the first section of thought twelve thousand miles. Think of it! There is practically no such thing as time.

Beloved, the very instant your soul moves with your heart cries, that yearning of your soul, it registers in the soul of Jesus Christ, and the answer comes back.

I said to them, "Gentlemen, I want to see one more thing. You go down in your hospital and bring a man who has inflam­mation in the bone." So they brought up a man with inflamma­tion in his bone. I said, "You take your instrument, and attach it to that fellow's leg, but you leave enough space to get my hand on his leg; you can have it attached on both sides."

So when the thing was all ready, I put my hand on that man's shin, and I prayed just like Mother Etter prays. No strange prayer, but the cry of my heart to God, I said, "God kill the devil­ish business by the power of God, let it live in him, let it move in him."

Then I said, "Gentlemen, what is taking place?"

They replied, "Every cell responds." All there is to it, is that the life of God comes back into the part that is afflicted, and right away the blood flows in, and the work is done.

My soul has grown tired long ago of men treating the whole subject of Christianity as though it were child's play. We have our physical sciences, we have our psychological sciences, the action of the mind, taught in the great schools of the land, but there is something greater. One of these days there is going to be a new chair. It will be the chair of pneumatology...the science of spirit, by which men will undertake to discover the laws of God. And by the grace of God, men shall know that God is alive, and the living Spirit of God is no dream.

In my Healing Rooms at Spokane there came one day a dear woman whose name is Lamphear. She is the wife of a merchant in the city. She had fallen downstairs, causing a prolapse of the bowels and stomach. She had been an invalid for eleven years. On top of that she had become tubercular. On top of that the poor thing developed inflammatory rheumatism, until she was terribly deformed. She was going to die. The doctors said there was nothing they could do for her. They advised that she be taken to Hot Lake, Oregon, and perhaps that would do her some good. So they put her in hot baths there and she suffered just as much as ever. So they thought they would try superheated baths. They put her in water hotter than any human being had ever been in before. The result was that instead of having any healing effect, the left leg developed an abnormal growth, and it became three inches shorter than the other leg. It is a simple condition of sarcoma. The foot became an inch longer. She came away from the institution worse than when she went. She got as far as Portland. Her parents were living at The Dalles. She wanted to see her parents before she died. Her husband carried her in his arms onto the ship. As he did so, a Pentecostal missionary stepped up and said, "Dear woman, we understand now why God told us to take this boat. The Lord told us last night to take the eight o'clock boat for The Dalles." He had called up on the telephone and found the fare was $1.80, and as that was all the money they had, they went without their breakfast so as to be able to take the boat.

As she lay crying with her suffering, they said, "When we get to The Dalles, we will pray for you." (They were timid folks.) Eventually they reached The Dalles and went to a hotel. The two knelt to pray for her. She says as they prayed and put their hands on her knees, their hands became illuminated until they looked like the hands of Jesus, their faces looked like the face of Jesus, and she was afraid. But something happened. The pain went out of her.

Strangely, she retained the tuberculosis and the struggle for breath. The leg remained the same length. When she examined herself, she was surprised that it was not longer. She said, "Pray again that the Lord may make it the same length as the other," but the poor missionary was staggered. He said, "Dear Sister, the pain is gone. You be satisfied and give praise to God."

So she went on three and a half years coughing her lungs out and with her leg longer than the other. One day she came to the ealing Rooms and was ministered to by Mr. Westwood, and she felt wonderfully relieved. She said, "Mr. Westwood, I can breathe clear down into my stomach."

He said, "What makes you limp?"

She answered, "There is a big lump on the inside of my knee."

He said, "I’ll pray for that."

"But," she said, "the man told me I should be satisfied if the pain was gone."

Mr. Westwood said, "He had not grown up in God yet." He put his hands on that lump and prayed, and God Almighty dis­solved that lump of bone, and that leg grew at the rate of one inch a day, and she wears shoes like anyone else.

There is a difference between healing and miracle. Healing is the restoration of diseased tissue, but miracle is a creative ac­tion of the Spirit of God in a man's life. And the salvation of a soul is a divine miracle of God. Every time Christ speaks the word LIFE to a man's heart there is a divine creative miracle of God in him, and he is a new man in Christ Jesus.

Broadcast notes for 1.26.11

The Science of Divine Healing (cont'd)

Review of life of Dr. John G. Lake and a portion of his sermon on "The Science of Healing" given in Chicago in 1920.  Having been a medical student at John Hopkins Medical College, he had the privilege of attending various studies after he left the school.  At one of these, he submitted himself for testing on the functions of the brain when the Scriptures from the Bible were being read, and praises were being said to God.  As the testing equipment registered his brain waves as he did this, the attendants remarked how they had 'never seen anything like it.  You have a wider mental range than anyone we have ever seen.'  Dr. Lake told them:  "Brethren, it is the Holy Ghost."

Just to clarify something here, Dr. Lake wasn't called, 'Dr.' because he was a medical doctor, but because so many people were healed when he prayed for them, people began calling him, "Dr. Lake".

Science has talked about how we only use a very small portion of our 'brain'.  They don't deny that the rest of it is there, it just isn't accessible or being used. 

In observing Dr. Lake's testimony here, I believe that through the supernatural power of God, the Holy Spirit, that he was able to access the inaccessible portions of our 'brain'.

We need to think here about the terms brain/mind.  They are not the same.

What doctors have said is inaccessible is the portion of the mind that was affected by the Fall in Genesis 3.  The portions of the 'brain' that 'fire' when the entire mind is functioning, became more inactive.

God created mankind in His image and one of His attributes is Omniscience:  All-Knowingness.  (By the way, I make up my own words to express what my heart is saying, so if you see some strange things, don't think anything of it!)

God created mankind to fellowship with Him, so He created us with a mind capable of doing that and a brain capable of physically receiving stimulation from the mind's thoughts.

Psa. 8:5 says that He "created man a little lower than Himself".... I realize that most translations say, "a little lower than the angels"....you need to look at the original Hebrew.

I heard someone say one time that 'God lives in 10 dimensions'....probably infinite dimensions really, but for simplicity we will say '10'....and that when He created Adam & Eve, they too lived in 10 dimensions, with access to their full capacities and God, (He would walk with them in the garden in the cool of the day).  At the fall, that continuity of dimensions was fractured, and now we are 'confined' to 4 dimensions:  length, width, height and time....thus our diminished mind/brain capacity.

Now, through the Word of God and the Spirit of God, we can access the other dimensions that we have been separated from by the Fall.  The scientific test that Dr. Lake arranged to take proved at the time that Spirit & Word tears away the limitations of the Fall and we enter the dimensions in which God lives.

Have you thought about the verse:  "God has set eternity in their hearts".....

New International Version (©1984)
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.  Ecc. 3:11

God has set eternity in our hearts, yet we cannot perceive it without His Help.  Another reason for the New Birth.

The Woman at the Well:  John 4:14

Jesus told this woman that He would give her 'living' water....a well springing up in her springing up with everlasting life (zoe).  This Zoe opens the other dimensions that were lost in the Fall....something to think about.

Today's broadcast....1.26.11

Well, I am still working out the 'bugs'.  The show quality was not as good today as yesterday, but I found out that I have to be plugged straight into the internet line and not using a wireless connection.  So.....I am learning, please bear with me.  I enjoy the show and the 'down home' feel of it.

I got the most wonderful compliment a few years ago...a woman was visiting the church when I was preaching that morning and told my daughter later, "I felt like I was sitting down at the kitchen table and talking over coffee!"  (I don't know that she actually meant it as a compliment but I took it to be one because I love that personal feeling.)

I will post a few notes from today's broadcast later today.

Another broadcast tomorrow, 10 AM Central and this time I got the length right!

The Science of Divine Healing Broadcast notes from 1/25/11

"In Him was Life (Zoe) and the Life (Zoe) was the light of men."  John 1:4

"That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of Life (Zoe), for the Life (Zoe) was manifested and we have seen it and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal Life (Zoe), which was with the Father and was manifested unto us.  And this is the PROMISE that he hath promised us, even eternal Life (Zoe),"  1 John 1:1-3 

I have heard.

I have seen with my eyes.

I have experienced...

I now declare....that Life, 

which was with the Father and was manifested unto me.

My teaching and preaching is not with man's wisdom, but is intended to produce power and a demonstration of the Holy Spirit/The Word of God in your life.

I will speak of what I have seen, heard and experience of that Life for the past 35 years.  I am not sharing a myth or fable, a philosophy or speculation.

 I call you to fellowship with this Life.

Ann Windsor

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Dr. John G. Lake

Science of Divine Healing
Chicago, 1920

In him was life; and the life was the light of men" (John 1:4).

There is a difference between Christianity and philosophy.

God gave me the privilege of living in the heart of philosophic South Africa, where we have one million five hundred thousand who are ministered to by Buddhist, Confucianist and Brahman priests. Every imaginable cult has its representatives there. I was amazed to discover that the whites were gradually assimilating the philosophy of the East, just as we Westerners are assimilating the philosophy of the East, and have been doing so for a long time.

When you take the philosophies, Christian Science, New Thought and Unity today and examine them, you discover they are the same old philosophies of India, Egypt and China from time immemorial.

The difference between philosophy and religion, particularly the religion of Jesus Christ, is in the words I quoted from the Scriptures, "In him was life; and the life was the light of men." Philosophy is light. It is the best light the individual possessed who framed the philosophy. But it is not a LIFE GIVER.

But from the soul of Jesus there breathed a holy, living life of God, that comes into and quickens the nature of man, him by its power, and by the grace of God he has the life of Jesus in him, eternal life.

Many of the ancient philosophies have a marvelous light. One of the Indian philosophies, Bhagavad Gita, was written five hundred years before Isaiah. In it they predicted the coming of a Son of God, a Redeemer, who was to come and redeem mankind.

Buddha presented his philosophy five hundred years before Jesus. Pythagoras wrote four thousand years before Jesus Christ. In each one of them you will find many of the teachings of Jesus. The teachings of Jesus were not unique in that they were all new. They were new because they contained something that none of the rest possessed. 

It was the divine content in the word of Jesus Christ that gave His teachings their distinguishing feature from the other philosophies. That content (element) is the LIFE of God. "In him was LIFE; and the LIFE was the light of men."

Beloved, the real Christian, and the real Christian Church undertakes to bring to mankind the real life of the Lord Jesus, knowing that when the LIFE of Jesus comes, the light of civiliza tion and Christianity will follow, but the LIFE is the first thing.


As men traveled from God, and as the world traveled from God, men naturally fell into their own consciousness and soul states, and proceeded in the common way of the world to en deavor to bless the world through LIGHT. But LIGHT never saved a world. Light will never save the world. 

There must be a divine content from on high that comes to the soul to enrich it and to empower it, to illuminate it and to glorify it, and more to bring God into it. For God's purpose through Jesus Christ is to bring Himself into the nature of men, and thus forever make them like unto, not only in their outward appearance and habits of life, but in nature and substance and content, in spirit and soul and body, LIKE THE SON OF GOD.

Jesus never intended Christians to be an imitation. They were to be bone of His bone, and blood of His blood, and flesh of His flesh, and soul of His soul, and spirit of His Spirit. And thus He becomes the Son of God, a Savior and Redeemer forever.

In my youth I took a course in medicine. I never practiced medicine, for I abandoned the whole subject a few months be fore the time of my graduation, when it came to the place where diagnosis became the general subject for examination. It was then that I discovered that the whole subject of diagnosis was very largely a matter of guesswork, and it so remains.

Consequently throughout my life there has remained in me somewhat of the spirit of investigation. It has never been easy to accept things readily, until my soul stepped out inch by inch and proved them for myself.

Having had former acknowledgment as a medical student, it is still my privilege to attend a medical clinic, which I frequently do. I submitted myself at one time to a series of experiments. It was not sufficient to know that God did things, I had to know HOW God accomplished these things.

So when I returned from Africa at one time I visited at the Johns Hopkins institution, and submitted myself for this series of experiments.

First, they attached to my head an instrument to record the vi brations of the brain. This instrument had an indicator that would mark according to the vibrations of the mind. I began by repeating soothing things, like the twenty-third Psalm; then I re peated the thirty-seventh Psalm and then the thirty-fifth chapter of Isaiah, then the ninety-first Psalm; then Paul's address before Agrippa. Then I went into secular literature, and I repeated the Charge of the Light Brigade, Poe's Raven, with a prayer in my heart that somehow God would connect my soul with the Holy Ghost. My difficulty was that while this was going on I could not keep the Spirit from coming upon me, and when I got through with Poe's Raven, they said: "You are a phenomenon. You have a wider mental range than any human being we have ever seen." But it was this, that the Spirit of God kept coming upon me in degree, so I could feel the moving of the Spirit within me.

But I prayed in my heart, "Lord God, if you will only let the Spirit of God come like the lightnings of God upon my soul for two seconds, I know something is going to happen that these men never saw before."

So I closed the last lines. All at once the Spirit of God struck me in a burst of praise and tongues, and the old indicator on the instrument went to the end of the rod, and I haven't the least idea how much farther it would have gone if there had been an indicator to record it. 

The instructors said, "We have never seen anything like it." 

I replied, "Brethren, it is the Holy Ghost."

Next broadcast:  Now, in order to get the force of what I want to tell you into this next experiment, something of the process of digestion, I want to explain the assimilating power of your nature, your capacity to assimilate God and take the life of God into your being, and keep it in your being. 

I am not talking to you about what I believe. 

I am talking about what I KNOW.

For twenty-five years God has kept me so that sickness, nor the devil, were able to touch me, from the day that I saw in the ninety-first Psalm a man's privilege of entering into God, not only for healing, but HEALTH, and having God and the life of God in every fiber of his being.

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Psalms 91:16  "With long life will I satisfy you and show you My Salvation"

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Vines Expository Dictionary
Gk. 2222,  zoe
is used in the NT "of life as a principle,
life in the absolute sense,
life as God has it,
that which the Father has in Himself, and which He gave to the Incarnate Son to have in Himself, John 5:26,
and which the Son manifested in the world, 1 John 1:2.

From this life man has become alienated in consequence of the Fall, Eph. 4:18,
and of this life men become partakers through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, John 3:15, who becomes its Author to all such as trust in Him, Acts 3:15,
and who is therefore said to be 'the life' of the believer, Col. 3:4,
for the life that He gives He maintains, John 6:35,63.

Eternal life is the present actual possession of the believer because of his relationship with Christ, John 5:24; 1 John 3:14,
and that it will one day extend its domain to the sphere of the body is assured by the Resurrection of Christ, 2 Cor. 5:4; 2 Tim. 1:10.

This life is not merely a principle of power and mobility, however, for it has moral associations which are inseparable from it, as of holiness and righteousness.

 

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Need a new start?  Don't make a resolution or turn over a new leaf!

Start a new life!  Pray this prayer from your innermost being: 

 

"Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the very Life of God. I believe that You came into the world to die for MY sins.  I believe that you died under my penalty, paid my debt and rose again, sitting TODAY at God's right hand.  I invite You into my innermost being.  Give me that Life that You ARE.  I receive it NOW.

Thank You, Lord for my new LIFE!

If you prayed this prayer, I would like to send you a little booklet explaining what has happened and getting you started in your new Life....e-mail me your name & address at:

zoeradionetwork1@gmail.com

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  Till tomorrow.......

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Zoe Radio Network's new host: Blogtalk Radio

We have been working for about a month now relocating our broadcast to Blogtalk Radio.  This will provide us with access to iTunes and also downloading for those of you who have mentioned it.  Our first program will air this Tuesday, January 25 at 10:00 AM.  We are still experimenting with times for broadcasting so this most likely will not be our permanent day or time.  Learning to work with the internet software, uploading sound files, etc. has been a little bit of a challenge so for the first program, we are doing a reading from the sermon of Dr. John G. Lake given in Chicago in 1920 on the "Science of Divine Healing", with opening and closing remarks and music clips.  We will be able to check the audio levels, clarity, etc. with the first program, so we are interested in suggestions or comments in these areas. 

Personally, I enjoy reading the writings of the giants of faith so that people can hear them as well as read them:  "faith cometh by hearing", Romans 10:17, so I will probably be doing more of these....I encourage you to download them into iTunes, which is free downloadable software, and you can then use that program to make CD's to give to others for their edification if you so choose.

We will have call-in capability also, which we will be able to use in a few weeks after getting accustomed to the web site.  It will be interesting to see the questions/comments that come in.

At times our subjects may 'bleed over' into terms used by New Agers, or other 'spiritual' areas.  Please bear with us as those times.  "Tag words" can catch the attention of the unconverted, the deceived and the seeking.  Your prayers for them are solicited.

Exploring life as God has it, will remain our focus....hence our opening program title:  "The Science of Divine Healing".

You can click on the link above "Zoe Network on Blog Talk Radio" to go to our new site.

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Well, I am excited today....a new year and new adventures in God!
I wanted to let you all know that I have set up a "Zoe Radio Network Associates Store" at Amazon.  If you will click on those words above, you will be taken to our new store.  Some of the categories we have are:  "Zoe Life Studies", "Biblical Healing", "Men and Women of Zoe", "Elements of Zoe". We are just launching our store, and will be adding more items for your 'feeding' pleasure.  An item being listed in our store doesn't necessarily indicate full agreement with the author, it means that there is something faith-building relating to the supernatural life of 'Zoe' in their materials.