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Any Christian, and
especially any church congregation (see
Personal & Ministry Healings
below), can develop the spiritual power needed to heal the sick
and set the captives free. All you or they have to do is be
willing to take the same spiritual journey that Lake did. If you
or ayourchurch congregation will do that, the sick will begin to be
healed, and the captives will begin to be set free.
It's as guaranteed
as the Words of Jesus:
"Verily,
verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that
I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall
he do; because I go unto my Father."
(John 14:14)
"These
signs shall follow them that believe in my name, they
shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."
(Mark 16:17-18)
How to Be
Filled with Spiritual Power also contains John G. Lake's
consecration to God, important dates in his life, and several
photographs of Lake, his family and ministry team.
John G. Lake
 For
five years in South Africa, John G. Lake displayed the
greatest spiritual power seen since the days of Jesus — not only
for others but also for himself. While assisting doctors during
a bubonic plague outbreak, he was asked why he had not
contracted the disease since he had used none of their medical
protection. He said, "it is the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus."
To demonstrate, he had them take live bubonic plague germs still
foaming from the lungs of a newly dead person and put them in
his hands and then examine the germs under a microscope. They
were dead.
Lake later moved to Spokane, WA, and established a healing
ministry that was so effective that a prominent medical doctor
said about it, "Rev. Lake's ministry of divine healing has made
Spokane the healthiest city in the world." (See
Public Testimonies of Healings in
Lake's Ministry below.) Several years later he moved to
Portland, WA, and did the same there. And what Lake did, what
his ministry in Spokane did, any Christian and any Christian
congregation can also so.
Public Testimonies of Healings in Lake's Ministry
Reverend R. Armstrong,
a Methodist minister, of N2819 Columbus Avenue, healed of a
sarcoma growing out of the left shoulder three times as large as
a man's head, was healed in answer to prayer.
Reverend Thomas B. O'Reilly of 430 Rookery Building,
testified to being healed of fits so violent that when stricken
with them it required seven policemen to overpower and confine
him in the hospital. Of his instantaneous healing and perfect
restoration to health through the prayer of faith.
Baby Agnes Young, N169 Post Street, healed of extreme
malnutrition. Patient at the Deaconess hospital for nine months,
from the time of birth until her healing. She weighed
six-and-a-half pounds at birth and at the age of nine months,
only four-and-a-half pounds. One evening, when one of the
ministers from Reverend Lake's Healing Rooms called to minister
to her, she was found in the dead room. The nurse, believing her
to be dead, had removed her to the dead room. He took the child
in his arms, praying the prayer of faith; God heard and
answered. He removed her from the hospital and placed her in the
hands of a Christian woman for nursing. In six weeks she was
perfectly well and strong. The father and mother arose to
corroborate the testimony. They are both members of Dr. Lake's
church.
Mrs. Chittenden, pastor of the Church of the Truth at
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, testified to her healing of cancers of the
breast; one breast having been removed in an operation and the
other breast becoming likewise affected with cancer. She was
healed of the Lord in answer to prayer.
Mrs. Everetts, 1911 Boone Avenue, testified to her
healing of varicose veins. She had suffered from them for
thirty-eight years. The veins were enlarged until they were the
size of goose eggs in spots. Under the right knee there was a
sack of blood so large that the knee was made stiff. She had
exhausted every medical method. After being ministered to at the
Healing Rooms for a short period, she was entirely well and the
veins are perfectly clear.
Mrs. Constance Hoag, Puyallup, Washington, broke her
kneecap. A section of the bone protruded through the flesh. She
wrote requesting that the ministers of the Healing Rooms lay
their hands upon a handkerchief in faith and prayer and send it
to her, in accordance with Acts 19:12. This was done. She
applied the handkerchief to the knee and in fifteen minutes the
pain had gone, and in an hour the bone had returned to place and
was perfectly healed.
Mrs. Walker, Granby Court, was an invalid at the
Deaconess hospital from internal cancer; after an exploratory
operation was pronounced incurable by the doctors. She also had
a severe case of neuritis. Her suffering was unspeakable. She
testified to her healing and of her restoration to perfect
health, the cancer having passed from her body in seven
sections. Since then, many have been healed through her prayer
and faith.
Mrs. John A. Graham, E369 Hartson, a nurse and hospital
matron, was operated on for fibroid tumors. The generative
organs were removed and at a later date, she was operated on a
second time for gallstones. The operation not being a success,
she was eventually left to die, and when in the throes of death
and unconscious, she was healed by the power of God in answer to
prayer of one of the ministers called from the Healing Rooms.
The organs that had been removed in the operation regrew in the
body, and she became a normal woman and a mother.
Mr. Asa Hill, a farmer from Palouse, Washington,
testified that he had been a rheumatic cripple for fifteen years
and was instantly healed at a meeting conducted by Mr. Lake,
through prayer with the laying on of hands. The meeting was held
at a theater at Moscow, Idaho.
Mrs. Wolverton was injured in a Great Northern railroad
wreck and was awarded large damages by the court. Physicians
testified her injuries to be such that motherhood was
impossible. After her marriage, the physician's testimony was
confirmed. She was healed in answer to prayer and gave birth to
a son and since has given birth to twins.
Miss Jennie Walsh, S116 Fiske Street, had a disease of
the gall bladder, which became filled with pus. Her physicians
insisted on an immediate operation to save her life. Mr. Lake
laid hands upon her in prayer at eleven o'clock p.m. Ten minutes
afterward her pain ceased, the pus emptied from the bladder
naturally, and she was entirely healed.
Personal & Ministry
Healings
Healed of Head Pains
This was a quick and unexpected healing that had
me thinking about it for several days, trying to determine why
it happened. It took place during our Sunday morning service.
Our congregation was meeting in a school auditorium at that
time.
I was teaching on some aspect of having faith
for healing, because I remember saying that it was interesting
to me that Mark 16:18 did not say anything about praying for the
sick, it simply said, "And these signs will follow those who
believe in my name: . . . they will lay hands on the sick and
they will recover."
I was walking up the center aisle as I said
that, and for no particular reason I reached out and laid my
right hand on the side of a young man's head as I passed him. I
continued up the aisle for a ways and then went back to the
front. That's all there was to it.
About ten minutes after the service, however,
the young's man mother, Gwen, came up to me and said that her
son, who had been sitting with a friend, told her that he had
been suffering from a blistering headache all morning, but that
when I touched the side of his head, the pain instantly left
him. Her son was about 22 at the time.
Now you can understand why that healing kept me
thinking for several days.
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I did not know he had head pain,
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He did not know I was going to lay my hand
on his head (heck, I didn't know I was going to do it),
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He did not ask that I pray for his healing,
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Ergo, I did not pray for his healing,
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He did not have faith at that moment to be
healed of that head pain,
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And since I did not know he needed healing,
neither did I.
Sometimes the Holy Spirit does things that just
throws your doctrines right out the window. Guess that's why
He's supposed to lead and we're supposed to follow. Too bad so
many of us try to do it the other way, and then can't figure out
why nothing seems to work. (Harold J. Chadwick)
Child Healed of High Fever
My wife, Beverlee, and I came home from a
meeting late one evening, and found that our a three-year-old
son, Thomas, had a high fever. He wasn't only burning with
fever, he was extremely lethargic. We took him into our bedroom
to pray for him.
We prayed for a few minutes, and then I laid my
hands on his forehead and commanded the fever to leave. Nothing
happened. We prayed for a while longer, and I laid my hands on
his forehead and again commanded the fever to leave. Again
nothing happened.
We both prayed silently for a while, and then
the incident about Paul praying for the young man who fell out
of the window and was picked up dead, came to my mind. In Acts
20:10, it says that Paul fell upon the young man and embraced
him. It seemed to me that the Holy Spirit was telling me that
there was something about the amount of contact that Paul made
with the young man's body.
Going with what I believed was being said to me,
I picked up Thomas and placed him on my lap and put my arms
around him and held him close. I then again commanded the fever
to leave him.,
Almost faster than I can write this, his body
cooled and he wiggled out of my arms and crawled to the center
of the bed and started jumping up and down. The change in him
was so fast and amazing, that we almost couldn't believe it. We
even tried to quiet him down so that he wouldn't hurt himself.
Then we decided that maybe he was jumping up and down because
he'd been healed, which he had, of course. He also had so much
energy, that we had trouble getting him to go back to bed and to
sleep.
Eventually we did and he did, and my wife and I
spent some time in prayer praising and thanking the Lord, and
trying to figure out what happened. But at the time we couldn’t
come to a conclusion as to why the added body contact was
needed, and I don't recall the Holy Spirit ever leading us to
pray for anyone that way again.
Over the years, however, we noticed that healing
took place much easier when our hands were laid directly upon
the area of the body that was affected. We assumed that this had
to do with transference of power.
Luke 4:1 says that Jesus went into the desert
full of the Holy Spirit, and Luke 14:1 says that Jesus came out
of the desert in the power of the Spirit. Immediately
after that He began to do miracles, which is a word that
is more properly interpreted as works of power.
When the woman who was hemorrhaging touched the
hem of Jesus’ robe, power went out of Him and healed her
(Mark 5:29-30).
In Acts 10:30, Peter told Cornelius that God had
anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with
power, and He went around doing good and healing all that
were oppressed of the devil.
So it’s the power that went out from Jesus that
healed the sick and cast out demons. It's the same with us
today. Therefore, it's most likely that the reason I had to make
full body contact with my son was that I had little power at
that time, and needed the contact to transfer as much power as
possible to drive out the fever. (Harold J. Chadwick)
Healed of Emphysema
Although Bill had been delivered from cigarette
smoking and nicotine addiction, he increasingly suffered from
emphysema - having trouble breathing and often coughing.
The night he was healed of emphysema, we were
holding our Sunday evening Worship and Healing Services in a
school auditorium.
I had just finished ministering to a young man
who had epileptic seizures when over to my left I saw Bill
approach Beverlee and ask her to pray for him - his emphysema
had acted up all through the worship and teaching. Beverlee laid
hands on his chest and began commanding emphysema to come out of
him in the name of Jesus Christ. By now we almost always
administered healing by assuming it was a spirit causing the
problem and commanding it to come out.
Bill almost immediately began coughing violently
and struggling for air. As I watched what was happening, I could
see Bill's face turn red and then purple and his breathing get
increasingly difficult as Beverlee kept commanding emphysema to
come out of him. (We had many times experienced the ailment
immediately manifesting when we commanded the spirit causing it
to come out, so we were no longer concerned or daunted when it
happened. See Mark 9:25-26.)
About the time it seemed as though Bill couldn't
handle another cough or get any more air, he let out a truly
violent cough, almost a roar, and you could literally hear air
rushing back into his lungs. And almost faster than I can write
this, he was breathing normally - something he hadn't done in a
couple of years. Many in the congregation had been praying for
Bill's healing for some time, so there were many shouts of joy
and praise to the Lord. (Harold J. Chadwick)
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