You MAY HAVE GOD

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A Message for this Day of Pentecost 2024
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You MAY HAVE GOD

By John G. Lake

The baptism of the Holy Ghost was the incoming of God in personality in order that the man, through this force, might be moved by God. 

God lives in him, 

God speaks through him, 

God is the impulse of his soul, 

God has His dwelling place in him.


You may have God. 

That is the wonder of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 

It is not a work of grace; 

it is God possessing you. 


Oh, your heart may have been as sinful as the heart of man ever was sinful. 

But Christ comes to your soul. 

That spirit of darkness that possessed you goes and in its stead, a new Spirit comes in, the Spirit of Christ. 

You have become a new creature, a saved man, a God-filled man.


A Transformation


Sin manifests itself in three ways: 

in thought, in act, in nature. 


Salvation is a complete transformation. 

God takes possession of man, changes his thoughts, in consequence his acts change, his nature is new. 


A 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 gives you the biggest gift that heaven or earth ever possessed. He gave you Himself!

He joins you by the one Spirit to Himself forever.


The Requirement


The requirement is a surrendered heart, a surrendered mind, a surrendered life. 


From the day that a man becomes a child of God, baptized in the Holy Ghost, it was God's intention through Jesus Christ that man should be a revelation of Jesus.


If you were looking to know whether a man was baptized in the Holy Ghost or not, what would you look for? 

You would look for God in him. 

You would look for a revelation of the personality of God. 

God moving in him, 

God speaking in him, 

God speaking through him, 

God using his hands, 

God using his feet 

— a mind in harmony with God, 

a soul in touch with heaven, 

a spirit united and unified with and in Jesus Christ. 

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