Sword of the Spirit

A word of Wisdom: Effectual Prayer All things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. Matthew 21:22 KJV What things soever ye desire,  when ye pray,  believe that ye receive them,  and ye shall have them. Mark 11:24 KJV If you ask, you must believe, for God is only pleased when you believe. You have to be in the right condition for asking.  This is the condition:  Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.  For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. James 1:6‭-‬8 KJV I want to impress upon you that if you ask multiple times for anything, just for the sake of asking, it shows you are an unbelieving person.  If you really believe, you will ask God and know that He has abundance for your every need.  If you really believe, you know absolutely that God hears your every prayer and He will answer it, every single

Deeper Purposes Of God By John G. Lake  I want to talk to you concerning some of the purposes of God. Among them is God's amazing purpose to baptize men in the Holy Spirit.  I think that even among the deepest thinking Christians in our day, little is understood of the real purpose of God in this wonderful experience. We say to one another that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is God coming into man, that it is God manifesting Himself in man, and other expressions of this type;  but it fails to convey to the mind anything like the great purpose of God in His coming into us. The baptism of the Holy Spirit has among its wonderful purposes the dwelling of God in us, the perfecting of His life in us through His Word in our spirits, through His power in our lives.  Speaking in other tongues is the peculiar manifestation of God accompanying the coming of God the Holy Spirit into the life.  This was the evidence when the Holy Spirit of God descended on the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem.  Th

Real Faith (heart) vs Mental Assent (head) By Kenneth E Hagin  Hebrews 11:1 KJV Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. John Wesley said,  "The devil has given to the Church a substitute for faith which looks and sounds so much like faith some people can't tell the difference."  He called it "mental assent." Many people see what God's Word says and acknowledge that it is true—but it is only with their minds that they are agreeing.  And that will not get the job done.  It is heart faith that receives from God.  Notice what the Bible says, "For with the heart man believeth.... " (Rom. 10:10). Jesus said in Mark 11:23, ".. .whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart [this doesn't say a word about the head], but shall believe [that is, with the heart] that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoeve

A word of Wisdom: Faith stands in the Power of God Romans 10:17 KJV Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. 1 Corinthians 2:4-5 KJV And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:  [5] That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.  How many of our faith come by hearing the preaching of the Word in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, rather than by the eloquence of men? Honestly, the majority of the preaching done in churches every weekend are just simply according to how the world's educational institutes taught, that is, with enticing words of man's wisdom, nothing like how our Lord Jesus taught.  For, does your heart burn within (Luke 24) when you heard the Word preached to you by any of these men? Luke 24:32 KJV And they said one to another,  Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us th

The Power in the Holy Spirit B y John G. Lake It would be uncharitable if we were to criticize a man of reason who knows nothing about the spiritual realm.  Christianity is not the product of human reasoning.  Christianity is a divine intervention.  Christians are those who have been born from above. They have been re-created.  This life of God that comes into their spirit nature dominates the reason so that they have "the mind of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:16) to think God's thoughts and live in God's realm of miracles. Friends, when a Christian tries to live by reason, he is moving out of God's country into the enemy's land.  We belong in the miraculous or supernatural realm. Christ was a miracle.  Every Christian is a miracle. Every answer to prayer is a miracle.  Every divine illumination is a miracle.  The power of Christianity in the world is a miraculous power.  God, help us to realize that ours is a high and holy calling.

Picture of a Prophet By Leonard Ravenhill [Compare this to those who readily called themselves prophets today.] The prophet is God's detective seeking for a lost treasure. The degree of his effectiveness is determined by his measure of unpopularity. Compromise is not known to him. He has no price tags. He is totally "otherworldly." He is unquestionably controversial and unpardonably hostile. He marches to another drummer! He breathes the rarefied air of inspiration. He is a "seer" who comes to lead the blind. He lives in the heights of God and comes into the valley with a "thus saith the Lord." He shares some of the foreknowledge of God and so is aware of impending judgment. He lives in "splendid isolation." He is forthright and outright, but he claims no birthright. His message is "repent, be reconciled to God or else...!" His prophecies are parried. His truth brings torment, but his voice is never void. He is the villain of today

The God-Men By John G. Lake, Spiritual Hunger and Other Sermons “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him” (Heb. 1:14, 2:1-3). Let us look at the word “salvation.” It is the great inclusive word of the gospel. It encompasses all that God does for the soul. We have broken it down to a great extent and made it mean salvation from sin, sometimes from a single transgression. But it means much more than this. It is an all-inclusive word, including all that God does for the spirit, soul, and body of man and is applicable to each de

*** Rather lengthy but answers many questions and brings faith to the many doubts that one may have.  *** Baptism Of The Holy Ghost  And  Some Of The Things It Has Produced In My Life By John G. Lake The Baptism of the Holy Ghost was of such importance in the mind of the Lord Jesus Christ that He commanded His disciples to tarry in Jerusalem, "until ye be endued with power from on high." And they steadfastly carried out what the Lord had commanded, waiting on God in a continuous prayer meeting in the upper room for ten days until the promise of the Father was fulfilled (Luke 24:49) and that baptism had fallen of which John the Baptist spoke inMatthew 3:11, saying, I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire. In order to obtain from heaven the Spirit of Jesus (the Holy Ghost), it is first necessary that the individual shall know that