I am reading from The Collected Works of John G. Lake (pp. 311-313). Jawbone Digital. Kindle Edition.
I plan to put out further readings from this book meanwhile please check out my 10 session teaching series called Healing available on many podcast platforms - https://anchor.fm/peter-w-laws. This series is designed to enable you to have the faith to come to Jesus and to be totally healed spirit soul and body. If today you are a Christian this series is also designed for you to receive the fullness of faith to carry out the commission of the church. It will help you have a firm biblical foundation for faith in God for healing. Some platforms present the latest upload first but I suggest you start at the introduction and find the numbered sessions in order as each session builds on earlier ones.
Behold, I Give You Power Matthew 8:1-2 "When He was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed Him, and behold, there came a leper and worshipped Him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." That man knew that Jesus had the power to heal him, but he did not know it was God's will, and that Jesus had committed Himself to the healing of mankind. If he had known he would have said, "Lord, heal me." It is always God's will to heal. Our faith may fail. My faith failed to the extent that unless someone else had gone under my life and prayed for me, I would have died. But God was just as willing to heal me as He could be. It was my faith that broke down. God is willing, just as willing to heal as He is to save. HEALING IS A PART OF SALVATION. It is not separate from salvation. Healing was purchased by the blood of Jesus. This Book always connects salvation and healing. David said: "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases." (Psalm 103:2-3) There never has been a man in the world who was converted, and was sick at the same time, who might not have been healed if he had believed God for it. But he was not instructed in faith to believe God for healing. Suppose two men came to the altar. One is sick and lame; the other is a sinner. Suppose they knelt at the altar together. The sinner says, "I want to find the Lord." Everyone in the house will immediately lend the love of their heart and the faith of their soul to help him touch God. But the lame fellow says, "I have a lame leg" or "my spine is injured. I want healing." Instead of everybody lending their love and faith in the same way to that man, everybody puts up a question mark. That comes because of the fact we are instructed on the Word of God concerning the salvation of the soul, but our education concerning sickness and His desire and willingness to heal had been neglected. We have gone to the eighth or the tenth grade or the university on the subject of salvation, but on the subject of healing we are in the A,B,C class. "Jesus put forth His hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean." (Matthew 8:3) Did He ever say anything in the world but "I will", or did He ever say, "I cannot heal you because it is not the will of God", or "I cannot heal you because you are being purified by this sickness", or "I cannot heal you because you are glorifying God in this sickness?" There is no such instance in the Book. On the other hand we are told "He healed ALL that came to Him." Never a soul ever applied to God for salvation or healing that Jesus did not save and heal! Notice what it says in Isaiah 35, "He will come and SAVE you. THEN THE EYES OF THE BLIND SHALL BE OPENED, AND THE EARS OF THE DEAF SHALL BE UNSTOPPED. Then shall the LAME MAN LEAP AS AN HART, and the TONGUE OF THE DUMB SHALL SING." Salvation and healing connected! "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities and BARE OUR SICKNESSES." (Matthew 8:17)
