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John G. Lake’s Writings From Africa Includes Previously Unpublished Writings Compiled by Rev. Curry R. Blake Copyright © 2012 by Curry R. Blake All Rights Reserved Published by: CHRISTIAN REALITY BOOKS P.O. Box 742947 Dallas TX 75374 1-888-293-6591 Cover Design by CBC Creative. Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Bible. This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form without express written permission of Curry Blake. ISBN 978-0-9892305-7-5 Printed in the United States of America. REV18122014 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE .............................................................................................. 1 UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS FROM SOUTH AFRICA .......... 5 THE APOSTOLIC FAITH ..................................................................... 7 “THE UPPER ROOM” LETTERS JUNE 1909 .................................... 9 “THE UPPER ROOM” LETTERS MAY 1910 ................................. 23 HOW GOD MAKES MISSIONARIES .................................................. 27 REPORTS FROM REGIONS BEYOND .............................................. 33 LETTER FROM SOUTH AFRICA ....................................................... 37 NEWS FROM SOUTH AFRICA ........................................................... 43 A CALL FOR HELPERS ...................................................................... 49 “THE UPPER ROOM” LETTERS AUGUST 1909 ........................... 53 THE POSITION OF THE APOSTOLIC FAITH .................................. 57 The Patriarchal Dispensation ............................................ 58 The Mosaic Dispensation ..................................................... 58 The Christian Dispensation ................................................ 59 Paul’s Warnings ....................................................................... 60 The Lord Jesus Raises the Standard for the Christian Dispensation ............................................................................. 60 The Great Debate .................................................................... 61 The New Covenant ................................................................. 63 The Sabbath Day ..................................................................... 64 An Apt Illustration .................................................................. 65 Our High Christian Privilege .............................................. 66 The First Day ............................................................................. 68 “THE UPPER ROOM” LETTERS NOVEMBER 1910 ...................... 69 “THE UPPER ROOM” LETTERS OCTOBER 1910 ......................... 73 IN JOHANNESBURG ............................................................................ 79 GOD IS STILL WORKING MIGHTILY .............................................. 85 LATEST NEWS FROM AFRICA DECEMBER 1908 ....................... 95 AN EDUCATION IN FAITH ............................................................... 97 ASLEEP IN JESUS ............................................................................... 99 “THE UPPER ROOM” LETTERS OCTOBER 1909 ..................... 105 “THE UPPER ROOM” UPDATES ................................................... 107 GOD’S MIGHTY MOVINGS IN AFRICA ........................................ 109 MORE NEWS FROM SOUTH AFRICA ........................................... 113 The Compound Work ........................................................ 118 A Word of Warning ............................................................. 119 SANCTIFICATION AND HOLY LIVING ........................................ 123 SOUTH AFRICA AND BROTHER LAKE ........................................ 129 THE AFRICAN DIARY OF JOHN G. LAKE ........................ 135 Forward ................................................................................... 137 BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY GHOST ................................................. 139 DIARY ENTRIES NOV. 24, 1910 – JAN. 2, 1911 .................... 151 THE HISTORY OF JOHN G. LAKE HEALING ROOMS ................. 189 Preface John G. Lake lived from 1870 until 1935. His entire family received the benefit of divine healing through the ministry of John Alexander Dowie. In 1901, Lake moved his family to Zion, IL, where he served as Dowie’s Building Manager until 1904 when he moved his family back to Chicago. Lake stayed in Chicago running an insurance company for a group of entrepreneurs. In 1907, Charles F. Parham held Pentecostal meetings in Zion in F. F. Bosworth’s home (because the religious leaders in Zion would not allow Parham to erect his tent or rent suitable facilities for the meetings). Bosworth received the Baptism with the Holy Spirit with speaking in tongues along with several others who were promptly dis-fellowshipped. In Oct. 1907, Lake received the Holy Spirit Baptism while visiting a sick woman with F.F. Bosworth and Tom Hezmelhalch. Lake immediately distributed his finances and personal belongings and began preparing to go to South Africa as a missionary. Within six months after receiving the Holy Spirit Baptism, Lake was in South Africa. This decisiveness characterized Lake’s entire life and ministry. 1 Lake’s wife died only six months after their arrival in South Africa. There have been many theories set forth as to the cause of her death. This is not the time or place to discuss the evidence I have found. (I will do that in a later volume.) John remained in South Africa for another four and one half years, returning to the U.S. permanently on Feb. 1, 1913. In 1914, after attending the founding of the Assemblies of God in Hot Springs, he went to England where he founded his own organization called “The International Apostolic Council.” He desired to see this organization serve as a return to the original “Apostolic” power and purpose of the waning Pentecostal movement. John then moved to Spokane, WA, with a new wife, Florence, and five children from his first wife. There Dr. Lake started several other organizations including “Lake’s Healing Rooms,” “John G. Lake’s Divine Healing Institute,” and his church which went by several names including “Lake’s Apostolic Tabernacle” and “The Church at Spokane.” Lake lived in Spokane from September 1914 until May 1920 when he moved to Portland, OR. When Dr. Lake moved from Spokane to Portland, he closed his famous “Healing Rooms” and opened new Healing Rooms in Portland. He remained in Portland for five years before beginning a missionary church planting tour of California and Texas, opening churches in San 2 Diego, Sacramento, and Houston. Dr. Lake moved back to Spokane in 1931, where he lived until his death in 1935. After his final move to Spokane, he opened Healing Rooms in his church at Main and Lincoln. He never reopened Healing Rooms in any other buildings and the original building burned and was torn down and replaced by an entirely different building with different floor levels and building orientation. Wilford Reidt, Dr. Lake’s son-in-law, carried the ministry until shortly before his death in June of 1987. Before his passing, he named Rev. Curry R. Blake as the General Overseer of The International Apostolic Council (aka: John G. Lake Ministries). Using a manual of Dr. Lake’s that was given to him by a Divine Healing Technician who had been trained personally by Dr. Lake, Rev. Blake has begun training and certifying Divine Healing Technicians. Rev. Blake has now trained over 100,000 DHT’s and has testimonies of thousands of healings of every kind of disease including several instances of the dead being raised. The writings in this book were from or about John G. Lake during his time as a Missionary to South Africa from 1908 until 1913. 3 We have also included the transcripts of Dr. Lake’s personal diary dating from 1908 until 1911. You will read Lake’s own account of the tremendous revival that started when a band of 12 missionaries (including the family members) arrived in South Africa. Each entry in this book is completely unedited and is exactly as it was originally written by Dr. Lake and various others. Since it is an unedited document, you may notice some missing text or lines where text was illegible. John G. Lake Ministries may be contacted at: John G. Lake Ministries P.O. Box 742947 Dallas, TX. 75374 1-888-293-6591 www.jglm.org 4 John G. Lake’s Unpublished Writings From South Africa 1908 - 1913 5
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