Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Healer: The Controversial and Supernatural Life of John G. Lake Book 1. 1912-1923
    Healer: The Controversial and Supernatural Life of John G. Lake Book 1. 1912-1923
    Healer: The Controversial and Supernatural Life of John G. Lake Book 1. 1912-1923
    Ebook167 pages2 hours

    Healer: The Controversial and Supernatural Life of John G. Lake Book 1. 1912-1923

    By Brett A Wyatt

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The newest book on John G. Lake features material not seen in nearly 100 years. New articles and insights into the life of a man of faith were compiled and edited by Brett Wyatt, who spent hundreds of hours personally researching Lake in archives, under old buildings and in the living rooms of people who actually knew him. This expanded version includes both the positive and the negative, so that the reader can make an informed decision about the man and his ministry. Lake's work was covered extensively in the newspapers of his time and he was aggressive with his own public relations machine. Both are sourced in this book and its companion book to provide what is the most honest, unbiased picture of Lake ever presented in book form.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrett A Wyatt
    Release dateMay 16, 2014
    ISBN9780970889898
    Healer: The Controversial and Supernatural Life of John G. Lake Book 1. 1912-1923

    Related to Healer

    Related ebooks

    Religious Biographies For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Talking in Tongues

      Mar 22, 2019

      Talking in Tongues
      4 min read

    • Article

      Tribute To Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke

      Feb 10, 2020

      The year was 1978 when I walked into the Christ for all Nations (CfaN) offices in Witfield, Johannesburg, holding my youngest son, André by the hand. I had come to volunteer. Our church having been approached by them. “Are there any stay-at-home moth

      2 min read

    • Article

      Praying in Different Tongues

      Jun 24, 2019

      Praying in Different Tongues
      2 min read

    • Article

      Death Of a Prophet

      Sep 24, 2021

      Death Of a Prophet
      16 min read

    • Article

      Keeping Christians Informed

      Mar 10, 2023

      Last month, tens of thousands of Christians gathered at a university campus in the USA to worship the Lord, share their testimonies, and praise His holy Name. This unplanned explosion started as part of a scheduled chapel service on the morning of Fe

      6 min read

    • Article

      Ignatius of Loyola 1491–1556

      Aug 31, 2023

      Ignatius of Loyola 1491–1556
      2 min read

    • Article

      Flagship Gospel Campaign

      Dec 31, 2021

      Flagship Gospel Campaign
      3 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Apr 22, 2022

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      7 min read

    • Article

      Young Evangelists Are Answering The Call

      Jul 22, 2022

      Many years ago, Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke spoke of a vision that the Lord had given him of young people preaching the Gospel on the streets of Europe. That vision has taken another step forward with the introduction of Fire Camps – retreats for youn

      3 min read

    • Article

      “They Decided That God Must Be Leading Them To North America”

      Dec 27, 2019

      Launched in 1620, the Mayflower voyage – which carried the first English Puritans to North America – had a long gestation period in England. Stephen Tomkins’ new book explores the Protestant separatist movement that eventually culminated in the journ

      7 min read

    • Article

      Defining Evangelical

      Dec 7, 2015

      Defining Evangelical
      5 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      May 20, 2022

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      7 min read

    • Article

      A Sanctuary Of Social And Spiritual Justice: Commentary On Ebenezer Church

      Dec 11, 2020

      Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King preached, has come under threat during the Georgia Senate runoff.

      4 min read

    • Article

      True Believer

      Mar 26, 2019

      True Believer
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Healer

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Healer - Brett A Wyatt

      What Is Different About This Collection About John G. Lake?

      In 1990, I put together an extensive study on the life of John G. Lake. I spent hundreds of hours compiling newspaper articles that hadn’t been published in 70+ years, I crawled under houses and any other building where Lake or his associates lived or worked. I interviewed people who actually went to Lake’s Church and knew him including someone who worked with the youth of Lake’s church in the 1930’s.

      Large ministries subsequently published their own collections of data on Lake harvested mostly from the papers of those who followed the life and career of Lake had accumulated over their lives and freely passed between the faithful. These ministries had another source for their well marketed books. That source was my work on the subject. While some of what they decided to use could have been found if they had spent their time researching within the archives in Spokane, they didn’t have to, since my original work had given them a road map to many of the articles that they featured. My problem arose when they decided it was moral to include and profit from the interviews that I had made personally with members of Lake’s congregation as well as some original artwork that I had commissioned for my first book on Lake. When confronted, one ministry denied any wrong doing and the other simply decided not to reply.

      Sour grapes? Maybe, but after pouring my heart and soul into a project and then having a well funded ministry steamroll through and make crazy money from much of what was my work I do in fact feel violated. No Christian ethic was in play in these book factories which are operated by these ministries who rack up millions of dollars in sales annually.

      After consulting legal counsel and finding out that the funds likely to be secured in an endeavor to hold these groups accountable would likely be spent for the legal costs associated with the process and quite frankly not having the means to press on simply out of principle I decided on another path for my time and work ethic.

      Subsequent to the 1990 edition I republished an expanded edition of the material in 2002 and am now re-releasing it in 2014 as a two book set with significant new content including an interview with one of Lake’s youth workers. What differs from this new edition is also that it includes much more material from people who were at odds with Lake at the time. Make no mistake, I believe that Lake accomplished much in his life and ministry, however sometimes his methods gave way to an appearance of impropriety. This book, continues to be the most even handed coverage of Lake given that I have not withheld what his critics had to say. When possible I have placed these one after another with Lake’s responses to their criticisms to make Lake’s story more easily understood.

      So now I present you with the new, expanded version of my study of John G. Lake revised and updated extensively from the 2002 book. Enjoy reading The Healer: The Controversial & Supernatural Life of John G. Lake

      MY FIRST YEAR IN SPOKANE by John G. Lake

      The first door God opened here, strangely, was a door in what is known as the Church of Truth, a new thought body. Their pastor was formerly a universal preacher. He had seen Christ through Christian Science teaching. He was a hungry soul. He invited me to preach at his church. I said to him, my message is not yours. I preach the Christ and Him crucified. He replied, Brother, preach your message, and as much of it as you want to. You are in the hands of the Spirit of God.

      After the first sermon, he invited me to take one of the healing rooms in their church, and pray for the sick throughout the week. God gave wonderful healings. The church was mightily moved. It was a new manifestation of the power of God to them. I was invited to teach their week-day classes on the subject of the Baptism in the Holy Ghost, God showed me four persons in the church at that time who would receive the Baptism. We continued to minister there for about six months, and then started our own work About February 1, 1915.

      The first person from the Church of Truth to receive the Baptism in the Spirit was a lady. She received the Baptism at the first service we conducted in our own hall. At the close of the Sunday morning service the Spirit fell on her, and she was baptized in the presence of the congregation. She told me that five years before, while in great agony of soul, she fell on her knees and cried out for deliverance and light and help, saying Oh God is there no one anywhere who can bring me the light my soul needs and show me God as my spirit craves? And the Spirit spoke to her and said, Yes, in Johannesburg, S. Africa. On the day of her baptism and she was under the power of the Spirit, the Lord reminded her that He had fulfilled His promise to her, and that I had come from Johannesburg, S. Africa in response to her soul’s call and the soul call from others who needed God.

      Another lady was likewise Baptized in the Spirit. They have been beautiful souls, as also the other two have been.

      In connection with our work we maintain the healing rooms, open from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. every day, where the sick and the otherwise needy come for prayer. We also have a hall connected with the healing rooms, where we have our weekday and weeknight meetings. Our Sunday services are held in the Masonic Temple. Sunday school in the morning, preaching at 11 A.M. and the large public service at 3 P.M. Our work has been characterized with wonderful healings, and many of them.

      When I wrote the stories of the wonders God was performing in Africa, to America the people largely said, We do not believe it. Satan tried in many ways to make the world believe it was not fact. But our work has been under the eye of such competent witnesses of such high character, and so many of them, that Satan no longer can deny the stories of what God has done. The news has reached all the Pacific coast states. People are coming, not the sick only, but teachers, particularly among the Truth people of the coast country, to inquire what it is, and what is the difference, and what do we mean when we talk about the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, and how do you get it?

      During the year 1915, 8030 persons were healed. Mr. Westwood ministers with me in the work, and has the adjoining healing room. Mr. S. P. Fogwell, formerly a deacon of Zion City is also with me. He makes calls from home throughout the city with the Ford car. Usually we minister to one hundred persons per day, sometimes more, sometimes less.

      Among the cases of healing are three of recent occurrence, which I want to give you. They are out of the usual order of healings, and in my judgement belong to the class of miracles of creative order.

      One is Mrs. Pn., a trained nurse, a graduate of Trinity Hospital, Milwaukee. She was operated upon the generative organs were removed, womb and ovaries in July last. In November she was operated on again for gall stones. After the operation the bile broke loose and flowed from her body in quarts to such an extent that death became imminent. Indeed, during the time she was being prayed for she was passed into a state of coma, apparent death, and for about half an hour there was no evidence of life, and no breath passed her lips. Mr. Westwood was with her. He had been all night. It was about 4 A.M. The Spirit of God took gradual control of her being in such power that she was healed entirely of the gall stone difficulty. Her generative organs regrew, and last month she became a perfectly normal woman. She is now the matron of our divine healing home.

      The second case is that of Miss K., a victim of glandular tuberculosis. She was operated on 26 times, and was treated by 56 different physicians, and finally left to die. One after another abandoned the case. In one of her operations an incision was made in the lower abdomen. This was done in an endeavor to remove a great quantity of pus that had formed in the body. On account of the tubercular state of the flesh the wounds could not heal nor hold stitches. Three times she was opened up and sewed up, but without avail. The consequence was that a normal movement of the bowels could not take place. This condition lasted for six and one half years. While down in the city she fainted on the street. They were about to take her to St. Luke’s Hospital for an operation when she became conscious, and she refused to go. She came to our home and spent the night with us. We prayed for her. On the next day, Sunday, as she sat in the tabernacle in the afternoon service while public prayer was being offered, she said it seemed to her as if a hand was placed inside of her abdomen, and another hand on her head. The voice of the Spirit spoke within her soul and said, You are healed. She arose from her chair, and became perfectly normal.

      Number three. Mrs. L, the wife of a main street merchant here, fell downstairs some ten or twelve years ago, which caused a prolapsus of the stomach, bowels, and female organs. She became an invalid. After suffering several years of operations and suffering she was attacked with rheumatics and became a helpless cripple. When the doctors had failed, she was recommended to take bath treatments at Soap Lake, one of the hot lakes in Washington, where the water is very hot and very much mineralized. The treatment had this strange effect, that the disease left her body and centered entirely in the right leg. A formation of bone, as large as a large orange came on the inside of the right leg and

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1