“The Life That Flows Through Me”

John G. Lake often told the story of serving in South Africa during a severe plague outbreak. Many around him were dying, yet he and his coworkers remained unharmed while caring for the sick. When asked how he stayed safe, Lake explained that he lived in the awareness that the Spirit of God within him was stronger than any sickness around him.

He once illustrated this by handling the frothy saliva of a plague victim under a microscope. According to the account, doctors watched as the living germs died on contact with his hand. Lake said the power at work was not his own—it was the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, a reality he believed superseded the “law of sin and death.”

This incident reminds us that the Christian life is not lived by our strength but by God’s indwelling life. Though not all are called to dramatic moments, every believer can walk with the same confidence that Christ in us is greater than anything that comes against us.

Romans 8:2 (NIV)

“Because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life has set you free from the law of sin and death.”

1 John 4:4 (NKJV)

“He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”

Are you facing fear, weakness, or pressure today?

Lake’s example is not a call to presumption, but a reminder of identity—that believers are carriers of God’s life, peace, and authority.

Ask the Holy Spirit to make you aware of His presence within you, and let that awareness reshape how you face the challenges before you.

Prayer

Dear Father in Heaven, thank You for the life of Christ that dwells within me.

Teach me to walk in the confidence of Your presence and not in fear of the circumstances around me.

Let Your Spirit strengthen me, guide me, and fill me with courage.

Help me to see every challenge through the lens of Your power at work in me.

May Your life flow through me to bring hope, healing, and peace to others.

In Jesus’ name, amen.

(John G. Lake (1870–1935) was a pioneering American healing evangelist and missionary known for his powerful ministry of faith and divine healing.)

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