Because I know what The WORD of God says. It says repeatedly in Psalm 91 that the person who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will be delivered from “pestilence” (verses 3 and 6).
What exactly is pestilence? It refers to virulent diseases, plagues or epidemics that are highly infectious and potentially deadly. Ebola, for example, qualifies as a pestilence. So does the flu and every other disease the devil can come up with.
All those things are pestilences and, according to God’s WORD, when we as believers are abiding in His secret place, under His shadow, God will deliver us from every one of them.
One person who demonstrated this in a most remarkable way was John G. Lake. He was a missionary in Africa back in 1910, when a plague swept across the continent. It was so deadly that in a single month one fourth of the population in the affected area died.
Because the disease was highly contagious, the government couldn’t find anyone who was willing to go into the area to nurse the sick and bury the dead. They offered $1,000 (which was a lot of money in those days) to anyone who would do it. But they couldn’t find any takers.
John Lake and his ministry associates, however, volunteered to do it at no cost. They went into the houses where people were sick, prayed for them, tended to their needs and buried the people who had already died—and they did it all without one symptom of the plague ever touching them.
Of course, the government officials and doctors were dumbfounded by this. They couldn’t understand it. So they approached Brother Lake and asked him about it. “It is the law of the Spirit of life in Jesus Christ,” he said. “I believe that just as long as I keep my soul in contact with the living God, so that His Spirit is flowing into my soul and body, no germ will ever attach itself to me, for the Spirit of God will kill it.”
Brother Lake even invited the doctors to do experiments on him. He let them put the foam from the lungs of a dead plague victim on his hand and examine it under a microscope. When they did, they saw that the masses of living germs in the foam died the moment they touched Brother Lake.
It was an amazing thing—and most people think it happened to John G. Lake because he was special. But actually the reverse is true. He was special because that kind of thing happened to him; and the reason it happened to him was because he had the Anointing of God.
That’s good news because you and I as believers have that same Anointing; which means we can experience the same kind of deliverance from pestilence that John Lake did, as long as we dwell in the secret place of the Most High.
Look Who’s Talking
“But Brother Copeland,” you might say, “I’m not really sure how to get into that secret place.”
You do it with words of faith. You put your trust in God and make the same declaration as the person in Psalm 91:2: “I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.”
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