Look at it from this angle.....We can export this man to Liberia an earn some foreign exchange

Marketing strategy. How many people has he cured?

Have always said most of this so called Pastors are just two bit hustlers. All this faith healing they are professing have sent so many to their early graves. Only fools will believe in this faith healing nonsense.

I believe with God nothing is impossible,why are u guys castigating him,don't you people believe in God again.I vividly believe nothing is impossible with my God.
Shalom

Another conman and I hope wise Nigerians don't fall for his scam...... ( if the story is true)...


While the rest of the world are in laboratories putting their resources and brainpower into action to beat this disease, this conman is looking for mugus to escape with their money....

If in fact there is indeed an Ebola outbreak in Nigeria, instead of families of the victims adhering to medical procedures, they might be taking their relatives to this man for deluded miracle, which might make the disease spread further....

Show business Christianity.

Using Miracles to advertise his church.

I believe in the healing power of God....but the story he told about Mr Lake is false......as Ebola would NOT have been detectable under the microscope at that time. (Viruses cannot be seen under normal microscopes.....you either need a Scanning Electron Microscope....or signs of the infection in the blood .....ELISA).

Flawed story.....flawed Christianity.

At last I can see how mumu facebelike!!!

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Hmmmm........................

Plus Bubonic plague IS not the same as Ebola.

1.Bubonic plague is spread by a BACTERIA

2.Ebola is spread by a VIRUS.

Thank u 4 telling us sir, d nigeria government shd be kind enuff to send dis man to liberia. Agba ode. Cure my a.rsehole

You wan chop slap abi...

Odi egwu really 4 this pastor oo

This pastor is a health risk and should be questioned about his bogus claims by police.....


We have the most basic healthcare system and doctors are on strike, we don't need a charlatan to compound this problem by offering bogus hopes.

derrick333: Export him2Congo or Liberia

No need to send am to Congo or Liberia,Sambisa forest dey nearer.

How im cure am

John G. Lake
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other people called John Lake, see John Lake (disambiguation).

John Graham Lake
John G Lake.jpg
Early photo of John G. Lake
Born March 18, 1870
St. Mary's, Ontario, Canada
Died September 16, 1935 (aged 65)
Spokane, Washington
Nationality Canadian/American
Religion Christian Pentecostal, Methodist
Spouse(s) Jennie Stevens (1893-1908); Florence Switzer (1913-1935)
Church(es) The Church of Truth, Spokane, WA (1914-1920)
Offices held Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa, co-founder, president (c. 1909-1913)

John Graham Lake (March 18, 1870 – September 16, 1935), usually known as John G. Lake, was a Canadian–American leader in the Pentecostal movement that began in the early 20th century, and is known as a faith healer, missionary, and with Thomas Hezmalhalch, co-founder of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa. Through his 1908–13 African missionary work, Lake played a decisive role in the spread of Pentecostalism in southern Africa, the most successful southern African religious movement of the 20th century.[1]:98[2]:34 After completing his missionary work in Africa, Lake evangelized for 20 years, primarily along the west coast of the United States setting up "healing rooms" and healing campaigns, and establishing churches. Lake was influenced by the healing ministry of John Alexander Dowie and the ministry of Charles Parham.[3]

Contents

1 Early life and career
2 Missionary work in Africa
3 Later life and religious work
4 Legacy
5 Notes and references
6 Further reading
7 External links

Early life and career

Lake was born in St. Mary's, Ontario, Canada and moved to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan with his family in 1886.[4] He was born into a large family of 15 siblings (eight of whom died young).[5] He graduated from high school in St Mary's shortly before the move to Michigan, and claimed to have been ordained into the Methodist ministry at the age of twenty-one.[4] The seminary he claimed to have attended, though, never existed,[6]:53, and census records show he had less than ten years' education.[7] Lake, then, had no formal theological training.

Lake moved to a suburb of Chicago, Harvey, in 1890, where he worked as a roofer and construction worker before returning to his hometown in 1896. According to Lake, he became an industrious businessman and started two newspapers, the Harvey Citizen in Harvey, Illinois and the Soo Times in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan,[4] before beginning a successful career in real estate, and later, becoming a millionaire in life insurance dealings. Historian Barry Morton found no evidence that Lake ever owned the two newspapers, citing sources which indicate the Harvey Citizen was founded by the Harvey township,[8] and the Soo Times was started by George A. Ferris and owned by Ferris & Scott Publishers.[1]:103[9]:394[10] Morton further alleges that Lake exaggerated his business career, and that "clear evidence" shows Lake instead worked as a small-scale contractor, roofer and "house-flipper".[1]:103. In the 1900 Census, Lake's occupation is listed as "carpenter".[11] In February 1893, Lake married Jennie Stevens of Newberry, Michigan, and the two had six children and adopted another before her death in 1908. During the 1890s Lake and many members of his family began appearing regularly in Dowie's services, where they were invariably healed and allegedly brought back from death's door. In 1898 Lake opened a small chapter of Dowie's Christian Catholic Church in Sault Ste Marie and held meetings in the attic of his parents' home. In 1901 he relocated his family to Zion, Illinois, where he worked in the theocratic town's construction department.

After massive retrenchments affected ever-bankrupt Zion City,[12] Lake found new employment around 1905. He later claimed that he maintained relationships with many of the leading figures of his day including railroad tycoon James Jerome Hill, Cecil Rhodes, Mahatma Gandhi, Arthur Conan Doyle, and others.[13][14] When he began his preaching career he claimed to have walked away from a $50,000 year salary (around $1.25 million in 2007 US dollars[15]), as well as his seat on the Chicago Board of Trade. Lake's biographer, Burpeau, reported no evidence outside of Lake's own assertions that Lake was connected to these wealthy financiers and industrialists.[6] According to Morton, contemporary records show Lake never left Zion City at the time Lake was said to be making his name in Chicago; he instead worked in nearby Waukegan as an "ordinary, small-town insurance salesman". Lake does not appear in contemporary newspapers until 1907 where he gave an account of his experience of speaking in tongues.[1]:105 In 1907 Lake was converted to Pentecostalism when Charles Parham staged a tent revival in Zion in an attempt to woo Dowie's supporters. After Parham's departure a group of several hundred "Parhamites" remained in Zion, led by Thomas Hezmalhalch—a recent arrival from the Azusa Street Revival. As 1907 wore on, Lake grew in stature among this group, and was usually listed as co-leader. After Parham's arrest for pedophilia in the summer of 1907, the Parhamites descended into a collective frenzy. Believing that many had been possessed by demons, a number of brutal exorcisms began, in which at least two deaths occurred.[16][17] In the face of arrests and potential mob violence, the Parhamites were forced to flee en masse from Illinois. Lake and Hezmalhalch left for Indianapolis. Once there, they raised $2000 to finance a Pentecostal mission to South Africa.
Missionary work in Africa

With Thomas Hezmalhalch, Lake founded the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa (AFM) in 1908 and carried on missionary work from 1908-13. Lake and Hezmalhalch would appear to be the first Pentecostal missionaries to South Africa, and introduced speaking in tongues. Many of those who joined their church had previously been Zionists allied to Dowie's organization who believed in faith healing. Morton writes [1]:98, "Lake was instrumental in spreading this fusion of Zionism/Pentecotalism that is unique to southern Africa... about half of southern African Christians today [2012] are adherents of it... Lake played a decisive role in the spreading of this 'second evangelization'." Lake's movement attracted many of the early Zionists led by Pieter L. Le Roux of Wakkerstroom[18]:15. Due to the segregationist impulses of the AFM's white membership,[19] the majority of its African members eventually seceded, forming many different Zionist Christian sects.[citation needed]

Just six months after Lake's arrival in South Africa, his first wife, Jennie, died on December 22, 1908.[3] Lake recorded that she died of a stroke. He continued his work in Africa for another four years, raising his seven children with the help of his sister Irene.[3]

Lake's ministry in South Africa was not without controversy. Morton writes[1]:114–15 that Lake was accused of: misappropriating the AFM's funds, particularly that funds did not flow to poor rural areas but were concentrated with Lake and his party; acting dictatorially; exaggerating the effectiveness of the revival movement he led; and staging miraculous healings through audience plants.
Later life and religious work

Lake returned to America on February 1, 1913, and married Florence Switzer by September 1913.[3] Lake's comment[citation needed] on this second marriage was, "Men in these days consider themselves to be happily married once. I have been especially blessed in that I have been happily married twice." From this marriage five children were born.

After a year of itinerant preaching, Lake relocated to Spokane, WA by September 1914 and began ministering in "The Church of Truth". He started an organization called The Divine Healing Institute and opened what he called "Lake's Divine Healing Rooms". Lake ran the "healing rooms" from 1915 until May 1920, at which time he moved to Portland, Oregon, for a similar ministry that lasted for another five years. He continued to found churches and "healing rooms" down the California coast and eventually to Houston, TX in 1927, before finally returning to Spokane in 1931. Upon his return to Spokane he purchased an old church and began his final church and healing room.[3]

In 1935, Lake suffered a serious stroke and died on September 16, 1935, at age 65.
Legacy

Several books have been written recording Lake's experiences and the miracles attributed to Lake.

Lake's history has served as a guide to other ministries, such as Curry R. Blake's "John G. Lake Ministries," based in Dallas, TX, (www.jglm.org) and Healing Rooms Ministries, led by Cal Pierce, headquartered in Spokane, Washington.

In 1987, Wilford Reidt (the son-in-law of Lake) and his wife, Gertrude (Lake's daughter) passed the leadership of their ministry to Curry R. Blake. Blake was named the General Overseer of the International Apostolic Council, an organization founded by John G. Lake in 1914. Today, the ministry establishes "John G. Lake Healing Rooms" and trains Christians in divine healing.

In 1999, the Healing Rooms in Spokane, Washington were opened, which are not affiliated with John G. Lake Ministries. The Healing Rooms place an emphasis on not only serving the city of Spokane, but in duplicating the ministry of healing globally, with currently 2,002 Healing Rooms in 58 nations.

Skeptics[who?] claim that new "scientific analysis" of John Lake's life and work could prove that his real motives were questionable. Barry Morton states: "An analysis of the missionary career of John G Lake shows that the initial spread of Pentecostalism and Zionism in southern Africa was facilitated by the systematic use of fraud and deception."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Lake

This lake is a fake Pastor please read about his life!!!!!!!!!!
He start with the healing rooms!!!!!!!!
It was that he could heal Bubonic plague what is also a fake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

numbskull

Kay17: What would Jesus have said? Would jesus say go to the hospital?! Rather Jesus would have said your faith shall heal you.

#apologies

Ole oloshi, evil christian

adconline: Naija manufacturing stupidity since 1430!!

wetin u don manufacture goat head

niggerssss

ezex: I believe with God nothing is impossible,why are u guys castigating him,don't you people believe in God again.I vividly believe nothing is impossible with my God.
Shalom

jidxin: sorry did pastor G lake really cured d Ebola virus cos d pastor died in 1939 nd Ebola was discovered in 1976 ....how does it correspond

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Dude, nice one abeg u dey reason, cos I am surprised with dis pastors claims

I used to be like so many of you here until my friend was healed of Leukemia.
I am an Engineer, i know the in and out of science.
I have been a self proclaimed "Atheist" until very recently.
We were all arranging funds about 8m to rescue our friend. There was a crusade in town that day, he was taken to the crusade and behold he was healed.

This NO be lie, till today i am still not attending any church just yet. But i am beginning to see all the years i thought i was "super smart" and too "intelligent" to believe there are no other forces other than the pull/push/gravity e.tc. were the dumbest years of my life. I swear!
I am just beginning to heal from my mumu. BUT still, the bible and the quoran is still very shaky and confusing and YES still contains some very STUPID verses and stories.
But then, what if the little things that don't add up are just mistakes made by men that wrote it. What if some information were lost/added through centuries of translation ?

THERE IS GOD! (no the P.E.J version)

jireh250: God's General's John G Lake...I love him. I go with pastor Itua on this.

If U can bilive dis,den u can biliv anytin
ppu like u place pastors ahead of D creator

This guy should be cautioned by the government. His laying criminal claim to be able to cure this epidemic poses a huge risk to millions of Nigerians.

Some Foreigners from these affected countries might start sneaking into our country hoping to get healing from this fraudstar Who just realises he can cure Ebola suddenly.

This disease has been ravaging some countries over some years and this So called healer never mentioned he can heal the victims until the disease was brought into Lagos. Trying to take advantage of the fear in the mind of Lagosian concerning the ebola scare to say the least is criminal, callous, deceitful and very least ungodly.

Ok..We don hear!

What a misleading headline!
And what has this man of God said that is wrong? Y'all castigating him should tell us. He has only consolidated the scriptures. Why should christians be professing their faith yet get so overwhelmed by circumstances that they undermine what the bible says?
Jesus healed the sick. The pastor here believes in Jesus and is saying healing is still obtainable. It's a normal edification preaching every courageous pastor can make in a church on a good sunday..so kini big deal? Lousy christians everywhre! They can't even defend thr own. Only those who are not sure of their God will quiver in the days of trouble.

Fake Pastors. They are now abandoning HIV - AID and embracing EVD cure - claims. They should be made to understand the difference. They misled a lot of people on AIDS and frustrated Government efforts on AIDS.
The way out is to parcel him post haste to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo or any EVD hotspot or put an outright ban on such unverified spiritual claims from anybody.
Soon, gullible members of his Lagos church who may be from Liberia or Sierra Leone will send word home and before you know it, infected people from all over W/Africa have invaded our Lagos! Then it will be too late to act.

Well, give to Ceaser what is Ceasers and to God what is God's.. We bliv that with God all tins are possible, but Jesus always say: by your faith, you are healed". So, what if the person to be healed doesnt have enof faith?? You wuld only be endagerin d lives of ur church members and the nation at large..... My 2 cents.

Apatheist:
You fit follow am to Liberia.
Wetin you dey do for Naija?

If thats my calling then why not?