Sid: My guest is red hot for the Messiah; he walks in what is known as uncommon favor. And as a matter of fact his name is Brian Lake and I’m speaking to him at his home in Needmore, Pennsylvania. And it’s kind of ironic that the name of your city that you’re in is Needmore Brian because that’s not what’s going on in your life.
Brian: Definitely not and yeah, I am from Needmore, Pennsylvania and I always joke about it; the fact that Needmore is so small that we always thought Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego was my shack, your shack and a bungalow.
Sid: Ha-ha, but you walk in uncommon favor and when you were in your early twenties without a college degree you were obedient and in the act of giving that you believe triggered this uncommon favor.
Brian: Yeah absolutely, you know when I was a young boy, I met the Lord, I was probably ten or twelve years old and my uncle actually introduced me to the Lord in a way. One of the scriptures that he shared with me was that “all things are possible to those who believe.” And that was kind of engrained into me and I believed that as a young boy and has stuck with me all my life. And through that I developed a relationship with the King of Kings; just an intimate relationship and I really believe having an intimate relationship with the King can transform anybody’s life.
Sid: Well, I’m really driving towards the time that must have been very big sacrifice on your part and you gave $500.
Brian: Yeah, I was a young boy probably… well I was actually in my teens and as I did that God spoke to me because of intimate relationship in that time in the secret place of seeking Him I would spend time with Him and He spoke to me. There was a local family in my home town and they were in need and He spoke to me and told me to give them $500. And for a young man that was a lot of money, but I was obedient to that. And to me that was a sacrificial seed, but I obedient and I did that, I sowed that seed and today I’m still reaping the harvest from that seed in business. Because when I sowed that seed I actually won an award a National award through FFA, it was an Eastern Star Farm award which is a very large award in the FFA. They took us overseas to different countries, it was rewarded.
Sid: FFA is Future Farmers of America?
Brian: Farmers of America, yeah. I grew up, as a young boy I grew up on a farm. You know, I love animals, grew up even raising pigs, so I kind of come from the pigpen to the pulpit.
Sid: Ha-ha.
Brian: So I have a lot of experience in farming background.
Sid: But you know without a college degree today you give advice to mega million dollar corporation heads. They come to you for advice. How do you have advice for them?
Brian: Well, it is all founded on that relationship that I have with the King. Because like you said, I didn’t have a college background. Actually I didn’t even like school, I didn’t have any desire to go to school; I was kind of a C & D’s student. You know I kind of struggled through school because I kind of knew what I wanted to do when I got out of school and I didn’t apply myself very well; but even in school I could always sense the presence of God with me everywhere I went. There was even times, well for instance, in high school during the Prom one time there was a party that all the kids were going to afterwards, so I decided I would go just to go along with it. We were there, this was out in the middle of a field and we were there and kids were drinking a doing all of this kind of stuff. And I heard God speak to me very clearly and the only way that I could describe it was an audible voice inside of me and it just resounded. He said, “Get out of there,” and I heard Him speak it twice, “Get out of there.” And it kind of shook me from the inside out and the friends that came with me, I said, “Hey, we got to get out of here.” And so at that moment, I said, “Let’s go,” and so we left and five minutes later after we left the police raided the place. So throughout my life you know God has always been there overshadowing me, leading me and guiding me in so many different ways.
Sid: You know, I have a friend and this was many years ago, he a business man and you might have heard of him Norvel Hayes, and at that time he had a twelve corporations that were million dollar corporations which was a number of years ago which was high, highly unusual at that time. And he said, “The secret to his success was he was just grateful to God and He just wanted intimacy with Him” and I see something similar going on with you.
Brian: Absolutely, because you know I love ministry, I love business, but I love Him more. You know I could throw everything away right now, but I want that secret place. I want that intimate relationship with Him.
Sid: But most people go for the intimate relationship with Him for what they can get.
Brian: Yeah.
Sid: That bothers me; it’s almost as if we’re not aware that we should go to him for who He is, not for what He’s going to do for us.
Brian: Right, that’s right. So many people you know seek the things, what they can give Him. You know I asked God, I said, “God what do you want from me, do you want me to preach the gospel, what do you want me to do?” And He says, “Brian, the only thing I want I just want your heart.” So you know, I say “God, You don’t want me to preach the gospel?” He says, “No, that’s not what I mean.” He says, “I need you to go tell the people that I just want they’re hearts.” And if He has our heart, he has everything else and you know the Bible says to “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and then all these things will be added unto you.” The problem is Sid that so many people are out seeking after the wealth, they’re seeking after you know their healing or whatever it may be.
Sid: When we pray we have a list.
Brian: Yes, absolutely.
Sid: I mean we come in with an agenda.
Brian: Right.
Sid: How do you get someone out of that stinking thinking?
Brian: Well, for me it was, you know I’ve had experience in the secret place of the Most High and it is the place, the experience the encounter of Him transforms you, transforms your thinking and it positions you in alignment with heaven. And there’s an understanding that comes through that, but you got to get the people into that secret place first, seeking Him.
Sid: I’ve got a copy of your fairly new book it’s called “Romancing the King” I love the title and the subtitle is “Devine Romance between God and Man.” This is almost a how to manual on romancing the King. Is there a story connected to how you happen to write this book?
Brian: Well, it’s my life story is what it is on how I found my relationship with the King and how I was successful in every area and it was all founded and based on that relationship with the King. So many people know about God but really don’t know Him. Because we get born again and we camp out you know on the door steps of the King’s palace and we think, “Well, we’re saved now, this is great”, but they don’t realize that there is a whole palace to explore and there’s the inner chamber of the Kings palace, the secret place of the Most High. And people don’t you know it is just like with my wife, when I married her it came with responsibility to get to know her and when we get born again it comes with the responsibility to get to know the King of kings. So you know with my wife, you know I know what she likes, I know the food that she likes, I know what makes her smile, what makes her happy, what makes her sad. When we get to know Jesus, get born again, we got to send those years getting to know Him, find out what makes Him happy, what grieves Him, even what’s His favorite color Sid? And I asked Him one time actually, I said, “God what is Your favorite color?” And He spoke to me and told me, and we can get that intimate with Him, and I’m sure…
Sid: Well, what is His favorite color? Mine is blue.
Brian: Well, that’s what I tell people, I say how many people, when I go preach different places, I say “How many people want to know what God’s favorite color is?” And I tell them with this response, “You’ve got to get to know Him first.”
Sid: Awe, that’s not fair, but okay. You know this week is Purim week and you used the book of Esther a lot in “Romancing the King.” What’s the tie in with the book of Esther?
Brian: Well, the book of Esther, I love the story of Esther, because Esther was someone special and she found favor with the King. And you know in Chapter 2 verse 13 in the Bible in the Book of Esther it talks about that Esther was given whatever clothing or jewelry that she wanted to enhance her beauty, actually all the people there all the young maidens was able to choose whatever she wanted. But there was one special person Esther, she went into the Kings treasury and began to pick out what she wanted, but she did not pick what all the other young ladies wanted; she picked the advice of the Kings chamberlain which was the advice, what did he like. We got to come to a place to find out what the King likes, not what we like; and so many times we’re wanting what we want, but do we really know what He wants? And I’ve been in services and I’ve seen people crying, you know God’s touching people tears running down their face and God spoke to me and He said Brian, you see those people with tears running down their face? And I said “Yes Lord.” He said, “That’s Me coming down and touching their heart,” but He spoke to me and said “How many times do people purpose to touch My heart.” So we’re coming into service asking God you know to come down to us, when we should be going to service you know to lift our hearts up to Him to worship Him, to glorify Him.
Sid: If more people understood that could you imagine how much of His presence would be in a service and how much of a move of the supernatural?
Brian: Absolutely it would be wonderful because we could you know it’s not also about just being in that service. You know we have our churches, there’s a lot of churches where you know what I call is like a duplex where we take that house and divide it up and we’re saying now God you can have this corner of the room, You stay here you know don’t get out of the box.
Sid: I’ll tell you what, we’re running out of time and this is so important you want to really understand romancing the King.
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