None but the Hungry Heart

He said to me, My spiritual strength is sufficient, for it is only by means of conscious weakness that power is developed" (2 Cor. 12:9, Wms.).

Early in our Christian life the general conception is that God is a wonderful Helper. Later, as we experience failure, we come to know full well that if anything is...

The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy" (James 5:11).

There are two hearts that we learn in the process of suffering: our own sinful heart, and our Father's loving heart.

"There is a Divine mystery in suffering, a strange and supernatural power in it, which has never been fathomed by human reason. There never has been known great saintliness of soul which did not...

You were set free from the tyranny of sin" (Rom. 6:18, Wey.).

There is no use in forcing any spiritual issue in our lives, nor in anyone else's. When our Father has us prepared for progress through the knowledge of His facts, we will believe; we will reckon upon and rest in the required truth.

"Come unto Me. . . and I will give you rest" (Matt. 11:28).

We rest in the One upon whom the universe rests.

"I find when I sit down with people quietly to have a talk that they begin at once to speak of the trials of the way. And after that, if I say, Suppose we change the...

I determine not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified " (1 Cor. 2:2).

The harvest can be no better than the sowing and cultivating. The burden over the need of others develops our hunger of heart to be a "vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the Master's use, and prepared unto every good work" (

But now we are delivered from the law" (Rom. 7:6a).

The Christian life is not regulated by Moses and the Law, but lived by "the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus." Not rules, but nature.

"God gave His people Israel, a nation living in the world, the law; one of its purposes being to...

Ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you" (c).

The purpose of doctrine is to produce the personification of truth. "The sublimest truths are still needed to enforce the simplest responsibilities. As the laws which mould the stars and move the gigantic orbs of Saturn and Uranus in their tremendous circuits, shape the dewdrop that glistens at the end of a...

In Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead" (Col. 2:9).

Our personal fellowship with the Father is predicated upon our realization that we are already in His presence, in His Son.

"Most do not care to go beyond the thought of forgiveness and a godly walk in the world; but it...

"We have received. . . the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given us of God" (1 Cor. 2:12).

The Spirit's ministry is to present a Person, rather than to produce an experience.

"Where man calls for conditions, God calls for the Cross. As the...

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy" (Ps. 126:5).

Our Father is never our debtor. Whatever price He asks of us He will repay with infinite and eternal compound interest.

"There is a universal misapprehension that godliness means immunity from suffering. It is so often...

Seeing that we have died to that which once held us in bondage, the Law has now no hold over us" (Rom. 7:6a, Wey.).

For the believer, the dominion of Law is just as devastating as the dominion of Sin. At Calvary, death freed us from both.

"Theological teaching since the...

You really need some one to teach you over again the very rudiments of the truths of God. . . Such persons are mere babes" (Heb. 5:12; 13, Wey.).

When it comes to spiritual growth, sooner or later the thought arises, "Surely the work of the Cross...

But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ" (Phil. 3:7).

"Whosoever will lose his life for My sake, the same shall save it" (Lk. 9:24). Once we learn this great paradox of the Lord, all will be gain, our good, and His glory.

"Unto me, who am less than the least of all...

Tribulation worketh patience" (Rom. 5:3).

The source of our Christian life is a Person, and the growth of that life in us is a gradual process - comparable to a grain of wheat, or a branch in the vine.

"A person whose ancestors for three or four generations have all been...