None but the Hungry Heart

Alive unto God in Jesus Christ, our Lord" (Rom. 6:11)

Until the believer's faith is firmly established in the fact of his position in the risen Lord Jesus, he will not be able to rest in Him during the process of his position becoming his condition. One must be sure of the Source before he can trust for the growth.

The Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort" (2 Cor. 1:3).

Affliction provides opportunity for us to learn more of our Father in His mercy, as well as providing a deeper understanding of what others may be called upon to go through.

"Many saints have been happy to assert that they would not have missed for...

For when for a time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food" (Heb. 5:12).

It is a great comfort, during our growing up in the Lord Jesus, to know that He is our perfect provision, and that He provides the perfect...

Ye have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God" (Col. 3:3).

When we rely upon and cater to the old man, that ground produces "the works of the flesh" (1). But as we abide in the risen Lord Jesus, that new ground of our position, His life will be manifested in "the fruit of the Spirit" (

We all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord. . . " (2 Cor. 3:18a).

During the first half of your Christian life you are concerned about your doing; in the second half you will be burdened about your being. "The more simply devoted you are to the Lord Jesus, who is worthy of all devotion, the more fragrance there will be in all your ways; for it...

Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom. 5:1).

There will be no standing against the enemy's accusations until we are firmly assured of, and settled on, the fact that our Father is at peace with us because of our living union with His Beloved Son. And this alone will give us peace with our...

In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you" (1 Thess. 5:18).

Relief from pressure may seem merciful, but support in the pressure produces growth and maturity.

""There is a greater blessing for us than relief; there is the Father's support, for it imparts to you an...

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" (2 Cor. 3:17).

Concerning the Holy Spirit, hidden as He is, faith is required above all else.

"Certainly the Holy Spirit directs in the countless details of daily life. Those who have faith, and are dependent upon His direction, will not be disappointed. But the...

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 3:14).

We must be truth-centered if we are to be Christ-centered.

"With an increase of knowledge and apprehension of the truth, there is a constant sense that we are not practically up to what we have received; and hence the...

He (the Spirit) maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God" (Rom. 8:27).

Neither the Lord Jesus nor the Holy Spirit ever thought of willing or praying outside the will of God the Father. Neither will we, while we walk in the Spirit, and abide in the Lord Jesus.

"Faith is not a power that one...

(God) hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:6)

We are to settle down to live and grow precisely where we have been re-born: in Christ Jesus above.

"Do we not often harbor the thought that something yet remains to be done - either by ourselves or by Him - in...

God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble" (1 Pet. 5:5).

Humility is the hallmark of the servant resting in, and sent from, the Father's presence.

"There is a sense in which God's true servant is always a defeated man. The one who drives on with a sense of his own importance, who is unwilling to...

That our God may make you worthy of His call, and by His power fully satisfy your every desire for goodness" (2 Thess. 1:11a, Wms.).

If we are born into the Lord Jesus by sheer grace, surely He can manifest Himself in us on the same principle.

"It is this quiet expectation and confidence, resting on the Word of...

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous" (Heb. 10:11a).

You will be prepared, but never pierced, by the nail-pierced Hand.

"Sufferings are for chastening (child-training). And chastening is from love, a token of our Father's care. We live in a world full of trial and suffering. Many of...