For Reading and Meditation:      1 Corinthians 10:1-13Having spent the past days identifying the nature of the problem which almost caused the psalmist to give up, we pause today to focus on another great value of the book of Psalms - the fact that it presents its teaching in the form of a recital of experiences. We have exactly the same kind of teaching in the New Testament, but there it is presented in a more directive fashion. Sometimes our hearts grow weary under the stresses of life and we are not open to receiving direct instruction from anyone. I remember when I was a young Christian going to church one evening feeling tired and worn down by the strong temptations I was experiencing. As the visiting preacher announced the title of his sermon - "Fifteen Principles for Overcoming Temptation" - I felt my heart sink within me. His sermon might have been what I needed but at that moment I was too weary to concentrate on principles. When I got home that evening I turned to the book of Psalms, and as I read the experiences of some of those men and found that they too had been through what I was going through, my strength returned and my spirit revived. This is why the book of Psalms is one of the most important and valuable books of the Bible. Learn to turn to it whenever you feel battered and beaten by the waves of life. You will find, as millions have found before you, that it speaks to your condition because the men who wrote it have been in your condition. O Father, I am grateful to You beyond words for giving me that part of Your Word that reaches me when perhaps nothing else might reach me. Help me to make good use of it and avail myself of its unfailing resources. In Jesus' Name. Amen.<div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>2 Peter 1:15-21</li><li>Ephesians 1:17-19</li><li>2 Corinthians 4:6</li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What is God's Word like?</li><li>What did Paul pray for the Ephesians?</li></ul></div></div>

Let a little light into your soul every day with this wonderful devotional from English pastor Selwyn Hughes.

Every Day Light with Selwyn Hughes

"No temptation has seized you except what is common to man." (v. 13) 

For Reading and Meditation:      Ephesians 1:15-23Young Christians who have just come into the faith often ask: Why is the resurrection so important? How can an event which took place 2,000 years ago have any relevance for us today? Three very simple statements (not original to me) will bring us to the heart of the matter. First, the resurrection of Christ assures us of God's forgiveness. Forgiveness is one of humanity's greatest needs. Jack Winslow, in his book Confession and Absolution, says that the head of a large English mental hospital remarked that he could dismiss half of his patients immediately if they could be assured of forgiveness. The resurrection is convincing proof that Christ's sacrifice on the cross was accepted, and thus gives us the assurance that all our sins can be forgiven. Second, the resurrection of Christ assures us of God's power. It is one thing to be forgiven; it is another to live above the power of sin. "Men may change their ways," say some writers (as we saw) from non-Christian religions, "but they can't change their character." Well, God can change people's character. He did so with the apostle Paul, with Peter, and with countless others. Paul's prayer in the passage before us today focuses on this - that we might comprehend something of the power released in the world through the resurrection. Third, the resurrection assures us of God's ultimate triumph. Other religions and ideologies have very vague ideas about the future. Some believe in endless cycles of reincarnations; others nirvana. Christians, however, have a hope that is different. Death for a believer is nothing more than the anteroom to glory.Father, this must be the moment when debate ends and dedication begins. As You have done so much for me, I want to commit myself in a deeper way than ever before to living life in the power of Your resurrection. Help me dear Father. In Jesus' Name. Amen.<div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>Ephesians 2:1-10</li><li>Romans 8:11</li><li>Colossians 3:1</li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>To what extent do we experience resurrection life?</li><li>To what heights does resurrection life raise us?</li></ul></div></div>

"... he raised [Christ] from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms ..." (v. 20)

For Reading and Meditation:      2 Timothy 1:1-18Several of the world's religions, when faced with the perplexing issue of Christ's return from the dead, explain it in terms of reincarnation. A proponent of one of the Eastern religions says: "Christ's resurrection was really a reincarnation - another soul in another body." I once heard a Christian minister declare that Paul's reference to Christ as the firstborn from among the dead (Colossians 1:18) was a clear allusion to reincarnation. There is no doubt that our Lord came from a virgin womb and a virgin tomb, but the body that emerged from the sepulchre was not fashioned in the tomb as it had been when He was an infant in Mary's womb. The body was the same one as before. Others try to explain Christ's resurrection as living on in the recollection of others. "To live in the minds and hearts of those we love," goes a well-known saying often heard at funerals, "is not to die." It has to be acknowledged that some live so vibrantly that it is hard to think of them as dead even after one has attended their funeral. But when we talk about Christ's resurrection, we are not saying He survives in our memories. Recollection is not resurrection. The body which died upon the cross and was laid in the cool tomb on the evening of the first Good Friday was miraculously infused with life once again early in the morning of the first Easter Day. It is as literal and as factual as that. This - nothing less and nothing else - is what we mean by the resurrection of our Lord from the dead.Father, I am so thankful that in bringing Your Son back to life You brought 'life and immortality to light' through the gospel. I know this to be true for in You there cannot be such a thing as death. Life is so sure - as sure as You are. Amen.<div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>Ephesians 1:1-20</li><li>Romans 4:25</li><li>1 Corinthians 15:3-5</li><li>1 Thessalonians 4:13-15</li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What did Paul say was of first importance?</li><li>What does this mean for those who have experienced resurrection life?</li></ul></div></div>

" ... our Savior, Christ Jesus ... has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light ..." (v. 10)

For Reading and Meditation:      Colossians 1:1-20Does salvation come up from mankind through striving, helped by the Divine, or does it come down to us from above, through the act of God and our receptivity of that act? Is it an attainment or an obtainment? The answers separate Christianity from all other religions. Non-Christian religions teach that salvation is the work of mankind; the Christian faith teaches that salvation is the gift of God - Christianity alone falls into the category of obtainment. Some people try to blunt the sharpness of the question "Does mankind strive to reach up to God or does God come down to redeem mankind through the incarnate Jesus?" by saying the answer is both. But by the very nature of things it cannot be both. The starting points are different. One begins with mankind; the other begins with God. Since the beginnings are different, the endings will be different. The whole of the New Testament revolves around the Person and work of Jesus. In some form or another He is on every page. A letter I received protested against a statement I made which went something like this: "There is only one Person around whom the universe can unite, and that Person is Jesus." "There have been good persons in history," said my correspondent, "why not unite around all of them rather than just one?" Because Christ is the meeting point of the human and the divine. No one else can hold that position. An Indian Hindu said recently: "There is no one else bidding for the heart of humanity except Jesus. There is no one else on the field." There isn't! O Father, we want to thank You that when we couldn't come to You, You came down the ladder to us through the Incarnation. We are eternally grateful. Amen.<div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>Ephesians 1:1-23</li><li>John 3:31</li><li>1 Corinthians 8:6</li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>List some of the things that we have obtained in Christ.</li><li>What did John declare about Jesus?</li></ul></div></div>

"... he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead ..." (v. 18) 

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you. (Ephesians 1:18 NIV)
The Holy Spirit’s illumination concerning the 
church is a thing so difficult to explain to any who may not have experienced 
it. But to those who have seen it, it needs no explanation. It makes such a 
difference on all these matters. You will be able to preach Ephesians, 
Colossians, Romans; preach all about the church as the Body of Christ; you may 
read it all in books, and still there may be no real expression of it. Then one 
day it was as though the heavens opened and the thing broke upon your spirit, and 
you saw it; and all kinds of adjustments became necessary in life. You 
can say, "I saw that the church was no denominational or national thing; I 
believed in the oneness of all believers..." yes, you can say all that! And yet 
there is something more. That something can only come by revelation. You can 
have the other, and it will just take you so far. But get that something more, 
and it will take you a long way ahead. It brings you into the realm of the 
conflict and cost, but you are out in an altogether new realm. It is necessary 
to God’s end.
It is one thing to say these things and point 
them out and emphasize them; you say: "How do you get it? We see what you mean, 
it is all quite clear, but we have not got it!" Well, if you really are of the 
undivided heart, if your heart is wholly set upon the Lord and you see as far as 
you can see these things, and have very definite dealings with the Lord about 
it; it may not be in a day, it may be slowly, steadily, quietly you begin to 
move into a new realm of understanding. And you find that your point of view 
changes; your standard of values changes; your insight changes. It may take 
months, but at the end of the time you say: "I am changed! Something has 
happened to me. I can no longer accept what I used to accept!" It may be like 
that, or it may come in a flash. How it comes does not matter very much, the 
fact is the importance of this thing – spiritual illumination. The apostle 
prayed that these to whom he wrote might have it. Let us pray that we might have 
it, and that all the Lord’s people might come into that.

This devotional contains short daily portions from a selection of Mr. Austin-Sparks' messages. In his own words, “Perhaps this is just like a window opened into heaven. If you get the right window you can see quite a lot. You can see great things and you can see far things. But the best that I can hope is that this has just opened a window, and that as you look through it you are seeing one thing - how superior is Jesus Christ to all else, and how superior is the dispensation into which we have come, and how superior are all the resources at our disposal to all that ever was before!” Open Windows messages have been selected and compiled by Austin-Sparks.Net from the works of T. Austin-Sparks. In some cases they appear in abridged form. The introductory verse and its associated Bible version have been selected by the editor and did not always appear within the original message.

Open Windows

Filled Unto All the Fulness of God - Chapter 2

 Spiritual Illumination 

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know.... (Ephesians 1:18 NIV)
The Holy Spirit's illumination concerning the 
church is a thing so difficult to explain to any who may not have experienced 
it. But to those who have seen it, it needs no explanation. It makes such a 
difference on all these matters. You will be able to preach Ephesians, 
Colossians, Romans; preach all about the church as the Body of Christ; you may 
read it all in books, and still there may be no real expression of it. Then one 
day it is as though the heavens opened and the thing broke upon your spirit, and 
you saw it; and all kinds of adjustments became necessary in life. You 
can say – I saw that the church was no denominational or national thing; I 
believed in the oneness of all believers. Yes, you can say all that! And yet 
there is something more. That something can only come by revelation. You can 
have the other, and it will just take you so far. But get that something more, 
and it will take you a long way ahead. It brings you into the realm of the 
conflict and cost, but you are out in an altogether new realm. It is necessary 
to God’s end.
It is one thing to say these things and point 
them out and emphasize them; you say: "How do you get it? We see what you mean, 
it is all quite clear, but we have not got it!" Well, if you really are of the 
undivided heart, if your heart is wholly set upon the Lord and you see as far as 
you can see these things, and have very definite dealings with the Lord 
about it; (it may not be in a day, it may be slowly, steadily, quietly) you 
begin to move into a new realm of understanding. And you find that your point of 
view changes; your standard of values changes; your insight changes. It may take 
months, but at the end of the time you say: "I am changed! Something has 
happened to me. I can no longer accept what I used to accept!" It may be like 
that, or it may come in a flash. How it comes does not matter very much, the 
fact is the importance of this thing – spiritual illumination. The apostle 
prayed that these to whom he wrote might have it. Let us pray that we might have 
it, and that all the Lord’s people might come into that.

Filled Unto All the Fullness of God - Chapter 2

 Understanding the Church 

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the 
Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom, and revelation in the 
knowledge of Him; having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know... (Ephesians 1:17,18)


And then there is given a list of things to know. And you find that list moves 
out into the dimensions of the knowledge-surpassing love: “...that you may be 
filled unto all the fullness of God.” Spiritual illumination leads on to 
being filled unto all the fullness. 
Spiritual illumination, therefore, is a basic 
thing to God’s end. We can never come to the fullness of Christ by the mere 
enquiry and investigation of our own brains into spiritual things. There must of 
necessity be the Holy Spirit giving revelation concerning Christ. The Testimony 
of Jesus has as its essential law: spiritual illumination and revelation – 
through the Word. The Testimony of Jesus can never be something static, 
something that you take up and say: "This is the Testimony of Jesus" and then 
put it into a formula. The Testimony of Jesus is something that has been 
revealed. The Testimony of Jesus is: “I see the heavens opened, and the Son 
of man standing on the right hand of God.” Stephen died for that Testimony. 
“At midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, above the 
brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them that journeyed with me. 
And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice....” The inner 
meaning of that is not something apart from the Word, but something that comes 
by the Holy Ghost through the Word. That is more than the letter; it is Life. It 
is something that makes you say: “I have read the Scriptures on that for a long 
time, but I have really never seen that before.”

 Filled Unto All the Fullness of God 

I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you. (Ephesians 1:18 NIV)


It is a seeing of the immense significance of Jesus in the eternal and universal order. With the Apostles that seeing was subsequent to the days of physical association. During the forty days after His resurrection it was like the dawning of a new day. First, those intimations, as when the uncertain light just passes over the heavens. Then more steady and certain rays, leading to the Day of Pentecost, when the sun appeared in full glory over the horizon dispelling the last shadow of uncertainty. On that day they saw Him as by an opened heaven. The mystery of the past was dispelled. The Bible lay open like a new book. They saw Him in the light of eternity. They began to see that, while He was the glorified, personal, Son of God, He was Himself the embodiment of a great, a vast heavenly and spiritual order and system. This seeing was absolutely revolutionary. It was a crisis out of which a new world and a new creation was born. True to this fundamental principle, all that vast revelation, which has come down the centuries from and through the Apostle Paul took its rise from that crisis described by him as "It pleased God... to reveal His Son in me" (Gal. 1:16). "I received it... by revelation of Jesus Christ" (vs. 12). All the implicates were in the crisis; the full content was a progressive and ever-growing revelation.
While there was some initial testimony, the Apostles did not formulate in 
conference an enterprise, a mission, with all the related arrangements and 
organization. The new Life forced off the old leaves and dressed the new 
organism with a new vesture from within. The might, energy and 
urge of the Holy Spirit within produced a Way and 
an order, un-thought-of, unintended by them, and always to their own surprise. 
What was happening was really that Christ was taking form within them, 
individually and corporately, by new birth and growth. The believers and the 
companies were becoming an expression of Christ.

According to Christ - 1

 According to Christ 

I pray... that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may 
know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance 
in the saints. 
(Ephesians 1:18 NIV)

What is Christ’s inheritance in 
the saints? What are the riches of the glory of Christ’s inheritance in the 
saints? It is that the saints are to provide Him with the means of the universal 
manifestation of Himself as God has purposed Him to be. It is a part of the 
arrangement in those counsels of the Godhead, that He shall be the central fullness, but that the fullness should not be manifested, displayed in an 
isolated way. There would be no purpose in that, because He could have done that 
in Deity without incarnation, He could have possessed the fullness in that way, and that 
is what the letter to the Philippians says. He was equal with God, and had all 
the fullness, but He emptied Himself. Why? In order that others might be brought 
into the fullness, that He might not hold it all for Himself. That is what Satan 
wants to do.
The Lord Jesus let go in order to bring others in. The apostle says, “Let 
this mind be in you.” If any of you are inclined to stand for your own 
rights, on your own ground, to hold things for yourself, you are violating the 
very spirit of Christ who let go His own rights in order that others might come 
into them and get the benefit. So the inheritance of Christ is this: that He is made heir of all things, but 
He can have all things only as He has the saints, and He gets those “all 
things” through and in the saints. It is a part of the arrangement, the 
agreement. It is not as one isolated unit in God’s universe, that He is to have 
everything, but by appointment man-wise, in a corporate sense, and not only in a 
personal sense.... The Lord is not satisfied with His people just being saved, and the Lord is 
not satisfied that people should just remain saved. The Lord has fixed this as 
His goal: the 
full knowledge of Him. It is indispensable to the Lord. His 
inheritance is bound up with it. The need today is that the Lord’s own people 
should come into a knowledge of Himself which they do not possess, into a 
position in relation to Himself which they do not occupy; in a word: into the 
full knowledge of Him.

The Church of the Firstborn - Chapter 3

 Full Knowledge of Christ 

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may 
know... His incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same 
as the mighty strength He exerted when He raised Christ from the dead and seated 
Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 1:18-20 NIV)

Resurrection is the paramount miracle. Death is 
the greatest power against God's work, God's likeness, God's purpose. Death is 
the greatest power in this universe against man; his labors, his hopes, his 
wellbeing. Death is the last word in the creation as it is. Outside of God there 
is no power in this universe as great as death. When it has intervened and done 
its work there is nothing that can reverse or destroy it. In the realm of 
evil there is no power that exceeds the power of death. This is why, in 
referring to the resurrection of Christ from the dead, the words are used: "the
exceeding greatness of His power" (Eph. 1:19). When death has exceeded 
every other evil power – sin, suffering, sorrow, and destruction, then God's 
unique and exclusive answer is the only hope, and the one answer. More 
importance and glory is placed upon resurrection in the New Testament than upon 
any other matter. Indeed, everything else is declared to be in vain and 
worthless until resurrection is established. Resurrection is stated to give the 
value to every testimony and every work. Death, spiritual death (not cessation 
of being) – of which the physical is only one small aspect – is Satan's horizon. 
Resurrection is God's horizon in Christ.
Resurrection, we repeat, is the answer to death 
in all its forms and aspects: God's answer in His Son, Jesus Christ. Having said 
that, let us proceed to note that the next thing revealed in the New Testament 
is that this supreme truth in Jesus Christ is the birthright of every one born 
into God's spiritual family; the heritage of every truly born-again child of 
God. But the point for special realization is that we must not make the mistake 
that Martha of Bethany made, when she received such a revealing correction. She 
said, concerning her brother: "I know that he shall rise again in the 
resurrection." It is not something in the future for believers, but for the 
moment when they believe on the Lord Jesus and receive Him. The order now is 
first the resurrection of the human spirit and at last the resurrection body. 
This, for any born-anew Christian needs no stating, although the meaning 
may take years to learn.

Horizoned by Resurrection - Chapter 6

 Resurrection is the Paramount Miracle 

I pray also that the eyes of your 
heart may be enlightened. (Ephesians 1:18 NIV)

"The eyes of your heart enlightened..."
discerning love. Love is as far removed from blindness as heaven from earth. 
"Love is blind"? No – not true love. The fact is that true love sees everything, 
but transcends everything. The love of Christ for His disciples was not blind 
love that did not know His men, love that was duped, deceived, misled, but 
eventually found out that they were not the men He thought they were. No, 
"He... knew what was in man" (John 2:24). His love saw everything and could 
tell them beforehand exactly what they would do; but love persisted in face of 
it all. Love is a great seeing thing. 
If you are consumed with a burning love for the 
Lord, you will be very quick of scent as to what is doubtful and questionable. 
You will not need to be frequently and continuously told when a thing is not 
right. No, love for the Lord will bring you quickly to see and to sense there is 
something that needs to be adjusted. You may not know what it is at the time, 
but you have a sense that all is not well. Love will do it. All the instruction 
in the world will not bring you to it. You may have the Word of God brought to 
you on all such points, and you might even say, "All right, because you say so, 
because it is in the Bible, I will do it, I will be obedient." Do you think that 
is good enough? Such a thing has never come to you through the eyes of your 
heart. But, mark you, if this love, this discerning love, has really filled your 
heart by all the intelligence of the Holy Spirit indwelling you, you will sense 
it without being told; or if it should be brought to you from the Word, that 
within you will say, "Yes, I know that is right, the Lord tells me that is 
right." Do you not think that is the kind of Christian that is needed, and what 
the Lord needs at the end? That is what He has had in mind from the beginning 
and He calls that first love that is quick of scent to see what needs to be cut 
off or added, what adjustments are necessary, and does accordingly. You do not 
have to follow round and say, "Please do this; have you never taken note that 
you might be helpful in this way?" You do not have to do that where there is 
devotion, love watchful all the time, aliveness, alertness, perception, 
readiness to do without being all the time told to do it. Real devotion to the 
Lord is something that far outreaches legality. First love is discerning love.

"His Great Love" - Chapter 6

 Real Devotion 

The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law. I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life. § We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image … just as by the Spirit of the Lord. It is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory … give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him … that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.

Daily Light on the Daily Path or Daily Light is a Christian daily devotional scripture reading published by Bagster & Sons about 1875. It has been reprinted continually since then. It consists of brief groupings of scripture passages which speak to prominent Biblical themes—two themes (morning and evening) for each day of the year. It appends no commentary, but simply allows scripture to speak for itself.

Morning Daily Light

 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your  eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. 

This is the will of God, your sanctification. § Now acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you. § This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. § We know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. We … do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. § The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, … give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power.

 Understand what the will of the Lord is. 

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law.And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. § But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. § Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory … give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power.

Evening Daily Light

 “What do you want Me to do for you?” He said, “Lord, that I may receive my sight.” 

You are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s. § I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me. § I am his. § The Son of God … loved me and gave Himself for me. Your body is … not your own. For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. § The Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be His people, an inheritance, as you are this day. You are God’s field, you are God’s building. § Christ [is] a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. § You also, as living stones, are … a holy priesthood. “They shall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts, “on the day that I make them My jewels.” § And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. § The glory of His inheritance in the saints.

 The Lord’s portion is His people. 

<blockquote>
That ye may know what is the hope of His calling and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints" (<a id="verse_1632879451343452" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Ephesians/1/18">Eph. 1:18</a>).
</blockquote>In order to share effectively with needy believers it is essential to know what the Father has purposed for His own. And this understanding results from personal growth in the Lord Jesus. Those who are merely well-versed may be able to teach, but they cannot truly share; their understanding of the needs of the heart is deficient, and this becomes all too evident to the hearers. Head-knowledge (study) must be integrated with heart-knowledge (experience) in order for there to be Spirit-motivated sharing."The true hope makes all the difference to us in our ministry. Our expectations have been personally proven. It makes possible joy in the midst of sorrow, confidence in the midst of defeat. It changes our attitude toward those to whom we minister. We see them not as they are at the moment but as we know the Lord is going to make them. Then patience and forgiveness are easy, for we already see the Lord's finished work. It changes our prayer for them. We ask not for some little progress or partial blessing for them but for the Lord's complete victory. It changes our teaching ministry to them. Instead of fearfully giving a little more of God's truth, we confidently declare all the counsel of God. There is ever before us the joy of the finished work which we know the Lord is going to accomplish." -A.M."Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" (<a id="verse_1632879451965538" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Philippians/1/6">Phil. 1:6</a>).

A 365 day devotional that will help you in your Christian growth and walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.  This devotional is a collection of quotes from some of the best authors in the realm of Christian growth that has been organized by Miles J Stanford.  This devotional study is divided into 12 sections each containing 31 daily portions.

None but the Hungry Heart

 Mutual Viewpoint 

<blockquote>
You were set free from the tyranny of sin" (<a id="verse_1632878100251183" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/6/18">Rom. 6:18</a>, Wey.).
</blockquote>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."What is the secret of reckoning? We need revelation from the Word of God (<a id="verse_1632878100971794" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Matthew/16/17">Matt. 16:17</a>; <a id="verse_1632878100551107" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Ephesians/1/17">Eph. 1:17</a>; <a id="verse_1632878100178279859" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Ephesians/1/18">18</a>). We need to have our eyes opened to the fact of our union with the Lord Jesus. Most of us can remember the day when we saw clearly that He died for us, and we ought to be equally clear as to the time when we saw that we died with Him. It is not that I reckon myself to be dead, and therefore I will be dead. It is that, because I died - therefore I reckon myself to have died. It is not reckoning toward death, but from death."There is no need to talk about victorious Christian living unless we are willing to face the fact that as believers we are out of our element here in this world. We are living in enemy territory. Believers may be in bondage because of deception or ignorance of the full scope of their inheritance in the Lord Jesus, or because they have not, according to <a id="verse_1632878100537901" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/6/11">Romans 6:11</a>, reckoned themselves dead to sin and alive unto God in Jesus Christ our Lord." -F.J.H."Through grace the old man' was nailed to the Cross and buried in the tomb; through faith the old man will be kept there. Continuously reckon yourself to be totally severed from all that belongs to the old man and all that pertains to the old sphere, and faith will eventuate into experience." -R.P."The Sixth of Romans is not an aspect of truth, but the foundation truth upon which every believer must stand if he is to grow and mature in the not I, but Christ' life.""Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering" (<a id="verse_1632878100556977" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Hebrews/10/23">Heb. 10:23</a>).

 Response To Revelation 

18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,

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Ephesians 1:18

 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened   in order that you may know the hope to which he has called   you, the riches   of his glorious inheritance   in his holy people,  

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 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,

 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened   in order that you may know the hope to which he has called   you, the riches   of his glorious inheritance   in his holy people,  

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