A dying judge said to his pastor, “Do you know enough about law to understand what is meant by joint tenancy?”

“No,” was the reply; “I know nothing about law; I know a little about grace, and that satisfies me.”

“Well,” he said, “if you and I were joint tenants on a farm, I could not say to you, ‘That is your field of corn, and this is mine; that is your blade of grass, and this is mine,’ but we would share alike in everything on the place. I have just been lying here and thinking with unspeakable joy that Christ Jesus has nothing apart from me, that everything He has is mine, and that we will share alike through all eternity.”

God wants you to have all that He has—His Son, His life, His love, His Spirit, His glory. “All [things] are yours, and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God” (1 Corinthians 3:22–23). “My son . . . you are always with me, and everything I have is yours” (Luke 15:31). What a privilege! What a life for a child of God! Only unbelief can blind us to the Father’s love. Only with a false humility, the children of the King set limitations about their lives that He never appointed. The full table is set for us, and we eat so sparingly, forgetful of the voice that cries, “Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved” (Song of Songs 5:1 KJV).

“The resources of the Christian life,” says Dr. Robert F. Horton, “are just Jesus Christ.” He is our regal provision for the way. He is the way. Let us draw upon these Divine resources. Whom should He bless, even on earth, if not His own?

Supply yourself from Him!

God is to be adored, but He is also to be used. Merely to worship Him in the awe of His greatness and holiness is not to please Him fully. He wants us to draw upon Him as an asset of our practical life and as a priceless possession. We live in Him, but He also lives in us to bring to our souls the power of His own infinite life. To possess him is to possess all things and to have power to attain our noblest purposes.

He is always at our service. Use Him, then, for He is there and waits for you to use Him. All the unclaimed wealth of the forty thousand checks in the bankbook of the Bible is ours! And “He satisfieth [satiates] the longing soul” (Psalm 107:9 KJV). God is our God to be used for things we need Him for.

My need and Thy great fullness meet, and I have all in Thee.

God has a separate inheritance for each one. Do not fail to enter upon yours. “It is your right to redeem it and possess it” (Jeremiah 32:8).

"Come on!" This command indicates that there is something definite for us to do and that nothing is ours unless we take it. "The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance" (Joshua 16:4 KJV). The house of "Jacob will possess inheritance" (Obadiah 17). "The upright shall have good things in possession" (Proverbs 28:10 KJV).

We need to have appropriating faith when it comes to God’s promises and should make His Word our own personal possession. A child was once asked what appropriating faith was, and he answered, "It is taking a pencil and underlining every ‘me,’ ‘my,’ and ‘mine’ in the Bible."

Pick any word you want that He has spoken and say, "That word is my word." Put your finger on a promise and say, "It is mine." How much of God’s Word have you received and endorsed, and how much have you been able to say, "This has been done in my life"? By how many of His promises have you signed your name and said, "This has been fulfilled to me"?

"My son, . . . you are always with me, and everything I have is yours" (Luke 15:31). Do not miss your inheritance through your own neglect.

When faith goes to the market, it always takes a basket.