Do you hunger for holiness?

**mattfivefour** · October-19th-2011, 09:35 PM

Does your heart break for the old sin nature that still exists within each one of us? Do you weep and mourn over your weakness and your failures? Are the words of the song below the cry of your heart?

Hunger For Holiness

There's a silent war that's raging deep within me.
My lower nature fights to dominate.
My spirit man is poised and locked in battle,
With the carnal side of me, I've learned to hate.

The trumpet of my prayers, plays towards heaven.
There's a voice of desperation in my cry.
Lord strengthen me that I might not yield myself to sin,
But keep your righteous banner lifted high.

Lord, I hunger for holiness,
And I trust for the righteousness that's Yours,
That my mind would be cleansed, and my spirit renewed,
And this temple that you dwell in may be pure.

The tempter stalks about me as a lion,
Searching for the slightest sense of blood.
For when the skin of my resistance is broken,
He moves in quickly to deepen the cut.

The Lord of creation, hear Your servant.
You understand the weakness of man.
I'm counting myself crucified with Jesus,
Alive in Christ and dead indeed to sin.

Lord I hunger for holiness,
And I trust for the righteousness that's Yours,
That my mind would be cleansed and my spirit renewed
And this temple that you dwell in would be pure.

**Meg** · October-19th-2011, 09:41 PM

Nice post.

**soundingthealarm** · October-19th-2011, 09:42 PM

I feel like that song is my personal anthem. I use to wear it out when Carman first released it, many tears have been shed listening to that song

thanks for posting it

**Kathy_57** · October-19th-2011, 09:48 PM

The hunger for holiness and the prayer of my heart!

Thank you so so much for sharing this - This is the first time that I have heard the song and it really is the cry of my heart.