Thirst With Hunger

Mercy is the one blessing Jesus ties directly to what you're willing to give away — Matthew 5:7. This is the episode where mercy stops being a concept, told through a true story of praying for someone who hated me. It walks through the difference between mercy and letting something go unaddressed, and why real mercy is a choice made in full view of what someone did — not one that requires pret...

In this episode, Sandy Edwards and Elvin Easton — writer of The Way God Heals on Substack — sit down to talk about healing and what kind of environments can hold the weight. Download The Study Guide Connect With Elvin Easton Subscribe to The Way God Heals Purchase Your Copy of The Way God Heals: In The End of Time on Amazon Get Connected and Support The Ministry ​ Donate: thirstwithhunger.com/page...

Hunger and thirst for righteousness is the only craving God promises to satisfy — Matthew 5:6. This episode is the one the entire ministry was built on. It unpacks the difference between a desire and a formed appetite, and why one requires far more than a single decision to overcome. ____________________________________________________ Thirst With Hunger is reader and listener supported. If you en...

The Church told you silence was spiritual. Jesus never said that. This episode breaks down what meekness actually means in Matthew 5:5 — and why your voice, submitted to God, is not a liability. It is part of your obedience. ____________________________________________________ Thirst With Hunger is reader and listener supported. If you enjoyed this episode, here's a few ways to stay connected...

Grief is not evidence that your faith is weak. This episode sits inside Matthew 5:4 and names the mourning God actually blesses — not performance, not despair, but the kind of sorrow that opens the soul to encounter. ____________________________________________________ Thirst With Hunger is reader and listener supported. If you enjoyed this episode, here's a few ways to stay connected and supp...

This is not a teaching about financial poverty. It is a confrontation with spiritual bankruptcy — the posture God requires before He can fill what is empty. Matthew 5:3 is not a comfort. It is a condition. ____________________________________________________ Thirst With Hunger is reader and listener supported. If you enjoyed this episode, here's a few ways to stay connected and support what Go...

Jesus could have started anywhere. He started with the Beatitudes. This episode explores why — what godly sorrow actually is, what it is not, and what it means to genuinely turn from sin rather than simply manage it better. ____________________________________________________ Thirst With Hunger is reader and listener supported. If you enjoyed this episode, here's a few ways to stay connected a...

Before you get to the empty tomb, you need to understand what kind of tomb it was. This episode slows down Holy Week and examines the burial — the detail most of us rush past — and reveals how every specific arrangement was orchestrated by God long before that moment. ____________________________________________________ Thirst With Hunger is reader and listener supported. If you enjoyed this episo...

The body of Christ has been treating prayer like a backup plan. This episode goes straight to Acts 4 and confronts the tendency to reach for indignation before intercession — and calls the Church back to the secret place as the first response, not the last resort. ____________________________________________________ Thirst With Hunger is reader and listener supported. If you enjoyed this episode,...

The train is moving. You cannot straddle two systems and call it faith. This episode confronts double-mindedness, delayed obedience, and the spiritual paralysis of people who say they are waiting on God while refusing to move when He speaks ____________________________________________________ Thirst With Hunger is reader and listener supported. If you enjoyed this episode, here's a few ways to...

You are not losing ground because of outright rebellion. You are losing it because of open doors. This episode identifies every spiritual gate — your eyes, ears, mouth, heart, and mind — and calls you to stop handing territory to the enemy one small compromise at a time. ____________________________________________________ Thirst With Hunger is reader and listener supported. If you enjoyed this ep...

The church has not always known what to do with postpartum depression and rage. This episode names what too many mothers have suffered through in silence — and declares what God says about healing, wholeness, and the hard, holy work of motherhood. ____________________________________________________ Thirst With Hunger is reader and listener supported. If you enjoyed this episode, here's a few...

Exhaustion is not a badge. It is a signal. This episode exposes the spiritual root of burnout and calls you back to the rhythm God built into creation — rest, work, and the kind of pace your soul was actually designed to sustain. ____________________________________________________ Thirst With Hunger is reader and listener supported. If you enjoyed this episode, here's a few ways to stay conne...

You cannot build what God designed with your own blueprint. This episode confronts every marriage that has been running on strategy instead of surrender — and calls both spouses to yield what was never theirs to control. ____________________________________________________ Thirst With Hunger is reader and listener supported. If you enjoyed this episode, here's few ways to stay connected and su...

There is a moment when truth finds you and you cannot outrun it anymore. This episode confronts what happens when you are caught — by God, by consequence, or by your own conscience — and what restoration actually requires. Honesty is not optional. It is the beginning. ____________________________________________________ Thirst With Hunger is reader and listener supported. If you enjoyed this episo...

Time belongs to God. Obedience belongs to you. This episode breaks down why delay is not denial — and why the season that feels like nothing is often where God does His most serious work in you. Isaiah 40:31 is the anchor. Qavah is the word. Surrender is the assignment. ____________________________________________________ Thirst With Hunger is reader and listener supported. If you enjoyed this epi...

Welcome to the Thirst With Hunger Podcast with Pastor Sandy Edwards. Every episode is designed to equip God’s people and destroy every obstacle that hinders them from knowing God. New episodes release monthly.