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Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 21st I call to remembrance my song in the night (Psalm 77:6). I have read somewhere of a little bird that will never sing the melody his master wishes while his cage is full of light. He learns a snatch of this, a bar of that, but never…

Manantiales en el Desierto por Mrs Cowman May 20th Shall I refuse to drink the cup of sorrow which the Father has given me to drink? (John 18:11, Weymouth). God takes a thousand times more pains with us than the artist with his picture, by many touches of sorrow, and by many colors of circumstance, to…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 19th And it came to pass, before he had done speaking…and he said, Blessed be Jehovah…who hath not forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth” (Gen. 24:15, 27). Every right prayer is answered before the prayer itself is finished–before we have “done speaking.” This is because God has pledged His Word…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 18th I was crushed…so much so that I despaired even of life, but that was to make me rely not on myself, but on the God who raises the dead” (2 Cor. 1:8, 9). “Pressed out of measure and pressed to all length;Pressed so intensely it seems, beyond…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 17th And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness… an angel of the Lord… saying…. now come, I will send thee into Egypt” (Acts 7:30-34). Often the Lord calls us aside from our work for a season, and bids us be still and…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 16th Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 15th But now, the sun cannot be looked at – it is bright in the skies – after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.—Job 37:21 The world owes much of its beauty to cloudland. The unchanging blue of the Italian sky hardly compensates for the…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 14th In the selfsame day, as God had said unto him (Gen. 17:23). Instant obedience is the only kind of obedience there is; delayed obedience is disobedience. Every time God calls us to any duty, He is offering to make a covenant with us; doing the duty is…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 13 We know not what we should pray for as we ought (Rom. 8:26). Much that perplexes us in our Christian experience is but the answer to our prayers. We pray for patience, and our Father sends those who tax us to the utmost; for “tribulation worketh patience.” We…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 12th All things are possible to him that believeth (Mark 9:23). The “all things” do not always come simply for the asking, for the reason that God is ever seeking to teach us the way of faith, and in our training in the faith life there must be…