Category: Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman Devotional

Streams in the Dessert by Mrs Cowman January 22nd He withdrew… to a solitary place (Matthew 14:13). There is no music during a musical rest, but the rest is part of the making of the music. In the melody of our life, the music is separated here and there by rests. During those rests, we…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman January 21st None of these things move me (Acts 20:24). We read in the book of Samuel that the moment that David was crowned at Hebron, “All the Philistines came up to seek David.” And the moment we get anything from the Lord worth contending for, then the…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman JANUARY 20th Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better (Ecclesiastes 7:3). When sorrow comes under the power of Divine grace, it works out a manifold ministry in our lives. Sorrow reveals unknown depths in the soul, and unknown capabilities…

Streams in the Dessert by Mrs Cowman January 19 Men ought always to pray and not to faint (Luke 18:1). “Go to the ant.” Tammerlane used to relate to his friends an anecdote of his early life. “I once,” he said, “was forced to take shelter from my enemies in a ruined building, where I…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman JANUARY 18 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ (2 Corinthians 2:14). God gets His greatest victories out of apparent defeats. Very often the enemy seems to triumph for a little, and God lets it be so; but then He comes in…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman JANUARY 17th Oh Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee? (Daniel 6:20). How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight…