Category: Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman Devotional

Streams in the Desert By Mrs Cowman December 13th. I will give you the treasures of darkness (Isaiah 45:3). In the famous lace shops of Brussels, there are certain rooms devoted to the spinning of the finest and most delicate patterns. These rooms are altogether darkened, save for a light from one very small window, which…

Streams in the Desert By Mrs Cowman December 12th The last drops of my sacrifice are falling; my time to go has come. I have fought in the good fight; I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:6-22). As soldiers show their scars and talk of battles when they come at last to spend their old…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman December 11th Attention! Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who serve in the Lord’s temple during the night. May the Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion!  —Ps 134:1, 3 Strange time for adoration, you say, to stand in God’s house by…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman December 10th But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer. And our hope for you is steadfast because we know that…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman December 9th For this our light and transitory burden of suffering is achieving for us a weight of glory (2 Cor. 4:17). (Weymouth) The question is repeatedly asked–Why is the life of man drenched with so much blood, and blistered with so many tears? The answer is to…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman December 8th Put on as the elect of God, kindness (Colossians 3:12). There is a story of an old man who carried a little can of oil with him everywhere he went, and if he passed through a door that squeaked, he poured a little oil on the hinges.…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman December 7th Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts. And this is but a light thing in the sight of the Lord: he will deliver…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman December 6th Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown (Revelations 3:11). George Mueller bears this testimony, “When it pleased God in July, 1829, to reveal to my heart the truth of the personal return of the Lord Jesus, and to show…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman December 5th O Lord , I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps (Jeremiah 10:23). Lead me in a plain path (Psalms 27:11). Many people want to direct God, instead of resigning themselves to be directed…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman December 4th He went up into a mountain apart (Matthew 14:23). One of the blessings of the old-time Sabbath was its calm, its restfulness, its holy peace. There is a strange strength conceived in solitude. Crows go in flocks and wolves in packs, but the lion and the eagle are solitaires.…