Category: Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman Devotional

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 31st You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season. (Job 5:26) A gentleman, writing about the breaking up of old ships, recently said that it is not the age alone which improves the quality of the…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 30th And they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one was able to learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth. (Rev 14:3) There are songs which…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 29th I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father. (John 15:15) Years ago there was an old German professor whose…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 28th Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” “I will not let you go,” Jacob replied, “unless you bless me.” Then Jacob asked, “Please tell me your name.” “Why do you ask my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 27th “Bring them here to me,” he replied. (Matt 14:18) Are you encompassed with needs at this very moment, and almost overwhelmed with difficulties, trials, and emergencies? These are all divinely provided vessels for the Holy Spirit to fill, and if you but rightly understood their meaning, they would become…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 26th Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, sing to it! (Num 21:17) This was a strange song and a strange well. They had been traveling over the desert’s barren sands, no water was in sight and they were famishing with thirst. Then God spake to…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 25th So I endure all things for the sake of those chosen by God, that they too may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus and its eternal glory. (2 Tim 2:10)   If Job could have known as he sat there in the ashes, bruising his heart on this problem…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 24th Sarah bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him (Gen. 21:2). The counsel of the Lord standeth forever, the thoughts of His heart to all generations” (Psalm 33:11). But we must be prepared to wait God’s…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 23rd At their wit’s end, they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out” (Ps. 107:27, 28). Are you standing at “Wit’s End Corner,”Christian, with troubled brow?Are you thinking of what is before you,And all you are bearing now?Does all the world seem against…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman May 22nd He worketh (Ps. 37:5). The translation that we find in Young of “Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass,” reads: “Roll upon Jehovah thy way; trust upon him: and he worketh.” It calls our attention to the immediate…