Category: Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman Devotional

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman December 3rd Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well (2 Kings 4:26). Be strong, my soul!Thy loved ones goWithin the veil.God’s thine, e’en so;Be strong.Be strong, my soul!Death looms in view.Lo, here thy God!He’ll bear thee through;Be…

Streams in the Desert By Mrs Cowman December 2nd Perfect through suffering (Hebrews 2:10). Steel is iron plus fire. Soil is rock, plus heat, or glacier crushing. Linen is flax plus the bath that cleans, the comb that separates, and the flail that pounds, and the shuttle that weaves. Human character must have a plus attached…

Streams in the Desert By Mrs Cowman December 1st There remaineth, therefore, a rest to the people of God (Hebrews 4:9). The rest includes victory, “And the Lord gave them rest round about;… the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand” (Joshua 21:44). “Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ”…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman November 30th And seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest (Jeremiah 45:5. A promise given for hard places,…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman November 29th Nevertheless afterward (Heb. 12:11). There is a legend that tells of a German baron who, at his castle on the Rhine, stretched wires from tower to tower, that the winds might convert them into an Aeolian harp. And the soft breezes played about the castle, but no…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman November 27th For with God nothing shall be impossible (Luke 1:37). Far up in the Alpine hollows, year by year God works one of His marvels. The snow-patches lie there, frozen with ice at their edge from the strife of sunny days and frosty nights; and through that ice-crust…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman November 26th And Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou? Who answered, give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs (Joshua 15:18-19). There are both upper and nether…

Streams in the Desert By Mrs Cowman November 25th Take the arrows… Smite upon the ground. And he smote twice and stayed. And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times (2 Kings 13:14-19). How striking and eloquent the message of these words! Jehoash thought he…

Streams in the Desert By Mrs Cowman November 24th Be still, and know that I am God (Psalms 46:10) Is there any note of music in all the chorus as mighty as the emphatic pause? Is there any word in all the Psalter more eloquent than that one word,Selah (Pause)? Is there anything more thrilling and…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman November 23rd Thou hast shewed thy people hard things (Psalms 60:3) I have always been glad that the Psalmist said to God that some things were hard. There is no mistake about it; there are hard things in life. Some beautiful pink flowers were given me this summer,…