Category: Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman Devotional
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Streams 9/30
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 30th As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange God with him” (Deut. 32:11-12). Our Almighty Parent delights to conduct the tender…
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Streams 9/29
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 29th I will give myself unto prayer (Ps. 109:4). We are often in a religious hurry in our devotions. How much time do we spend in them daily? Can it not be easily reckoned in minutes? Who ever knew an eminently holy man who did not spend much of his…
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Streams 9/28
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 28th In me… peace (John 16:33). There is a vast difference between happiness and blessedness. Paul had imprisonments and pains, sacrifice and suffering up to the very limit; but in the midst of it all, he was blessed. All the beatitudes came into his heart and life in…
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Streams 9/27
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 27th I have found an atonement (Job 33:24, margin). Divine healing is just divine life. It is the headship of Christ over the body. It is the life of Christ in the frame. It is the union of our members with the very body of Christ and the inflowing…
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Streams 9/26
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 26th We walk by faith, not by appearance (2 Cor. 5:7, RV). By faith, not appearance; God never wants us to look at our feelings. Self may want us to; and Satan may want us to. But God wants us to face facts, not feelings; the facts of Christ…
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Streams 9/25
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 25th Why go I mourning?” (Psalm 42:9). Canst thou answer this, believer? Canst thou find any reason why thou art so often mourning instead of rejoicing? Why yield to gloomy anticipations? Who told thee that the night would never end in day? Who told thee that the winter…
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Streams 9/24
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 24th After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithyma: but the Spirit suffered them not (Acts 16:7). What a strange prohibition! These men were going into Bithynia just to do Christ’s work, and the door is shut against them by Christ’s own Spirit. I,…
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Streams 9/23
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 23rd He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his inner being shall flow rivers of living water (John 7:38). Some of us are shivering and wondering why the Holy Spirit does not fill us. We have plenty coming in, but we do not give it…
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Streams 9/22
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowmam September 22nd “And the Lord said . . . Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat; but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not” (Luke 22:31-32). Our faith is the center of the target at which God doth shoot when He tries…
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Streams 9/21
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 21st “I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord” (Phil. 3:8). This is the happy season of ripening cornfields, of the merry song of the reapers, of the secured and garnered grain. But let me hearken to the sermon of…