Tag: devotional
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Streams in the Desert Jan 19th
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…
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Streams in the Desert Jan 18th
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…
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Streams in the Desert Jan 17th
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…
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Streams in the Desert Jan 16th
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman JANUARY 16 And there arose a great storm (Mark 4:37). Some of the storms of life come suddenly: a great sorrow, a bitter disappointment, a crushing defeat. Some come slowly. They appear upon the ragged edges of the horizon no larger than a man’s hand, but, trouble that…
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Streams in the Dessert Jan 15th
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman JANUARY 15th And the Lord appeared unto Isaac the same night (Genesis 26:24). “Appeared the same night,” the night on which he went to Beer-sheba. Do you think this revelation was an accident? Do you think the time of it was an accident? Do you think it could…
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Streams in the Desert Jan 14th
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman JANUARY 14 He putteth forth his own sheep (John 10:4). Oh, this is bitter work for Him and us — bitter for us to go, but equally bitter for Him to cause us pain; yet it must be done. It would not be conducive to our true welfare…
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Streams in the Desert Jan 13th
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman JANUARY 13 In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us (Romans 8:37). This is more than victory. This is a triumph so complete that we have not only escaped defeat and destruction, but we have destroyed our enemies and won a spoil so rich…
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Streams In The Dessert Jan 12th
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman JANUARY 12 Reckon it nothing but joy… whenever you find yourself hedged in by the various trials, be assured that the testing of your faith leads to power of endurance (James 1:2-3) Weymouth God hedges in His own that He may preserve them, but oftentimes they only see the wrong…
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Streams in the Desert Jan 11th
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman JANUARY 11th Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God (Isaiah 40:1). Store up comfort. This was the prophet’s mission. The world is full of comfortless hearts, and ere thou art sufficient for this lofty ministry, thou must be trained. And thy training is costly in the…
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Streams in the Desert Jan 10th
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman JANUARY 10 They were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the Word in Asia (Acts 16:6). It is interesting to study the methods of His guidance as it was extended towards these early heralds of the Cross. It consisted largely in prohibitions, when they attempted to take…