Tag: devotional
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Streams in the Desert 9/7
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 7th “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble” (Ps. 46:1). The question often comes, “Why didn’t He help me sooner?” It is not His order. He must first adjust you to the trouble and cause you to learn your lesson from it. His…
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Streams in the Desert 9/6
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 6th Thou remainest (Heb. 1:11). There are always lone hearth-fires; so many! And those who sit beside them, with the empty chair, cannot restrain the tears that will come. One sits alone so much. There is some One unseen, just here within reach. But somehow we don’t realize…
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Streams in the Desert 9/5
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 5th Blessed are all they that wait for him (Isa. 30:18). We hear a great deal about waiting on God. There is, however, another side. When we wait on God, He is waiting till we are ready; when we wait for God, we are waiting till He is…
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Streams in the desert 9/4
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 4th And when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him (Joshua 6:5). The shout of steadfast faith is in direct…
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Streams in the Desert 9/3
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 3rd And he saw them toiling in rowing (Mark 6:48). Straining, driving effort does not accomplish the work God gives man to do. Only God Himself, who always works without strain, and who never overworks, can do the work that He assigns to His children. When they restfully…
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Streams in the Desert 9/2
Streams in the Desert By Mrs Cowman September 2nd Unto you it is given… to suffer (Philippians 1:29). God keeps a costly school. Many of its lessons are spelled out through tears. Richard Baxter said, “O God, I thank Thee for a bodily discipline of eight and fifty years”; and he is not the only man…
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Streams in the Desert 9/1
Streams in the Desert By Mrs Cowman September 1st I will lay thy stones with fair colors (Isa. 54:11). The stones from the wall said, “We come from the mountains far away, from the sides of the craggy hills. Fire and water have worked on us for ages, but made us only crags. Human hands have…
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Streams in the Desert 8/31
Streams in the Desert By Mrs Cowman August 31 Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed (John 20:29). How strong is the snare of the things that are seen, and how necessary for God to keep us in the things that axe unseen! If Peter is to walk on the water he…
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Streams in the Desert 8/30
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman August 30th They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep (Ps. 107:23-24). He is but an apprentice and no master in the art, who has not learned that every…
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Streams in the Desert 8/29
Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman August 29th And he went out carrying his own cross (John 19:17). There is a poem called “The Changed Cross.” It represents a weary one who thought that her cross was surely heavier than those of others whom she saw about her, and she wished that she might choose…