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Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman October 27th All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me (Psalms 42:7). They are HIS billows, whether they go o’er us,Hiding His face in smothering spray and foam;Or smooth and sparkling, spread a path before us,And to our haven bear us safely home.They are HIS billows, whether…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman October 26th The need of perfect Solitude He went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when evening was come, he was there alone (Matthew 14:23). The man Christ Jesus felt the need of perfect solitude–Himself alone, entirely by Himself, alone with Himself. We know how much sharing with…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman October 23rd There hath not failed one word of all his good promise (1 King 8:56). Some day we shall understand that God has a reason in every NO which He speaks through the slow movement of life. “Somehow God makes up to us.” How often, when His people…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman October 22nd Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside, of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman October 21st For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens (2 Cor. 5:1). The owner of the tenement which I have occupied for many years has given notice…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman October 20th And the peace of God, which transcends all our powers of thought, will be a garrison to guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:7) There is what is called the “cushion of the sea.” Down beneath the surface that is agitated by storms, and…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman October 19th There of the covenant  of the Lord went before them” (Num. 10:33). God does give us impressions, but not that we should act on them as impressions. If the impression be from God, He will Himself give sufficient evidence to establish it beyond the possibility of a…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman October 18th Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs; . . . they shall afflict them four hundred years; . . . and afterward they shall come out with great substance” (Genesis 5:12-14). An assured part of God’s pledged…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman October 17th “God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world” (Gal 6:14). They were living to themselves; self with its hopes, and promises and dreams, still had hold of…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman October 16th Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us, (Heb 12:1) There are weights which are not sins in…