Streams in the Desert,May 20

Streams in the Desert Daily Devotional
May 20, 2012 Receive the Cup of Sorrow “Shall I refuse to drink the cup of sorrow which the Father has given me to drink?” (John 18:11, Weymouth). God takes a thousand times more pains with us than the artist with his picture, by many touches of sorrow, and by many colours of circumstance, to bring us into {Tags: , , , , , , , , , , } {More...}

Streams in the Desert,May 19

Streams in the Desert Daily Devotional
May 19, 2012 Attitude of Trust “And it came to pass, before he had done speaking…and he said, Blessed be Jehovah who hath not forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth” (Gen. 24:15, 27). Every right prayer is answered before the prayer itself is finished–before we have “done speaking.” This is because God has pledged His Word to us {Tags: , , , , , , , , , , } {More...}

Streams in the Desert,May 18

Streams in the Desert Daily Devotional
May 18, 2012 Pressing Forward “I was crushed…so much so that I despaired even of life, but that was to make me rely not on myself, but on the God who raises the dead” (2 Cor. 1:8, 9). “Pressed out of measure and pressed to all length; Pressed so intensely it seems, beyond strength; Pressed in the body {Tags: , , , , , , , , , , } {More...}

Streams in the Desert,May 17

Streams in the Desert Daily Devotional
May 17, 2012 Season of Waiting “And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness, an angel of the Lord…saying….now come, I will send thee into Egypt” (Acts 7:30-34). Often the Lord calls us aside from our work for a season, and bids us be still and learn ere we go forth again to {Tags: , , , , , , , , , , } {More...}

Streams in the Desert,May 16

Streams in the Desert Daily Devotional
May 16, 2012 We Wrestle Not Against Flesh and Blood “Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days” {Tags: , , , , , , , , , , } {More...}

Streams in the Desert,May 15

Streams in the Desert Daily Devotional
May 15, 2012 Above the Clouds “Men see not the bright light which is in the clouds” (Job 37:21). The world owes much of its beauty to cloudland. The unchanging blue of the Italian sky hardly compensates for the changefulness and glory of the clouds. Earth would become a wilderness apart from their ministry. There are clouds in {Tags: , , , , , , , , , , } {More...}

Streams in the Desert,May 14

Streams in the Desert Daily Devotional
May 14, 2012 Instant Obedience “In the selfsame day, as God had said unto him” (Gen. 17:23). Instant obedience is the only kind of obedience there is; delayed obedience is disobedience. Every time God calls us to any duty, He is offering to make a covenant with us; doing the duty is our part, and He will do {Tags: , , , , , , , , , , } {More...}

Streams in the Desert,May 13

Streams in the Desert Daily Devotional
May 13, 2012 Can Thine Heart Endure “We know not what we should pray for as we ought” (Rom. 8:26). Much that perplexes us in our Christian experience is but the answer to our prayers. We pray for patience, and our Father sends those who tax us to the utmost; for “tribulation worketh patience.” We pray for submission, {Tags: , , , , , , , , , , } {More...}

Streams in the Desert,May 12

Streams in the Desert Daily Devotional
May 12, 2012 The Discipline of Faith “All things are possible to him that believeth” (Mark 9:23). The “all things” do not always come simply for the asking, for the reason that God is ever seeking to teach us the way of faith, and in our training in the faith life there must be room for the trial {Tags: , , , , , , , , , , } {More...}

Streams in the Desert,May 11

Streams in the Desert Daily Devotional
May 11, 2012 Sailing Through the Tempest “We went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place” (Ps. 66:12). Paradoxical though it be, only that man is at rest who attains it through conflict. This peace, born of conflict, is not like the deadly hush preceding the tempest, but the serene and {Tags: , , , , , , , , , , } {More...}