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Tracy 8/16/2026 2:12:41 PM MST |
STREAMS IN THE DESERT by L.B. COWMAN Jesus answered, "You could have no power at all against Me unless it had been given you from above." (John 19:11) Nothing that is not part of God's will is allowed to come into the life of someone who trusts and obeys Him. This truth should be enough to make our life one of ceaseless thanksgiving and joy, because God's will is the most hopeful, pleasant, and glorious thing in the world. It is the continuous working of His omnipotent power for our benefit, with nothing to prevent it if we remain surrendered and believing. Someone who was passing through the deep water of affliction wrote a friend: Isn't it glorious to know that no matter how unjust something may be, even when it seems to have come from Satan himself, by the time it reaches us it is God's will for us and will ultimately work to our good? "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him" (Romans 8:28). Think of what Christ said even as He was betrayed: "Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given Me?" (John 18:11). We live fascinating lives if we are living in the center of God's will. All the attacks that Satan hurls at us through the sins of others are not only powerless to harm us but are transformed into blessings along the way. (Hannah Whitfall Smith) In the center of the circle Of the will of God I stand: There can come no second causes, All must come from His dear hand. All is well! for it's my Father Who my life has planned. Shall I pass through waves of sorrow? Then I know it will be best; Though I cannot tell the reason, I can trust, and so am blest. God is Love, and God is faithful. So in perfect Peace I rest. With the shade and with the sunshine, With the joy and with the pain, Lord, I trust You! both are needed, Each Your wayward child to train, Earthly loss, if we will know it, Often means our heavenly gain. (I.G.W.) | |||
Tracy 8/8/2026 7:50:12 AM MST |
MAGNIFICENT PRAYER by NICK HARRISON Likewise, you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:11 God never ceases to speak to us: but the noise of the world without, and the tumult of our passions within, bewilder us and prevent us from listening to Him. (Francois Fenelon) PRAY ABOUT IT: It's hard to know which is more distracting to our prayers --- the pull of the world with its distractions or the tug of our own passions to fulfill their every desire. But in the middle of it all is the voice of God speaking to us, quite loudly actually. Listen to Him today --- reckon yourself alive to God and dead to the world and to your flesh. The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying. (E.M. Bounds) | |||
Tracy 8/1/2026 8:04:39 AM MST |
STREAMS IN THE DESERT by L.B. COWMAN Offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life. (Romans 6:13) One night I went to hear a sermon on consecration. Nothing special came to me from the message, but as the preacher knelt to pray, he said, "O Lord, You know we can trust the Man who died for us." That was my message. As I rose from my knees and walked down the street to catch the train, I deeply pondered all that consecration would mean to my life. I was afraid as I considered the personal cost, and suddenly, above the noise of the street traffic, came the message; "You can trust the Man who died for you." I boarded the train, and as I traveled toward home, I thought of the changes, sacrifices, and disappointments that consecration might mean in my life --- and I was still afraid. Upon arriving home, I went straight to my room, fell on my knees and saw my life pass before my eyes. I was a Christian, an officer in the church, and a Sunday school superintendent, but I had never yielded my life to God with a definite act of my will. Yet as I thought of my own "precious" plans that might be thwarted, my beloved hopes to be surrendered, and my chosen profession that I might have to abandon --- I was afraid. I completely failed to see the better things God had for me, so my soul was running from Him. And then for the last time, with a swift force of convicting power to my inmost heart, came that searching message: "My child, you can trust the Man who died for you. If you cannot trust Him, then whom can you trust?" Finally that settled it for me, for in a flash of light I realized that the Man who loved me enough to die for me could be absolutely trusted with the total concerns of the life He had saved. Dear friend, you can trust the Man who died for you. You can trust Him to thwart each plan that should be stopped and to complete each one that results in His greatest glory and your higher good. You can trust Him to lead you down the path that is the very best in this world for you. J.H.M. Just as I am, Thy love unknown, Has broken every barrier down, Now to be Thine, yea,Thine ALONE, O Lamb of God, I come! Life is not wreckage to be saved out of the world but an investment to be used in the world. | |||
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