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Streams in the Desert
“Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. (John 16:24.) DURING the Civil War, a man had an only son who enlisted in the armies of the Union. The father was a banker and, although he consented to hisRead More …
God Speaks through His Activity
God Speaks through His Activity Look at the nations and observe— be utterly astounded! For something is taking place in your days that you will not believe when you hear about it.—Habakkuk 1:5 Christians habitually seek God’s voice through prayer, through His word, or through His messengers. Yet sometimes weRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument.” (Isa. 41:15.) A BAR of steel worth five dollars, when wrought into horseshoes, is worth ten dollars. If made into needles, it is worth three hundred and fifty dollars; if into penknife blades, it is worth thirty-two thousand dollars; if intoRead More …
I Will Rejoice!
I Will Rejoice! Though the fig tree does not bud and there is no fruit on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will triumph in the Lord;Read More …
Daily Help
If there be one place where our Lord Jesus most fully becomes the joy and comfort of His people, it is where He plunged deepest into the depths of woe. Come hither, gracious souls, and behold the Man in the garden of Gethsemane; behold His heart so brimming with loveRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“There hath not failed one word of all his good promise.” (1 Kings 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 are worrying andRead More …
A Second Time
A Second Time Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:—Jonah 3:1 Jonah didn’t like the assignment God gave him. God directed him to leave his homeland and go to the enemy city of Nineveh, a hostile and evil center of idol worship. There Jonah wasRead More …
Daily Help
“Why go I mourning?“—Psalm 42:9. Canst thou answer this, believer? Can’t thou find any reason why thou art so often mourning instead of rejoicing? Why yield to gloomy anticipations? Who told thee that the night would never end in day? Who told thee that the winter of thy discontent would proceedRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“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 of fire out ofRead More …
Hidden from the Wise
Hidden from the Wise In that same hour He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and the learned and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, because this was Your goodRead More …
D5 Creation