Dewayne Smith · June 14 Streams in the Desert “I have prayed that your own faith may not fail.” (Luke 22:32.) CHRISTIAN, take good care of thy faith, for recollect that faith is the only means whereby thou canst obtain blessings. Prayer cannot draw down answers from God’s throne exceptRead More …

  Dewayne Smith · June 12 Streams in the Desert “In everything ye are enriched by him.” (1 Cor. 1:5.) HAVE you ever seen men and women whom some disaster drove to a great act of prayer, and by and by the disaster was forgotten, but the sweetness of religion remainedRead More …

  Dewayne Smith ·  June 11 Streams in the Desert “The servant of the Lord must be gentle.” (2 Tim. 2:24.) WHEN God conquers us and takes all the flint out of our nature, and we get deep visions into the Spirit of Jesus, we then see as never before theRead More …

  Dewayne Smith ·  June 10 Streams in the Desert “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God.” (Rom. 8:28.) HOW wide is this assertion of the Apostle Paul! He does not say, “We know that some things,” or “most things,” or “joyous things,”Read More …

  Dewayne Smith ·  June 9 Streams in the Desert “Feed on his faithfulness.” (Psalm 37:3, R. V.) I ONCE met a poor colored woman, who earned a precarious living by hard daily labor; but who was a joyous triumphant Christian. “Ah, Nancy,” said a gloomy Christian lady to her oneRead More …

  Dewayne Smith · June 8 Streams in the Desert “For every child of God overcomes the world: and the victorious principle which has overcome the world is our faith.” (1 John 5:4.) (Weymouth.) AT every turn in the road one can find something that will rob him of his victoryRead More …

  Dewayne Smith · June 7 Streams in the Desert “Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night.” (Job 35:10.) DO you have sleepless nights, tossing on the hot pillow, and watching for the first glint of dawn? Ask the Divine Spirit to enable you to fix yourRead More …

 Dewayne Smith · June 6 “Watch unto prayer.” (1 Peter 4:7.) GO not, my friend, into the dangerous world without prayer. You kneel down at night to pray, drowsiness weighs down your eyelids; a hard day’s work is a kind of excuse, and you shorten your prayer, and resign yourselfRead More …