Taken from Henry T. Blackaby and Richard Blackaby’s “Experiencing God Day By Day” “And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in Him,” (1 John 4:16) The greatest...
Taken from L.B. Cowman’s “Streams in the Desert,” Zondervan Updated Edition “I will build you with stones of turquoise,” (Isaiah 54:11). The stones in the wall said, “We have come from mountains far away—from the sides of rugged cliffs. Fire and water have worked on...
Taken from L.B. Cowman’s “Streams in the Desert,” Zondervan Updated Edition “Before this faith came, we were held prisoners…, locked up until faith should be revealed,” (Galatians 3:23). God, in times past, caused people to be kept subject to His law so they would...
Taken from L.B. Cowman’s “Streams in the Desert,” Zondervan Updated Edition “He has given us his very great and precious promises,” (2 Peter 1:4). When a shipbuilder erects a boat, does he do so only to keep it on the scaffolding? No, he builds it to sail the seas and...
“By faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope,” Galatians 5:5. There are times when everything looks very dark to me—so dark that I have to wait before I have hope. Waiting with hope is very difficult, but true patience is expressed...
Taken from L.B. Cowman’s “Streams in the Desert,” Zondervan Updated Edition “They will soar on wings like eagles,” (Isaiah 40:31). There is a fable about the way birds first got their wings. The story goes that initially they were made without them. Then God made the...
