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January 18 “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ.” (2 Cor. 2:14.) GOD gets His greatest victories out of apparent defeats. Very often the enemy seems to triumph for a little, and God lets it be so; but then He comes in and upsets all the work of theContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

January 17 “O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee.” (Dan. 6:20.) HOW many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of. We know it is written “theContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

January 16 “And there arose a great storm.” (Mark 4:37.) SOME of the storms of life come suddenly: a great sorrow, a bitter disappointment, a crushing defeat. Some come slowly. They appear upon the ragged edges of the horizon no larger than a man’s hand, but, trouble that seems so insignificant spreads until it coversContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

January 15 “And the Lord appeared unto Isaac the same night.” (Gen. 26:24.) APPEARED the same night,” the night on which he went to Beer-sheba. Do you think this revelation was an accident? Do you think the time of it was an accident? Do you think it could have happened on any other night asContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

January 14 “He putteth forth his own sheep.” (John 10:4.) OH, this is bitter work for Him and us—bitter for us to go, but equally bitter for Him to cause us pain; yet it must be done. It would not be conducive to our true welfare to stay always in one happy and comfortable lot.Continue reading “Streams in the Desert”