• “Did you ever hear of any one being much used for Christ who did not have some special waiting time, some complete upset of all his or her plans first?” – Frances Ridley Havergal

Expectations Beyond Us – Streams in the Desert 12/04

“But prayer” (Acts 12:5).
But prayer is the link that connects us with God. This is the bridge that spans… Continue reading

The Heavenly Places by Hannah Whitall Smith

In The Heavenly Places

“But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even… Continue reading

Strong in Suffering – Streams in the Desert 12/03

“Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well” (2 Kings… Continue reading

The Gospel of the Kingdom of God by Jeanne Guyon

The singleness of spirit and the candor, with which you have written to me, please me much. You are about… Continue reading

Reaching Perfection – Streams in the Desert 12/02

“Perfect through suffering” (Heb. 2:10).
Steel is iron plus fire. Soil is rock, plus heat, or glacier crushing. Linen is… Continue reading

Devil’s Burden -Streams in the Desert 12/01

“There remaineth, therefore, a rest to the people of God” (Heb. 4:9).
The rest includes victory, “And the Lord gave… Continue reading

The Fruit of Forgiveness By Elisabeth Elliot

Every day I am forgiven for many sins of many kinds, and although on the one hand forgiveness seems such… Continue reading

In God, Not Out of Trouble – Streams in the Desert 11/30

“And seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith… Continue reading

The Energy Giver by Luci Swindoll

[God] gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength. —Isaiah 40:29

The dictionary… Continue reading

Music of the Storm – Streams in the Desert 11/29

“Nevertheless afterward” (Heb. 12:11).
There is a legend that tells of a German baron who, at his castle on the… Continue reading

  • “A Christian woman’s true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate—humble obedience—but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested.” – Elisabeth Elliot

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