• “I wish Thy way. But when in me my self would rise, and long for something otherwise, then, Holy One, take sword and spear, and slay.” – Amy Carmichael

Fear God and Fear Nothing Else By Elisabeth Elliot

The world is shaking with fear. “What will become of us? Where will it all end? What if Russia…? What… Continue reading

Falling In Love Again – Nancy Leigh DeMoss with Anne Ortlund

Series: Disciplines of a Beautiful Woman: An Interview with Anne Ortlund

Leslie Basham: If the person you marry changes over… Continue reading

Faith is a Target – Streams in the Desert 09/22

“And the Lord said . . . Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat;… Continue reading

Excerpt from ‘A Quiet Heart’ by Elisabeth Elliot

A Quiet Heart Jesus slept on a pillow in the midst of a raging storm. How could He? The terrified disciples, sure that the next wave would send them straight to the bottom, shook Him awake with rebuke. How could He be so careless of their fate? He could because He slept in the calm assurance that His Father was in control. His was a quiet heart. We see Him move serenely through all the events of His life–when He was reviled, He did not revile in return. When He knew that He would suffer many things and be killed in Jerusalem, He never deviated from His course. He had set His face like flint. He sat at supper with one who would deny Him and another who would betray Him, yet He was able to eat with them, willing even to wash their feet. Jesus in the unbroken intimacy of His Father’s love, kept a quiet heart. Continue reading

Counting the Cost – Streams in the Desert 09/21

“I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord” (Phil. 3:8).
This… Continue reading

Eve by Watchman Nee

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and the twain… Continue reading

Belief, Not Understanding – Streams in the Desert 09/20

“Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?”
(John 11:40).
Mary… Continue reading

Do You Want an Answer? By Elisabeth Elliot

This is the question we need to ask ourselves when we are seeking “solutions” to our problems. Often we want… Continue reading

Trouble is a Messenger – Streams in the Desert 09/19

“My Father is the husbandman” (John 15:1).
It is comforting to think of trouble, in whatever form it may come… Continue reading

Listening Hard for God – Streams in the Desert 09/18

“Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Prov. 29 :18).

Waiting upon God is necessary in order to see… Continue reading

  • “Bare heights of loneliness…a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.” – Amy Carmichael

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having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. — Ephesians 1:9-10 (NKJV)

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