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Teach me, Lord Tuesday

 From a dear friend dealing with her own trial right now...


Gratitude notes… Today I am praising God for the August 14 devotion of “streams in the desert” by L. B. Cowman. I’m sharing this devotion with you completely. I pray you are as blessed by this as I have been! Praise the Lord for his mercy and grace!


You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. (John 19:11.)


Nothing that is not part of God’s will is allowed to come into the life of someone who trusts and obeys him. This truth should be enough to make our life one of ceaseless Thanksgiving and joy, because God‘s will is the most hopeful, pleasant, and glorious thing in the world. It is the continuous working of his omnipotent power for our benefit, with nothing to prevent it, if we remain surrendered and believing.


Someone who is passing through the deep waters of affliction wrote a friend: 

Isn’t it glorious to know that no matter how unjust something may be, even when it seems to have come from Satan himself, by the time it reaches us it is Gods will for us and will ultimately work for our good?

“and we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him” (Romans 8:28). Think of what Christ said even as he was betrayed: “Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?” (John 18:11).


We live fascinating lives if we are living in the center of God‘s will. All the attacks that Satan hurls at us through the sins of others are not only powerless to harm us but are transformed into blessings along the way. Hannah Whitall Smith


  In the center of the circle

    of the will of God I stand: 

  there can come no second causes,

    all must come from his dear hand.

  All is well! For its my Father

    Who my life has planned.


Shall I pass through waves of    

           sorrow? 

Then I know it will be best;

Though I cannot tell the reason, 

   I can trust, and so am blest. 

God is Love, and God is faithful,

   So in perfect peace a rest.


With the shade and with the 

          sunshine, 

With the joy and with the pain, 

Lord, I trust You! Both are needed, Each Your wayward child to train, Earthly loss, if we will know it,

Often means our heavenly gain.

                                     I. G. W.



Charles Spurgeon:

"Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most desirable circumstances---Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good. Take up your own daily cross, it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God."

To God be the glory!!!

Thank you Jesus for Hudson Taylor!!!


"It doesn't matter, really, how great the pressure is," he used to say; "it only matters where the pressure lies. See that it never comes BETWEEN you and the Lord - then, the greater the pressure the more it presses you to His breast."

From  Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, page 153. ❤️


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