From Streams in the Desert with Mrs. Charles Cowman: “Let us run with patience” (Heb. 12:1). O run with patience is a very difficult thing. Running is apt to suggest the absence of patience, the eagerness to reach the goal. We commonly associate patience with lying down. We think of it... More

The Word: Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves (Phil 2:3). Prayerful Contemplation: Am I too preoccupied with my own welfare to notice it when something is wrong in another person’s life? Further, what do I do when... More

The Word: … God is love (1 Jn 4:8b). Prayerful Contemplation: Today, God reminded me of a message that He has given all women. “I love you, and I want to be your Friend.” It’s amazing how hard we try to find love and approval everywhere but in the Place where we can truly find it. God is reaching... More

Monday: The devotion from Pastor Courson : C. H. Spurgeon said that affliction is the tuner of the harp and the sanctifier of the son. I like that. How did David have such intimacy with the Lord, such passion for the Lord, such understanding of the Lord that He could write the psalms he wrote? His passion,... More

The Word: My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away (Song of Solomon 2:10). Prayerful Contemplation: Continuing from yesterday’s devotion: Sometimes after peeking at the world, we find ourselves deep in worldly affairs. Sometimes we are in so deep that we... More

The Word: Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long (Proverbs 23:17). Prayerful Contemplation: Many times it seems like for me to be successful, I have to be in the world. Worldliness is attractive to my flesh. Yet my spirit loves Jesus. The common end result... More

I apologize for the glaring lack of a devotion for Tuesday, April 22. Due to recurring server issues that were beyond our control, the site was down and we were unable to update its content for several hours. Please accept my sincere apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused, as well as my... More

From Searchlight, with Pastor Jon Courson: The Word: Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth. And David abodein the wilderness in... More

Straight From the Book (Because God Says It Best) 1Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? 2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. 3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be... More

Delayed. From Streams in the Desert with Mrs. Charles Cowman: The Word: Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs; . . . they shall afflict them four hundred years; . . . and afterward they shall come out with great substance (Gen. 15:12-14). An assured part of... More