Waiting

[Betty]

Title: Wait With Patience
Author: Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
Devotion: Streams in the Desert
Scripture References:
Psalm 37:7


Title: Wait With Patience

"Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him"
(Ps. 37:7).

Have you prayed and prayed and waited and waited,
and still there is no manifestation?

Are you tired of seeing nothing move? Are you
just at the point of giving it all up? Perhaps
you have not waited in the right way? This would
take you out of the right place the place where
He can meet you.

"With patience wait" (Rom. 8:25). Patience takes
away worry. He said He would come, and His
promise is equal to His presence. Patience takes
away your weeping. Why feel sad and despondent?
He knows your need better than you do, and His
purpose in waiting is to bring more glory out of
it all. Patience takes away self-works. The work
He desires is that you "believe" (John 6:29), and
when you believe, you may then know that all is
well. Patience takes away all want. Your desire
for the thing you wish is perhaps stronger than
your desire for the will of God to be fulfilled
in its arrival.

Patience takes away all weakening. Instead of
having the delaying time, a time of letting go,
know that God is getting a larger supply ready
and must get you ready too. Patience takes away
all wobbling. "Make me stand upon my standing"
(Daniel 8:18, margin). God's foundations are
steady; and when His patience is within, we are
steady while we wait. Patience gives worship. A
praiseful patience sometimes "long-suffering with
joyfulness" (Col. 1:11) is the best part of it
all. "Let (all these phases of) patience have her
perfect work" (James 1:4), while you wait, and
you will find great enrichment. --C. H. P.

Hold steady when the fires burn,
When inner lessons come to learn,
And from this path there seems no turn
"Let patience have her perfect work."
--L.S.P.


This classic devotional is the unabridged edition of
Streams in the Desert. This first edition was published
in 1925 and the wording is preserved as originally
written. Connotations of words may have changed over the
years and are not meant to be offensive