Sermons & Devotionals by Charles E. Cowman
Charles E. Cowman
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Charles E. Cowman
Rejoice in the Flood
"He turned the sea into dry land; they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him" (Ps. 66:6). It is a striking assertion, "through the floods" (the place where we might have expected nothing but trembling and terror, anguish and dismay) "there," says the Psalmist, "did we rejoice i... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Rejoice in the Lord
"Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvat... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Rely on God, Not Self
"Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow" (Isa. 50:11). What a solemn warning to those who walk in darkness and yet who try to he... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Remember My Song in the Night
"I call to remembrance my song in the night" (Psalm 77:6). I have read somewhere of a little bird that will never sing the melody his master wishes while his cage is full of light. He learns a snatch of this, a bar of that, but never an entire song of its own until the cage is covered and the mornin... Read More
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Rest on the Word of God
"I trust in thy word" (Ps. 119:42). Just in proportion in which we believe that God will do just what He has said, is our faith strong or weak. Faith has nothing to do with feelings, or with impressions, with improbabilities, or with outward appearances. If we desire to couple them with faith, then ... Read More
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Resurrection Hope
"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: so shall we ever be ... Read More
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Rock Flowers
"Thou hast shewed thy people hard things" (Ps. 60:3). I have always been glad that the Psalmist said to God that some things were hard. There is no mistake about it; there are hard things in life. Some beautiful pink flowers were given me this summer, and as I took them I said, "What are they?" And ... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Run With Patience
"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 as the angel that guards the couch of the invalid. Yet, I do not t... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Sailing Through the Tempest
"We went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place" (Ps. 66:12). Paradoxical though it be, only that man is at rest who attains it through conflict. This peace, born of conflict, is not like the deadly hush preceding the tempest, but the serene and pure-aired qu... Read More
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Satan's Tools
"Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and, let us run with patience the race that is set before us" (Heb. 12:1). There are weights which are not sins in themselves, but which become distractions and stumbling blocks in our Christian progress. One of the worst of ... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Scent of The Rose
"Blow upon my garden that the spices may flow out" (S. of Sol. 4:16). Some of the spices mentioned in this chapter are quite suggestive. The aloe was a bitter spice, and it tells of the sweetness of bitter things, the bitter-sweet, which has its own fine application that only those can understand wh... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
School of Sorrow
"And no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth" (Rev. 14:3). There are songs which can only be learned in the valley. No art can teach them; no rules of voice can make them perfectly sung. Their music is in the heart. They are songs ... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
School of Suffering
"The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?" (John 18:11). This was a greater thing to say and do than to calm the seas or raise the dead. Prophets and apostles could work wondrous miracles, but they could not always do and suffer the will of God. To do and suffer God's will is sti... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Season of Waiting
"And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness…an angel of the Lord...saying....now come, I will send thee into Egypt" (Acts 7:30-34). Often the Lord calls us aside from our work for a season, and bids us be still and learn ere we go forth again to minister. There is no ... Read More
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Secret Fellowship
"Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left" (Isa. 30:21). When we are in doubt or difficulty, when many voices urge this course or the other, when prudence utters one advice and faith another, then l... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Secret Prayer
"I have called you friends" (John 15:15). Years ago there was an old German professor whose beautiful life was a marvel to his students. Some of them resolved to know the secret of it; so one of their number hid in the study where the old professor spent his evenings. It was late when the teacher ca... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Security in Storms
'The wind was contrary" (Matt. 14:24). Rude and blustering the winds of March often are. Do they not typify the tempestuous seasons of my life? But, indeed, I ought to be glad that I make acquaintance with these seasons. Better it is that the rains descend and the floods come than that I should stay... Read More
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Seek Communion
"They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn and grow as the vine" (Hosea 14:7). The day closed with heavy showers. The plants in my garden were beaten down before the pelting storm, and I saw one flower that I had admired for its beauty and loved for its fragrance e... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Service of Waiting
"After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithyma: but the Spirit suffered them not" (Acts 16:7). What a strange prohibition! These men were going into Bithynia just to do Christ's work, and the door is shut against them by Christ's own Spirit. I, too, have experienced this in certain ... Read More
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Set Apart
"He went up into a mountain apart" (Matt. 14:23). One of the blessings of the old-time Sabbath was its calm, its restfulness, its holy peace. There is a strange strength conceived in solitude. Crows go in flocks and wolves in packs, but the lion and the eagle are solitaires. Strength is not in blust... Read More
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