Sermons & Devotionals by Charles E. Cowman
Charles E. Cowman
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Charles E. Cowman
Isolation
"And he took him aside from the multitude" (Mark 7:33). Paul not only stood the tests in Christian activity, but in the solitude of captivity. You may stand the strain of the most intense labor, coupled with severe suffering, and yet break down utterly when laid aside from all religious activities; ... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
No Miracles
"And the rest, some on boards, some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land" (Acts 27:44). The marvelous story of Paul's voyage to Rome, with its trials and triumphs, is a fine pattern of the lights and shades of the way of faith all through the story ... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Delayed Blessings
"For the Vision is yet for an appointed time...though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry" (Hab. 2:3). In the charming little booklet, Expectation Corner, Adam Slowman was led into the Lord's treasure houses, and among many other wonders there revealed to him was th... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Christ Sometimes Delays His Help
"I called upon him, but he gave me no answer" (S. of Sol. 5:6). The Lord, when He hath given great faith, hath been known to try it by long delayings. He has suffered His servants' voices to echo in their ears as from a brazen sky. They have knocked at the golden gate, but it has remained unmovable,... Read More
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Grow in the Gloom
"I have all, and abound" (Phil. 4:18). In one of my garden books there is a chapter with a very interesting heading, "Flowers that Grow in the Gloom." It deals with those patches in a garden which never catch the sunlight. And my guide tells me the sort of flowers which are not afraid of these dingy... Read More
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Hold on Until the End
"We are made partaker of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end" (Heb. 3:14). It is the last step that wins; and there is no place in the pilgrim's progress where so many dangers lurk as the region that lies hard by the portals of the Celestial City. It was there t... Read More
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Believe in Order to See
"Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel; but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul" (Ps. 106:12-15). We read of Moses, that "he en... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Facts vs. Feelings
"We walk by faith, not by appearance" (2 Cor. 5:7, RV). By faith, not appearance; God never wants us to look at our feelings. Self may want us to; and Satan may want us to. But God wants us to face facts, not feelings; the facts of Christ and of His finished and perfect work for us. When we face the... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
It Is Sufficient
"IS" (2 Cor. 12:9). It had pleased God to remove my youngest child under circumstances of peculiar trial and pain; and as I had just laid my little one's body in the churchyard, on return home, I felt it my duty to preach to my people on the meaning of trial. Finding that this text was in the lesson... Read More
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No Solution in Sight
"He went out, not knowing whither he went" (Heb. 11:9). It is faith without sight. When we can see, it is not faith, but reasoning. In crossing the Atlantic we observed this very principle of faith. We saw no path upon the sea, nor sign of the shore. And yet day by day we were marking our path upon ... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Make a Way
"I will make all my mountains a way" (Isa.49:11). God will make obstacles serve His purpose. We all have mountains in our lives. There are people and things that threaten to bar our progress in the Divine life. Those heavy claims, that uncongenial occupation, that thorn in the flesh, that daily cros... Read More
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Go Forward
"As soon as the soles of the feet of the priests...shall rest in the waters...the waters shall be cut off" (Joshua 3:13). The people were not to wait in their camps until the way was opened, they were to walk by faith. They were to break camp, pack up their goods, form in line to march, and move dow... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Believing Before Seeing
"The land which I do give them, even the children of Israel" (Joshua 1:2). God here speaks in the immediate present. It is not something He is going to do, but something He does do, this moment. So faith ever speaks. So God ever gives. So He is meeting you today, in the present moment. This is the t... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Christ's Business is Supreme
"His disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray . . . and he said unto them, When ye pray, say. . . Thy kingdom come" (Luke 11:1, 2). When they said, "Teach us to pray," the Master lifted His eyes and swept the far horizon of God. He gathered up the ultimate dream of the Eternal, and, rounding ... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Deliverance in the Stormy Winds
"The Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the cast wind brought the locusts....Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste....And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea;... Read More
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Faith Becomes Sight
"Have faith that whatever you ask for in prayer is already granted you, and you will find that it will be" (Mark 11:24). When my little son was about ten years of age, his grandmother promised him a stamp album for Christmas. Christmas came, but no stamp album, and no word from grandmother. The matt... Read More
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Hard Love
"When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was" (John 11:6). In the forefront of this marvelous chapter stands the affirmation, "Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus," as if to teach us that at the very heart and foundation of all God... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Making Straight the Crooked
"Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked" (Eccles. 7:13). Often God seems to place His children in positions of profound difficulty, leading them into a wedge from which there is no escape; contriving a situation which no human judgment would have permitt... Read More
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It Must Be Bought
"On all bare heights shall be their pasture" (Isa. 49:9, RV). Toys and trinkets are easily won, but the greatest things are greatly bought. The top-most place of power is always bought with blood. You may have the pinnacles if you have enough blood to pay. That is the conquest condition of the holy ... Read More
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Honor Him in the Trials
"Glorify ye the Lord in the fires" (Isa. 24:15). Mark the little word "in"! We are to honor Him in the trial--in that which is an affliction indeed and though there have been cases where God did not let His saints feel the fire, yet, ordinarily, fire hurts. But just here we are to glorify Him by our... Read More
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