Sermons & Devotionals by Charles E. Cowman
Charles E. Cowman
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Charles E. Cowman
Discovering God's Graces
"Show me wherefore thou contendest with me" (Job 10:2). Perhaps, O tried soul, the Lord is doing this to develop thy graces. There are some of thy graces which would never have been discovered if it were not for the trials. Dost thou not know that thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as ... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Come Close to Him
"He took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray, and as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering . . . they saw his glory" (Luke 9:29, 32). "If I have found grace in thy sight, show me thy glory" (Exod. 33:13). When Jesus ... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Fashioned In The Fire
"Unto you it is given . . .to suffer" (Phil. 1:29). God keeps a costly school. Many of its lessons are spelled out through tears. Richard Baxter said, "O God, I thank Thee for a bodily discipline of eight and fifty years"; and he is not the only man who has turned a trouble into triumph. This school... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Members of His Body
"I have found an atonement" (Job 33:24, margin). Divine healing is just divine life. It is the headship of Christ over the body. It is the life of Christ in the frame. It is the union of our members with the very body of Christ and the inflowing life of Christ in our living members. It is as real as... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Broken Things
"By reason of breakings they purify themselves" (Job 41:25). God uses most for His glory those people and things which are most perfectly broken. The sacrifices He accepts are broken and contrite hearts. It was the breaking down of Jacob's natural strength at Peniel that got him where God could clot... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Impressions
"The ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them" (Num. 10:33). God does give us impressions, but not that we should act on them as impressions. If the impression be from God, He will Himself give sufficient evidence to establish it beyond the possibility of a doubt. How beautiful is the story ... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Keep Praying
"Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are" (James 5:17). Thank God for that! He got under a juniper tree, as you and I have often done; he complained and murmured, as we have often done; was unbelieving, as we have often been. But that was not the case when he really got into touch with Go... Read More
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He Refines Them
"God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world" (Gal. 6:14). They were living to themselves; self with its hopes, and promises and dreams, still had hold of them; but the Lord began to fulfill their prayers. T... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Only Through Death
"Except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it remains a single grain, but if it dies away in the ground, the grain is freed to spring up in a plant bearing many grains" (John 12:24). Go to the old burying ground of Northampton, Mass., and look upon the early grave of David Brainerd, besi... Read More
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Mind The Checks
"And after the earthquake a fire; and after the fire a sound of gentle stillness" (1 Kings 19:12, RV margin.) A soul, who made rapid progress in her understanding of the Lord, was once asked the secret of her easy advancement. She replied tersely, "Mind the checks." And the reason that many of us do... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Do It Now!
"A cup of cold water only" (Matt. 10:42). What am I to do? I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good work, therefore, any kindness, or any service I can render to any soul of man or animal let me do it now. Let me not neglect or defer it, for I shall not pass this way again. --An Old Qu... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Fight the Good Fight
"The last drops of my sacrifice are falling; my time to go has come. I have fought in the good fight; I have kept the faith" (2 Tim. 4:6, 7). As soldiers show their scars and talk of battles when they come at last to spend their old age in the country at home, so shall we in the dear land to which w... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
God Knows
"He knoweth the way that I take" (Job 23:10). Believer! What a glorious assurance! This way of thine--this, it may be, a crooked, mysterious, tangled way--this way of trial and tears. "He knoweth it." The furnace seven times heated--He lighted it. There is an Almighty Guide knowing and directing our... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
By Death We Live
"As dying and behold we live" (2 Cor. 6:9). I had a bed of asters last summer, that reached clear across my garden in the country. Oh, how gaily they bloomed. They were planted late. On the sides were yet fresh blossoming flowers, while the tops had gone to seed. Early frosts came, and I found one d... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Comfort in the Depths
"Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee. . .who passing through the valley of weeping, make it a well" (Ps. 84:5, 6). Comfort does not come to the light-hearted and merry. We must go down into "depths" if we would experience this most precious of God's gifts--comfort, and thus be prepared to b... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Open My Eyes
"Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see" (2 Kings 6:17). This is the prayer we need to pray for ourselves and for one another, "Lord, open our eyes that we may see"; for the world all around us, as well as around the prophet, is full of God's horses and chariots, ... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Keep Trusting
"We trusted" (Luke 24:21). I have always felt so sorry that in that walk to Emmaus the disciples had not said to Jesus, "We still trust"; instead of "We trusted." That is so sad--something that is all over. If they had only said, "Everything is against our hope; it looks as if our trust was vain, bu... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
He Remains
"Thou remainest" (Heb. 1:11). There are always lone hearth-fires; so many! And those who sit beside them, with the empty chair, cannot restrain the tears that will come. One sits alone so much. There is some One unseen, just here within reach. But somehow we don't realize His presence. Realizing is ... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
In Everything
"In nothing be anxious" (Phil. 4:6). No anxiety ought to be found in a believer. Great, many and varied may be our trials, our afflictions, our difficulties, and yet there should be no anxiety under any circumstances, because we have a Father in Heaven who is almighty, who loves His children as He l... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
God Meant It Unto Good
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God" (Rom. 8:28). How wide is this assertion of the Apostle Paul! He does not say, "We know that some things," or "most things," or "joyous things," but "ALL things." From the minutest to the most momentous; from the humblest even... Read More
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