Sermons & Devotionals by Charles E. Cowman
Charles E. Cowman
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Charles E. Cowman
Alone With God
"And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day" (Gen. 32:24). Left alone! What different sensations those words conjure up to each of us. To some they spell loneliness and desolation, to others rest and quiet. To be left alone without God, would be too awf... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
An Hour In The Garden
"He went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when evening was come, he was there alone" (Matt. 14:23). The man Christ Jesus felt the need of perfect solitude--Himself alone, entirely by Himself, alone with Himself. We know how much intercourse with men draws us away from ourselves and exhausts our... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Appropriating Faith
"Arise . . . for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good; and are ye still? Be not slothful to go, and enter to possess the land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth" (Judges 18:9, 10). Arise! Then there is something defin... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
At Wit's End
"At their wit's end, they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out" (Ps. 107:27, 28). Are you standing at "Wit's End Corner," Christian, with troubled brow? Are you thinking of what is before you, And all you are bearing now? Does all the world seem against you, And you in the ba... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Attitude of Trust
"And it came to pass, before he had done speaking...and he said, Blessed be Jehovah...who hath not forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth" (Gen. 24:15, 27). Every right prayer is answered before the prayer itself is finished--before we have "done speaking." This is because God has pledged His Wor... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Badge of Christ
"...bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments...and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue...that ye may took upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord" (Num. 15:38-39). God would have all His people wear a badge. They were to make the... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Be Definite in Prayer
"And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: Deliver me, I pray thee" (Gen. 32:9, 11). There are many healthy symptoms in that prayer. In some respects it may serve... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Be Still
"And the Lord appeared unto Isaac the same night" (Gen. 26:24). "Appeared the same night," the night on which he went to Beer-sheba. Do you think this revelation was an accident? Do you think the time of it was an accident? Do you think it could have happened on any other night as well as this? If s... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Be Strong
"Quit you like men, be strong" (1 Cor. 16:13). Do not pray for easy lives! Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle. --Phillips Brooks. We must remember that i... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Like the Cedars of Lebanon
"What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter" (John 13:7). We have only a partial view here of God's dealings, His half-completed, half-developed plan; but all will stand out in fair and graceful proportions in the great finished Temple of Eternity! Go, in the reign of Israel's gre... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Cast Down
"Why art thou cast down, O my soul" (Ps. 43:5). Is there ever any ground to be cast down? There are two reasons, but only two. If we are as yet unconverted, we have ground to be cast down; or if we have been converted and live in sin, then we are rightly cast down. But except for these two things th... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
New Year
"The land whither ye go to possess it is a land of hills and valleys and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: a land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year" (Deut. 11:11-12). Today dear friends, we sta... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Dare to Be Alone
"Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me" (John 16:32). It need not be said that to carry out conviction into action is a costly sacrifice. It may make necessary renunciations and separations which leave one to feel a strange sense both of deprivation and loneliness. But he who will fly, a... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
God's Timing
"And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush...saying...I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will s... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Hiding Place
"Hide thyself by the brook Cherith" (1 Kings 17:3). God's servants must be taught the value of the hidden life. The man who is to take a high place before his fellows must take a low place before his God. We must not be surprised if sometimes our Father says: "There, child, thou hast had enough of t... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Fret Not Over Evil-doers
"Fret not thyself" (Ps. 37:1). Do not get into a perilous heat about things. If ever heat were justified, it was surely justified in the circumstances outlined in the Psalm. Evil-doers were moving about clothed in purple and fine linen, and faring sumptuously every day. "Workers of iniquity" were cl... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Earth's Broken Things
"Fear not, thou worm Jacob...I will make thee a threshing instrument with teeth" (Isa. 41:14-15). Could any two things be in greater contrast than a worm and an instrument with teeth? The worm is delicate, bruised by a stone, crushed beneath the passing wheel; an instrument with teeth can break and ... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Into the Deep
"Launch out into the deep" (Luke 5:4). How deep He does not say. The depth into which we launch will depend upon how perfectly we have given up the shore, and the greatness of our need, and the apprehension of our possibilities. The fish were to be found in the deep, not in the shallow water. So wit... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Dealing With the Past
"Believe ye that I am able to do this?" (Matt. 9:28). God deals with impossibilities. It is never too late for Him to do so, when the impossible is brought to Him, in full faith, by the one in whose life and circumstances the impossible must be accomplished if God is to be glorified. If in our own l... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
Cast Your Burdens Upon God
"Look from the top" (Song of Solomon 4:8). Crushing weights give the Christian wings. It seems like a contradiction in terms, but it is a blessed truth. David out of some bitter experience cried: "Oh, that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest" (Ps. 55:6). But before he fini... Read More
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