Streams in the Desert December 18 Daily Devotional

In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us (Rom. 8.37).
The Gospel is so arranged and the gift of God so great that you may
take the very enemies that fight you and the forces that are
arrayed against you and make them steps up to the very gates of heaven and into the presence of God.
Like the eagle, who sits on a crag and watches the sky as it is filling with blackness, and the forked lightnings are playing up and down, and he is sitting perfectly still, turning one eye and
then the other toward the storm. But he never moves until he begins to feel the burst of the breeze and knows that the hurricane has
struck him; with a scream, he swings his breast to the storm, and
uses the storm to go up to the sky; away he goes, borne upward upon it.
That is what God wants of every one of His children, to be more than conqueror, turning the storm-cloud into a chariot You know

when one army is more then conqueror it is likely to drive the other from the field, to get all the ammunition, the food and
supplies, and to take on of the whole. That is just what our text means. There are spoils to be taken!
Beloved, have you got them? When you went Into the terrible valley of suffering did you come out of it with spoils? When that injury
struck you and you thought everything was gone, did you so trust in God that you came out richer than you went in? To be more than
conqueror is to take the spoils from the enemy and appropriate them to yourself. What he had arranged for your overthrow, take and
appropriate for yourself.
When Dr. Moon, of Brighton, England, was stricken with blindness, he said: "Lord, I accept this talent of blindness from Thee. Help
me to use it for Thy glory that at Thy coming Thou mayest receive
Thine own with usury." Then God enabled him to invent the Moon
Alphabet for the blind, by which thousands of blind people were
enabled to read the Word of God, and many of them were gloriously saved. --Selected.
God did not take away Paul's thorn; He did better-He mastered that thorn, and made it Paul's servant. The ministry of thorns has often been a greater ministry to man than the ministry of thrones.
--Selected.