Today, I want to share one of my favorite resources when you’re in a season of suffering.
I’m forever grateful to friends and family who shared books and resources with me. I had no idea what to expect in grieving or single parenting or helping kids navigate their own grief. I suddenly had a voracious need for books that could speak to our situation. I didn’t want candy-coated platitudes. I needed two things: the truth of God’s Word and the testimonies of others who had walked through suffering and could declare that God’s promises are true.
Enter Streams in the Desert. A dear friend gave me this book because it had been such comfort to her family in their own time of deep suffering. Isn’t that how it should work? To pass on to someone else the comfort that has so helped us?
Streams in the Desert is a 365-day devotional mix of prayers, Christian writings and promises from God. Every year, it continues to be one of the best-selling devotionals. I think this book speaks to so many because it was written from a place of suffering to the person walking through suffering. It’s chock-full of scripture, poems and application that provide solid hope and encouragement “in the barren wilderness” of need.
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Hi Lisa, I would like to win a copy of the book.
Thanks for the giveaway.
God Bless
I would love to read this book. Thank you for the giveaway chance.
I really love to read Stormie Omartian’s prayers when I am struggling. She has a way of praying the scriptures that is so helpful in difficult times.
Hi Lisa, I am currently felicitating a class study called ‘GriefShare at a Christian Women’s center in Owen County. Recently two ladies have started coming and they are both young women who have lost their spouses suddenly. This book would not only be helpful to me to encourage others but for them as well. Is there anyway this book is available other than here?
I have been encouraged by what you have shared this week and would love to open the book Streams in the Desert, it’s one I have not read before and it sounds like it would be helpful. Keep up your encouraging sharing, it makes a difference.
Love that through all you have been transparent and still are. It’s a great encouragement to us.
Thank you Lisa for Braving the Broken 31 day journey. We are broken people living in a broken world…BUT GOD is more than anything we face and His promises are for each one of us. I have never read Streams in the Desert, but see it referenced quite often in other studies. Would love to have a copy. {Many blessings to you and your family!}
Lisa, I am continually blessed by your post! Thank you for sharing your story and God’s faithfulness to you and your family. As I’m traveling this new journey of widowhood, the devotional book that has been such a comfort and resonates with my heart is, “A Widow’s Might, For the Love of HER Life.”
Look forward to your posts each day.
Good Morning Lisa, This too has been one of my favourite devotionals. I haven’t read it for a number of years now. Would love a new copy. Thank you.
I love Streams in the Desert. Written with faith that encourages us to press on, trust, and finish well. I already have a copy, so I do not need to be entered in the drawing. Thanks Lisa.
Would love this book!
I love this devotional. My husband and I just lost our first child when I was 27 weeks pregnant two months ago, and I had forgotten about this devotional.
Thank you so much for the reminder!
Carla
Include me in the drawing! Didn’t know the book was written by someone in a situation of suffering. Do you know the background story?
Someone annonously sent me a copy of a page of this book and it was such a huge blessing to me. I have wanted to have a copy of the entire book ever since! I would be so blessed to win!
I love having books like this to help during difficult times, would like to win this one
I turn to Jesus Calling by Sarah Young again and again for daily inspiration and comfort. However she wrote another daily devotional called Jesus Today at a really tough point in her life and I found that especially helpful during some of my hardest struggles.
I love to read Jesus Calling. Every day it offers me so much insight that is absolutely perfect for on that exact day. It’s actually incredible.
Hi Lisa! This is just the book I need after losing my father a few months ago. I also have a dear friend that I’d love to share it with who is going through her own personal suffering of a broken heart and home. Would love to win this!
What a lovely title…Streams in the Desert…
I would love to be entered for the giveaway.
Thank you,
Jennifer
I would like to win a copy of your book(to share)-people i know are hurting-suffering
Thank you for sharing your faith journey with those of us in need. You blog is a blessing to help trust God as we go through life.
Lisa- I’ve been enjoying your 31 Days Braving the Broken session. Loss is very hard no matter the circumstances. Thanks for posting the Streams in the Desert recommendation/giveaway! I hadn’t heard of it and it looks like a good one for comfort and hope. Thank you.
Hi Lisa!
This book has been recommended to me time and again and I have yet to read it! I would be thrilled to win a copy in your giveaway.
Blessings to you!
With my cancer diagnosis I have also turned to a stack of books on suffering. This is not one I had heard of so I will definitely explore it. I find that getting other people to accept reality is sometimes the hardest task.
I have been enjoying Voices from the Past a collection of Puritan writings.
Lisa; your post over these past few days have been a real blessing to me. Thank you so much for sharing your journey. I too; over the years have been drawn to reading more & I enjoy reading books that I can apply to my life. I have Jesus Today by Sarah Young that I bring to work but i also enjoy reading the Journey Devotional Magazine & the In Touch Magazine by Charles Stanley. I recently read Priscilla Shirer’s new book God is Able which was truly a blessing also. I would love to read Streams In the Desert & add it to my daily inspiration.
Thanks again & God Bless you & your family!
Leighanne
I’ve heard so many great things about this book, Lisa. Thank you for doing this! My “must read” list is growing larger by the day. 😉
I would love to have a copy of this.
Looking for any devotional books for my son and daughter in law, they lost their 6 month baby boy two weeks ago. The book sounds perfect
Hi Lisa, no coincidence I saw a pin for this series. HUGE blessing. Would love the book!
I am being blessed by your series thank you so much for all you do.
I’ve come to enjoy and rely on Jesus Calling, given to me by a good friend months ago during a very difficult time.
I’d love to add to it with your giveaway book. Thank you! 🙂
The book sounds wonderful! One that has really helped me over the past year since my husband died is Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief by Martha Whitmore Hickman.
Calm my anxious heart by Linda Dillow is a good read. I read it during a Bible study a couple of years back. It’s specifically for women. I would love to read Streams in the Desert!! Thanks Lisa!
I love reading “Streams in Desert”! I’ve found it very encouraging.
My mom always loved this book. She has an old, old copy and I’ve never even read it. For that reason I should probably not be included in the drawing, but I’m a couple peeps underneath you on the 31 Dayers and wanted to say hi! (Plus I’m a regular subscriber, I follow your story and have great admiration for your strength. I’ve passed your name on to a friend of mine who lost her husband last year. She has twin 15 year old boys and an 8 yo son.)
Blessings to you!
I found you on the Write31Day facebook and am enjoying your series:) Thank you for sharing it with us!
Nicole
This is a great devotional with beautiful words to lift us up.
I’d like to give my friend a copy to encourage her in her daily life.
I’m so glad that I found your blog and I would love a copy of this book!
Lisa, I have a very old copy of Streams in the Desert that I absolutely cherish. I’m not surprised you found it comforting … it’s wonderful!
I’d love to win this devotional! ☺️
Thanks for introducing me to this devotional. It sounds like it’s exactly what I need right now. Thank you for the giveaway, too!
Healed And Set Free by Tami Brown is on my list, but this one sounds good too 🙂
Thanks for the give away.I would love to win this book.
I will take any book that can help me lift myself out of this place.
Would love to win a copy of this in my new journey to follow Christ.
🙂 Big Smiles! Springs in the Desert was PWOC’s mantra the past year! LOL! I live in the desert! I love for aqua ducts of love & blessings to overshadow the regular stuff that everyday life burdens us! I know this is so much later than the dates that it shows…Much of Jesus’s love to you! Keep the word ALIVE!!!