Whispers of His Power – FEBRUARY 2

John 3.16: God so loved, that He gave.

God so loved, that He gave.  How much do you love?  Do you love enough to give – this?  To each of us there is a different ‘this’, but the question is the same and there can only be one answer, ‘Let Him take all’.

We may be put off from the joy of giving by the thought of the smallness of what we have to offer.  But our Lord does not think anything love can give is too small to take.  There is nothing small to God;  even our little ‘this’ matters to Him.  When by His loving enabling we look up to Him and say, ‘Take all – take this’, then He comes near and makes peace in our borders and fills us with the finest of the wheat (Ps. 147.14). The very Bread of Life empowers us once again.

So now today let us so love that we give.

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These words are from ’Whispers of His Power’ a collection of writings that Amy Carmichael wrote for her ‘children’ and others associated with the Dohnavur Fellowship and are Copyright © The Dohnavur Fellowship 1982

Unless otherwise stated, biblical quotations are from the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.

The following abbreviations are used to refer to other versions and sources:

BCP:               Book of Common Prayer, the Great Bible of Coverdale

Conybeare:       W. J. Conybeare, The Epistles of Paul (a translation)

Delitzsch:        F. Delitzsch, Notes on Job and the Psalms

Kay:                W. Kay, The Psalms (a translation)

LXX:              The Septuagint

Moffatt:           J. Moffatt, The New Testament: a new translation

Rotherham:      J. B. Rotherham, The Emphasized Bible Revised Version

RV:                 Revised Version

Way:              A. Way, The Letters of St Paul (a translation)

Westcott:        F. Westcott, Notes on the Gospel of St John

Weymouth:      R. F. Weymouth, The New Testament in Modern Speech

Young:            R. Young, A Literal Translation of the Bible

Verses of poetry without quotation marks were written by Amy Carmichael.