Whispers of His Power – JANUARY 20

Rom. 12.10: In honour preferring one another.

Preferring – this word means ‘to lead before’.  To prefer another in honour is to lead another before oneself – to be glad that another can do what one cannot do oneself.  It is a word that goes very deep.  It cuts straight across the self, the flesh, the ‘I’ (all three are one really).  It asks for something which we cannot do of ourselves.  It casts us upon the Strong for strength and the Pure for purity of desire and the great love of God for love.

We shall have opportunities today to say to the ’I’ in us, ‘In the Name of the Lord go back’, as in our inward heart and soul we lead another before.  Let us refuse to listen to the ‘I’ that clamours within us as we set another before ourself.  The Lord help us to live in honour preferring one another.

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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.