Whispers of His Power – JANUARY 25

Heb. 10.36; Ye have need of patience.

There are times when great waves of trouble sweep over us, wave upon wave.  There are calm times when all goes peacefully, and then suddenly something distressing happens.  Satan seems to be having things all his own way.  Sometimes those whom we wholly trusted disappoint us terribly, and we are tempted to say, ‘Whom can I trust?’ 

But this is fatal.  There are many on whom we can count even in the worst times.  Let us never look only at the clouds and forget the blue in the sky.  There is far more blue than grey.

We are here because we are needed to fight through to victory.  We never asked for ease.  Well, this is not ease, so it is what we expected – not play, but war.  It is and always must be a fight of faith.  Hebrews 2.9 has a word for us: We see Jesus …CROWNED.  Nothing can touch that.  We follow an undefeated Lord.  Love won on Calvary.

But we have need of patience. Give us Thy patience, Lord.

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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.