Whispers of His Power –  MARCH 11

Matt. 7.9:  What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

Matt. 7.11:  If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him?

Ps. 114.7-8:  The God of Jacob; which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

Often our prayers are not answered according to our desires.  Our Lord said that no loving Father would give his child a stone when he asked for bread, but sometimes what we are given looks like a stone.

But what a stone it is!  It is a rock which our God turns into a pool, a flint that becomes a fountain.

If we seem to receive a stone when we pray today, let us rejoice, for we know the blessed secret of the rock and the flint.

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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.