Whispers of His Power –  MARCH 17

Ps. 105.4:  Seek the Lord, and His strength:  seek His face evermore.

The first words of Psalm 105 are jubilant commands that, when all goes well with us, seem so gloriously easy to obey.  It would be hard to do anything else.  But the Spirit knew that there would be different hours, hours when the natural foundations of courage, hope, peace and joy would be quicksand under our feet.  And so He pauses, as it were, to remind us of our Strength, the Rock of our hearts. Seek His face.

Julian of Norwich wrote that when we reach heaven, ‘Then shall none of us be stirred to say:  Lord, if it had been thus, then it had been full well: but we shall all say with one voice:  Lord, blessed mayst Thou be, for it is thus: it is well.  Moreover He that shall be our bliss when we are there is our Keeper while we are here;  and the last word of revelation is the same as the first:  Thou shalt not be overcome.  He said not: Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be distressed; but He said: Thou shalt not be overcome.’

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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.