Whispers of His Power –  MARCH 25

Ps. 106.9:  So He led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

‘Led’ means there ’caused to go on’.  We all want to go on, not through the shallows but through the depths of prayer. The ‘burro’ or wild donkey of the Mexican deserts digs and digs in the sand until it finds water.  It invariably does.  What our wonderful God can do for His donkeys in the natural world He can do for those of us who are just that in the spiritual.

I have found that to let oneself wander far at other times is what most surely leads to wandering thoughts in prayer.  Instead let us allow all sorts of things to act as reminders, as calls to prayer.  For example, once when held up by traffic on the road the friend with me talked of someone who was lonely;  thereafter, to be held up on the roads reminded me to pray for the lonely of the earth.

Then there is the flash of memory.  A name, place, person, or something seen or heard or read flashes for one second across the mind.  It can be lost or turned to prayer;  the choice is with us.

As we go on practising prayer in this simple way we can trust that He who caused His people to go through the depths as through an open wilderness will cause us also to go through these deeper places of prayer.  The patient Spirit will help us in our weakness, for though we do not know how to pray as we ought He Himself prays for us (Rom. 8.26).

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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.