Whispers of His Power – APRIL 4
Ps. 116.15-17: Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. O Lord, truly I am Thy servant… Thou hast loosed my bonds. I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving.
Sometimes even Christians write of death in a sad way. We regret to announce’, they say. The Salvation Army are right in the way they put it, ‘Promoted to Glory’.
Just after ‘Precious in the sight of the Lord’ comes ‘Thou hast loosed my bonds’. Think what a loosening that loosening is! No wonder the next words are, ‘I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving’.
But those words first refer to the loosening of all bonds of sin. If anyone is conscious of any such bond, ask for it to be loosened now. Live as God’s loosed ones.
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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.
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