Whispers of His Power – MAY 11

John 11.21-22:  Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.  But I know, that even now, whatsoever Thou wilt ask of God, God will give it Thee.

Martha said, ‘But I know that even now..’  Westcott’s note on this is, ‘Faith reaches forth to that which it does not grasp’.  ‘Even now’ – the utter abandon of faith that accepts what it has not received.

This is triumphant faith.  It is so easy to have faith for what we have good reason to hope for.  It is not so easy when we do not receive what we expected.

But we have our Lord’s own ‘Even so’ to help us (Matt. 11.26):  Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in Thy sight.  It is the ‘Yes, Father’, of the unoffended, the ‘Even so, Father’ which accepts all mysteries.

Lord, evermore give us this faith.

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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.