Whispers of His Power – MAY 16

Ps. 18.2:  The Lord is my Rock, and my Fortress, and my Deliverer;  my God, my strength, in whom I will trust.

Isa.54.10:  For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed;  but My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.

The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; sometimes we forget that we have been told it will be so.  BUT My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee (Isa. 54.10).

Has His kindness ever departed from us?  Has the covenant of His peace been broken?  No, never for an hour.  Solomon said, There hath not failed one word of all His good promise (1 Kings 8.56).  We can say it too. Not one thing hath failed of all the good things which He spake concerning us; all are come to pass unto us, and not one thing hath failed thereof (Josh. 23.14). 

Is it not then sheer treason to fear anything of any sort?  ‘Nothing can come wrong to my Lord in His sweet working?  He takes away our mountains and hills, on whose strength we relied, so that He may the more become the Rock of our heart and our Fortress for ever.

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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.