Whispers of His Power – JUNE 13

John 17.20:  Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word.

There is always attack upon prayer.  How little we know of victory in that field.  There is comfort for us in a sentence in the Communion Service:  Not weighing our merits but pardoning our offences.’  There is still stronger comfort in the loving words of our Lord Jesus:  Neither pray I for these alone.  We begin our times of prayer as His pardoned and prayed-for ones, made nigh by the blood of Christ as Ephesians 2.13 tells us.

Sometimes, through illness or other causes, we find it hard to put our prayers into words.  If prayer of the sort we long for is impossible, try giving up trying, and instead just let the Psalms or other great Scriptures turn themselves into prayers.  ‘An inspired prayer implies an answer.’

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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.