Whispers of His Power – JULY 1

Hos. 6.3:  Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord:  His going forth is prepared as the morning.

Amos 4.12:  Prepare to meet thy God.

The LXX renders Hosea 6.3:  We shall find Him ready as the morning, ready to meet us and bless us as the sunrise is ready every morning to bless the world.

But before there could be dawn in this world of ours, tremendous things had to happen in space.  It was not a little thing to God to create a dawn.  And in the spiritual world tremendous things had to be, before our darkness could be enlightened by the Eternal Dawn. Calvary had to happen.

Calvary was God’s preparation for our Sunrise.

Is it much, then, that He should ask for preparation from us? Prepare to meet thy God, today and every day. Prepare to meet Him whom we shall find ‘ready as the morning’.

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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.