Whispers of His Power – JULY 8

Heb. 12.29:  Our God is a consuming fire.

Isa. 1.25: 1 will turn My hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin.

Matt. 3.12:  He will thoroughly purge His floor, and gather His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

More and more we learn to fear and hate our dross.  We do not want our husks.  We want to be pure gold, pure grain.  Thank God that His fire is unquenchable.

Deuteronomy 33.2, 3 tells us From His right hand went a fiery law for them. Yea, He loved the people. And Rotherham translates Song of Solomon 8.6-7, Love is strong as death.  The flames thereof are flames of fire – the flash of Jehovah.  Many waters cannot drown love.

Love like that will not fail.  It is equal to all it will cost Him to purge and purify even such as we are.  Our God is a consuming Fire – consuming Love.

O Lord our God, To Thee is known 

Our inmost heart’s desire;

Thy love is fire, Thy love alone;

O bathe our souls in fire.

oooOOOooo

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.