Whispers of His Power – JULY 12

1 Cor. 13.5:  [Love] thinketh no evil.

Ps. 15.3:  Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

If all of us, by the grace of God, lived in the spirit of these two verses it would set free an immense amount of time and strength for the Things of the Father, that Business for which alone we Christians are in the world.  Think of the time that would be set free for prayer for those who do not know Him, if we had not to spend so much on those who do.  Think of the strength we have to expend in sorting out wrong relationships, which could be given instead to the War of the Lord.

It should be simply impossible for us to think unkindly of anyone.  Satan will always see to it that there are people ready to sow seeds of suspicion.  Let us refuse to receive them.  Let us not endure them for a moment.  Let us not imagine evil in our heart, but always put the best and most loving construction on everything.  Unkindness in our thought life is one of the things that God hates. Beloved, let us love (1 John 4.7).

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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.