Whispers of His Power – JULY 13

Heb. 13.1:  Let brotherly love continue.

Heb. 13.20-21:  Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ.

There will be many things in our prayers today, but let us give five minutes for God to tell us what He thinks about kindness.  Will five minutes be enough?  We may find we need longer.

Now the God of peace make you perfect… to do His will.  Are we perfect in kindness?  Peter tells us, as though we need to be reminded of it, to add kindness to godliness (2 Pet. 1.7).  Paul writes, in Weymouth’s translation of Colossians 3.12, Clothe yourselves therefore, as God’s own people, holy and dearly loved, with tender-heartedness, kindness.  Here again holiness and kindness are set together.

Are we living according to this, the revealed desire of our God?  Do we want to please Him more perfectly by kindness’?  Then let us sweep away any thought of unkindness that may be lingering in any corner of our heart.

Let us ask Him, whose dearest name is Love, to fill our hearts so full of love today that kindness will flow out all the time, and never anything else.

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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.