Whispers of His Power – JULY 22

Col. 1.11:  Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.

Sometimes nothing helps us more than to read and re-read some great word of our God’s.  We can renew our strength by reading it not just in one version, but in many.  Each yields some new emphasis, some fresh light.

Colossians 1.11 is a fathomless word.  Ponder these different translations.

Moffatt:  ‘May His glorious might nerve you with full power to endure and to be patient cheerfully, whatever comes.’

Weymouth:  ‘Since His power is so glorious, may you be strengthened with strength of every kind, and be prepared for cheerfully enduring all things with patience and long-suffering.’

Way:  ‘I ask Him that with all His strength you may be strengthened, even to the measure of the might of His divine majesty, till you attain to all-enduring patience and forbearance, which exults under suffering.’

The devil will see to it that there is something to try the spirit today.  He always sharpens his fiery darts.  But he can do nothing against this shield.

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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.