Whispers of His Power – AUGUST 6

Isa. 43.20:  The beast of the field shall honour Me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen.

Isa. 48.21:  And they thirsted not when He led them through the deserts:  He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them:  He clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

Did you ever wake up in the morning feeling like an owl?  If any prefer the other reading, ostrich (Isa. 43.20 margin) it comes to the same in the end.  The ostrich is not, in Scripture, an illustration of intelligence. (Job 39.13-17 settles that.)  But it is these very birds that ‘honour Me because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert’.

There are days when every ostrich and owl among us will have the chance to do that, for there are bound to be dry, desert days.  Don’t let us miss the chance.  There will be no dryness in the Country whither we are hastening.  Here, only here, is the opportunity to drink of the waters in the wilderness and to lead others to the rivers.  

Let us witness to the truth of such words as Isa. 51.3:  For the Lord shall comfort Zion:  He will comfort all her waste places;  and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord;  joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

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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.