Whispers of His Power – OCTOBER 4

2 Cor. 6.4-7 (Way):  In all respects I try to prove the validity of my claim to be a steward of God’s bounty – In many-sided endurance – amid afflictions, sore straits and privations, amid scourgings, prison-cells and riots, amid toils, night-vigils, and fastings:  in purity, in spiritual illumination, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirits presence, in love unfeigned, in uttering the Message of Truth, in using the might of God.

Dr Way’s translation of the words ‘by the power of God’ is ‘in using the might of God’.  If only we use the might of God, as the salt was used by Elisha (2 Kings 2.21), the water will be sweetened.  It must be so.

Today the temptation will come to be impatient, or unpeaceful.  The might of God is ready for our use.  A look to Him brings it.  We have His sure word (Isa. 26.3), Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee.  To stand on that word is to use the might of God, for there is power in the word of God to effect what it says shall be.

Salt stings a wound, and if there is anything in us that is wrong, the word that He will bring to mind will sting before it heals.  But if we are willing for that, the healing is sure.  So let us use the might of God, and then all the influences that flow out from us will help others.

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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.