Whispers of His Power – NOVEMBER 4
Ps. 139.23 (BCP): Try me, O God, and seek the ground of my heart: prove me, and examine my thoughts.
Ps. 104.34: My meditation of Him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord.
If we ask God to search the ground of our hearts, where we sow the seed of our thoughts, He will answer that prayer. He will purify the ground and give us good seed to sow there. So we shall come to that wonderful prayer, ‘Let my meditation be sweet to Him’ (LXX).
We could never have dreamt of such a prayer ourselves. Our thoughts, sweet to our Lord! It can only be because He has first given the thoughts. We could not find them for ourselves, any more than we could make the seeds that we sow in our gardens.
There is another joy folded up in those words. Such seed must have sweet fruit, and this fruit is ours to give to others.
So let us be careful about our thinking. ‘It doesn’t matter what I think’ is a fatal word. It does matter.
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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.
