Most people learn The Gospel According to You before they ever pick up a bible and read the Gospels According to Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. This message takes a look at the Gospel According to Amy Carmichael, and what we can learn from the way she lived her life.

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This boasting will do no good, but I must go on. I
will reluctantly tell about visions and revelations
from the Lord. I was caught up to the third heaven
fourteen years ago. Whether I was in my body or
out of my body, I don’t know — only God knows. Yes,
only God knows whether I was in my body or outside
my body. But I do know that I was caught up to
paradise and heard things so astounding that they
cannot be expressed in words, things no human is
allowed to tell.
2 Corinthians 12:1-4

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That experience is worth boasting about, but I’m not
going to do it. I will boast only about my weaknesses. If
I wanted to boast, I would be no fool in doing so,
because I would be telling the truth. But I won’t do it,
because I don’t want anyone to give me credit beyond
what they can see in my life or hear in my message,
even though I have received such wonderful revelations
from God. So to keep me from becoming proud, I was
given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to
torment me and keep me from becoming proud.
2 Corinthians 12:5-7

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Three different times I begged the Lord to take it
away. Each time he said, “My grace is all you need.
My power works best in weakness.” So now I am
glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the
power of Christ can work through me. That’s why I
take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults,
hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer
for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:8-10

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He does not here distinguish between the different
heavens in the manner of the philosophers, so as
to assign to each planet its own heaven. On the
other hand, the number three is made use by way
of eminence, to denote what is highest and most
complete . . . the term heaven, taken by itself,
denotes here the blessed and glorious kingdom of
God, which is above all the spheres, and the
firmament itself, and even the entire framework of
the world.
- JOHN CALVIN

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He does not here distinguish between the different
heavens in the manner of the philosophers, so as
to assign to each planet its own heaven. On the
other hand, the number three is made use by way
of eminence, to denote what is highest and most
complete . . . the term heaven, taken by itself,
denotes here the blessed and glorious kingdom of
God, which is above all the spheres, and the
firmament itself, and even the entire framework of
the world.
- JOHN CALVIN

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. . . I was caught up to paradise and heard things so
astounding that they cannot be expressed in words,
things no human is allowed to tell. That experience is
worth boasting about, but I’m not going to do it. I will
boast only about my weaknesses. If I wanted to
boast, I would be no fool in doing so, because I would
be telling the truth. But I won’t do it, because I don’t
want anyone to give me credit beyond what they can
see in my life or hear in my message . . .
2 Corinthians 12:4-6

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Three different times I begged the Lord to take it
away. Each time he said, “My grace is all you need.
My power works best in weakness.” So now I am
glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the
power of Christ can work through me. That’s why I
take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults,
hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer
for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:8-10

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GOD’S POWER WORKS
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“If there be a God — please forgive me — When
I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven — there is
such convicting emptiness that those every
thoughts return like sharp knives and hurt my
very soul. I am told God loves me — and yet
the reality of darkness and coldness and
emptiness is so great . . . ”
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GOD’S POWER WORKS
BEST IN OUR “WHAT IFS”
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you
face trials of many kinds, because you know that
the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
Perseverance must finish its work so that you may
be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
JAMES 1:2-4

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GOD’S POWER WORKS
BEST IN OUR “WHAT IFS”
So to keep me from becoming proud, I was given
a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to
torment me and keep me from becoming proud.
2 Corinthians 12:7

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GOD’S POWER WORKS
BEST IN OUR “WHAT IFS”
You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for
good. He brought me to this position so I could save
the lives of many people.
genesis 50:20

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Three different times I begged the Lord to take it
away. Each time he said, “My grace is all you need.
My power works best in weakness.” So now I am
glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the
power of Christ can work through me.
2 Corinthians 12:8-10

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ONLY WITH JESUS DO OUR
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“The Bible is clear about this: God often does his
best work over long periods of time. In fact, the Bible
portrays God as one who often does his best work
over a few generations, not a few hours.”
- BRYAN JONES, SECOND GUESSING GOD