Whisper Revival, Part 1

The Whisper Revival

0:00 Speaker 1: The following is from the book Whisper Revival by Timothy Williams.

0:05 Speaker 1: The book Whisper Revival examines today's reality that if a religious event can be promoted as revival then it is not of God.

0:15 Speaker 1: We live in a time period of marketed, advertised and manipulated Christian events.

0:22 Speaker 1: Thus, to spot true revival, we must look for a whisper revival, as 1 Chronicles, 12, verse 32 instructs.

0:32 Speaker 1: We are to be wise like the men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do.

0:39 Speaker 1: The Consider Podcast Examining today's wisdom, folly and madness, wwwconsiderinfo.

0:49 Speaker 1: The following is from the book Whisper Revival by Timothy Williams.

0:59 Speaker 1: The book Whisper Revival examines today's reality that if a religious event can be promoted as revival, then it is not of God.

1:10 Speaker 1: We live in a time period of marketed, advertised and manipulated Christian events.

1:16 Speaker 1: Thus, to spot true revival, we must look for a whisper revival, as 1 Chronicles, 12, verse 32 instructs.

1:26 Speaker 1: We are to be wise like the men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do.

1:34 Speaker 1: The Consider Podcast examining today's wisdom, folly and madness.

1:40 Speaker 1: Wwwconsiderinfo.

1:44 Speaker 1: Introduction you hypocrites.

1:52 Speaker 1: Jesus exclaimed because the people did not understand the time in which they lived.

1:58 Speaker 1: God uniquely designed every generation before the world began.

2:04 Speaker 1: Uniquely designed every generation before the world began.

2:08 Speaker 1: Each time period in history poses its own problems and holds its own promises.

2:11 Speaker 1: God did this so that each generation will cry out to him rather than make the repeat of history their God.

2:18 Speaker 1: Indeed, as you read the New Testament, notice how Jesus healed the same illnesses but used different methods.

2:27 Speaker 1: God works differently in each generation, so we will look to Him.

2:32 Speaker 1: So too, we must understand the time period in which we live so that we are not taken in by false doctrine.

2:42 Speaker 1: This book is about understanding God's last call to revival before all of hell breaks loose.

2:48 Speaker 1: And he was also saying to the crowds when you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say a shower is coming, and so it turns out.

3:00 Speaker 1: And when you see a south wind blowing, you say it will be a hot day, and it turns out that way.

3:08 Speaker 1: You hypocrites, you know how to analyze the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why do you not analyze this present time?

3:18 Speaker 1: Luke 12, verses 54 to 56.

3:22 Speaker 1: We cannot gain the blessing of revival unless we realize how Jesus wants to come to each of us.

3:32 Speaker 1: Failure to realize what will bring us peace today ensures the destruction of our religious world.

3:39 Speaker 1: Our Jerusalem will be torn down, brick by brick.

3:45 Speaker 1: When he approached Jerusalem, he saw the city and wept over it, saying If you had known, in this day, even you, the things which make for peace.

3:57 Speaker 1: But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

4:01 Speaker 1: For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you and surround you and hem you in on every side and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another because you did not recognize the time of your visitation Luke 19, verses 41 to 44.

4:27 Speaker 1: Because the people failed to recognize the time of their visitation from God and how God wanted to work peace in them, they found their religious world totally destroyed.

4:42 Speaker 1: The church today talks a lot about revival, but with little understanding of the time in which we live and how God desires to offer revival.

4:52 Speaker 1: For 25 years, god has closed my mouth, hemmed me in and refused me opportunity to speak of such things.

5:02 Speaker 1: Certainly, I had a lot of sin and self in my life that needed to be cleansed first, but this also gave me time to observe the different waves of revival throughout the land.

5:15 Speaker 1: Over the years, god has led my wife and me back and forth across the United States, watching, praying and letting God work His wisdom about the church today.

5:28 Speaker 1: We did not understand at the time that the purpose of those trips would lead to this book.

5:35 Speaker 1: Whisper Revival uses the shadow of the Old Testament so that we might appreciate the light of God in our time.

5:43 Speaker 1: We can do this because the same rock we have was with God's people then.

5:48 Speaker 1: Many times in this book you will find a mixture of present-day terms used in conjunction with Old Testament ideas.

5:58 Speaker 1: We shall bring out both old and new treasures so that we might be rich in the Lord.

6:04 Speaker 1: And Jesus said to them Therefore, every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household who brings out of his treasure things new and old.

6:20 Speaker 1: Matthew 13, verse 52.

6:23 Speaker 1: Old Matthew 13, verse 52.

6:31 Speaker 1: God longs to bring his people peace and revival in this age.

6:32 Speaker 1: Such refreshment, however, can only be obtained if we let God come to us on his terms.

6:36 Speaker 1: If you feel weary of the noisy, false revivals, then praise God, for Jesus comes to you with his chosen cross for you to make you lie down in green pastures.

6:50 Speaker 1: He will crucify your restless flesh so that you can drink deep from the reviving quiet waters.

6:58 Speaker 1: He makes me lie down in green pastures.

7:01 Speaker 1: He leads me beside quiet waters.

7:04 Speaker 1: Psalm 23, verse 2.

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7:12 Speaker 1: The Whisper Revival.

7:14 Speaker 1: If you want revival, true revival in your life, there is hope.

7:21 Speaker 1: A whisper revival is possible.

7:24 Speaker 1: You will have to become very quiet to experience and hold on to it.

7:29 Speaker 1: If you want the Holy Spirit to work this revival in you, then quietly surrender all to God in simple humility.

7:38 Speaker 1: You must not look for revival in large groups, but in each individual, and you must know the one thing to look for that shows true revival.

7:49 Speaker 1: True revival will not be advertised.

7:52 Speaker 1: True revival will not be advertised, promoted or shouted.

7:58 Speaker 1: It will not come with or because of grand works, loud prayers and zealous applications of rules and principles.

8:02 Speaker 1: The very minute you do that, the Holy Spirit will stop the work.

8:07 Speaker 1: It is the quiet waters God wants to lead us to.

8:12 Speaker 1: Don't fight the Lord as he tries to lead you to the quiet waters where you might be honestly revived.

8:20 Speaker 1: He makes me lie down in green pastures.

8:23 Speaker 1: He leads me beside quiet waters.

8:26 Speaker 1: Psalm 23, verse 2.

8:30 Speaker 1: A quiet revival shatters, blesses and changes one's whole life, but it begins and ends with a whisper.

8:38 Speaker 1: The whisper will totally lay bare all of your church worship, your good deeds and Christian walk.

8:45 Speaker 1: This same kind of revival took place in the Book of Kings.

8:50 Speaker 1: Though you think yourself an Elijah, book of Kings, though you think yourself an Elijah, you too will still hide your face.

8:56 Speaker 1: Even if your ministry is known as one of those tough talking ministries, you will discover you have left out the nails that come with the cross.

9:07 Speaker 1: For after the fire of Pentecost, at the start of the new church, comes the gentle whisper.

9:14 Speaker 1: The Lord said Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.

9:29 Speaker 1: Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind.

9:33 Speaker 1: After the wind, there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

9:38 Speaker 1: After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire.

9:43 Speaker 1: And after the fire came a gentle whisper.

9:46 Speaker 1: When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.

9:57 Speaker 1: Then a voice said to him what are you doing here?

10:03 Speaker 1: Elijah, 1 Kings 19, verses 11 to 13.

10:04 Speaker 1: For too long, the church has deluded itself into thinking it stands on holy ground.

10:09 Speaker 1: Everything around us is so wicked it is easy to look holy in Sodom or compared to Jezebel.

10:18 Speaker 1: Like Elijah, people in the church look for God in earthquakes, fire, wind and the shattering of rocks.

10:25 Speaker 1: They believe themselves to be the only ones not defiled, because they cannot see the hidden servants of God.

10:35 Speaker 1: Like Elijah, they stay too busy looking at the loud and flashy things in the church to notice the 7,000 that have not bowed to self.

10:43 Speaker 1: Like Elijah, they think they are so correct, so on fire in the Lord, that they do not realize they stand where they should not be.

10:54 Speaker 1: They are blind to the fact that they too have fallen prey to the loud works and strivings of the flesh.

11:03 Speaker 1: Like Elijah, god asks the church of today how it got where it is at.

11:09 Speaker 1: In other words, what are you doing here?

11:12 Speaker 1: If you want your eyes opened to see those hidden in God, then you must listen for the whisper of God.

11:21 Speaker 1: If you want to fellowship with true followers of God in our time, then you must sit down and become quiet with them as they worship the Lord, with them as they worship the Lord, for this whisper revival brings quiet and sober worship.

11:37 Speaker 1: No-transcript Our time period.

11:48 Speaker 1: It takes wisdom to understand the making of a whisper revival, wisdom about the times we live in.

11:57 Speaker 1: We must become men who know what Israel should do from understanding the times in which we live, men of Issachar who understood the times and knew what Israel should do two hundred chiefs with all their relatives under their command.

12:18 Speaker 1: 1 Chronicles 12, verse 32.

12:21 Speaker 1: We cannot change the times we live in, but we can understand them by God's grace.

12:28 Speaker 1: We cannot force God to do anything, but we can understand what God will do in our time.

12:37 Speaker 1: So many people want revival and seek with great zeal to achieve it.

12:42 Speaker 1: The hunger for revival is so great that men will claim anything as revival.

12:47 Speaker 1: Year after year, something new comes along that the church places the stamp of revival on.

12:54 Speaker 1: Churches use the term revival to increase attendance and ministries use it to promote their agendas.

13:01 Speaker 1: Indeed, the great contest between men today is who can top the other Christian with tales of victory and miracles.

13:11 Speaker 1: After all, when was the last time you heard someone share how the cross humbled him and took more of his life away?

13:18 Speaker 1: We are bored with stories of escapes in a basket.

13:23 Speaker 1: Everywhere today, men talk and hope for revival but refuse the only kind of revival that God offers in our time.

13:32 Speaker 1: How few people understand what Israel should do in order to receive revival and overcome sin.

13:40 Speaker 1: God warned us false revivals would take place in the last days.

13:45 Speaker 1: Not possible, not Possible.

13:50 Speaker 1: We must come to understand that, because of the times we live in, a large-scale, emotionally charged revival is not possible.

13:59 Speaker 1: We live in the last days when the love of most will grow cold.

14:04 Speaker 1: We live on the verge of total world breakdown and the coming of the Antichrist, and so the kind of revival that men look for is just not possible.

14:15 Speaker 1: Wickedness has increased in the church to such a degree that a fiery, wind-like, earth-shattering revival is not in God's will.

14:25 Speaker 1: Just look at the fruit of all the fiery revivals and self-promoted statements of revival with God's eyes and you will understand why.

14:36 Speaker 1: Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.

14:42 Speaker 1: But he who stands firm to the end will be saved Matthew 24, verses 12 to 13.

14:49 Speaker 1: Saved, matthew 24, verses 12 to 13.

14:57 Speaker 1: Indeed, god is about to let Satan loose on earth to break the church's power.

14:58 Speaker 1: Therefore, the style of revival everyone looks for is just not in God's plan, and the wise will understand.

The Quiet Revival

15:05 Speaker 1: If you understand the times in which we live, then you know that we cannot claim the following scripture If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

15:28 Speaker 1: 2 Chronicles 7, verse 14.

15:30 Speaker 1: If you hear any ministry, preacher or book claim this promise, then you know they do not speak by the power of the Holy Spirit.

15:40 Speaker 1: They prophesy their own desires, not God's will and plan.

15:45 Speaker 1: Indeed, they are unwise and have no clue about the times in which we live.

15:51 Speaker 1: For such a revival of the people and the land is not possible until Jesus returns.

16:00 Speaker 1: Hidden Servants, be sure of this.

16:03 Speaker 1: God hides those who belong to him.

16:07 Speaker 1: You cannot find them because you stay at the wrong place doing the wrong religious things.

16:13 Speaker 1: You are so noisy with your opinions, doctrines, works, dancing, music and activity that you can't see the sin that needs to be dealt with.

16:24 Speaker 1: You cannot fellowship with those whom God has reserved for himself because you remain so busy blessing yourself in the name of the Lord.

16:33 Speaker 1: Like Elijah, we feel so happy with our religious walk.

16:37 Speaker 1: We don't even bother to ask God who the 7,000 are that we might fellowship with them.

16:43 Speaker 1: We feel so self-satisfied and self-sufficient in the Lord that even when God shows our sin, like Elijah, we don't ask him to reveal his true believers.

16:56 Speaker 1: How many people contently sit at home because they think no church is worthy of them.

17:02 Speaker 1: They feel content and satisfied with themselves because they rebuke others.

17:07 Speaker 1: If we really understood the crucified life, we would beg God to show us who the 7,000 are, so that we might break bread with them, because those who walk this walk are very lonely, few and precious in the Lord.

17:24 Speaker 1: Such ministries and individuals are last in the church now but will be first in heaven.

17:30 Speaker 1: Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and all whose mouths have not kissed him.

17:41 Speaker 1: 1 Kings 19, verse 18.

17:44 Speaker 1: Every day one hears new tales of miraculous and noisy revivals, but the Lord does not reside in them.

17:55 Speaker 1: Stand before the Lord, be quiet, and you will know that the Lord is not in the current earthquake or fiery revival, nor is the Lord in the great and powerful wind that shatters the rocks.

18:09 Speaker 1: Understand the times.

18:12 Speaker 1: If a revival is newsworthy, it is not of God.

18:16 Speaker 1: If the revival can be promoted, merchandised, sold, announced and influenced, it is not of God.

18:25 Speaker 1: The only revival that God works right now is one that is a whisper.