The Whispers of God | Jentezen Franklin

foreign [Music] welcome to a very special edition of Kingdom connection I'm coming to you from the Sea of Galilee behind me is where Jesus taught on the Hills behind me the Beatitudes and just a little bit down in the few moments in the picture as we Cruise along the shoreline here you'll see the city of Capernaum where he performed many mighty Miracles where he healed the woman with the issue of blood where he taught powerful lessons in the synagogue and I believe today the message that I'm going to share with you is a word in season I want to talk to you today about how you can discern The Whispers of God the power of one whisper from God can change your life there were people in the scriptures who heard the whisper of God and you may not understand what I'm talking about but stay with me for a few moments because I believe you're going to hear that voice that so many did in the scriptures he said in John 10 that he desires to communicate and talk to us that God is still speaking he's still speaking and giving directions to his people some of you need to know God's direction God's will you're at an intersection you don't know which way to go in your business or in your life maybe you're single and you're searching for that right person there's a whisper that can come to you from God that can direct your path in remarkable astonishing ways and I'm going to prove it to you in the scriptures God seldom yells at us but what he does is he sends that gentle whisper that voice that Rings true down on the inside that says this is my will this is my direction for your life and I was thinking about the story in first Samuel chapter 3. of how that there was a man by the name of Eli the high priest he was in the temple and the scripture said that there was a young lad there young boy by the name of Samuel and every night the voice of God would call out to him Samuel Samuel was the Whisperer of God Samuel I'm calling you Samuel I have a purpose for your life did you know that even our children can hear the Whisper Of God even teenagers they don't have to wait till they're 20 or 30 to find God's will plan and Direction and calling for their life and here's Eli in the temple and he hears in that Temple boy I want our young people I want our children to hear the voice of God the calling voice of God I want to I want God to give them Samuel ears for this generation to hear God calling them and why he put them here what is their purpose the text said when God called out Samuel Samuel that he would get up and he would go into the high priest Eli and wake him up and say did you call me and Eli said I didn't call you and this happened three times three times Samuel woke up in the night and he kept going to Eli the high priest saying I heard a voice calling me was it you and finally the the old priest said to him it's the voice of God and the next time that you hear that whisper saying your name you say these words Samuel you say Speak Lord thy servant heareth and sure enough God one more time speaks and calls him by his name it's that gentle whisper Samuel Samuel and he said Speak Lord thy servant hears and you know the rest of the story he became perhaps the greatest Old Testament prophet in all of the scripture so powerful was what God communicated to him so powerful was his ability to hear God's voice that the Bible uses this term not one of his words fell to the ground in other words he had such an open line of communication that when God would whisper to him Direction and he would speak it God would say not one word will fall to the ground I'll back it up all of heaven will back it up I Believe In The Whispers of God I believe in how powerful they are in our lives I know for me the first time that I encountered The Whisper of God in a magnificent and significant way was when I was 20 years old I had given my heart to the Lord and I had surrendered my life but I was in my second year of college and I loved music and I thought I was going to do music for for the rest of my life and be a musician and that was my plan but One Summer uh that second summer when I was home from school I felt the Lord just impressed me to seek him for three days of fasting and I fasted for three days and on the third day of that fast there came a Whisper Of God he didn't write it in graffiti I didn't hear an audible voice I didn't see an angel but I'm telling you I can take you to the spot in North Carolina where I heard the gentle Whisper of God and he said I've called you to preach I've called you to go in my name and I'll go with you and I'll use you and I'll I'll use you to preach and win souls for me and that that one whisper now listen to me carefully when God Whispers something to you there are many people many people who need you to hear the whisper of God and need you to act on The Whisper Of God that one whisper that summer changed the whole direction of my life I announced to my family and people who knew me God had called me to preach and that summer I started to preach my first sermon and I thought I would go back to school in the fall but I never stopped I've never stopped to this day preaching the gospel it all came because one whisper from God he's got Whispers for you he has a whisper concerning his will for your life the season that you're in I remember a second major Whisper Of God that I heard in my life as I was 25 years old I'd been evangelizing with my brother for many years and we'd preached all over the nation and he got married and I was single and I started traveling and was a single evangelist and I was 25. and I remember that I went to North Georgia to preach and I saw a beautiful girl by the name of Charisse and I just over time just dated her a few times but there came that moment in my life where I knew God just whispered to me marry her and he didn't have to scream that one because she's so beautiful the greatest thing that ever happened to me I don't know what I would be in the ministry today if anything without my dear wife Charisse she's amazing amazing woman God gave me the her full of wisp he said marry her I remember there was some a minister who called me and tried to tell me that wasn't the right move and that I was missing God's will but you know when God Whispers to you it doesn't matter what other people say you just have a no that I know that I know and I knew she was the one and she was the one God has a whisper for some of you some of you are listening to me today and you know you're single or you've been through a divorce or you've been through a busted relationship and you're heartbroken but God has that whisper and he knows how to whisper to the other he's a Matchmaker he knows how to whisper to that other person and bring you together pray about it and say God give me Samuel ears that when you're Whispering I want to hear it I wanna I wanna fresh new whisper from God this year I tell you he has plans he has directions he has a will for your life I thought about after I met Charisse and you know a lot of people are counting on you hearing the whisper of God and not too long after that because Charisse was connected to a little church called Free Chapel I went and preached and the pastor there was a man by the name of Roy Welborn and he asked me to come to make a long story short I was there and at his invitation and he passed away the week that he invited me nine months before that very week that he invited me to come preach nine months in advance he passed away and they asked me to preach on the Sunday morning when their Pastor was going to have his funeral in the afternoon and I went into that church in Gainesville Georgia at free chapel and I preached a brand new message I'd never preached before that I knew God had given me for that grieving congregation that had lost their Pastor for many many decades and I'll never forget it as long as I live as as I finish that message and then they had the funeral service after the Sunday morning service I walked out of the pulpit and I heard these words they are sheep without a Shepherd it was as clear not in an audible voice but it was a whisper a strong impression when when God Whispers to you you don't have to you don't there's no arguing you just know that he's speaking and I heard him say there's that's all he said they're sheep without a shepherd and it was almost like in that I heard him saying will you Pastor this people and it wasn't long after that that they called me and asked me to be their pastor and I didn't think about this but behind the camera that we've got several camera people and one of the camera people with me on this trip is his last name is Welborn it's Daniel welberg he's the grandson of Roy Wilburn the pastor that I followed at Free Chapel all of that here he is in the ministry standing on a boat filming on the Sea of Galilee all of that depended upon a whisper a whisper oh Hallelujah God has a plan God has a plan Whispers almost feel Reckless sometimes they almost feel like you know it takes Faith it's one thing to hear it then you have to move I had to leave my denomination when I heard that that whisper I had to give up all my security I was like uh Elijah Elisha when Elijah came walking by the Bible said he broke the plows he had been a farmer all of his life and he broke compiles he said I'm never coming back to this I'm going in this direction I've heard a whisper from God it's a powerful thing when God Whispers to you and I was thinking about how that so many times we need that proceeding word of God Jesus said man shall not live by bread alone listen to me carefully but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God you know when Abraham uh took Isaac up on Mount Moriah he did that on a word from the Lord God told him to do it and he said sacrifice him and he raised the knife but watch this this is the preceding word and as he was about to stab the boy in the heart at God's word there came a voice that said stay your hand stop your hand I was testing you what if he had not heard a fresh proceeding word the preceding word means don't proceed without this if if you don't have those Samuel ears at certain seasons in your life just because God told you to do something doesn't mean you're supposed to do it for the rest of your life to stay where you are for the rest of your life God has new directions for you God has new orders for you and he has a new whisper for you I felt like telling you this and I wrote it down in the hotel room here just this morning early your greatest Whispers are not in your past I'm preaching to somebody who's listening to me today and the Lord wants you to know that your greatest Whispers that he has for you are not in your past they're in your future and all along I've had the Holy Spirit Come to Me and whisper to me a new word a fresh word a proceeding word new directions I remember at one time how of whisper from God can change your direction and you got to be humble enough to change and shift When God Says change and uh we were planning on expanding the sanctuary we had already hired an architect we were going to add 2 000 more seats to our Auditorium it was going to be a 40 million dollar building program we were going to have a bridge that that went over to another parking lot it was it and I'll never forget it as long as I lived I I knew that we could do it we we were lined up to do it we had everything lined up to do it and I heard the whisper of God and all that I heard was the Lord say wait on me wait on me and I I knew that something wasn't right we could have done it we should have done it everything said we could do it but God said don't do it and we pulled back and we said we're not going to do it I had to get up and kind of tell the church that you know I don't understand this but God's got a plan and it seemed like people just really uh actually just felt peace with me and within a few months there was a campus down the road our Gwinnett Campus Church it was a building that was being built and I want you to listen to me how God has a plan it had 21 Acres right on the interstate it was a church that had started building the building and somehow they had gone through conflict the church fell apart in the middle of the building program the pastor left and went up north somewhere and the church fell to pieces and there was a building sitting on the side of the highway I wrote this down to make sure I had it right it was valued at 16 million dollars the bank took the note and it went from 16 million and they put it up for sale for 9 million and then they put it up for sale for six million and then I heard about it after I stopped the building program that we were just about to break ground on and we bought that property for 2.8 million dollars and we have a thriving Church there with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and I can say thousands of people have been saved in that building and it all God had a plan and then came Orange County and then came another campus and another campus and another campus and another in another and he's still at what if I hadn't heard that whisper what if I had just kept right on going and put everything right there in that building I'm telling you God's greatest Whispers in your life are ahead of you if you'll just begin to pray and say God lead me I tell you when we obey the Lord when we do what he says do and as we're going along the the coastline here and right over to my left is Capernaum where Jesus headquartered his ministry and he did more miracles in that place and in this region than anywhere I'm telling you that same voice can whisper to you Direction can can whisper to you what to do to make that business Prosper it was on this Sea of Galilee that he said to a failing businessman cast your nets on the other side and when he cast his Nets on the other side the Bible said that the so many fish came in the Nets that he had to call for the other boats and say help me I'm sinking in prosperity and blessing God can whisper to You One Direction it was one whisper that came to Simon Peter when he was in a storm on this on this body of water Jesus came walking on the water he had told him to go over to the other side and just because you are in a storm doesn't mean you're out of the will of God As a matter of fact I would be worried if the enemy never fights you if Satan never bothers you it's because you're going in the same direction with him and all of his Devils but if you really are doing the will of God you will have opposition you you will go through storms I really believe it was Satan that brought the storm because when they got to the other side which is right over I'm looking at it in this direction it's the land of the Gatherings and when when he got to the other side he said a man free from demons you could be right on the verge of the greatest breakthrough in one of your family members who've been tormented by demon spirits of addiction and suicide and eating disorders and the storm is just trying to talk you out of your Miracle don't quit and the Bible said he heard a whisper in his storm and he said Lord if it's you if that's you out on this water walk in on the water bid me to come and he heard one whisper that changed his life Jesus said come on come on come on and he stepped off the boat and he walked on the water with Jesus I'm preaching to some people right now who need to know that Jesus is not finished with you his greatest whispers are not in your past ask him right where you are he's speaking saying come to me give me your life give me your struggles give me your questions I'll never forget as long as I live a few years ago when I came to Israel I'd been many times but the Lord spoke to me one whisper about this nation he said favor what I favor bless what I bless and I will bless you I will bless your families I will bless the ministry I will bless the TV Ministry I will bless you and make you a blessing he said but bless this nation bless it mightily trust I trust you to bless this nation and I I will I wept as I walk the streets in Jerusalem I heard him while I was walking on a busy street he said if you'll bless what I bless it was just a whisper not an audible voice just a whisper and we started doing that and we have seen God open the windows of heaven and pour out his blessings our ministry is debt free we owe no man nothing for the glory of God and we do missions all over the world and especially right here in the nation of Israel why because one whisper from God there's provision in it there's healing in it in his whisper there's Direction there's a plan of God for you and your family for Generations I want to pray for you just stretch your hand toward me right here on the Sea of Galilee I speak miracles to you today in the mighty name of Jesus Lord you did it right behind me right on these seashores you you healed the woman with the issue of blood you multiplied the fish in the loaves in those mountains behind me so you can provide for somebody today you can heal somebody today you can heal broken families and broken homes today you can heal blood diseases and cancer and all kind and all manner of sickness and disease and Lord I pray for the lost I pray for those who are bound by evil spirits that are just tormenting and destroying their lives be set free in the name of Jesus now while I'm speaking to you there's you hear a voice inside of my voice that's the Whisper Of God he's saying come come to me come to come to me my name is Jesus call on his name in Jesus name pray this prayer Lord I receive you as my savior as my Lord give me those ears like Samuel like Elisha like Elijah to hear new directions your will for my light one scripture that I say a lot is this and I conclude with this I pray this almost every day there's a verse and I believe it's Isaiah 50 that says you shall hear a voice behind you saying this is the way walk in it then he said morning by morning you awaken my ears to hear and give me the tongue of the learn if you'll ask it God's going to give you Sam your ears and get ready for the Whispers of God in your life this program has been sponsored in part by friends and partners of Jensen Franklin media Ministries for more information about this message and other Ministry resources visit us online at jensenfranklin.tv thank you

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Length: 23min 49sec (1429 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 13 2023