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Preface
The Whispering Hope; A Moment of Life-Transformation is immensely invaluable and beneficial to ministers of God and faithful members in the christendom as it unveils the truth about the unique nature of God’s unfailing gracious love to a band of burdened souls. As the title suggests, the book tenderly whispers hope to individuals who are crushingly troubled and are facing some enmeshed challenges of life. At times, some people feel hopeless in regaining their mutual relationship with God, and others feel that God has forgotten them because of their offences. This compilation of sermons, as a clarion call for a total repentance and reconciliation with God as to have eternal life, is carefully designed to restore and instill hope on such wandering souls and thereby encourage believers to maintain their maximum genuine faith in God and remain rapturable and maranatha.
At times in life, a person may be in a complex, unbearable and cumbersome situation and feels that all is gone. This book comfortingly reveals the whispering hope that God is always there in time of troubles and even when one is at the verge and valley of death. This author’s religious debut glaringly whispers hope to a band of women seeking for the fruit of womb, and to those who’re spiritually encaged by the burden of sins that in Christ Jesus every impossibility is made possible— “Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest”—Matthew 11:28 KJV.
In one midnight, a voice whispered to the author to gather all his sermons and publish them for people to read and repent from their wickedness. The author could not sleep again but rather to seek the face of God in prayer for his grace to actualize this wonderful dream. As he began this religious task, so many other inspirational sermons were coming to him and they were very appealling. The author kindly acknowledges the fact that it was a profound work of the great divine Numen. As God has led him to write this book, every one that reads these sermons shall receive the immense blessings of God. As people read this book and believe in God, miracles shall follow them and they'll be a testimony and blessing to others.
Also, this compendium of sermons is practically useful and very serviceable to Christian educators who may study it in preparation for church services. As you read and meditate on it and pray with open mind, God will speak to your situation.
In its profound emotive might to transform souls, the book strikingly grips people’s minds with great undeniable expectations which men curiously desire to gain from God. It creates a room for souls to commune with a Super-natural Numen and get extra-ordinary transformation of spiritual ambiances. It serves as spiritual assuagement to relieve people from embroiled irking pains that besiege their drowning souls thereby whisper hope to them that with God all their distressing challenges are crushed down.
There’re two vital issues in Christianity which are faith and hope. It is crystal clear that faith is the evidence of that which is not seen and the certainty that what we cannot see exists, (see Hebrews 11:1) while hope denotes looking forward for the future promises. Thus, while faith is for today, and hope is for the future, the book reveals that your today's faith will bring your future happiness and divine blessings. This is that whispering hope which is full of heavenly and blessed assurances. There is God who knows all our needs and people that feel that he tarries to come to relieve them from their sins and problems, this book encourages them to still hope in God's time, which is the best. When the tempest strikes, wait; it'll be gone. There'll be sunshine after rain. You’re not alone! Even if you go through deep waters, I will be with you, when you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown and when you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burnt up; the flame will not consume you (Isaiah 43:2 NLT), God is with you and therefore you should fear no evil!
The Title:
The man of God, Nwaiwu F.E.C., derived the title of the book from Septimus Winner’s hymn, “Whispering Hope”. Septimus Winner (1827-1902) was one of the famous American hymn writers of the 19th century and was a great achiever whose hymnal compositions and creativity were mostly attributed to Alice Hawthorne, one of his several pseudonyms. He was known as a man who used songs to transform souls. In his artistic endeavour, he penned “Whispering Hope” a song which is in our Christian hymnal book to reinvigorate the faith of fainting Christians in the whole world. In his first stanza of the hymn, Winner has this to offer:
Soft as the voice of an angel,
Breathing a lesson unheard,
Hope with a gentle persuasion
Whispers her comforting word:
Wait till the darkness is over,
Wait till the tempest is done,
Hope for the sunshine tomorrow,
After the shower is gone.
Refrain
Whispering hope, oh how welcome thy voice,
Making my heart in its sorrow rejoice.
The man of God, Pastor Nwaiwu was inspired by the very hymn of Winner and then compiled holistically his homiletics to join Winner in redeeming and refreshing the souls created in God’s image. Though the author has gone a long way in extrapolating and explicating the word of God more than Winner but both of them share a parallel ideology on hope as an anchor of the soul. This is because impatience has viciously disparaged the souls of many Christians and skeptics. Experience shows that at a time of excruciating pains and hard times, some fainting souls tend to give up their hope in Christ. The man of God rhetorically asks: Will you be faithful at a time of troubles?”— (P.…). Many a Christian faces some challenges as an outcome of their belief system. One cardinal reason why some professing Christians will be victorious from their trials while others will not is because— (a) the Christians who always anticipate trials as a must in their lives will surely find a consoling succor in God. Such Christians holistically believe that even if trials come along with death, nothing can cast off their faith in Christ. Thus, they are determined to die along with their faith with hope for eternity. (b) The believers who always anticipate everything good from God will not survive when trials come. This is because they do not have the mind to endure difficult situations. They are called Christian sycophants because they praise God when things are auguring them well but curse God when they are under the agony of pains and sorrows which may claim their lives.
Faith and hope which are intertwining create some immeasurable impacts on the righteous. The followings, however, may be said about what the two theological concepts, faith and hope, produce in a man.
The man of faith is ever hopeful and is ready to die in what he believes in. We call such a man that willingly accepts being stoned or put to death for adhering openly to his religious belief a martyr. Such a man accepts to die because he has hope like Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
Faith and hope help to sustain man to offer regular praises especially at a perilous time. They regenerate souls and offer blissful assurances of the new paradise and a crown of life that will be given to the faithful.
They strengthen men to have focus for the things of heaven and assure them that Christ is the only hope for the whole nation. Faith and hope make man to be very conscious of himself, that the moment he compromises his faith is the moment his hope is crushingly dashed to pieces.
They help man to devote his time to prayer, calling his God not to lead him into temptation but deliver him from all evil. With such an earnest prayer, the faithful man will get a desired result from God. Job says: “I know my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God” (Job 19:25-26). That was his faith working even at the time of his excruciating agony of life. He believed in God.
Apart from the scriptures, if there are well written documents that could help to instill hope and boost the faith of believers, this Pastor Nwaiwu’s compilation of homiletics is one of them.
Source
Primary sources:
Biblical references as a primary source are drawn from International Standard Version (ISV) 2011, New Living Translation (NLT), King James Version (KJV), 1769, New English Translation (NET) 2006, and Word English Bible (WEB), 2015 with the aid of MySword for Android version 4.4 (2011-2013) by Jomin and Esmy Yu. The author decided to use multi-bible versions so as to help him communicate effectively in respect to the sermon topics and the true meaning about the word of God.
Secondary sources:
The secondary sources are materials from Matthew Henry’s Commentary On The Whole Bible, Aid to Bible understanding —Copyright by Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania and Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary edited by Ronald F. Youngblood.
We advise the readers to study this book along with their bible and call or write your testimonies about what God has done for you after reading and believing in God. You can contact the man of God through this phone number +2348034367982 or email him via thewhisperinghope.sermons@gmail.com or fortune.nwaiwu.fn@gmail.com — May God bless you, smile on you, illumine your darkness with a brilliant light of joy, favour, open doors and breakthroughs. This year shall be a year of your divine visitation and miracles. You are lifted up beyond your contemporaries. Untimely death shall not come again in your family and your enemies shall never gloat and rejoice over you again. And more importantly, your sorrow has been turned into joy. May the God of peace always be with you, in Jesus name, amen!
FORTUNE EMERENCE CHINEMEREM NWAIWU
Foreword
The Whispering Hope: A Moment of Life Transformation is a collection of inspiring messages, the man of God, Pastor F.E.C. Nwaiwu, has preached. They represent his heart cry, his desires, and his visions for not only his congregation, but the body of Christ. He may have addressed a particular congregation, but the messages are global. The standard of God to a particular congregation today is typical but also universal. When Pastor Nwaiwu calls this collection a whispering hope, he means that hope in God for solution to various shades of problem— whether spiritual, social, economic or whatever, the hope in Christ may be not shouting, crying to be heard. But hope is in Christ; so faith in Him is the cure for all such problems. And faith in Christ transforms, empowers, regenerates, and prepares the Christians for eternal life in God’s kingdom.
These down-to-earth, simply delivered messages, messages devoid of pretentions, can transform a hardened sinner, reinvigorate a fainting Christian and appeal to a cynic. I join the man of God in appealing to all to listen to these messages with an open heart so they can receive them with their ears and store them in their hearts so they can be benefitted by the words that are life and spirit.
Pastor Godwin Ushie, Ph.D
*****
Please help for the publication of this collection of Sermons preached by Rev. Fortune Emerence Chinemerem Nwaiwu.
God bless you.
All Rights Reserved.
ISBN- 978-1-387-34230-3
Content ID 21784826
All right reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright author except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal. Requests to the publisher/author for permission should be addressed to Email: fortune.nwaiwu.fn@gmail.com or call +2348034367982.
Preface
The Whispering Hope; A Moment of Life-Transformation is immensely invaluable and beneficial to ministers of God and faithful members in the christendom as it unveils the truth about the unique nature of God’s unfailing gracious love to a band of burdened souls. As the title suggests, the book tenderly whispers hope to individuals who are crushingly troubled and are facing some enmeshed challenges of life. At times, some people feel hopeless in regaining their mutual relationship with God, and others feel that God has forgotten them because of their offences. This compilation of sermons, as a clarion call for a total repentance and reconciliation with God as to have eternal life, is carefully designed to restore and instill hope on such wandering souls and thereby encourage believers to maintain their maximum genuine faith in God and remain rapturable and maranatha.
At times in life, a person may be in a complex, unbearable and cumbersome situation and feels that all is gone. This book comfortingly reveals the whispering hope that God is always there in time of troubles and even when one is at the verge and valley of death. This author’s religious debut glaringly whispers hope to a band of women seeking for the fruit of womb, and to those who’re spiritually encaged by the burden of sins that in Christ Jesus every impossibility is made possible— “Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest”—Matthew 11:28 KJV.
In one midnight, a voice whispered to the author to gather all his sermons and publish them for people to read and repent from their wickedness. The author could not sleep again but rather to seek the face of God in prayer for his grace to actualize this wonderful dream. As he began this religious task, so many other inspirational sermons were coming to him and they were very appealling. The author kindly acknowledges the fact that it was a profound work of the great divine Numen. As God has led him to write this book, every one that reads these sermons shall receive the immense blessings of God. As people read this book and believe in God, miracles shall follow them and they'll be a testimony and blessing to others.
Also, this compendium of sermons is practically useful and very serviceable to Christian educators who may study it in preparation for church services. As you read and meditate on it and pray with open mind, God will speak to your situation.
In its profound emotive might to transform souls, the book strikingly grips people’s minds with great undeniable expectations which men curiously desire to gain from God. It creates a room for souls to commune with a Super-natural Numen and get extra-ordinary transformation of spiritual ambiances. It serves as spiritual assuagement to relieve people from embroiled irking pains that besiege their drowning souls thereby whisper hope to them that with God all their distressing challenges are crushed down.
There’re two vital issues in Christianity which are faith and hope. It is crystal clear that faith is the evidence of that which is not seen and the certainty that what we cannot see exists, (see Hebrews 11:1) while hope denotes looking forward for the future promises. Thus, while faith is for today, and hope is for the future, the book reveals that your today's faith will bring your future happiness and divine blessings. This is that whispering hope which is full of heavenly and blessed assurances. There is God who knows all our needs and people that feel that he tarries to come to relieve them from their sins and problems, this book encourages them to still hope in God's time, which is the best. When the tempest strikes, wait; it'll be gone. There'll be sunshine after rain. You’re not alone! Even if you go through deep waters, I will be with you, when you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown and when you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burnt up; the flame will not consume you (Isaiah 43:2 NLT), God is with you and therefore you should fear no evil!
The Title:
The man of God, Nwaiwu F.E.C., derived the title of the book from Septimus Winner’s hymn, “Whispering Hope”. Septimus Winner (1827-1902) was one of the famous American hymn writers of the 19th century and was a great achiever whose hymnal compositions and creativity were mostly attributed to Alice Hawthorne, one of his several pseudonyms. He was known as a man who used songs to transform souls. In his artistic endeavour, he penned “Whispering Hope” a song which is in our Christian hymnal book to reinvigorate the faith of fainting Christians in the whole world. In his first stanza of the hymn, Winner has this to offer:
Soft as the voice of an angel,
Breathing a lesson unheard,
Hope with a gentle persuasion
Whispers her comforting word:
Wait till the darkness is over,
Wait till the tempest is done,
Hope for the sunshine tomorrow,
After the shower is gone.
Refrain
Whispering hope, oh how welcome thy voice,
Making my heart in its sorrow rejoice.
The man of God, Pastor Nwaiwu was inspired by the very hymn of Winner and then compiled holistically his homiletics to join Winner in redeeming and refreshing the souls created in God’s image. Though the author has gone a long way in extrapolating and explicating the word of God more than Winner but both of them share a parallel ideology on hope as an anchor of the soul. This is because impatience has viciously disparaged the souls of many Christians and skeptics. Experience shows that at a time of excruciating pains and hard times, some fainting souls tend to give up their hope in Christ. The man of God rhetorically asks: Will you be faithful at a time of troubles?”— (P.…). Many a Christian faces some challenges as an outcome of their belief system. One cardinal reason why some professing Christians will be victorious from their trials while others will not is because— (a) the Christians who always anticipate trials as a must in their lives will surely find a consoling succor in God. Such Christians holistically believe that even if trials come along with death, nothing can cast off their faith in Christ. Thus, they are determined to die along with their faith with hope for eternity. (b) The believers who always anticipate everything good from God will not survive when trials come. This is because they do not have the mind to endure difficult situations. They are called Christian sycophants because they praise God when things are auguring them well but curse God when they are under the agony of pains and sorrows which may claim their lives.
Faith and hope which are intertwining create some immeasurable impacts on the righteous. The followings, however, may be said about what the two theological concepts, faith and hope, produce in a man.
The man of faith is ever hopeful and is ready to die in what he believes in. We call such a man that willingly accepts being stoned or put to death for adhering openly to his religious belief a martyr. Such a man accepts to die because he has hope like Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
Faith and hope help to sustain man to offer regular praises especially at a perilous time. They regenerate souls and offer blissful assurances of the new paradise and a crown of life that will be given to the faithful.
They strengthen men to have focus for the things of heaven and assure them that Christ is the only hope for the whole nation. Faith and hope make man to be very conscious of himself, that the moment he compromises his faith is the moment his hope is crushingly dashed to pieces.
They help man to devote his time to prayer, calling his God not to lead him into temptation but deliver him from all evil. With such an earnest prayer, the faithful man will get a desired result from God. Job says: “I know my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God” (Job 19:25-26). That was his faith working even at the time of his excruciating agony of life. He believed in God.
Apart from the scriptures, if there are well written documents that could help to instill hope and boost the faith of believers, this Pastor Nwaiwu’s compilation of homiletics is one of them.
Source
Primary sources:
Biblical references as a primary source are drawn from International Standard Version (ISV) 2011, New Living Translation (NLT), King James Version (KJV), 1769, New English Translation (NET) 2006, and Word English Bible (WEB), 2015 with the aid of MySword for Android version 4.4 (2011-2013) by Jomin and Esmy Yu. The author decided to use multi-bible versions so as to help him communicate effectively in respect to the sermon topics and the true meaning about the word of God.
Secondary sources:
The secondary sources are materials from Matthew Henry’s Commentary On The Whole Bible, Aid to Bible understanding —Copyright by Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania and Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary edited by Ronald F. Youngblood.
We advise the readers to study this book along with their bible and call or write your testimonies about what God has done for you after reading and believing in God. You can contact the man of God through this phone number +2348034367982 or email him via thewhisperinghope.sermons@gmail.com or fortune.nwaiwu.fn@gmail.com — May God bless you, smile on you, illumine your darkness with a brilliant light of joy, favour, open doors and breakthroughs. This year shall be a year of your divine visitation and miracles. You are lifted up beyond your contemporaries. Untimely death shall not come again in your family and your enemies shall never gloat and rejoice over you again. And more importantly, your sorrow has been turned into joy. May the God of peace always be with you, in Jesus name, amen!
FORTUNE EMERENCE CHINEMEREM NWAIWU
Foreword
The Whispering Hope: A Moment of Life Transformation is a collection of inspiring messages, the man of God, Pastor F.E.C. Nwaiwu, has preached. They represent his heart cry, his desires, and his visions for not only his congregation, but the body of Christ. He may have addressed a particular congregation, but the messages are global. The standard of God to a particular congregation today is typical but also universal. When Pastor Nwaiwu calls this collection a whispering hope, he means that hope in God for solution to various shades of problem— whether spiritual, social, economic or whatever, the hope in Christ may be not shouting, crying to be heard. But hope is in Christ; so faith in Him is the cure for all such problems. And faith in Christ transforms, empowers, regenerates, and prepares the Christians for eternal life in God’s kingdom.
These down-to-earth, simply delivered messages, messages devoid of pretentions, can transform a hardened sinner, reinvigorate a fainting Christian and appeal to a cynic. I join the man of God in appealing to all to listen to these messages with an open heart so they can receive them with their ears and store them in their hearts so they can be benefitted by the words that are life and spirit.
Pastor Godwin Ushie, Ph.D
*****
Please help for the publication of this collection of Sermons preached by Rev. Fortune Emerence Chinemerem Nwaiwu.
God bless you.
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