Song – Whispering hope

The other day I was driving my daughter to another city and she was singing various worship songs, then this old country gospel song came into my mind: Whispering hope. I tried to sing it, but had forgotten the words. She said she had never heard the song before, so I decided to look for it under the name of Jim Reeves and share it with her. I ended up getting carried away searching, and found this song sung by so many people around the world. I have tried to list them in alphabetical order.

  1. Andy Griffith
  2. Anita Kerr Singers
  3. Anne Murray
  4. Ben Shima
  5. Berean Gospel Ministers Family
  6. Bird Youmans
  7. Blackwood Brothers
  8. Bluegrass Martins
  9. Byron Lee and the Dragonaires and Friends
  10. Charley Pride
  11. CheeSookWan – piano
  12. Christian Edition
  13. Christopher Tan – piano
  14. Come on Gospel Quartet
  15. Connie Smith and Nat Stuckey
  16. Cristy Lane
  17. Dana
  18. Daniel O Donnell and Mary Duff
  19. Dick van Altena
  20. Firm Faith Zimbabwe
  21. Gloria Gaither – talking
  22. Hank Doell
  23. Hank Snow
  24. Hayley Westenra
  25. Jennifer Pearson – piano
  26. Jim Ed Brown
  27. Jim Hendricks – music
  28. Jim Reeves – Country Gospel Song – Whispering Hope
  29. Jim Roberts and Norma Zimmer
  30. Jo Stafford and Gordon McCrae
  31. Johnny Carroll – trumpet
  32. Jule Crandall
  33. Julie Andrews and Dinah Shore
  34. Kilby Brothers – music
  35. Larry Ford
  36. Mantovani Orchestra
  37. Mary Go
  38. Mother Maybelle and the Carter sisters
  39. ODONGO’S Family Choir
  40. Olive Klein and Elsie Baker (1914)
  41. O.M.
  42. Pat Boone
  43. Phil Coulter – music
  44. Presentation School Choir
  45. Rosemary Clooney and John Raitt
  46. Singing Men Quartet
  47. Skeeter Davis
  48. Slim Whitman
  49. Tjeerd Venema – instrumental
  50. TUKSDA Church Choir
  51. Virginia Lee
  52. Willie Nelson

Of all these singer, the only one I have met is Pat Boone, and he is a very nice guy. Beloved, don’t lose hope. God can always make a way for you, no matter what your circumstances are. Joseph was once in prison, but God elevated him to a high position. Daniel was in a lion`s den, three guys in a fire, Jeremiah in a muddy cistern, Peter in prison, Paul and Silas in prison, etc. Jesus said that with God all things are possible. Job got healed and his riches restored!

On some other videos it says the words and music were created by Alice Hawthorne, so that leaves a bit of mystery. Wait, I saw this afterwards: Whispering Hope was written by Septimus Winner in 1868 using the pseudonym Alice Hawthorne. Okay, that solves that mystery. Apparently he used lots of different names for his songs.

Bill Anderson sings Country Gospel Songs

Back in the 70’s I was singing in a church in Salisbury, Rhodesia, and the pastor had a record of Bill Anderson singing the country gospel song: “Mama sang a song.” I loved that song and sang it many times myself in various places. I had never heard of Bill Anderson before, and it was only when I came to America, that I discovered he was a big star on the Grand Ole Opry.

  1. A satisfied mind
  2. Amazing grace
  3. Angel band
  4. Beyond the sunset (with Jan Howard)
  5. Beyond the sunset (with Jan Howard) – a different video
  6. Blessed assurance
  7. Country Music Heaven
  8. Deck of cards
  9. Drinking from my saucer
  10. Farther along
  11. Friends
  12. God is great, God is good
  13. God’s Country
  14. Golden guitar
  15. Him and me
  16. If anything ever happened to you ‘live’
  17. I can do nothing alone
  18. I dreamed about Mama last night
  19. I drink from my saucer (same song as ‘Drinking from my saucer’)
  20. I saw the light
  21. I wonder if God likes country music (with Roy Acuff)
  22. I wonder if God like country music (with Roy Acuff) – ‘live’ video
  23. Just as I am
  24. Life’s railway to heaven
  25. Light at the river
  26. Less of me
  27. Love lifted me
  28. Mama sang a song ‘live’
  29. Most richly blessed
  30. Nearer my God to Thee (with Jan Howard)
  31. Nearer my God to Thee (with Jan Howard) – Titanic (angels to beckon me)
  32. Papa
  33. Pass me not O gentle Savior
  34. Precious memories
  35. Softly and tenderly
  36. Somebody touched me
  37. Someday it’ll all make sense (with Dolly Parton) and pictures
  38. Someday it’ll all make sense (with Dolly Parton) in photo video
  39. Someday it’ll all make sense – ‘live’ at Larry’s Country Diner
  40. Standing on the promises ‘live’
  41. Suppertime ‘live’
  42. Sweet hour of prayer
  43. Take up thy cross
  44. The Lord’s prayer (with Jan Howard)
  45. The old rugged cross
  46. The old rugged cross ‘live’
  47. The old country church
  48. The only Bible
  49. The only Bible ‘live’
  50. The reverend Mr. Black
  51. The touch of the Master’s hand
  52. Trouble in amen corner
  53. Until the light comes on again
  54. Where could I go but to the Lord
  55. Where He leads me
  56. Whispering hope
  57. Will the circle be unbroken

Beloved, many of these songs are a great blessing to me. Actually, I was listening to ‘The old country church’ radio program the other night when I heard Bill Anderson singing ‘Somebody touched me.’ I loved that song so much, that I looked for it, and hence this list of songs. I try to listen every monday night at 7 pm to the ‘Old Country Church’ from Buffalo, New York on the internet at wxrl.com. Ramblin’ Lou has passed on, but his family is keeping up the tradition.

Beloved, if you have never received Jesus Christ as your Savior, I want to encourage you to do it today. Nobody knows when we will leave this earth, but it is very important to be ready when we do. God bless y’all.

Searching for the Lost Scriptures

Here are some additional scriptures to those mentioned in my picture story, and I am quoting from the American King James Version, because apparently it is not copyrighted.

1. Matthew 2:23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene. (What scripture?)

2. Mark 12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? (Writings of Enoch.)

3. Luke 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. (I wish we had that scripture lesson in our Bibles.)

4. John 2:22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. (Jesus talked about raising himself from the dead after 3 days. What scripture is that?)

5. Acts 20:35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. (Paul is quoting the words of Jesus from a different Bible.)

6. 1 Corinthians 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: (What scripture says that Jesus will rise from the dead on the third day? I read that in ‘The ascension of Isaiah, page 522’ from ‘The Other Bible.’ In Psalm 16:10 it says: “For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” But it says nothing about rising from the dead on the third day.)

7. James 4:5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? (I looked in my son’s Dake’s Bible, and he said that he doesn’t know what scripture James is talking about.)

8. Revelation 9:14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. (I am curious about those 4 angels. We don’t read anything about that elsewhere in our Bibles.)

Rich man and Lazarus. Luke 16:19-31. Jesus tells the story of the underworld where there are flames on one side, and on the other there is peace. Enoch mentions that in his writings.

John 1:51 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man. (Jesus said these words to Nathanael, but we have no record in our Bibles of Nathanael seeing that.)

In the First Book of Enoch he refers to Jesus as the Son of man about 8 times I think. Once he calls him the Son of a woman. In the Book of Mark, Jesus always refers to himself as the Son of man.

I seem to recall in the writings of Enoch that he uses the word:”Godhead.”

Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. (That is in the writings of Enoch as well.)

Almost 40 years ago I read part of a Third Book of Enoch in a library in North York.

John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

Luke mentions that many people wrote about Jesus, but we only have two gospels before Luke in our Bibles. I have a fragment of the Gospel of Peter. Then there is also the Gospel of Nicodemus, that I think should be in our Bibles, but it seems like everybody follows Constantine as if he is God himself.  There is also a Gospel of Thomas, but it is reported to be Gnostic. One interesting thing is that Thomas said that the sheep that went astray was the biggest sheep. I always thought of it as a little lamb, because when I was a little boy, I saw a beautiful painting of Jesus carrying a little lamb on the side of a rugged mountain. I knew a minister once who went astray, and he turned against me, and left the church. Many years later when I spoke to his first wife, she told me that he had now been married six times. He was a big sheep. Once I knew an evangelist that came against me when I was singing on TV. Many years later I spoke to his first wife, and she was very angry that he had left her. When I last saw him, he had a third wife. He was a big sheep.

Colossians 4:16 And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.

About 25 years ago I was invited to speak at a church, and I read Paul’s letter to the church in Laodicea, which I had in my ancient writings. The next week a man was shouting in my face that I don’t agree with the cannon of scripture. So I guess he is following Constantine, but I am following Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

Addition.

I am going to mention something else here that I think is worth noting. Here are two scriptures where Jesus talks about all the innocent blood that has been shed, right from the first murder of Abel the son of Adam, up until Zacharias the son of Barachias.

“That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.” (Matthew 23:25).

“From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation. (Luke 11:51).

When I studied Theology, I was taught that Jesus was referring to the Zacharias mentioned in 2 Chronicles 24:20-21, but that is a different Zacharias. That Zaharias was the son of the high priest Jehoiada.

20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you. (2 Chr. 24:20).

21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord. (2 Chr. 24:21).

In the book of Zechariah 1:1, he calls himself “Zechariah, the son of Berechiah.” So maybe Jesus is referring to ‘that Zacharias.’ He was one of the last prophets in the Old Testament.

On the other hand, Jesus may be referring to John the Baptist’s dad, who was the high priest Zacharias. I read in ‘The lost books of the Bible’ the writing called The Protevangelion, chapter 16, how Herod’s soldiers killed him in the temple, because he wouldn’t tell them where his son was. Elizabeth had taken baby John and fled into the wilderness. So John grew up in the wilderness.

Jesus said: “Whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.” Jesus may have been addressing the people in front of him, who killed Zacharias, in which case he must have been referring to John the Baptist’s dad. Anyway, that is my theory! So God’s punishment came on that generation, and the Romans scattered them for almost 2,000 years.