Sid: My guest is red hot for the Messiah in fact he calls that normal. Here’s an interesting quote “We are at a crossroads in human history we can make a difference; there is only one generation between a Christian society and an atheistic society. We’re seeing it happen before our eyes; only God’s intervention will change that and rescue our children and our nation.” My guest is Peter Whitehouse; I’m interviewing him on his new book I love the title “Returning to Normal.” Peter you have studied different revivals and you have seen how horrible society was and then how it has changed. Give me an example of one revival that might come to mind, and tell me whether it sounds like our society today.
Peter: Well, you know Sid revival has occurred several times in our nation. We’ve seen revival in 1735, around 1800 another one in 1857, 1904 and then the Azusa Street Revival in 1906. So there are plenty of precedence. Society in every one of these times had diminished and there was corruption, drunkenness, prostitution, the word of God was negated in many ways, diluted, compromise had set in. The church had become lukewarm. Then the Lord would put it on the heart of a few to begin to pray and God hears and answers prayer.
Sid: Now you have been involved in prayer in your region of the United States for a number of years. If I understand this right you’re doing that almost every day 3 times a week as ministers are coming in and various intercessors to pray in your city of Albany.
Peter: Well actually we have 3 prayer meetings a day. That’s 5 days a week, on Saturday we go to the streets and walk through the streets and intercede. Our place is right in the midst of the darkest section of town. We’re in West Hill in Albany, perhaps the highest crime rate and poverty rate. God has given us a big building it used to be a nursing home. It was established in 1849 actually, but for about the past 5 years we’ve been here with my partner Dr. Bob Piglow. We’ve been seeking to fill this place 24hrs a day, 7 days a week with prayer and intercession; local churches participating. We’re not quite there yet.
Sid: But let me ask you a question, you’ve been doing for quite a long time. You haven’t seen a major change in your city. Obviously you’re just human; you get discouraged; what keeps you pushing on for this?
Peter: The Lord revives me personally, and that’s the only way I can describe it. Yes you’re absolutely right. We’ve become weary in well doing, but when we begin to recognize that, we cry out to God, and say “We can’t continue to do this. You called us to do this but we can’t do it in our own strength, not our own zeal, we need you we need the power of the Holy Spirit to revive us.” I would just like to encourage those who are listening, those who have gotten weary. You know like revival burnout, you’ve heard about it for so long, you’ve prayed for so long, then you’ve given up. God is going to do this thing. He is not slack in fulfilling His promises. It’s been a matter of time, it’s been a matter of preparation of our hearts. There has been a lot of refining and pruning and breaking going on so that we can carry the glory of God in this hour that is soon to be upon us.
Sid: Peter we have had in the United States in the last few years what has been identified as revival and people have come from all over even the world to cities life Pensacola where backsliders, I think a 100,000 people made the first time decisions. And I mean that is in one church and yet the city of Pensacola, Florida was not affected by this revival that brought people from all over the world. What is your definition of Bible revival?
Peter: Well, I believe that revival even by its dictionary definition is bringing back to life something that is dead or dying. In regards to the church revival is the Church once again falling in love with Jesus, it is coming waking from its slumber to be vibrant and alive operating in the gifts and the power of the Holy Spirit. I believe it to be a sovereign work of God in response to prayer and in fact prayer that he initiates. Then there is another step to revival is the church coming alive but then filled with the Holy Spirit in love with Him she now wants to draw others to Him and so anointed evangelism takes place. The second part of revival is transformation and that could be city wide transformation or regional transformation.
Sid: You’re saying the bars closed down, the prostitutes are no longer in the streets, the pornographic stores go out of business. Is that what you’re saying?
Peter: Yes and laws change and practices in business change.
Sid: You mean the United States will not continue doing what Israel was judged on so many times and that’s sacrificing children or we have a polite word today it’s called abortion.
Peter: Yes, we have committed grievous sin against God we are one minute away from an incredible judgment and we deserved it, but God is merciful.
Sid: But speaking of God is merciful I got so excited when I read this note I just got a few days ago from you about the angelic activity that your intercessors are beginning to understand that is going on and then this prophetic word from Bob Jones. Would you explain that.
Peter: Yeah, we have been asking God you know we have fervent prayer and we’re asking God for His angels to come and to help in warfare warring angels. I know that we’ve talked a lot about angels over these years and they’re very real and we need their help. And during these times of the prophetic intercessors have been seeing angels coming with their weapons drawn coming through doorways coming through portals to do battle here in our region. Even nationally I’m sure many people are familiar with Bob Jones. He had a vision and he said “That it was the most profound vision that he had except for when he saw Jesus Himself.” And he saw twelve angels they looked like ordinary men and then one stepped forward and spoke to him and told him and I think that he said his name was “Breaker” and that he had been assigned to Benson Idahosa some of you may have remembered.
Sid: I interviewed him he was actually thrown in a trashcan because they didn’t expect him to live but God spared his life and he rose up to lead millions in Africa to the Lord.
Peter: Oh yeah, a mighty apostle of God in Nigeria. Well, anyway of course he passed away some years ago and this breaker angel and those others that were with him were saying that now God had assigned them to the United States. In Nigeria they were pushing back every hindrance, their assignment was to divert the enemies attacks; all of the obstacles, remove them for a flow of God Spirit, His revival Spirit. And so now these same angels who apparently did quite a fine job in Nigeria are being assigned to the United States, that makes me excited.
Sid: How far away or has it already started in the United States? We hear wonderful reports of what’s going on in other counties but the United States of America if you want to get a cross-section of what’s going on and you turn on the national news you can see that it’s not good things but how far away is this release of revival?
Peter: I believe Sid that we’re only months, not years. Now why do I say this, what does this different than 10 or 20 or 50 years ago? Simply this, there are prayer houses, prayer groups in churches and in homes being they’re springing up all over the nation and in fact all over the world. There are prayer houses spring up now almost every city in the United States or ones that are about to start. If God is stirring this and I’m certain that He is, it’s not just a fad or somebody looking at the miserable condition saying “We better pray.” God is initiating this prayer, if God is initiating the prayer Sid, He’s going to answer it; we can see this phenomena occur prior to every revival. There’s extraordinary prayer that breaks out and the Spirit of supplication even with travail and then God answers that prayer.
Sid: And you know what I believe Peter I believe that there are people listening to us right now that are going to be strategically used….
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth