Sometimes we don’t obey God because it’s inconvenient or because our flesh doesn’t like what He’s asking us to do. But I Samuel 15:22 says, To obey is better than sacrifice. When God asks us to do something, He’s trying to get a wonderful blessing to us. Yet sometimes we let the dumbest things stand between us and our obedience.

I’ll give you an example. When I came to Oral Roberts University as a student, I knew God had called me here, but I didn’t know there was a dress code. I came from a beach town in Florida where we wore sandals all the time. I mean, dressing up meant changing from old flip-flops to new ones.

I didn’t even own a dress, and I found out I was expected to wear one every day! As soon as I heard that news, I called my mother in Florida and said, “Mama, I’m coming home!” She said, “Why?” And I answered indignantly, “Because they say I have to wear a dress every day. I’m not using my hard-earned money to buy a dress!”

My mother, wise woman that she is, answered calmly, “Lindsay, do you mean to tell me that you’re going to let a piece of fabric come between you and the call of God on your life?” Well, when she put it that way, what could I say? She mailed me some skirts and told me, “You just stay there and let God talk to you.”

So I did. And it wasn’t long before I met and married Richard Roberts, which was God’s plan for me. Imagine how sad it would have been if I’d let dresses keep me from that plan. Don’t let anything stand between you and obeying God. Richard Roberts and I believes that obedience can bring God’s marvelous blessings into your life.

Unbelief kept many people from receiving their miracle when Jesus walked the earth. Matthew 13:54-58 NLT tells how the people in Jesus’ hometown rejected Him because of their unbelief: He returned to Nazareth, his hometown. When he taught there in the synagogue, everyone was astonished and said, “Where does he get his wisdom and his miracles? He’s just a carpenter’s son, and we know Mary, his mother, and his brothers—James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas. All his sisters live right here among us. What makes him so great?” And they were deeply offended and refused to believe in him.

Then Jesus told them, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his own family.” And so he did only a few miracles there because of their unbelief.

Think of the tremendous number of miracles Jesus could have done if only the people had believed in Him. But unbelief kept them from receiving their miracle. The thing is, it takes just as much effort to doubt as it does to believe!

Personally, I, Richard Roberts, want to be a person of belief. I believe that God can do everything His Word says He can do and that whatever the problem or need, there is nothing too difficult for Him. Let’s set our faith in agreement and believe for your miracle to come to pass as we pray: Lord, I believe You can do what Your Word says You can do. Cast out any doubt and unbelief that is in me. Right now, I release my faith for my miracle and expect to receive. Amen. Richard Roberts believes in you.

Richard Roberts and I wants to share a story to you. Romans 8:28 NKJV is familiar to many: All things work together for good. It doesn’t say that all things are good, but that they work to-gether for good.

Think of it like cake batter. If you eat the flour by itself—yuck! If you eat the raw eggs by themselves—yuck! But when the ingredi-ents are mixed, they work together for some-thing good…when you finish the process and bake it!

We often neglect the “baking” part of the above Scripture: …to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His pur-pose. For things to work together for good, Richard Roberts including us must  have to finish the process and acknowledge that God is our Source and our first love.

The years that I, Richard Roberts, have been President of Oral Roberts University have been full of struggle. I’ve often faced insurmountable odds, and there have been times when people were certain that I would fail and the university would close. But they overlooked the Holy Spirit who dwells in me. Now they are patting me on the back and telling me what a great job I’m doing. Of course, it’s not Richard Roberts; it’s the Holy Spirit!

God didn’t intend for us to face the world and its trials by ourselves. That’s why Jesus said in John 14:16-18, I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. With the hectic lives most of us lead, we need “a comfort zone” a haven of tranquility and rest, a place where we can escape the turmoil surrounding us. And God has provided such a place of power and restoration.

The Holy Spirit is your comfort zone! When everything seems to be crumbling around you…when you’re in the middle of some hellish trial…by the miracle power of God, the Holy Spirit can give you the comfort and strength you need to pull out of the mess you’re facing. Ask God for the comfort and power of the Holy Spirit, and see what a difference it can make!

If you’re like me, you don’t always know exactly how to pray for certain situations. But thank God, He has given us the Holy Spirit to help us when we don’t know what to pray.

Romans 8:26 NKJV says, The Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groaning which cannot be uttered.

When we pray in tongues, we’re connecting with the Holy Spirit. And that means we’re connecting to a higher realm than we’re capable of in our flesh. The spirit realm is a higher dimension. It’s a dimension where our minds can’t mess things up, and we can pray in the perfect will of God. When Richard Roberts and I pray, I want to pray the will of God, not my own thoughts and opinions.

My father-in-law, Oral Roberts, says it this way: When you pray in the spirit by praying in tongues, your limited mind is put on hold and your spirit opens up to the unlimited resources of God.

When you pray in your limited human understanding, you can only go so far. But when you tap into God’s perfect will through praying in the spirit, you are availing yourself of His unlimited power. Richard Roberts and I believes that praying in the spirit takes you out of your own understanding and connects you to the realm of the supernatural. There is power in that!