ER: No, I’d have to have a computer.

ORU: Around 142 left, I think. Let me tell you, in two monthstime that’s what God has done. (Applause)

RR: Can I, can I share a story? (Yes) Recently–my dad and my mother know this story but I’ve not shared it with anybody on television. Recently I went up to a city to preach. I had gone to ORU with a young man. He and I had graduated from ORU together and I’d gone up to preach at their church up in Indiana. And I was telling them this story about what God had commanded us to do, to put the medical students on scholarship. And I’d preached for two services that morning and then we were having lunch with their family the story, asking them if as a family, ministers of the gospel, if they would pray. And the senior minister looked at me as I told the story and the tears were streaming down his cheeks. And he said, he said, “I wondered who God would send.” And I said, “What do you mean?” He said, “For 30 years I’ve been in this ministry. I came to this city 30 years ago. I’m celebrating my 30th anniversary.” It was the anniversary week. He said, “Every time we get on the brink of a miracle for an answer from God we have to have, every time we get near, God will speak in my heart and say, ‘I’m going to bring about this miracle, but I don’t want you to forget the world.’ Now,” he said, “instantly I knew what God meant. He was talking about missionary projects around the world.” He said, “Every time we get to the brink of a miracle, God always sends a man or sends a woman to present a missionary project.” He said, “We are on the brink of opening a new television station in our city. There are only four television stations. There’s the NBC, there’s the CBS station, the ABC and there’s one independent station.” He said, “God laid it on our heart to open up 24-hour-a-day Christian television on a U television station with the largest tower built in our state. And we’re having a great deal of problems getting it opened, but we’re on the brink of getting it opened and I’ve been wondering who God would send because the other night God spoke in my heart and said, ‘I’m going to bring about this miracle, but don’t forget the world.’” And with the tears streaming down his cheeks as I told him the story, he looked at me and he said, “Our church, our church will take one of those medical school students. We’ll sponsor that medical student. They’ll be our medical doctor in the world and God will bring about this television station,” and they’re doing it.

RR:  Now that’s the key.  That’s the key.  

 ORU:  And I asked Him what I must do.  He said, “Take your Bible and study My reward system.”  Now, partner, I had never heard that term, God’s reward system.  I knew God is a good God.  I’m one of the men who originated that phrase, God is a good God, back in the late forties.  And I went to my Bible and as He directed me, I went to Mark’s gospel, chapter 4, about the four ways how people plant their seed.  And Jesus told, some plant by the wayside, some plant in stony ground, some plant among weeds, and of course the seed does not grow and produce.  But the fourth way, He said, “Some plant in good soil and they receive a thirtyfold return, a sixtyfold return, and a hundredfold return and they can determine the percentage of their return thirty, sixty or a hundredfold by the quality of the soil that they plant in.”  And He said, “Don’t ask your partners for new money. Don’t ask them for new money.  Ask them to redirect some of their giving where they don’t know that money is causing souls to be saved or the sick to be healed, to redirect some of that money into the scholarshipping of the medical students of Oral Roberts University School of Medicine and they will not have to have those debts, so they can go to these nations and open them up for the gospel.  (Applause) And if they do, I will give them a hundredfold return, either in money or in what money cannot buy.” Then he directed me to a Scripture that I knew about in the Bible but I had not paid a lot of attention to. Here in Proverbs 6, verses 30, 31, “Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his soul when he’s hungry.  But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold.  He shall give all the substance of his house.”  Here God says through Solomon that when the devil, and that’s what He’s referring to, the thief is the devil, when he steals from us–and who hasn’t been ripped off by the devil?–God will give us a sevenfold restoration.  And that, as I said, I knew about that, but I had not really studied it.  Then He led me to Joel, chapter 2 and verse 25.  He says, “I will return to you what the locust has stolen,” or taken away, “what the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, the caterpillar and the palmer worm.  I will restore those years which the locust hath eaten.”  Now we know who the thief is.  John 10:10, Jesus said, “The thief (or the thief) cometh not but for to steal, to kill, and to destroy.” We know who it is that restores.  God said, “I will restore the years that the locust hath eaten and the cankerworm and palmerworm,” all forms of locusts.  He said, “I will restore them.” And in the sixth chapter of Proverbs, He said, “I will restore seven times what has been stolen from you.”  So I said, “What do you mean?” He said, “The hundredfold return for the seed that you plant to put My medical presence in the earth,” and I caught that term “medical presence.”  I said, “God, I know that Jesus said He came to preach, to teach, and to heal.”  Preach, teach, and heal.  “Now You’re saying that You must have your medical presence in the earth.”  He says, “Yes, because many of the nations will not take ministers and evangelists unless doctors open up the way.  And I also heal through doctors.  I heal through medicine, and I heal through prayer.  Now,” He said, “you tell the people to redirect some of their giving.  Don’t ask them for new money, to redirect some of their giving where they don’t know for sure that it’s winning souls to Christ or it’s healing the sick.  And I will restore to them one hundredfold and I will return to them (Applause) seven times what the devil has stolen.”  And now here it is in July.  And, partner, you have a letter in my hand in which I’ve asked for a two months pledge, a pledge this month and a pledge next month, for we open school around August 20th and we have 48 in the medical freshman class, have 192 medical students in all. And God told me to scholarship everyone of them and have them sign a contract that for every year of their scholarship they give a year as a missionary doctor, even in this country where there are areas not covered by medical science and the gospel and in Canada certain areas, but mostly in the nations in the Third World.  And do you know, Richard, as of today of the 192 scholarships we have to raise, it’s $8 million a year, God has given us the money for 15 in cash and 34 are pledged.  We only lack, let’s see, 49 from 192. Anybody help me out there?

RR:  Now that’s the key.  That’s the key.

ORU:  And I asked Him what I must do.  He said, “Take your Bible and study My reward system.”  Now, partner, I had never heard that term, God’s reward system.  I knew God is a good God.  I’m one of the men who originated that phrase, God is a good God, back in the late forties.  And I went to my Bible and as He directed me, I went to Mark’s gospel, chapter 4, about the four ways how people plant their seed.  And Jesus told, some plant by the wayside, some plant in stony ground, some plant among weeds, and of course the seed does not grow and produce.  But the fourth way, He said, “Some plant in good soil and they receive a thirtyfold return, a sixtyfold return, and a hundredfold return and they can determine the percentage of their return thirty, sixty or a hundredfold by the quality of the soil that they plant in.”  And He said, “Don’t ask your partners for new money. Don’t ask them for new money.  Ask them to redirect some of their giving where they don’t know that money is causing souls to be saved or the sick to be healed, to redirect some of that money into the scholarshipping of the medical students of Oral Roberts University School of Medicine and they will not have to have those debts, so they can go to these nations and open them up for the gospel.  (Applause) And if they do, I will give them a hundredfold return, either in money or in what money cannot buy.” Then he directed me to a Scripture that I knew about in the Bible but I had not paid a lot of attention to. Here in Proverbs 6, verses 30, 31, “Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his soul when he’s hungry.  But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold.  He shall give all the substance of his house.”  Here God says through Solomon that when the devil, and that’s what He’s referring to, the thief is the devil, when he steals from us–and who hasn’t been ripped off by the devil?–God will give us a sevenfold restoration.  And that, as I said, I knew about that, but I had not really studied it.  Then He led me to Joel, chapter 2 and verse 25.  He says, “I will return to you what the locust has stolen,” or taken away, “what the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, the caterpillar and the palmer worm.  I will restore those years which the locust hath eaten.”  Now we know who the thief is.  John 10:10, Jesus said, “The thief (or the thief) cometh not but for to steal, to kill, and to destroy.” We know who it is that restores.  God said, “I will restore the years that the locust hath eaten and the cankerworm and palmerworm,” all forms of locusts.  He said, “I will restore them.” And in the sixth chapter of Proverbs, He said, “I will restore seven times what has been stolen from you.”  So I said, “What do you mean?” He said, “The hundredfold return for the seed that you plant to put My medical presence in the earth,” and I caught that term “medical presence.”  I said, “God, I know that Jesus said He came to preach, to teach, and to heal.”  Preach, teach, and heal.  “Now You’re saying that You must have your medical presence in the earth.”  He says, “Yes, because many of the nations will not take ministers and evangelists unless doctors open up the way.  And I also heal through doctors.  I heal through medicine, and I heal through prayer.  Now,” He said, “you tell the people to redirect some of their giving.  Don’t ask them for new money, to redirect some of their giving where they don’t know for sure that it’s winning souls to Christ or it’s healing the sick.  And I will restore to them one hundredfold and I will return to them (Applause) seven times what the devil has stolen.”  And now here it is in July.  And, partner, you have a letter in my hand in which I’ve asked for a two months pledge, a pledge this month and a pledge next month, for we open school around August 20th and we have 48 in the medical freshman class, have 192 medical students in all. And God told me to scholarship everyone of them and have them sign a contract that for every year of their scholarship they give a year as a missionary doctor, even in this country where there are areas not covered by medical science and the gospel and in Canada certain areas, but mostly in the nations in the Third World.  And do you know, Richard, as of today of the 192 scholarships we have to raise, it’s $8 million a year, God has given us the money for 15 in cash and 34 are pledged.  We only lack, let’s see, 49 from 192. Anybody help me out there?

RR:  Hallelujah.  Come to Tulsa this summer.  Tour the Healing University.  Make your clinic appointment at the City of Faith. Come and see us in Tulsa this summer.  And speaking of miracles, I’m happy to present to you God’s man and God’s woman for this hour today, Oral and Evelyn Roberts, my dad and my mother. (Applause)  Praise the Lord.  Dad, I want to talk to you, Dad, because I know that God has been dealing with you over these past days and weeks very heavily concerning the future of this ministry, concerning what His next move for you is to make.  And I felt like that today was the day that you should share it with the people.

OR:  Well, this is a rather shocking announcement and experience. And, Richard, people will have to hear with their spirit because many are not accustomed to God speaking to a human being like He does me and some other people.

RR:  Well, if that’s so then, before you start, could we just stop and pray that people will hear in their spirits?  (Yes) Everybody just join hands.  That’s a good word.  (Yes)  Father, in the name of Jesus, You’ve given my dad a special message for everyone watching this program today.  And I pray that they would hear with more than their ears.  I pray that they would hear down in their hearts and receive this word which is from You, in the mighty name of Jesus I pray it and I believe it and I expect a miracle to happen because of it.  Amen and amen. 

ORU:  Well, just before I tell you how God came to me in my room and spoke to me about a major turning point in the nations of the world that involves your life and mine, let me remind you that know and tell you that do not know that God raised me up from tuberculosis as a 17-year-old boy, saved my soul and told me to take His healing power to my generation.  Then later He told me to raise Him up a university and in that university raise up my students to hear His voice and to go where His light is dim in this world, where His voice is heard very small, His power is not known and even to the uttermost bounds of the earth.  And that their work would go far beyond mine, and in that He was well pleased.  And He gave me a call to take His healing power through myself, through my associates, through my students, through my parents, and we have been doing that, in crusades across America, around the world, in the Oral Roberts University with thousands of students, going in summer missions and some going in the nations, but all over America and Canada.  And then building the City of Faith, the Medical and Research Center to merge His healing streams of medicine and prayer.  And millions of people have been touched for God.  And I really thought I had pretty well done what God had told me to do, and did I get a shock in my spirit.  When I became 68 this year, the following morning God spoke to me again and He said, “You’re on the last rung of the ladder and your next move you’ll be standing before me telling Me why you’ve not sent the healing teams from ORU to the nations of the earth.”  And I said, “God, I’ve tried everything I know.  I raised up my students to hear Your voice, I’ve told them how to go to the ends of the earth, I’ve built the medical school that You told me to build.  We’re turning out young doctors and ministers and all kinds of workers.  I’ve done everything I know.”  And He said, “You will not be rewarded just for trying. You will be rewarded for doing.  You are saved by grace.  It’s a gift of God.  But you will be rewarded for your works.”  Now that was not entirely new to me, but in the context in which God spoke, it really struck deep in my heart. And there was a flash, just like you have a flash across your eyes and you are able to see something.  And God pulled back the curtain and let me see the cross.  He said, “Do you think that I told My Son to go to the cross to die for the sins of the world?  And I said to Him, ‘Now, Son, you get up on the cross and you try and you do Your best. And if You can’t do anymore than try and you come down from the cross and you’ve not done it, why everything will be fine.’” I said, “No, that’s not what You said to Him.  You told Him to die for the sins of the world, and He did it.”  God said, “That’s right, He did it.”  “I didn’t call you and your partners just to try.  I called you to do, and you will be rewarded for your works.”  And I said, “God, all my life I’ve been taught that if we get to heaven, that’s all we can ever ask for.  In fact, I’ve heard people all my life say, ‘If I could just get my foot in the door of heaven, that will satisfy me.’”  And God said, “That is not true because there’s more on the other side of life than coming to heaven.  (Applause)  There’s a mighty work that you’re to do once you get to heaven.”  And I’d not really thought of that. And I said, “What do You want me to do?”  He said, “I want you to turn the medical school around and I want you to put your spirit into your medical students.  And I want you to send them as medical missionaries.”  Now that was not new.  That was the reason that we established the Oral Roberts University School of Medicine in 1976 and opened it in ’78.  And all of our students have known that and many of them have been excited about going to the ends of the earth.  But we’ve had great difficulties because the students are not from rich families and they are common young people who are very skilled.  As a matter of fact, only one in ten thousand can get into medical school so you know that they have to have a great mind and ability to learn the things about the human life, the body, the earth, and medicines and skill and compassion.  But they have to borrow money.  Medical education is the most expensive education in the world and it may be the most difficult to obtain.  It takes a rare dedication.  And when we graduate them they come out of medical school for the most part owing thousands upon thousands of dollars because it’s expensive, even beyond what we ourselves raise and put in the medical school. And they have to go out and practice in order to get that money and pay their debts back.  And by that time most doctors then somehow don’t feel deeply again the missionary call that God puts upon so many of them.  As a matter of fact, there’s a startling figure that you should know about that I have learned, there are 530,000 doctors in the United States, 530,000 doctors in the United States.  In the whole doctors.  I have ministered in 46 nations and I’ve only met one medical missionary.  And he took me to his clinic and hospital and because he was a Christian and believed God heals through prayer also, he had me to lay hands upon every patient in the clinic and in the hospital and I was able to be of assistance to him and he of course to the gospel.  And we did a great work for God together.  And in the Bible Luke, the doctor, and Paul became a healing team.  They were the things I have known.  But the problem has been a debt one, where the young people coming out of the Oral Roberts University School of Medicine have to face their debts, sometimes $75,000, $100,000.  And so they have many offers to practice medicine across the land or in Canada and they have to choose the offer and go and then pay those, wasn’t aware how deeply God felt.  Oh, I knew He called me to open the medical school and I knew that we had brought in these young people who felt the call, but somehow we just were not pulling it off.  God said, “If you don’t turn the medical school around, I’m going to call you to heaven.  Your work will be done.  You will be able to do no more.”  And I said, “Lord, I want at least 20 more years to preach and to heal and to reach humanity for the gospel, and I’m counting on that.”  And He said, “Then turn the medical school around and scholarship every medical student, everyone of them, so that they will give a year to the mission field in a missionary nation for each year that you scholarship them. (Applause)  And they will not come out with all these debts. They will be ready to go when they finish their residencies to the nations.”  You see, the nations have been closing up to the gospel.  The rise of nationalism, the rise of communism in certain countries, have been shutting off these nations from the gospel.  But they are desperate for doctors.  And God knew that when He had us to open up the Oral Roberts School of Medicine. As a matter of fact, later this month Dr. Winslow, who I call my Luke, we are going to East Africa to meet with the president of one of the great nations there who has asked us to give him doctors for his nation where there’s only a few score in a whole nation of 30 or 40 million people.  In fact, there are areas of one million people in that nation that doesn’t have one doctor. Do you know in Tulsa, Oklahoma where there’s a half million people in greater Tulsa, there are 900 doctors. And in some of those areas of a million people there’s not one doctor whether Christian or non-Christian?  They are desperate for doctors. And if we will give them a doctor, they will take the rest of our healing team, evangelists and nurses and other kinds of workers.