LR: I want to encourage you to become a partner with this ministry.  You can pick up the phone and call the Abundant Life Prayer Group at 918-495-7777.  You can sow a seed out of your need and say, “You know what?  I’m going to plant this seed, believing that my God shall supply all of our need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

And as that begins to happen, I also want to encourage you, this precious woman called in and said, “I need a healing, and I’m sowing a $1,000 seed towards the healing of my daughter.”  This is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  It just came in.

This one in Saginaw, Michigan.  Now Saginaw is just a few miles out of where I was born.  I was born in Flint, Michigan.  And this lady said she needed divine intervention in her business, so she’s sowing a seed of her business.

This in Detroit—oh, those Detroit Tigers!  I grew up watching Detroit Tiger baseball from the time I was a young child.  And in Detroit, this precious one called in, sowing a $25 seed, believing God for a miracle.

And I want to encourage you again, if you want the stress book, pick up the phone, call the number on the screen.  I want to give this book to you.  Because you know what?  Lindsay Roberts needs to sow seed too, according to the Word of God.

Lots of people have called in with financial needs and have been sowing seeds.  But I want to read a couple of these.  This precious one called in from California and said her son needs his business to prosper.

This one called in from Arkansas and said, “Drug addiction with a grandchild.”  You know what?  We pray for the spirit of addiction to be broken off of that child and anybody else that has addictions that are not from God.  We pray for addictions in any area, in the name of Jesus, to be broken.        

In my life time I have never had addictions to something like drugs or alcohol or cigarettes.  I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life.  But you know what?  Addiction, if you look up the dictionary definition of it is like a hook.  And I pray for that hook to be released from people now. 

Spirit of addiction, you take your filthy hands off of God’s property.  You be set free from drugs or alcohol, anything that’s harmful to your body.  And prescription drugs that are used properly, thank the Lord for that.  But if there’s prescription drugs that are being abused improperly, in the name of Jesus, I pray, sweet one, for you to be set free.

You know, God calls us names like beloved and precious.  And I pray for people who think they are unlovely and unloved right now.  I pray for God to minister to you the very love of God himself.

Jesus in our Prince of Peace.  That means nothing missing, nothing broken.  And anything that’s missing and broken in your life, we pray right now for God who sent His Son Jesus into your behalf, for that God to work a miracle in your life, in Jesus’ name.

For this precious family in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, for financial needs.  (Reading names)  Cancer, in the name of Jesus, I speak to you directly.  The Bible says we can speak to our mountain, according to Mark 11:23, and we can command that thing to be cast into the sea and not doubt in our heart, but believe the things that we say shall come to pass, it shall be as we say. 

In the name of Jesus, I break the stronghold of cancer according to God’s Word and pray in the name of Jesus that cancer is rebuked.  That means, stop it, that’s enough!  In Jesus’ name.

There’s so many of these different names and needs here represented.  (Reading names)  This precious one, Timothy, is praying for a wife.  And I’m in agreement, Father God, for You to send the perfect spouse, for people who are praying for their spouse.  Lord God, I pray in the name of Jesus that people would find the perfect spouse, in Jesus’ name.

(Reading names)  People are beginning to send Seed-Faith gift after Seed-Faith gift.  And I tell you, I am believing—this precious one was $1,000.  (Reading names)

Father God, right now in the name of Jesus, we lift up every need, every name, everything that is unlike God.  And we ask You, my Father God, for divine intervention according to Your Word, in Jesus’ name. 

Don’t forget, you can pick up your telephone.  You can even go on makeyourdaycount.com.  Now, listen, if you go on there on the website, normally this book is actually a book that’s for sale.  But not today.  I’m not selling it.  I’m giving it to you.  Call the Abundant Life Prayer Group.  You can call for your prayer request.  You can put up the number on the screen, that toll-free number, and get this book for free.  Or you can write Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts, Tulsa, OK 74102. If you go on our website, makeyourdaycount.com, and want the book that says Overcoming Stress, it is my free gift to you.

And we pray for whatever it is that you’re going through right now, for God to heal you from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet, in Jesus’ name.  Make it count.

LR: You know, I think that I have a new favorite place on this campus at ORU here.  I think my new favorite place is this spot right here in the Prayer Tower because you can just feel the presence of God.  You can feel the anointing.

This precious lady right over here is praying against fibromyalgia.  And this precious lady right here, you can see them, they’re all praying specifically for specific needs to be met.

And I want to lift up some names and needs right here.  (Reading names)  They go on and on and on.  Right now in the name of Jesus, Father, we just lift up every name and every need.  Lord God, You promised, “Be not deceived, God is not mocked.  Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

And You said when you give in to the kingdom of God, it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.

And according to the Word of God, we pray not only for spiritual miracles, we pray for physical miracles.  We pray for your soul.  That’s your mind, will, and emotions.  And we pray for financial intervention.  We pray for God to take the seeds that you are sowing and to honor His Word by multiplying it back to open the windows of heaven, pour out a blessing where there’s not room enough to receive it, and to rebuke the devourer for your sake.  I am believing for that, in the name of Jesus, amen.

And don’t forget, I want to tell you, you can have the Overcoming Stress book.  You can go on our website, makeyourdaycount.com.  This book I wrote literally out of experience.  It’s called Overcoming Stress.  Take charge of the negative situations that come to attack you.  Overcome them with the Word of God.  Real simple, the way to overcome stress is the Word of God.

The telephone number is a free call, 866-870-6932, 866-870-6932.  When the operator picks up the telephone and you tell that operator you want this book, tell them it’s my free gift to you.  Or you can write Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts, Tulsa, OK 74102.  And I want to send it so that you will be blessed and so God can intervene in the areas where you’re stressed out, and He can turn that stress into blessing, in Jesus’ name.

We’ve got a partners’ spot, and I’m praying that you will become a partner with this ministry.  We love and appreciate our partners.  You know, one scripture says a joint partaker.  A partner is a joint partaker.  As you sow into us, we sow into you, and we become partners together for the kingdom and the glory of God.  So watch this message, and we’re going to be right back here from the Prayer Tower.

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LR: You know, I do want to encourage you to become a partner with this ministry, a joint partaker.  If you look in the book of Philippians 4:13-19, it talks about Paul talking to the church at Philippi and that particular group of people.  That was the group of people that he talked about saying, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

And to that particular group of people, he went on to talk about giving and receiving, sowing and reaping.  And then as they sowed into his ministry, that particular group of people got to go to the next verse that said, “Now my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

That was not a scripture for the whole universe, although the whole universe could tap into it.  That was a scripture for a particular group of people that became partners with his ministry, that sowed and understood that as they sow, they have a Bible right to reap.  As they give, they have a Bible right that on the other end of that giving is receiving.  And the receiving is what?  The receiving is, “My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

LR:
I went to Nigeria by myself.  It was not even quite two weeks after Richard Oral had died.  And Richard was already scheduled to go, so a week earlier he went on ahead and he went to Swaziland.  And he had been there over a week, and then I flew to the Ivory Coast and to Senegal and to Lagos.

And when I got there, I hated the world.  I hated my life.  My son had just died.  He was my third pregnancy.  I’d had surgery after surgery.  I was in surgery for a hysterectomy, and God miraculously, sovereignly healed me.

And so I’m thinking, Next baby’s going to live. Next baby died, full term, died in my arms.  And my life was pretty much, “Let’s go to Nigeria and die.”  Yeah.  If I don’t die physically, let’s just at least go over there and die emotionally.  Because I’m already here in the United States, and everybody already read it in the papers.  Let’s go somewhere where no one knows me and just die there.”

And that was my thought.  As ridiculous as it was, it was reality to me.  And I ran into your mom and dad and Margaret and Benson Idahosa.  And they poured life into me in Nigeria.  We didn’t have a lot of food, and some of the places we went to, we were hungry.  We were physically very hungry.

I was spiritually hungry.  I was emotionally hungry.  And they just kept pouring life into me.  And when I came back, I had told Richard, you know, basically I didn’t want to come home.  I wanted to run away.  And I told him, “Don’t you ever ask me to get pregnant.”

And I’d been fighting the physical aspect of being very, very sick since I was 18 years old of one disease and one thing after another, which finally led to the diagnosis that they had given me.

And so I was coming back home, and I said, “You know, I never want to breathe another breath.”  And here I am flying alone.  I don’t even go to the grocery store alone.  And I’m flying alone to Africa, and I’m stopping in Senegal and I’m stopping in Niger, and I’m stopping in the Ivory Coast.

And I meet your mom and dad, and I meet the Idahosas and I meet Jesus all over again.  And now I tell the story, you know, people say, you know, I’m Lebanese and my husband is Cherokee Indian.  My mom’s Danish.  So we’ve got a lot of stuff going on. You know, my dad’s family was very Lebanese-looking.  My mom’s very Danish, little blue-eyed blond.  And obviously Richard is Cherokee Indian.

And so when people ask me, you know, because Jordan’s got a little aspect of everything, and they say, “Well, what’s her nationality?”

And I say, “Well, basically she’s Nigerian,” because that’s where the hope for Jordan was born.  I came back home.  I had faith to believe I could have a child.  And within about ten months, this is the product of your family and Benson and Margaret putting life into me.

So where else would her heart be but Africa?  Where else would it be?  And God puts those seeds in for a reason.  And when He puts those seeds in and people are willing to answer a call like that, what do you do?

If God’s telling you something right now, I just really want to tell you this, don’t overlook it.  When they said about building a school, when Amber put that thought in Jordan’s mind, when the Holy Spirit put it in her mind to go to Niger, she could have just passed it over and said, “Well, maybe in ten years I’ll do that.  Maybe in twenty years we’ll build the school.”

But she said, “No, let’s do it now.  We can do it now.”

If God is telling you that, if He’s telling you to hook up with their ministry, if He’s telling you to pay for their ministry, do it.  Do it right now.  Don’t let the opportunity for obedience pass you by.

And the easiest way you can do it is pick up your telephone right now, area code 918-495-7777, Abundant Life Prayer Group.  They will pray for you, and they will ask God to anoint this and bless it, 918-495-7777.  Or you can write Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts, Tulsa, OK 74102.

The second thing I encourage you to do is go to makeyourdaycount.com.  That’s our website, makeyourdaycount.com, easy to do.  We will link you over to that.  We’ll link you over to Revolution.  Revolution is the album that the kids have done, and it is one magnificent spiritual worship album, again, proceeds going to Hunger Needs a Voice.  And that is the whole program that these kids have developed for this purpose.

And I want to encourage you to it.  Don’t sit back and say, “Maybe it’s for somebody else,” because if God’s tugging on your heart, it’s for you.”  So I encourage you to do that, and please stay tuned because we’re going to be right back.

LR:

Well, I don’t know about you, but I tell you, every time I hear about what happened in Niger, what’s been happening in Africa, what’s been happening with ORU students who actually can’t wait to go to places like Niger and bring the gospel of Jesus Christ, feeding teams, dental teams, medical teams, nursing teams, evangelistic teams, and now the possibility—in fact, it’s not even a possibility, it’s already been started—opening a school in Niger.

I thank God for kids in ORU that feel the call to take God’s healing power to many, many nations, including the nation of Niger.

And I want to encourage you, if you’d like to be a part of it, go to makeyourdaycount.com.  That’s all you have to do is go to makeyourdaycount.com, and we’ll tell you all about it.  Make it count today.

LR:
The kids came back, and they came back with a passion and a zeal.  And I want to say insight.  They began to think of ideas with the Revolution album.  They began to think of a school, they began, they began, they began.

            I think sometimes God just has to let us kick-start in the place we’re going to go, and then suddenly when we ourselves kick-started, all of the sudden ideas and concepts and thoughts and provision starts literally—it’s just like Amber and Jordan said, Amber threw out the idea.  And like Jordan said, “Yeah, that’s an idea.”  But instantly the spirit of faith hit her, “Wait a minute.  That’s not an idea.  We can do this.”

            And these are kids in their early twenties.  These girls are gradating this year from ORU.  They finished their coursework early, typical of Amber and Jordan and Haley and these babies.  And they got done early and they didn’t get to walk across the platform.  She’ll get to walk in May.  And they were finished, Amber I think almost a year early, Jordan a semester early.

            And these are kids.  These are kids, barely in the beginning of their twenties.  And yet they’re building schools and visions and things.  And they believe it’s doable.  It’s not like, “Okay, in 20 years, we’re going—-well, if God.”  No, God is now.  God’s sending them.  The need is now.

            And so I want to encourage you of that, you know, if God lays it on your heart—I don’t even think Jordan thought about it.  I don’t think you even thought—a negative thought never crossed your mind.  First is the idea, and then, “We can do this thing.”

            And I think God’s looking for that.  If people will just hear the idea and say, “Yes, Lord, we can do this thing,” that’s faith.  And then I believe as God dropped that and you have faith for it, what He orders He pays for.  And we’ve seen the provisions just start rolling in.

 DC:
We’ve had a desire for years since arriving in Niger to do a school and just didn’t know how that was going to happen, but it was, again, one of those seeds that was in there.  And God connected us with another organization that was looking to build schools in Niger.

 NC:
They built our first building—

 DC:

And that’s how our first school got built, our first three classroom block, and we’re now finishing our second year and now needing to build a second three classroom block so we can add another class this year.