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Make Your Day Count with Lindsay Roberts

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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.”


March 19th, 2010 |



Lindsay Roberts LIVE welcomes Neal and Danette Childs

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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.


March 12th, 2010 |



Lindsay Roberts LIVE welcomes Neal and Danette Childs

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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.

 


March 5th, 2010 |



Lindsay Roberts LIVE welcomes Neal and Danette Childs

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DC:
But in recent years I believe that famine that we had in 2005, a news person, the media got hold of it and finally started to air, and that’s when it started becoming a forgotten crisis.  But God has not forgotten Niger.

LR:
God was raising up a bunch of kids.

 DC:
We believe there’s more people out there that God has called to Niger that need to answer that call.

LR:
The number-one need, Neal, practically and logically speaking, the kind of people you need, the kind of—and I know you’re starting school.  I mean, you are right in the process—

 NC:

Well, we need people that have a vision to reach the unreached, that’s the first thing.  But we have opportunities in the area of education.  We’re believing for some medical outreach.  But we need people that are really just ready to come and be available, faithfulness and ability is probably the biggest thing.

            You don’t have to have a lot of qualifications.  If you’re ready to say, “Yes, Lord,” He’s ready to use you.  The harvest is great, the laborers are few.  And that’s because the laborers aren’t willing to go. 

            And that’s where we’re just telling people, “Come.  It’s time.  You’ve got to answer the call to the mission field.  You’ve got to go out and reach the harvest.”

 LR:
Is there air-conditioning?

DC:
No.

LR:

Is it the hottest place in the country, in the world?  Yes.  Is it a mission field?  Yes.  Is it the poorest country in the world?  Yes.  Are people starving?  Yes.

 NC:
But, you know, it doesn’t matter.  I mean, it doesn’t affect you if you’re hot.  When you’re leading somebody to Christ, you’re fulfilling the purpose that God had for you.  It doesn’t matter how sweaty you are, whatever it is.  You are telling somebody Jesus loves them for the first time.  It’s awesome!

 DC:
I developed, I guess I would call it maybe a coping mechanism when we first got there.  It is a difficult place to live.  It’s harsh.  It’s a harsh climate.  It’s harsh on your physical body.  It’s harsh on your electronics.  It’s harsh on everything for people there.

            And there was a time I felt discouraged, “What am I doing here?  You mean God really called me to this place?”  And it was just a momentary, it wasn’t a long-term.  But, I mean, it was just one of those—and I was hot, you know.

 NC:

So then we had to say, “Well, you’ve got to get out and go do some ministry.”

 DC:
I had already committed that day to go out to a village.  I wouldn’t have gone, had I not already made the commitment.  And I went out there, and I was with those people.  I was in a village service.  And it was just like, “This is what it’s all about.”  And I came back so renewed and refreshed after being in ministry.

            And Jesus said, “My food is to do the will of my Father.”  And that’s what I realized, so now I know whenever I start felling like that, I need to get out and do some ministry.  And it’s my fix every time.


February 26th, 2010 |



Lindsay Roberts LIVE welcomes Neal and Danette Childs

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JR: We would like to be able to build a school where we’re sending out these meals.  I think that it’s something that seems to be really doable.  Even at the time, my friend Amber was the one who had originally talked about with me.  And when she was talking, she’s just like, “You know, I think it would be great if we could go and build a school.”  But it was just kind of throwing the idea out.

            But as soon as she said it, it was like, “Sure, why not?  Sounds great.”  It’s not like, “Well, that’s nice.  Maybe one day.”  It was like, “We can do this.  We could really make this happen.”

            We were talking about we went to Africa together the first time, so both of us just love it.  And so we were like, “Hey, this is a great idea.  We should go out.  We would love to go out there and help kind of get the ball rolling and then see it once it’s done.” 

            It could really impact a lot of people.  For us, it’s a school, but for them, you know, they get an education, they get food, they get to live for years longer because they get nutrition that could drastically change them.

 LR:
The poverty level, by government, is the poorest country in the world, hottest country in the world.  And you chose to live there.  Go figure!

 NC:
Well, the harvest is great, and we’ve got to go where the harvest is.

 LR:
You know, Christians on the mission field don’t think like other people.  They think in terms of the opportunity as the coolest thing in the world, that God gives you the privilege of doing this.

 DC:
It’s an honor for us to have been a part of something like that.  And what Haley was saying, she’s not alone.  When people come to Niger, the bug gets them, whatever you want to call it.  I don’t know of any visitor that we’ve had—and we’ve had quite a few over the years—and the people say, “I would pay double for this experience.” 

            And those people by and large are all part of supporting us, part of our partner base, because it’s in them.  They’ve been there, and part of their heart is for that nation.  And I believe that now is the time for Niger.  The windows of heaven are open over Niger.

            When we first started raising our support back in 1997, we would talk to pastors and churches.  And we’d say, “We’re going to Niger.”

            “Oh, Nigeria?”
            “No, no, Niger, because at that time people didn’t even know Niger existed.

 NC:
The news media calls it “the forgotten tragedy,” because it’s just there.


February 19th, 2010 |



Lindsay Roberts LIVE welcomes Neal and Danette Childs

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HH:
What was I thinking?  I’ve said before, for me it was just, “I want to go and I want to be mentored under President Roberts on how this all works, the huge healing rally.  I’ve never been a part of that.  But for me personally going to Niger, something was just birthed in my heart I think while I was there.

            And when I got off the plane even, I don’t know, the airport was small and most of it is like outdoors, it’s really rustic, I like it.  And I just felt at home when I was there.

            I’m thinking, I shouldn’t feel this at home here because I’m on the other side of the planet.  But when I got off the plane, I was like, “This is very strange.  I feel like I’m coming home or something.”

            And for me now, I could definitely see myself personally just being called there and going and going to help these people.  Because it’s not just about going to a country; it’s about helping people.  I mean, these people are in desperate need of Christ. 

            And the people really were just sweet and very easygoing.  Even when we’d come up and they were crippled five minutes ago and now on the stage, they’re just smiling and they walk up.  And they’re walking.  These people, it’s amazing who they are.

            And I just began to fall in love with the people there.  Something about that, it’s not just going to a country.  It’s going to these people that need Christ.

            And you know what?  They saw a live demonstration of signs and wonders in front of them, and it opened something in them.  And of course Neal and Danette are there all the time sharing with them.  But for us to come together and do this huge rally, it blew my socks off.

LR:
When Haley saw the miracles, Jordan laughed at how hard Haley cried and said, “Mom, you’ve got to see Haley.  She’s so cute.”

            And I’m like, “What’s Haley doing?”

            And she said, “You ought to see the pictures.”  And they sent me pictures back.  And Haley is not crying.  Haley is convulsing.  She’s crying so hard when people got healed.

            And I said, “Oh, no, the bug got her!”  The I’ve-got-to-stay-in-Africa bug bit you.  And now Jordan called back and said, “Mom, we can’t get Haley home.”  So we have a funny feeling you guys are going to get her pretty soon. 

            When you went over there, that was your first crusade in an environment like that.  You’ve been to Africa before, been on many crusades with your daddy, not only in this country but around the world.  But this was different.  And you saw an opportunity to impact not just the area where you were in, but to impact an entire nation, as well as impact the people in that nation that were so desperate that even one meal changed people’s lives.

            And, you know, that makes you feel like the job you’re doing has great value.  When it’s like, “Did they hear it?  Did they get the message?  Do they need it?”  No.  They needed it.  They needed the food.  They needed the medicine.  They needed the message, and were, like you said, so grateful and precious for every meal that they had.

        


February 12th, 2010 |



Lindsay Roberts LIVE welcomes Neal and Danette Childs

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LR:
Welcome to Make Your Day Count.  My name is Lindsay Roberts.  And here in Tulsa, Oklahoma we’ve had some very unique things happen on our campus.  One of them is our chapel service that was Danette and Neal Childs.  Now Neal and Danette are former ORU students, but they didn’t stay students here.  They went on to open an amazing work in Niger in Africa.

            Niger is a country that Richard just came from when he had that tremendous crusade that we’ve told so many people about, how the miracles, the miracles were so awesome in Niger. 

            Well, we’re going to talk to them about the need that they still face with the country, with the school that they’re opening, and with the feeding program.  So we want to talk to them, and I believe they will tremendously bless you.  So stay tuned.

LR:

Okay, we’re joined with Neal and Danette Childs over on this side, and we’re joined with Haley and Jordan over on this side.  And today we want to talk about what happened when you all went to Africa.  We’ve said this so many times before about everybody feeling the ministry in Africa over in Niger.

            When the Lord placed it on my husband Richard Roberts’ heart, it seemed like it became a family affair.  It seemed like everybody caught on, kids from the university, medical school, the dental, I mean, just people everywhere were calling.

            In fact, we had doctors calling us and like, “Is it full, is it full, can we go, can we go?”  Getting in the last minute, so excited, “Come on, let us go.”  And it’s like, “Okay, where do we say no?”

            Even with Haley, we were full, everything spent, tickets bought.  And she whined and griped.  No, she was so sweet.  She badgered Richard enough till he wore down and Haley got to go, didn’t you?

HH:
Yes, I did.

LR:

And it was wonderful.  What we want to talk today is, you still have great need.  And I want to start with, what in the world, here are these precious kids, and here are the kids from ORU.  They’re singing.  They’re getting educated.  They’re in America.  And you hear about going to Africa.  Of course she’d already been. 

            But what makes you say—you don’t just drop everything and run to Africa, knowing Richard had already forewarned everybody it was not a Christian country, less than one percent Christians.  They’d never had a crusade like this ever in the history of the country.  And it was the hottest, poorest country by government standards in the world.  What were you thinking?


February 5th, 2010 |



Richard Roberts LIVE with Guests Oral and Evelyn Roberts Part Tenth

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OR:  Richard, right in the midst of this God sent a minister of the gospel across my path, Rev. Green in New Orleans.  You know our dear friend.  (Yes)  And he told me a story, really touched my heart.  He said there was this young man who wanted to be a success and he didn’t know how.  And there was one man in the city that was the most influential, the wealthiest, the most successful, but he couldn’t meet him.  And one day he was thinking about it and he went fishing and looked over and there sat that man fishing.  And he thought, “I wonder how I can meet this man?”  So he walked over and he said, “Mister, my name is so and so, can I fish by you?”  And the man said, “Well, son, sit right down here and be my guest.”  And after a while he said, “Sir, I’ve wanted to be successful all my life and you’re the only successful man I’ve ever met.  Would you tell me how to be a success?” The man said, “Yes, stand on your feet.”  And they stood up and the man promptly shoved him into the water and jumped in right in after him.  And he got him by the hair of the head and plunged him under and then pretty soon jerked him back up, and the boy was trying to get his breath.  He shoved him under again, pulled him up and the guy was trying to breathe. The third time he shoved him under and kept him under until he knew he’d better get him up or he’d drown.  And the boy was just gasping for breath and said, “Mister, why did you do me this way?”  He said, “Son, do you know how you felt when you thought you had only one more breath?”  He said, “Yes.”  He said, “When you want to be a success like you wanted that last breath, you will be a success.”  Somebody said, “Oral Roberts, how much do you want to send God’s medical presence to the nations?”  I said, “I want it just like that boy did who had one more breath or he would die.  I want to live. I want 20 more years in the gospel and I believe God’s going to give them to me.  I’m asking you to stand with me because God’s going to reward you.  You’re going to have favor with God.  When God looks down and sees these medical missionaries all over the earth and the healing teams with them and souls coming to God and the sick being healed, He’s going to look at the ones who sent them.  And I praise God for you.  I’m asking you for two months pledge, pledge this month and next month.  (applause)  Whatever amount God lays on your heart, it may be $50 in July, $50 in August, or $100 or it may be less, it may be more. But do it.  You can’t earn your way to heaven. You’re saved by grace. It’s a gift of God.  But you will be rewarded on your works.  Oh, what a joy it is.  You know, God said this because He believed in us.  (Of course.)  He believed we could do it.  He believed we would do it.

RR:  And He told you to believe it could be done.

OR:  Oh, yes.  When He told me to raise the $8 million, my stomach just turned over.  He said, “I want you to believe you can raise it, believe.”  And I tell you, I’m believing.


January 29th, 2010 |



Richard Roberts LIVE with Guests Oral and Evelyn Roberts Part Ninth

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RR: Dad, I was sitting here thinking back over the years as you were talking. You know, there’s no group of people in the history of this country that have done what the partners of this ministry have done. I remember as a little boy how we had a farm and you’d pitch a tent and our partners would come from all over America and Canada and from foreign nations and how you would say, “We’re going to build a university, will you help me build dormitories, will you help me build classrooms, will you help me start with nothing?” And those partners, somehow, I don’t know how, but somehow that got in their soul. It got down in their gut where they live. And they said, “Yes, I’ll help you. I’ll sponsor a mattress. I’ll sponsor a, I’ll sponsor a door. I’ll sponsor some tiling, some carpet. I’ll sponsor the ceiling. Yes, I’ll help you buy books for your library. Yes, I’ll help you build that Prayer Tower.” You know, here we are this summer, we’ve been remodeling some of those original dormitories. And I was thinking of that. And I thought to myself, where else on the face of this earth are there a group of people like the partners of this ministry who have singlehandedly built a university? And I thought, where else on the face of this earth have partners, have men and women like you stood together to raise the only medical center of its kind where the doctors and the nurses are Spirit-filled, they have great medical abilities but they also know to pray? Where else on the face of this earth? (Applause) And I was thinking, there’s no other group of people, there’s no group of people on the face of this earth. You say, what are you trying to say? I’m trying to say what Paul the apostle said to the church at Philippi when he wrote in the 4th chapter, when he said, “Nobody communicated with me except you concerning giving and receiving.” There’s nobody that’s done what you’ve done. There’s no one who has built a university like what you have built through this family. There’s no one like you who has built a medical research center where prayer and medicine science are being joined together. Nobody has done it. Nobody has built a Healing Outreach Center with the Journey Through the Bible like you’ve built. And the good news is, it’s only in its first phase. There’s lots more to come. When you go through the Journey Through the Bible this summer or this fall or whenever you come to Tulsa, the first part is only done and you only get through Genesis. There’s the whole Bible all the way through Revelation to be done. But my point is, nobody has done what you’ve done. And I believe that the partners of this ministry are going to rise to the occasion because we are on the way now. We are not going to lose. We’re going to go over the top for God and the nations of this earth are going to be reached with the medical missionaries. Hallelujah!


January 22nd, 2010 |



Richard Roberts LIVE with Guests Oral and Evelyn Roberts Part Eighth

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OR:  Well, I can only tell you that when God said if I don’t turn it around He’s going to take me to heaven, that I’ve asked Him does He mean it literally.  I know you, do you remember what you said to me when I told you that morning that God had spoken to me?

ER:  Yes.  You said that God told you you were on the last rung of the ladder.  And I said, “Well, honey, that could mean 30 years.  It doesn’t necessarily mean that right now you’re on the last rung of the ladder and you may go tomorrow.”  But then when He spoke to you again and said, “I’ll give you one year to turn this around,” I asked you, “Does He mean literally one year in time as we think of time or in God’s eyes time may mean a different thing?  But why is He so urgent about this?”

OR:  Well, I can only reply in two ways, whether He means literally in 12 months, only He knows.  I know I’m going to obey Him.  But I think for sure He’s trying to get our attention. (Yes, yes.)  Because he’s not got the attention of the church. We as a church have neglected the nations.  There are only 50,000 missionaries in the whole world, only 400 medical missionaries in the whole world.  We have 480,000 preachers in the United States, 530,000 doctors in the United States, only 50,000 missionaries and 400 medical missionaries.  If it takes my life to get people’s attention, sobeit.  But if we obey, in fact, I believe we’re going to obey and God is going to let me live. (Applause) But the second thing is this, I believe God has said this because He’s concerned about the healing of the sick.  Jesus preached and He taught and He healed.  The signs and wonders must be restored to the gospel.  And God raised me up to take His healing power to the people in order to win souls and change lives.  Now I want you to think a minute.  Fifty-one years ago there was a 17-year-old boy lying dying with tuberculosis in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma.  Three doctors, Dr. Shy, Dr. Craig, and Dr. King worked over me.  Finally they took me for prayer and God restored my life.  Don’t you think He is just as concerned about a 17-year-old boy with tuberculosis in Africa, in Asia, in South America, in some nations where the gospel is not allowed to go, where they are desperate for doctors?  Don’t you think He’s concerned about sick people everywhere?  Don’t you think God cares?  I think that’s what this is all about.  And, you know, I’ve only got two months before we open our medical school for the fall semester, 48 brand-new freshmen.  There are 192 in all four classes. I need your help.  I need you to make a two month Seed-Faith pledge and redirect some of your giving where you don’t know for sure it’s winning souls and healing the sick. Because this is good soil.  And He said if you planted in good soil you will get a hundredfold return and He will restore you seven times what the devil has stolen from you.  (Applause)  Pray about this.  I have a good feeling about it.  I feel so good about it.  I’m encouraged about it, and I’m asking you as my partner who stood by me.  I didn’t build all this.  I was just an instrument.  You partners have done this, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.  And God’s going to reward you, you can count on that.  And I’m asking you for a pledge for this month and next month, say $50 this month, $50 in August or $100 in July and $100 in August, or whatever amount, it’s smaller or it’s larger.  I’m talking to somebody who can sponsor an entire student.  I’m talking to some church that needs to redirect your missionary giving to where you know without a doubt that you will win souls and heal the sick.  My mailing address is Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Or Oral Roberts, Tulsa, Oklahoma.  In Canada, Oral Roberts, Toronto, Ontario.  And I tell you, I’d love to hear from you.  In fact, I must hear from you.  And God will put you in His reward system.

 


January 15th, 2010 |



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