My almost useless left arm is totally healed!

The problems with my arm started 20 years ago when I noticed lumps on my back and underneath my left arm. The lumps turned out to be blood tumors. I had surgery to remove the tumors, but afterwards I had a lot of problems recovering from the surgery.

The surgery left lots of scar tissue and weakened the muscles in my left arm. To make matters worse, I fell down a flight of stairs and broke my left elbow. And when I broke my elbow, it offset my wrist. In order to fix my elbow, it looked like doctors might have to re-break it, and they weren’t absolutely sure that would solve the problem anyway.

I didn’t want to further injure my elbow, so I decided to live with my elbow and wrist the way they were. Un­fortunately, that’s not all I had to deal with. I developed a horrible skin condition on my left hand. The itching was tormenting. It would wake me up at night and I would have to scratch it with a brush, just scrubbing it.

I suffered with these problems—a weakened shoulder and arm, offset elbow and wrist, and a tormenting rash—for more than 12 years. I thought my left arm couldn’t get much worse. But then my doctor found more painful tumors in my shoulder. By the time the doctor tried to repair my arm from the first surgery, plus remove more tumors, my arm basically had very little left to hold it up.

About that time, I began watching The Hour of Healing on TV. One night, Richard Roberts gave a word of knowledge from God that someone with a skin condition on their left hand was being healed. The next day, I realized that I hadn’t woken up in the middle of the night to scratch my wrist and hand. In fact, the rash was completely gone, and it’s been gone ever since.

Well, I knew if God could heal my left hand, He could heal the rest of my arm. I continued believ­ing God for my healing and watching The Hour of healing…and one day it happened! I was watching TV and Richard Roberts said, “The Lord is healing someone of a shoulder problem. If that’s you, I encourage you to begin to do something you couldn’t do before.”

So I stood up and immediately raised my hands. Before, I could only raise my left arm a little ways, but that time, I could raise it all the way up! And I put my hand down and turned it over—something I could not do before. Then I tried to open up my hand, and it opened all the way. I knew at that point that I was completely healed! My whole family rejoiced at my healing miracle.

Dianne from Florida

I’m Free of Tormenting Eczema!

As a Certified Nursing Assistant working in a nurs­ing home, I had to wash my hands several times a day. However, for 45 long years I had suffered with eczema on my hands, and this repeated washing was sheer tor­ture! Bleach, dish detergent, and even most hand lotions would cause my hands to break out in a terrible rash, and sometimes cause my fingernails to come off. It felt like the soap would eat the skin right off my hands!

Medication only calmed the reaction, but nothing the doctors did would make the terrible itching, red­ness, and blisters go away. All my husband could do was stand by helplessly, watching me suffer. Besides the pain, I was so embarrassed by the way my hands looked. But I didn’t know what else to do. After decades of misery, I had all but given up hope of ever be­ing free of the tormenting rash.

I started watching The Hour of Healing and loved hearing the testimonies of people who told about God healing them. One night, Richard Roberts encouraged anyone who needed a healing to lay their hands on their TV screen as he prayed, as a point of contact to release their faith to God. Longing to be free of this condition, I put my hands out in faith. I didn’t tell anyone what I had done, and pretty soon I forgot about it. But after a few weeks passed, I noticed I wasn’t scratching my hands anymore. Still, I wasn’t convinced it was gone for good.

Then Thanksgiving came around—the time of year that caused me some of the worst times of pain as I prepared lots of food for the holiday. But instead, I was able to announce to my family gathered around the dinner table that day that I’d been healed. Every­one could see my hands were as good as new. It was the most joyous holiday ever!

I haven’t had a problem with eczema since that won­derful night I prayed with Richard over the TV and released my faith for a miracle! Now I can do what­ever needs to be done—cleaning, cooking, even yard work—without any problems at all. Even after 45 years of agony, there’s no scarring of any kind. In fact, to look at my hands, you’d never guess anything was ever wrong with them.

My husband says, “It’s wonderful! We just give all the glory to God.”

Gay from Pennsylvania

Now, that’s an unusual thing for a snake to do.  Anybody who knows much about snakes knows, that should they bight someone, they immediately retreat.  But this snake didn’t do that.  This snake reminds me of the devil.  This snake fastened on to Paul’s arm, and clung to him, and continued to pump the venomous poison into his body.  And the people looked and saw it, and they knew history.  They knew that whenever that type of poisonous snake bit someone, they knew that that person would collapse, they would swell up, and it wouldn’t be long until they died.  Paul stood there with that beast, that snake, fastened onto his hand.  And he began to shake his arm until he shook that snake off.  But the people said, “He escaped the sea, but God has tracked him down.  Devine providence will take him out.  He must be a murderer.  He must have done something terribly wrong.”  And they waited for him to die.  Paul did not speak a word.

Now, that’s one of the hardest things in life to do.  One thing I have learned all through these years from my father, when something comes against you, when people come against you, when they sell all manner of evil against you, when they create things about you that aren’t true, it’s so difficult to keep your mouth closed.  But the Bible records that Paul did not respond.  He didn’t answer.  His faith was so strong, and after a while, the Bible says, after a while.  Once I was reading that scripture, and it reminded me, the phrase “after a while,” it reminded me of the movie, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”  I don’t know if you ever saw that western.  It starred Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Paul Newman playing Butch Cassidy, and Robert Redford playing the part of the Sundance Kid.

So many times on this program I send the Word, according to Psalm 107:20, which says, “He sent His Word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.”  One day, Lindsay and I were on the program and God gave me a word of knowledge about a crippled foot.  I began to say, “There’s someone watching who has a crippled foot.”  I didn’t know there was a little girl named Emily, in Hayden, AL, who had been born with bowed legs.  I didn’t know that her feet were crooked and turned in.  I didn’t know that the doctors had said perhaps when she grows up her legs may straighten out, her feet may straighten out, and as she grew, one leg did but the other leg and the other foot didn’t.  I didn’t know that she was watching me on television.  But a miracle happened in her life.  And when it did, we got word, and we sent our cameras down to Alabama to get the story.  I want you to see the result of sending the Word.  Go with me to Hayden, AL and see Emily for yourself.

Living Proof: Emily from Hayden, AL

RR:  God healed her in the middle of the everydayness of her life.

The fourth thing I want you to notice about this story is that faith is when you reach a point where you can no longer doubt.  That’s when you doubt your doubts and you believe your beliefs.  Faith is a knowing that God is going to move in your behalf.  Little Emily knew, she knew.  She said it, she knew God was going to touch her foot, and heal the crookedness, and make it straight.

Second Kings 5 tells us about Naaman the Syrian, when he obeyed the Word of the Lord given by the prophet Elisha. As he dipped seven times in the Jordan River, he was healed of leprosy.

Now, this was a very unusual miracle for several reasons. First of all, Naaman was a powerful man—the commander of the Syrian army—and he was not a worshipper of the Lord.

But he was also a leper. In those days, leprosy was a frightening disease. It caused skin lesions that left people horribly disfigured. It damaged nerves and left its victims weak in their body. Many lepers lost the use of their hands and feet, and many died. It was a terrible disease that limited people physically and often socially!

The sickness that had come against Naaman was from the devil, not God. This is so important to understand! Why would God want to teach you something by making you sick, poor, or oppressed? Why would He go against the truth in the Bible which says, God is your Healer? I believe He wants to take the limits off your life so you can live fully for Him!

Money has many purposes—and it can have a spiritual purpose and mission if we use it as the Lord directs us to use it. I believe God’s people must be a part of a transfer of wealth into the hands of righteous people in order to fulfill Scripture and send out the teaching, preaching, healing Gospel of Jesus Christ as a witness to the nations in the end times.

Matthew 4:23–25 says, Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. And his fame went throughout…and there followed him great multitudes.

Those people were not just following the man Jesus. They were following the One who taught, who preached, and who healed—the One who could deliver them out of their distresses.

I see a remnant of believers forming who are going to get into the teaching, preaching, and healing message of Jesus Christ. And according to Proverbs 13:22, a portion of the finances of the world are going to be loosed into their hands in the end-time transfer of wealth so they can do it.

In Exodus 12:35–36, the Lord gave the children of Israel favor with the Egyptians and had jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment transferred into their hands the night of their exodus from Egypt.

Woman:  I had my eyes here because I was in residential school, and the nuns, they shaved me bald, and put kerosene or gasoline in my eyes.  Some seeped into my eyes.

Richard Roberts (RR):  So you had a real problem when you came tonight?

Woman:  I did.

RR:  What happened when we prayed?

Woman:  Everything’s clear.  I used to have sore eyes…

RR:  How long ago did that happen?

Woman:  I was about six years old.

RR:  You were six?

Woman:  Yes, that’s why I had to use bifocals.

RR:  You were six, so many years ago?

Woman:  Yes.

RR:  Look around.  Are your eyes clear tonight?

Woman:  Yes.

RR:  You see clearly?

Woman:  Yes I do.

RR:  Oh give thanks to the Lord!  And your hearing?

Woman:  And I had a perforated ear drum, and might have surgery.

RR:  You had a perforated ear drum?

Woman:  Both of them.

RR:  Supposed to have surgery?

Woman:  Yes.

RR:  What did you feel when we prayed about hearing?

Woman:  Heat like, inside.

RR:  Heat?

Woman:  Yeah.

RR:  Can you hear clearly now?

Woman:  Yeah.

RR:  In both ears?

Woman:  Yeah.

RR:  Oh, give praise to God!  Did you receive a healing?  Come here, come here.  You had pain where?

Man:  Down my right leg, and I don’t have the pain right now.

RR:  How long have you had the pain?

Man:  For seven years, my…

RR:  Seven years?

Man:  Yeah.

RR:  The pain is gone?

Man:  The pain is gone.

RR:  You know it’s gone?

Man:  I know.

RR:  Somebody give a shout of praise to God!  Young lady, what happened to you tonight?

Girl:  Um, I…

RR:  Did you receive a healing?

Girl:  Yes.

RR:  Well, tell me about it.

Girl:  From Eczema.

RR:  Eczema.  You had it on your skin?

Girl:  Yeah.

RR:  Where was it on your skin?

Girl:  On my knee.

RR:  On your knee?  Is it gone?

Girl:  Yes.

RR:  You sure?

Girl:  Yes.

RR:  Did you check it?

Girl:  Yes.

RR:  Show me.  Well, there’s no eczema there.  It’s gone isn’t it?

Girl:  Yeah.

Alright, there you see the information about Roy, and where our ministry headquarters is here in Canada.  On the other side of that pull-out there are some specific testimonies that have happened here in Canada.  Right over there Mike, real quickly, real quickly.  Now, go back to the main section.  Your gifts reach people all over the world.  Let me give you just a little idea what we’re involved in.  Each gift you make to the Oral Roberts Ministry supports vital outreaches so that we can share the power…I’m on the left side by the way.  We can share the power and love of God around the world, with everyone who will hear and receive Him.

Then you see the little red square there.  The Abundant Life Prayer Group, how many of you at one time or another in your life have called the Abundant Life Prayer Group for prayer?  Since 1958, my father began the prayer group in 1958.  Our prayer group has been meeting people’s needs twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, through the power of prayer.  It never closes.  We have prayer partners on duty around the clock every day of the year.  It never shuts down.  Even when we had the biggest snow storm we’ve had in the history of our city, this past year, the Abundant Life Prayer Group never shut down.  We’ve had more than twenty-four million telephone calls since 1958.  More than 50 years later, the Abundant Life Prayer Group handles as many as three-thousand calls every day for prayer, offering hope and strength to people in trouble.  And those men and women are anointed by the Holy Spirit; and you know it because you call them, and you receive their prayers.  And people call in daily to share how their very prayers have been miraculously answered.  It’s costing me about $1,000,000 a year to operate that prayer group.

While you’re waiting I’ll tell you a story.  Years ago, my dad and I, back in the 70’s.  How many of you remember the 70’s?  Back in the 70’s my father and I were guests on this national television program called the Merv Griffin Show.  Many of you remember that show.  He had lots of Hollywood stars, and I don’t know how my dad and I got invited to be on, but we did.  And he was being interviewed, and I was supposed to sing.  And there were a lot of Hollywood types there on the program with him, and some really famous people were there, and here was Oral Roberts in the middle of them. And here I was singing you know, with their band.  And it was quite an event.  Well, when the show was over we went out through the artist’s entrance and exit.  And there were a bunch of people out there with their cameras and their autograph books, wanting to get autographs and pictures with the stars who were on the show.  And they were all over the stars, and they were on my dad.  And somebody, one woman, came over and looked at me, and said, “Are you anybody?”  You know, I must have been twenty, twenty-four, twenty-five years old.  And I said, “Well, I guess not.”  She said, “Well, just sign in case you ever become anybody.”  That’s a true story.  That’s gonna be in the book to.

Alright now, anybody else not have one?  Alright, looks like everyone is served.  Let’s look at the front now.  “Your partnership is reaching farther than you ever imagined.”  I’m talking about how grateful I am for your partnership, for we’re moving forward in every area of ministry, expanding our outreaches through television, healing crusades, food distribution, books, DVD’s, CD’s, the new School of the Spirit, which are classes that I am teaching, and that Lindsay is teaching, in English and in Spanish; and other opportunities that open on a daily basis, s we serve the Lord.

RR:  So, what he’s against, you’re for?

LR:  Yeah, if it’s that important to the Kingdom of God, we need to perk up and pay attention.  And if it’s so important, that seeds so important to the Kingdom of God, He said the Kingdom of God is as a seed.  And we’re to seek first the Kingdom, and Jesus said, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done here on this earth.”  So, that whole Kingdom mentality is of such importance, and it’s related to the seed that satan comes immediately to steal that seed.  Satan pays attention.  Why shouldn’t we?

HK:  You know what Lindsay, I just want to share a hilarious story.  You know, when I was in elementary school, we had to, I don’t know if you all remember, taking a bean, like a seed and put it into a little Styrofoam cup with dirt.

RR:  Yes.

LR:  Oh yeah.

HK:  Then you had to do like a report on it.  Well, you know what?  After about two weeks, everybody, you know, had “Jack in the beanstalk.”  And the teacher came to me and she said, “Hank, what is wrong here?”  And she grabbed my Styrofoam cup with the dirt.  She said, “Are you doing this project?”  I said, “Well, yes mam.”  She said, “Well, where is your plant?”

See, sometimes people, we get the same way, “Where is my harvest?”  You know, “It doesn’t work.”  No, it does work.  Here’s the problem.  Everyday… I planted the seed two weeks prior.  Put dirt in it.  I kept digging it up, yes I did, to look at it, to inspect it.

Richard Roberts:  To inspect the bean?

HK:  Ok?  And all I had two weeks later was the little hole of where I was checking on my seed, and then I blamed it and said, “Well, it didn’t work.”  And here’s the problem, when we sow a financial seed in the Spirit, in the Kingdom of God, it doesn’t look like anything’s happening, just like when you sow a natural seed in the dirt.

LR:  If it wasn’t so important, why…

HK:  Why would he be, why would he come, be interested in grabbing a hold of your seed or talking you out of it?  Because he knows it works.  It was the seed in Jesus Christ that came into the earth, that broke through the earth, that caused us to come into blessing today.

RR:  And He said this ministry is moving forward on every front, and He said, “I want you to move forward on every front.”

LR:  Yes.

Richard Roberts:  Lindsay, Christie out in Rootville, GA has said she got it.  She’s pledging a hundred dollars a month for ten months.  Gayleen in Napien, ON, up in Canada, by credit card, two hundred dollar seed over twelve months.  Annie in East St. Louis, MO (IL?) making a thousand dollar pledge, “I want that book by Brenda, The Supernatural You, and your new album Uncompromising Faith.”  Now, what… we’re giving this album, which I finished only on Friday.  I finished it on Friday before I went up to New York City, and it’s gonna be off the press… is that the right way of saying for a CD, off the press?  In about nine days from now Lindsay.  We’re giving that to everyone who makes a pledge, as well as Hank surprised me last night by giving me copies of his wife’s book The Supernatural You.

LR:  Which is an amazing book.

RR:  It’s going gang busters on amazon.com right now.

LR:  It’s a powerful book.

RR:  Everyone who sows, you’re gonna get this right now in Jesus’ name.  It’s powerful.

LR:  You know, you said something really important, that I think we need to really perk up and pay attention to.  Why is it that satan knows what to pay attention to and we overlook?  You know, if you build a theology on going back and seeing what satan pays attention to, you could learn a lot.