You are a spirit.  You have a mind, and you live in a body.  But that’s not what secular education teaches you.  Secular education teaches you that you are a mind and, therefore, you are to promote and enrich your mind.

Well, that’s only half true.  Yes, you are to promote and enrich your mind.  That’s why we have academic programs here at ORU.  That’s why we’re accredited on every level.  But it’s not just about your mind.  It’s about your spirit man too.

That’s why we have chapels.  I was just taping television early this morning with Napoleon Kaufman.  He spoke to you in chapel yesterday.  And he was talking about being, you know, an all-star running back for the Oakland Raiders and how in the middle of it, he discovered that the fame, the money, the women that were waiting for him when he got to the hotel, all that was not worth losing his opportunity to have a relationship with God.

Now he realized that all of that, as wonderful as the world treats that and the five million dollars in his pocket and all that, it didn’t give fulfillment.  And he said he came to the realization while he was on the field one day, a practice field of the Oakland Raiders, that he needed God.  And it came through one of his teammates, who was an outspoken Christian.

And Napoleon was giving the testimony this morning.  He said, “I was there on the field, the practice field, one day in Oakland, you know, getting ready for a game.  And, you know, I got tackled,” or something, whatever happened.

And he said, “I just let out a whole stream of curse words.  And one of these guys on my team walked up to me and said, “You know what?  You don’t really need to be doing that because you don’t have any idea how God can really use your life.”

And the person at the gate said it takes a key to get in, and only one person has that key.  And that key is with her estate.  And I said, “OK.”  That didn’t stop me.  And do you remember what the man said?

RR: Yeah, the man said, “This is your lucky day.  I have a key.”

LR:  He said, “In fact, I’ve been waiting for you.”

RR: And he handed her the key, and she gave the key to me, and I unlocked the gate, and we walked in, and I turned around and looked, and he was gone.  Crutches and all.  No car, no way for him to get anywhere.

LR: I have never told this story because most people think I’m crazy to begin with.  Now you have proof.

RR: Well, I got news:  I’m not crazy.  That was an angel.  Because no human being with braces and crutches could have gotten away from that place in a matter of seconds without a trace.

LR: Not to mention steps to go down, and there were steps to go down.

RR: And the Bible speaks of us being in the presence of angels.  I saw one.

LR: And at that moment, we both looked at each other and said,

“God is teaching us something.”

I have a friend by the name of Reba Rambo McGuire, Dotty McGuire’s daughter, Dotty Rambo’s daughter.  And she was in a store in California once.  And in that store – she had size 7 feet – and she had found all these shoes, but she had found one pair she wanted, and lo and behold couldn’t find but one shoe, couldn’t find but one shoe.  And they’re getting ready to leave, and finally Donnie was saying, “If you’re not leaving, I am.”

You get a glimpse of God, even if it’s in The Passion, and you will never be the same. “Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand which he had taken with tongs from off of the altar. And he laid it upon my mouth.”

Some of us need a cleansing in our mouth.  Maybe we don’t say cuss words, but do we say words that are not in harmony with the Word of God.  What do you use your mouth for?  For faith?  For fear?  To disagree with the Word of God?  “I’m an idiot.  I’m stupid.  I’m dumb.  I’ll never amount to anything.  Oh, God couldn’t use me.”  About time you took a coal and burned that word off your lips, “cause I’m going to show you how He can.”

“And he laid it upon my mouth and said, “Lo, this that has touched your lips and thine iniquity is now taken away and your sins have just been purged.”

“And I heard the voice of the Lord again, saying, “Who shall I send?  Who will go for Me?”  And I said, “Here am I, Lord.  Send me.?”

We need a “Here am I, Lord, send me,? session today, and that’s about what we’re going to get. Over here, John G. Lake wrote – now remember something; John G. Lake was born in 1870.  So this was a little while ago.  He said:

“Disease is dis-ease.  Let’s make it two words, broken law, wrecked ease, ease that has now been destroyed.  Ease is health and dis-ease is sickness.

“There are three kinds of sickness: sickness in the body, sickness in the soul, and sickness in the spirit.”  And he’s talking about needing a whole man, body, mind and spirit.  Isn’t that funny, in 1960, that was the label that God used through Oral Roberts on this university, “Whole man, body, mind, and spirit.”  John G. Lake got it in 1870.

Uncle Lonzo one day decided to tell his sweet young nephew that he was going to come and visit him, and his nephew was all excited because now Uncle Lonzo was going to get to meet Jimmy’s best friend.  And his best friend was just learning to play the guitar; and he said, “I promise you, I promise you, I promise you – I can get Uncle Lonzo to teach you how to play the guitar.”  So he did.

Well, as the story is told, Uncle Lonzo comes into town, and Uncle Lonzo says, “I’ll teach your friend.  I’ll be happy to. Just bring him over in the house.”  And his parents said,  ”Absolutely not.”

And I won’t tell you the name that he called this young man because I don’t like to talk like that, but I’ll tell you this much: They said, “Absolutely not, under no circumstance.”

When Uncle Lonzo saw the look on Jimmy’s face, he said,  ”I’ll make you a deal.  When your friend comes down the road, we’ll just go outside and sit on the curb.  And we’ll just sit down, and I’ll teach your friend how to play the guitar and how to tune his guitar.  I’ll do whatever you ask me to do.”

So down the road comes his friend with a guitar that was only held on by one string, that was his guitar strap, and knowing that he couldn’t get near the house, Jimmy and Uncle Lonzo went out and met him and said, “Let’s just sit out here on the curb.”  And Uncle Lonzo spent hours with this young man and taught him how to play the guitar, just two or three simple chords; and taught him how to tune his guitar.  And the little boy went home and his parents ripped Jimmy, and said, “Never again, under any circumstances, are you to be with that young man.  He is from the  ”wrong side of the tracks.?”

So Jimmy lost contact with his friend, until one day he read about his friend.  And billions of dollars later, record label after record label, and movie after movie, he never reunited with his friend, but he knew his friend did good.  His friend was named Elvis Presley.

In the last ten years, I’ve given out almost a million prayer cloths.  There’s nothing special about the cloth, but the cloth contains my prayers.  I’ve laid my hands on it and I prayed.  And then I have sent it out, nearly a million of them, all over the world.  And almost every day we get a testimony of someone who’s used that prayer cloth as a point of contact.

One woman took the prayer cloth to the hospital.  Her husband was in a coma.  She pinned it to his pajamas.  The doctor said, “Take that off.”  She said, “No.  That is my point of contact for my husband’s healing.”  She knew there was no power in the cloth, but the cloth was a symbol of the healing power of Jesus.  And her husband came out of the coma and was released from the hospital.  That actually happened.

Richard Roberts – Those are just six methods.  They’re not the only methods, but they are some of the methods that God uses through me.  But I have news for you, if you will believe and if you will trust Him, He will use those methods through you because God is no respecter of persons.  If He’ll do it through me, He’ll do it through you.