While I was away, something bad happened to me. I became sick. And the doctors put me in the hospital. I had never been in the hospital. I had never been sick. And I lay there in that hospital, with the doctors and nurses examining me. And they said to me that I must have surgery. And I began to call on the God I had been running from.
It’s amazing who you call on when you get in trouble. I needed a healing, and so I called on the one I knew who could heal. And I said something very dangerous. I said, “God, if You’ll heal me, I’ll serve You.” And I began to pray. That night in that hospital room, the power of God came into my body. I was healed, and I knew it. (Applause)
The next morning the doctors examined me again, and they canceled my surgery. They released me from the hospital. And I went back to school. I was in another state.
One afternoon I was in my dormitory room taking a nap, and I was awakened by a voice. The voice said, “You’re in the wrong place.”
I sat up on my bed, and I looked around the room, and there was no one there. A second time I heard the same voice, “You’re in the wrong place.” There was no one in my room. I was by myself.
A third time I heard that voice that I know so well tonight. The voice of the Lord said to me, “You’re in the wrong place.”
And I said, “Lord, where is the right place?”
And the Lord spoke to me and said, “Your destiny is not in this university; your destiny is in the university that your father founded.” I did not want to go back to Oral Roberts University. I knew what would happen. I knew that I would get saved, and I knew that God would call me to preach. And I wanted to be a nightclub entertainer. But He had healed me, and He had set me free.
He used an illustration to make a point. He also used the common language of the day. - Richard Roberts
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