Mama said, “No, you get on the airplane and you go with Richard.”

But Richard had already had shots, and he was on his way over there.  And I’m home hemorrhaging.  And I had just come from us burying our baby.  And the Holy Spirit spoke to me, “Get on the airplane and go to Nigeria.”

And I said, “Good.  Because then I can go to Nigeria and die over there and no one will know me.”

But this precious lady here named Margaret Idahosa came up to me, and she sat me in her home and she cooked chicken—and I’m a vegetarian.  And this woman cooked me chicken.  And every time I said, “But, Margaret, I think I’m going to die,” she would say, “No, baby.”

I didn’t feel like a baby.  I felt like a failure.  And she’d say, “No, baby.  No, baby.  You go back.  You go back and try one more time.  No, baby.  No, baby.”

And as soon as I got home, I finally had the strength to say, “Okay, one more time.”  And so you saw my Jordan up there being prophesied over.  That’s Margaret’s baby.  Her name is Jordan Lindsay Ann, but she’s Jordan Lindsay Ann Margaret Idahosa Roberts. 

You be careful who you attach your anointing to.  Be careful what you do with your substance, because people will either move with you, or they’ll choke it out of you. 

Charles and Barbara Green, Cindy.  My Chloe Elisabeth Ann Roberts, satan has tried to kill that baby more times than I can tell you.  And from the day she came out—Barbara, where are you?  This little lady that won’t even stand up, come here.  These people have never missed a birthday.  They’ve never missed a car wreck.  They have never missed Christmas.  They have prayed over my baby and prayed over my baby.  Get up here, you big baby.  And prayed over my baby and prayed over my baby.  And they are the godparents.

Now they know my Chloe.  Chloe, my father-in-law said the day she was born, “That Chloe Elisabeth, she will talk with her eyes,” and she does.  Sometimes good and sometimes you’d better say, “Okay, let’s rethink that.”

And let me tell you something, Oral, from the day she was born, called her Oral Roberts in a dress, because she has a very special and unique substance and unique anointing.  And from the day she came out, this family has prayed over her and prayed over her and prayed over her and prayed over her and never missed a day praying over her. 

Now I want to ask you a really, really serious question.  How many of you in this building have been sick recently, put your hand up.  Be honest.  Be honest.  How many of you have sickness or disease going on in your body?  How many of you know people in your church with sickness and disease?  Stand up.

Now how many of you don’t have enough money to do what you need-too much month at the end of your money?  How many of you have not got enough money to do what God’s called you to do?  Stand up. Now the only people that I’ve asked to stand up are the sick and the poor.  Now look around the room.  Christians are the sickest, poorest bunch of people in the world.  We’ve got it all messed up.  Jesus came so we’d be healed, and He came to give us life and life more abundantly.

 And He said He’d supply all of our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus, which means walls made out of jasper, gates made out of pearl, streets made out of gold.  And here we are sick and broke. And yet we tolerate the spirit that brings it.  And so instead of casting the spirit out that’s created all this mess, we tolerate it and cast the devil out of each other.  And many times we’re casting it out, when it’s not there.  And we’re bringing it in when we shouldn’t be, and we don’t know the difference.  So I’m going to teach you the difference.  Now you can be seated.

I’m going to combine this message with the “L? word.  Everybody turn to your neighbor and say, “Oh, oh, neighbor, she’s preaching on the “L? word,? the difference between the world, w-o-r-l-d, and the word, w-o-r- d is one “L,? w-o-r-d and w-o-r-l-d.  So what’s the difference between the word and the world?  The “L,? one “L? separates us from the word and the world.  So what in the “L? do you want?  What is so important to you about the letter “L? that will take you out of heaven’s gates and put you into eternal damnation for the rest of eternity?

Why do we tolerate Jezebel in the church and beat up on each other?  We don’t wrestle flesh and blood.  We wrestle powers and principalities and rulers of darkness and spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places.  Not!  You know as well as I do, we wrestle each other.  We backbite each other.  We’re ugly to each other.  We don’t forgive each other, and that’s when we act good.  While Jezebel is ripping our guts out.

Remember the woman who was bowed over eighteen years? He said, “Ought not this woman who is a daughter of the Abrahamic blessing…”  Ought not this woman who is in the lineage of Abraham be loosed?  Shouldn’t this woman who is born of the seed of Abraham be loosed.  If you’ve got the blessing of Abraham, He’s saying, you don’t live in this condition.  If you’ve got the blessing of Abraham, you’re not supposed to be broke.

If you’ve got the blessing of Abraham, you’re not supposed to be bent over all these years.  If you’ve got the blessing of Abraham, you’re supposed to be the head and not the tail, looking above and not beneath. And He loosed her. Some of us have got to get loosed today.  CHEERS

You’re bound to the spirit of Jezebel and bound to the spirit of traditions and bound, oh, my God!  What are people going to think?

Who gives a rip?  They think it anyway.  CHEERS  It’s time to get over that.  APPLAUSE

I remember every time-my father was a car dealer.  We were blessed.  My sister liked the apples at the orchard next to us, and my dad didn’t buy the apples.  He bought the orchard.  My family was blessed.  My mother’s sitting right there, always tells everybody, “I’m God’s favorite.”  She thinks she’s teacher’s pet.

Well, you know what?  She is because she thinks she is.  ”As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”  But we had material goods running out our ears.  But then I married a preacher.  LAUGHTER  And I took it all off, and I hid it.  What would people think of me?  And I hid it for probably twenty years-been married almost twenty-two, twenty-three years. And I was ashamed of my blessings because people wrote things in the newspaper.  I wore a wedding band, just a little tiny wedding band, tiny.  You know I took everything off because I didn’t want all these terrible articles.  And I had one article written in Colorado that said, “Lindsay Roberts came to the service dripping in gold.”

Honey, if that’s dripping, you’re poorer than I think.  LAUGHTER  And so that really made me hide everything.  And a couple of years ago, Pat Harrison came up to me and she said, “Where are your gifts.  You’re not using your gifts. And God’s ashamed of that.”

And I went, Okay, gift of the Holy Spirit, the gift of tongues, the gift of interpretation.  She said, “Ah, ah, ah, ah.”  She said, “God has given you material gifts, and you no more get them in your hand than you give them away because you won’t wear them because you’re ashamed of them because you think more about what people say than about what God did for you.  And God is sick of it.”  APPLAUSE

RR: Sue, what is happening in the Abundant Life Prayer Group?

SUE: Well, have you ever heard of crying pain?

RR: Well, yes.

SUE: So bad.

RR: Yes, that it makes you cry, almost writhing in pain.

SUE: Yes.  Elizabeth in Paris, California had that kind of pain. And God has healed her, and she’s going to share her testimony with you this evening.

RR: Okay.  Hello, Elizabeth.

E: Hello.

RR: How are you tonight?

E: Oh, praises God, I’m healed.

RR: Where is Paris, California?

E: By Riverside, toward Riverside.

RR: Okay, I know where it is.  Tell me now, Elizabeth, what’s happened?

E: Oh, praise God.  I come last night from visiting my son.  I had this excruciating pain in my back for over a year, no relief.  Laying down it would pain, sitting up, anywhere. I couldn’t get much sleep at night.  I didn’t know how to lie.  I’d put pillows, it would relieve very little, but nothing’s gone.  I mean, it was just horrible.  I couldn’t do anything.  Standing up it would hurt; laying down it was just excruciating pain.  I would cry from the pain.  I didn’t know what to do.  I prayed but, you know, nothing happened.

So last night I came from my son’s.  I went in my room, and I put Channel 23, I said, “I know Richard and Lindsay, their ministry is for healing.”

Anyway, I put you guys on, and it was almost over.  You said, “Back healings.”  And I said, “Holy Spirit, speak to Richard now about my back.”  And as I said that, you said about the back being healed.

RR: Right at the end of the program?

E: Yeah.  And I felt this warmth come over my body, not realizing what was happening.  But it felt so good, I never felt nothing like this in my life.  It was so comforting.  I just wanted to lay there and stay in that, just like that, oh, not realizing that the pain was gone.

Then after a while, I was like coming to myself, and I said, “Oh, my gosh, the pain is gone.”  I said, “Wait. Is this possible?  Could this be that God could heal?”  And I’m sitting up and lying down and standing and trying all ways for that pain, and I could hardly move.  There was no pain.  Richard, it was gone.

RR: It’s completely gone?

E: Completely gone.

RR: Is it still gone?

E: It’s still gone.

RR: Still gone tonight.

E: Yes.

RR: After twenty-four hours it’s still gone.

E: Yes, it’s still gone.

RR: Oh, we give God praise.  We give God praise.  Elizabeth, thank you for calling.  Give the Lord a great praise.

RR: Join me in welcoming the Chairman of the Board of Regents of Oral Roberts University, our good friend, Marilyn Hickey. Marilyn, yea!  Every time you come on, Marilyn, there is a rush of God’s healing power.  You are in the healing ministry.  I love it when you come on because you always pray for people and we always have God confirm His Word with signs following.

M: Well, that anointing fell on me from the head of this ministry, you know.  You know, the anointing that’s on the head comes on the body.  It’s on your father, on you, on me, on the student body.  So we just are one.

Okay, what is devouring you? Aim your seed against that need and say, “Father God, this, this, this, and this is devouring me.  I plant my seed, and I am expecting a harvest in that field exactly as I plant.”

You know, I plant seed.  ou know I do. You know I like a garden. But if I’m going to plant a tomato seed, I’m going to expect a tomato and not in my neighbor’s garden. I’m going to expect a tomato in my field where I planted my seeds.

We’ve got to treat God the same way. As we sow our seed, we aim our seed to defeat a need and we say, “Father God, I will not be robbed of my harvest because I’m a seed sower,” in Jesus’ name.

RR: Lindsay, I’m learning how to make my life a seed, my love, my time, my prayers, my money, my smiles.

LR: You have a Bible right to do that.

RR: Everything. I’m looking at this program as a seed. I’m investing a seed into people’s lives tonight. I’m looking to God to open me those windows of heaven and pour me out blessings. That’s why ORU, our ministry, is tithing ten percent of every dollar that comes in as income into our ministry. I am doing it and I am expecting God. I’m focusing it.  Like you said, Lindsay, I’m aiming it against a need for a desired result in my life and the life of this university and this ministry. It’s a way of life with me. It’s scriptural.

That’s what my dad was talking about. And it’s time for people to begin to believe that as they sow their seed for God to meet their needs in the way the Bible says. Let’s do it.

LR: I am looking at Y2K.  I am not looking to this person or that person. I am looking to God to supply my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. And when He wrote that scripture, you know He wasn’t worried about Y2K.  He knew exactly what He was doing.

RR: It wasn’t even Y1K yet.

LR: No, your father has a sermon, the whole sermon is titled “It,” it. The whole sermon is on the revelation of two letters it from Luke 6:38, “Give and IT shall be given unto you.”  Whatever it is you give, IT shall be given unto you.

RR: Let’s stop focusing on Y2K and let’s move it to Y2J, yield to Jesus. Yield to Jesus. Instead of Y2K, let’s focus on Y2J.

But you know what? I love the joy set before me. I love those chocolate chip cookies.  The split second they came out of the oven, they were in my mouth. But you know what? They wouldn’t have gotten there

RR: How many?

LR: Never mind. They would not have gotten there an abundance they would not have gotten there without the stirring.

And we have got to stop grumbling and griping and whining and complaining because God does not honor even though the situation may not be where you want it to be, God doesn’t honor our grumbling and griping and whining and complaining.  He honors our faith.

RR: Lindsay, Paul and Silas were stuck in a dark, dingy cell after being nearly beat to death, in chains, in stocks.

LR: And what did they do?

RR: Well, I tell you what they did, they whined, they griped no, they didn’t. They began to praise God even in the midnight hour when the blood no doubt was flowing from their bodies. You can imagine the conditions of that jail cell. We’re talking two thousand years ago, the jail cell conditions there in that area of the world.

What did they do? They didn’t gripe, they didn’t whine, they didn’t complain. In the midst of that terrible condition, they began to praise God. And when they praised God, those jail cells opened up when an earthquake hit. I’ll tell you, when the praise goes up, the walls come down. We’ve got to change our attitude and get what you used to call “an attitude of gratitude.”

LR: That’s right. You know the Bible talks about being a shaking. We compare that to an earthquake today. But let’s think about that.

RR: Well, it’s just a symbol of a shaking in our lives.

LR: It said “a shaking.” And, I tell you, the Bible says, “God inhabits, lives in and dwells in the praises of his people.” When they began to praise God in the midst of that situation, those walls had to start shaking. Because I believe the glory of God came in, and I believe when the glory of God comes in, things get shaken. I believe that.

RR: The world says sometimes when things shake, bad things happen. But when God does the shaking, look what happened. Not only did the jail cell open, but the jailer and his entire family gave their lives to Jesus Christ. Now when God shakes things up, He’s shaking it up good. The world may shake things up for bad, but I’ve got news, God shakes things up for the right reason and brings miracles into people’s lives.

And so there is no question that the world has to figure out, you know, “Who are we talking about?”  Or “I heard that, but I’m not sure about this.” There’s a look on her face that draws their attention upward, because she is looking in His face.

RR: Now, Terri, as a minister of the Gospel yourself, how does a Christian who is out there in the world  we’re in the world, but we don’t have to be of it, but we’re in the world  facing struggles every day, like she faced and also much, much deeper struggles, sickness, disease, fear, doubt, discouragement, bills piling up, not enough money at the end of the month, how does a person stand on the Word of God and believe God and, in the words of Jordan, “I refuse to give up,” how does a person do that? That’s easy for somebody to say, but how do they do it?

TP: Well, it begins with relationship with God. I’ve seen people who have heard the message of faith, which is the foundation of our ministry and in yours, preaching faith and preaching the Word of God and teaching people the principles of the Word of God. But so many people want to take those principles as though they were some formula and work them apart from a relationship with God. And, you know it’s impossible. You can’t work the will of God apart from knowing God and walking with God, having a relationship with God.

And like Madeline said, being so focused on your relationship and knowing Him. When you know God and then you begin to see the principles of how God operates, it’s not a hard thing to do to think of God first. It’s not a hard thing to do to obey God.

You know you were saying that we can have the Bible in our hands but not have it in our heart. But there are people that can put the Word in their heart, but they don’t act on it. They don’t obey. And Jesus said, “If you love me, and if you know me, then you do what I tell you to do. You’ll do it.”  And walking with God is that knowing Him and then doing what the Bible tells you to do.

OR: a hundred percent payment of all debt. The important thing about that is, it’s wonderful for the students so you don’t have to raise the tuition as much.

LR: Got a lot of hallelujahs out of there.

RR: You got some amen’s in the crowd on that.

OR: Yes, yes, yes, yes.  But the greater thing is, once we do it through Seed Faith, people will learn about it and they will start Seed-Faithing to get out of their debts, to become debt-free themselves.  Right now they’re hung up and they don’t know how to get out of debt and to get out of the bad attitude.

And some of them even blame God at times.  But if you know you’re planting your seed and you’re giving God your best, then you have an absolute right to expect God to give you His best.  And you put your hands out and say, “Thank You, Lord.  I receive your best because I gave you mine.”

RR: Dad and Mother, the other day I met a businessman, stopped me here in Tulsa.  He said, “Richard, I’m a tither.  I tithe into my church as the Bible teaches me.”  But he said, “My wife and I have been praying about doing something for Oral Roberts University.”  He said, “We feel it in our hearts,” and he handed me a check for $1,000 for Oral Roberts University.  He said, “This is our seed for ORU.”

OR: You know

ER: Something great will happen to him.  Something great will happen to him.

OR: I didn’t intend to say this at this time, but it’s a good time because we’re talking about where you live, about your bills, the money you need, the answers to problems that you don’t have, both spiritual and physical and financial and family.  We’re right down to where we live, each of us lives right now.

Each month Richard and I write a teaching letter to the people who write to us, called partners.  Whether they give a little or they give much, we treat them all the same.  But as we write the letter, we include something personal back to them when we answer their letter.  And this is the May letter that you and I have just completed, and it’s called “His Healing Touch.”  It’s our teaching letter.  And, Richard, there is his picture.  He does the first part of the letter, and then this is the way we used to do it   this was before we didn’t know it was sanitary, unsanitary, and unsanitary.

MRS. BLACK: Yes, Brother Roberts.  When I took Gary for a checkup not long ago, the doctor said that the bone had completely healed.  And at the time of his healing, he could hardly believe it.

OR: Well, Gary, do you have any other word to say?

G: Nope.

OR: That’s it.  God bless you.  Who do you give the glory to?

G: Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

OR: Thank you, son.  He’s the one who deserves it.

RR: I can’t watch that except feel, so many times I was there.  I saw those miracles.  You know, Gary, Gary grew up, went to Vietnam.

OR: Twice.

RR: Twice.  Worked in construction.  He’s living in Ordville, California, and he’s on the phone right now.

OR: Oh, no!

RR: Gary.

G: Yes.

RR: Gary Pridemore?

G: Yes sir.

RR: Gary Pridemore, I want you to meet my dad, Oral Roberts.

G: Oral.

OR: Gary.

G: You still out there, Buddy?

OR: Are you there?

G: Yes sir.

OR: Is this you?

G: Yes sir.

OR: How old are you now?

G: Oh, you don’t want to know.

OR: You are, you are, I’ll tell you, 43, 49.

G: Thank you.  Fifty, Sir.

OR: Well, I missed it a year.  But you were six, I believe, when they brought you.

G: You bet.

OR: And when did you give your heart to the Lord?

G: Well, I’ve been giving my heart to the Lord all my life, sir.

OR: But when you came back from Vietnam, I heard that you were not really serving the Lord.

G: To some degree I wasn’t.

OR: But you are serving Him now.

G: No, actually, He’s been a part of my life from day one.  It’s just, you came along and, you know, Oral, I tell you, that, you know, anytime, anywhere, any place, it just seems like whether especially in this part of my life, I’m realizing that there is a God.  I just went through a two and a half month program where I lost my right leg, my right leg.  And, oh, I thank, I thank God every day for what I have.  And there isn’t a day that doesn’t go by that you’re not a part of my life.

ER: Gary, do you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?  Have you really committed your life to Jesus?

G: Yes.

ER: Well, that’s good.  Praise God for that.

OR: Richard, I didn’t know you were going to do this.  I haven’t talked to Gary since that night.  I haven’t known, except by a friend who told me he had been to Vietnam on two different missions

RR: Well, today, yesterday, actually, we began a search and we found him in Northern California.

RR: Lindsay, there are people that are watching right now that have needs in their lives of their children, sickness, disease, fear, things that come on their children.  As a mom, I wish you’d just stretch out your hands right now and pray over children.

There’s one thing we do every day.  Every night we put a Holy Ghost prayer covering over our children, that no harm shall come against, no plague shall come near our dwelling, against our family.  I wish you’d just pray a prayer cover over children right now.

LR: Father, in the name of Jesus, I just lift up babies right now. You know, your baby may be 50 or 60 or 70, but they’re still your baby.

RR: Or two or one.

LR: Or two.

RR: Six months.

LR: Your children will always be your children, it doesn’t matter if they outgrow you or taller than you are or older than, older, but it doesn’t matter, they’re still your children; they’re still your babies.  And I believe God has a special place in mother’s hearts, and I believe He honors a mother’s prayer.

And I speak in the name of Jesus, not my name my name will come and go but in the name of Jesus, the name that’s above every name named in heaven and earth, I speak life and health and most of all protection, a Holy Ghost prayer cover over your children, from the crown of their head to the soles of their feet, for your children to grow up and serve God, for your children to grow up and be healthy and strong.

And maybe your children have run away from God.  Maybe they’re still running.  Maybe they’re running away for 50 or 60 years, but in the name of Jesus, I speak according to the Word of God and I ask the Father to send the right people to cross their paths.

RR: To comfort them.

LR: To lead them into the kingdom of God.  I speak healing into your children, protection into your children.  Maybe your children are in a situation that scares you.  I speak peace of mind to you and protection to your children, in the name of Jesus.

RR: In Jesus’ name.  You might want to call and let us know the name of that child.  Here’s Joe calling from Daytona Beach, Florida. “Watching your program.  I had an allergic reaction on my elbow, itching, painful, scar, but when you prayed, the scar is gone and the pain is stopped.  The scar is totally disappeared.  I’m healed.  And, also, while the prayer partner was praying for me, I was baptized in the Holy Spirit.