And then your dad got sick, and he got discouraged.  And you know, he called us one day and said, “Would you pray for me?” And I said And we began to pray, and you prayed and I prayed, and out of my mouth I said, “You are Oral, the healed of the Lord.”  And it clicked. That is a statement of faith that we have to understand how Jesus sees us.  The

RR: And he received the healing too.

LR: world may see you and your dad was healed.  And Amy was healed, by the way.  The world may see us as, you know, brown hair or a black jacket or, you know, evangelist, or see somebody as a nurse or How does God see us?  God sees us as the healed of the Lord.  That’s why He sent Jesus.  And we’ve got to recognize that not everybody knows they’re the healed of the Lord.

And I believe it’s our calling to bring healing to people according to what God’s Word says.  There’s nothing like seeing a sick person made well.  There is no way to describe when you find somebody that’s been sick and God gives them a healing report, there’s no excitement like that.

And I can never see doing anything else with my life except telling people about a saving, healing, delivering God and His Son, Jesus.  I can’t imagine every doing anything else.

RR: Lindsay, the healing ministry is what satan hates the most and it’s what the world needs the most.  How I thank God for an opportunity to open my heart to believe and to pray. The phone lines have been busy, people calling the Abundant Life Prayer Group needing the touch of God in their lives.  If you need prayer, you can call right now and let us know exactly what it is.  If you’re receiving a healing tonight, a testimony, call and let us know what God’s doing in your life. I’m not finished tonight.  There’s a lot more that’s in me tonight.

LR: While your dad was praying, and then while Cheryl was singing, I went over to

RR: And I want her to sing again in a minute.

LR: to the ladies that are here from Cancer Treatment Center across the

RR: Yeah, there’s another group here from

LR: the way.

RR: the hospital.

LR: There’s a group.  And I said last night when we prayed, “I want a surprise report.  I want to hear a surprise.  I want a good report.  I want a surprise tomorrow.”  And the tumors that they had been watching and they’ve seen, and they just took more of all of the testing, she said have shrunk down to little tiny like fingernails.

And, by the way, Richard, the person that can hurt you the worst is the person that’s closest to you.  We expect the world to do us wrong, but what about another minister?  What about another believer?  See, that’s what David said.  It wasn’t an enemy that reproached me.  Then I could bear it.  David said, “I expect my enemies to hurt me.”

RR: The world would say you only hurt the one you love.

J: Yes, that’s what the world says, that’s right.

LR: You know, for us to be the body of Christ, if the hand starts pounding on the other hand, it has to hurt worse because everybody in the body gets hurt.  You know, if an outsider comes and hits you in the hand, that’s one thing.  But when your hand hits your other hand, you hurt all over.

RR: Now what does medical sciences say about offenses?  What does medical science say about unforgiveness?

J: Well, medical science literally has found out that there is connected to bitterness and unforgiveness, connected with it is rheumatoid arthritis and cancer.  Now not all cases, but it can be.  There is actually one medical doctor that I know of that is prescribing the Bait of Satan book to his patients, rheumatoid arthritis patients and cancer.

RR: Are you serious?

J: I’m not kidding.  He buys them en masse from our ministry and then actually writes on the prescription, Bait of Satan book, and says to the people, “You have to read this book.”  And people are getting healed. See, in meetings God has had me preach on offenses.  I’ve preached it all over the world, Richard, for the last four, five, six years.  In every service I have preached it, fifty to eighty percent of the people respond fifty to eighty percent in every congregation I’ve been in all over the world!  They respond, saying, “I’m holding an offense.”

And in those services we have seen many times people come up to us, saying, “I was healed of this.  I was healed of that.  God totally delivered me.  I’ve believed for years to be healed of this sickness.  I’m healed of it.” And there’s a scripture, listen to this, in Proverbs, chapter 18, verse 14, the Bible says, “The spirit of the man will sustain him in sickness.”  Now if your spirit is weakened because of offense, if it’s wounded because of offense, it cannot sustain you because out of the spirit, out of the heart flow the issues of life.  And so many are poisoned by the root of bitterness. And bitterness is a root.  It fuels that sickness in that body.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS How do people respond when you say, “I’m called of God to go to a certain place.”  And people say to you, “Well, that’s crazy,” you know.

SPKM ARLIE WHITLOW Particularly where we are they say it’s crazy. Northern Virginia is a very exciting place to live.  In fact, you know, I see empty stores and I see empty houses and that’s so strange to us.  Where we are the average median income per household is $45,000.  People put houses up for sale and within 3 and 4 hours they have four and five contracts on them.  So we’re in a very highly developed area.  It’s a place where a lot of successful, a lot of high oriented are there.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS A lot of government people live in that area too?

SPKM ARLIE WHITLOW A lot of government people there.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Go across into Washington every day?

SPKM ARLIE WHITLOW Yes.  In fact, the people that make Washington work don’t live in Washington.  They live in the suburbia areas, either in Maryland or in Virginia where we are.  And so I was down praying about our area one time.  I said, “Lord, show me the spirit of where we are?  What’s happening where we are?”  And the Lord showed me that the horse and the rider of our area was that spirit of poverty, the spirit of intellectual pride and also the spirit of materialism.  As long as material things are in the hands of God’s people, it’s wonderful.  But when material things get in the hands of the wrong people, it produces pride. 

So those two spirits are very loose in our area, the spirit of materialism and the spirit of pride.  So when we went there and we began to, as it were, knock on doors.  I didn’t have any cash

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Just started knocking?

SPKM ARLIE WHITLOW Knocking on doors, handing out fliers.  We’ve got four kids and we used them.  And we started handing these fliers out and started knocking on doors and telling people about the Lord and saying, “The Lord sent me.”  And we got a lot of stares, I mean, we had a lot of funny looks, you know.  But the Lord did send us and two years later He spoke to me, of all things, to put up a gospel tent.  And

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS A tent?

SPKM ARLIE WHITLOW A tent.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS In, outside of Washington?

SPKM ARLIE WHITLOW Route 7, which is the major arterial source going into Washington, D. C., 45,000 cars a day pass that piece of property.  And the Lord had miraculously given me the piece of property debt-free.  Now I put this tent up.  And it was a big one.  It was 50X100.  Your dad would laugh at that, right?  But the Lord filled it up.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS But it was a start.

SPKM ARLIE WHITLOW It was a start.  It was a start.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS  SR01 You know, you’ve got to start somewhere, and don’t despise small beginnings. (RR_Zechariah_04:10 )

SPKM ARLIE WHITLOW Amen. That’s one of my favorite Scriptures now.  But we put that tent up and the Lord filled that one up. The next year we put it up again and now this year we’ve got a larger tent, seats 2,000 people. It’s a big 80X140.  And I am here to horse-collar you and bring you to Northern Virginia for a crusade.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Now I’ve never been horse-collared, at least not lately.

SPKM ARLIE WHITLOW Well, I don’t even know what that is, but I’m after you, you know.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS I appreciate that.  We’ll be praying over it.  Arlie, I know that one of the first contacts that you had with the Oral Roberts Ministry was through the paralysis of your sister when she was 12 years old and the dramatic miracle.  Can you share that testimony?

SPKM ARLIE WHITLOW Yeah, really, it’s a powerful thing.  You know, we have appreciated the ministry of Brother Roberts for a long, long time.  My sister when she was born, she was born with, she was an infantile paralytic.  And she did not walk until she was 10 years of age, and this was back in 1948.  Your daddy was holding a crusade in Goldsboro, North Carolina in a B-29 hangar. And I remember it because

We witness a lot in just the example we set because every hotel that we stay in, every team that we play, you do get to talk to the players. A lot of people think we have chapel every morning and we are forced to do these things, you know, and we have to give money and things like that.  And it’s really, I guess good PR almost for ORU when we have somebody like us that can say, “No, it’s not really like that.  ORU is a really neat place to go to school.”

And aside from the beautiful campus and everything that’s around us, the academics are great and the teachers are more than willing to go out of their way to help us, especially as athletes, because we miss so much.  It’s not strange at all for people to have good grades as on, you know, a lot of other college campuses.  I lived in a town that had a college and it was the average to make C’s and it was the average.  But everything here is above average, and that’s one good thing that I like about ORU.  Everything here is just a little bit above average and everybody tries just a little bit harder, I think.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Thank God for Oral Roberts University, and I’ll be sharing a little  SU04 bit more about that later.  Arlie Whitlow is my special guest today. He is a minister from the Washington, D. C. area.  Arlie, good morning.  God bless you.  We welcome you to Tulsa.  Arlie, before we begin to talk, I just got word while you were watching that story from the ORU girl–and I’ve got something in my eye.  I’m going to get that out in a minute, Lindsay–while she was giving that report on ORU, she’s one of our Lady Titan basketball players–yeah, I’ll get it out in a minute–we got this word from the word of knowledge that I gave earlier in the program when I was in the Prayer Group with you, holding that soap.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS I remember it.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS There was a word of knowledge that the Lord gave me and it came through the Abundant Life Prayer Group just a few moments ago.  This is Mildred Chandler calling from right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “Praise God, Richard, for your ministry. I’ve had a terrible time for several weeks getting around due to arthritis in my knee.  This morning, just now, you had a word of knowledge when you and Lindsay were up in the Prayer Group, a word of knowledge about someone being healed in the knee.  I knew it was me.  All the pain left immediately. I am completely healed.  My husband is one of your prayer partners with the

Abundant Life Prayer Group and we really believe in your ministry.  Thank you again.  Thank you for being on television. Thank you for being there.”  (Applause)  Hallelujah]  Thank God for Him confirming His word with miracles and signs and wonders. Arlie, you minister in one of the suburbs of Washington, D. C., in the Virginia area.  You started with 35 people.  Your church has now grown, more than 500 people.  How did you get started in the ministry?

SPKM ARLIE WHITLOW Well, I’m the son of a pastor and dad’s been in the ministry now some 50 some odd years.  And we’ve always been in the deep South and South Carolina and that area, Georgia area.  And then the Lord led us through Bishop Meares, who is my pastor and has been for a long time, he kept asking me to come to Washington, D. C. and I knew that was the flesh, that couldn’t be God.  If I’m going to go anywhere, I’m going to go South, not North.  But the Lord did lead us and He did in fact lead us there and we started.  And we didn’t know a soul there in that whole area, with the exception of one elderly man down in Vienna.  But I had the word of the Lord and He sent me there.  We started knocking on doors.  And what has happened since then has been a phenomena.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Lindsay, I know that, I know that as people get this film they’re not only going to be deeply touched, but very moved as they see the dramatic story of this little boy Davie and his courageous fight against tuberculosis and how the healing power of God comes into his life and into his family’s life and how their lives are completely turned around.  It’s a story that although this film was made in 1952, it lives on.  And of course everybody has a neighbor like Mrs. Hackett.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS I have to tell you what that reminded me of because it just  IL01 quickened my mind when I saw that.  Do you remember when we were ministering in South Africa and there was a precious little boy who had, I can’t think, I think they called it Perthes Disease and he called it “the Perth.”  And this little boy was never able to run, never able to play, never able to do anything.  And the mother began to tell the really tragic story of this little boy’s life.  And the little boy was healed in the service and began to run and play.  And the newspapers just went berserk with criticism.  And when they finally asked Richard, “How can you stand up there and do all this?” And all Richard said was, “Just ask the little boy.”  That’s how I feel about that film.  You just ask the little boy.

When you see a child of God healed, this film will tear your heart out. It really will, because it’s the story of a little boy who had tuberculosis and the trauma that that family went through and how he was healed.  And, you know, whether you agree or disagree in what you believe and don’t believe, you just ask the little boy.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS A miracle settles the issue.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS That’s right.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS If you’d like to have your own copy of this magnificent motion length, full-length motion picture, Venture Into Faith, all you have to do is pick up your telephone, call the Abundant Life Prayer Group. Sow a seed on your credit card of $100.  Or sit down and write me a letter, Richard Roberts, and send a Seed-Faith gift of $100.  And later in the program I’m going to be showing you what your seed is going to be doing here at ORU this summer, as well as other things. And you can have your own copy of this limited edition of Venture Into Faith.

I’ll only be offering it this month on the television program. And of course we’ll be sending you your certificate of authenticity, signed, numbered and dated by my father Oral Roberts.  Yesterday I was talking with a man here in Tulsa who said, “When are you going to show  SU02 some of your Korea crusade on the television program?”  And I said, “Well, I did this past Monday and Tuesday.”  He said, Well, I didn’t get to see it.”  And so I was telling Lindsay about it last night and she said, “Well, Richard, there are a lot of people who probably haven’t seen it.”  So I think I’ll take you back to Korea and let you see exactly a portion of what happened while I was there.  I was ministering in Dr. Paul Yonggi Cho’s church, the largest church in the world.

The opening night we had some 50,000, the second night 60,000.  I preached to 110,000 people in two nights while I was in Korea.  I just returned this past week.  And so right now, let me take you to Korea and give you just a little taste of what happened while I was there.  And this is the discussion that Dr. Paul Yonggi Cho and I had right after the crusade closed.  Just watch this.  CHO AND RR ROLL-IN

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SPKM ORU STUDENT  SU03 It is a lifestyle here.  And you have to adapt to that lifestyle and you have to, you have to become part of ORU.  You can’t just go here and be on the surface.  You can’t go here and be half into it and half not because when you come here you’re associated with everything that is here. Self-discipline on the court is really especially a very important thing because you get out on the court and people are watching you, not only as a basketball player but also they’re watching you as an ORU student and they’re watching you as a Christian because of everything that ORU represents.