And you say, well I, Richard Roberts,  can’t give that kind of money but I could give a seed of $10 a month. Or I could give a seed of $15 or $20 a month. Or I could give $50 a month or I could give $100. There’s someone who’s watching who could give $200 a month. Someone who’s watching could give $300 a month.

Someone who’s watching could give $500 a month. Someone who’s watching who could give $1,000 a month. There’s a minister in Texas, if I were to call his name, most everyone watching would know his name, recognize his name. He’s an internationally known minister. He was on our program recently. He told me privately, “Richard Roberts, I’m going to send you $1,000 a month because God spoke to my heart to keep you, to keep the university operating.” That’s, that’s what it is. That’s what it is.

That’s what Cheryl, I want you to step over to the piano. I want you to step over to the piano, Cheryl, and bring us a song because we’re going to pray. We’re going to pray in just a minute. We’re going to pray. The endowment of Oral Roberts University is important. Oral Roberts University is important to you. Think what would happen if Oral Roberts University closed. It would be a tidal wave, not only across America but a tidal wave around the world.

For this is a beacon of faith, that there’s hope in young people. Youth is magic and tomorrow is youth. How is the world going to be won for Jesus Christ? Let me tell you, it’s going to be won with young people. You can only reproduce yourself through young people and that’s what Oral Roberts University is all about. We’re going to pray in a minute. Cheryl, bring us a song before we pray.

Let’s join our hands together now. Everyone in the audience join hands together. If you’re with somebody, touch them. Or if you’re alone, lay your hands on yourself. And, John, I’m going to ask you to lead the prayer in behalf of Oral Roberts University. The Bible says if you cannot go, you must send someone. And you can send the Oral Roberts University students to the nations of the earth. You said, me, I could send a student? Yes, you can, by keeping the doors opened. John, would you lead us in prayer and then I want to pray. We have about two minutes before our program closes.

Our God and our Savior, what a privilege it is to approach You this morning, knowing that You have all power in heaven and earth. And I know that Your eyes rove to and fro the earth and you have not left out looking down from Your pinnacle of glory upon this university. And I pray in this emergency need, God, that when we hear words like the university may not open come next season, those words are words of doubt and I defy them ever to be spoken from the mouth of anyone, for we are faith people.

And now, in the name of Jesus, reach your tentacles of faith out to someone watching that they could endow someone to carry forth knowledge into the earth, that the earth may be filled with knowledge and that the earth therein would give forth life and life in a sanctified pure sense. Bless it, let it come to pass and bless all the requests today. Bless all of those who support the ministry already and continue to bless and keep harm, danger, plague or sickness from them.

Of those You’re speaking to now, Lord, to endow it, we wait for their letter in the mail, in Jesus’ name.

You say, “Richard Roberts, what can I do?” You can plant a Seed-Faith gift on a regular monthly basis. Now here is the reason why I say regular monthly basis. Because it costs money to operate the university every month. The bills don’t stop coming just because a partner says, “Well, I’m not going to send a Seed-Faith gift this month.” The bills of Oral Roberts University go on 12 months a year. And the good news is, we’re 85% there.

We just got 15% to go to take care of the expenses, the operation of the university. And then of course, John, you brought a good word about endowment. Oral Roberts University has got to be endowed. It’s got to be endowed. There are some people in this nation who have a lot of money and it’s not doing any good for them. They need to invest it in God’s university, to endow a school of medicine, to endow a school of education at Oral Roberts University, to endow a school of business, or a school of something else, a school of ministry.

The school of dentistry is endowed here at Oral Roberts University by a family in Pennsylvania. And there are several, several large gifts that
have come in, but most of the gifts that come in to the Oral Roberts Ministry are not large gifts. But there are several people watching today, I believe God is speaking to your heart about making a major gift. There’s a man who is watching this program who is on a board of trustees of a large foundation in this country and you’ve been, you’ve been in meetings trying to decide what you’re going to do with all that money that the government is forcing you to give away.

Richard Roberts wants to share something to you. And, friend, I stretch out my hand to you today, praying for your doors not to close. I pray today, in the name and in the authority of the name of Jesus, for you to be healed spiritually, for you to be healed in your body, from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet, for you to be healed in your emotions and your mind, for you to be healed in your family and for the doors of your life to remain open. And for that healing health line between you and God to stay clear.

I pray for you today, friend, and I believe and I expect and I’m talking faith talk today. I’m not talking doubt talk. And I urge you, sit down this week, write us a letter. Write me, Richard Roberts. Write my dad,
Oral Roberts. Plant a seed of your faith and say, Brother Roberts, I’m going to do it on a monthly basis, a regular basis, to help you with that 15% of Oral Roberts University that we haveto go.

It’s a faith talk, friend. It’s a faith talk. We can do it. We can do it together. We can see victory in the life of Oral Roberts University. I’m praying, I’m believing and I’m expecting it. So take these words with you all day long, no matter what it looks like, God can turn it around in your life through faith talk, not doubt talk.

Richard would like you to get involved in this ministry with both your prayers and support. Send your Seed-Faith gift to Richard Roberts, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Or call 1-918-495-7777. And when you write or call, be sure to include your prayer requests. The Abundant Life Prayer Partners are on duty 24 hours a day and are ready to help you get your needs met. Go to your phone right now. I’m Bill Nordstrom, inviting you to join us again tomorrow, along with special guests Laverne and Edith Tripp. And remember, God can turn it around in your life.

John, somebody would say to me, Richard Roberts, what can I do? What can I do? Here’s what you can do. You can keep your university opened. See, this isn’t our university.

It’s your university. I, Richard Roberts, don’t know anyone who hasn’t come into contact with a graduate of Oral Roberts University. Practically everyone I know has said to me at some time, “I saw one of your students,” or “I heard from one of your graduates,” or “I went to some medical clinic and they were there,” or “I went into some dentist’s office,” or “I went to, I was at some church,” or “One of the graduates from the undergraduate school,” or “I talked to one of your nurses.”

Practically everyone I know has said to me, “Wherever I go, I meet the Oral Roberts University graduates.” Tommy Tyson was on our program recently from North Carolina, wonderful evangelist, the founding chaplain of Oral Roberts University. He said, “I can’t go anywhere without running into your ORU graduates.”

Jimmy Buskirk, the founding dean of the school of ministry here at Oral Roberts University, now the Methodist pastor of First Methodist Church here in Tulsa, our dear friend, and comes on the program quite often, said to me, “I cannot go any place in this nation to preach without running into a graduate of Oral Roberts University.”