RR:  Dave, I want to give you an opportunity to tell your story, and I guess maybe the best way to do that is for me to just ask you a question.  When you were young did you dream of, everydream that you’d wind up in the National Football League?  would be a professional football player. 

DB:  When I was real young, something like 8 or 10 years old, all the other kids were allowed to play football but my father wouldn’t let me play football.  I wasn’t football, and plus the other thing was that unless I got good grades I couldn’t do anything other than go to school.

RR:  So you had a strong family that believed in your education and wanted you to be healthy and was concerned that you might get injured or something in football.

DB:  That is correct.

RR:  By the time you were 15 things began to change in your life.

DB:  My father felt I was big enough to play, so I was allowed to play.  I had played baseball all the up to that point and basketball.

RR:  Now I know you played through high school and of course you went to the University of Michigan and you were the number one pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers.  Was that in 1976 or 7?  (75) 75.  The number one pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers.  When you got to the Steelers right out of college and wound up, you know,in the Super Bowl.  What did that do to Dave Brown?  All during my first year playing football, bantam league, in high school and college, you know, all we ever did was win.  So I think in college I lost, in high school I lost four games, in college I only lost two games.  So I hadn’t been used to losing at all.

RR:  So you were ready for the tradition of winning with the Pittsburgh Steelers.  the expansion draft in 1976, God moved me from there to Seattle, and we lost 12 games in the first year and only won two.  And God let me know that it was only because of His grace that I was able to be fortunate enough to be playing on one of these teams.

RR:  So many great things that are happening over at the City of Faith Health Care Center.  And you can make an appointment at the City of Faith by calling the clinic appointment number.  Let’s see, is that number on the screen?  Yes, it is.  1-918-493-8000, or 493-8282.  The City of Faith is changing the way people think about prayer and medicine joined together.  The City of Faith is a place for miracles. And by the way, I also, I’ve been mentioning it, ever since the Charismatic Bible Ministries Conference, the Oral Roberts Ministers Conference which was held the 23-25 of June this past month, love and unity through signs and wonders.  And we have made cassette tapes of all of the different men and women who ministered during this conference, and I want to offer it again to you in case you have not already gotten yours.  Services with Oral Roberts, Dr. Larry Lea, Jerry Savelle, Jack Hayford, Dr. Cho, Jamie Buckingham, Kenneth Copeland, a host of others.  There are 12 tapes (Applause) 12 tapes in this series.  And also, the womens luncheon with Freda Lindsay, with Anne Gimenez.  Who else?  You were involved in that.  (Your mother. 

LR:  Marilyn Hickey and Freda Lindsay were speakers.

RR:  Marilyn Hickey.  More than 1,200 women joined together for the womens luncheon during this great conference.  And if you’d like to receive the entire series of cassettes, you can.  For a Seed-Faith gift of $60, that’s $5 per tape, you can receive this. Just write me, Richard Roberts, Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Or call the Abundant Life Prayer Group and you can put a seed on your credit card.  Also, the VHS video cassettes of the Ministers Conference are also available for $20 a service.  And they will be a blessing.  You can put them in your video library at home.  My very special guest today is a young man that I’ve been very anxious to meet and to interview because of his career with the Seattle Seahawks, the National Football League.  He is their outstanding cornerback, defensive cornerback, Dave Brown.  Dave, God bless you.  Welcome.  (Applause)

DB:  Thank you very much.

LR:  Yeah, it really is.

RR:  I’ve studied the Bible most of my life now, but every time I open the Bible I find something that I didn’t notice before.  Now maybe I’d read the words, but something leaped out.  You see, that’s the anointing on God’s Word and that’s what’s happening to people at the Healing Outreach Center.  You see something in that Journey Through the Bible that you didn’t see.  So if you haven’t been through the Journey Through the Bible, come on down to Tulsa and see it.  I believe it will be a great blessing in your life. (Applause)  I want–God bless you, Hal.  Just sit right where you are because I want to, I feel like singing.  I wanted the ORU Singers to open with a song today, but I also feel like singing. Is this microphone on?  Yes, it is.  I want to sing a song called–would you like to sing, Lindsay 

LR:  I don’t even want to stand up today, let alone sing.  No, I’m fine right where I’m at.

RR:  If you’ll just excuse me, I’ll go right over here and I’m going to bring this song to you, “Devil, You Can’t Hold Me Down.” (Amen) (Singing “You Can’t Hold Me Down”)  (Applause)  Now here’s a testimony coming up just for you, so watch this.  PATSY LEONARD (Montrose, Michigan):  I think I had always been one of those who expected to see the manifestation of the healing before I received it.  And I learned that that’s not the way it should be. I I’m going to stand on that and believe it, that’s when my healing starts.  I stop asking God and I start believing I have already received it because His Word says, “By his stripes we were healed.” My name is Patsy Leonard and I’m from Montrose, Michigan.  And I became a partner of Oral Roberts approximately 10 or 12 years ago.  We have come to ORU the last five years for all the seminars.  When we receive an invitation we look forward to it every year.  But this year in particular I had just found out a couple of weeks before I received the invitation that I had some masses in my left breast.  And I went to my doctor and was examined and he suggested that I have a biopsy because he couldn’t guarantee me it was not malignant if I didn’t have one. And I knew that I was coming here and I knew about the City of Faith.  And I just felt a knowing inside of myself that the Lord gave me that this is where I should be because there was a possibility that I would need more surgery than just the biopsy. And I knew that having the faith and the belief that I did in the City of Faith that this is where I should come.  We went through the seminar and I came on Friday and had an interview with D. L. Moore and Dr. Henderson. And they examined me and they suggested too that I have the biopsy. And we set it up for Tuesday morning after the seminar was over.  And Sunday at the last service Oral and Richard came through and prayed for everyone in the healing line.  And I held in my heart that I wanted my healing from the knots in my breast.  And I just believed on that when they came and laid hands on me.  And then Sunday night we went over to the Victory Christian service at Billy Joe’s church and he laid hands on me and prayed for me.  And I felt more and more the tenderness was going out of my breast.  So I knew that God was starting to work there, that there was something happening inside of my body. And so I had no fear.  I remember in the holding room in surgery, the anesthesiologist came in and she said, “I will give you something in your IV to relax you.”  And I said, “Don’t bother.” I said, “The Lord has just made my spirit so relaxed I don’t need anything else.”  And so she said, “Well, fine.”  She said, “That’s unusual, but it’s good, you know, that you can feel like that.”  And the cancer that they found in my breast was benign. I think they took three different little small tumors out and it was all benign.  The doctor came back and told me while I was on the table that it was benign.  And I just began praising the Lord right there on the operating table.  (Applause)

RR:  What are people saying, Hal, as they go through the first phase of the Journey Through the Bible? 

HL:  The response has been unbelievable.  It’s just the presence of God in that place, it’s tremendous.  Not only in the prayer room which I really feel it, but all throughout it, the whole tour is tremendous. You can watch the little children’s faces. You know, I always like to watch the kids because you can see how much it’s going to mean to them and they’re going to remember this, you know, they’re going to remember creation, how God created man and woman.  And it’s just been a fabulous thing. It’s going to be the largest witness that’s going to ever take place for Jesus Christ in this world for people to remember.

RR:  Are people saying “We can’t wait for the next phase,” or- 

HL:  Oh, they’re ready to go out and help start building it.  I mean, they’re so anxious for that second phase, it’s unbelievable. (Applause)  It’s unbelievable.  People have been coming through two, three, four, five times.  Amen.  They just keep coming out, going back in 

RR:  And you see something new every time you go through, something you didn’t notice before.  You say, hey, I didn’t notice that the first time.  Or I didn’t notice that the second time.  That’s what happened to us.

LR:  You know what, that’s what happened to me.  That’s why I went back another time.  I had taken little Juli with us, and Juli is Richard’s 14-year-old daughter.  And Juli said, “Did you see that?” And I said, “No, I missed that.”

RR:  Missed it the first time.

LR:  So I had to go back and see what she was talking about.  And when you do, you see something else and you think, well, I didn’t realize that.  Then you go back and you begin to pick up things over and over. And your faith rises.

RR:  Just like the Bible, just like the Bible.