RR: Everyone who has soreness in your body, everybody who has soreness and you’re watching me right now, you have soreness in your body, lay your hand on yourself right now.  It’s the time to get the soreness removed too.  Christine laid your hand on your shoulder. Thank God, You Thank you, and Father that you’ve healed the break in the shoulder.  Lord, now there is still soreness and tenderness.  In the authority of Oh, there it comes, Christine, right there in Jesus’ name, in Jesus’ name.  Are thou made whole.  All the soreness, go.  Ah, glory to God.  Quite a number of you watching right now, you felt the soreness just begin to leave your body.  Christine, just begin to move your shoulder.  You’re going to find the soreness is gone right now. Just begin to move it right now.  Just begin to move it.  Just begin to move it, Christine, right there where you are. What difference can you tell in it now, Christine?

CHRISTINE: I’m trying to move it.

RR: Just go ahead and move it.  Something is happen, Christine. Something is happening in a lot of people’s lives tonight.

CHRISTINE: Oh, praise God.

RR: Soreness. What did you say?

CHRISTINE: I just said praise God.

RR: Yeah, praise God is right.  Something is happening in your shoulder right now and lots of other people’s shoulders.  I give glory to God that the healing of your shoulder is complete.  And now, Lord, I thank you that the soreness is gone in Jesus’ name. Christine, God bless you.  Thanks for calling.  Give her good God bless you tonight.  Thank you, Christine.

LR: Another Christine called from Indiana.

RR: Another Christine.

LR: Uh-huh, and said that she was suicidal and was ready to give up. And we were talking, and she said I said what she wanted to hear.

RR: Oh, you were talking about it, honey.

LR: And she said she couldn’t breathe, and God began to give her hope.  She lost her only son in March and felt like she had no hope.  She said tonight is the first time she could get through, and she’d like to just thank us.

You know, so many people feel like they just don’t have any hope, Richard.  They’ve heard bad reports, they’ve been through bad reports, they’ve walked through the valleys, and it’s just time for people to have hope, because Jesus is the hope of glory, Richard.  He came that we might have life.  He didn’t come that we might have life; He came that we would have life and has it more abundantly. And, you know, as important as Christine’s shoulder is to God, so is Christine in Indiana is her life to God.  God cares about the big things, the little things.  You know, I think maybe one of the most spectacular verses in the Bible is that God numbers the hairs on our head.  Why would He do that?  He cares so much about every tiny, little, picky detail. And you know I adore my children.  You know that.  But I don’t know how many hairs they have on their head.  I never stopped and counted them.  But God did.  Isn’t that incredible? But God came to give us hope.  And if you’re hopeless today, if you just said today, “I’m hopeless.  I’m without hope.  I have no hope,” in the name of Jesus…

And, Father, I release the anointing right now.  I release the healing anointing even now flowing into their heart, into their body, into their soul, making them ever so whit whole in Jesus’ name.  Now there’s the presence of God right now in your living room, in your bedroom.  There’s people weeping right now. That’s the presence of the Lord.  Don’t try to cover that up. Just continue.  Just let the Lord minister to you right now. That sickness is leaving your body.  Even as you’re forgiving, you’re feeling a clearing in your heart.  You’re feeling a clearing in your spirit.  That’s the Spirit of the Lord.  He’s washing you now in Jesus’ name.  Hallelujah!

RR: John, there are those right now that are watching.  You’re feeling the power and the presence of the Lord, feeling the power and the presence of the Lord.  I want you to pick up your phone right now and call us, 918-495-7777.  Call us.  Let us know what is happening.  Let us again set our faith in agreement with you.

Lisa, there’s something I want you to pray about for the people, but you’re going to have to set it up by telling the story of what you personally went through.  Now the story is in your book, The True Measure of a Woman concerning what you went through with anorexia.  I feel led to minister to people who have been through or who are going through something like you went through in your life, of how you overcame it.  Let’s minister to people who are suffering with anorexia or bulimia or some type of eating disorder tonight.

L: Well, when I was 15 years old, Richard, I came home from school one day, and a 15-year-old doesn’t usually have a concept of their body.  And I remember coming in and having my dad look at me and say, “Come here.  You are fat!  You’re huge!”  And I remember at that time as a little girl, thinking, “I never even knew I was heavy.”  And he goes, “You go weigh yourself right now.”  And I ran back into my parents’ room and I weighed myself, and I was overweight.  He said, “I bet you weigh 140 pounds and you’re too young to weigh that much.”  And I weighed myself and, sure enough, he was right.

“The Lord has worked a miracle,” they said.  “Three days later Vivian was no longer in need of therapy,” and it says the doctor sent her home.  She has full use of her hand, her arm, along with restoration of her speech.  They said, “Glory to God.”  They said she’s 83 years old 83 years young, excuse me lives alone, and she is fully able to care for herself.

RR: Hallelujah.

LR: Isn’t that cute?  “That’s what Meemie would have done for us.”

RR: Hallelujah.

LR: Isn’t that precious?

RR: Hallelujah.  And I set my faith in agreement with Lindsay’s faith right now.  Whatever it is that’s coming against you, no matter what it is, in the authority of the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I pray for you now.  I command satan to take his hands off of your life and for you to be healed. There’s a left eardrum that’s just burning.  Your ear is just burning.  God’s healing that ear right now.  There’s ringing in an ear.  I believe it’s in the right ear.  It’s being healed right now.  That’s the operation of the word of knowledge.  There are growths a person has growths under both arms.  God’s healing you right now in Jesus’ mighty name.

I set my faith in agreement with you for your healing.  Not in my name, but in Jesus’ name.  If you feel like you need further prayer, the Abundant Life Prayer Group is ready to receive your call.  They’re on duty seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Lindsay, while Cheryl was singing, I went up and took the call with Jennifer from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and I talked to the little seven-year-old daughter.  Her name is Kristen.

LR: Ooooooh.

RR: She said she was healed.

LR: Hallelujah!

RR: I talked to her on the phone just now while Cheryl was singing.

LR: Isn’t that cute?

RR: If you have a word of testimony, share with us what God is doing. Call the prayer group or Email us.  Can you put the Email up? And let us know exactly what God is doing in your life.  I’m expecting God to move.  And thank you for your prayers.

LR: Amen.

CT: You know, the best thing that I can think of, Richard, is when one just literally let himself or herself bathe in the knowledge of God’s love, to really get to understand who God really is. And now who we want Him to be, but who He really is.  And let Him really come into our lives.  We began to see the beauty of His creation.  We began to understand that He has placed a bit of himself in every living, breathing creature.  And when we embrace brothers and sisters who may not look like us, what we are really doing, we are embracing the best of what God has made.  And that’s the unity that David was talking about.  It’s just like a precious ointment.  And satan has no desire for us experience that precious ointment.  But I think we have the opportunity to do so.

RR: He doesn’t want us to get along, Lindsay.  He wants us to be in disharmony.  He wants us to be in strife.  He wants us to hate one another.

LR: Well, again, remember what I said last night when Jesus said, “My peace I leave you, my peace I give you”?  That word peace translates oneness and wholeness.  He left us whole, He left us His oneness, His wholeness.  But many times we don’t even know it’s there. And I know coming from Oral Roberts University, you know, we all look back on our lives and say, “How did we get here from where we were?”  And you came in banking, you worked at University Village.

RR: Out of the military.

LR: out of the military, and now you’re up for a Pulitzer prize. Your book that you birthed kind of at ORU was made into a movie, and instead of walking around thinking that you’ve made it to the top, you’re reaching down to serve.  What an example of Jesus Christ.

CT: I mean, that’s the requirement that God places on all of our lives.  How can we take these gifts that He gives us and share them with the world, whether one writes, sings, ministers, or whatever?  Those are His gifts, they’re not ours.

LR: The bottom line is to share it with each other.

CT: To share it.

RR: Cliff, you could have chosen you could have made a decision in your mind that you were not ever going to get over what you went through in your youth.  You could have decided, “I’m going to strike back.  I’m going to write, but I’m going to write a message of hatred, of violence, of unrest.”  But instead you chose a message of peace and healing. And I want to ask you to do something tonight.  I want to ask you to pray because there are many people in this country who are hurting tonight over something that happened to them in some relation.  And I want to ask you if you’ll just pray and just open your heart as the Lord leads and pray over the needs of the people.

CT: You know, Richard, the Bible says, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” And I want to write peace because when we find peace, we can find a way to maneuver through many of the things that come into our lives.  And as a writer, I’ve been able to travel places that I never dreamed I’d go, but I’ve been able to take, hopefully, the peace of God with me.  And I want my brothers and sisters, no matter where they are, to understand that peace is a gift, that God gives a gift to be shared.  And I would welcome the opportunity to pray that they would know that

RR: Please do, Cliff.

CT: Lord, we thank You for every person that You have given life to, that You have given the opportunity to face twenty-fours that they have never seen before.  We thank You that You have given us ideals that we can practice in our daily lives.  We thank You that You’ve given us the ability to live beyond racism, to live beyond hatred, as we find ourselves walking into Your kingdom and into Your love. But any person, Lord, who does not understand just where they fit in the kingdom, help them this night to know that Your love is sufficient, totally capable of moving mountains and giving peace.  Give them peace, Lord, that passes all understanding.  In Your name we pray, amen.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Bless you, Don.  My orchestra sure does like it.  Give them a good handclap.  Did you start, did you start playing guitar when you were a kid or did you just pick this up last week?

SPKM DON POTTER I was pretty young.  I failed to tell you earlier that I use to and that’s how I basically and then The Judds.  It was an interesting situation how that even came about. The Lord was working very strong in my life at that time.  I had been only saved about five years.  I’d been very deep in drugs and all of that.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS You came out of the drug culture too then? Yes  I see.

SPKM DON POTTER Oh yes.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS How did you come to grips with that when you were in the middle of drugs and suddenly you realized that your life was incomplete?  What’s the testimony there?

SPKM DON POTTER Well, uniquely, kind of one of the pit bottoms of it is one morning, early in the morning I was laying in bed sort of convulsing from overdoing it all night and beginning to lose all semblance of sanity. And my wife looked me in the face and said, “I’m leaving a person who wants to kill himself.”  And it was the first real shock I ever had. It was sort of like and I could barely talk because I was so strung out and I guess it was sort of the thing of the shocking realization, you know, drugs are very subtle.  They come on very quietly.  And before you know it, you’re acting like something you think is cool.  I don’t know how to put that into clear terms, but when I’m high, you know, I’m this thing that I’ve never been before and everyone thinks I’m so cool like this.  And it’s like that demon that comes around behind you and gets hold of you and starts convincing you that you are something that you’re not, of course.  Your ultra ego begins to take place and you step into an area that is just totally unrelated to life itself.  The Lord began really at that time, I had a, I had a 92-year-old grandmother, Spirit-filled, who has prayed for me for 30 years.  And

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Thank God for grandmothers.

SPKM DON POTTER And that is what saved my life.  Yeah.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Thank God for grandmothers.

SPKM DON POTTER And I have an aunt and uncle who I spent many years when my parents had split up and that kind of thing, and when I was younger my uncle who I stayed with, my grandmother and aunt and uncle, had recognized that at about six or seven years old that the Lord had put a gift of music inside and he lifted me up before the Lord.  He prayed that I would give this gift back to the Lord and it would be to glorify Him. I proceeded to spend the next 30 years trying to do it my own way and being in the music business, which I have for that many years, and the, I’ve been real close a lot of times, real close to becoming whatever the words are, famous, I guess is the only word I can think of now, but the Lord always pulled it short, always held it up, always kept it from being something that I want to be this, I want to be that and money was spent and everyone was happy and suddenly it fell apart.

And there’s been countless times and when I finally came to the end of myself and the drug problems and the Lord came into my life.  He moved like only He can move. I mean, I’d love to tell you it through my intelligence, but it certainly was not.  It was through my total need.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Through your desperation.

SPKM DON POTTER Through my desperation to need Him.  Then we went through a period of two years really of laying music down, which was like pulling my heart out of my body.  But I did.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS You actually gave it up.

SPKM DON POTTER Oh, yeah.  I had, I was a carpenter when I first got to Tennessee, you know, the Lord had used, I call it the carrot theory.  He had guided me to Tennessee through all kinds of, well, I’ll be this and then I’ll get this and I’ll sign with this company and I’ll sign with that company and everything. I’ll be just wonderful and as soon as I got there, that disappeared and I was literally thrown into the arms of the body of Christ at that time.  And we had nothing, no money and no job, and I couldn’t get a job right away.

And the Lord had also gifted me with carpentry, which I really enjoy.  And He said, “You’ve got a job.  You know how to work.”  And I spent the next two years as a carpenter remodeling buildings out of music row, of all the places. And it not only adjusted I shouldn’t say it’s adjusted.  I mean, I hate to tell you I think I’m even humble by a long shot, but it really had an awful lot to do with bringing me to a realization that the gift, any gift that God gives you is a beautiful thing and it is a gift.  You know, I’d love to say I made it up or I worked very hard and I’m now a great musician because I’ve worked hard, because I’m not, that’s not true.  God has anointed it.  And I’ve played in front of people when He wasn’t there and they didn’t like it.  And when He’s there, they love it.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Hallelujah.  A great testimony. Give us a word about what you’re doing right now.  I know you’re playing with The Judds and others, but I know there’s a testimony there that you shared with me and I want the people to hear it.