Apparently it looked like little Chet would not live.  But when Oral Roberts prayed the prayer of faith, little Chet was not only healed, but today he’s married, with a family, in Mobile, Alabama.  I want you to meet him up close and personal and see that God is still healing today.  Just watch.

CHET WILSON: God worked through Oral and healed me.

OR: How many more hands will be rose, “Brother Roberts, I want my soul prayed for in that prayer tonight?”

ANNOUNCER: And on that night, three-year-old Chet Maples received his healing.  Although he was too young to remember, his mother shared the details of the healing with Chet and his wife, Lee. In 1960, Chet was medically diagnosed with a brain tumor.  When operated, doctors stated that the tissue removed was medulloblastoma.  Unable to surgically remove the entire tissue, young Chet was given a few months to live.

Desperately wanting to save her son’s live, Chet’s mother took him to one of Oral’s tent crusades.

CHET: My mother was raised a Baptist and she said she didn’t really not that she didn’t believe that the Lord could heal, but they didn’t really teach that in her church.  They didn’t really teach physical healing.  But my father was raised in Pentecostal Assembly of God, and when I became sick, my father was a Merchant Marine, he was out at sea, so when I became sick his family, you know, were after my mother to take me to Oral Roberts or anybody that was close around that was like a faith healer.  And she didn’t want to do it.  She was scared, you know.

And her brother lived in Norfolk, Virginia, well, Virginia Beach, actually, and she took me up there, me and my brother and my sister.  And the very first day we was there, we got there like late one night, and the next day, the next morning, and she was reading the morning paper, and she opened the paper and she saw where there was a big advertisement that Oral Roberts was in town.

And she called I don’t think she called, I think he called her at the same time from his job to tell her, “Guess what he had saw.”  He was going to work.  So they felt like that was the finger of God.

MRS. MAPLES: She said that he was really ill from the cobalt treatments that they’d been giving him, and he had no hair.  And the next morning after she finally got him up to Oral Roberts after the third night, his uncle had a habit of coming through the kitchen and patting on the kids on the head.

Now here’s what I want you to do now that you prayed that prayer.  I want you to go to your phone and I want you to call the Abundant Life Prayer Group and let me know that you just prayed that prayer.  I have a little booklet here that I want to give you.

It’s called, How to Live Your New Life.  It’s yours. It’s free.  I want to sow it as my seed into your life.  Just write me, Richard Roberts, in care of the Oral Roberts Ministry here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  If you live in Canada, Toronto, Ontario.  Or you can call the Abundant Life Prayer Group at 918-495-7777.

If you’ve not already gotten your prayer request in, we’re going to have a time of healing prayer before our program closes tonight.  Stay tuned right where you are.  Here are two important messages just for you, and then we’ll be back to pray for you.

ANNOUNCER: It seems everywhere you go there are signs that say, “No Parking.”  But many people ignore the message.  In his new book, Don’t Park Here, Oral Roberts outlines powerful, Bible-based teachings designed to show you how to move out of your spiritual no parking zones and fulfill God’s plan for your life.

To receive your free copy, write Oral Roberts Ministries, Tulsa, Oklahoma.  In Canada, Toronto, Ontario.  Or call 918-495-7777.

ANNOUNCER: This is your Hour of Healing.  The Roberts family has recorded four powerfully anointed messages in a beautiful audiotape album titled, Your Hour of Healing.

OR: I am telling you about a healer who can heal every disease in your body.  I am telling you about a Christ who can deliver you from every trouble that is trying to destroy your being and take away peace of mind and peace of soul.

RR: Sickness is not your friend.  Sickness is death reaching out its icy hand to take you out of existence.  But Jesus said, “I am come,” in John 10:10, “that you might have life more abundantly.”

ER: First, God wants us.  He wants all of us.  And then after He gets us, He wants us to be healed and to stay in a state of health.

LR: God wants us to begin to think like He thinks.  He told us that we’re to have faith like God has faith.  We’re to walk like God. We’re to talk like God.  We’re to act like God.

ANNOUNCER: This audiotape series by the Roberts family can inspire your faith to believe for your hour of healing.  To receive your free copy, write Oral Roberts Ministries, Tulsa, Oklahoma.  In Canada, Toronto, Ontario.  Or call 918-495-7777.

LR: He is so weird.  Tired of bad news?  Get your free issue of Miracles Now magazine, a bimonthly publication full of good news, miracles, and inspiring articles from the Word of God for you.  Write Richard and Lindsay Roberts, Tulsa, Oklahoma.  In Canada, Toronto, Ontario.  Or call 918-495-7777.

ANNOUNCER: Ladies, come be a part of three dynamic days of growing in God at the Lindsay Roberts Women’s Conference, March 5, 6, and 7. Hosted by the first lady of Oral Roberts University, this time of specialized ministry for women could be the break you’ve needed to focus on your own personal growth in God.  Lindsay is joined by her husband, Richard, and together they share a strong anointing as they operate in the gifts of the Spirit and healing ministry.

Harry and Cheryl Salem will bring you Biblical insights for building healthy marriage and parenting relationships.  Taffi Dollar, of Creflo Dollar Ministries, will inspire you to reach for a new level of spiritual maturity as you grow in God.  And Kay Newberry is sure to bring smiles and laughter as she encourages you to fulfill God’s call in your life.

Don’t miss the Lindsay Roberts Women’s Conference, March 5, 6, and 7 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  For more information, call 918-495-7944.

RR: And joining us, the founders of the Oral Roberts Ministry and Oral Roberts University, here they are my dad and my mother, Oral and Evelyn Roberts.  Give them a big welcome.  Now you know when they do this, that’s, that’s the big O.  That’s Oral.

LR: The big O.

RR: When the students do this that means that means that Oral Roberts is in the building.

LR: Is in the building.

RR: I’ll tell you what; this atmosphere is absolutely charged with the power of God tonight.  When I walked in tonight, I could feel the presence of the Lord.  I know you could feel what we feel, the testimonies, the healings, and the miracles.  It was you eight months ago that gave me a word of prophecy that healing was coming big time.

OR: Big time.

RR: You gave me that word, and I latched on to it with every bit of my faith.

OR: Including creative miracles.

RR: Yes.

OR: Healing was coming big time, including healing and creative miracles.

RR: You also said a word when you were here about a month ago on the program concerning unclaimed healings.

LW: We’ve had several requests for it and you’ve already prayed for cancer.  We’re going to add those prayers for Jamie and for Kayla, two young people.  And, Oral, as you were talking about tuberculosis, polio was also one of those incurable diseases of the past.  And Elsie had a son in the fifties that the doctors told he was going to die.  And she took him home from the emergency room, but there was a man preaching the healing gospel on the radio by the name of Oral Roberts.  And her son’s 50 years old today and he’s a car salesman.  She also got healed of gout tonight when Richard was praying.  And Elsie’s on the phone.

OR: Now she’s on the phone.

RR: Hello, Elsie.

E: Hello.

RR: Are you up in Michigan?

E: No, I’m in Colt, Illinois.

LR: I-l-l, Illinois.

RR: Oh, you’re in Illinois, I’m sorry…

E: Yes, Colt, Illinois.

RR: What city?  Where?

LR: Colt, Illinois.

RR: Colt, Illinois.

E: About eight miles from the town

RR: Did I understand him to say that your son was healed of polio when my dad prayed on the radio?

E: Right, right.  And, also, I was healed.  I had something like leg dropsy and I just had a radio.  And he said, “Lay your hand on the radio,” and I laid my hand on the radio and I could just feel the vibration.  And I also have a card now from Brother Roberts from the City of Faith.  We were prayer partners for years.

RR: Yes.

E: Yes.  And I moved from Missouri here and I lost track of the mailing.

RR: Well, what happened?  Did he say you had gout too?

E: Yeah.  I just come from the doctor with gout in my now then, but now I have it.  I got healed of that tonight.

LR: Tonight.

RR: You did?

LR: Just came from the doctor.

RR: Just came from the doctor.

E: And when you were praying for the young man, I also pray for the sick in the church, from the Church of God in Christ.

RR: So you’re in the healing ministry.

E: …young man’s hand, my hand tingled.  It was my left hand just tingled, it was on fire.

RR: On fire.

E: Yes.

ANNOUNCER: It is from tiny drops of water flowing together in explosive harmony that the great Niagara is harnessed into a course of life-giving power.  And everything that exists today or is a hope for the future must originate from something and begin somewhere.  There must be a source, there must be a seed.

In his new book, The Source, The Seed, The Answer, Richard Roberts shares the secrets he has learned about the eternal principles of seedtime and harvest, of sowing and reaping seeds of faith to receive a miracle harvest in every area of your life.

Firmly based on the Word of God, this book will show you why sowing seeds of faith is one of the most powerful forces on the face of the earth.

As a companion to this Seed-Faith manual, Oral Roberts has written a pocket-sized prayer book to help you speak faith into any situation.  Prayers for Seed-Faith Living will become your constant companion for prayer, when you need a little encouragement or just don’t know how to pray.  It contains over one hundred specific prayers, all written personally by Oral Roberts, and each conveniently placed in general categories for easy reference.

To receive both books, just call 918-495-7777, or write Oral Roberts Ministries, Tulsa, Oklahoma.  In Canada, Toronto, Ontario.  For as long as the earth remains, there will be seedtime and harvest.

ANNOUNCER: Experience the anointing that is upon Oral and Richard Roberts as they bring you the healing power of God and His unchanging Word Sundays on Miracles Now.  And watch Make Your Day Count with Lindsay and Cheryl, a daily show full of practical advice for your daily Christian living, with great guests and delicious cooking segments for the whole family.  Make Your Day Count airs weekdays and Miracles Now on Sundays.  Check your local listings or call your cable operator today.

RR: Okay, here it is The Source, the Seed, the Answer, and The Prayers for Seed-Faith Living.  It’s our seed into your life. You can’t buy it.  It’s not available anywhere in America.  We sow this as our seed.  It’s our gift to you.  You can write me or Lindsay here in Tulsa.  If you live in Canada, Toronto, Ontario. Or you can call the Abundant Life Prayer Group at 918-495-7777. That’s all the number or the address that you need.

Hello, Sue, what do you have?

SUE: I have Eric, who is six years old, in Las Banas, California. When I called to check on him, sometimes I call and check and see if everything’s okay when we have prayers come in.  He answered the phone and he says, “I’ve been waiting on you.”  He’s been waiting on his miracle.