. . . all of my energy and all of my anointing and all of my effort.  And I can spend it like you spend money.  And think of energy like bolts.  You can take those bolts of energy, and you can use them and you can properly spend them.  And you can spend them right, or you can spend them wrong.

You can spend all your time and all your sustenance and all your substance and do it right or do it wrong.  But it’s up to you to control it. 

And so I said, “Okay, what are You showing me here?”  And the Lord showed me this.  We went and did an experiment, same amount of wood, same amount of nails, same amount of time. 

And you have one of two choices with your container.  You can build yourself a house in glory, a mansion, a place to send your children, your friends, your energy, your anointing, your loved ones, or the same amount of energy, the same amount of nails and the same amount of wood, you can build yourself a pine box.  You can build yourself a home, or you can build yourself a coffin.  And it’s all how you spend your substance.

God showed me one more thing in my container, and I thought this was the dumbest thing I have ever seen.  And there it was.  I was looking at my substance, and He said, “What’s in your container?”

And do you remember, ladies, when we used to carry purses like that because they looked cool?  And what did you get in them?  Absolutely nothing, and you stuffed your husband’s pockets.  How many of you remember, we put in a lipstick and a dollar bill?  That is the dumbest, poorest excuse for a container in the world.

Every woman knows that a container—you know what, these are Souls A’Fire music.  Somebody come and pass these out to everybody.  Brenda, help me.  Pass these out.  Everybody needs something here.  Let’s pass these out.  I don’t know how they got there, but you know what?  While I’m pulling my container up, you go give those away, would you?  Oh, sure, give them all away.  There’s ORU, DVD’s, oh, pass it all out. 

Now you can either take your time and get yourself a container that’s as worthless as the day is long, or spend the exact same amount of money on a real container.

And next to the sofa where I sat was a bucket.  So when the cameras was off of me, I’d vomit my guts out, wipe my face, drink down something called Emetrol, and I’d smile like nothing ever happened. 

And, meanwhile, they’d go to sing a song, and I’d puke again.  And this would go on for the entire live hour that we were on television.  But God was telling me that what I thought of my substance and what He thought of my substance might have been two different things.

This says the world uses all kinds of gimmicks to raise the salesman’s self-image, for the image he has of himself will either set him free to reach new horizons, or hold him in poverty.

Is your substance setting you free to reach new horizons, or are you, spiritually speaking, in poverty and darkness because you’re not tapped in to the substance that God has created for you to walk into and when you walk into, all the glory of God will come shining through you?

I want to show you how we can find that substance very, very easily.  We’re going to talk in a little bit about what Richard was talking about earlier.  Oral has had a new revelation.  Charles, the day you think he’s written his last book, he hasn’t.  He’s got a new revelation.  You know that revelation.  It’s on the Lord of the harvest.

He called us the other day, and he said, “When’s the conference over?”

We said, “Well, it’s over Thursday.”

He said, “Thursday afternoon?  Can you get on an airplane and come because we’re going to write a new book?”           

I said, “No!”  So hopefully he’s going to give me till the weekend.

But God’s given him a revelation about the Lord of the harvest, that we’ve got something inside of us and that something, that substance is to be used as a seed.  And when we sow that seed, we have the right to call on the Lord of the harvest to reap anything and everything God has for us.

Well, I want to ask you a question.  How do you know how to get the harvest if you’ve never planted a seed?  You’ve got to plant the right seed, the seed of your substance, in order to reach God’s harvest.

 . . . amazing.  It will be like what happened on campuses of old, but it will even be surpassing that because of the hour in which we live.  And it will not be just this, but this will be like a key place for it. 

And we will win the NCAA.  (Applause)  Now don’t you schedule this next year during the NCAA.

RR: Billye, that is spiritual.

BB: All right.  I know it is, but I didn’t know if they knew it. 

RR: Basketball will make a better Christian out of you.

BB: One time when my son, Chip Brim, Kelly Clark here in this town was coaching at Yale High School basketball.  My son was also a coach there of baseball, and he was announcing the basketball game.

And they had a hotshot player.  And I’m sitting with Chip, my son, in the announcer’s booth.  And he said, “Mom, isn’t that Brother Roberts way up there on that other side, Brother Richard?”

I said, “Yeah, it is.”  And I went all the way around, climbed up.  When I got there, Brother Oral Roberts was sitting there and he said, “Do you like basketball?”

I said, “I sure do.”

He said, “Good.  It will make a better Christian out of you.”  I took it as a word from the Lord, and I have not departed from it since. 

Now I am a basketball fan.  But here’s what God told Brother Roberts.  He told him to go into every man’s world.  He told him to have a platform for the Lord Jesus Christ.

We started off here at ORU, and I mean we were beating everybody’s socks off.  And we’re going to beat everybody’s socks off again, bless the Lord. 

And I have a lot of friends that are basketball coaches.  I have a son that’s a coach.  I live in a family like this.  And we see that when we need to recruit the very best players here at ORU, we’re not battling out there with universities in this world that have a whole lot to give them an offer.  We’ve got something to offer that’s above anything else that they have.  We have the anointing of the most high God.  We have (tongues) the Creator of the universe on here.

This is a Holy Ghost university.  My father at 89—I wish he were here tonight.  I don’t know if this room could contain him if he was here—but he knows this service is in session right now.  He’s in his home now in California.  He’s praying tonight.  He knows exactly what’s going on.  And if he doesn’t know exactly what’s being said, the Holy Spirit will reveal it to him.  Oftentimes I call him, and he will tell me what went on in a service. 

But God said to him, “You build Me a university.  You build it on My authority.  The world has theirs.  You build Me one.  You build it on My authority, and you build it on the Holy Ghost.”

And then He said, “You raise up your students”—every student here, put your hand up.  Listen, this was a word of prophecy to you.  He said, “You raise up your students to hear My voice, and to go where My light is seen dim, where My voice is heard small, where My power is not known, even to the uttermost bounds of the earth.  Their work will exceed yours, Oral Roberts, and in that I am well pleased.”

I said to my father—thank you, students.  I said to my father recently, “Your ministry will never die as long as we, your students and graduates, are on this earth.”  (Applause) 

This last spring, the Lord spoke to me and said, “Take a census of all the students, all the student ministries on campus, off campus, all the alumni, all over the world, all those who are laboring for the Lord in the vineyards all over this earth.  Take a census and see how many they’ve won to Christ this year.”

It took me three weeks of phone calls and e-mails all over the world.  And when the numbers came in, the greater ORU community won 660,000 people to the Lord last year.  (Applause)  That’s through a university.  And we set a goal this year of 1.2 million, to double it, in the authority of Jesus’ name. 

Time as we know it is running out.  And we’ve got to work while we have the ability to work.  And that’s why we’re joining together in this conference.  This is not a parking lot.  This is a filling station.  This is where you come and you get filled.

I’m expecting a word to be imparted.  I’m expecting you to receive something mighty from God.  And, Lindsay, I’m expecting the anointing of the Holy Ghost to be upon you now.  I want you to stretch your hands out toward her.

This is the woman that God has put by my side.  She and I are one.  And that’s what we’re supposed to be in ministry.  Thank God for it.  We have the same calling, the same fire in our bellies.  And it’s for you, in the authority of Jesus’ name.

Father, in the authority of Jesus’ name, I thank You for this precious woman of God, a mother of Israel, as it has been prophesied over her.  I thank You, Lord, that as she opens the Word of God to us tonight that something is illuminated in our minds and in our spirits as we receive the Word of God and that from this place tonight as we go, we’ll never be the same again.

Thank You, Lord, that as I follow her tonight and as we have our time of healing prayer and time of prayer of deliverance and rejuvenation, thank You, Lord, that the Holy Spirit is covering us all.  I bless You, Father, and thank You and praise You, in Christ’s name, and everybody said amen.  Give the Lord one more shout of praise.  Hallelujah!  God bless you, Lindsay, and anoint you, in the name of Jesus.

LR: Well, good evening.  How many of you know that faith is in the Bible?  How many of you know that Hebrews 11 is in the Bible?  I bet so many people in this audience could jump up and quote Hebrews 11, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen.” 

And we hear faith messages and faith messages, and we’d better hear faith messages, because four times in the Bible God says, “The just shall live by faith.”  And so we get this message of faith, and we get this message of faith, and we get this message of faith, and we think we’ve got this message of faith. 

And then a couple of months ago, I go to Oral Roberts, and he grabs Hebrews 11, and he says, “Sit down because you’ve missed the whole thing.”  That is so not refreshing.

So I said, “Okay, let’s start all over again.”

So he said, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not yet seen.”

I said, “Okay, I knew that.”