And it happened, and she never let me forget.  She kept reminding me of the way my birth came about.  It was a natural birth, but talking about her vow.  And then she gave me advice, and you’d be surprised what my mother said to me over and over and over.  It was always the same thing.  And she said two things to me:  “Oral, always obey God.  Oral, keep little in your own eyes.”  And she didn’t say it once.  She didn’t say it ten times, a hundred times.  She kept saying it until the day she died.  The last time I saw her at 89 years of age, and I bent over to kiss her, she whispered to me, “Oral, always obey God.  Keep little in your own eyes.”

Why did she say that?  Because she knew I had a tendency that when I had a success or God healed, gave a great miracle to my ministry or thousands came down the aisles to be saved or I built the university, that I’d get the big-head.  The mothers know these things, that I’d get big in my own eyes.  And she knew I had a tendency to disobey God, that I would take the credit to myself.

 And there have been thousands of times when I’ve been tempted to disobey God, to escape criticism, to escape persecution, to escape what the media was doing to me all those years, and the times that people tried to kill me by shooting at me and things like that.  And it’s really easy at times or it seems easy to walk away.  But Mama said, “Oral, always obey God, and keep little in your own eyes.”

The Bible says it’s better to obey than to sacrifice.  And if Mama got to me at all, she got to me in those two things.  She burned inside my being, “Obey God.  Keep little in your own eyes.”

I know who built this university.  I know it wasn’t me.  I know who has done the great things through my life.  I know God has done those things.  I know it.  I know when I was on my own, I was losing my life, with tuberculosis, which was the scourge of the Indian people, still is here in Oklahoma where I was born. And obedience has brought me here to my 82nd year.  And I stand tall, and of course very slim and debonair.  (Applause)

If somebody thinks this is unscriptural, just keep on thinking it because I just read it to you in the Bible.  It’s in the Word of God.  How many of you … just nod your head … are you ready for the thousand times more?  In the name of Jesus, I pronounce the thousand times blessing upon your life and I call that which is not as though it were in your life, in Jesus’ mighty name.  (Response)

RR: I add my prayers to his prayers, and according to the Word of God which has been read and preached tonight, which I’ve received in my own spirit, I call upon you the thousand times blessing.  And I receive it with you by faith.  I call that which is not as though it is.  I call it done, in Jesus’ name.

MH: I want us to focus on land.  Brother Roberts said that God’s promise was to possess the land.  Over half of the people in your church and mine rent houses and don’t own them.  All of our churches and ministries need land to do the work of God.  If you want to claim that promise to possess land, I want you to agree with me right now.

And we pronounce it in the name of Jesus, and those things which have been decreed, release, devil, release, release your hold on the land that rightfully belongs to the covenant people of God, in the name of Jesus.  And it will be given and it will be inherited and it will be purchased and it will be paid for and it will be debt-free, in the name of Jesus.  (Response)

OR: These two sections, all the way, all the way to the top.  Start touching every part of your body, every part, every part, every part.  Stoop over and touch your feet even.  Every part.  Touch the shoulder of your neighbor.  Put one hand on yourself and the rest of you stretch your hands out toward them.

Look upon me.  Moses is not here, but I am here tonight as a servant of God.  And I look you in the eye.  By the Word of God, I speak the prophetic utterance upon your life, that God is going to give you a thousand times more than you are.  He’s going to make you a thousand times more.  He’s going to open your mind to possibilities you never thought existed.  You’re going to be receiving ideas from heaven that will startle you.  The power of God will open you up like a suitcase is opened up, and the healing power of God will start penetrating your being.  Glory to God!  I feel that.  Ohhh!

Number five, He said, “You tell the people, ‘You shall renew your strength like the eagle’s.’”  The eagle, when it gets old and weak, flies off to an isolated place in the mountains, beats off its old feathers, becomes naked and vulnerable, while it grows new feathers.  And in the new feathers is new strength, and it remains strong until it dies.

And the Lord said, “Tell My people I don’t want you to have to be decrepid as you grow old.  I want you to start believing and thinking and working right now, that when you get up in years that you’re not decrepid, that you still have strength, you have health, because you don’t have to be sick for Me take you to heaven.”  Glory to God!  Ohh!  (Response)  Hallelujah!

Number six, He said, “You are God’s property.  And tell the devil to take his hands off God’s property.”

I want my darling wife to tell you a personal experience that she and I had just a few months ago.

ER: We had been over to Myles Munroe’s church … where is he?  I saw him sitting here a while ago … ministering, and we came back to Fort Lauderdale to spend the night and had gone down to have dinner.  We came upstairs, and I put my purse on the table.  And as I did, the table started to shake.  The bed started to shake. I was shaking.  The room was shaking.

And Oral had walked in the other room, and I said to him, “Honey, you know, I didn’t know they had earthquakes in Florida. And I just thought they had earthquakes in California.  They’re having an earthquake.”  And he said, “No, they’re not having an earthquake.”  And I said, “Well, they are too.  This room is shaking.”  “Well, it’s not shaking in here.”  I said, “You come in here and you’ll feel it shaking.”      

Well, he came in my room and he stood there a moment and he said, “No, Evelyn, the room is not shaking.”  Then I realized the devil was trying to put something on me.  And, you know, we don’t have to accept what the devil puts on us.  We can either take it or we can leave it, and I chose to leave it.

I realized that in my life I had had a fear of having a stroke.  You know, sometimes the devil will work through a fear in your life and tell you, you know, “You’re going to have a stroke,” and so every little thing that happens, “This is a stroke the devil told me I was going to have,” you know.

In Deuteronomy, chapter 1, beginning at verse 5, “On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:  Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

“Behold, I have set the land before you.”  Please notice that he said, “I have set the land.”  Everybody say, the land. (Response)  “I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land.”  Everybody say, possess the land.  (Response)  Now say it three times.  (Response)  “Which the Lord sware unto your fathers.”  Please notice who He swore it to, “unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.”

I want you to hold your place there and turn to Galatians 3:29, and let us notice what is said there about the seed of Abraham and who they are.  In Galatians, Paul is speaking from the 3rd chapter and the 29th verse, he says, “And if ye be Christ’s” … who in this audience belongs to Jesus Christ? … “then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

Now look back at Deuteronomy again, let’s see, at verse 8, “Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.”

Now who is the seed of Abraham?  The people who have Christ.  That’s us sitting right here in this building.  “The Lord your God,” let’s see, verse 9, I skipped that.  “And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.”

Now the text is in verse 11.  “The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised.”  Now notice again in Galatians 3:19 that, “If ye be Christ’s, then are you Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”