Lay your hand on yourself where you need healing.  (Tongues)  Sure, I’ll do that, Lord.  Ulcers … lay your hand on the stomach.  In the … ulcers are being healed now in Jesus’ mighty name.  I speak the word of healing into this stomach.  Ulcer, in the authority of the name of Jesus, I bind you now.  And there goes the healing right now.  Thank You, Father.  Thank You, Lord.  Thank You, Lord.  Thank You, Lord.  Thank You, Lord.  Several of you getting healed right now of ulcers.

Kidney, liver, lower tract, digestion, hernia, ulcer, bowel problems, in Jesus’ name, gall bladder, be made whole in the authority … a-ha, there goes healing into a back right now in Jesus’ name.  This is what I’m doing in Dallas tomorrow night at your station, Mike, tomorrow night, live, in Jesus’ name. (Tongues)

There’s sixteen people getting healed in your stomach right now.  Sixteen of you getting healed right now in your stomach. You’re feeling a rumbling in your stomach.  Ha, ha, that’s the power of God.  That’s God rumbling right now in your stomach. God’s healing sixteen of you right now.

Shoulders, in the authority of the name of Jesus, I lay hands on my shoulders as a point of contact.  In the authority of the … there it goes, Lindsay, right now.  In Jesus’ name, in Jesus’ name.  Healing, come into the shoulder right now. Arthritis, I bind you and curse you  at the very root.

There’s a knee, a-ha, ha, three years you’ve had the problem with your knee.  Three years.  And all of a sudden there’s this fire going into your knee.  Whoever you are, if you’ll jump out in the aisle right now you’re going to find you’re able to climb those steps without any problem.  You’ve had it for three years, and God’s healing you now.  Where are you?  Jump out in the aisle quickly.  Jump out in the aisle.  Let’s find out who that person is.  Jump out right now in Jesus’ name.  The fire of God is on your knee right now in Jesus’ name.  You can move it.  You can lift it.

ER:  Anyway, the following week after God had shown him that he was looking to people instead of his Source, we got a letter from a man in Nigeria.  We had never heard of him.  We didn’t remember ever seeing him.  And he had a check in it – a good sized check. And he said, “Brother Roberts, I never have thanked you for the seminar that I attended many years ago in the late ’60s or early ?70s at ORU, when you taught us on seed-faith.

“I came to my country, and I taught it to my people, and they’re now believing God and looking to Him as their Source.  And I just want to thank you, and this is an offering to thank you.”

And I said to Oral, “You see how God works?”  You don’t look to a person.  This person may let you down, or this person may let you down.   They’re not made to carry your burdens.  But God will meet your need if you look to Him.

OR: My final word is this:  When you’re let down, when someone doesn’t help you – say you go to get a loan, and they turn you down; or they dismissed you, and you’ve lost your job; or you’ve lost something else.  Something happens in the family.  Something goes bad.  That’s the time to just stop? and think about our Source – God.  And then to plant a seed specifically.

There’s a girl on this campus that heard me teach seed-faith to the student body.  And she came to me, and she said, “I don’t have any money to give to God.  I’m trying to get through school.”

I said, “Do you have any time?”  

She said, “I don’t have any time.  I just run from my room to classroom, and so on.”

I said, “We need volunteers down in the Prayer Tower.  Why don’t you go down there a few minutes or an hour every day or two and give your time to greet the public as they come and see the Prayer Tower?”

She said, “Why should I do that?  I don’t have enough time now.”

I said, “Make it a seed of your faith for what you need.  If you need money to get on through ORU, or you need more time, you plant that as a seed, and you’ll see that God will multiply.”

Well, I didn’t know if she heard me or not.  But in 2 or 3 weeks, I saw her again.  And this time she was very excited.  She said, “I took your advice.  Everything has turned in my favor.”  

If you’re a mother at home, and you’re teaching little children, that’s the greatest job in the world you could ever do. They’re the next generation.  And we’ve got to have people out there filled with the Holy Spirit for the next generation.  We have to.  We just have to or the big revival will never come.

We stayed in Tulsa 9 weeks for that revival.  We stayed right here 9 weeks.  Oh – the man didn’t come that night to buy Oscar’s house.  At breakfast he said, “I don’t understand – the man didn’t come.  And I’m going to give him until 8 o’clock, then I’m not going to sell him the house.”

He looked over at Oral, and he said, “Oral, would you like to have this house?”  And Oral said, “Oh, I don’t know.”  He knew it was his house – God had told him it was his house, but he was a little nonchalant about it.  With $25 in your pocket, being nonchalant.

But anyway, he just trusted God, and Oscar said, “We’ll go down in a little bit and sign the papers at the bank.  And you can have the house.  Anna and I are going to move out right away.”

OR: How about the down payment?

ER: Well, when we got to the bank, let’s get the story straight, when we got to the bank, and he started to sign the papers, Oscar said, “Oral, wait a minute.  Anna and I don’t need the $3,000 down today because we’re going to build a home, and we don’t need it for a year.  So why don’t you just hold the down payment for a year and pay us at the end of the year?  Then you can pay for the house later.”

Oral said, “Well, just as you say, Oscar.”

And we were not looking? at that point, we didn’t know what we were doing, but we were not looking to Oscar Moore as our source either.  We didn’t know those terms at that time, Oral.

OR: This was a little 2 bedroom house on North Main for $6,000, that was the price.  Some of you can remember back in the late? 40s and ’50s when property didn’t sell for very much.  It just looked like much because we didn’t have any money.

And that was the first time that my mind opened: that what we give is a seed of our faith.

And the man left, and Evelyn was looking around the corner of the bedroom.  And I went over and just shook this in her face. And we sat on the bedside, maybe for an hour, talking about this. Crying, and wondering what was up.

I’d never walked in my sleep, but Evelyn had found me one night walking around the house in the middle of the night, and I was asleep, walking in my sleep.  And she’d call me in.  And that night she asked me what was going on.

ER:  He had been called into the healing ministry many years ago, but he had never told me, and we’d been married 8 years or so, because Rebecca was about 7, 6 or 7.  So we’d been married a while, and he had never told me that he was called to the healing ministry.

But I knew he had a restlessness in his spirit.  There was something going on.  I did not know what, but I knew something. And when I caught him walking in his sleep, I called him in and, and I said, “Oral, you’ve got to sit down here and tell me what’s going.  Something is going on in your spirit.”

He said, “Yes, Evelyn, God’s called me into the healing ministry, and He’s told me its time. And I don’t know how to do it.  I don’t know what to do.”

I said, “Oh, yes, you do know, Oral.”

He said, “OK, I do.  I’ll fast, and I’ll pray until God gives me the answer.”  And he went to the church, and he lay on the floor, and he said, “God, I will not get up until you tell me how to go into the healing ministry.”

ER: That’s when he told you, Oral, that you had to read the four Gospels and the Book of Acts in 30 days, three times.  And He said, “I will show you Myself, if you will do that, and do it on your knees, three times in 30 days, I’ll show you.”  

And he did, and Jesus just rose up off of those pages, and he could see Him.  And these miracles began to happen.  May I tell about Mr. Gus?

OR: Well, I think I should say something here that’s very important to somebody in this crowd.  Of course I know what we’re saying this morning may not be just like you have gone through things.  But some of you are facing certain things this morning in your life.  You’ve come to a point that things aren’t working. There’s a restlessness.  You’re disturbed in yourself.  You’re wondering if this whole thing works.

The devil had said to him, “It’s for the rest of your life.  You’ve thrown your life away.”  There may be someone here today who’s thrown your life away.  You may have thrown your marriage away.  You may have thrown your family away. You may have broken with your family, and the devil has said to you, “You’ll never be reconciled to your family again. You will never solve your marriage problem.  You have a son, and you’ll never be reconciled to him.  You have a daughter, and you’ll never be at peace with each other again.”

Whenever you hear something like that, remember who it’s from.  It’s not from God.  God says, “For this light problem is but for a moment.”  In God’s eyes, He’s waiting for the now moment to come into our minds, the now consciousness to take hold of us to where we get a time limit.  “Devil, there’s a time limit on you.  Problem, there’s a time limit on you.  Sickness, there’s a time limit on you.  Problem with my family, there’s a time limit on you.  Sickness in my body, there’s a time limit on you.”

I’m absolutely convinced now after these months of dealing with this as a guinea pig, of saying, “If it works on Oral Roberts, it will work on somebody else,? and I’m going to come out of this.  (Applause)

The Lord said, “You give this to the people at ICBM. This is not a special word.  This is a word of revelation. Your brother gave you the thought.”  And I want to praise him.  I want to thank him for giving me the seed thought. But the Lord has developed the idea in my mind and in my body.  And I’ve been going through everything I’m talking to you about.  And I’m closer to home than I was when I came here.  I’m closer to my healing than I was.  I’m closer. I’m closer to solving this major problem in my life.  Just because I’m 85 doesn’t mean my ministry has to stop. (Applause)

The prodigal son heard the devil say, “You will be like this the rest of your life.  You’ve cut every line loose from your daddy.  You’ve spent all your money.  You have nothing left.  All your friends are gone.  It’s over.”

And then the Bible says that he came to himself.  Is there such a thing when a problem gets so severe and sickness so bad and a situation that weights you down so much that you really are not at yourself?  I felt for that approximately six weeks” time that I was not at myself.  I couldn’t think straight.