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.

Around this time of year we celebrate Valentine’s Day and people’s thoughts often turn to love. 

But I want to talk to you about one kind of love that doesn’t come up very often, and that is loving yourself.  

I don’t mean that you should have an inflated ego.  But most of the time I don’t see people with overly inflated egos, loving themselves too much.  Instead I see people, even Christians, who are struggling with their self-worth, not believing that they are valuable and precious to God. 

Matthew 22:39 NIV says, Love your neighbor as yourself.  But how can you love your neighbor until you have completed the process of loving yourself? 

Too many of us are suffering from a low self-esteem when we don’t have to.  If satan is trying to put low self-esteem on you, don’t accept the package!  The Bible says, If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new (II Corinthians 5:17 NKJV).

You can begin to love yourself when you realize that God has made you a brand new creation, and He has created you in His own image.  You are a reflection of Him! 

Not only that, but you are worth the price that Jesus paid for you on the Cross.  God sent His only Son as a ransom for you, and that makes you very valuable.  You are God’s prize, His treasure.  He paid no higher price for anything than He paid for you.

If you’ve struggled with self-esteem, it’s time to stop believing the lie that you’re inferior or worthless.  As the body of Christ, we’ve learned to refute the lie that we have to be sick or that we have to be poor.  So let’s refute the lie that we are worthless.  You are so valuable to God that He sent His Son to buy you back from the hands of the enemy!

BRAD: Vicki says she wanted to share her testimony to encourage others in need of a miracle from God.
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LR: We do have to have faith and believe in God.  And right now we have faith in God that heals.  Anybody that is listening to this program that has cancer, in the name of Jesus, just like Vicki got her diagnosis turned around, in Jesus’ name we speak to outlaw cells.  And we command those outlaw cells to wither and die and healthy cells to take over your body, for a healing and a cure, in Jesus’ name.

And I believe God for that.  I believe God for healing.  I am a miracle myself.  And people think, “You don’t . . .”  Oh, yeah, I do.  I can tell you stories that—you know how they say “will make your head spin.”  Well, I don’t want your head to spin, but I’ll tell you what, my father died of cancer when I was 12 years old.  My mom had an evil diagnosis shortly thereafter and several that followed it.

And then it turned around at 18, I started getting diagnosis—at 18!  And then by 23 and 24, and then I married Richard and then I had a tumor the size of a grapefruit.  And then and then and then.  I’ve had a tumor on my breast.  I’ve had an ovarian tumor.  I was in the hospital, in surgery for a hysterectomy, and God healed me in the middle of that surgery in front of all the surgeons.

I am living proof that God still heals today.  Well, how do we know that?  We know that by the word of people’s testimony.  And just like Vicki gave her testimony, if you have a testimony and you want to give it and share it with us, please call the Abundant Life Prayer Group, 918-495-7777.  Have our Abundant Life prayer partners pray for you, but also give us your testimony because we’d love to share it with other people.

And one thing I want to share with you—and I’ve got lots of requests for it.  I’m trying to organize this.  I’ve got calls on my calls on my calls.  But I want to do this before I forget.  I believe in sowing seed.  When I couldn’t have children, the hardest thing I ever faced was not being able to have children, two miscarriages, like I said, in surgery for a hysterectomy, many other surgeries that I don’t even want to go into.  And then I had a son that lived 36 hours and died.

I’m telling you, I understand what it’s like.  And in the middle of all that, the Lord spoke to me and said, “Give baby showers.”  And I’m like, “That’s ridiculous!”  And the Lord said, “No, you need to sow in famine to reap a hundredfold, to reap in joy.”

And I thought, Okay, what’s the hardest thing I could possibly sow?  That baby shower.  I would call people I knew that were having babies, and I would give baby showers and baby gifts.  In the meantime, I’d be having miscarriages, and in the meantime I’d be having dead babies and funeral services.  And yet I believed God that if I sowed in the very field I needed to reap in, God would honor me.

Now once I did that and sowed my seed—and sometimes I can tell you the honest truth—I have an upstairs in my house.  And I’d have the party downstairs and little baby flowers and everything, and I’m having miscarriages.  And I would run upstairs and I would throw up all over the bathroom, wipe off my face, come back downstairs and smile and say, “Oh now, aren’t we having fun?  Isn’t this exciting?”

We prayed for those little babies, and in my heart I was absolutely breaking.  But God told me that I had to give out of my need.  I had to give out of the very field that I wanted to reap from.  And as I did that, you all know my story—Jordan, Olivia, and Chloe later—three amazing, amazing daughters later.  God multiplied my seed into a harvest.

I believe I need to sow seed this week, and I want to give you this.  Now they’re helping me with the telephone number because I can’t see it over there—866—that’s a toll-free number—866 means it’s a free call—866-870-6932, 866-870-6932.  Or you can go to makeyourdaycount.com and go on-line.

BRAD: Platelets are the cells that clot the blood, preventing bleeding and bruising.  The normal range for platelets is 250,000 to 400,000 per microliter.  Vicki’s was only 12,000.  Doctors quickly gave Vicki a platelet transfusion.  But a week later she started noticing bruises. 

Then one night while brushing her teeth before bed, her gums started bleeding.  She didn’t think much of it and went to sleep.
VC: It just so happened that I woke up, and when I woke up, blood was oozing out of my gums.  You know, the blood was clotting in my teeth.  And so I called Kaiser, and they said, “Come immediately to the emergency room.”

BRAD: Doctors at Kaiser Hospital in Denver took a new blood count.

VC: And they said that my platelets had dropped to 3,000.  My liver was damaged.

BRAD: The next few weeks, doctors ran several tests and told Vicki she might have lupus, an autoimmune disease.  They then sent her to see a specialist.

VC: And he said, “Well, no, you don’t have lupus, but you do have lymphoma.”  And I said, “Well, no, I don’t have lymphoma.”  He said, “Yes, you do.”  I said, “No, I don’t.”

And then he showed me my name on the paper.  He said, “Isn’t that you?”  And I said, “Yes.”  And he said, “Well, then you have lymphoma.”

BRAD: Lymphoma is a type of cancer that begins in cells of the body’s immune system.  It’s a cancer that can spread to lymph nodes, tonsils, the spleen, and other organs of the body.

VC: The doctor said, “Well, come back on Tuesday and we’re going to do the bone marrow.”  And that week, that’s when I called Oral Roberts Ministries and I called the healing line and I called people I knew to pray for me.

The person who answered the phone was just so kind and loving and just, “Well, let’s just take it to the Lord in prayer.”  It was just what we did.

LADY: And we speak to her body to line up with the Word of God, and we call her healed.  We call her restored, in Jesus’ name.  Thank You, Father.

BRAD: Four days after praying with a prayer partner, Vicki went back to see the specialist, who tested her bone marrow, blood, and tissues.  Then she waited.  She waited some more and waited some more, until finally the doctor came in with a startled look on his face.
VC: He said, “There is no cancer in your body.”  And I said, “Thank You, Jesus,” because I knew God had healed me because one day during that two-week period I just felt prayers.  I just felt people praying for me, and I’d never felt that before.  I just felt prayers going up. 

And God healed me, and I thank the ministry for praying for me because the Bible says, “The prayers of a righteous man availeth much.”

BRAD: Vicki is now cancer-free and looking forward to teaching again.  She also watches The Hour of Healing now more than ever.

VC: Listen to people like Lindsay and Richard, because they build up your faith, because they are such faith people and just a wonderful healing ministry to let people know that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.  And He’s still healing people.  We just have to have faith and believe in Him.

LR:

Okay, remember, the number is 866-870-6932.  That is for Overcoming Stress.  It is my gift to you.  You know, in the last couple of days, just in the last—I think we did it since last Tuesday or something like that—over 1,000 stress books have been ordered.  And they’re my free gift to you.  So please pick up your telephone, 866-870-6932, and let me sow this as my Seed-Faith gift to you today.  And I believe it will bless you.  Over 1,000 ordered.  That means we’re under stress.  Okay, we need to overcome stress by the Word of God.

            I know what it’s like to be under stress, but we’re not supposed to be under stress.  We’re supposed to be overcomers, according to the Word of God.  So don’t forget, get your free copy of this stress book.  It’s my gift to you.

            I want to take you real quickly to Malachi 3:10 and 11, and there’s a reason I want to do this.  Now you may say, “Lindsay, why are you giving books away?”  Well, if you look on your website and you go there and you go in the bookstore part of it, you’ll see that there was a price for that book and that book is sold actually in bookstores.

            Okay, why am I doing this?  Because I need to sow a seed.  The Bible clearly talks about Malachi sowing a seed, talks very clearly in Luke about sowing a seed, talks very clearly in Philippians 4:13-19, sowing a seed.  But it’s not just sowing a seed.  It’s sowing a seed so that God can receive that seed and turn it into a harvest for you.

            You know, I believe with all my heart that God wants to receive your seed—not that God needs your money.  He’s walking on streets made out of gold, walls made out of jasper, gates made out of pearl.  That’s what the Bible says heaven is like.  And it’s not that He needs your three dollars or thirty dollars or three million dollars.  It’s that God wants to see you sow, so that in your heavenly account, according to Philippians 4:13-19— because it talks about your heavenly account—He can open you the windows of heaven.         

            And I believe when you look at Philippians 4:13-19, you get to say, “My God shall supply all my needs, and I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”  But you can’t do that until you sow seed.  Go look that up in Philippians 4:13-19.  “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”  Yes, that’s correct according to God’s Word.

            Then it goes into seedtime and harvest, giving and receiving, sowing and reaping.  And to that particular group, then God went on to say, “Now my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”  

            Now jump over to the last book of the Old Testament, the book of Malachi.  The prophet Malachi is talking about robbing God.  And it says, “Will a man rob God?”  Now if you get a picture visual of this, can you imagine somebody going up to heaven and going up to God and saying, “Stick ‘em up.”  That’s not robbing God.

            So Malachi was preaching this, and they said, “Where have we robbed God?”  And then Malachi was prophesying, “You’ve robbed God in tithe and offering, and you’re cursed with a curse.  But if you’ll return unto God, he will return unto you.  And bring tithe and offering into the storehouse,” or the place where you’re getting fed.

            And then he said, “Prove God.  See if I’ll not open you the windows of heaven, pour you out a blessing where there’s not room enough to receive it.”  And then this is the verse I keep chewing on, “and rebuke the devourer for your sake.”

            You know, many times we get into sticky situations or predicaments, and we think, I haven’t got a clue how to get out of this sticky situation.

            Well, God has a clue, and His clue is if you bring tithe and offering into the storehouse.  He promised to open you the windows of heaven, pour you out a blessing where there’s not even room enough to contain it all and rebuke the devourer.  Satan comes around as a devourer, the Bible says.  He will rebuke the devourer for your sake.

            Now I want to read you what people are doing.  This came in just since the program last night.  (Reading names)  Now you can’t buy healing, because if you could we’d all buy one.  But healing comes as a result of God opening the windows of heaven, pouring out a blessing and rebuking the devourer.  Well how does that happen?  When you bring tithe.

            So we’ve been encouraging people, when you sow your seed, don’t just sow your seed.  Specifically name what you would like God to rebuke as far as the devourer in your sake.  What is devouring your life?  (Reading names)  And what they’re doing with that seed is like a target.  They are aiming that seed against a specific need, expecting the devourer to be rebuked by God according to what I just read in Malachi 3:10 and 11.

            (Reading names)  Why would you give away your money if you have a financial problem?  Because what you sow, Luke 6:38 says, you will reap, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.  (Reading names) 

            If you have a prayer request or you’d like to sow a seed, pick up your telephone, dial 918-495-7777.  Give the Abundant Life Prayer Group prayer partner not only your seed, but be sure you give us your prayer request and say, “I’m aiming this seed to defeat my need.”  (Reading names)

            I want to jump over real quick to Psalm 103, and it says in Psalm 103:1-5—now I’m going to read it to you, but to be honest with you, my children and I have memorized this over and over since they were babies. 

            It says, “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

            “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not his benefits.”  Now that’s another thing we need to do is bless the Lord.  The Bible says that we praise God in all situations.  It doesn’t say we praise Him for all situations, but in the midst of those situations.  We begin to praise God.  We bless the Lord with our soul, our mind, our will, our emotions. 

            And as we begin to bless the Lord and sow our seed unto God, I believe that’s when God honors His Word.  We sow our seed, He opens the windows of heaven, pours out a blessing, and He rebukes the devourer.  We bless Him with our mind, will, and emotions.  And he says right here, “He forgives our iniquities”—that’s our sins.  “He heals all of our diseases.”  Well, glory hallelujah for that!  And the formula is to bless the Lord. 

            “He redeems my life from destruction.  He crowns me with lovingkindness and tender mercies.  He satisfies my mouth with good things so that my youth is renewed like the eagle’s.  The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all who are oppressed.”

            Have you felt like something is oppressing you, that you just can’t get out from under that cloud of oppression?  Begin to bless the Lord.  Begin to sow your seed, and aim that seed for a specific need.

            And I believe according to God’s Word that’s when those windows of heaven are opened.  If you look in Philippians 4:13-19, like I said, he said, “Then my God shall supply all your need”—not according to the circumstance or the mess you’re in, but according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

            I believe the Bible.  I would like to listen to people, but sometimes people will let you down.  Sometimes you turn to the left and you hear one thing, and you turn to the right and hear the opposite.  Sometimes you go to one family member and they say one thing.  You go to another family member and they say the opposite.  And they’re not trying to hurt you, but you know what?  We need to go to God.

            When we’re oppressed, when we’re in a mess, when we are needing a miracle, I always say, “Go to the throne before you go to the phone.”  I believe we’ve got to go to God first.

            And if you have difficulty going to the throne in behalf of yourself, pick up your telephone.  Go to 918-495-7777 and ask the Abundant Life Prayer Group prayer partners to pray with you.  Now don’t pick up the phone to just chitchat to some of your friends and then we get the whole thing even deeper.

            If you’re going to pick up your phone, I want to encourage you, pick up your telephone and call the Prayer Group prayer partners to agree with you for a miracle, 918-495-77777.  Don’t forget to sow your seed.  As you sow your seed, when you do that, specifically say what you want that seed to defeat the need.  And we’re in agreement with that, and our prayer partners will bring those prayer requests to us and we want the privilege of praying for you.

  LR:

You know, I really believe God is working literally all over the world.  We are getting prayer requests.  This one is from England.  (Reading requests from India, Herdecke in Germany, South Africa, England, India, South Wales, United Arab Emerites, Nigeria, West Indies.)

            Father, in the name of Jesus, we just lift up every prayer request, every seed that’s been sown, every name and every need.  And in the name of Jesus, we just pray according to Your Word, Father God.  We pray as Psalm 107:20 says, “You sent your word and healed them and delivered them from their destruction.”

            Now, Father God, in the name of Jesus, we send the Word according to Your Word and Your will for people to be healed.  Satan, we speak directly to you.  And in the name of Jesus, we say, “Satan, take your hands off of God’s property,” in Jesus’ name, amen.  Amen.

            And I want to encourage you again, please allow me the privilege of sowing Overcoming Stress in your life.  Now the number is a toll-free number for a free book.  So that’s free, plus free, means you get the whole thing free, 866-870-6932, 866-870-6932.

            You know, in the last like four or five days there has been over 1,000 requests for these.  That means people are under stress.  But you know what?  God doesn’t want you under it.  God wants you to be an overcomer.  So please order the stress book.  It’s my free gift to you.

            And if you’d like further prayer, don’t forget—now we’re about 2:30 in the afternoon here in Tulsa time, live from the Prayer Tower.  And at eight o’clock live tonight we’re going to be back from the Prayer Tower with The Hour of Healing.  So please call in your prayer request.  If you’d like to make a Seed-Faith gift, area code 918-495-7777.  God will begin to move mountains, I believe, in your behalf according to the Word of God.

            Now as you sow your seed, say your specific need.  And then tonight they’re going to bring those prayer requests back to Richard and me, and we’re going to pray specifically over the names, the needs, the seeds that you are planting according to God’s Word.  And we’re going to believe for a miracle.

            If you need prayer, 918-495-7777.  You can go on-line at Oral Roberts Ministry website, orm.cc, write Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts at Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74102, or like I said, go to the telephone, 918-495-7777. 

            So right now I want to encourage you, begin to believe for your miracle.  Lord, whatever it is that they’re going through, spiritually, physically, financially, emotionally, in their family, I pray for God to minister healing to you in every area of your life, in Jesus’ name.

            Today make it count for the kingdom of God.

LR:
You know, I believe God is no respecter of persons.  Just what He did for Kathy in her back, I am believing that God can do for your back.

            So right now in the name of Jesus, we just speak to your back and we pray for your back to be healed from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet, for your back to come into alignment with the Word of God.  Back, you be healed. 

            Now while I’m praying that, it’s the strangest thing.  I feel like, you know, we’re supposed to pray for somebody that has been stabbed in the back.  Maybe you have been physically stabbed in the back, or you feel like you have been emotionally stabbed in the back and you cannot get past that.

            Or maybe it is a physical thing in your back.  Right now I’m speaking to backs to be healed.  No matter what it is you’re going through, I believe the name of Jesus is above every name named in heaven and earth, and at that name everything else has to bow.  So in the name of Jesus, we pray for your back to be healed, in Jesus’ name.

If you need prayer, 918-495-7777.  You can go on-line at Oral Roberts Ministry website, orm.cc, write Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts at Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74102, or like I said, go to the telephone, 918-495-7777.

            We did get a stack of prayer requests that just now just started coming in.  (Reading names)  Right now in the name of Jesus, we just speak by the authority of Jesus’ name, and we pray according to the Word and the will of God.  We speak directly to cancer. 

            Now why would I do that?  Because the Bible says we can, that we can speak directly to our mountain of difficulty and command it to be cast into the sea and not doubt in our heart but believe the things that we say shall come to pass, then we have whatsoever we say.  And that’s Mark 11:23 and 24.

            So in the name of Jesus, we speak directly to cancer to go and for your body to be healed, in Jesus’ name.  And anybody else that has a request, we’ve got several prayer requests.  (Reading names) 

            If you have a prayer request, pick up your telephone, go to the Abundant Life Prayer Group at 918-495-7777, and ask the prayer partner to pray for you.  But give us your specific prayer request.  And as you give those specific prayer requests, they’re going to bring them here.  And then tonight at eight o’clock, Richard and I are here right again from The Hour of Healing, right here in the Prayer Tower with the Prayer Group prayer partners, live in Tulsa time, eight o’clock.  And we will continue to pray for those prayer requests. 

            Right now we want to go take a break.  I want you to watch this message, and we’re going to be right back.

LR:

Hi.  My name is Lindsay Roberts.  And I’m standing here in the midst of the Abundant Life Prayer Group where prayer has gone on in this place 24 hours a day, seven days a week, since probably the early 1960’s.  So we’re talking over 40 consistent years of constant prayer, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in this atmosphere.  And I tell you something, you can feel it. 

            And if you’d like prayer, we want to encourage you to go to your telephone right now.  Pick up your phone and dial 918-495-7777.  It’s a little after two o’clock in Tulsa here at Tulsa time, which is Central Time. 

            And if you pick up the phone and call right now, this is the very group of Abundant Life Prayer Group prayer partners that will be answering your phone calls.  And they’re going to be taking those prayer requests and giving them to me.  And we’re going to believe God for a miracle, along with your faith joined with our faith, joined with their faith.  And we are going to bombard heaven in your behalf.

            A lady named Andrea called from Colorado, and she said, “While I was listening to Richard on The Hour of Healing,” she heard him give a word of knowledge that God was healing pain in the left leg and pain down the arm.

            And she said she hurt herself when she was moving furniture.  She said, “That’s for me.  That is for me.”  And she said, “I called in to tell you, now all the pain is gone in my right arm and my left leg.”  And she said, “I’m telling you, it’s a miracle.”

            If you need prayer, 918-495-7777.  You can go on-line at Oral Roberts Ministry website, orm.cc, write Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts at Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74102, or like I said, go to the telephone, 918-495-7777.

            Then Cora called in, and she said her right knee had been hurting for over a month.  And while she was in constant pain mostly on the right side, she was not able to walk for a very long time at all.

            Cora was watching The Hour of Healing and came into agreement with Richard for her healing.  And she said, “Now I can even go shopping.  I feel better right away.  I can walk to the grocery store, and I have no pain.”  Praise God!

            And then a lady named Stephanie called in from Pennsylvania and said while she was watching The Hour of Healing, Richard gave a word of knowledge concerning pain in the hip area that was traveling down the leg.

            Stephanie had been suffering from pain in her hip for many years, and she began to pray with Richard and reaching out her hands towards him in agreement.  Instantly the pain left.  She had also been suffering from a vitamin D deficiency.  Shortly after this time, she said she had her blood test that showed she had been healed from this disorder as well.

            I’ll tell you something, I believe in the power of prayer.  I believe that there is a prayer of agreement, the Bible says, according to Matthew 18:18 and 19, where, “If two or three of you are gathered in my name, I am in the midst of them.”

            Then He went on to say, “If you shall agree as concerning any one thing.”  We’re going to agree with you concerning whatever it is you ask us to pray for.  And we want to believe God for your miracle.  So don’t hesitate.  Pick up the telephone.  Call 918-495-7777.  We’re right here in the midst of the Prayer Group. 

            You know, if you can feel, when you walk into a room, you can feel tension, or you can feel stress or an argument.  Well, I’ll tell you something, you can feel the anointing in this room.  People who walk in here have said about it, “We don’t want to walk out of the room.  We get in this room, and we don’t want to walk out.”  I know exactly how they feel.  I’ve made jokes, “Do you think I could just like sleep here all night long?”  Because I’m not kidding, it is bathing in the presence of God in this room.  And we absolutely love it in here.

            We want to take you down to Pennsylvania for a testimony from a woman named Kathy about a back being healed.  Kathy has a testimony how God miraculously touched her back while she was in Pennsylvania.  And while you’re listening to this testimony, I want you to call in your prayer request.  As soon as you hear this, we’re going to come into agreement for backs to be healed and a lot of other things on this program.  So just watch Kathy from Pennsylvania.

LP:  Kathy Pouncy, South Coatesville, Pennsylvania

BRAD:

For 60 years people have come to Oral Roberts Ministries to receive healing through Christ Jesus.  In the early days, Oral Roberts reached the hurting and the lost through tent crusades, television, and the radio.

OR:

Place your hand upon your radio cabinet as a point of contact as I reach forth my hand here as a point of contact to pray for you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

BRAD:
Kathy Pouncy was just a little girl when she found out from her parents she was going blind.

KP:
The doctor told them that I would be blind between five and six years old.  And my dad already had a brother that was blind by the age of five.  And he really didn’t want that for me.

BRAD:
The very next Sunday, she and her family were listening to Oral Roberts on the radio.

KP:
The preacher said that there’s someone that’s believing for healing for their daughter that got a bad report that she would be blind by the age of five.  So he said, “I want you, the parents, to take the girl’s hand and put your hand on the radio and believe God for her healing.”

            And that’s what my parents did.  They took my hands, and I still remember the day they hold my hand and their hand was on the radio.  I remember him grabbing my hand, and he told my mom, “Get her hand, get her hand,” you know.  And I still see the picture today that they—I’m in the middle and they’re holding my hand, and they laid their hands on the radio.  And I received my healing.

            I’m in my fifties now, and I’m not blind.  I never will be.  Praise God.

BRAD:
Kathy has lived in Pennsylvania’s Dutch country all of her life.  Forty years after her eyes were miraculously healed, Kathy was stricken with a muscle disorder.

KP:
They called it limb-girdle muscle disorder.

BRAD:
What followed, years of severe back pain and crippling back spasms.

KP:
I had them, at least seven or eight years I had back problems.  I would have spasms, and they were worse than the pain, than regular back pain.

BRAD:
Doctors prescribed all sorts of pain pills and muscle relaxers, and Kathy went through physical therapy to strengthen her back.  But she says the painful spasms would always return.

KP:
I couldn’t get out of the bed, you know.  I mean, I’d be praying and it would get a little better.  But then it would come back.

BRAD:

After living with these painful back spasms for eight years, Kathy could finally get The Hour of Healing on her TV set.  Remembering her childhood miracles, she started watching every night.  She hadn’t been watching long when one night she heard Richard give a word of knowledge about lower backs being healed.

RR:

Anyone who’s suffering in your back, let’s just have prayer right now.  In the authority of Jesus’ name—you may want to just come over and put your hands up against my hands right now as a point of contact.

KP:
He mentioned that there’s someone out there, more than one though, he said, that had lower back pain, you know.  And I said, “That’s me, that’s me.”  So he said, “Just lay your hands on your back.”  And he said, “Put your hands on the television if you can.”

RR:
Every pain, be healed.  At least three of you right now, another three of you have pain in your lower back, and also one of you in your tailbone.  And God is healing you right now.

KP:

After Richard got finished, the pain went away.  I got out of the bed after my back got stretched out, and I bent over and it didn’t hurt.  And I walked to the door, it didn’t hurt.  Went in the kitchen.  I just started praising God.  So I said, “I’m claiming it, and I’m going to keep it.”  And ever since then, I have not had no spasms.

BRAD:

Not one spasms?

 KP:
Not one spasm since then.

 BRAD:
After eight long years of painful back spasms, Kathy is finally and happily pain-free.

 KP:
It’s been over a year now, I guess about a year since that happened.  And I don’t have no spasms and don’t have no lower back pain once.  And I was believing that it would never come back again.  And it hasn’t.  And it will not. 

            Every day I thank the Lord for my healing.  Every day I thank Him that I’m able to move and have my being, you know, every day.  I really appreciate it.  The Lord has delivered me from so many things in my life.  He’s a good God.

BRAD:
Coffee on the way to work, $51 a month; gum after drinking coffee, $12 a month, movie rentals on the weekend, $32 a month; filling up the gas tank—too much!  Changing the world?  You decide.

Your continued and new monthly partnership with the Oral Roberts Ministries make it possible to change the world, one person at a time.  The Oral Roberts Ministries, 60 years of making a difference.

LR:

Okay, I want to say this one more time.  Pick up your telephone, call the toll-free number, 866-870-6932, 866-870-6932.  That will be an operator, and that operator will talk to you about the stress book, and the stress book is my free gift to you.  Or you can write Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts, Tulsa, OK, 74102.  I want to sow seed into you.  So please allow me that privilege of giving this book to you.  It is a seed from my heart.

And, you know, I remember one day when I was writing it, I was so stressed out.  And my daughter came to me and said, “Mom, is it a little ridiculous that you’re stressed over writing a stressed book?”  And I thought, That is ridiculous.

And I got to the Word of God on my own manuscript, and I sat down and I began to read what I was writing.  And I said, “You know what?  God doesn’t want us to live underneath the mess.”  God said He wanted us to live exceedingly abundantly far above anything we could dare ask or think.

And He loves us so much that He wants to minister healing to us.  So this book was written not out of some la-la land.  This book was written out of my life and what I went through.  And you know what?  I think I could add a few more chapters to it lately.

But, you know, the most important thing is, God wants us to prosper and be in health, even as our soul prospers.  And your soul is your mind, will, and emotions.  And that’s where stress starts to hit us.  So please, 866-870-6932.  Call that number, and please allow me the privilege of giving that book to you.

I want to tell you a little bit more about some of the calls that have come in.  (Reading names)

In the name of Jesus, we just lift up every name, every need, every financial request, every ministry request.  Father God, in the name of Jesus, we just are asking You right now to minister to the needs of people.

I am asking for healing in every area, spirit, soul, and body, in the name of Jesus.  And right now I want to pray for you, whatever it is you’re going through.  Maybe it is in the soul realm, your mind, your will, and emotions.  I can’t even begin to tell you how many prayer requests I’ve seen for depression.  That’s not from God, and I am praying for God to break the spirit of depression off of you and you to be healed in your mind, in your will, in your emotions.  God’s not given you the spirit of fear, but power, love, and a sound mind.
Praying for your finances, for your family, for your marriage.  In the name of Jesus, whatever it is you have need of, I am praying for God to bless you from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet, in every area, in Jesus’ name.

Now don’t forget, 866-870-6932, 866-870-6932.  Please request this stress book and let me sow it to you as my gift, as my gift to you, as a privilege.  Please let me sow that book into your life.  If you need further prayer or if you’d like to sow a seed into this ministry, feel free to call the Abundant Life Prayer Group, 918-495-7777.  Or you can write Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts, Tulsa, OK, 74102.  Let us pray for you today, and make it count.

LR:

We do have to have faith and believe in God.  And right now we have faith in God that heals.  Anybody that is listening to this program that has cancer, in the name of Jesus, just like Vicki got her diagnosis turned around, in Jesus’ name we speak to outlaw cells.  And we command those outlaw cells to wither and die and healthy cells to take over your body, for a healing and a cure, in Jesus’ name.

And I believe God for that.  I believe God for healing.  I am a miracle myself.  And people think, “You don’t . . .”  Oh, yeah, I do.  I can tell you stories that—you know how they say “will make your head spin.”  Well, I don’t want your head to spin, but I’ll tell you what, my father died of cancer when I was 12 years old.  My mom had an evil diagnosis shortly thereafter and several that followed it.

And then it turned around at 18, I started getting diagnosis—at 18!  And then by 23 and 24, and then I married Richard and then I had a tumor the size of a grapefruit.  And then and then and then.  I’ve had a tumor on my breast.  I’ve had an ovarian tumor.  I was in the hospital, in surgery for a hysterectomy, and God healed me in the middle of that surgery in front of all the surgeons.

I am living proof that God still heals today.  Well, how do we know that?  We know that by the word of people’s testimony.  And just like Vicki gave her testimony, if you have a testimony and you want to give it and share it with us, please call the Abundant Life Prayer Group, 918-495-7777.  Have our Abundant Life prayer partners pray for you, but also give us your testimony because we’d love to share it with other people.

And one thing I want to share with you—and I’ve got lots of requests for it.  I’m trying to organize this.  I’ve got calls on my calls on my calls.  But I want to do this before I forget.  I believe in sowing seed.  When I couldn’t have children, the hardest thing I ever faced was not being able to have children, two miscarriages, like I said, in surgery for a hysterectomy, many other surgeries that I don’t even want to go into.  And then I had a son that lived 36 hours and died.

I’m telling you, I understand what it’s like.  And in the middle of all that, the Lord spoke to me and said, “Give baby showers.”  And I’m like, “That’s ridiculous!”  And the Lord said, “No, you need to sow in famine to reap a hundredfold, to reap in joy.”

And I thought, Okay, what’s the hardest thing I could possibly sow?  That baby shower.  I would call people I knew that were having babies, and I would give baby showers and baby gifts.  In the meantime, I’d be having miscarriages, and in the meantime I’d be having dead babies and funeral services.  And yet I believed God that if I sowed in the very field I needed to reap in, God would honor me.

Now once I did that and sowed my seed—and sometimes I can tell you the honest truth—I have an upstairs in my house.  And I’d have the party downstairs and little baby flowers and everything, and I’m having miscarriages.  And I would run upstairs and I would throw up all over the bathroom, wipe off my face, come back downstairs and smile and say, “Oh now, aren’t we having fun?  Isn’t this exciting?”

We prayed for those little babies, and in my heart I was absolutely breaking.  But God told me that I had to give out of my need.  I had to give out of the very field that I wanted to reap from.  And as I did that, you all know my story—Jordan, Olivia, and Chloe later—three amazing, amazing daughters later.  God multiplied my seed into a harvest.

I believe I need to sow seed this week, and I want to give you this.  Now they’re helping me with the telephone number because I can’t see it over there—866—that’s a toll-free number—866 means it’s a free call—866-870-6932, 866-870-6932.  Or you can go to makeyourdaycount.com and go on-line.

Now when you see this book, the stress book, it has a price tag attached to it.  That’s going away today because I want to give it to you.  Don’t pay any attention to it.  Our prayer partners know the people at this number, 866-870-6932, know that when you call and order this book, this is a gift to you.  There is no charge.  It’s my Seed-Faith gift to you.

I believe in sowing seeds.  Am I a little stressed out lately?  You could say that.  So you know what?  I’m sowing my stress book into you, believing that as you read the book and God ministers healing to you, God’s going to multiply that seed back to me.  So 866-870-6932.

Are you pressured?  Sometimes.  Stressed?  Yes.  Frustrated?  Well, yes.  Overcoming Stress, take charge of the negative situations that come to attack you.  Overcome them with the Word of God.  So please call that telephone number, and please allow me the privilege of sowing seed into your life.

Now I want to tell you about a goofy phone call that I had from a very sweet lady.  She is a lady that is one of the hosts on QVC.  Now I had never met her, had not talked to her, didn’t know anything about her until she started contacting our ministry.

And as she contacted our ministry, she began preaching to us.  She began preaching Oral’s Seed-Faith message to us.  And today she called me, and she said, “Lindsay, I want you to know what I’m doing right now.”  And I said, “Okay.”

She said, “I am putting a check”—and it was a very sizable check—“into an envelope.”  And she said, “I am licking it right now, and I am walking to the mailbox.”

And I said, “Why are you doing that?”  And she said, “I want you to know that I have to sow seed into good ground.”  She said, “God doesn’t need my money.”  And I thought, Well, okay.  He walks on streets of gold, walls made out of jasper, gates made out of pearl.  I bet He doesn’t need our money.

But she said, “I have a need to sow it.”  She said, “There’s areas in my life where my needs are not being met, and I believe Malachi, that God will open me the windows of heaven, pour out a blessing where there’s not room enough to receive it, and rebuke the devourer for our sake.”

And I said, “Have you been listening to me on Make Your Day Count?”  She said, no, actually she works during that time.  And I said, “I want you to go on-line, and I want you to listen to what I have to say today because that is exactly what I have my Bible open to is the book of Malachi.”

And I want to show you something.  Malachi 3:10 and 11, and I know I’ve kind of been on this scripture a lot.  But, you know, until we get the revelation of it, let’s stick with something until it gets in us.

It says, “Bring tithe and offering into the storehouse,” or where you’re being fed spiritually.  If it’s this program, if it’s something where you are being fed, you’re to bring tithe and offering into that storehouse—“that there may be meat,” or resources, “in that storehouse.”

Now this is the only time in the entire Bible, Genesis to Revelation, where this word is going to appear.  And I’m going to read it to you.  It says, “Prove me.”  The only time in the entire Bible, all 66 books of the Bible, where God uses this word and says, “Prove me,” is right there, proving tithe and offering and opening the windows of heaven and rebuking the devourer.  That’s the only place He said, “Put me to the test.”

And it says it’s not like, “I dare you,” but it’s sort of like that in saying, “I want you to test this thing.  I want you to see how it operates.”

What I think God was telling us is that He wants to see in us, in our situation, He wants us to understand the system.  If you want God’s answers, then you’ve got to do it on God’s system.  If you want spiritual answers, miraculous answers, you have to do it in God’s miraculous way.

“Bring all the tithe and offering into the storehouse, that there may be meat,” or resources, “in my house.  And prove me now, says the Lord of hosts, and see”—prove Him now.  That’s a good one—“see if I will not open you the windows of heaven, pour you out a blessing where there’s not room enough to even receive it all, and rebuke the devourer for your sakes.

“He shall not destroy the fruits of your ground.  Your vine shall not cast her fruit before the time in the field, says the Lord of hosts.  And all nations shall call you blessed, and you will be a delightsome land.”

Well, when’s the last time all nations called you blessed and you were a delightsome land?  Okay, when’s the last time the devourer was rebuked for your sake?  If you’re being devoured in some area, there is a tie, like a connector, into God’s system.

If you want God’s answers and you want God’s miracles, what is that connector to rebuking the devourer and getting that answer?  He said, “Bring tithe and offering into the storehouse.”

So I want to read you what’s been happening around here.  Vivian called in—I’ve got such a stack.  I’m sorry, they’re kind of messy—Vivian called in, and she is in Canada.  And she said she has been sowing monthly seeds into Richard and Lindsay’s ministry.

But she said, “I want to report to you that I have received”—and she said the amount.  Her husband came home with a very large raise, as well as a very large Christmas bonus on the way.  She said, “I can only attribute this blessing to being a faithful seed sower into the ministry.”  And she said, “Praise God.”

This lady called in—actually it’s a husband and wife.  And the husband called in.  Bless his little heart.  This was just really precious to me.  And he said he was sowing a $25 seed because his wife has just been diagnosed with cysts on her ovaries.  And he said he is sowing his seed, believing for his precious wife to receive healing.

And like I said, you can’t buy a miracle, but there is some way that it is intricately tied together, that God said in Malachi 3, “Bring the tithe in, and I’ll rebuke the devourer for your sake.”  I’m not sure why He said it that way.  All I know is, He said it, and I’m obligated to believe it and act on it and do what He said.

Now this husband called in and said he really needs encouragement, sent a $50 seed.  This precious mama called in, believing for her daughter and her granddaughter, for her grandchildren to be healed, a $1,000 seed.

North Carolina, a lady called in, a $50 seed.  Lorie in Michigan called in and sowed a $20 seed.  Another Lorie called in from Colorado, “Believing God for wisdom,” sowed a $20 seed.  “Believing for salvation for a nephew,” a lady called in from Ontario and sowed a $25 seed.  A hundred dollar seed—Jane called in, believing God for her husband to know the will of God.

When you sow your seed, God promised He would open the windows of heaven, pour out a blessing, and rebuke the devourer.  That is good news.

This one I have to read, just because it’s from my hometown, Flint, Michigan, a $25 seed.  A woman called in, believing for healing and believing for wisdom.  The husband and wife called in.  And I’m in agreement with that.

In fact, there’s lots of seeds.  But right now in the name of Jesus, Luke 6:38 says, “Give, and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over shall men give unto your bosom.  For with what measure you give, it shall be given unto you again.”

We pray for supernatural multiplication of seed, in Jesus’ name.  I believe that’s God’s system.  That way I believe the system works, and I really do believe what God says.  He’s obligated to watch over His Word to perform it.  Stay tuned.  We’ve got a message for you, and we’re going to be right back and talk a little bit more.