LR: Well, he said something about that.

RR: Because the tumor was wrapped around the vocal cords.  He’s been in the hospital for over six months, but Mack’s wife has continually called the Abundant Life Prayer Group and Mack has kept watching this program, the Hour of Healing, and we’ve been praying and stretching out my hands in prayer.  They’ve been touching my hands, and now they say Mack is able to speak.  He sends his greetings from the Central Church of God in Atlanta, and thanks God and thanks Richard for the prayers and for the Hour of Healing.  Hallelujah!  We’ve got to find out what is going on in Kennisaw, Georgia.  Glory to God!  Glory to God! Lynwood, do you have a testimony?  We’ve got to find out; we’ve got to find out more details from Mack?

LW: Okay.  Well, just a moment ago, Richard, you were talking about so many backs being healed.

RR: Yes.

LW: Well, about, actually five or six weeks ago and we love a healing that lasts Patricia from Defiance, Ohio, she had injured her back, six years of pain she had been in.  Right as you was going off the air.

RR: years.

LW: Right as you were going off the air you had a word of knowledge about a right shoulder being healed, and she received that word. She wants to share her testimony with you.  Patricia.

RR: Patricia.  Hello, Patricia.

P: Hello there, Brother Richard.

RR: How are you tonight?

P: I am wonderful through the grace of God.

RR: Tell me, what has happened to you since we prayed?

P: I have absolutely no pain whatsoever.  I was, I injured my arm at work and when I injured it, it felt like electricity bolts were shooting through the back of my arm.  And from that day forth, my arm just hurt all the time.  And I went to a chiropractor and he checked it and he said there was about an inch separation in that shoulder and that he would try to help me out, but the pain was so bad I couldn’t even stand to go to the doctor, for him to work with it.  And for six years now I’ve had pain all the time, so bad that to ride in a car I had to carry a pillow with me to rest my arm on.

LR: Six years.

LR: Right now, you who are suffering with cancer or some other terminal thing that they’ve told you, you know the Bible says, “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine,” and you may be taking physical medicine from the doctor, actual chemical medicine from the doctor, but it doesn’t seem to help your heart, and you seem to be defeating yourself because of all the fear in your heart. I speak directly to the fear right now.  And the only way to drive the fear out is by bringing faith in.  And faith comes by hearing the Word of God.  Surround yourself with people of faith.

Call the Abundant Life Prayer Group at 918-495-7777.  Get in the Word of God.  Get words, either healing Scriptures or one of Oral’s tapes or something that begins to fill your heart and your mind with faith to drive that fear out, because as long as that fear is sitting there, no matter what they do for you medically, as long as the fear is there, that’s going to be a hindrance to your healing. And I speak to that fear, and I curse it and I command it out of you in the name of Jesus.

RR: There are other testimonies coming right now.  Betty in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  “Richard, you gave a word of knowledge earlier tonight.  You said fourteen people’s arms are being healed.”  I said that earlier. “About three years ago I got locked out of my car, so I banged my arm against the car to open it.  And now when you gave that word, I am completely healed.  Thank God, I am healed.” Jean in Greenville, Tennessee.  Jean has been bothered with asthma, bronchitis, and a lung condition for a long time. “Richard, you gave a word of knowledge tonight about lungs being healed.  You said, ‘Lay your hand on your chest.’  I did, and I am healed.  My breathing has completely cleared up.”  Glory to God, glory to God.  Sue.  Sue, what do you have Sue?

SUE JESTER: Pat in West Seneca, New York you had a word of knowledge last night about a knee and arthritis in it.

RR: I said it was all swollen up, didn’t I, last night?

SUE JESTER: Yes, like a baseball, she said, and very painful.  She’s on the air.

RR: Hello, Pat.

PAT: Hello.  How are you?

RR: I’m just fine, Pat.  How are you tonight?

PAT: Oh, I thank you.  I am cured.  Listen, I’ve been praying so for a cure for my knee.  It was injured, and they didn’t know if it would cripple me or not.  And you said, “I’ve been praying for a cure.”  And Lindsay at one point, her daughter was hurt and she said, “Mama, pray.” And she said, “How long do you want me to pray?” And she said, “Until it stops hurting.”

LR: That’s right.

PAT: And that’s what I told God:  “I’m going to pray till it stops hurting.”

LR: Right.

“The Lord has worked a miracle,” they said.  “Three days later Vivian was no longer in need of therapy,” and it says the doctor sent her home.  She has full use of her hand, her arm, along with restoration of her speech.  They said, “Glory to God.”  They said she’s 83 years old 83 years young, excuse me lives alone, and she is fully able to care for herself.

RR: Hallelujah.

LR: Isn’t that cute?  “That’s what Meemie would have done for us.”

RR: Hallelujah.

LR: Isn’t that precious?

RR: Hallelujah.  And I set my faith in agreement with Lindsay’s faith right now.  Whatever it is that’s coming against you, no matter what it is, in the authority of the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I pray for you now.  I command satan to take his hands off of your life and for you to be healed. There’s a left eardrum that’s just burning.  Your ear is just burning.  God’s healing that ear right now.  There’s ringing in an ear.  I believe it’s in the right ear.  It’s being healed right now.  That’s the operation of the word of knowledge.  There are growths a person has growths under both arms.  God’s healing you right now in Jesus’ mighty name.

I set my faith in agreement with you for your healing.  Not in my name, but in Jesus’ name.  If you feel like you need further prayer, the Abundant Life Prayer Group is ready to receive your call.  They’re on duty seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Lindsay, while Cheryl was singing, I went up and took the call with Jennifer from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and I talked to the little seven-year-old daughter.  Her name is Kristen.

LR: Ooooooh.

RR: She said she was healed.

LR: Hallelujah!

RR: I talked to her on the phone just now while Cheryl was singing.

LR: Isn’t that cute?

RR: If you have a word of testimony, share with us what God is doing. Call the prayer group or Email us.  Can you put the Email up? And let us know exactly what God is doing in your life.  I’m expecting God to move.  And thank you for your prayers.

LR: Amen.

CT: You know, the best thing that I can think of, Richard, is when one just literally let himself or herself bathe in the knowledge of God’s love, to really get to understand who God really is. And now who we want Him to be, but who He really is.  And let Him really come into our lives.  We began to see the beauty of His creation.  We began to understand that He has placed a bit of himself in every living, breathing creature.  And when we embrace brothers and sisters who may not look like us, what we are really doing, we are embracing the best of what God has made.  And that’s the unity that David was talking about.  It’s just like a precious ointment.  And satan has no desire for us experience that precious ointment.  But I think we have the opportunity to do so.

RR: He doesn’t want us to get along, Lindsay.  He wants us to be in disharmony.  He wants us to be in strife.  He wants us to hate one another.

LR: Well, again, remember what I said last night when Jesus said, “My peace I leave you, my peace I give you”?  That word peace translates oneness and wholeness.  He left us whole, He left us His oneness, His wholeness.  But many times we don’t even know it’s there. And I know coming from Oral Roberts University, you know, we all look back on our lives and say, “How did we get here from where we were?”  And you came in banking, you worked at University Village.

RR: Out of the military.

LR: out of the military, and now you’re up for a Pulitzer prize. Your book that you birthed kind of at ORU was made into a movie, and instead of walking around thinking that you’ve made it to the top, you’re reaching down to serve.  What an example of Jesus Christ.

CT: I mean, that’s the requirement that God places on all of our lives.  How can we take these gifts that He gives us and share them with the world, whether one writes, sings, ministers, or whatever?  Those are His gifts, they’re not ours.

LR: The bottom line is to share it with each other.

CT: To share it.

RR: Cliff, you could have chosen you could have made a decision in your mind that you were not ever going to get over what you went through in your youth.  You could have decided, “I’m going to strike back.  I’m going to write, but I’m going to write a message of hatred, of violence, of unrest.”  But instead you chose a message of peace and healing. And I want to ask you to do something tonight.  I want to ask you to pray because there are many people in this country who are hurting tonight over something that happened to them in some relation.  And I want to ask you if you’ll just pray and just open your heart as the Lord leads and pray over the needs of the people.

CT: You know, Richard, the Bible says, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” And I want to write peace because when we find peace, we can find a way to maneuver through many of the things that come into our lives.  And as a writer, I’ve been able to travel places that I never dreamed I’d go, but I’ve been able to take, hopefully, the peace of God with me.  And I want my brothers and sisters, no matter where they are, to understand that peace is a gift, that God gives a gift to be shared.  And I would welcome the opportunity to pray that they would know that

RR: Please do, Cliff.

CT: Lord, we thank You for every person that You have given life to, that You have given the opportunity to face twenty-fours that they have never seen before.  We thank You that You have given us ideals that we can practice in our daily lives.  We thank You that You’ve given us the ability to live beyond racism, to live beyond hatred, as we find ourselves walking into Your kingdom and into Your love. But any person, Lord, who does not understand just where they fit in the kingdom, help them this night to know that Your love is sufficient, totally capable of moving mountains and giving peace.  Give them peace, Lord, that passes all understanding.  In Your name we pray, amen.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Bless you, Don.  My orchestra sure does like it.  Give them a good handclap.  Did you start, did you start playing guitar when you were a kid or did you just pick this up last week?

SPKM DON POTTER I was pretty young.  I failed to tell you earlier that I use to and that’s how I basically and then The Judds.  It was an interesting situation how that even came about. The Lord was working very strong in my life at that time.  I had been only saved about five years.  I’d been very deep in drugs and all of that.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS You came out of the drug culture too then? Yes  I see.

SPKM DON POTTER Oh yes.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS How did you come to grips with that when you were in the middle of drugs and suddenly you realized that your life was incomplete?  What’s the testimony there?

SPKM DON POTTER Well, uniquely, kind of one of the pit bottoms of it is one morning, early in the morning I was laying in bed sort of convulsing from overdoing it all night and beginning to lose all semblance of sanity. And my wife looked me in the face and said, “I’m leaving a person who wants to kill himself.”  And it was the first real shock I ever had. It was sort of like and I could barely talk because I was so strung out and I guess it was sort of the thing of the shocking realization, you know, drugs are very subtle.  They come on very quietly.  And before you know it, you’re acting like something you think is cool.  I don’t know how to put that into clear terms, but when I’m high, you know, I’m this thing that I’ve never been before and everyone thinks I’m so cool like this.  And it’s like that demon that comes around behind you and gets hold of you and starts convincing you that you are something that you’re not, of course.  Your ultra ego begins to take place and you step into an area that is just totally unrelated to life itself.  The Lord began really at that time, I had a, I had a 92-year-old grandmother, Spirit-filled, who has prayed for me for 30 years.  And

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Thank God for grandmothers.

SPKM DON POTTER And that is what saved my life.  Yeah.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Thank God for grandmothers.

SPKM DON POTTER And I have an aunt and uncle who I spent many years when my parents had split up and that kind of thing, and when I was younger my uncle who I stayed with, my grandmother and aunt and uncle, had recognized that at about six or seven years old that the Lord had put a gift of music inside and he lifted me up before the Lord.  He prayed that I would give this gift back to the Lord and it would be to glorify Him. I proceeded to spend the next 30 years trying to do it my own way and being in the music business, which I have for that many years, and the, I’ve been real close a lot of times, real close to becoming whatever the words are, famous, I guess is the only word I can think of now, but the Lord always pulled it short, always held it up, always kept it from being something that I want to be this, I want to be that and money was spent and everyone was happy and suddenly it fell apart.

And there’s been countless times and when I finally came to the end of myself and the drug problems and the Lord came into my life.  He moved like only He can move. I mean, I’d love to tell you it through my intelligence, but it certainly was not.  It was through my total need.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Through your desperation.

SPKM DON POTTER Through my desperation to need Him.  Then we went through a period of two years really of laying music down, which was like pulling my heart out of my body.  But I did.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS You actually gave it up.

SPKM DON POTTER Oh, yeah.  I had, I was a carpenter when I first got to Tennessee, you know, the Lord had used, I call it the carrot theory.  He had guided me to Tennessee through all kinds of, well, I’ll be this and then I’ll get this and I’ll sign with this company and I’ll sign with that company and everything. I’ll be just wonderful and as soon as I got there, that disappeared and I was literally thrown into the arms of the body of Christ at that time.  And we had nothing, no money and no job, and I couldn’t get a job right away.

And the Lord had also gifted me with carpentry, which I really enjoy.  And He said, “You’ve got a job.  You know how to work.”  And I spent the next two years as a carpenter remodeling buildings out of music row, of all the places. And it not only adjusted I shouldn’t say it’s adjusted.  I mean, I hate to tell you I think I’m even humble by a long shot, but it really had an awful lot to do with bringing me to a realization that the gift, any gift that God gives you is a beautiful thing and it is a gift.  You know, I’d love to say I made it up or I worked very hard and I’m now a great musician because I’ve worked hard, because I’m not, that’s not true.  God has anointed it.  And I’ve played in front of people when He wasn’t there and they didn’t like it.  And when He’s there, they love it.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Hallelujah.  A great testimony. Give us a word about what you’re doing right now.  I know you’re playing with The Judds and others, but I know there’s a testimony there that you shared with me and I want the people to hear it.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Well, but you’re doing more than that, Dino. You’re getting involved in bringing medical help to the people through the hospital.  Now I understand your vision because, as you well know, that’s what our vision is, to take medical missions to the nations of the earth.  So I understand what you’re talking about.

SPKM DINO KARTSONAKIS You know, for years people have seen me play the piano and perform and wear all these wonderful outfits, etc., you know, and they say, that guy has got it made and he goes from one auditorium to the next, one church to the next, you know, and perform every night in spotlights and what have you. But there’s so much more to it.  You know, as Christians it’s not just an entertaining element.  We are to minister. We are called as missionaries and I am called.  I am called and I have a burden on my heart.  Glad Tidings Tabernacle, the little church I was born and raised at in New York City, that’s still there on Toidy-toid Street, you know, in New York City.

We had a pastor that had a mission’s heart and I was raised with a missionary heart. And again, not just till recently were we able to go down at the Haitian Community Hospital.  And I flew in midnight last night, took five flights to get here.  I must really love you, Richard.  And, anyway, I got here.  Cheryl and I arrived and we feel refreshed this morning with a victory in our hearts because we handed to them a check for $32,000 to complete the wing of that hospital, the radiation department.  And we praise God for that and for people who have given like this letter right here, it’s so inspiring.  God has blessed the United States of America because of people like this who have given from their hearts, that’s why God has blessed us.  And He will continue to bless us if we continue to give.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS And when you open up your heart and when you give, then the Bible says God responds to your giving.  Now He describes how He responds to SR02 your giving.  The Bible says when you give, He will open you the windows of heaven and He will pour you out a blessing where there shall not be room enough to receive it.  And He will rebuke the devourer, the devil, for your sake. I’ve got good news; God does not need the devourer rebuked.  You and I are the ones who need the devourer rebuked.  And whenever I face a situation, Don and Dino, where I need the devourer rebuked, and the first thing I think of is that Scripture where God told me what to do.  He said, “When you give, I will open you those windows of heaven.”  Whenever I feel like my windows in heaven and I’ve got windows up there and so do you and so do you whenever I feel like my windows are shut, I realize that God didn’t shut them, I did.

And I realize if I want them open I’ve got to give.  And then when I need the devourer rebuked, I know that when I give, God’s going to do it because His SR03 Word is true.  God’s Word is true, He cannot lie.  The Bible says, “He is not a man that he should lie.” God has given us a formula and when we work with His formula, then He multiplies it back to us.  And like this person said, I want to double my giving. He said, “I want to double my giving every year.”  And I just got a letter from a man in Philadelphia who had just sown a very large seed for our medical mission’s project.  And he said to me, “I’ve got a problem.”  And I thought, you know, I’m ready to pray.  And he began to laugh.  And I said, “You’re laughing, but why are you laughing, you say you have a problem?”  He said, “I have a problem.

Every time I give money to you, I get money back.”  And I said, “Well, what’s the problem?”  He said, “I just gave you this large gift.”  I said, “Yes, I know.”  He said, “The Internal Revenue Service just contacted me and told me that I have a tax refund for almost three times what I gave you, unexpected.”  He said, “My problem is, when I give you money I get more money back than I know what to do with.”  I said, “Well, I can alleviate you of some of that problem.”  But you cannot out give God.

SPKM DINO KARTSONAKIS You can’t.

You know about this with your overseas work.  But just recently God has laid Haiti on our hearts.  And when I went down there this last time, I mean I come back with even more of a burden.  It’s hard to believe that so close to the United States of America there’s a country that is absolutely devastated because of poverty.  And I’ve come back with a new vision to continue to present this cause wherever I go.  We’re helping build a hospital there in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian Community Hospital. I’m sure you would appreciate that.  And probably my inspiration in helping to raise funds for that hospital comes from here, from this ministry right here.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS What do you mean by that?

SPKM DINO KARTSONAKIS Well, I’ve known you for years, Richard, and your dad.  And I’ve been very influenced by this ministry.  I was healed in your dad’s miracle service years ago at the St. Nicholas Arena in New York City. Very few people know this.  And it’s had an impact on my life.  And now that I watch you and I know God’s using you and of course having been involved with Katherine Kuhlman and the faith healing ministries, even though I’m not actively involved with you folk, you know, in TV and on the road, my heart is with you.  And I know the ups and downs of this kind of ministry.  But I know beyond all of this that people are being helped, not only physically but spiritually.

And seeing this hospital going up and having my own family being treated in this hospital, I know what it’s doing. And this has again influenced my ministry.  Again, I’m not just a piano player but I feel that I’ve got something more to present to the world as far as the healing power of Jesus Christ.  There have been times perhaps when I play the piano, you know, that people have felt the healing power just flow through their body. And I pray for that because I pray for the Holy Spirit to play through me.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Well, but many times you say that before you play a song.  I’ve seen you in concert where you have given a word of testimony before a song and I’ve heard you say to people, “You may be born again.  You may receive Christ while this song is being played.  You may receive a healing in your body while this song is being played.”  You know, God can heal in many different ways.  He can heal; He’s healed many times through lots of people singing.

SPKM DINO KARTSONAKIS He healed through David.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Certainly.

SPKM DINO KARTSONAKIS When he played the harp.  You know, I think of that, he was an instrumentalist.  But the key to that is the power of the Holy Spirit that flows through us to others.  And the Haitian people need to feel that power.  You know, what’s so wonderful is that they’ve been exposed to so many other things, other religions.  But there are many Christians that are going down there now that are presenting Jesus Christ.  One of the greatest, I believe the greatest experiences I’ve had playing the piano was when just recently I was in this huge room with 500 little Haitian children, have never even heard, seen a piano. And on the island they found an upright broken-down piano from the casino there.  And that was the only one that’s on the island.

So they bring it out to this village and place it in this huge school room.  And here are 500 little Haitian kids surrounding me and I’m playing and they’re sitting there like awed, they’d never heard these sounds before.  And then when I was through they were reaching out to touch me and to hold on to me.  And my wife Cheryl was there and they were just reaching out just to and if that doesn’t do anything to you.  These are little children that are, that do not have food to be fed.  I mean, the poverty is incredible, and to be able to go down there and not just share my talent, but also be able to take a piece of bread and just hand it to them and say, “This is for you, representing the Christians of the United States of America.”

SPKM DON POTTER Thank you.  This is a song, a tiny bit of preempt I’ll give you ahead of it.  This is called “First Love.”  It really deals with coming to the Lord in a real way, but more than that, seeing the faults of all of our friends and fellow Christians and whatever and loving them through them.  I thought every Christian was perfect when I first saw them.  I assumed that they were all wonderful, which they are, but then someone said, “Oh, wait till you get to know a few.”  They thought and sure enough, there were a few that were not as wonderful as I would have hoped, I guess, you know.  And the bubble sort of disappeared.  Then I realized the Lord had something much stronger than just a false bubble.  It was a commitment to walk with the brethren, regardless of what you think of them.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Don Potter and I are joined today by my good friend Dino Kartsonakis. Dino, God bless you, and welcome.  You know, Dino, nobody ever lets you talk. They think that your last name is At The Piano, Dino At The Piano.  They don’t know that your last name is Kartsonakis.  They don’t know that you’re Greek.  Of course anybody who looks at you can tell that you’re not, you know, you’re not from Denmark. But

SPKM DINO KARTSONAKIS Or Switzerland.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Or Switzerland.  But nobody ever lets you talk.  And I don’t think I’m going to let you play your piano today.  I just think I’m going to let you talk.  Why is that, Dino?  Why don’t people let you talk?

SPKM DINO KARTSONAKIS I don’t know.  I don’t know, because I can talk.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Do you speak Greek also?

SPKM DINO KARTSONAKIS I can speak a little Greek.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Don’t on this program because I don’t

SPKM DINO KARTSONAKIS The only phrase I like to say in Greek that everyone needs to learn how to say is that means, I love you very much.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS I receive that.

SPKM DINO KARTSONAKIS That’s a very good one.  Oh, O.K.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Dino, where have you been, what have you been doing?  I understand you’ve just returned from Haiti. What’s going on in your life? What’s going on in your ministry?

SPKM DINO KARTSONAKIS You know, I had no idea, when I came forward when I was seven years old in Glad Tidings Tabernacle in New York City, and accepted Jesus Christ in my heart, I really had no idea God was going to use me as He has the past even five years.  Of course I’ve played the piano since I was three years old.  But it was seven years old when I made that commitment to the Lord.  And it was then that He had this whole thing planned, you know.  A lot of people see me primarily as a performer, entertainer, and a gospel entertainer.  But I like to see myself as an ambassador for Jesus Christ, you know.  Three years ago you may recall I recorded a record with the London Symphony for World Vision.  And that record for Ethiopia brought in over three million dollars, and that like said something to me, you know, that people are responding because God’s allowing them to respond because of the missions, the people that need to be helped.

They’re on duty seven days a week, 24 hours a day.  And it’s SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS We’ve called them many times for our family.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS  a miracle.  Yes, it’s a miracle.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS Praise God.  Can I read this one?

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Sure. SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS This little lady was so cute.  She said, “I prayed with Richard about healing.”  She said, “I was praying for everybody else’s healing while you were praying,” she said, “and when I went home the doctor told me that I was completely healed of an infection that I was being treated for.”  She was praying for somebody else while you were praying.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Isn’t that what the Bible says?

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS And the doctor said she was healed completely of the infection.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS  The Bible says, “Pray one for another that you may be healed.” ( RR_James_05:16 )

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS That YOU may be healed.  That’s right.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS That means you pray for someone else’s healing and when you do, that’s a seed that you plant and that healing can come back to you.  And I believe in that.  That’s a good word.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS Now listen to this one.  Listen to this. This lady called over a year and a half ago.  Now the Bible says, “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” But it didn’t say it would happen instantly.  And this woman prayed for over a year and a half, “for my son who was on drugs. He was a drug addict and an alcoholic.  I want to let you know he’s not only delivered from drugs and alcohol, he is now a counselor for others in that situation.”

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Praise God.  Praise the Lord.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS Praise God.  Praise God for that.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS And speaking of, speaking of drugs and alcohol, I want to remind you that we have a Set-Free Clinic at the City of Faith.  It is a drug and alcohol abuse center.  If you have a need or if you know someone who does, then pick up your telephone and call us here at the Prayer Group or call—I can’t see what number is on the screen.  Is the set-free number up on the screen or is it the Prayer Group, Kathy?  It is up? Whatever number is on the screen, you can call and we’ll get information to you about the Set-Free Clinic over at the City of Faith.  It’s our special drug and alcohol unit.  Hundreds and hundreds of people have received help through this Set Free Clinic.  If you have a need, if you’re hooked on drugs or alcohol and you really need a deliverance through medicine and prayer working together and that’s the real key you call and we can get you information about our Set Free Clinic at the City of Faith.  And right now the ORU Singers and Orchestra are standing by to minister the gospel in song.  They’re going to minister a song titled, “Shine Down Your Light On Me.”  Give them a great welcome as they sing.

SPKM ORU SINGERS  SONG Shine down your light on me

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Here is the certificate of authenticity, Lindsay,  Oral Roberts’ “Venture Into Faith.”  This certifies that this is an authentic release of the film.  Did you notice that Bill Nordstrom said we’d lost the masters, the original masters for three decades?  Lost it for 30 years, Lindsay.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS Praise God we found it.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS That’s as long as you’ve been alive. “Venture Into Faith”

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS Don’t tell all that.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS that premiered in 1952.  This strictly, this is strictly a limited edition in its original color, having never before been released as a home video presentation.  It’s now being honored as a collector’s item in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Oral Roberts Ministry.  And your own certificate of authenticity like this will be signed, dated, and numbered by my father Oral Roberts.  Here is the video cassette itself, for your $100 seed.  Now I received word, when I got back from Korea I received word that a lot of people have called the Abundant Life Prayer Group and have written and have said, “I don’t want to use my credit card.  I would prefer to send a personal check.”  So I’m just going to make a change this morning.  I heard when I got back from Korea that a number of people are saying, “I want to send a personal check.”

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS Sounds like my credit card.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS So this is you can use your credit card.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS You’re safe, ladies, you can send a check.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Halleluia.  I can’t find it.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS We’ve got miracles coming in but I don’t know where the one is you’re talking about.  You pulled them out and I don’t know where you put it.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS There was a….

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS You did it.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS I know it.  I had it in here earlier.  There is one about a father whose son received Christ through this film and I wanted to share it with you.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS Yes.  You pulled it out.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Here is another one.  This is from Mansfield, Massachusetts.  Richard, my son Robert had already been accepted to a couple of universities but I did not want him to attend a secular university.  I talked him into coming down to ORU for your Easter college weekend seminar. Praise God, when he came home it was like having a new son.  He was so ecstatic about ORU and said that he had definitely decided to go to ORU.  He was born 18 years ago on Easter Sunday and while there at your college weekend seminar at ORU, in the Sunday morning Easter morning service, he was born again.”  (APPLAUSE)  Isn’t that a wonderful testimony?  “Praise God for ORU and the ministry.  My son was born both times on Eastern Sunday, and I also was born again many years ago under Brother Oral Roberts’ ministry.”  Now isn’t that a great story?

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS It is.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS “I started planting seeds of faith in January of this year.  Since that time our income has doubled and so has our giving.  The principles of sowing and reaping really do work.  Praise God for his blessings and increased income.” (APPLAUSE)  That’s from Lake Worth, Florida.  And, honey…..

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS No, those are mine.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Those are yours?

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS You picked that one up.  I don’t know what you did with it.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Well, I don’t know what I did.  This is from Michigan… is it Saline? You were born in Michigan.  You ought to know.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS I was born in Flint.  I was.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Well, that’s in Michigan.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS Many, many, many years ago.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Many years ago, Lindsay.  Seven years later than I was born.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS No.  Yes, that’s right.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Cause you’re seven years younger than I am.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS Not according to the newspapers.  They had me ten years older than you.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS I’m 21 and you’re 14.  “We gave $500 into the medical missions program at ORU.  Recently a company called my husband and offered him $10,000 a year more.  He’s going to take a new job and I know this is the answer to prayer and because we planted our seed in the ORU missions program.”  Now I think we ought to give the Lord a great handclap.  SU01 (APPLAUSE)  There are all kinds of testimonies.  I brought video home from Korea and we’re getting it all ready later on tomorrow and the next day we’ll have a lot of things to show you.  I have a great interview that I did with Dr. Paul Yonggi Cho, pastor of the world’s largest church.  I preached three times while I was in Korea and I’ll give you just a little capsule version and then I’ll show it to you tomorrow and maybe the next day.  But I preached the opening night at a banquet sponsored by the Church Growth International.

Then on Thursday evening I preached the first of a two-night crusade in Dr. Cho’s church.  The first night we had 50,000 people in attendance and the second night, 60,000 people.  On the second night they had to close the doors of the church and all the ancillary buildings at 4 o’clock in the afternoon and lock them because of the size of the crowd.  The service didn’t begin until 7 and those people sat there and prayed and sang for literally 3 hours before I got to that building.  (APPLAUSE)  And it was absolutely a miracle.  And I’ll show you more about it.  You see, Korea is one of the 40 nations that God spoke to me about.  And tomorrow…. in fact, I’ll make an announcement to all of my television personnel now.  Tomorrow I want to show the interview that I did with Dr. Cho in his office right after the crusade was completed.