You talk about scaring the willies out of you!  And then my dad moves to California, build this monstrosity in Tulsa, leave it with me and move to California—and laugh at me.  Every time I called him, he’d laugh and say, “I’m so glad it’s yours, not mine.”

I’d call him, “What are you doing?  Are you on your knees?”

“No, I’m on the golf course.”

“Well, aren’t you going to pray for me?”

“Yeah, when I finish playing golf.”

I’m back here dying, in my pity party.  And it looks like the university is going under back there.  I hadn’t been on the job for more than eight months, until it looked like the whole thing was going south and I would preside over the funeral of this institution, the institution that is now becoming the university of choice for the charismatic community of the earth.  (Response) 

ORU is now becoming to the charismatic world what Harvard is to the brainiacs and what Brigham Young is to the Mormons, and what Notre Dame is to the Catholics.  ORU is becoming the university of choice for the charismatic community.  (Applause) 

Did you know that the Who’s Who of families of the charismatic leaders all over the world are sending their children here?  Out of our 5,000 students, more than 600 or 700 of them are preacher’s kids, minister’s kids. 

And I didn’t know that until Benny Hinn came to speak in chapel and said, “I want to lay hands on your 40 or 50 who are minister’s kids.  Six hundred came to the platform.  Benny got a workout that morning, and he laid hands on every one of them.           

And I’m having my pity party, and God says, “Why don’t you shut up?  Why don’t you come away from here and find there?”

“Well, what are You talking about, God, You didn’t call me to be here.  I am here.  You put me here.”

That’s not what He meant.  He wasn’t talking about my changing physical locations this time.  He was talking about me.  He was saying, “You’re here, but I want you there.”

“Where’s there?”

He said, “That’s where joy is.”  He said, “You’re wallowing in your pity party of trying to figure out in the natural how you’re going to pay $60 million of debt, when you’re not ever going to do it in the natural because nobody is remotely interested in helping you get out of debt.”

The word of wisdom operates through believers, but we’ve got to be willing to step out in faith.  Sometimes things we say like that…. We don’t know.  We don’t understand, but we’ve got to be obedient to God. That will work through us.  It will work through you.

Don’t suppress it.  Don’t say, “I don’t want to do that.”  So many times God has me do things that I don’t want to do.  Anybody here that God has ever told you to do something that you didn’t want to do?  Put your hand up.  The rest of you are lying.

Number two is the word of knowledge.  The word of knowledge is supernatural information that’s not available to you by any natural source.  In II Kings chapter 6, every time the king of Syria made a battle plan against Israel, God gave Elisha a word of knowledge and gave him the battle plan to the game.  He gave him so many words of knowledge about the battle plans of Syria, that the king of Syria thought he had a spy in his own camp, in his own bedroom.  That was an operation of the word of knowledge.

When Jesus met the Samaritan woman in John chapter 4 He said, “Where’s your husband?”  She said, “I have none.”  And Jesus, by operating through the word of knowledge said, “You’re right.  You don’t have one; you’ve had five.  And the one you’re living with now is not your own.”  That was an operation of the word of knowledge.

How many times have you faced a situation where suddenly you knew something about someone and you know there is no way you could have known it?  What do we do as Christians?  We often say, “Well, I wonder where that came from?  Why that was unusual.  Oh, I can’t say that, they might be embarrassed.”  That’s the time that we have to be bold and be strong.

I remember I was invited to meet the President of Zambia some years ago.  I had been preaching in South Africa.  The Prescient of Zambia called me.  It happened to be one of the 40 nations that God had spoken to me about.

So I traveled up with another minister to Lusaka, the capitol of Zambia, had lunch with the President and his wife.  While we were praying on our knees, he invited me for a national crusade.  And I was so excited, because that’s the reason that I had gone. I knew that God had said to me, “The President of Zambia is going to invite you for a national crusade.”

I had my invitation.  I was ready to fly back to the states and make my plans when God said to me, “Tell Mrs. Chiluba that between her third and fourth child she developed a problem.  She was hospitalized and she’s not well yet.”

I said, “God, I don’t want to tell her that; You’ll mess up my crusade.”  (LAUGHTER)  “You tell her.”  And it came again and it came again.  That’s one way you can tell it’s the Holy Spirit; He just keeps on coming.

How many of you have come into a room and all of a sudden you say,  ”Huh, huh, huh, something doesn’t?-we would say-?doesn’t smell right, or doesn’t feel right.  Oh, that’s just?-no, it’s not just, just, just. More than not, it’s the Holy Spirit.  He’s showing you there’s something there.  He’s wanting you to prick up your spiritual ears and listen and hear.

The gift of the word of knowledge, the best description I can give of how the word of knowledge works-and it will work through every minister of the Gospel who will open themselves up to it-the best explanation I can possibly give is that a word of knowledge is supernatural information that comes to you when there is no way on earth you could know it.  And it will come, as we say, out of the blue.  And you’ll want to say, “Where did that come?  That’s the most unusual thing.  Where did that thought come from?”  It came from God.

I promise you, satan is not going to give you a word of knowledge.  It will not be for healing.  And you can always tell.  Someone said,  ”Well, how can I tell the difference between the voice of the Lord and the voice of the devil?”  I said, “If you can’t tell the difference between the voice of your best friend and your worst enemy, then you need to get saved.”  Because you can tell.

Now how does it operate?  Well, it operates through people differently.  Through me, I feel something in my body, like right now there’s a catch that’s in my right knee.  And there’s no catch in my right knee, and that’s God’s way of showing me that somebody’s getting healed right now in their knee.  It seems so simple, it seems so different, it seems so unusual, and yet it happens every time.

 There are at least six people being healed in their knee right now.  I know because I just felt my knee pop.  And if you people that I’m describing will stand up and begin to move your knee, you’ll find that the knee pain is totally gone.  Now it’s an operation of the word of knowledge.  Go ahead, kick your knee. Come out in the aisle, examine yourself.  At least six of you.  Why six?  I don’t know.  God said that.  I didn’t say it.  Why not seven?  I don’t know.  He said six.  He said at least six.  It happens like that.

Now how many of you can tell, just now, you feel a warmth, and now there’s a healing in your knee and you know it?  Wave your hand at me. Well, that’s more than six.  Somebody give glory to God.  (Applause)

A reporter once said, “How do you describe the word of knowledge?”   The Holy Spirit said, “Don’t answer his question.  Ask him how long he’s had arthritis in his shoulder.”  And so I did, and he said,  ”Several years, but how did you know that?”  I said, “Because the Lord just gave me a word of knowledge about your shoulder, and your shoulder is healed.”

And she wouldn’t let anything stop her.  I don’t know if she crawled through the crowd or not.  I have no idea.  The Bible does not say.  But in my imagine, I see her getting down on her knees and crawling through the crowd and saying, “Excuse me.  Please let me by.  I’ve had this issue of blood.  I’ve got to get to him.  If I can just touch the border of His garment, that’s my point of contact, and I’m going to get healed when I do.  I’m not going to leave her without getting what I came for.”  That’s what she was saying.

Somebody is getting healed in your right arm right now. And when she reached out and touched him, it was like she was standing in water and somebody turned on the electricity.  And the power of God went through her, and Jesus knew it.  He whirled around and said, “Who touched Me?”

Nobody touched Him.  She touched His clothing, but He said, “Who touched Me?”

Peter said, “Everybody is touching you.”  

“No, no, no, no.  I felt the virtue, I felt the power, I felt the Spirit go forth from me.”

She told Him everything.  And He said, “Woman, your faith has made you whole.”

She wasn’t going home without her miracle.

Bartimaeus was the same way.  No matter how many times they told him to shut up, he cried the louder.  “Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.”

And Jesus stopped in His tracks.

Now there are two words that we hear in our society today.  We hear the word “supply” and we heard the word  ”demand.”  We hear the law of supply and demand.  Everybody say supply and demand.  …REPEAT…  There is a supply of sleazy pornographic movies in the United States, produced by Hollywood, because there’s a demand for it.  And as long as there’s a demand for it, there’s going to be a supply.

Like when you and I sow our seeds of faith unto God like we did last night, which was unprecedented.  I’ve never seen anything like that since the founding of ICBM.  I’ve never witnessed it.  I’ve never been in a service, I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been in a service like last night.  I’ve never seen happen what happened spontaneously by the Holy Ghost like I saw last night.  That’s us as the body of Christ, setting our wings as we sow our seed and believe for God to open us the windows of heaven and pour us out a blessing where there shall not be room enough to receive it, believing that He will rebuke the devil for our sake.

Sometimes the little eaglets refuse to come out of the nest.  And when they do the scientists tell us the mother will do two things:  First of all, she’ll stop bringing food and water.  You say, “Well, that sounds like me,? you know, too much month at the end of the money.  “I try.  Sometimes I mess it up.  God holds the provision off for a while until I get back on my knees and get back in that prayer room, get back into the Word of God.  And then God begins to open the floodgates again.”  We’re not waiting on Him; He’s waiting on us.

And then the scientists tell us that if that doesn’t work, the mother eagle will get up on the nest and take her wing and literally begin to beat the little eaglets out until they leave. You know, I think we oftentimes blame too much on the devil.  We give him too much credit, when God’s trying to launch us into something that He has especially for you, because there’s a dying, crying, sighing world out there that’s going to hell.  And I believe that many of them aren’t going to be touched unless you and I touch them.  We’ve got to do it.

What an eagle!  One other thing you need to know about eagles, when an eagle gets old, the eagle will fly off to a lonely, deserted place and there he will take his wings and up against the rocks he will pound them until every feather falls out.  The scientists have proved it.  And he’s there naked and exposed.  That’s that prayer room for us, where we come exposed to God, nothing hidden.

Pretty soon, though, new feathers begin to grow, and new feathers means new life.  And the scientists say that when those new feathers on that old eagle are grown in, that eagle remains young and strong until it dies.  Do you want to be an eagle or do you want to be a turkey?

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.