ANNOUNCER: It is from tiny drops of water flowing together in explosive harmony that the great Niagara is harnessed into a course of life-giving power.  And everything that exists today or is a hope for the future must originate from something and begin somewhere.  There must be a source, there must be a seed.

In his new book, The Source, The Seed, The Answer, Richard Roberts shares the secrets he has learned about the eternal principles of seedtime and harvest, of sowing and reaping seeds of faith to receive a miracle harvest in every area of your life.

Firmly based on the Word of God, this book will show you why sowing seeds of faith is one of the most powerful forces on the face of the earth.

As a companion to this Seed-Faith manual, Oral Roberts has written a pocket-sized prayer book to help you speak faith into any situation.  Prayers for Seed-Faith Living will become your constant companion for prayer, when you need a little encouragement or just don’t know how to pray.  It contains over one hundred specific prayers, all written personally by Oral Roberts, and each conveniently placed in general categories for easy reference.

To receive both books, just call 918-495-7777, or write Oral Roberts Ministries, Tulsa, Oklahoma.  In Canada, Toronto, Ontario.  For as long as the earth remains, there will be seedtime and harvest.

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RR: Okay, here it is The Source, the Seed, the Answer, and The Prayers for Seed-Faith Living.  It’s our seed into your life. You can’t buy it.  It’s not available anywhere in America.  We sow this as our seed.  It’s our gift to you.  You can write me or Lindsay here in Tulsa.  If you live in Canada, Toronto, Ontario. Or you can call the Abundant Life Prayer Group at 918-495-7777. That’s all the number or the address that you need.

Hello, Sue, what do you have?

SUE: I have Eric, who is six years old, in Las Banas, California. When I called to check on him, sometimes I call and check and see if everything’s okay when we have prayers come in.  He answered the phone and he says, “I’ve been waiting on you.”  He’s been waiting on his miracle.

RR: Well, Sandra, I, well, what happened, Sandra?

S: Well, I turned on the TV.  I generally listen to 21, but I don’t know why, I’ve always missed your program, but you and your wife were on and you gave, you know, prayer for healing and knowledge. And I did, I prayed with you. And I went to the bedroom and I got down on my knees, and, Richard, that’s something I hadn’t done in four years.  I hadn’t been able to use my knees, and I was down there for a whole hour asking for forgiveness and praying.  And when I got up, there was no more pain.

RR: Did you notice, Robin and Marilyn, she was asking forgiveness. Forgiveness was a part of it, wasn’t it, Sandra?

S: It sure was.

RR: Wow!  And you’ve gone from a cane

S: Yeah, I started out, I always lay in bed, I couldn’t stand up. And, Richard, you know, I’ve had scoliosis since birth and I cannot sit other than driving or for a mealtime.  And ever since that healing, I’ve been able to sit and enjoy company, and I don’t have to stand all the time anymore.

RR: And you’re walking normally?

S: I walk normal.

LR: You said up and down stairs even?

S: Up and down stairs and I can lift myself up on a chair if I had to change a light bulb.  In bed I would have to have somebody assist me to turn over because it was so bad.  I don’t have that problem no more.

RR: Oh, glory to God!  Sandra thanks for calling.  What a wonderful testimony.  There’s a person, your muscles in your arm have deteriorated.  It’s almost like atrophy, and God’s healing you right now, right now.  Whoever you are, get up and call the Prayer Group at 918-495-7777.

I’m still waiting to hear Robin, last night I gave a word of knowledge about a person with a withered arm.  One arm was half the size of the other arm.  I’m still waiting on that person to call and let me know what has happened, because the arm began to grow.  Sometimes when I give a word, I get an instant response.

Sometimes I get it the next day.  Sometimes I get it the next week.  Sometimes like Sandra, a couple of weeks later I’ll hear the word back from the person as people see this program.  But I’ll tell you, I am so fired up tonight.  Wow!  Lynwood, what’s happening?

RR: Now what are you sensing in your heart?

RG: Well, I agree with what, exactly what you were saying in the first half hour of the program, particularly from Acts, chapter 5.  They prayed, “Lord, stretch forth thine hands to heal,” you know, “in the name of thy holy Son Jesus.”  And that was Acts, chapter 4.  I’m sorry.  But in Acts, chapter 5, it was manifested through the apostles.

So what you’re doing is absolutely scriptural and that anointing flows through the hands of those that believe.  So God is using signs and wonders to captivate the lost and then having someone preach the Gospel to them that they might be saved.  As you read in Acts, chapter 5, after the signs and wonders, multitudes were added to the church.

RR: And isn’t that the bottom line, Marilyn, getting people baptized in the Holy Spirit, and the miracles. Well, the Bible, I think it’s in John 6:2, says that the multitude followed Jesus because of the miracles that He did.  I mean, they were captivated by the miracles and yet they stayed tuned and they came to God in their lives.

MG: Yes, it is a form of attracting attention of the people so that we can get the Gospel to them.

RG: In today’s world we have to show that God is God, that He is God all by himself.  Psychics, astrologers, root workers, palm readers, they cannot help the people.  Only our God can do it. And I’m always reminded of Elijah, where he said, “Why halt ye between two opinions?  If God is God, let us serve him.  If Baal is God, let’s serve Baal.”  In other words, Elijah was saying there has to be a demonstration of the power of God, and that’s the hour that we’re in.  And that’s why there are so many miracles and the supernatural operating through your ministry.

RR: About eight months ago, God gave a word of prophecy to my father, Oral Roberts, and in that word of prophecy was a phrase where “healing is coming big time.”

RG: Praise God.

MG: Well, you know, Richard, I have been experiencing that.  We’ve been seeing that in Charlotte.  I have been seeing God move more in the realm of healing and miracles, creative miracles, as well as healing in our ministry.  It’s definitely been an increase where we are as well.

RR: Any testimony in particular that stands out in your mind, Marilyn?

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.

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.

“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.