RR: And I set my faith in agreement with you, Cliff. I honor you for what you’re doing, for the work that God has given you. You’re touching people that others may not ever reach, not only here in America but around the earth. I honor you for it, and I thank you for coming and sharing tonight. This is the new book, Eight Habits of the Heart, the timeless values that build strong communities within our homes and our cities. It’s available in bookstores.
CT: Everywhere.
RR: all over the country. You can get it virtually in every bookstore.
CT: It almost Richard, it’s almost sold out the first printing in 2 1/2 weeks. I..
LR: What does that feel like, when you walk into a store and there you are? Does that feel like.
CT: Well, you know, Mr. Roberts said some twenty or thirty years ago that he would raise up a people that would go into every man’s world, and I have been into worlds I never dreamed existed to take the love of God through the profession that He has given me, the profession of writing. I never dreamed I’ll be leaving next week for Panama and then on to Costa Rica.
LR: Wow.
CT: to share the value of literature and moving people ahead, working with the American embassy. I never dreamed that this would be my lot in life, living in the Mississippi Delta. But you don’t have to dream when you have a God that dreams for you.
RR: Well, I’ve got news for you. I never dreamed of being president of Oral Roberts University. So we’ve got something in common. Here’s the book, Eight Habits of the Heart. It’s available in bookstores all across America. There is a wonderful, wonderful testimony of a family up in Wichita, Kansas. Here is a man who gives his life to Jesus and five weeks later faces a life-threatening situation. Just watch. Here’s a wonderful testimony.
Woman: The doctor said, “You can’t do it.” Well, he proved them that he could.
Man: Five weeks after rededicating his life to the Lord, Fred Mower was faced with death.
Woman: He had a blood vein at the on the ear channel broke, and they said it dripped like a water faucet, formed a pool of blood over the nerve channel, which is at the base of the brain, back here in the back.
Fred Mower: I had one doctor tell me that there was absolutely no way for me to be alive, that he had never had anyone with a bleed like I had in the spot that I had it, larger than the size of a half dollar, survive. Mine was as large as a silver dollar and yet I was alive. And I had another doctor tell me that even though I lived through the night, I would probably not live more than two or three more days. And twenty-one years plus later, I’m still here. To be honest, my strength grew daily because every day that I lived was just one more day that proved God right and the world wrong.
Woman: There’s been many times when we say, “God, why can’t we have it now? Why can’t he be healed now?” Our children I have three sons, and there were a lot of times when they said, “Mom, why can’t God heal him right now?” We knew He was going to, all three boys believed this, and all I can just tell people is you just have to take it one day at a time. You can’t give up on God. You just have to trust Him. You just have to trust Him.
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