Carlton, get her testimony.  Billy Joe, get a microphone. (Tongues)  We’ll continue to pray in a moment.  In fact, we’ll pray right now.  In the authority of Jesus’ name, I come against the problem in your ankle.  Ah, ah, ah, you fell on your ankle. You twisted it and sprained it, and God’s healing it right now in Jesus’ name.  He’s healing it right.  There’s healing going into your ankle right now, in the authority of Jesus’ name.

Cancer, you foul tormenting thing, in the authority of the name of Jesus Christ, I command it to go.  If God can heal prostate cancer in Canada live on television, He can heal it here tonight.  I speak to the leukemia.  I speak to the Hodgkins disease.  I speak to the tumor.  I speak to that mass.  In the authority of the name of Jesus, I command it to … and it’s going, in Jesus’ name.  There is a tumor that is dissolving right now in the authority of Jesus’ name.  It’s dissolving.  You need to feel.  It’s dissolving right now in Jesus’ name.  Sixteen of you are getting healed in your stomach right now in Jesus’ name.

I speak to backs.  You who have pain in your back, in the authority of Jesus’ name, lay your hand on your back.  In Jesus’ name, Lord, I ask You to … a-ha, seventeen people getting healed right now in your back.  Healing, come.  Aren’t you glad you don’t have to beg God for healing?  There’s an anointing for healing tonight.  Seventeen of you getting healed right now.  The power of God’s going in.  Billy Joe, what happened to her?

BJD: This is Mary Ann from Miami.  For three years she’s had a knee with cartilage gone, both knees.  The only way she could be healed, the doctor said, was with a knee replacement.  She stood on faith, came tonight.  The healing power of God shot through her.  She can run.  She can walk.

RR: What did you feel up there a minute ago?

MARY ANN: I didn’t really feel anything.  I was just going by faith because it was me, three years of my knee, and I came here believing God to heal me.

RR: And when you stepped out, you found it was different?

MARY ANN: No, it was still pain, but I don’t care.

RR: Oh, still pain.

MARY ANN: I’m still believing God for it, because that was exactly my description.

The message tonight is “A Thousand Times More.”  I want you to visualize approximately two million grown people, mothers  holding their babes and with children at their feet, maybe closer to three million than two million people, if you count the little ones.  And they are at the foot of the mountains of Moab, which is just adjacent to the land of promise, the land of milk and honey, where Moses had led these people for forty years from the land of Egypt where they were slaves to that place where they were getting ready to cross over the Jordan River, which was the dividing line, into their inheritance, into the land, into the land they were to possess, into the land that God had promised, not only these people, but to Abraham way back hundreds of years before, to the man who had the greatest faith of all up to that time and from whose faith our faith comes, from whose faith the body of Christ exists.  From Abraham’s faith is the church of Jesus Christ.  This is a very important point.

And Moses gets up on the side of one of those mountains and in that area, where you don’t need a PA system because the acoustical systems are so perfect in the atmosphere, and began to speak a prophetic utterance after telling them where they had come from, the land of Egypt as slaves, how far they had come, through the howling wilderness, the most desolate place on the face of the earth, and now where they are.

They are the edge of their deliverance, and yet it’s the most dangerous period of their lives because the River Jordan, an ordinary river, is at flood stage and it’s more than a half mile wide.  Now it’s not an ordinary river.  It’s deep and dark and dangerous.  And there are more than two million people with their little ones who are to cross that flooding river in order to possess the land and to inherit the place that God had prepared for His people from which Jesus our Savior would come.

And Moses is standing there on the side of that mountain talking to them and telling them what God had done for them and had told them that he had brought them there because they had dwelt long enough on the way and it was time for them to possess their land.

So Melchizedek comes down in the form of a priest and a king of the Most High.  He is ruling and reigning.  There’s a reason.  He has a certain authority that God wants to release into the earth for every one of you sitting in the seat you’re sitting in now.  But it takes a little time to get there.

How many of you know going through a process isn’t always easy or fun?  But it’s productive.  And by the time I get to you in your little seat right down there, we’re going to find out how productive it really is.  He starts with a priest and a king by the name of Melchizedek, the priest of Salem, king of Salem.  He is the priest of peace.  He’s not the priest of a city.  He’s the priest of a spiritual happening.  He is the priest of nothing missing, nothing broken.  You got that?

Okay, this is getting good.  So you take a priest and a king of nothing missing, nothing broken, means you can rule spiritually with nothing missing, nothing broken.  And you can rule earthly in your kingship and your authority or governmental authority with nothing missing, nothing broken.  God did not call heathens to rule and reign over His children.  We’re the ones that messed that one up.

He has given us priestly authority from the most high, and he has given us kingship authority from the most high. And down through the years, we let it go.  Not anymore.

So you take that kind of authority, and he passes it to Abram.  Why did He do that?  He brought out wine and bread. Sounds a little like the Last Supper to me, doesn’t it to you?  So here he has wine and bread.  He’s about to serve him communion.  The king of Sodom comes up and says, “I’ll give you all these things.”

Boy, every time God wants to do something simple, satan comes along to offer you the whole wide world.  And some of us are just goofball enough to take it.  And God is saying,  ”Here we go.  I’m going to…”  God’s serving up supper. God’s given us a snack, and satan is offering us the whole world.  I’d rather have a snack blessed from God than everything from the world without God, for heaven’s sake.

But listen, some Christians today haven’t done that. They haven’t made that choice.  Well, here he comes out, and he says, “I want to bring you a little snack here.  I’m going to give you bread and wine.”

RR: When Creflo Dollar, who pastors one of the largest churches in America in Atlanta, was here-was it about a week ago, Lindsay?-he talked about going in other churches and asking people to stand who were in debt.  He said when he has visited other churches, ninety-eight percent of the people stand.

LR: Can you imagine the people who have the most high God, who is the possessor of heaven and earth, who put all the gold and silver in the earth, who said, “Go subdue the earth,” the same God, that’s our Father, that said “I give you power to get wealth,” the same God that said, “Give, and it shall be given unto you,” the same God that said, “exceedingly abundantly above all you can ever ask or think,” the same God that said, “I will supply all of your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus,” the standard is glory by Christ Jesus, which means heaven, the walls made out of jasper, gates made out of pearl, that same God is sitting here with ninety-eight percent of His children in poverty or in debt.  Something’s wrong, Marilyn.

M: But, see, I think seed sowing though can break that.

LR: That’s what breaks it is seed sowing.

RR: Creflo was talking about sowing against your need.  Of the people that are calling and pledging, most of them are saying, “I am sowing this against something.  I’m sowing it against a need for a job.  I’m sowing against a debt that we have.  I’m sowing it against” you had a need.  You wanted to see your granddaughter come to ORU, so you’re sowing it for a certain thing to happen.

I believe that we can do that.  God sowed a seed out of His need.  He sowed Jesus, that He might receive mankind back.  And that’s what people are doing.  So many people are calling and saying, “I am sowing it because I need this to happen.”

Like this came from Frances in Rose Sharon, Texas. Isn’t that a great name for a town, Rose Sharon, Texas? “Sowing a $100 seed for ORU debt release, also for my daughter to get a promotion on her job.”  She believes for her daughter.  Now this is just one of many, many who called who are sowing seed as a result of a need that they face in their life.

LR: When Creflo said that about the ninety-eight percent everywhere he goes, something hit me that this is wrong. This is wrong in the body of Christ.  This is not what God intended.  We’re not living in what God calls His highest and best.

And then I began to get over into Matthew 6.  And the Lord woke me up one night, and for some reason I saw single moms-and I’m sure there’s probably a lot of other people in this same condition-but I saw single moms that were working two jobs.  And it was in the middle of the night, and I just had this rush of compassion for single moms working two jobs.

LR: We’ll get to the book in a minute. I listened to this tape

RR: Well, let’s go to Atlanta in a minute.

LR: Well, I listened to that tape on your dad. And I’ll tell you something, I’ve been talking to people all day today. You know, you read one thing in the newspaper, then you read something else the next day and then by the next day it changes, and the next day it’s totally different. And then this happens and that happens. And you know, it’s almost like a ping pong mentality if you try and follow all the things as they change. You know, its like, “Stop!”  Sometimes you can get good information and bad information and great information and misinformation and sort of like, “What do I think about?  What do I do?”

The Bible says that God will supply all, ALL, circle that word in your mind and don’t let go of it. God will supply all of your needs.

And I was listening to your dad on this tape and if ever we needed a revelation word from a prophet like Oral Roberts that God will supply all what does that mean? It means all.  Well, what does it mean?  It means all. Well, what does it mean?  It means everything.

God knows Y2K. God knows what your name is. God knows what street you’re living on.  He knows what your job is. He knows what your finances are.  He knows what your family is, your marriage is. He said all. You know that all covers all.

And if we will get a revelation that God sent His Son Jesus to supply all of our needs

RR: And if we’ll get in tune with Him and do what His Word commands us to do, we can get in a position to receive all of our needs being met.

LR: All, all.

RR: Lindsay, my dad has been preaching across the country. Several weeks ago he was preaching in Chicago for Brother Rob Thompson.  This past week he was in San Diego with Jerry and Sandi and Steve Barnard, preaching. He’s getting ready to preach in North Carolina in a few weeks.  As a matter of fact, he’s preaching this coming Sunday in Mesa, Arizona.

While you were watching that, Lindsay, we got a call from Treva here in Tulsa, “Called for prayer about my ears, when you had a word tonight.  I’ve had a buzzing sound in my ears, so I put my hand on my ear,” like I said, “like Richard said, and I felt an itching in my inner ear and a popping sound, and my ear began to drain. The sound in my ear has gone. I can hear clearly. Praise God, my ear is healed.”  Hallelujah!

Also, when we started the program tonight, we all joined hands and prayed. Lisa was watching in Comstock Park, Michigan tonight. Lisa’s 11 year old son Taylor has had a splint on his ankle for two days, in extreme pain. Lisa was watching tonight. Taylor was in his room.

Taylor stretched his hands toward the TV in the other room when he heard me praying for healing.  He received that word and told his mom, “I don’t need the splint anymore. The pain is gone!” That’s tonight. If you have a testimony, call us.

LR: Stretched out and went into agreement with the Prayer Group.

RR: Lindsay, that’s a prayer of agreement, isn’t it?

LR: The prayer of agreement.  That’s what we’re going to talk about during the women’s conference.

RR: Do you want to give us just a little bit.

LR: We had a major prayer of agreement this morning. I had one of those days from the pit where Satan lives, and started out, my car has a car phone. And it’s wired into the car. And the phone was kind of pulled out and it was pulling the wiring out and I thought, “That’s all I need, for it to pull the important wires out and then it will kill the phone, kill the battery, and kill the wiring in the car.”

So I asked someone last night, “Will you please help me fix this because I’m making matters worse?” And so they took my car last night and I said, “Well, don’t worry about it.”  I had another car that I was borrowing that is at my house for a couple of days.  And I said, “I’ll just drive that.” Great.

Got up this morning, that had a dead battery. So now two cars down, I have no cars, I have my feet. I was going to go get my hair cut. It was one of those mornings where everything went wrong. I went to pick up my mother so she could take her dog to a dog appointment.  And I’m going, “What am I doing?”  And it’s like a quarter till eight.

P: I’d wake up at night, when I’d turn over, and it would wake me up because it hurt so badly.  If I didn’t have the pillow, I’d have to use the seatbelt to cushion my arm like to make a sling out of it.

RR: Now were you watching one night about five or six weeks ago?

P: About five or six weeks ago I was watching, and as you were signing off the air, you had another word of knowledge.  And you said, “There’s someone being healed in their left arm.”  And I thought, “No, that’s not me.  You can’t be talking about me. Mine’s my right.”  And you said, “No, it’s not your left arm, it’s your right arm.”  And just instantly, I mean, it’s like I could smell bones being put together.  I could smell that odor and then I had like a light, electrical charges go through my arm.  And then I started feeling just a warm comfort feeling all through my body.

RR: Almost like your bones being fused together.

P: Right.  And I got up the next morning and for the first time in six years I got out of bed and it didn’t hurt me.

RR: Oh, come on, give the Lord praise.

LR: Hallelujah.

RR: Hallelujah, hallelujah.

LR: Now your dad likes us to use the word miraculous, but I have to say this and this is not one of his favorite words, but I still have to use that, isn’t that weird?  I mean, it seems weird to me that a person could be suffering for six years and at the last when Richard Roberts is signing off the air to close the program, “Oh, by the way,” and after six years she received that word. She went into agreement with that word, and she got healed from the Word of God.  The Bible said He sent His Word and healed them and delivered them from their destruction.

RR: Lindsay, that is not weird.  That is miraculous.

LR: It is!  I know that, but you know when you think about, how do you explain it to somebody, I touched my television set where Richard Roberts laid out his, stretched out his hand and he said this word that, well God told him to say this?  Now the natural mind says, “That’s weird.”  But God says His ways are higher than our ways, His thoughts are higher than our thoughts.

RR: Yeah, pray for them right now, honey.

LR: …in the name of Jesus, I speak hope into your situation right now.  We have a little girl who works here, and I love her name because her name is Hope.  Oh, what a glorious name.  God gave us hope, and His name is Jesus Christ.  And in Jesus’ name, the name that’s above every situation you face, I pray for God to touch you right now from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet, for sickness to go, for depression to go, for anxiety to go, for hurt, for fear, for grief to go.  Honey, you don’t have to have a breakdown.  My God says you can have a breakthrough. And in the name of Jesus, I speak to you right now in the name of Jesus and I say, “Satan, take your hands off God’s property and let them go,” in Jesus’ name.

RR: Oh, come on.  Give the Lord praise tonight.  Hallelujah. Just receive that!  Receive it!  If you feel like you need further prayer, call the Abundant Life Prayer Group at 918-495-7777.  It looks like almost every line. I’ve got one line; I’ve got one line available right. Lynwood, do you have another testimony?

LYNWOOD WELLS: Yes, I do, Richard.  Also a good report.  We’re already getting calls about a migraine and lung.

RR: A ha ha.

LR: Halleluia.

LW: We got seven lungs, and we already got called on one.

LR: Halleluia.

LW: Here are some more tissues, Lindsay.

LR: Okay, you guys.

LW: Well, this will brighten you up

LR: All right.

LW: because it always touches us when a child receives healing.

LR: Oh, yes.

LW: On the line are Virginia and Lisa from Broken Arrow, and they were watching the program the other night and you had a word about shoulders being healed.  Lisa had fallen, hurt her shoulder, and when she heard that word, she received it and started yelling, “I’m healed!”

LR: Halleluia.

LW: Would you like to speak with her?

RR: Virginia and Lisa are on the line?

LW: Are both on the line.

RR: Hello, Virginia.  Hello, Lisa.

LISA: Hi.

RR: Lisa, is that you?

LISA: Yes.

RR: How old are you, honey?

LISA: Nine.

RR: Nine.  How does it feel to be nine?

LISA: Good.

RR: What happened when we prayed, Lisa?

LISA: I fell as school somehow and I hurt my shoulder and I was watching you when you gave prayer for your shoulders

RR: Yep.

LISA: and I was healed.

RR: You were healed?

LISA: Uh huh.

RR: Well, how do you know you were healed?

LISA: Because I didn’t feel the pain.

RR: Because you didn’t feel the pain.

LISA: Yes, because it was for a few weeks.

RR: Because why?

LISA: It was hurting for a few weeks.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS You can call the Abundant Life Prayer Group at 918-495-7777 and you can put it on your credit card.  Or you can now, you can now send a check.  But now of course when you use a credit card, then the money is released immediately for the work of the ministry.  And later on I’m going to show you exactly where that money is going, at least for the work that we’re doing through the ministry.  But Lindsay said to me when I got back from Korea, “Why don’t you show a portion of the film itself? Now you show a little bit of it there in the commercial, but why don’t you show an actual clip of the movie itself?”  And what I want to show you right now is a scene from “Venture Into Faith.”

You people here in the studio, you want to look up, you can see the monitor.  And let me show you about two or three minutes of this magnificent motion picture.  Just watch this.  (Roll-in of “Venture Into Faith”)  Lindsay, in 1952 when this film was made there wasn’t much known in America about the healing power of God.  (That’s right.)   And the idea that the Lord gave my father Oral Roberts to make this film was to let people know that God still heals today.  And that’s just–as you could tell—the beginning of the movie.  And throughout this week and next week I’m going to be showing other clips, right up to the dramatic healing of this little boy in the movie from tuberculosis.  And, by the way, the mother, the mother, the part of the mother is played by Thelma Ritter.  Of course everyone remembers the great western actor, Tex Ritter.  Well, Thelma is Tex Ritter’s wife and also the mother of the actor John Ritter, quite an acting family.

And Thelma, I remember that so very well.  But I want to offer you your own copy of the feature length motion picture, “Venture Into Faith,” for your $100 seed into the Oral Roberts’ ministry. Now you can put it on your credit card by calling 918-495-7777. Or you can sow a seed of $100 into the ministry.  You can write me, Richard Roberts, Tulsa, Oklahoma or call the Abundant Life Prayer Group, 918-495-7777.  Let me know that you want it.  And I will put it immediately into the mail.  Sow your $100 seed and your seed is going toward the repair work that’s going on on campus this summer.  Now tomorrow on the program, Lindsay, we’re going to take the people out onto the campus and let them see the roofs that have to be repaired this summer, the parking lots that have to be repaired, the air conditioner, the heaters, the cooling tower, the chillers, the stairs, carpets, paint, things like that that we have to do this summer.  We’re trying to purchase all of this stuff and get it done now, all the materials.  We need some money to get it done.  We need your help.

And a part of what you sow for “Venture Into Faith” is going into this project, as well as all that we’re doing for God through Oral Roberts University, through the City of Faith, through the miracle Healing Outreach Center, through this television program and everything that we’re doing for God.  And I want to give you an opportunity to be a part of it and also when you receive your copy of “Venture Into Faith,” you will get this magnificent certificate of authenticity which is signed, numbered and dated.  Now my plan is, when the end of May comes, I’m not going to offer this anymore on the program.  And you will not ever be able to get it through this program again after the end of this month.  So you’d better get your order in today.

The doctor said the healing process would be very slow.  Even after a year I still had severe pain and difficulty breathing because of the rib cage break.  I returned to my doctor and he said the ribs had not healed correctly but there was nothing further that could be done.  So he gave me some pain medication and sent me home, having done all he could do.  The following morning my husband was changing the channels on the television when your program came on.  You said God could meet every need if we agreed in prayer and believed.  My husband and I joined hands together right there in our home and we agreed as you prayed that my ribs would be totally healed.  Suddenly I felt God touch my sides and a warmth went through me.  I returned that day to the doctor. The x-rays were retaken and the doctor could not believe it. Everything is perfectly normal, my ribs are normal.  I’ve had no pain since and I praise God for his daily healing power.” (APPLAUSE) And this is from Delight, Arkansas, or DElight if you’re from DElight.  That’s where Glen Campbell was born and raised was in DElight.

“Dear Richard, I have learned that blessings and feed-faith… feed-faith, yes, that’s it.  Five thousand dollars on a nose job and now your mouth won’t work.  I am just kidding.  “I have learned that blessings and seed-faith go hand in hand and I want to share my testimony.  At one time I was the last person on earth that you would see giving to God.  I thought it was for only you religious fanatics and I didn’t want any part of it.  About a month ago I hit financial problems and because I couldn’t pay my bills I was about to lose my car and my landlord was going to evict me.  One morning a friend of mine had come over and turned on a television program.  When I heard seed-faith mentioned I began to watch.  After hearing all the positive reactions from the testimonies you read….” (that’s why we continue to give testimonies)…. “after hearing all the positive reactions from the testimonies you read, I immediately mailed you a check of $30.  You said, ‘Claim your miracle,’ and I did just that.  Two weeks later an aunt that I had not heard from in ages….(I don’t know how long ages is, Lindsay)…

SPKM CHERYL PREWITT SALEM A long time if you need some money.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS “…an aunt I had not heard from in ages sent me a check for $200. Within the same week I found a job paying $2 more an hour.  I learned the value of a lesson: never doubt God’s word.  He says if we give we will receive, and I am proof of that.”  (APPLAUSE)

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS I’ve got one like that.  I’ve got three I want to read but this is one about…. this lady’s son’s business.  She called in and she’s from Ridgewood, New York, and she said, “I called because for some time I have written for prayer for my son and for his business.  You wrote back and said a miracle is coming.  Expect a miracle.  So I just believed.” Now there’s the key right there.  She believed it.  When you hear the Word of God, you’ve got to believe it.  “So I just believed and I watched for it to come.”  She said, “Today I got a call from my son.  He said his business has completely turned around for the better and I praise God and thank you.”  (APPLAUSE)  You know, that’s just it.  If you hear the Word and you let it go in one ear and out the other, then you’re not going to get anything out of it.  But if you hear the word and you let it sink into your heart, the Bible says, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”  You begin to speak that word into existence, you begin to call it and claim it  IL01 and not give up and, you know, it’s like they say about a lemon…. “What do you get when you squeeze a lemon?”  You get lemon juice.  You get whatever is on the inside.  And when you’re in a situation where you’re squeezed, you’re put under pressure, whatever is inside you is going to come popping out.  And if you have a bunch of negative junk inside you and then all of a sudden you get put under pressure and all you start saying is, “I’ll fail, I’ll never make it, I’m no good,” you never will make it.  You WILL fail if you start claiming that and start speaking that.  But if you hide God’s Word in your heart and you begin to bury that into the depths of your spirit, when you get squeezed, in the time when you’re going to need that word it’s going to come popping out of your mouth right when you need it.