SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Dad.
SPOR ORAL ROBERTS SO01 Well, amen. Let me tell you, the Word of God in Exodus 15:26 says, “I am the Lord that healeth thee.” ( OR_Exodus_15:26 ) Yes, he works through medicine; we all know that. But let me tell you, the prayer of faith is powerful. When this young woman and her husband, pastors at Montgomery, Alabama, where their church has hundreds and hundreds of people half are black and half are white really, really true integration in the deep South they came to the Charismatic Ministers Conference last June right here in Mabee Center where so many were healed. I was thinking, what’s going to happen in June 23, 24, and 25. How many are going to get healed again this year in this PROR conference? But right now in the name of Jesus the healing power is flowing up in Oral Roberts. My hand is on fire. I rebuke that disease in your body. You foul, tormenting disease, I call you out. You come out, you come out. It’s coming out of you. It’s coming out of you. Now Father, I call in your healing power because I’m your servant. You called me to do it. So I call it in to your life and the healing power is on you right now. It’s breaking that disease. It’s healing you.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Cheryl.
SPKM CHERYL PREWITT SALEM There is a person being healed in the bottom of your hip, the very back side of your hip. You’re sitting down and it’s on the bottom side of your left hip. The devil has had your health for a long time and it seems like forever that you’ve been in terrible pain and Brother Oral ministered and as Denise ministered to you, and you began to rise up like she was rising up, and inside you your spirit began to take control of your life and you began to put Jesus back in the driver’s seat and that pain that was in your hip, you’re beginning to think: Wait a minute. Why have I accepted this again? There was a point when I knew that I was healed and I let the devil come in and steal it from me again. Well, you stand up and take the authority that God has given you.
And another person, in the back of your neck God is healing you and you are beginning to rise up again and take that authority and say, “I am receiving my healing.” And another person, in your jaw bone. Another person, in your deviated septum up in your nose. You have got to understand God hasn’t fallen off the throne and you cannot panic. You’ve got to take authority and stand firm. God is for you and not against you. (APPLAUSE)
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Lindsay.
SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS SU06 I remember when I was a little girl and I was thinking back about what Denise said and I remember when….. praise God for doctors, but when they said my father was going to die in six months, he had cancer, you know, as a little girl I just went around saying, “My dad’s going to die in six months, my dad’s going to die in six months.” The Bible says the power of life and death is in the tongue. You know, my dad died in five months and two days but I didn’t know anything about healing. I went to church all my life but I didn’t know anything about healing. I was ignorant of what God had for me in the Word of God. And so when my best friend called me and told me, “I’ve got the same disease your father had and I’m going to die in less than two weeks,” you know what I did? I said, “You get hold of the Word of God and you turn back in the concordance cause she had an Oral Roberts Bible and I knew what was in there. I said, “You go back and you look up the word healing and you get every word in there that says healing and you start reading it. And when the doctors are medicating you, you say, “By his stripes I am healed.” When the doctors are medicating you, you say, “The Lord said I am the Lord that healeth thee.” I said, “Every word that’s got the word healing in it, you read the scripture. I don’t care what it is, you read it and you believe it.”
And she began to speak life instead of death. She began to talk about the power of life, God’s power, and you know that woman is still alive today, totally free of cancer from her head to her feet, totally alive, because instead of speaking death into a situation we began to speak life into the situation. And whatever the doctors told you medically, praise God that they give you a medical report and praise God for the medicine, but in the name of Jesus YOU speak life into your own situation.
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.
SPKM DON STANLEY God bless you, Richard, it’s good to be here.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS I know that you began as a pharmacist, but I understand it goes way back beyond that, that you joined the church when you were 12 years old, but I understand that you said that you joined for the wrong reason.
SPKM DON STANLEY Yes, I did. And Richard, you know, when I was in prison — a little over 3 and a half years ago — is when I was born again. And I just want to share with the group that Jesus is the hope for the hopeless. And no matter what problem you are going through out there today, Jesus can intervene and deliver you from those drugs and alcohol. At the age of 12 years old I walked down an aisle and I didn’t realize exactly what had happened at that time. But I found a Gideon Bible in a trash can in prison, the blessed hope of the word of God, and I found out through that Bible that I had chosen church for all the wrong reasons. I had wanted to play professional baseball, and wanted to go to college –
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS You had an offer of a contract, didn’t you — with the Boston Red Sox.
SPKM DON STANLEY Had an offer with the Boston Red Sox, and later on played at the University of South Carolina under Bobby Richardson. But I walked down an aisle when I was 12 years old and joined the church for all the wrong reasons. But I thank God today for a mother and daddy who had me in church where I could hear the word of the Lord. And in SM01 Isaiah 55 it says his word won’t go forth and return to him void, but it will always produce the perfect purpose for which he sent it and prosper therein. ( MS_Isaiah_55:11 )
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS That’s right.
SPKM DON STANLEY Well, I remember I had been there with the Royal Ambassadors in church, and walked down the aisle because many of my friends did. And here in the last 28 months we have been on college campuses and high schools all over America, and the youth of America are searching for the truth, Richard. They are tired of the religiousity of the world. They are wanting to see true power in the blood of Jesus Christ, that they can overcome. And we serve a God today who is able to intervene in your life and to help you be an overcomer. (APPLAUSE) He is the same Jesus today that he was 2,000 years ago and will be forever more.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Now Don, is this the same man who was hooked on cocaine and all kinds of other drugs, and wound up facing a possible 150 year sentence, plus a $250,000 fine. You’re going to have to go back and explain the story now. Because the transformation is so complete. And I want people to know what you went through and how you got from where you were to where you are. Because it’s a miracle.
SPKM DON STANLEY Amen. Praise the Lord. Well, I am a new creature in Christ, as Candi sang just a moment ago, and shared with you. You know, Paul said, “Therefore, if any man is in Christ he is a new creature.” SM02 ( MS_2_Corinthians_05:17 ) Well, I found outside the word of God we a re nothing, in Christ we are more than conquerors. And it takes a daily application of the word to overcome drugs and alcohol. That is the only true rehabilitation. But I came home from church that day after joining — I was baptized 2 weeks later. And I know now that I went down dry a sinner and came up wet a sinner. And we have been out in many churches in America and we see a lot of folks that don’t have the victory in their life as a Christian and they are just church members, never been born again. And I walked through that life and played baseball there in high school. Was all state and all conference in football and baseball. Had a good friend named Dave Walton who loved the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, he went down the narrow life that led to life, yet I went down the broad road that led to destruction. Later on I had a scholarship to the University of South Carolina
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Melva Jo, would you sing for us? Would you step over and get yourself ready? And we’re kind of informal here, Melva. Just come right on by. Get yourself ready to sing. And while she’s getting ready to sing, I have another letter that I want to share. This is from Kensington, California. “Dear Richard, God always comes through for me. And I want to share a miracle that my husband and I have received through your program. For the past ten years my husband suffered with diabetes. I felt helpless because he was growing worse and I could do nothing to help. The pain medications were not working and the insulin shots had become such a daily routine. Finally he had to be hospitalized here in California. And the doctors said they had done all they could do. It seemed like it was time to give up. One morning I was visiting my husband in the hospital and I turned the television on and there was your program. You said that if God can move mountains, then He can heal sickness and disease. You said to have faith and believe God for a miracle.
Then you began to pray. And I joined hands with my husband and we agreed for a total healing. Then you spoke a word of knowledge. God gave you a word about diabetes that was being healed. The next week the doctors released my husband from the hospital with a clean bill of health. Thanks to God, my husband is a different person. He is healed from his head to his toes.” (Applause) Now that’s a miracle. You know, I thank God for the prayer and I thank God for the medical doctors that were doing everything they know. You know, I just give the glory to God. It doesn’t matter to me if it’s the prayer or if it’s the doctors working or if it’s a combination of both. I just want to see you get well, from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet. And I praise God for it. Let’s give the Lord a good handclap. Isn’t that a good word? (Applause) If you have a prayer request, step to your phone right now and call the Abundant Life Prayer Group, area 918-495-7777. And let us know what your name is, what your need is, and we’ll pray. We’ll believe God for a miracle for you. Melva Lea is coming to minister to us in song. Let’s give her a welcome as she sings. Melva, God bless you.
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SPKM MELVA LEA Romans 14:17 says, “The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.” Jesus said, “His kingdom will be within us.”
SPKR MELVA LEA SONG When_His_kingdom_comes (Applause)
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Give her a good handclap. Melva, God bless you. (Applause) Praise the Lord. CITY OF FAITH
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SPKM JIM WINSLOW If you need to come to the City of Faith and you live outside of Tulsa, the City of Faith will pay your airline fare to Tulsa, Oklahoma and back home again, if you need to come to the City of Faith. (Applause)
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Jim, the, the biggest problem–let me just, you know, we talk about a lot of different things on this program and, honestly, the biggest problem that we’ve had with the City of Faith is the fact that people have health insurance and they want to come, but they have not been able to afford the air fare ticket to come down here. Now what you tried to work out with American, what you have worked out with American Airlines is a way to solve that problem.
SPKM JIM WINSLOW That’s right. If you have insurance and we can verify that, confirm it, then we’ll pay your air fare. Now you say, how can you afford to do that? Well, it’s not very complicated. We worked out an arrangement with American Airlines so that we get a preferred price. If you come to the City of Faith with an insurance, with a diagnosis, we take care of you.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS With a diagnosis.
SPKM JIM WINSLOW With a diagnosis. In other words, we’re not doing this for physical examinations. But if you have a diagnosis and you need to see a doctor or need surgery or need another opinion about something, then we’ll take care of you and we will pick up the cost of the airline fare because with American Airlines we’ve worked out a program so we can afford to do that. And you benefit, we benefit. You’re going to get the finest health care in the world. I know that the City of Faith has the very best. (Applause) And you need the very best.
SPKM LARRY LEA Dr. Winslow, I live in Dallas and I picked up the paper and read about this. And my question was simply, is this program to every city where American Airlines flies?
SPKM JIM WINSLOW Every city that American Airlines goes to has this program available to us.
SPKM LARRY LEA Praise God. Well, Richard, (Applause) this is what we call a Signs and Wonders Seminary. Tonight I’ll teach my Signs and Wonders Class. We have the largest enrollment in the history of our seminary. We have a praying faculty. and God is moving by His Spirit. We have been praying that God would draw people from the north, south, east and west that are called of God to go into vocational ministry. God is drawing the people. We’re seeing great things happen. We’re really thankful that finally in America there is a seminary that’s based on the Word of God with signs and wonders following. Praise God.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS That means miracles.
SPKM LARRY LEA That’s right.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Miracles. Praise God for it. Lindsay, share a testimony.
SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS I have two good testimonies. This is from a lady in El Paso, Texas and she said her sister had a large growth on her back. And she said, “About three weeks ago you had a word of knowledge that someone was being healed of a growth on their back.” And they said, “You described where it was and you made me turn around and show the location where the growth was.” She said, “Yesterday her sister called her and said she is feeling great, the growth has disappeared.” They believed for three weeks and it was manifested. Thank God she didn’t give up during those three weeks because it wasn’t instant.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Praise the Lord.
SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS You know, that’s something. If you don’t see the manifestation of your healing right on the spot, for heaven’s sake don’t give up. This woman took three weeks, but praise God, she’s healed. That’s the important thing
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Well, sometimes miracles come quickly, sometimes they come over a period of time.
SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS That’s right. They’re a process sometimes. This lady called, and this is really precious because she said she had been taken away from her parents as a child, apparently kidnapped, and she has been in bondage that that same kidnapping might happen to her children. And she said we talked about the fear on that clip. And she said at that moment she gave that fear to God and said she wanted to be set free. She said, “I have the peace of God today and I am not going to worry about my children. I’ve given them to God.” (Applause) Praise God.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Melva, do you have one you want to share, you and Larry?
SPKM LARRY LEA This is a lady who’s written from New York. And her, it says her nephew was healed from broken ribs. A three-wheel motorcycle fell on him, broke his ribs and collapsed his lung. And Lindsay gave a word of knowledge and he received his healing and was released from the hospital after being there one day. He’s up running around and free of pain. And the neat thing is, the little fellow is seven years old. Praise God.
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SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS A call from Wichita, Kansas. “My right ear had been giving me trouble for the past eight months. I could hardly hear out of it, plus, there was constant itching and pain. But yesterday, Richard, you said someone was being healed in their right ear. Before I realized it fully, I had received healing in my ear. I can hear perfectly and all of the itching and pain is gone.” (Applause) And here’s a call from Grant Pass, Oregon. Oh, listen to this. “I’d misplaced an important check.” You know, you need prayer when you misplace an important check, especially if it’s your paycheck. “I called the Abundant Life Prayer Group”–Now, you know, somebody might say, “Well now, God’s not interested in helping you find a check.”
SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS Oh, yes, He is.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Brother, He’s interested, sister, He’s interested in prospering you in every way and that means finding checks. “I called the Abundant Life Prayer Group and the prayer partner prayed with me that I would find a check and that God would lead me to it. It wasn’t but five minutes and I found it.” (Applause) It’s a good testimony.
SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS That reminds me of something that just happened. I was in the grocery store the other day with a little fourteen-year-old girl who had a little gold bracelet. And she had lost it and she knew she lost it in the grocery store. And tore the place apart, went through all the vegetables. And she came and she said, “Lindsay, I can’t find it. I know it’s gone.” I said, “Honey, do you believe God gave that to you?” And she said, “Yes.” I said, “Do you believe God would be happy if the devil stole it away from you?” She said, “No.” I said, “Then you and I are going to agree right now that God knows where it is and He’s going to reveal to you where it is.” Do you know, a man was walking out of the store and had it hooked on the bottom of his heel on his shoe walking out and as she got behind him, the bracelet fell off. She bent down and picked it up and got it back. See, God knows what means something to us. (Applause) And He’s concerned about little things and big things.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Did I, have I told you this morning that I
love you? SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS No, tell me. You’re sweet.
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SPKM BILL NORDSTROM From the campus of Oral Roberts University and the City of Faith Health Care Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, today with special guests, Houston pastors, Dusty and Rhonda Kemp. Now the Oral Roberts Ministry presents Richard Roberts.
SPKM ORU SINGERS SONG Turn_it_around
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Well, give the Lord Jesus a good handclap. (Applause) Hello, everybody. Welcome to Richard Roberts Live. I understand we have a big tour group, Elsie’s tour group from, is it Seguin, Texas, is that right? Stand up and let us give you a good handclap. Give them a good handclap. (Applause) Look at those red hats. God bless you for being here. Enjoy yourself here at ORU today and at the City of Faith and the Healing Outreach Center. And if you just tuned in, you’re tuned in to a miracle program, not because of us, but because of the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Son of the living God. I believe in the healing power of God. I believe in miracles. (Applause)
Let me ask a question, how do you stand against the tricks and strategies of the devil? Well, let me give you the answer from the Apostle Paul in Ephesians, chapter 6, when he says, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles (or the tricks or strategies) of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day. And having done all to stand, stand therefore, having your loins gird about with truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.” And that means you can walk over the devil’s roughest territory. “Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God, praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit.” That means praying in the Spirit, praying in tongues, then praying in your own language, in English. “And watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints.” What’s he saying? He’s saying that you and I can put on the whole armor of God and we can withstand all of the fiery darts of the evil one. What does that mean to you and me? It means we win. It means we win, in the name of Jesus. (Applause) When we put on the whole armor of God, we win. When we stand fast in the name of Jesus, it means we can be victorious over the devil’s roar, whether it’s, whether it’s the devil’s roar of sickness or disease or the devil’s roar coming against your finances or coming against your family or your home or coming against your marriage or coming against your business or your job or coming against you with some relationship, it means we can stand in the name of Jesus and put on the whole armor of God and we can win over the situation. (Applause) Now that’s good news. You turned on this program today and say, well, I wonder what’s going to happen. I’ll tell you what’s going to happen. We’re going to give you good news, good news that you can win. You don’t have to be down, you can be up, in the name of Jesus. And the ORU Singers and I want to open this program with a song that comes right out of Paul’s writings in Ephesians on putting on the whole armor of God. So here it is, “Put on the Whole Armor of God.” Put your hands together, everybody. This is for you. (Singing “Put On The Armor of God”) (Applause) That means we win. Stay tuned for a message coming just for you. COLLEGE WEEKEND
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SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Hello, Lindsay. (Howdy) Joining us today are Larry and Melva Lea. Give them a good handclap. (Applause) Larry and Melva, pastor of the Rock on the Rock in Rockwall, Texas, church of 11,000 members. Are you still having five services on Sunday to get all the people in?
SPKM LARRY LEA That’s right, Richard, five services. Five services on Sunday.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS And Larry is also called of God to be the dean of the seminary here at Oral Roberts University. Larry, understand we have the largest enrollment in the history of the seminary. Say a word about it.
Have you ever heard the expression, “you’ve got your nose out of joint”? When you’ve got your nose out of joint, it means that you’ve been offended by someone.
When offense takes root, it can easily turn into bitterness, which can turn into hurt, resentment, anger, and vengeance—all sins that can literally stop God’s miracles from coming to us.
Acts 8:14-24 NLT tells of Simon, a sorcerer in Samaria, who had witnessed believers receiving the Holy Spirit when John and Peter laid their hands on them. Simon wanted to have that same healing power—not to heal the sick, but because the power would bring him fame and put him in high standing with other religious leaders. He even offered money to “buy” the power.
Peter replied, “May your money perish with you for thinking God’s gift can be bought! You can have no part in this, for your heart is not right before God. Turn from your wickedness and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive your evil thoughts, for I can see that you are full of bitterness and held captive by sin” (vv. 20-23 NLT).
Bitterness is one of the most poisonous, toxic attitudes you can ever experience. Harboring bitterness is like drinking poison and expecting the other person–the one you’re upset with–to die! It is a devastating “attitude sin” that can trigger a wide range of other sins, including hatred, cruelty, self-pity, revenge, prideful ambitions, and critical attitudes.
Something happened to me 20 years ago that showed me that you can’t hold bitterness in your heart without it not only hurting you, but spilling over into the lives of others.
On January 17, 1984, I gave birth to our firstborn—a son, Richard Oral. He lived only 36 hours.
Sometimes there’s unforgiveness blocking you from realizing your value and loving yourself. Often it’s easier to forgive someone who has done you wrong than it is to forgive yourself.
But I pray for God to release you today and for forgiveness to begin with you. Whatever you’ve done, or whatever has happened, ask God for forgiveness and release yourself from it.
First John 1:9 NKJV says, If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Receive God’s forgiveness and then say, “God, I forgive me. I plead the blood of Jesus and I release myself.” Let yourself go free and let the cleansing blood of Jesus work in you and wash away your sin.
The Bible says that we are to believe the report of the Lord (Isaiah 53:1). Don’t listen to the report of the devil (or someone who’s acting like the devil!) that says you aren’t worth anything, you’ve done everything wrong, or you’ll never amount to much. That’s a lie, because it’s not what the Bible says about you.
The Bible says you’re the head and not the tail (Deuteronomy 28:13). It says you have the mind of Christ (I Corinthians 2:16). You are a highly esteemed child of God! Put your head up, square your shoulders, and start seeing yourself through His eyes!
Now join your faith with mine and let the love of God come into your heart as I pray for you :
In the name of Jesus, I strip off the words and piercing arrows that have wounded your self-image. I pull those hurts out of your soul and your spirit, and I command satan to release you. I ask God to infuse you with His presence and cause you to see yourself the way He sees you, as His valuable and precious child! Amen.
Well, when’s the last time all nations called you blessed and you were a delightsome land? Okay, when’s the last time the devourer was rebuked for your sake? If you’re being devoured in some area, there is a tie, like a connector, into God’s system.
If you want God’s answers and you want God’s miracles, what is that connector to rebuking the devourer and getting that answer? He said, “Bring tithe and offering into the storehouse.”
So I want to read you what’s been happening around here. Vivian called in—I’ve got such a stack. I’m sorry, they’re kind of messy—Vivian called in, and she is in Canada. And she said she has been sowing monthly seeds into Richard and Lindsay’s ministry.
But she said, “I want to report to you that I have received”—and she said the amount. Her husband came home with a very large raise, as well as a very large Christmas bonus on the way. She said, “I can only attribute this blessing to being a faithful seed sower into the ministry.” And she said, “Praise God.”
This lady called in—actually it’s a husband and wife. And the husband called in. Bless his little heart. This was just really precious to me. And he said he was sowing a $25 seed because his wife has just been diagnosed with cysts on her ovaries. And he said he is sowing his seed, believing for his precious wife to receive healing.
And like I said, you can’t buy a miracle, but there is some way that it is intricately tied together, that God said in Malachi 3, “Bring the tithe in, and I’ll rebuke the devourer for your sake.” I’m not sure why He said it that way. All I know is, He said it, and I’m obligated to believe it and act on it and do what He said.
Now this husband called in and said he really needs encouragement, sent a $50 seed. This precious mama called in, believing for her daughter and her granddaughter, for her grandchildren to be healed, a $1,000 seed.
North Carolina, a lady called in, a $50 seed. Lorie in Michigan called in and sowed a $20 seed. Another Lorie called in from Colorado, “Believing God for wisdom,” sowed a $20 seed. “Believing for salvation for a nephew,” a lady called in from Ontario and sowed a $25 seed. A hundred dollar seed—Jane called in, believing God for her husband to know the will of God.
When you sow your seed, God promised He would open the windows of heaven, pour out a blessing, and rebuke the devourer. That is good news.
This one I have to read, just because it’s from my hometown, Flint, Michigan, a $25 seed. A woman called in, believing for healing and believing for wisdom. The husband and wife called in. And I’m in agreement with that.
In fact, there’s lots of seeds. But right now in the name of Jesus, Luke 6:38 says, “Give, and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over shall men give unto your bosom. For with what measure you give, it shall be given unto you again.”
We pray for supernatural multiplication of seed, in Jesus’ name. I believe that’s God’s system. That way I believe the system works, and I really do believe what God says. He’s obligated to watch over His Word to perform it. Stay tuned. We’ve got a message for you, and we’re going to be right back and talk a little bit more.
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Well, when’s the last time all nations called you blessed and you were a delightsome land? Okay, when’s the last time the devourer was rebuked for your sake? If you’re being devoured in some area, there is a tie, like a connector, into God’s system.
If you want God’s answers and you want God’s miracles, what is that connector to rebuking the devourer and getting that answer? He said, “Bring tithe and offering into the storehouse.”
So I want to read you what’s been happening around here. Vivian called in—I’ve got such a stack. I’m sorry, they’re kind of messy—Vivian called in, and she is in Canada. And she said she has been sowing monthly seeds into Richard and Lindsay’s ministry.
But she said, “I want to report to you that I have received”—and she said the amount. Her husband came home with a very large raise, as well as a very large Christmas bonus on the way. She said, “I can only attribute this blessing to being a faithful seed sower into the ministry.” And she said, “Praise God.”
This lady called in—actually it’s a husband and wife. And the husband called in. Bless his little heart. This was just really precious to me. And he said he was sowing a $25 seed because his wife has just been diagnosed with cysts on her ovaries. And he said he is sowing his seed, believing for his precious wife to receive healing.
And like I said, you can’t buy a miracle, but there is some way that it is intricately tied together, that God said in Malachi 3, “Bring the tithe in, and I’ll rebuke the devourer for your sake.” I’m not sure why He said it that way. All I know is, He said it, and I’m obligated to believe it and act on it and do what He said.
Now this husband called in and said he really needs encouragement, sent a $50 seed. This precious mama called in, believing for her daughter and her granddaughter, for her grandchildren to be healed, a $1,000 seed.
North Carolina, a lady called in, a $50 seed. Lorie in Michigan called in and sowed a $20 seed. Another Lorie called in from Colorado, “Believing God for wisdom,” sowed a $20 seed. “Believing for salvation for a nephew,” a lady called in from Ontario and sowed a $25 seed. A hundred dollar seed—Jane called in, believing God for her husband to know the will of God.
When you sow your seed, God promised He would open the windows of heaven, pour out a blessing, and rebuke the devourer. That is good news.
This one I have to read, just because it’s from my hometown, Flint, Michigan, a $25 seed. A woman called in, believing for healing and believing for wisdom. The husband and wife called in. And I’m in agreement with that.
In fact, there’s lots of seeds. But right now in the name of Jesus, Luke 6:38 says, “Give, and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over shall men give unto your bosom. For with what measure you give, it shall be given unto you again.”
We pray for supernatural multiplication of seed, in Jesus’ name. I believe that’s God’s system. That way I believe the system works, and I really do believe what God says. He’s obligated to watch over His Word to perform it. Stay tuned. We’ve got a message for you, and we’re going to be right back and talk a little bit more.
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LR: Now when you see this book, the stress book, it has a price tag attached to it. That’s going away today because I want to give it to you. Don’t pay any attention to it. Our prayer partners know the people at this number, 866-870-6932, know that when you call and order this book, this is a gift to you. There is no charge. It’s my Seed-Faith gift to you.
I believe in sowing seeds. Am I a little stressed out lately? You could say that. So you know what? I’m sowing my stress book into you, believing that as you read the book and God ministers healing to you, God’s going to multiply that seed back to me. So 866-870-6932.
Are you pressured? Sometimes. Stressed? Yes. Frustrated? Well, yes. Overcoming Stress, take charge of the negative situations that come to attack you. Overcome them with the Word of God. So please call that telephone number, and please allow me the privilege of sowing seed into your life.
Now I want to tell you about a goofy phone call that I had from a very sweet lady. She is a lady that is one of the hosts on QVC. Now I had never met her, had not talked to her, didn’t know anything about her until she started contacting our ministry.
And as she contacted our ministry, she began preaching to us. She began preaching Oral’s Seed-Faith message to us. And today she called me, and she said, “Lindsay, I want you to know what I’m doing right now.” And I said, “Okay.”
She said, “I am putting a check”—and it was a very sizable check—“into an envelope.” And she said, “I am licking it right now, and I am walking to the mailbox.”
And I said, “Why are you doing that?” And she said, “I want you to know that I have to sow seed into good ground.” She said, “God doesn’t need my money.” And I thought, Well, okay. He walks on streets of gold, walls made out of jasper, gates made out of pearl. I bet He doesn’t need our money.
But she said, “I have a need to sow it.” She said, “There’s areas in my life where my needs are not being met, and I believe Malachi, that God will open me the windows of heaven, pour out a blessing where there’s not room enough to receive it, and rebuke the devourer for our sake.”
And I said, “Have you been listening to me on Make Your Day Count?” She said, no, actually she works during that time. And I said, “I want you to go on-line, and I want you to listen to what I have to say today because that is exactly what I have my Bible open to is the book of Malachi.”
And I want to show you something. Malachi 3:10 and 11, and I know I’ve kind of been on this scripture a lot. But, you know, until we get the revelation of it, let’s stick with something until it gets in us.
It says, “Bring tithe and offering into the storehouse,” or where you’re being fed spiritually. If it’s this program, if it’s something where you are being fed, you’re to bring tithe and offering into that storehouse—“that there may be meat,” or resources, “in that storehouse.”
Now this is the only time in the entire Bible, Genesis to Revelation, where this word is going to appear. And I’m going to read it to you. It says, “Prove me.” The only time in the entire Bible, all 66 books of the Bible, where God uses this word and says, “Prove me,” is right there, proving tithe and offering and opening the windows of heaven and rebuking the devourer. That’s the only place He said, “Put me to the test.”
And it says it’s not like, “I dare you,” but it’s sort of like that in saying, “I want you to test this thing. I want you to see how it operates.”
What I think God was telling us is that He wants to see in us, in our situation, He wants us to understand the system. If you want God’s answers, then you’ve got to do it on God’s system. If you want spiritual answers, miraculous answers, you have to do it in God’s miraculous way.
“Bring all the tithe and offering into the storehouse, that there may be meat,” or resources, “in my house. And prove me now, says the Lord of hosts, and see”—prove Him now. That’s a good one—“see if I will not open you the windows of heaven, pour you out a blessing where there’s not room enough to even receive it all, and rebuke the devourer for your sakes.
“He shall not destroy the fruits of your ground. Your vine shall not cast her fruit before the time in the field, says the Lord of hosts. And all nations shall call you blessed, and you will be a delightsome land.”