Saving Souls

Then with each stripe, Jesus took every disease.  He took it so you wouldn’t have to be sick.  Someone has told you that God made you sick.  That’s a lie!  It makes no sense for God to make you sick and then send Jesus to make you well.  God does not put sickness and disease on His people.

He said, “I am the Lord that healeth thee.”  And Jesus said, “I am the same yesterday, today, and forever.”  And because of what Jesus did on the cross, we have an open door to heaven.  We can repent of our sins.  We can ask God to forgive us and to cleanse us and to forgive us of all sins.

The Bible says if I confess my sins, He is faithful and just to forgive me of my sins and to cleanse me from all unrighteousness.  So when Jesus went to the cross, He provided salvation and He provided healing.

Many have come to Christ in these last two nights, and many more will come to Him tonight.  (Applause)  Many have been healed by the power of God the last few nights, and many more will be healed tonight.  Hallelujah!

Now I want you to make no mistake about it.  The Bible says that Jesus, the Son of God, died on that cross.  He was dead.  He said, “It is finished.”  He said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.”

The Bible says, “He gave up the ghost and died.”  And the soldiers who crucified Him took down His lifeless body.  And they wrapped His body, and they put it in a borrowed grave.  Why a borrowed grave?  He was dead.  Why a borrowed grave?  Why not a permanent grave?  Why a borrowed grave?  Because He only planned to stay in it for three days.  (Applause)

And you say, “What was He doing there for three days?”  He was calling on those righteous men and women who had died in the faith, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Elijah, Elisha, David, Jeremiah, all of those who had died in the faith.

If it’s your head, touch your head.  If it’s your back, touch your back.  If it’s your feet and legs, touch yourself.  Wherever you hurt, touch yourself.

In the authority of Jesus’ name, I come against that pain.  I come against the sickness and disease.  Now listen to me carefully.  I reach in and I take hold of it and I pull it out now, in the name of Jesus.  For God has given us a name.  It’s the name of Jesus.  It is the most powerful force upon the earth.

And His name is above every name named in heaven and earth.  It’s in that name that I speak tonight.  And I give Him honor and glory.  Jesus is a healing Jesus.  Hallelujah!  Yes, Dr. Cordray.

DR. C: Dr. Roberts, this lady has not been able to see for several years.  Tonight we tested her, she can speak very well.

RR: Can you see?  How long have you been blind?  Twenty years.  Twenty?  Twenty years.

INT: Yes, twenty years.

RR: Can you see now?  Can you see?

INT: Yes, I can see.

RR: Can you see everyone?  Hallelujah!  Yes, David.

DAVID:  He could not walk at all.  He was paralyzed totally on his left side.  Tonight he can walk and move.

RR: Paralyzed.  Paralyzed.  How long have you been paralyzed?

AN: Two years.

RR: Two years paralyzed.  Walk.  Walk.  Walk.  Walk.  (Response)  Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!  God is a healing God.  Let Niger know, let the people shout it out, God is a healing God.

Lift your hands unto the Lord and say, “God is my healer.  God is my healer.  God is my healer.  God is my healer.”  Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!

Yes, David.

DAVID: For five years this little boy had crippled arms.  They were crippled up and twisted like this.  He can move his arms freely tonight.

RR:  Move your arms.  Lift your arms.  Lift them up.  Put them down.  Lift them up.  Put them down.  Lift them up in Jesus’ name.  Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!

He was seated beside the highway outside the city of Jericho.  Each day he was led there.  And the garment that he wore allowed him to be a professional beggar, because he was blind.  And there are many who are blind today.  Not just blind in their eyes, but blind to the things of God.

And many live a beggar’s lifestyle and not having any idea what is available to them through the power of God.  This is why I have come to Niger, to bring you the good news, for the blindness to be removed and for you to know that there is a God of power, and there’s a God of might, and there’s a God who loves you.

He knows who you are.  He knows where you live.  He knows what you’re going through.  And He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to go to the cross, to take on your sin and mine, and to have His back bloodied and striped for your healing so that you might have abundant, everlasting and eternal life.

This is why I have come to Niger.  I did not come to bring you bad news.  I came to bring you the good news of the gospel, that He’s for you.  He’s not against you.  Hallelujah!

This man sat beside the road begging.  He was blind in his eyes, but he was also blind in his heart.  And then someone told him about Jesus.  And when he heard it, something was lighted in his heart.

When you hear about Jesus, something happens in your heart.  Suddenly hope, hope springs up.  He heard that Jesus was passing his way.  Many have heard that I was coming to Niger, but not me.  It’s the God in me.

I am just a man, but I have the power of God in my life.  That’s why there are miracles wherever I go.  But it is not because of me, but it is because of Him who is in me.

The Bible says, “Greater is he who is in you than he that is in the world.”  Can you say amen?  (Response)

I not only got my hand healed, but I learned how to release my faith for a miracle.  You need a point of contact tonight, and here’s the point of contact.  When I say “In the name of Jesus,” that is your point of contact.

I want you to stand with me tonight.  All throughout this Liberty Stadium, wherever you have pain, wherever you have sickness, wherever you’re being attacked by the devil, lay your hand on yourself there.  As I pray here, I am expecting God’s power to come into your body, into your mind, into your spirit, into your family, into every area of your life.

Heavenly Father, in Jesus’ name, I thank You that You are the source of all healing and in Christ’s name, who walked this earth healing the sick, in His name tonight I speak now to every sickness, every disease, every fear, and every doubt.

I stretch out my hands in faith, and I rebuke sickness and disease.  I start with pain in backs.  Pain in the back, that which has crippled you, pain in the hips, in the feet and legs, pain in the shoulders, pain in your arms and in your hands, the arthritis pain, in the authority of Jesus’ name, there’s healing coming now.  (Response)

I send the word to you for your healing.  Pain, come out, and it’s coming out in Jesus’ name.  Backs, be healed.  Shoulders, be healed.  Neck, be healed.  Every disk and vertebra, be healed.  Curvature of the spine, straighten up.  Hips and legs and knees and feet, be healed.

It’s happening right now.  It’s happening, it’s happening, it’s happening.  There’s a wave of healing starting over here on my left.  It’s beginning to move through the crowd.  Begin to bend.  Begin to move.  Pain is leaving someone now.

Raise your hands unto the Lord.  Begin to thank Him now for healing.  I speak to blindness.  I speak to cataracts.  I speak to glaucoma, any problem with your eyes.  Here comes healing.  Here comes healing.

Hello to everyone here in Ibadan.  Special gettings tonight to Dr. Ibiara and his dear wife and to all of the crusade committee and to every supporting pastor and minister, to the great choir and musicians, to everyone who has worked so hard to bring this to pass.  I am grateful, and I thank you for this invitation.  I have looked forward to this for a long time.

I’ve come with a team, medical doctors and dentists and nurses and technicians.  This day they’ve been doing their medical work, treating patients, doing surgery, doing their dental work and their technical work.  And they’ll be doing that this week.

But I learned something tonight.  I found out they can sing.  Would you all stand, please?  All the team stand.  Give them a God bless you.  Hallelujah!  Give them a handclap.  (Applause)  I want the choir to be on guard.  You have some competition on this side.  They want to sing like you.

I want to bring you special love and greetings from my family.  I spoke with my wife about two hours ago, and I told her that we were on the way to the service.  And she began to pray.  She is a woman of prayer.  She loves God with all of her heart, and she loves me.  (Applause)  Amen.  And I love her with all my heart.

We have three daughters.  Our oldest daughter is 20, and the middle daughter is 18, and the young daughter is 16.  I live with four women.  (Response)  And that is scriptural.  The Bible says, “Blessed am I among women.”  So I have a Bible wife, and I have three Bible daughters.  And they send all their love and all their prayers to you tonight.  Amen.  Hallelujah!

I also want to greet you in behalf of my father Oral Roberts.  (Applause)  My father’s name is a household word throughout America and the world.  This past week he celebrated his 88^th birthday.  He is still preaching the gospel.  He is still praying for the sick.  He’s alive, and he is well, and he is anointed by the Holy Ghost.  And I thank God for him.