RR: Well, let me just talk to you for a few minutes out of my heart.  I’ve been praying about this for some time.  I knew I’d be coming up here, and it’s been my joy and privilege to come up many times to Pittsburgh and be a part of this Cornerstone Network Telethon.

You know, we’re facing a lot of difficulties in our country.  We don’t know who the next President is going to be.  We don’t know if we’re going to have a Democrat.  We don’t know if it’s going to be Obama or Senator Clinton.  We don’t know if it’s going to be John McCain.  We don’t know.  No one knows.

There’s a tremendous cap site going on in the Democratic Party, and everyone’s watching it.  The primary is coming in even this week.  And there’s a lot of fear in the country.

If you go to the gas pump, you get real scared.  And they say our gas is going to go to $5 a gallon.  They were talking on television yesterday about the potential of $200 a barrel for oil.  What are we paying now?–$120 a barrel now.

Many people say we’re in the early stages of a recession.  Now some people think, Well, you shouldn’t say that.  You’re a faith person.  Well, you live in a real world, and you have to face real situations.  And they did that all through the Bible.

But I want to let you know that you are living in a divine hour because your life is not run by your government.  Your life is not run by your country.  Your life is not run by a recession or a decline in anything, because with God there are no shortages.

When you sow your seed unto the Lord, you remove all the barriers.  You remove everything out of your life, and you allow God to do what only God can do.

He begins to pass it on and through generations and through time.  They mess it up.  They become idol worshippers, and the next thing you know, you’ve got wicked king Nebuchadnezzar right back where we started, and you’ve got idol worshipping, and if you don’t bow down you’re going to burn.  And here we are all over again.  History does repeat itself.

So here comes Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.  They refuse to bow.  So what do they do?  They get thrown in the fiery furnace.  They’re bound. The furnace is heated seven times hotter than normal, and the next thing you know somebody shows up in the fiery furnace.  Nebuchadnezzar takes a look in, and he said, “Hey!  Didn’t we throw in  three?”

“Yes, Sir.”

“Aren’t they bound?”

“Yes, Sir.”

“Then how come there’s four.  They’re loose, and they’re marching around, and the fourth man looks like? what?  “The Son of God!”  APPLAUSE

How does he know what the Son of God looks like?  He hasn’t been born yet.  He’s a spirit.  The same spiritual revelation that’s in the middle of the fiery furnace was the same spiritual revelation of Melchizedek all the way back here.  God can show up wherever you need Him.

So now you’ve got Him in the middle of the fiery furnace, the guys are delivered.  Glory.  Hallelujah!  And guess what they do again?  Another long journey of messing up.  Until you come all the way to Malachi.  And what does Malachi say?

 ”You did it again.  You’re cursed with a curse.  You have lost the blessing of Abraham.”

I can prove that.  Because he goes on, and he says, “You are cursed with a curse even this whole nation.  Return to me and I will return unto you.”

“Wherein have we robbed God?”

“You have robbed me in…” what?

Tithe and offering.  Who was the first guy to do it? Abraham.  “You’ve robbed me all these years in tithe and offering.  And because of it you’re cursed with a curse again.”  And He said, “You return unto me, and I’ll return unto you, and I will open you the windows of heaven and pour you out…”  Careful how this is translated. This is what my father studied with the Jewish rabbi who knew exactly what he was doing.

He said, “I will open you the windows of heaven and…”   Not pour you out a blessing.  It says, “I will pour you out the blessing of Abraham, possessor of heaven and earth, most high God, deliverer from all your enemies.”  And He said,  ”I’ll open you the windows of heaven, pour you out a blessing where there’s not room enough to receive it, and rebuke the devourer for your sake.”

And then, then you get to the big weapons, and satan starts running around and you feel like, “No matter what I do?-I won’t even go there.  And you get the pool of self- pity, poor, poor pitiful me.  God never told you to do that.      

So let me tell you what you do.  You begin to realize that satan doesn’t fight fair, and you need to fight smart. How do you fight smart?  With the Word of God.

I remember years ago we did a program, here in this building, in fact, called Richard Roberts Live.  It was at nine o?clock in the morning.  All of you who know me know that I look exactly like that green bathrobe in the morning.  There is no qualms about it.  That is what I look like in the morning.  I don’t do mornings, never did do mornings, don’t like mornings.  All the people who know me know, “Yes, she’s telling you the truth, Jack.”

And, I tell you, we had this crazy program, nine o?clock in the morning, live.  Now do you know what happens at nine o?clock in the morning live when the program comes on?  It comes on whether you’re there or not.  That’s the beauty of live TV.  It comes on at nine o?clock.  And if you’re not there, it’s not the TV?s fault.  So all of the sudden you get there or you don’t get there-you’re on the air.

And I use to come in, and one thing I do not do now, but I did then, was drink coffee because, I mean, something had to pry my eyeballs open to be there live, dressed, pressed, and with my mouth open at nine o?clock in the morning.  So I did coffee.

Well, one thing about our television crew, of which Harry was the leader, is that that early in the morning you’ve got to do a lot of things to keep the crew interested and to keep them motivated that early in the morning.  And so we did a lot of practical jokes.  I think you’d call them pranks.  And we would do them on each other at the most inopportune moments.

And one of the things that the crew did to me one day that I’ll never forget was, they took my coffee cup and they put Super Glue on it on the bottom.  And they handed it to me.  And I had this habit of going in and sitting down on the sofa, and there was like a covered cloth arm of the sofa.  And I put my coffee cup on my little covered arm of the sofa, and I went to take a drink and it-and I realized I’d Super Glued my coffee cup on the bottom and it was stuck to the sofa.

God wants to prosper you.  He said, “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou shouldest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers.” Richard, this book is a knock-out.  It’s probably the best book your dad ever wrote.  It’s probably the best one.  I’ve got so many of his books in my library.

LR: You preached something to me out of Oral’s own ministry that he taught and he wrote a book on.  And even after I read the book, I never got it as clear as when you taught me about the Blessing-Pact Covenant.  And you said that is what literally turned your life, your mind, your thinking around, when you read that for the first time, Blessing-Pact Covenant, that God was a covenant maker and you could make a pact with God, and God would not come out of covenant with you for blessings.  As long as you did your part, God did His part.

BS: Well, Oral Roberts has been a blessing in my life for over forty years.  And this book is dynamite.  I’m telling you, this is dynamite stuff.  And it’s real easy to read.  This is the easiest book I ever read. I was over in a hotel just making some marks and saying, “Man, he does it like step one, step two, step three, and step four.”  It’s really easy.  But I want to tell you something, if you want to get God working right away, He said, “Prove me now, saith God, and I’ll open the windows of heaven.  I’ll pour you out a blessing you can’t contain.”  When I started in business, when your father came to Columbus, I had a little old used car lot. I had four or five; six used cars at a time on my little old lot.  I built one of the biggest automotive empires in America. I had five new car dealerships in Columbus, and out north I had another one.  But God helped me.  I asked God, I would say, “In Jesus” name, I want you to send me some customers today.”

And you don’t bribe God. You just obey God. You don’t bribe God.  That’s not what it is.  You obey God.  He says, “Prove me now, says God, I will open the windows and pour it out on you.”

RR: You’ve got to do your part.

BS: But you’ve got to take that step.  And the telephone number is on the screen.  There it is.  It’s on the screen.  Call and say, “Look, I’m pledging $2,000 or $50,000 or $500 or $100 or $50,” or whatever.  You know, whatever moves your faith.  You say, “Why would you want me to make a pledge of $2,000?”  It will move your faith.  And if it moves your faith, it will move God.

You know, it seems like God sometimes takes little hinges to swing big doors.  And that little hinge for me was that one dollar book I bought at Oral Roberts Ministry forty some years ago.

LR: I have been reading for this for a long time because I have felt just a churning and a burning of what God is going to do. I just believe that this one is going to just explode something in the Spirit realm. And, I’m telling you, breaking the spirit of debt means breaking the spirit of lack. Whatever it is that is lacking, something has begun to break loose in this university, in this ministry, and I think it’s going to get on anybody who wants to get it on them when they get here.

DB: We want you to know that a twelve week old church, Fort Myers Christian Center, wants to invest in the debt retirement of this college. Early this morning, 4:30, as we were leaving to come here because we would never miss Lindsay’s conferences. We need to get under the spout where the glory comes out because we’re giving out down there.  We need to be able to give.

We’ve come with our sleeves rolled up; ready to be a support to this, to do whatever we have to do to help. But at 4:30 this morning Dawn said to me, “Mom, we’ve got to give something from Fort Myers Christian Center, sow into this ministry as we go. Shall I take a check?”  I said, “Yes, take it.”

So I want you to know that we believe in the sowing and reaping principle. We always have. We’ve been a part of this ministry for years and years, even when we were up in Boston ministering.  We were Golden Eagles, if you remember when dad was Just months after we sowed being a Golden Eagle, we then received air time and we went on TV in the greater Boston area.  So it’s reaping what we sowed. Though we sowed, not expecting that, that’s what came back on the water.

And something you said, Lindsay, about the devourer, I have seen it happen in this new babe of a church that people that have been attending have been sowing heartily. And they have been receiving a harvest of healing in their bodies, healing in their marriages, healing in relationships.

And I just would like to provoke the folks, primarily I’d like to target the greater Southwest part of Florida to sow heartily into this ministry because that which you are interceding for and praying for, the devourer will not be able to eat that part of your petition.

LR: in Malachi. And then I was reading like Luke 6:38 and Galatians and Philippians. If you read Philippians 4, oh, my goodness, God opened you the windows of heaven.  And it says that He pours out His riches where there is not room enough to contain them all from Malachi.

But He says, if you read Philippians, it’s according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Now that’s pretty heavenly riches.

So I was thinking about all these different Scriptures, and the Lord really ministered to my heart, “You’re missing one really strong Scripture on debt and what people go through.”

And I thought, “Okay, what am I missing?”

And He said, “The 23rd Psalm.”

RR: We read it every day, don’t we?

LR: Every day

RR: We quote it every day

LR: of our lives and never have I associated it with debt. Never!  Now, what could I possibly be missing in the 23^rd Psalm concerning debt. It didn’t connect.

And so I said, “Okay, let’s go back and read it again.”

“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.”  Well, that’s a good point.  If the Lord is your shepherd, you have no need of anything, you don’t want for anything.  I thought, “Well, that’s a good start.”

RR: Hey, that means no debt.

LR: Correct, unless you want debt, which I don’t.

RR: I don’t either.

LR: So He said, “I shall not want.  He maketh me to lie down in green pastures and leads me beside the still waters.” Okay, what does that sound like to you?  Rest, relaxation, letting down

RR: Peace.

LR: unwinding, peace.  People who are in debt don’t let down and they don’t unwind and they don’t have peace and they don’t lie down and cool out beside the still waters. No, they’re frustrated, they’ve got ulcers, and they’re tied up in knots.  People jump out of buildings because of debt.

Okay, let’s keep going, and this is what the Lord said to me. “He restoreth my soul.”  The Bible says that your soul is your mind, you will, and your emotions.

RR: The soulish realm, yes.  Mind, will, and emotions.

That is the most interesting illustration of breathing out and breathing in. You can’t do just one and live. You can’t just breathe out. You have to breathe in. You can’t just breathe in. You’ve got to breathe out. You have to. And what I’ve learned from it, Lindsay, is how to make my life a seed, to get into a rhythm of sowing and reaping, of sowing and reaping, of giving and receiving, of planting and expecting God to bring the harvest in.

LR: You know, the Bible says that as long as the earth remains, there shall be seedtime and harvest.

RR: Book of Genesis.

LR: It started right from the beginning.

RR: It’s not a sideline. It’s a main line from Genesis to Revelation. The principles of sowing and reaping are from Genesis to Revelation throughout the book. You can’t find a book in the Bible where there isn’t seedtime and harvest.

LR: And, you know, the Bible also talks about that there are principles, there are laws established, God’s laws established in the earth, eternal laws that you cannot change. For example, the Bible says, day to night, winter to spring, seedtime and harvest. There’s no way to stop day from becoming night.  As a human being, you cannot stop it. How can you stop day from becoming night?

RR: How can you stop summer and winter?

LR: How can you stop summer from becoming winter?  How can you stop seedtime from becoming harvest?  It’s a principle eternal of God. If you put seed in, harvest will come.

RR: But you’ve got to expect it. When you sow your seed, Lindsay, you have a Bible right to expect God to multiply it back. You can’t just give indiscriminately and say, “Well, there it is.”  No. Focus it. Focus it against a need that you have in your life and then expect God to multiply it back.  That’s what we’ve done at ORU. That’s what we’ve done in this ministry. That’s what we’re doing in our personal lives.

LR: I’m reading right now a sermon that your dad preached about aiming your seed to defeat a need.

RR: Oh, I like that.

RR: God can heal marriages.  In Jesus’ name I rebuke this problem in your marriage and I pray for God to put a new love for you in him, a new love for him in you, and for God to heal your marriage in the name of Jesus.

LR: Yes, marriage restoration.

RR: All these requests, in the authority of the name of Jesus  and all these too, honey  in Jesus’ name, we set our faith in agreement with you for the healing that you need from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet, in the mighty name of Jesus.

And, Satan, you take your hands off God’s property, and we believe God for a mighty miracle.  Amen and amen.  Hallelujah!  Somebody give the Lord praise.    Hallelujah!

We’ll see you tomorrow night on Something Good Tonight the Hour of Healing.  Thank you for adopting ORU students.  God bless you.

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You strained all the muscles here.  It goes from right here in your forefinger, beyond your thumb, even up by your wrist.  You can’t move it.  You can’t lift anything.  You can’t pick anything up. You did it just recently.  You have no use of it right here in picking things up, and God’s healing you right now.  That’s a word of knowledge.  Whoever you are, examine yourself, get up and call us at 918-495-7777.

There’s also someone, Lindsay, who is receiving healing. You’ve had pain in your shoulder.  It goes all the way down your arm.  It’s just throbbing.  It’s been hurting you off and on for months, and right now, even as I’m speaking, it’s been hurting very badly.  God’s healing you right now, live, on television. Whoever you are, get up and call us.  If you need further prayer, the Abundant Life Prayer Group is ready to receive your call right now, 918-495-7777.  It’s healing night, Lindsay.

LR: A lady called in.  I’m not going to say her name because of this, but she was watching the Hour of Healing, and she said, it was the night that Cheryl and Harry were on, and she they were talking about depression.

RR: Oh, yes, earlier this week.

LR: She said for years she had been depressed, and she said she suffered because of the death of her husband.  And she had asthma and had to be put on a ventilator.  When we began to speak, she cried out to her son and yelled, “Come quickly.”

They grabbed her hands and agreed in prayer with her, with all of us.  And she said, “Something like heat hit her stomach.”  She felt it leave her body.  She got up in the morning with joy.  She’s gone all day with peace and joy, and she said she knows she is set free from depression.

RR: God is setting many, many people free these days from depression.  Lindsay, Art is calling from up in Beechwood, Ohio.  His wife, Nadine, had a very large tumor on her kidney.  The doctor said it could be cancerous.  Two days before the operation, they called the Abundant Life Prayer Group for prayer.  However, the doctor postponed the surgery until today which was yesterday.

When they went in to do the surgery, they said, “We had the best doctors because the tumor, the situation was life or death.  And the doctor said they’d never seen such a big tumor.  Now the doctor found the tumor, but it was dead.  The doctors say the malignancy was destroyed and the tumor is crushed.  The doctors were astonished.

“One of the doctors said, ‘I cannot explain it,’” but Art said, “I am rejoicing.  Thank you for prayer.  Thank you for the Abundant Life Prayer Group.”  Hallelujah!  That tumor is gone! Sue, do you have a testimony?

And I ask because I’m a Christian and a minister of the Gospel, through the name of Christ, that God will heal Tommy Scarborough.  Heal him.  In the name of Christ, the Son of the living God, put your healing hand upon Tommy and heal.  O God, release this hip. This little hip doesn’t feel like the other one.  There’s a bone sticking out.  O God, cause the flesh to grow upon it.  Free it. Release it.

Audience, with your faith, just one more time with me.  God, I ask that his little body be healed.  Tommy, you may be able to walk.  I don’t know.  I began to feel God’s power very strong. Sister, you do what you think you should with him now.

RR: Well, somebody give the Lord praise tonight.  And what God is doing, He’s still doing these days.  That is how this ministry was founded.  It was founded in the fires of healing evangelism.  And Lindsay and I are joined tonight by my dad and my mother, Oral and Evelyn Roberts, to the glory of God, who are celebrating their 50th year in the ministry.  Glory to God!  The healing ministry.  Hallelujah!  Dad and mother, welcome.

OR: Richard, sitting there watching that, I was thinking of how I held that little boy, just one person, in my arms, while there were 12,000 people seated out in front of me.  And outside with the flaps up, many thousands more.  And one thought was going through my mind other than praying for him, was, I wish I could take that whole crowd in my arms.  But I had to take them one person at a time.

And then I thought as I watched you and Lindsay tonight that in homes across this nation, there are not 12,000 people in that home or 20,000, but maybe one, two or five or six.  And this is like an electronic tent.  You reach out and you can touch those individuals.  All those people had to wait till I prayed for this one and they had to wait for the next one, and it took sixteen days for me to get to all those people.  And you can get to these people immediately.  And you at home can receive it instantly.

I tell you, I’m so proud of you, Richard, and of Lindsay.  I appreciate the anointing of God upon you.  I appreciate the integrity and honesty of your lives.  I appreciate your being president of Oral Roberts University, that it’s in good hands.