Saving Souls

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.

Richar Roberts – I remember growing up, my mom would take that beige Bible story notebook and she would turn to my favorite story, David and Goliath.

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.

Richard Roberts – I was three years old when we started reading that. I remember the picture of Goliath and the Philistine brass, 9′ 9″ tall, that grimace on his face, looking down at the tiny, Hebrew shepherd boy, but he had the sling. And mom would describe that and read that and that was so vivid, it was so real to me.

Who can hear better?  If you’re beginning to hear better, come to the platform.

Now if your eyes need healing, put your hand on that eye.  In the authority of Jesus’ name—there was a woman last night who could not see a thing.  God healed her eyes.  Just last night.  In Jesus’ name, I speak to the cataract.  I speak to the glaucoma.  I speak to the blindness.  Come out.  Come out.  Come out, in Jesus’ name.  It’s coming.  It’s coming.  Someone’s sight is being restored right now, right now, right now.

Look around.  Examine your eyes.  Close one eye.  Look around.  See what God is doing.  Someone is beginning to see.  If that’s you, begin to come.  Begin to come to the platform.  Come and give a testimony.  Let the people know that God is a live God.  He’s not a dead God.  He’s a live God.

Now I want to pray for people’s hearts and blood pressure and blood sugar and anemic condition and any type of nervous condition or any type of blood problem.  Lay your hand on yourself.  I speak to this heart problem.  In the name of Jesus, come out.

Every artery, be healed.  Heart muscle, be healed.  I speak to every artery, open up.  I speak to blood sugar, in the name of Jesus, blood sugar, level out.  High blood sugar, come down.  Low blood sugar, come up.

High blood pressure, come down.  Low blood pressure, come up.  I speak to the nervous condition, to the skeletal problem, be healed, in the name of Jesus.  Glory to God!

I come against the anemic condition and the blood condition.  The Bible says, “You shall not be polluted in your own blood.”  I speak to the blood.  Blood, be normal.  Red cells, white cells, platelets, be normal, in the name of Jesus.  I reach in and pull that sickness out.  Sickness, come out.  Come out.  Come out.  Come out, in the name of Jesus.

Richard Roberts – bring their children to church when many fathers stay at home. You’re talking about a Proverbs 31 lady, you are it! What did Jesus say? Jesus said, “Let the little children come unto me”.

He made it clear in the scripture.  One day a leper came to Jesus and said, “Jesus, you can heal me if you want to.”  And Jesus said, “I want to.  I will,” and He healed him.

Third John 2 says, “Beloved, I wish above all things that you prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.”  He wants you well in every area of your life.

He gets no glory out of sickness and disease.  But somehow we Christians have a way of turning our bodies over to the doctor, and we turn our souls over to the pastor.  Well, I’m certainly not knocking medical science.  Thank God for medical science.

Luke, who was a traveling companion of the apostle Paul, was a practicing Greek medical doctor.  He’s the one who wrote the book of Luke and the book of Acts.  And they were a one-two evangelistic team, Paul the evangelist and Luke the doctor.  Thank God that Jesus himself said, “They that are sick need a physician.

Thank God for doctors.  They’re against sickness, and they’re for health.  And I love doctors because they’re trying to get you well.  Did you notice they’ll treat you no matter who you are, no matter what you’ve done?  They will treat a convicted criminal.  They’ll treat a rapist.  They’ll treat a murderer.  Don’t we wish all ministers were like that

“Is any sick among you?”  That was their call.  But when Constantine came in, suddenly the church lost the persecution.  And, my friends, if you’re doing something for God, something’s going to come against you.

But they got the idea they had to suffer for God.  And they thought the best way to do it was to bring Him glory and honor through sickness.

A man said to me, “Richard, I’m suffering for the Lord through sickness.”  I said, “Well then, why don’t you take mine so you can suffer double?”  I wasn’t being cruel.  I just don’t want any sickness.

Richard Roberts – The disciples would say, “Hey, Lord, you don’t need to mess with the kids now.

However, if you don’t let them go.  I found out something about people that hurt you.  You’re the victim.  That makes them the sinner and you the sinnee.  But if you don’t let them go and you begin to harbor that, guess what the Bible says?  You become the sin-ner as well.  You’re committing sin by harboring bitterness.  Okay, so you try and get it out and they do it again.  You pour it in.  It’s like a perpetual cycle.  But there’s a way to get that broken.

And so I’m praying everything I can think of.  I’m getting really frustrated, and I am sick and tired of these perpetual acts happening again and again.  I thought, “I’ve got to break this in the Spirit realm.”  Well, I forgive them, thinking that’s going to release them.  And then I say it.

You know what?  My mother writes down a word from the Lord. And when my mother speaks, heaven moves.  I know it.  And so she said, “I got a word for you on this.  I really know that God’s going to release you if you receive this word.”

Well, see, you know, I was hoping it was going to be, you know, David and Goliath, chop off their head, you know.  I heard Kenneth Copeland say one time, “Satan, if you had skin on, I’d whip you myself.”  So, see, I was in that mentality.  This one had skin on, I was going to whip her myself.

So my mother said, “I’ve got the answer.”  And she sent me a pantyhose cardboard.  I said, “Ma, this is a pantyhose cardboard.”  She said, “This is what the Lord said to me, and that’s all I had, so I wrote it down.”  She said, “The Lord spoke this to me, “You have every reason to be bitter, but you have no right.”

And the Lord showed me I need to do two things.  And if you’re carrying any kind of bitterness or harboring anything against anybody, you’ve got excess baggage, excess distractions. You’re wrapped up in the wrong thing and you need to let it go. Because will not put new wine in old wineskins.  It’s like a shopping trip.  If you go with your cart full of all your old junk, you can’t get any new stuff.

And I was carrying around baggage and I’d let it go and I’d pick it up and I’d let it go.  And the Lord showed me to do a two-step process.  Number one, release them with more than spiritual lip service.  Say, “I forgive you.  I release you.  I let you go.”

But you know what the Bible says?  You have to bless those who spitefully use you.  Well, I don’t know why, but in my mentality I got this idea that blessing them meant, “God, give them a new house.”  I don’t know why.  You know, I pray they get new kids or I pray they get new shoes, I don’t know why.  But in my mind, I felt like I had to pray blessing of things.