Saving Souls

His name is above, for God has given Him a name which is above every name named in heaven and earth.  And at that name, every knee should bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

When I pray, when I pray tonight, just the moment I’m ready to pray, you need a point of contact.  Your point of contact is when I say, “In Jesus’ name.”  Don’t get your eyes on me.  I’m just a man.  But I’m hooked up to the one who has a name that’s above every name named in heaven and earth.

And when I speak that name tonight, miracles are going to spread through this stadium.  You’re going to feel the touch of God.  And many of you will come forward and walk on this platform and give a testimony.  And it will make the devil mad.  And if he’s mad, I’m glad.  Because I hate the devil.  He’s a thief, and he’s a liar, and he hates us.  And I’m against him.  And he is under my feet.

Stand up on your feet in Jesus’ name.  Lift your hands unto the Lord.  Heavenly Father, not by might, not by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord.  It’s not me, it’s You, Jesus.  You have a name.  It’s above every name named in heaven and earth.  And at that name, every knee should bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

So tonight I begin this healing prayer by speaking to sickness and disease.  There’s a wave of healing getting ready to come into this place.  In the name of Jesus, I speak to pain in the head.  Oh, it’s leaving now.  It’s leaving now.  Pain is leaving heads now.  Pain in the head, come out, in the name of Jesus.  Let your faith go tonight.

Richard Roberts – And you see, those values that she communicated to me spiritually when I was a tiny infant, pre-school child, have gone with me and they’ve developed now at the ripe old age of 31 years old.   How about church?   I see individuals, I’m talking about moms in this church,

And I noticed that he was bearing down on expectation.  Most Christians, I’m sorry to say, do not expect when they sow.  They give out of obligation, because somebody twisted their arm behind their back.  They say, “Well, you owe it to God,” and it’s arm twisting.

But that’s not the Bible.  No farmer plants seed because somebody twisted his arm.  He plants seed because he needs a harvest.  No farmer would ever go out into a field and expect a harvest without planting seed.  But once he plants seed, he gets excited because he knows there is a natural law that God set in order, that when you sow, you shall reap.

And He said in Malachi 3, “Bring in your tithe and offering and prove me, see if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing where there shall not be room enough to receive it.  And I will rebuke the devourer (the devil) for your sake.”

Yes, satan has a vendetta against you.  And if you didn’t know it, you need to know it tonight.  Satan is against you.  He’s against what you stand for.  He wants to steal from you, kill you, destroy you, wipe out the memory that you were even born.

But God loves you.  He cares about you, and He sent His only begotten Son to give you abundant, everlasting and eternal life.  He wants you to sow.  He wants you to sow first.  He wants you to sow in quality soil, and He wants you to get into expectation.

Ron, we’ve had five beautiful days with our three daughters, 23, 21, and 18, precious daughters.  And it’s so good to have an opportunity to be with them together.

Richard Roberts – They’ll get candy on your robe and kind of calm down”. But what did Jesus say? Let the little children come to me, and what I see happening, especially in today’s world, moms are the ones who should take the children by the hand and lead them to church.

Number two, learn how to be a seed sower.  Life is in the seed.  It is an eternal principle.  God planted a seed, and He planted His best seed.  He didn’t plant an angel.  He planted His Son.

The Bible says that He loved us so much that He gave His only begotten Son so that whosoever believes in Him would not perish, but have everlasting life.

Let those with ears hear what I’m saying tonight.  God gave for a reason, a desired result.  When He gave, He had something in mind.  He had a harvest in mind, for He had lost mankind.  There in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve committed sin and lost their relationship with God.

And God said, “I will redeem mankind.  I will give My Son.  I will put Him on a cross.  I will let Him die for the sins of the world.”  And when He gave His Son, He gave His best.  He did not give an angel; He gave His Son.

And you and I have the right to sow our best unto Him and expect a harvest.  Every time someone gives their heart to Christ, God gets a harvest on the seed that He sowed when He sowed His only begotten Son.

The Bible speaks of a man named Abraham.  Abraham was Jewish, was a Jew.  We as Christians are grafted in because of the faith of Abraham.  Abraham discovered who God was.  He discovered who God was.  And when you know who God is, you know who you are.

He found out three things about God:  First, God is most high.  Second, the possessor of heaven and earth.  And third, the one who delivered him from all of his enemies.  Say that with me.  Most high, possessor of heaven and earth, deliverer of all of my enemies.

And when you know who God is, when you know that He is most high, when you know that He is the possessor of heaven and earth, when you know that He’s the one who delivers you from all of your enemies, then you know who He is and you know who you are.

And when Abraham learned that, he wanted to give unto God.  And the Bible says he gave a tenth, or a tithe, of all that he had.

Richard Roberts – We cannot acquiesce or bow the knee to a holy God. But women say, “Lord, you take it. I’m yours”. This church could not survive without the godly women of the Fellowship of Las Colinas, neither could the early church.

And he said, “I need help to do it.”  And we marshaled hundreds of students who went door to door.  And it looked like it was 50/50, it wouldn’t pass.  And because of what the students did in getting involved and going door to door, that measure passed by the largest margin of any bond issue in the history of this city.  (Applause)

Now that wasn’t endorsing a candidate.  That was speaking out on an issue.  And we have a right as citizens of the United States of America.  But somewhere along the line, somebody convinced us Christians that we’re not to be involved in the process.  And that’s satan’s lie.

America, what are you doing here when I’ve called you to be there?

You can hold up the candidates and say to your people, “Look at them in the light of the Ten Commandments.”  There’s no law against that.  And you can stand up for what’s right.

One man had his entire congregation to stand.  He said, “I want all of the registered voters to be seated.”  And about half of the crowd sat down.  He said, “The rest of you, I’m assuming because you’re standing that you are unregistered, which means you cannot vote.  Please remain standing.  My ushers are bringing a registration form to you.”

He said, “I will not preach today until you register to vote in the United States of America.  I’m not telling you which party to join.  I’m not telling you who to vote for.  I’m telling you, you have a right and a responsibility as an American citizen to go to the poll and cast your vote.”  (Applause)  And he didn’t preach until every person had registered to vote.

There’s a law on the books.  Every year in August at the beginning of the school year, I am required by law to tell our students who are from another state that while they are living on this campus studying, they have the privilege of changing their registration and vote on national and statewide and local issues in Oklahoma.  And then they can change their registration back to their home state after their time at ORU is up.

Richard Roberts – So men, I encourage you to lead out, to follow the Lord as a husband, as a father, to model authenticity in your life as I do the mom.   Spiritual values.

And that night when I gave the invitation, Abdul gave his heart to God.  And then God manifested in the operation of the gifts of healing. And I prayed for him and he got healed.  He came upon the platform and for the first time in his life he stood up.  And he began to run and walk and leap.  The whole crowd of maybe fifteen to twenty thousand people began to jump and cheer.

Lindsay and I were the only two that did not know what was going on, because we didn’t speak the language.  I was being interpreted.  And my interpreter told me that this was the beggar of Jos.  Oh the whole city knew him.  Everyone knew him.  And now he was running and leaping and praising God.

And the news media was there.  And they came up on the platform and they interviewed Abdul and they carried the story.  And there was a professor from the University of Jos who had come to mock me.  But when he saw this young man in whose bag he had put money–when he saw that he was healed–he fell on his knees right in front of me and gave his heart to God.

They interviewed him the next morning; it was on the front page of the newspaper.  And that night one hundred thousand people came to hear the Word of God.  And that wasn’t all.  That night twenty-five thousand Moslems gave their heart to the Lord Jesus Christ, because of an operation of the gifts of healing!

Now the second one is the working of miracles.  You don’t believe in the working of miracles?  Look at the person next to you.  (LAUGHTER)  The working of miracles is: supernatural intervention by the Holy Spirit to change or to alter a situation.

The parting of the Red Sea–that’s an operation of the working of miracles.  The ten plagues that Moses brought by the hand of the Lord is an operation of the working of miracles.  Water coming forth from the rock–that’s an operation of the working of miracles.  Their clothes, their shoes not wearing out–that’s an operation of the working of miracles.

I was reading the Readers Digest the other day and they had a little quip in there about Catholic school children who were asked,  ”What is the greatest miracle in the Bible?”  And one little boy said,  ”The greatest miracle in the Bible is when Joshua told his son to stand still, and he did.”  (LAUGHTER)

The working of miracles–your ministry is a working of miracles, because there’s no way that you had the ability on your own to start it.  There’s no way that you have the ability on your own to sustain it. And there’s no way on your own you have the ability to grow it–it takes an operation of the working of miracles.

You talk about the operation of the working of miracles–you’re sitting in the middle of the working of miracles today.  Because I remember, as a teenager, my father walking across this farm out here five miles south of Tulsa with no money, no land, no buildings, no students, no faculty and no know-how.  And God operated a working of miracles, and you’re sitting in it today.

Richard Roberts – What if I told you that I know a way to reduce the stress, to increase  intimacy with your spouse, family and friends and, also, to make you acutely aware of the presence of God like you have never experienced it before.