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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.