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.

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.