Richard Roberts wants to share something to you. Well, can you give us an example of something that happened? Well, we saw a, we saw a man from England and his wife who were visiting. Of course the English controlled the port of Singapore until 1970 and so there’s a lot of the English influence still in there. They still drive on the wrong side of the road, you know, like they do in England and things like that. And you kind of have to get adapted to that again.
But this man and his wife had come back just on a visit and he’d had an arthritic condition for over 20 years. And his wife had had an emphysema problem in her lungs. And the power of God came on both of them in the praise and worship in our meeting. I prayed a prayer of faith for them and they were instantaneously healed by the power of God, instantaneously they came up and gave their testimony.
Now, Terry, you talk a lot about praise and worship and there might be someone who is watching the program who says, “Now, Terry, what do you mean praise and worship,” because I know what you’re saying but there’s someone who says, “I don’t know exactly what you mean.” Would you explain that? Praise and worship is a, I believe, a divine tool, a divine door that God has given us to walk through in coming before Him. I think it’s all tied up with the prayer language that your father has taught so much about here at ORU.
And when I lost my wife Jan in 1982–I’ve told the folk the story on the television program before–I went into a collapse. I went into a spiritual struggle that is almost difficult, it’s very difficult to put into words. But through it all your dad spent time with me, we shared on the truths of the Word of God and your dad told me to go home and get on my knees and pray.
And the hardest thing for me to do, spiritually the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life was to get on my knees and pray, when I hurt so bad, when I was grief-stricken, when it seemed that my life was falling apart. (Yes) And in the quietness of my bedroom just about two miles from where we’re doing this program today, I, before daybreak got up, began to pray and it was so hard.
I battled the devil sitting on my shoulder saying, “What right have you got to praise God when your wife’s been killed.” (Yes) And so many people when they got through the struggles of life blame it on God. They think God was the source of their problem.