ORUS: Singing “We Are Persuaded” (Applause) SECOND CHANCE BOOK OFFER (Applause)
SUZIE MERRIWETHER: I’ve learned even when we don’t have it, to give. And before, I always thought you had to have a lot to give. After you paid all your bills, you paid your tithes first and you paid your bills, then if you had something left over you could give. But I don’t feel that way. When I have a need now, when my husband and I have a need, we plant a seed. I had never really been taught to give and expect something in return. And one day he really ministered to me about talking about planting a Seed-Faith if you have a real need.
LANNY MERRIWETHER: It came down to where we just didn’t have hardly any money left to even get by on the rest of the week. And she mentioned the fact that she had watched Richard Roberts’ program and how impressed she was with the program.
SM: And so he encouraged us to plant the Seed-Faith. And I told my husband that night, I says, “I really feel that we should plant something in Richard Roberts’ ministry.” And we added up the bills and truly there was not $10 to give. And I says, “Will you agree with me that we’ll send in $10?”
LM: So we discussed how much we were going to send, so we set the amount at $10 and in my way of talking, I says, “Well, you know, we really don’t have $10 to send.” And she says, “Well, I know,” but she says, “you know, if we send it and the Lord will bless it and let’s just pray that the Lord will multiply, you know, this and it will be used for the upbuilding of God’s kingdom.” And so I agreed with that and we wrote the check out and we prayed over it before we sent it.
SM: And that morning Lanny put it in the mail and that afternoon we stopped by his mother’s house for lunch. And she wasn’t at home and just as he was getting ready to leave to go back to work, she came in. And he says, “Mom, have you got a piece of gum?” And she says, “Well, I’ve got something better than that.”
LM: And so she said, “Here, this is for you.” And it was a check for $1,000. And the first words that came out of my mouth was, “Praise the Lord.”
