Richard Roberts

We have that same right with Jesus.  We have the right to use His name.  He said, “Up until now you have not asked anything in my name.”  They had heard Him ask, but they had not asked.  He said, “Ask, that your joy may be full.  Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.”

Not long afterwards Peter and John were on their way to church.  And there was a beggar at the gate of the temple.  And the man looked up, as if to receive money.  Many people had put money in his cup.  Money is wonderful, but that’s not what the man needed at that moment.  He needed healing.  How would that healing come?  It would come through the name of Jesus.

Peter said, “Look at us.  In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”  And he stretched out his hand and lifted the man up, and strength and healing came into his legs.  And he was healed.  And he began to leap and praise God and give glory unto the Lord.

Tonight I’m stretching out my hand.  I’m stretching out my faith, not in my name, not in my strength, but in the authority of the name of Jesus.  And I’m calling forth healing.  I’m calling forth miracles.  I’m calling forth victory, not in my name, but in Jesus’ name.  Someone shout hallelujah!

Sometime ago I conducted a crusade here in Nigeria in the city of Jos.  And something happened to me like what happened to Peter and John at the gate.  There was a young man who had never walked.  He was crippled in his legs, and he was carried each day to the post office where he begged for money.

I’ll never forget it.  Everyone in the city knew him.  Somebody carried him to the crusade.  And when I gave an invitation for salvation, he responded.  Then I began to pray like I’m going to do in a few minutes.  And when I prayed, I took hold of sickness with my hand and I began to call it out in Jesus’ name.  And I spoke to crippled legs, and I spoke to blindness, and I spoke to bodies that were sick.  And as I did, miracles began to happen.