Richard Roberts

Suddenly I heard God say, “I’m healing someone’s eyes.”

I was telling one of our doctors this story.  And there was a woman in the back, and she had been blind in one eye for four years.  And before I knew what I had done, I spoke to the blindness.

And someone said, “What gives you the authority to speak to blindness?”

And I replied, “What gives the devil the right to put blindness on you in the first place?”

I spoke to the blindness, and I commanded it to go.  And the woman began to scream.  And her eye was opened, and she was healed.  I knew it, she knew it.  (Applause)  That crowd knew it.

Suddenly I heard the Lord say, “I’m healing someone’s ear.”  And there was a man who had been deaf for ten years.  And I heard myself rebuke deafness.  Then I heard a popping in my ear.  I did not realize that was the operation of the word of knowledge, that God was giving me a sign in my own ear, a popping, a snapping.  I could hear it popping and snapping.  And my ear closed up, and then my ear opened up.

And I heard my mouth say, “Someone who is deaf is being healed.”

And there was a man who was there with his whole family.  He had been deaf for ten years.  And when I said my ear popped, his ear popped.  And for the first time in ten years, he heard from that ear.  And God healed him.  (Applause)

That was the beginning.  That was the beginning.  And we knew that night that what we had prayed for, what we had confessed with our mouth was coming to pass.  That’s been more than 25 years ago.  Every place I have been on this earth since that night, God has performed miracles, signs, and wonders.  Not because of me, but because of Him.  I am not the healer.  He is.  I am an instrument.  God’s power flows through my hands, but not because of me.  It’s because of Him.