And I feel that you’re hearing us and that you’re healing. And I receive it. Everybody say, I receive it, in Jesus’ name. And now let’s everybody give a shout to God.

RR: Any other prayer requests that are coming in, Lynwood that are coming in through the Prayer Group? Bring them all down to us right now. We’re only about two minutes or so away from the close of our program tonight.

I especially appreciate you and mother coming on tonight and sharing with us. We deeply feel what we’re doing is of the Lord. And I’m grateful for your encouragement, for your prayers. Every time we talk to you, you bring us an encouraging word. And in essence you’re saying, in Jesus’ name, you can do it. In Jesus’ name, you can do it. And we thank you so much.
OR: You are doing it.

RR: It means a great deal to us.

ER: I want to add two or three requests in here, Richard. A lady who lives in Tahlequah or in Muskogee, I don’t know which, Letha, wherever you are, God is healing you tonight while this program is going on. I felt it in my spirit. And, let’s see, there’s a minister in town, another minister. I don’t know, my heart goes out to ministers. I guess it’s because I live with one. But this man is very, very discouraged, very discouraged. I think, Richard, we probably need to have a prayer for discouraged ministers. There’s some about to give up.

RR: Let me just lay hands on all of these requests that have been coming in and let’s include discouragement, and also let’s include Mary Jo who is in Colorado, just had a baby, is hemorrhaging very badly. We just received that word in Colorado Springs. Mary Jo, I send the word to you right now. I come against this hemorrhaging. Dry up. That’s right, Lindsay. That’s the scripture. You shall not be polluted in your own blood. I come against discouragement. You foul thing that is unlike God, I rebuke you now and I encourage you. The Bible says that David encouraged himself in the Lord. And I encourage you in the Lord. Oh, glory to God, there’s a right ear drum getting healed right now. Right ear drum being healed right now. It’s a right ear drum. You’re being healed right now.

In the authority of Jesus’ name, I lay my hands on all these calls that have just come in since we’ve been on the air tonight. In the authority of Jesus’ name, I believe God for the power of the mighty God to come into you and for you never, ever, ever, ever to be the same again according to the Word of God. I am sending that word to you right now in the authority of Jesus’ mighty name. Hallelujah! Praise God. Well, somebody give the Lord a shout. We are out of time. God bless you. See you tomorrow night.

ANNOUNCER: Even after our program leaves the air, the Abundant Life Prayer Group is on duty 24 hours a day to take your calls at 918-495-7777. Our Email address is somethinggoodatoru.edu. Or send us your prayer requests so that we may believe God for the miracle you need. Write Richard and Lindsay Roberts, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74171. Or in Canada, Toronto, Ontario M4P2G2. And when you write or call, don’t forget to ask for your free copy of the audiocassette collection, Your Hour of Healing with the Roberts family, and Oral Roberts’ book, Don’t Park Here

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RR: He’s calling to his grandmother.

D: Yes.

RR: Can you see a difference in the fingers now?

D: Yes.

RR: Oh, come on, somebody, give God the glory. Lindsay, he said, he said

LR: I’ve been waiting for you.

RR: I’ve been waiting. I’ve been waiting. Everybody stretch your hands out. Debbie and Eric, stretch your hands out toward me right now. Have you been waiting for the power of God to come into your life? Lindsay, honey, come down here quick. I’ll tell you, there’s an anointing right now. Have you been waiting? Have you been waiting like Eric for the power of God?

In the authority of Jesus’ name, I speak the word of healing to your body. What God just did, what God just did in little six-year-old Eric, He can do in your life. In the name of Jesus, I rebuke this sickness. I command it to go. You foul tormenting thing. And, Eric, God’s still working on those fingers right now.

D: Yes, He is.

RR: He’s still working on them right now, and He’s working on the hands of a lot of other people tonight. As I stretch out my hands, other hands are being healed in Jesus’ mighty name. I speak it, I believe it, and I expect a miracle. Now just go ahead and lift your hands everywhere across America tonight, in Canada, and begin to give God the praise and the glory and the honor. Hallelujah!
Father, we worship you. We praise you. Well, somebody give the Lord praise tonight. I’ll tell you, something is happening. Something’s happening. Debbie and Eric, thank you for calling. Wow!

LR: Let us know, Debbie and Eric. Keep us posted.

RR: Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Honey.

LR: Hallelujah! Time to party.

RR: Honey, it’s interesting that Eric would call tonight because I have a testimony that I want to share before my dad and my mother come on the program. I want to take you back to 1959, Tallahassee, Florida, to meet a little boy. I guess he must have been about eight or nine years old, little Tommy Scarborough, who for two and a half years had a softening in the bone in his hip and he couldn’t walk. He was on crutches. He came into the crusade that night for my dad to lay hands on him. And little Tommy had the kind of faith that little Eric just had. I want you to see for yourself the healing power of God, how it has stood the test of time. And then I’m going to bring my dad and my mother on, and we’re going to have a healing service for the glory of God tonight. Just watch from 1959 in Tallahassee, Florida.

ANNOUNCER: Tonight get ready for a time of prayer, music, and ministry for your needs, with tonight’s special guests, Oral and Evelyn Roberts, founders and chancellor of Oral Roberts University. Now let’s welcome our hosts, Richard and Lindsay Roberts.

RR: This is the Hour of Healing. Come on, give the Lord praise. Hallelujah! Lindsay, Lindsay, sweetheart, come over here. I’ve got a testimony that came in last night as a result of a word that God gave you on the program. This is Christina calling from Winter Park, Florida, where you were living when I met you.

LR: That’s right.

RR: You were living there. You’d graduated from college. You’d come up here to Oral Roberts University from Winter Park. “Lindsay gave a word of knowledge last night about migraine headaches.” Christina was suffering with migraine headaches for months. It was so severe, her face and neck were affected. Christina was lying on her couch, had her thumb over her eyes like you had your thumb over your eyes last night, “where I was experiencing excruciating pain. When Lindsay gave that word, all the pain left. I am rejoicing. I am healed.”

LR: Hallelujah!

RR: Hallelujah, hallelujah. Ronalda that’s a beautiful name, isn’t it, Ronalda, in Hindsville, Georgia, “I was flipping the TV, channel surfing.”

LR: Sure they were.

RR: Right. “Came across the Hour of Healing. Called the Abundant Life Prayer Group for a financial blessing. As the prayer partner was praying, I touched my neck. I’ve been having pain there since an injury back in 1996, and I am completely healed.” Thank God for the prayers of the Abundant Life Prayer Group. If you need prayer, the Abundant Life Prayer Group is ready to pray the prayer of faith. The Bible says, “The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord will raise you up.”

LR: The Lord will raise them up.

RR: We keep adding prayer partners because of the demand, because of the continued rise in the number of calls. And we’re ready to minister to you.
This is Lisa up in Grand Haven, Michigan, and bulging disk. Last time I gave a word, remember?

LR: Yep.

RR: I gave a word about bulging disks. “I’ve had bulging disks in my back. I was healed immediately when you prayed, and now I believe for my foot that was operated on to be healed.” Lisa, in the authority of the name of Jesus, I stretch my hand out toward your foot. Anyone who has a foot problem, anyone with a foot problem or a leg problem, I want you to walk over to your television set right now. I want you to lay your hands on mine.

RR: And they are dabbling.

LR: If it is not the power of Almighty God, then it’s another side. And I think we need to recognize God has the ultimate power. Why don’t we just start with the good guy to begin with, you know, just get hooked up with God. Start there. Why should you go through all these other different channels to eventually lead to God? Let’s just start at the top.

MG: You know, Richard, I think it’s so important and, Lindsay, that what you’re doing is being done at this time, because years ago, let’s say by the time we were in high school, you know, the psychics and these kind of people were not popular.

LR: That’s true.

MG: And people in general had more of a basic knowledge about God, you know, because they heard about God in the public schools, you know, way back then. But we have a generation coming up that know nothing about God and yet there’s that emptiness, there’s that void being created as a result of the knowledge of God being taken away from the public schools. And now the psychics and the New Age people and all these people have come in to fill that void. And they have, they have an audience through the television, and so we need an audience through the television in order to show the real power.

RR: But where sin abounds, grace doth much more abound. I believe the very thing you’re talking about, Marilyn, may be the reason why God gave a word of prophecy through my father, Oral Roberts, that healing is coming big time. And, as a matter of fact, I just found out he just called in. He’s on the phone. We were talking about him earlier this week about him sharing what he shared with me the other night on the phone. He walked over to the television set and laid hands on my hand.

Now here’s a father laying hands on the hands of a son on television. He said he felt the power of God when he laid hands on my hands.
Now I remember as a boy watching my father stretch out his hands and say, “Lay your hand on my hand.” And I found myself stretching out both my hands.

And as I did, I was just automatically reminded of those days when that healing anointing, when I was near it. And now that anointing has come upon me. And he says healing is coming big time. Dad, are you on the phone?

RR: ‘Cause it’s been hurting for a few weeks. Is there any pain there now?
LISA: No.
RR: When I prayed, did the pain just stop?
LISA: Yes.
RR: And it went away?
LISA: Yes.
RR: Oh, Lisa, glory to God.
LR: Halleluiah.
RR: Halleluiah. Isn’t that wonderful?
LR: Is her mommy there?
RR: Mommy, are you there?
LISA: Yes.
LR: Virginia?
VIRGINIA: Hello.
RR: Hello, Virginia.
VIRGINIA: Hi.
RR: What happened to your daughter?
VIRGINIA: Well, she fell off a bar at school a couple weeks ago, and she was suffering every night. She couldn’t sleep through the night. And so we were praying for, but she didn’t seem to be getting better. Then Monday night I was in the bathroom brushing my hair, and she comes running in the bathroom. She says, “Mom, Mom, I’m healed. He gave a word for shoulders, and I’m completely healed.” And she started swinging her arm around and her shoulder, and she was just totally healed…
RR: Oh, come on, give the Lord praise.
LR: She was watching by herself?
RR: Now here’s a 9-year-old child watching the program
VIRGINIA: Yes. Well, Benny Hinn is her favorite minister
LR: How precious.
VIRGINIA: and she used to call
RR: Well, he’s one of ours too.
VIRGINIA: Yeah. She used to call the TV “TBN” ’cause she was so used to watching Christian television when she was younger.
LR: She called her TV set TBN.
RR: Ha.
LR: That’s good.
RR: And her shoulder is healed?
VIRGINIA: Totally healed.
RR: Oh, praise God, Virginia. Thanks for calling and giving us this report. God bless you.
LR: Halleluiah.
RR: What’s this, honey?
LR: Bye, Lisa. Atlanta, Georgia. Richard had a word of knowledge that someone fell in the store that someone fell, and this lady fell in the store while shopping.
RR: I said running.
LR: This was
RR: Were you running through the store?
LR: Well, this was Myra, and she said two weeks ago she has been. It’s been two weeks since it happened. She’s been in severe pain. She said
RR: On the
LR: immediately when Richard said that, she received her healing.
RR: Halleluiah, halleluiah.
LR: Atlanta, Georgia.
RR: We’re on tonight live in Atlanta, Georgia. Fifty-nine stations watching this program cable systems, satellite networks. It’s growing. By faith, it’s growing every week. What, honey?
LR: Now listen to this. Richard spoke a word of knowledge about someone’s arm getting healed, and Marie’s daughter said, “Mom, move your arm now.” And Marie’s arm was so stiff she couldn’t lift a cup of coffee. She said she is now sitting up, shouting, and praising the Lord for the healing.
RR: Rio Rancho, New Mexico
LR: Halleluiah, Rio Rancho, New Mexico.
RR: watching live in New Mexico. Halleluiah.

And I was panicked because I had bought a wedding gown and I couldn’t get into it. And I was, you know, about 30 pounds overweight at this time. And I began to really see that food controlled my life. I weighed myself nine or ten times a day, the first thing in the morning after I ate, you know, before lunch. I weighed myself constantly. And finally I came to a crisis place when I went to try my wedding gown that I had bought and could not get into.

And I came home and I threw myself down on the floor and I started crying and I said, “God, you know, I can’t lose this weight, and I’m going to have a weight problem for the rest of my life. And I can’t eat like a normal person because I can starve and not lose weight, or I can binge and, God, I just can gain 15 pounds overnight.” That’s the way I looked at it.

And God said to me, “Lisa, your weight is an idol to you and food is an idol to you.” He said, “If you will repent of this” and an idol is something we give our strength to or draw our strength from He said, “If you will stop measuring yourself by what you weigh,” because He said, “Lisa, you are not what you weigh.”
RR: People watching need to hear that tonight, you are not what you weigh.

L: And that’s what this book is about, you are not what you weigh. And I had always measured myself by what I weighed, what the scales said I was was what I was. And so God told me, “You are not what you weigh.” And He said, “Lisa, if you will repent of this, measuring yourself by your weight and also filling the void in your life with food that only I can fill,” He said, “I will heal your metabolism.”

And I said, “O God, you know, forgive me.” And this was back in 1982. And I fell on my face. I said, “O God, forgive me.” And He said, “Now don’t weigh yourself ever again.” He said, “You stop this incessant weighing of yourself.” He said, “You put the scale away.” And He said, “I want you to go on a three-day fast.” I said, “God, You just told me never to diet again, not to weigh myself, and now You’re telling me to fast.”And He said, “Well, Lisa, a fast doesn’t change your appearance.” You know, the world diets, and Christians are supposed to fast. A diet changes the way you look, but a fast changes the way you live.

J: That’s 11 years ago. So I was sitting on the kitchen table just studying the Word, and I got such severe chest pains and sweat broke out. And I just walked up to the sofa, sat down, turned on the television and you were on.

RR: Now this was just the other night?

J: That was last week, Tuesday night.

RR: Last Tuesday night. Okay.

J: I tried to get through to give you a word of encouragement that I was healed, but I couldn’t get through. The lines were too busy.

RR: Well, we’re trying to add prayer partners and adding more telephones just to better serve the people.

J: Well, everything is well. I’ve had no chest pains since.

RR: None since.

J: None since.

RR: Oh, come on, give the Lord praise. Oh, John, we just give God the glory, and thank you for calling.

RR: And Lindsay and I are joined by John and Lisa Bevere. Give them a great welcome to Something Good Tonight the Hour of Healing. Bless you.

J: So good to be here.

RR: Got to get your children I know you don’t have any ready for college yet, got to get them into ORU.

J: We’ve got four boys.

RR: And they’ve got a son who is playing basketball, Lindsay, loves basketball.

L: And a soccer player.

RR: And a soccer player? Well, we’ve got soccer, men’s and women’s soccer. As a matter of fact, tonight the ORU women’s volleyball team is playing the number 22nd ranked team in the country, the University of Arkansas. We’re over at Fayetteville tonight. And if we weren’t making a program, Lindsay and I would find a way to get to Fayetteville tonight. In fact, they’re playing right now.

And, Father, in Jesus’ name I thank You for anointing the ORU Lady Golden Eagle volleyball team. You say, “You can’t pray that way.” Yes, I can. I just did, in Jesus’ name. It’s 8:20 over there, and in Jesus’ name I ask You to anoint them. Our men’s basketball team is playing tomorrow night up at the University of Montana, had a big win Saturday night. We’re big into athletics. Here are four fantastic books, among others that you have written. Here are four. I think we have a shot of them. Here are two of John’s books, The Bait of Satan, and this is one we’re going to talk about.

LR: Incredible book.

RR:  What do you have, Sue?

SUE: We have Janea who is an ORU student from Arkansas.  She came to the program last week and she had the ulcer that you gave a word of knowledge on, and she is now healed.

RR: Now is it Janea?

SUE: Janea.

RR: Is she on the phone?

SUE: Yes, she is.

RR: Janea, hello.

J: Hello.

RR: How are you?

J: I’m doing well.

RR: Do you go by the initial “J”?

J: Yes.

RR: You do?  Okay, we’ll just call you J.

J: Okay.

RR: We call our Jordan “J” so we’re pretty accustomed to doing that. What happened, J?

J: Well, I was there on Wednesday, and right before you gave the word of knowledge, my body got really hot.  And then when you said, “There are three people that are getting healed of ulcers and one peptic,” my stomach felt like it was on fire.  And I was like, “O my God, thank You, Jesus, that’s my healing!”  And I’d been diagnosed about a year ago.

RR: Well, what difference can you tell now, J?

J: Now there’s no pain, no acid in my stomach.  Usually it is acid all the time, constantly, and the acid is gone, no more stomach pains.

RR: What about when you eat?

J: I can eat anything.

RR: Anything?

J: Yes, anything.

RR: Anything now that’s a victory.  That’s a victory, J.  We just give praise and glory to God.  J, where are you from?

J: Right now my parents live in Arkansas.

RR: From Arkansas.  Why did you come to Oral Roberts University?

J: Jesus told me I had to.

RR: You mean He didn’t give you a choice?

J: No, not at all.  And that’s when I developed the ulcer, when I was panicking over school, where I was going to go.  And I said, “Jesus, I can’t take this anymore.  Tell me what You want me to do.”  And He said, “Go to Oral Roberts University and major in psychology.”  And now He changed my major, but that’s okay too.

Write me, Richard Roberts, Tulsa, Oklahoma.  In Canada, Richard Roberts, Toronto, Ontario.  Or you can call the Abundant Life Prayer Group at 918-495-7777.  Now, as I said, we began this as a credit card only, but so many people have called and written while I was in Korea and said, “Please let me send just a personal check.”  So, fine, it’s all right, go ahead.  But send it and we’ll put this into the mail and then we’ll do the project this summer.

Now, Lindsay, on the program yesterday I promised that I was going to share a portion of the report from Korea.  While I was there in Korea preaching at the world’s largest church, full gospel church, in Seoul, Korea, pastored by our good friend Dr. Paul Yonggi Cho, who is the international chairman of the Charismatic Bible Ministries Fellowship, and Dr. Cho will be in Tulsa in June for our conference.  And he will be a guest on our program that day.  And during those two nights I preached to 110,000 people in two nights there at that church, people jamming the church, jamming all the overflow areas of two buildings outside the church, plus in the streets.  And it was quite amazing. And while we were there Dr. Cho and I sat down and had a conversation. And right now I’d like to take you to Seoul, Korea where our good friend Dr. Cho and I are carrying on a conversation about this crusade and about the healing ministry.  Just watch this.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Well, we just concluded one of the most exciting crusades that I’ve ever had an opportunity to be involved in in my life here in Seoul, Korea, Full Gospel Church, pastored by our good friend Dr. Paul Yonggi Cho.  Dr. Cho, let me ask you, after our just coming off the platform from the concluding night, what do you feel in your spirit?

SPKM PAUL YONGGI CHO Richard, I tell you that I have been in my ministry for 30 years and I’ve had so many evangelists hold meeting in my church.  I think this is the best and the greatest. We had tonight about, between  50 to 60,000 people packing every corner of our church.  And I tell you, I’m so glad I didn’t keep you one day more.  And what a meeting we had. We had so many healings.  I can’t count all of those who got healed because so many got healed.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Well, as a matter of fact, we were not able to have testimonies up on the platform tonight because of the way the crowd was literally seated in the aisles, as well as in buildings next door, on closed circuit television.  And they rigged up a loud speaker system outside so that thousands could stand, literally in the street, and hear the preaching of the Word.  Let me ask you this question, well first, let me say that as you know as I told you earlier that God had spoken to my heart about 40 nations that I am to preach in, and Korea is one of those nations, and I wondered who God would use to bring me to Korea.  And now I know that He spoke through you.  First of all, I want you to know how honored I am that you would invite me.

But I want you to know what you feel in your spirit about the future concerning your ministry, the future concerning your mission to Japan and what you see coming for God’s people.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Right now here at the Oral Roberts University Singers to minister in song, “There Shall Be Showers of Blessing.”

SPKM ORU SINGERS  SONG There_shall_be_showers_of_blessings about City of Faith and American Airlines.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Remember, if you have a need to come to the City of Faith, if you have health insurance, and if you have a doctor’s diagnosis, then you can call 1-918-493-8484.  The number is up on your screen right now. 493-8484 and you can make your clinic appointment.  And we will assist you in making your travel arrangements on American Airlines.  We will pay your airfare and pay for your ticket on American Airlines to Tulsa and back.  That is, if you have health insurance and if you have a doctor’s diagnosis.  There are many thousands of people who are taking advantage of this American Airlines program through the City of Faith. Pick up your phone and call 1-918-493-8484 and give us your health insurance and your doctor’s diagnosis and you can come to the City of Faith on American Airlines and we’ll pay for your flight.  Thank God for the American Airlines subsidy program.  One of our guests today is Tanya Goodman.  Tanya is the daughter of Rusty Goodman of the Goodman family.  She is a singer and she is a composer and she is here to bless you with the ministry of music.  So join me in welcoming Tanya Goodman.

SPKM TANYA GOODMAN The Word says we should give thanks to the Father for he has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints of the kingdom of life.  He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves.

SPKM TANYA GOODMAN  SONG His name is a strong tower

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Give her a handclap.  Tanya Goodman.  Tanya, God bless you.  Tanya, you come from a singing family.  Of course, I know your whole family and have for many years but you started out not wanting anything to do with Jesus Christ or singing for the gospel.

SPKM TANYA GOODMAN Well, I sang with my family for awhile and it didn’t really seem to me what I thought it would be.  It wasn’t glamorous and I went into it for the wrong reasons.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS A lot of hard work, huh?

SPKM TANYA GOODMAN Yeah, it was a lot of hard work and it wasn’t what I expected.  And I left the road for awhile and during that time God began to deal with me about a ministry and it’s been several years from that time until this but God really did a work in my life and gave me a willing heart to serve him in whatever he asks me to do.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS In 1982 you and your husband Michael had the door opened by the Holy Spirit for you to minister on your own. You’ve been song writing you’ve written songs for Russ Taff and they’ve been recorded by other artists in the gospel.  In fact, the song you just sang is a hit single right now on the gospel charts.  What do you feel about your music?  What are you trying to say?  What are you trying to do and minister to people?