RR: She’s walking without pain.  Hallelujah!  Dr. Ablorh.

DR. ABLORH: Dr. Roberts, for nine years this young man couldn’t walk.  For nine years he couldn’t play football.  He couldn’t run.  But today, do like this, do like this, do like that.  Nine years he couldn’t walk.  Walk, walk.  (Response)

RR: Nine years.  Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!  Yes, Dr. Cordray.

DR. C: Dr. Roberts, this man could not walk for three years.  You have his cane.  He came up here, and now he’s walking.

RR: I have his cane.  Walk.  Hallelujah!  Let Niamey know, let Niger know, let the people know that God is a healing God, that what He did in Bible days, He’s still doing these days.  Hallelujah!

many of you tonight felt the power of God when I prayed?  If you felt the power of God when I prayed, then I want you to wave your hands.  If you felt God touch your body tonight, then wave your hands.  Hallelujah!

Yes, David.

DAVID:Richard, this lady’s been blind for three years, could not see out of both eyes.

RR:Can you see?

INT: Oh, yes, I can see now.

RR: She was blind?  How long?

INT:  Three years she can’t see.

RR: Three years she was blind.  Three years?

INT: I’m grateful.

RR: Can you see me?

INT: Yes, I can see you.

RR: Can you see me now?

INT: You are wearing a white shirt.

RR: What am I doing?  How many fingers?

INT: One.  Two.  Three.  Four.

RR:You can see?  Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!  God heals blind eyes.  Thank the Lord.  Thank the Lord for His healing touch.  Lift your hands unto Him tonight.  Give Him praise.

Right now there’s an anointing for healing.  Lay your hand on yourself.  Wherever there’s pain in your body, lay your hand on yourself.

RR: Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!  Hello, my friends of Niger.  God bless you tonight.  I am so glad to see your smiling faces.  Hallelujah!  Lift your hands unto the Lord.  Give a wave offering.  Wave your hands to the Lord.  Give a wave offering.

Lord, we give You honor, and we give You praise, and we give You the glory, for we are not our own.  But we were bought with a price, and the price was the shed blood of Jesus.  And so we lift our hands, and we give praise unto the King of kings and Lord of lords.

Thank You, Jesus, for taking charge of this service tonight.  And may everything that I say and do bring honor and glory to Your name.  May the anointing of God fall upon me.  May I preach and teach with power tonight and with the authority of God.

Then, Lord, confirm Your Word with signs and wonders.  Tonight let the cripples walk, let the blind see, let the deaf hear.  What God did last night, He will do tonight.  Hallelujah!  I give You praise, Father, and I thank You and worship You tonight.

Now, satan, take your hands off this service.  Take your hands off the people.  Take your hands off of Niger.  Tonight I pray for this nation, this strategic desert nation.  I pray for your President.  I pray that God would strengthen him and give him godly wisdom in governing this beautiful land.

I pray for every minister of government, for each man and each woman who are serving this nation in the highest positions.  Bless them.  Prosper them.  Strengthen them, and give them godly wisdom that the people may rejoice and give honor and glory to God.  These things I ask and pray, not in my name, but in the name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.  Amen.  Give the Lord a shout of praise.  Hallelujah!

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.

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.

RR: Hello, everyone.  Are you here?  Stand with me, please.  Let’s just lift our hands for a moment and give praise and honor and glory to God.  Lift your hands unto the Lord.  Everybody lift your hands.

Father, we give You honor and we give You glory in this place.  Thank You, Lord, for this wonderful, wonderful ministry.  Thank You, Father, for the founding family of this ministry.  Thank You, Father, that it is built on the preaching, teaching, healing ministry of Jesus Christ.

Thank You, Lord, that demons are trembling tonight because they know miracles are going to be done in this place.  And, Father, we give You honor and glory.

And, satan, you take your hands off God’s property tonight.  We do not belong to you.  We belong to God.  We were paid for by the shed blood of Jesus.  And so tonight we decide to glory You, Father, in every area of our lives, our minds, our bodies, our families, our marriages, our businesses, our ministries, in every area of our lives, in the authority of Jesus’ name.

Satan, you can’t have us.  And, Father, we submit ourselves afresh and anew into Your hands, and we thank You and praise You, in Jesus’ mighty name.  And everybody said amen and amen.  Give a handclap unto the Lord tonight.  God bless each and every one of you.  Thank you so much.  You can be seated.

Pastor, thank you for this opportunity.  I noticed on the screen it said that Calvary is a place of healing and restoration.  I didn’t have a sermon title until I saw that.  And I thought, Well, that’s what I should start with.  I should start about some models of healing.  Turn to the person next to you and say, “Tonight we’re going to get some models for healing.”  Turn to them and say that, models for healing.

And what God did for Isaac, He will do for you and me if we will put Him to the test and discard what we are hearing from all the different sources.  You know, I don’t bury my head in the sand like an ostrich.  I’m aware of what’s going on.  I read the newspapers.  I see what’s going on on the television news.  I’m not saying these things aren’t happening.  I’m not that type of person who says, “Well, I just say that isn’t even happening out there.”  No, it is happening.

Isaac didn’t deny there was a recession.  He didn’t deny.  In fact, in the middle of it he planted, knowing full well there was a recession going on.

Now here’s what the Lord has laid on my heart tonight.  He said three things to me, and I wrote them down on a little sheet of paper in my hotel.  Number one, you must sow and you must sow first.

All right now, what’s our model?  John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

God gave, and He gave first and He gave His best.  He didn’t give His worst; He gave His best.  He could have sent a legion of angels, but He didn’t.  He sent His Son.  He had only one Son, and He gave Him.  He gave, and He gave first.

Yes, there may be troubling times coming in the White House, in any house in America.  There may be troubling times coming in the economy.  We may very well be looking in the future $5-a-gallon gasoline.  I don’t know.  I don’t know that.

But I do know that we can begin to sow.  Instead of hoarding, instead of holding on, we can sow.  God gave, and He gave first.  You’re going to have to sow, and you’re going to have to sow first.  And you’re going to have to trust God.

They are mighty through God. Clue number three, it’s God’s battle. It’s not your battle. You don’t have to go into some spiritual heroics. You don’t have to save God’s reputation. You don’t have to save the universe. You have to do what God called you to do. And when you’re obedient to doing what God called you to do, then everything else will fall in line according to what He calls you to do, according to His plans. Many are the plans of a man’s heart, but it’s the purpose of God that shall prevail.

What is God’s purpose and His purpose for your life and only your life? When you find that out, then when you get into a war you’re going to win. But you’ve got to understand, clue number one, it’s a war. Clue number two, don’t get in the flesh. And clue number three, it’s God’s battle.

Now He said, “They are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought, to the obedience of Christ.”

I want you to know that our thought life stinks if it’s not renewed with the Word of God. You see, we’ve got mighty weapons, but until we realize those weapons are for our benefit, they could sit there till doom’s day, until you pick them up and appropriate them into your life. Your lunch can forever sit on the table and you can starve to death. It’s not that simple to figure out, “Okay, there’s my lunch.”

Okay, but what’s really difficult is when you have a problem and you know you have a problem, and every fiber of your flesh wants to do what your body has been trained to do. You get up. You go to school, you train yourself, you learn, you train your brain, you educate your mind, you educate your body, you educate this and that, and all of the sudden you’ve got this great big fat battle in front of you. And you think, “You know, I’ve been trained for that.”

No, you’ve been trained to exist in this earth to serve God, and the first thing you need to do is stop, drop, and roll. Stop, drop on your knees and get to what God says. And until you’re rolling on your face before Him, you’re not going to get an answer. And when He gives you the answer, you’ve got to jump into it and do what He tells you to do.

RR: Carlton, there are some who might say, “Well, this group, the International Charismatic Bible Ministries Fellowship, has no exclusivity to it. Anyone can get in.” Yes, that’s right. That’s the idea. That’s how we were formed. We were not formed to have exclusivity. We were formed so that any man or woman in the ministry would have an opportunity to have fellowship. This does not mean that a person cannot be a part of another fellowship. Many of our trustees are parts of other fellowships. There’s no exclusivity of anyone. It’s non-denominational. It crosses all the lines. It’s open to any man or woman in fulltime ministry anywhere in America or around the earth.

And if you think, “Well, maybe I don’t qualify,” I can tell you, you do. If you’re a fulltime minister in any capacity, you qualify. So if someone’s saying, “Well, now I understand. I’ll put my hand up and get one of the forms to fill out,” lift your hand now and the ushers can see you.

By the way, you don’t have to be a minister even. If you’re a church worker in any way, shape, or form, or in a parent church organization. Is that all right? Certainly. Do you have a word to say about it? You just said it. Billy Joe, do you have a word you want to add?

BJD: The direction has been people that are working in the ministry in any area. You have Sunday school teachers, you have youth workers, you have those that are helping with traveling ministries, evangelists, outreaches in the missionfield, and this is a fellowship of ministries.

If you’ll put your check or the cash in the envelope with the registration form, then we can keep it all together. This last year, books from Jesse Duplantis … how many of you enjoyed the book, He’s Too Much.” Joyce Meyer, Copelands, just went right on down the list. We thought, what a deal these trustees have felt led to give the book.

And the ICBM covers the postage. It’s several thousand dollars a year in postage to send out those, but that’s a seed of ICBM into your life. And we felt like this would connect us even more together. You would know the trustees, you would hear from them. They would have direct seed into your life. And you can write them a note, thank them, if you’ve received a blessing from those books, encouraging them in their ministry. You may feel led to plant a seed into what they’re doing as a result of it. Glory!

WT:  Yes, I am.  There are a lot and, you know, when I go out and play, that’s another way I try to be an example.  I try to let people see Jesus through me.  And you rarely ever see me get an attitude, upset.  (Applause)

RR:  Well, I’ve watched you.  Of course I watched you play at the University of Oklahoma.  I watched you play right here in Mabee Center.  I remember watching you during–several years ago–your senior year at ORU I saw you play right here in Mabee Center. 

WT:  My junior year. 

RR:  Well, during the NCAA tournament.  (Right)  Was that your junior year that I saw you here?

WT:  Right, that’s the last time.  RR:  You played right here. That’s right, that’s right, right here in Mabee Center.  And I noticed that when you got a foul called on you or something perhaps went the wrong way or something, maybe you got a call that maybe you didn’t deserve, you never got upset.  Certainly you didn’t let it show on your face.  You just acted like you had the attitude of, all right, we’re going to regroup, we’re going to get them in the end.  Is that your attitude?

WT:  And that’s the attitude, I think that’s Jesus working through me. (Applause) 

RR:  Now, Ted, I want to ask you, is this the kind of young man you’re looking for to play basketball for Oral Roberts University?

TO:  You know, Richard, when I, when I came here the sign outside as I drove on the campus talked about mind, body and spirit.  And I think that Wayman epitomizes the thing, the concept that we’re talking about.  Yes, this is exactly what we want.  We want great athletes here at ORU.  We want to do our job to be sure that they grow in their spiritual life and we want them to graduate.  And some of these days after you finish spending all that money, I want you to go back and finish.  You know, Wayman left a year early and I know his goal is to finish that degree because it’s a matter of pride that he can go around the rest of his life and say, “Not only was I a great basketball player, but I graduated from my university.”

RR:  Wayman, what’s it like playing in the NBA with people like Jabbar and Ralph Sampson and all those great players?  What’s it really like when you’re under the board with someone that’s as big or bigger than you are?

WT:  Yes.  In college I used to have, you know, some nights I’d have a rest.  Not against Kansas, they beat us twice, to come to think of it. But in college you have a couple of nights you could look forward to that you would have a rest.  But now it’s work every night.  You know, one week I was ____ Larry Bird, Dominique Wilkins, Charles Barkley or Dr. J.  I mean night after night it’s work.  And it’s like night and day as far as the competition because these are older men that know the game and they really, it’s their job.  And they put it into a science almost as far as what they do, how you pace yourself through an 82 game season, plus with pre-season games it’s like 90 something. So it’s a lot of work out there.

RR:  How have you been able to share your witness for Christ while you’ve been in the National Basketball Association?  Is there anything that stands out in your mind the way you’ve been able to share Christ?

WT:  Well, not right off.  I talk about the Bible a lot.  In fact, I’ve gotten some people, some of my teammates to go to church since I’ve been there.  You know, the days we have off we try to go out and read the Bible.  (Applause)  In fact, before each game we have at home we have a chapel service and it amazed me how many people, how many players would be in there, you know. The first time we played Philadelphia, here’s Dr. J., who has been in the leagues 15 years, he’s the first guy in there.  It really was an inspiration to me to God.  There’s a lot of Christian players there.  You know, it’s just great.  I attend chapel services before every game, so that’s really helping me out and try to minister.

RR:  Are you surprised to see how many born-again, Spirit-filled Christians there are in the National Basketball Association?