Richard Roberts

She did what the prophet said. Well, let’s give the Lord a handclap. She did what the prophet said. And when she did, she gave him the first portion of that meal and then she and her son ate.

And when they got hungry she went to the meal barrel and there was still enough meal. And she went to the oil cruse and there was still enough oil in the cruse. And she fixed another meal. And the next time, sure enough, there was enough for another meal. And the next time, sure enough, there was enough for another meal.

And again and again and again. It’s estimated that she cooked some 1,000 meals out of that empty meal barrel and empty cruse of oil. God will not fail you when you do what He said, when you prove Him. Lindsay, come down here with me right now because I’m going to, I’m going to sing a song.

Going to sing a song about proving God and let you know exactly what you can do. When you plant your seeds, you can start to prove God. Larry. Praise the Lord. Lindsay, since you gave birth to Jordan Lindsay, you have taken off considerable weight. (Thank you) And you look great. Thank you, that was nice. She’s six weeks old today.

Recently talking to a friend who’d just had a conversation with a Jewish rabbi from Israel. The rabbi had shed some new light on the phrase talitha cumi. He said that the word talitha can be translated as “little lamb.” Now, that was interesting to me, because Christian means “little Christ,” and one of the names for Jesus is the Lamb. So that means Jesus was speaking to the little girl as the body of Christ—which includes you and me as believers!

According to the rabbi, the word cumi carries the meaning “Come up to a higher place, and I will meet you there.” So I believe God is saying to us—as the body of Christ—“Rise up to a new level of faith and I’ll meet you there with a miracle.”

God’s the God of a second chance, friend, and He can turn that captivity, whatever it is, fear, discouraged, depression, whatever it is, sickness and disease, God can turn that situation around in your life. And I just feel like praying again. In the name of Jesus Christ, whatever that thing is that has you in captivity, I come against it. I pray in the name of Jesus. Friend, God’s the God of a second chance. He can give you a new life. I want you to pray this prayer out loud with me, everybody.

Everybody here pray it with me. O Lord, I need a second chance. There’s something in my life that’s wrong. I repent of it. I need help. So in the name of Jesus, I confess every sin. I confess my mistakes and I receive Jesus as my Savior. Come into my heart, Jesus. Save my soul. Fill me with your Spirit. I speak Your name with my mouth. I believe God raised You from the dead. I receive You as my Savior. Oh, friend, if you’re praying this prayer, Jesus is entering your heart right now. You’ll never be the same again. Healing miracles are beginning all across this nation. Financial miracles are beginning. People are coming closer to God than they’ve ever been. People are being healed in emotions.

Fear is being driven out. I received a letter the other day from a woman who hadn’t been out of her home for five years because of fear. And she called the Abundant Life Prayer Group and said, “After you prayed, the fear left, and for the first time I went to the grocery store, in five years.” God can turn things around in your life. Receive the miracle today. Receive the miracle in your life. If you’re coming to Jesus for the first time in your life or you’re rededicating your life to Christ, call the Abundant Life Prayer Group. Let me know. Let me share with the people your testimony.

If you’re receiving a miracle in your body through the prayers today that’s going up, let me know. If you need to come to the City of Faith, come on. Call and make an appoint and come on to the City of Faith. Let us provide the best in medicine and the best in prayer. Ken and Lynette, we’ve run out of time. I wish we had more time. God bless you and your minister in Denver. Take these words with you all day long till we see you tomorrow, no matter what it looks like, God can turn it around for you.

When we look around the world today, there seems to be instability everywhere…so much, in fact, that it’s easy to think you and I may be dealing with situations that no one has ever faced before. But according to the Bible and the story of Joseph in Genesis 37-50, that’s just not true. If anyone ever had a reason to become unstable and even bitter, it was Joseph. Just look at what happened in his life.

Joseph’s father, Jacob, had two wives, and he was involved with several other women at the same time. He had children by all of those women which caused jealousy and competition in the home. Joseph’s mother died when he was young. Jacob favored Joseph over his brothers and gave him a special, multi-colored coat, causing great jealousy among his brothers.

In Genesis 37, we read where Joseph began having unusual dreams, including a dream where his brothers all bowed down to him. But rather than loving their brother and listening to his dreams, Joseph’s brothers grew even more jealous and bitter. They rejected his dreams, and hated him so much that they threw him into a pit, sold him into slavery in Egypt, and told their father he’d been killed.

Joseph had a gift from God to interpret dreams. One day Joseph interpreted a dream for Pharaoh and Pharaoh was so impressed that he made Joseph the number-two man in his government. When Joseph’s family ran out of food during a famine, they wound up at his doorstep on their knees, asking for food. And Joseph’s dreams came to pass! Joseph’s brothers were terrified when he revealed who he was.

But Joseph held no bitterness in his heart. He said, “You planned evil against me but God used those same plans for my good, as you see all around you right now—life for many people…You have nothing to fear; I’ll take care of you and your children.” (Genesis 50:19-21 MSG).

Joseph not only survived the instability surrounding him, he flourished. Believe when you and I stay focused on God, as Joseph did, instead of the circumstances in our lives, we can have what Joseph had…and we can find stability in the unstable world around us.

Richard Roberts shared “The Source of Answering”. Why me, God? Why did You do this to me? Exactly. God is the source of answering the problem. He’s not the source of the problem. And I was coming into this knowledge by a very excruciating personal experience. And as I prayed about it, I came into an understanding of praise and worship that I’d never understood before. I was a classical Pentecostal, raised in the church where people oftentimes raised their voices, said words like hallelujah, praise the Lord, things like that, and that’s common for a lot of the, a lot of things that the Holy Spirit is doing across America today. But those words took on new significance for me.

When I was in the midst of that agony and having to say hallelujah and the devil was on my shoulder saying, “How can you praise God, how can you say hallelujah when you hurt so bad?” And I had to learn to divide in my mind between the hurt that I was experiencing and between who God is. And when I was willing to relate to God and bless Him in spite of the situation, not for it because God didn’t do it.

The devil did it. The devil is the liar. He’s the thief. He’s the destroyer. That’s the one thing I had to learn. But the Lord himself is the one who intervenes. He comes in. He’s the one who’s going to be healing the people, as you’ve been having these words of knowledge on the program today. It’s Him that’s coming and touching them right where they are. But that experience in terms of my relating to God, I had to tie in to Him as being over and above everything else that had happened.

And when I said, “Lord, I praise You, no matter how bad I feel. I bless your name,” something exploded in my spirit. It was like a spiritual timebomb went out. It came out of my innermost being. I began to pray in the Spirit.

Now, Terry, you had prayed in the Spirit many times in (oh yes) in your lifetime but you had, you told me that you had never made it a way of life. (That’s right) You’d never really prayed every day.

That’s right. It became something, it became a tool kit, almost like a mechanism by which I could begin to understand the word of the Lord. And I would begin to pray in the Spirit, I began to interpret back what the Lord had given me in the Spirit. And the Lord began to bring revolu-relation to me.

Right, revolution is right. And it was through that, praying in the Spirit, interpreting back, that God brought me into the healing ministry. And two months after my wife passed away I was praying in my bedroom one morning. The anointing of the Holy Spirit came on me. I began to pray in another language and then I interpreted back out of my spirit. And the Lord said, “I’m going to send you to My people. You’re going to lead them into My presence in praise and worship. You’re going to teach them the sacrifice of praise the way I’ve taught