The Hour of Healing by Lindsay Roberts

June 25, 2010 – 2:23 am

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: Wonderful book.  A brand-new book, The Fear of the Lord. Discover the key to intimately knowing God and fear in terms of reverence.

J: Reverential fear.

LR: John wants me to have that book.

RR: And then, of course, Lisa’s books.  Lindsay has endorsed one of these books, Out of Control and Loving It.  And this is the Christian Bookseller’s 1996 book of the year, is that right?

L: It was one of the CBA ones.

RR: One of the CBA books of the year.

J: It’s number five in the nation this month.

RR: It is?  As well as a brand-new book, The True Measure of a Woman.  And we’re going to share about how you can get a copy of these books.  But, John, one of the things that you deal with in your book on The Bait of Satan is offenses and how to deal with unforgiveness, how to deal with bitterness.  And Jesus said if you have ought against your brother, you know, when you come to pray, go and make it right.  If you don’t forgive, then God won’t forgive you.  How does a person, how does a Christian who has offenses, they’ve been hurt, they’ve been stabbed in some way and they don’t know how to get over it and then it turns into unforgiveness, it turns into bitterness, it turns into anger, it turns into hatred, it just gets worse and worse and worse, how does a person deal with that?

J: Well, you’ve got to deal with it.  The first way a person can deal with it is to realize what they’ve been forgiven of.  A person, a Christian, let’s deal with a Christian tonight, a Christian that cannot forgive is a Christian that’s forgotten what they’ve been forgiven of.  Jesus tells us a parable in Matthew, because Peter came and said, “My brother sins against me seven times and I forgive him, is that enough?”  And Peter thought he was being magnanimous.

RR: Maybe he wanted to hit him on the eighth time.

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God to the Fullest by Richard Roberts

June 18, 2010 – 2:18 am

RR: Oh, you’re a first-year student. Okay, let’s do some student recruiting, you and me right now.  I have a student; I’m the President of the university.  What would you say to a student in high school right now who is trying to consider a college or university and are thinking about ORU.  What would you say to them?

J: If you want to experience God to the fullest and put no limits on Him, come to Oral Roberts University with an open mind and an open heart.  And He will take you above and beyond anything that the human mind can imagine.  God is just so good.  Put your life in His hands, and He will mold you to be exactly what He wants you to be.  That’s exactly what I would say. As a matter of fact, Richard, I have two friends coming back for College Weekend, and they’re thinking about coming because I invited them here last … two weekends ago for College Weekend.

RR: Oh, praise God.  J, God bless you.  Thanks for calling, J.

RR: Sue, do you have a testimony?  What’s happening?

SUE: I do.  I have John on the line from Cuyoga, Ontario, Canada. Last week you gave a word of knowledge about chest pains.  And John was sitting on his table, got up, went to sit on the sofa, turned the TV on and you said, “Someone’s getting healed of chest pains.”  He is healed.

RR: Hello, John.

J: Yes, Richard.

RR: How are you tonight?

J: I am very well.

RR: Tell me what happened, John, the other night when we were praying.

J: Well, recently … this is 11 years ago … I had a severe heart attack.  My heart stopped seven minutes, and so I had triple bypass.

RR: Now that was 11 years ago.

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.

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Victory by Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts

June 11, 2010 – 12:32 pm

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.

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Healings by Lindsay Roberts

June 4, 2010 – 7:44 am

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.

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City of Faith by Richard Roberts

May 28, 2010 – 7:50 am

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?

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The Son of God by Richard Roberts

May 21, 2010 – 9:00 am

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS The most amazing thing about this woman that Lindsay is describing…. this happened in the San Francisco area, and now those same doctors in the San Francisco area are calling her in about every 2 or 3 months to meet with all of their doctors to tell the story of how this happened. And she said, “Every time I get to tell the story I get to give my witness about Jesus Christ.”  (APPLAUSE)  And as I’m moving my arms right now, somebody is getting a healing in your left shoulder.  “For this purpose,” the Bible says, “the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy….”  Everybody say destroy. (DESTROY)  “….that he might destroy the works of the devil.”   ( RR_1_John_03:08 ) It was the devil’s works coming against you, Denise, and I join my faith to their faith.  The Bible says the fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.  ( RR_James_05:16 ) We’re not talking about self righteous. Righteous means being in a good, right relationship with God. That person’s prayer will do a good thing and our prayers can do something for you if you will let our prayers get inside you and if you will rise up on the inside and say, “God, I’m taking this as your word and from this moment forward in Jesus’ name I’m going to get better.  I’m going to get better.  I’m going to be completely healed in Jesus’ name.”

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS  SONG Rise_and_be_healed

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS One word Jesus used a great deal of the time was, “Be thou made whole,” W-H-O-L-E in body, mind, spirit, family, finances, on the job, in your business.  In every area of your life, be made whole today in Jesus’ name.  Dad.

SPOR ORAL ROBERTS Steve and Denise, when you came to the Charismatic Bible Ministries Conference last June it changed your life.

SPKM STEVE VICKERS Oh, brother.  I can’t tell you, Brother Roberts, what it has meant to me.  When we started our church I had been in a denomination.  In a time of prayer God spoke to my heart and told us that we were to start a church in Montgomery, Alabama.  I wanted to leave Montgomery.  We were traveling.  But we started that work.  And the denomination I was in, after I started it, said, “No, you can’t do this.”  I said, “But God has spoken to us.”  They said, “You cannot do it.”  So we said, “Thank you for all that you’ve done for us, you’ve been so wonderful, but we must follow God.”  So we stepped out and, Brother Roberts, I was hurt and I backed away from all ministers and people and we came away.  And things were said about me by my brethren and they attacked me, but when I heard about four years ago about the Charismatic Bible Ministries, a brother of mine called me who had been at that small group meeting which you had prior to the first meeting, and the Spirit of the Lord spoke to my heart and said:  Son, get involved in this.

SPOR ORAL ROBERTS And you did, you did.

SPKM STEVE VICKERS And God brought a healing.

SPOR ORAL ROBERTS And he did.  Let me tell you something important to your life on June 23, 24, and 25.  The Charismatic Bible Ministries annual conference along with the Oral Roberts Ministry Conference right here in Mabee Center at Oral Roberts University.  Come.  Pick up your phone and dial 1-918-495-7777 and make your reservation.  Come.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Dad, thank you for being here today.  Steve and Denise, God bless you for being our guests today.  Lindsay and Cheryl, thank you for being a part of our program.   thank you for watching and God continue to strengthen and heal you from your head to your feet.  Remember, we’ll be on the air live tomorrow morning.  See you then.  No matter what it looks like, God can turn it around for you.  Amen.   For American Airlines.  Call 1-800-433-l790.   AD04 PROMO for Charismatic Bible Ministries conference.  (APPLAUSE)

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Abundance of the Heart by Richard Roberts

May 14, 2010 – 12:05 pm


SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS  SU02 Lindsay, Lindsay, the Bible says faith comes by hearing and hearing by  SR01 the word. ( RR_Romans_10:17 ) So when the word gets in your ears and  SR02 you hear it, then it gets down into your heart.  And out of the abundance of the heart your mouth speaks and you begin to say it. ( RR_Matthew_12:34 ) And then your ears hear it and then it gets down in your heart and you speak it and then your ears hear it and it gets down in your heart and you speak it.  And it’s a continuous cycle and you keep getting stronger and stronger and stronger.  What do you have to say for yourself?

SPKM CHERYL PREWITT SALEM Well, c  We just choose every day.  This lady said, “Well, I heard it and I believed it.” Well, she could have heard it and not believed.  That’s your choice.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS You can always decide to reject it, can’t you?

SPKM CHERYL PREWITT SALEM That’s right. You can either reject it or you can accept it.  This person called and it’s a woman and she’s from Georgia.  She’s a flight attendant….

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS She probably talks just like you.

SPKM CHERYL PREWITT SALEM Probably, and everybody likes her cause she does.  (LAUGHTER)

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS I walked right into that one. I owe you one, Cheryl.

SPKM CHERYL PREWITT SALEM That’s right. This lady said she had been injured on the job in the neck and she couldn’t pull her luggage with her right hand.  She had to use her left hand and pull that luggage every day to the plane and back.  They have to carry their luggage all around.  She said about a week ago she prayed with you, Richard, on the show and then before the program was over you had a word of knowledge that someone was receiving a healing in the neck and the shoulder.  She claimed her healing right then and she said from that moment she never had another pain.  Then she turned around and ordered my video.  (APPLAUSE)

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS All right now, in a few moments we’re going to have a word… you know, Cheryl’s video…. we’re going to have a word about it later in the program, but I can’t…. I have been absolutely astonished, Cheryl, at how many thousands of people have written in and sown a $25 seed to receive that video. It is absolutely amazing.  And, Lindsay, now that today is the sixth week since she had little Catherine Olivia, now Lindsay can start doing aerobics.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS I have it memorized.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS She’s got the tape memorized cause Jordan’s been doing it…..

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS Jordan does it every day.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS But Lindsay can start on it today. After six weeks the doctor said she can begin.  Now she can’t really start in…

SPKM CHERYL PREWITT SALEM She has to just start easy right now.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS ….full blast but she can go easy on it. We’ll have a word about her aerobics video but it is the most fabulous aerobics video that you’ve ever seen in your life.  Be sure and get one.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS Because it’s positive. It really is. I have to say that, because what I was saying about this lady, the thought came into my mind about the scripture that says the power of life and death is in the tongue.  You begin to speak either life or death into your situation, and that aerobics video will pick you up.  If you’re down…. and I’m not being funny.  If you are down or if you get up slowly in the morning or if you’re upset about something, Cheryl talks about scriptures on it, she talks about positive things, she talks about positive attitude, she talks about a positive self image throughout the whole tape.

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Greatest Years of My Life by Richard Roberts

May 7, 2010 – 11:50 am

My father wanted me to go to school to learn how to be a pharmacist or druggist, or a professional man, and I chose South Carolina, the university there — because they had a pharmacy school.  And I went there to school, and I played under Bobby Richardson for 4 years.  Four of the greatest years of my life. Playing baseball under a wonderful Christian man.  He came to me on the diamond there at the University of South Carolina in 1970 and he said, “Don, you are getting ready to go home into a world of pharmacy where you will be facing a lot of peer pressure,” like our young people face today, and he said, “Don, you’ll never make it without Jesus.”

And he said, “I realize that you have been sneaking out after curfew and drinking and smoking pot and running with the wrong crowd.”  By this time I had been staying up late at night and taking amphetamines, and studying — and I had started becoming addicted already to the speed and the amphetamines, and later on it developed into a cocaine addiction that was probably costing my family over $1,000 a week — when I had built a drug store up to a million dollar business.  I was at the top of my professional pinnacle.  I’d come home from school — I turned Bobby down that day when he said, “Don, I met a friend names Jesus when I was 16, at high school, went on and carried it to the New York Yankees with me — witnessed to Mickey Mantle and Roger Marris and all the greats.  Would you receive Jesus today?”  I through up my hands, Richard, and said, “You know, I’m okay, Bobby, I joined the church when I was 12.”  But deep down inside  I knew that I was living a lie.  I never did have the power to say no to drugs and alcohol — that our teenagers and our people need in America today.  And I came home and I had a lovely wife, started a family — she was a beautiful Christian — her name is Gwen.  And she prayed for me for many years — that I would come out of that fast lane of that party crowd and continue to go to church with her and really make a stand for Jesus Christ.  I don’t know how, but I was elected Chairman of the Baptismal Committee in my own church.

But I thank God today for a church who interceeded for me, for the whole  SM03 time I was in prison.  Acts, chapter 12, it says that the church for Jesus Christ interceeded for Peter daily while he was in prison. ( MS_Acts_12:05 ) I had a pastor who loved me, and who prayed, and who took care of my family.  But I would go to church and I would sit on the pew there on Sunday morning and I would hear many messages, but I would allow the pride of life and the pride of the world to keep me from going forward and making a commitment to Jesus Christ.  By this time I had built the drug store up to a million dollar business, working over 12 hours a day.  And I was president of the club, vice-president of the  club.  I was what you would call, Richard, as a pillar of the community.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS The world would say that you had made it, you had made it.
SPKM DON STANLEY The world said that I had made it.  But right there at the top of my pinnacle I realized that I was a lonely man without Jesus Christ.  And I was going down hill.  And I was on a roller-coaster ride.  I became an alcoholic, drinking over a quart of scotch a day.  And I was partying with doctors, and lawyers, and politicians and out in the fast lane of the world. And I started supplying friends with drugs –  and Demerol and cocaine, and I became addicted — snorting 95 percent pharmaceutical cocaine.  Even went to as far in a motel room — one night in Spartanburg, South Carolina as I took out a syringe and I hypodermically injected cocaine into my veins.  And you know as that monkey gets on your back the only hope for you in America is the blood of Jesus Christ.  (APPLAUSE)  Jesus is the hope of the hopeless.

But I was losing everything that I had worked for.  And I had my children there at home, and my wife Gwen — I had a young son when I left for prison who’s name’s Chris, that was 14 years old, playing on the high school baseball team.  A little girl named Summer, was 4 years old.  But I found out that what my children really needed, Brother Richard, was not a daddy who could buy them everything that  SM04 they needed in the materialistic world.  It says — what profit it a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul. ( MS_Matthew_16:26 ) What my children and my wife needed was a daddy who could get down on his knees at night and open up the word of God and tell them the precious stories about Jesus.

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Holding a Special Healing Meeting

April 30, 2010 – 8:01 am

SPKM DUSTY KEMP I’m six years old at this time.  But it was definitely a real experience with the Lord.  Now I spent the next approximately 14 years convincing myself that I did not do that, so that in 1975 I was in college, I was going to University of Houston, going to be a lawyer, was going to graduate from the University of Houston and be a lawyer. And in 1975 was not really born again, never knew Jesus Christ as living.  And I didn’t have anything to do on a Thanksgiving night, and 1973 was the year. And so we went to Evangelistic Temple in Houston, Texas where Charles and Frances Hunter, who was on here just a couple of weeks ago, I remember seeing them, they were holding a special healing meeting.  And the place was so packed out that I didn’t have a place to sit.  So here I am college hippy type.  They went and sat me on the stage on the steps to the choir loft, right there front row center to watch what was going on.  Now I’d come with my grandparents and my mother and a couple of other people. And during that service Frances Hunter had a word of knowledge that my grandmother–well, didn’t say Dusty’s grandmother–but of course she said, “There is a lady in the audience who is being healed of a heart condition,” and that was my grandmother who stood up instantly when she said that.  She had had a heart condition for 17 or more years.  They tell me now it was more than 17 years.  I’d never known her able to do anything, go to any of my football games in high school or anything of that sort. But that night she was supernaturally healed by the power of God. And from that day until now–she’s 79 years old, I hope she doesn’t mind me telling you that, 79 years old–

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS I doubt she’ll mind.

SPKM DUSTY KEMP I don’t think so.  She now goes to Ronda’s daddy’s church, who was also my pastor, and is younger today thanshe ever has been in her life.  They were able right after thatwhen we first started pastoring Bread of Life Church in Houston in 1980, we were able to send my grandfather and grandmother up here to your partners weekend, I guess that’s the weekend seminar.  And she had never been able to do that in her life.And that turned me on to the supernatural power of God.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS That experience that your grandmother had, that miracle turned you on to Jesus.  (Yes)  What happened to you, now did you, you were not married yet at that time?

SPKM DUSTY KEMP No, I didn’t know Rhonda.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS You didn’t know Rhonda.

SPKM DUSTY KEMP No, I didn’t know Rhonda at that time.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Did that set about something in your life that you wanted to know more about Jesus?

SPKM DUSTY KEMP Well, see, I believed that the Bible teaches that every man is born with a knowing of God.  But the Bible says in Romans, chapter 1, that He makes it evident even to those who are not learned in the visible creation that He’s made.  And I don’t know if every man had it, but I had a hunger for God all my life, just for something more.  And then and there I knew that there was something more.  And so I began searching for the Lord at that time.  And then it was at a Holy Spirit Conference in which your dad ministered over in Dallas, a Methodist Holy Spirit Conference, that I finally turned my life completely over to the Lord Jesus Christ at that time.  And the rest is history, so to speak.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Rhonda, now how did you and Dusty get together?  I mean tell us, you’re on television now, you can tell the real story.

SPKM RHONDA KEMP O.K., I can tell the real story.

SPKM DUSTY KEMP Tell the truth.  Tell how you believed for me.

SPKM RHONDA KEMP Well, you know, there wasn’t a lot of faith movement back then and my dad having a church and of course they liked for me to date guys that were Spirit-filled and went to the church.  So I had to believe them in.  So I would pick them, you know, and bring them and get them saved and filled with the Holy Ghost.  That’s what I did with Dusty.  I saw him, the first time I saw him I knew I liked him.  And I’d invite him to things at the church a lot.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Did he come?

SPKM RHONDA KEMP Yeah, he came a lot of times, like singing groups, mild stuff, you know.  I’d only invite him to real mild stuff that wouldn’t blow him away.  But one night we, you came for a singing group and I remember Dusty sitting in the back and he knew nothing about the baptism in the Holy Spirit or anything. And he kept looking at me saying, “Have I got it, have I got it?” And I kept going, “What is this guy talking about, have I got it, have I got it?”  But what he was speaking of was the power of the Holy Ghost, you know, in the service.  Do you remember it?  That was great.

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Spirit of God

April 23, 2010 – 7:51 am

SPKM JIM WINSLOW Now, Reverend, that’s called a gurney.

SPKM LARRY LEA A gurney, all right.  I need help.  And here was the prayer partner walking along praying in tongues, praying in the Holy Spirit for that patient.  Then the doctor was right there beside praying for the patient.  I looked at my wife, I said, “Honey, if I ever get sick, you bring me to this place right here.”  (Applause)  Now the marked difference between this place and any other place is that the Holy Spirit just hovers here.  The finest medical care in the world.  But the Spirit of God is there.  And when you come, you’re not just going to receive the medical care, but you’re going to be prayed for.  And we’re believing God for great miracles for all of those that come. Praise God.

SPKM JIM WINSLOW We ought to hire him.  (Amen)

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS We have.  We have.  He’s the new dean of the seminary.

SPKM JIM WINSLOW He reminded me of one thing, Richard.  People who have not been to Tulsa may not know their way around town. You don’t have to worry about that.  We’re going to get you from the airport out to the City of Faith and you can stay in the City of Faith even if you don’t have to be in the hospital.  We have a unit called the Bethany Unit, a place of rest.  Just like a hotel inside the City of Faith where you can stay, you can take your meals in the cafeteria.  We’ll sell you those at a discount. It’s the best place in town to stay if you’re sick because you don’t have to run around.  You’re right there in the place.  You don’t have to worry about getting lost, you don’t have to worry about taxicabs.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Now don’t you have a limited number of rooms in that Bethany Unit?

SPKM JIM WINSLOW Well, we have 63 rooms in that unit.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS And you can only use them, if it’s filled, it’s filled.

SPKM JIM WINSLOW It’s filled.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS If it’s filled, it’s filled.  But there are hotels in the area.

SPKM JIM WINSLOW Right across the street.  And right up the street.  There must be 500 hote rooms within this immediate vicinity, so what I’m trying to say to you is, you don’t have to worry about running all over town.  You’re right here nearby.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Praise God for that.  So you pick up your telephone and call the number that’s on your screen right now, 1-918-493-8484, and make your appointment at the City of Faith. And I believe God’s going to bring a great blessing in your life. ORU Singers, are you about ready to sing?  I see cameras moving. I don’t ever give anybody any notice when I’m going to do something, Lindsay.  I just do it.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS They love you for it.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS I see my cameramen moving and microphones are flying across the room and they’re saying, “Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, we’re almost ready.”

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS They panic a little bit, but that’s O.K. We’re used to you now.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS And they’re going to sing, “He’s More Than Wonderful.”  Give them a good handclap as they sing.  (Applause)

SPKM ORU SINGERS  SONG Hes_more_than_wonderful  TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE OFFER

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS My very special guests are the ministers, pastors of Bread of Life in Houston, Texas, Dusty and Rhonda Kemp.  Dusty, God bless you.  Welcome to Tulsa.  (Applause)  I heard, I heard about your ministry through Cheryl Prewitt Salem who had come down to Houston to minister with you.  And she told me so many good things about you and I just wanted to know if any of it was really true.

SPKM DUSTY KEMP Well, it depends what she said.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS So I wanted to invite you to come up and be with us here in Tulsa.  I understand that you grew up in the same city, but that your meeting each other was sort of a miracle and your coming to Christ was a miracle.  Would you just take a few moments, Dusty, and kind of give the background of your testimony?

SPKM DUSTY KEMP Sure.  When I was six years old, I was a Methodist and it was summertime, and asked by my best friend to come over to Baptist Bible school.  And I went over to Baptist Bible school and in the general assembly that they had in the beginning of the service that morning the Lord really moved upon my heart.  And so when the pastor gave an altar call, I went down front and told him I wanted to be a preacher. I guess by a prophecy by the Spirit of God at that time.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Now you were six?

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