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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City of Faith

April 16, 2010 – 7:26 am

 

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS And it’s available immediately.

SPKM JIM WINSLOW It’s already in place.  We had 800 telephone

calls last week.  Now what we’ve done is, we’ve contacted those

people, verified the insurance, and we’re making appointments

now.  We try to make those appointments seven days ahead of time.

Obviously, if we had 800 telephone calls, that’s a lot of calls.

You can help yourself and help us if you will call in the early

afternoon.  This past weekend we visited a church and talked

about this program.  After that church service a lot of people

came up and asked some questions that let me know that we haven’t

done as good a job as we should in telling you about the City of

Faith.  They ask, “Do you do heart surgery at the City of Faith?”

Of course we do heart surgery at the City of Faith.  But if you

didn’t know that, it’s not helping you any.  We do heart surgery

at the City of Faith.  We have a great early detection program

for colon cancer, two excellent gastroenterologists.  Those are

people who take care of stomach and liver and colon problems and

those kinds of things.  We have a great urologist at the City of

Faith, a fellow who took care of my father successfully, who is

taking care of President Roberts. There’s no reason that a man

shouldn’t have his prostate problem fixed.  Everyone of us who is

a male, if we live long enough, are going to have a problem with

that particular area of our body.  And that can be taken care of

easily and successfully.  It’s not a big issue anymore.  But

people didn’t know that we had that service available.  I’m

telling you we do.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Jim, what about people with cancer?

SPKM JIM WINSLOW We have a great cancer program, Richard.  People

come here who have cancer for more than just medical reasons, but

they have to have excellent medicine.  But when you have cancer,

you’re scared.  That word frightens people.  It frightens me.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Sure.

SPKM JIM WINSLOW But if you have effective prayer and faith and

good medicine–

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS All working together.

SPKM JIM WINSLOW –all working together, you’ve got the very best

opportunity to recover from cancer.  And that disease is not

always fatal.  You need to get in your mind that half the people

who have cancer will recover. (Applause)

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS All right now, Jim, let’s just say now I’m

in Los Angeles.  American Airlines serves Los Angeles.  Or I’m in

New York City or I’m in Columbus or I’m in Chicago or I’m in

Dallas or St. Louis, some city where American Airlines–who do I

call and what do I do to make an appointment?  And then do I call

American Airlines or what do I do?

SPKM JIM WINSLOW O.K., process.  Take your pencil out and a piece

of paper and write this number down.  Area code 918-493-8484,

8484.  You call that telephone number.  A special group of people

answers that telephone who are prepared to handle this particular

program.  They will help you secure an appointment.  You need to

have in your hand when you call your insurance card so that you

can give them a number.  And we’ll check with the insurance

company and be certain everything is appropriate.  As a matter of

fact, this week we found about a dozen people who thought they

had insurance.  When something had gone wrong between them and

the insurance company, we were able to straighten that out for

them.  That’s a great service we didn’t intend to provide, but

you’re the beneficiary.  Praise God.  O.K.  You call, you have

your insurance card, you get that verified.  You make an

appointment. After you have an appointment in hand, you will be

given a number to call, TOLL Free number to call, with American

Airlines.  And they have a special operator who will arrange you

a flight to Tulsa that most nearly matches your appointment time

so you don’t waste any time.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS And then the City of Faith will pay for the

air fare.

SPKM JIM WINSLOW The City of Faith will take care of it.  When

it’s time for you to go home, they will arrange your return

flight.  It doesn’t matter     70 whether you’re here one day or

three days or if you have to go in the hospital.  I hope not, but

if you should have to have something like that, they will arrange

the flight home then for you.  It will save you the maximum

amount of time and you don’t have to pay your airline cost.  It’s

the greatest thing that I’ve seen lately.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS You know, that’s a good deal, Jim.

SPKM JIM WINSLOW It is a good deal.  (Applause)

SPKM LARRY LEA Richard.  (Yes)  There are people I sense in my

heart that are listening right now that are on the borderline of

whether or not they ought to pick up their phone and make that

telephone call.  Let me tell you one thing that happened.  We

were going through the emergency room one night at about

midnight.  And here comes a patient on a bed being wheeled out.

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Let It Go by Lindsay Roberts

April 9, 2010 – 5:14 am

Of all the necessities I have in my kitchen, my roll of plastic wrap is probably one of the least harmful.  It’s clear…you can see through it.  It’s thin and pliable…easy to work with.  Pretty harmless stuff, right?

But if you take that clear, thin plastic wrap and wrap it around someone, covering them from head to toe, it doesn’t take long to realize that what appeared to be harmless in small amounts can be binding and crippling when it’s allowed to take over your life.

Something similar can happen when we begin to rely on the world instead of relying on God’s Word.  When faced with a crisis, many of us go to the phone instead of God’s throne to get advice from people who can do absolutely nothing about our problem.  Or we sit in front of the TV, soaking up bad news, “reality” shows, and all the “my-baby-done-me-wrong” programs that are out there…not to mention video games and internet sites that are not edifying, to say the least.

What starts out small, simple, and innocent can quickly entrap us.  And pretty soon we’re bound up in stinking garbage—layer upon seemingly innocent layer—and we didn’t even smell it coming!

The sad fact is, too often we give a lot of time and attention to stuff that doesn’t even matter.  And when God comes along with a miracle meant for us, we’re so bound up with junk that we can’t receive it.

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Hurting Hearts by Lindsay Roberts

April 2, 2010 – 4:02 am

Needless to say, I was devastated.  I’d been told for years that I would never have children, and I’d had several miscarriages.  But finally I’d had a successful pregnancy and had given birth to a healthy son…only to see him die.

Although I was in no physical condition to do so, I attended the memorial service we held at Oral Roberts University for our baby.  After the service, a woman came to me and said, “I prayed for God to kill that baby, and God answered my prayers.”

I was shocked and deeply hurt by her words. But the Lord said to me, “Hug her neck.”  As a Christian, I knew how I should react.  But my first instinct was to wring that woman’s neck!

But the Lord said, “You hug her neck and ask her what hurt in her heart caused to let such a statement come out of her mouth at a time like this.”  I obeyed Him, and the woman began to weep and tell me all the abuse, trouble, and turmoil that had happened in her life.  I forgot about my own pain and began to pray for her and minister to her.

You see, I, too, had some unresolved hurts.  And I believe God used that incident not only to release her, but so I wouldn’t drink the poison of bitterness and die.  It forced me to make a choice:  get bitter or get better.

When someone offends you, you have three options:  You can shoot that fiery dart right back at them with offending words of your own; you can receive their remark and harbor it in your soul, allowing it to fester and develop into bitterness; or you can pray.  You can say Father, in the name of Jesus, I ask You to take the poison tip of this offense out of my flesh so nothing has a chance to take root in me.

It’s easy to wallow in bitterness, blaming others’ actions for our attitude.  But I believe God expects more of us.  You may never be able to change the person who has offended you, but you can change.  You can remove the sin of bitterness from your heart so the blessing of God can continue flowing into your life.

The Cross of Jesus Christ is the greatest example of denying bitterness the chance to take root.  Jesus had every reason to be bitter and full of hatred as His life on earth came to an end.

A crowd of followers had turned against Him, soldiers beat and mocked Him, and even His closest friends had denied Him.   But His words as He hung on the Cross were, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do” (Luke 23:34 NKJV).

By turning to His Father rather than holding on to pain and bitterness, Jesus was able to remain full of love even as He was dying.  When one of the criminals crucified next to Him said, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom,” Jesus proclaimed, “Today you will be with Me in Paradise.”  And the man was assured of eternal life (Luke 23:42-43 NKJV).

Father, forgive them.  It’s not the most eloquent prayer in the world, but it may be one of the most effective prayers you can ever pray to release you of your bitterness.    That simple prayer can put you in a position to minister peace and healing to the one who has hurt you, in the same way Jesus has done for you, and open the way for God to pour His healing and blessing into your life.

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Make Your Day Count with Lindsay Roberts

March 26, 2010 – 5:20 am

AMBER: Right, but it takes money to do all this stuff, but something that grabs people—

LR: But your heart has been connected.

AMBER: —is our relationship with them.  And through that relationship, they’ll see God through you.  And we were just all talking, actually sitting probably on the floor of Jordan’s office, and we were all sitting there.

LR: Everybody sits on the floor in Jordan’s office.  It’s like a counseling session on the floor.

AMBER: We were all just sitting there, and we were talking about the album and just everything that we wanted.  We wanted this album to be something bigger than us, you know, something that’s going to last way beyond when we’re gone, you know, when our children are here and whatever.  So we wanted to established Hunger Needs a Voice.

It was something that I just kind of came about it, and we wanted to give to that and make sure that these kids, you know, that people loved them and that God loves them.

LR: Then you got the idea, “Why don’t we consider building a school?”  And immediately it was a light conversation of, “Well, yeah, that could do.”  And you went, “No, that’s doable.”  It just hit you it can be done.

So in the process of all that, we went back to the Childs and voiced what we wanted to do.  Come to find out, that’s exactly what you’re doing.

NC: You’re right on the same page.
LR: And so we are on the same page, and we invite you to join our page.  And at ORU we are doing everything we can to work with them to build a school, to fund the school, to hopefully and prayerfully equip the school, teachers, administrators, the needed things, the educational things that are the nuts and bolts of the school.

But then their idea was to bring the feeding into the school, to guarantee that as the children are in the school, they are fed at the school.  And each step of the way, obviously the money issue was never the issue.  The idea was, this is something we have to do, and God will provide the money.      

And I think that that way of thinking has infected all of us.  And we want to ask you to be a part of it.  We want you to think about this.  Do you want to go to Africa?  Got some neat people to hook you up with.  Do you speak French?  That wouldn’t hurt either.  It’s a French-speaking country.

Are you interested in education?  Hmm, they’re desperately in need of teachers and in need of the educational side of it.  And then let’s toss in the fact that financially, they’re in need of that.  And the food program that you work with.  So there’s a great need. 

There’s a great bunch of kids that have produced an album, the Revolution album, so that the proceeds can go towards this.  Instead of sitting back at home and going, “Isn’t that nice of them?”—yes, it is, and I agree.  But what about all of us?  What is our part?  Has God put some of this in your heart?

Now it was so strong in Haley’s heart, we had to fight her to come home, and we can’t keep her here.  We’ve just all come to that realization.  So what’s your part?  We all know that there’s something for us to do, but we want to inquire, “Have you got something in your heart that God is laying on your heart to do?”

All I’m asking you to do is pray.  And if God does move on your heart, would you pick up your phone, call the Abundant Life Prayer Group at area code 918-495-7777.  That’s area code 918-495-7777.  Not only will they pray with you, but they will believe God with you for whatever your part is, whether it’s the financial part, whether it’s to join them, whether it’s a missionary part.

And then if you want more information, go to makeyourdaycount.com.  That’s all you have to do is go to makeyourdaycount.com.  I believe it will be a tremendous blessing.  We’re going to link you over to all that they’re doing.  And you can write Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts, Tulsa, OK 74102.

And I don’t know about you, I went 24 years ago.  It’s never left my heart.  Jordan, that’s all she talks about.  Amber didn’t get to go.  She’s mad as a hornet.  We have told her she is going to get to go.  So it’s okay, and the bitterness will get healed when you get over there.

And Haley just cries, and her husband Nick, he’s determined to go.  And you all live over there.  So what more can we say, except, now it’s your time.  We need you to participate.  So we want to encourage you, if you’d like to be a part of this, again, makeyourdaycount.com.

Thank you guys all for being here.  Whatever you do today, pray about Africa and make it count for the kingdom of God.

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Make Your Day Count with Lindsay Roberts

March 19, 2010 – 5:13 am

LR: And it is normal to God.  Well, they came back, and we’ll kind of switch over to Haley.  Haley’s desire was most of it, in my opinion, in the missionary outreach and the healing outreach.

Jordan’s was in the feeding and the educational side.  And when Jordan came back, your heart was, you didn’t want to leave.  And then the biggest thing I think that touched you was seeing the healings.  I think that’s probably the most reasonable to say.

HH: Yeah, it was huge for me to see the healings, just because I’ve known from a young age that God would use me to be a part of healing crusades overseas, to reach a mass amount of people with the gospel.  I didn’t know where.  I didn’t know the parts of it, but just the healing ministry.

So somehow along the way, God has prepared a way for me to be under President Roberts since I’ve been at ORU, which I never thought about that.  I’m an ORU TV Singer.  I never thought that would happen, that’s how I would get to travel and do all those things. 

My mom said, “You should be an ORU TV Singer.”

I said, “Okay.”  (Inaudible)

Somehow I ended up there, and it’s not just being able to sing on TV.  It’s being able to minister to people and to go with President Roberts and learn the inner workings of a ministry like that.  That’s huge for me, and I got to go to do.  And it wasn’t just . . . it’s a place—

LR: Fallen in love with, go ahead and admit it.  I can take it now.  We had to beg her to come home, and now they’re begging her to go back.

HH: I talk about it all the time, warming you all up.

LR: I know, she’s preparing me.  So Jordan comes back with mostly Haley’s story.  And she sat down with Amber, and they talked about how many people they were able to minister to with the mission field, with the ministry outreach in medical missions, the nursing missions, the feeding program, and the doctor program, evangelistic program.

And Amber began to hear Jordan’s heart about wanting to feed more.  They fed 285,000 meals, and found out immediately that was not even a dent, not even close.

So the moment they got home, it was, “What can we do to do more?”  The million meals popped in their mind.  And they were determined at that moment it’s going to be a million meals.

Well, she talked to Amber about it, and they were about to do the new Revolution album.  And as they are about to put together the album, Amber is the one to market the album.  And Jordan starts talking about the school.  I think Amber did.  And pick it up from there what happened.

AMBER: We were just talking, and I was bitter because I didn’t get to go. 

LR: She was complaining the whole time.

AMBER: Bitterness, I was just like, it’s something that—as hard as we try, there’s going to be kids out there that are just going to be hungry and stuff and they’re going to not be educated or whatever.  But we were talking about how cool it would be to go over there.  You know, even if we went over there and we actually built this school and went over there and established a relationship with these people and, you know, just gave them something, stuff like that, an education and food and stuff.  In a sense, money can’t buy that stuff like the relationship that you build with these people. 

??: But it can build a school.

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Make Your Day Count with Lindsay Roberts

March 12, 2010 – 5:03 am

LR: Kenneth Copeland said to me about his grandkids, actually it was his granddaughter said it to me, that, you know—and I talked to Joyce Meyer about it.  I’ve talked to Benny Hinn’s family.  We’ve had all their kids here, kids, grandkids.  We’ve got lots of kids that are missionary kids, all the way to evangelist’s kids, all the way to everybody else’s kids, a lot of kids here, and how unique, difficult it is to be a Copeland kid, to be a Roberts kid, to be a Hinn kid.

Kenneth’s granddaughter came to me, and she said, “You know, the Lord really gave me a revelation through my grandfather that when people say something, you can lock in and agree that it’s the worst thing in the whole world, and then everything negative will follow.  Or you can lock in to the fact that it’s a privilege and an honor to be in a family that really does serve God, and the positive side will follow.”

But it’s all how you absorb it and make a mindset of it, the negative or the positive will follow.  If you think, Oh, yeah, it’s horrible.  I’ve got to run away from here because if I don’t get away . . . and then that will follow.

NC: Some people are like that about going to Africa.  “I’ll go anywhere, but don’t send me to Africa.  But we love it.

LR: Exactly.  And when you realize it, that God puts families together for a reason, He puts children together for a reason.  And Joyce Meyer said the most incredible thing to me because she said, “Your children are called to be your children.  And they will fit in to your call because they’re called to be your children.”

And that’s what they came back from Africa, so many of them saying, that your kids were fabulous.  They were great kids.  And that anointing has hooked in to them.

DC: Well, they’re part of it.  And that’s one thing that we always determined to from the very beginning was to make our children part of the ministry.  Because if they don’t feel a part of it, if they’re not connected, they’re just going to be kids of missionaries.  But they’re really missionary kids.  They’re missionaries in their own right. 

Our children are involved.  They speak the language Hausa fluently, better than we do, all three of them.  They communicate with the people.  I mean, Toby was born in South Africa.  He’s in culture shock here.  He doesn’t know American culture.

LR: Exactly.  And, you know, some of that way isn’t so bad.

DC: No, it’s not, and we’re thankful for that.

NC: Trey this past year preached his first messaged, preached in a church out in the village, so we were really excited.

DC: His own choice, nothing we forced him to do.  We didn’t want to make him—even when we were here in the States and go to different churches, we don’t force them to get up on the platform and do their thing typically, except that I know they want to do it.  Because we don’t want them to hate this part of life.  But they’ve had a great life.

Trey and Tanneka(?), Trey is 15, Tanneka is 14, and they love Africa.  And they’re doing great.

LR: We look at some of the product that has come out of our nation and some of the godlessness that’s come out of our nation, and there’s many time I think, you know, going to these nations where God is God, being in missionary’s homes where they have to depend on God.  They have to depend on God for the next meal.

You know, there’s an enormous amount of—this may sound silly to someone, but I’ve been there—an enormous amount of benefit to that.  Because their trust is not in the government.  Their trust is not in their friends.  Their trust is not in their iPods and in their myspace and facebooks.  Their trust is in God. 

And what a way to raise children.  They are different when they’re generation in a generation like that.

DC: And, in fact, a lot of times they don’t even realize that there’s anything different.  I came to ORU, and I had a great home life.  I was raised as a Christian, my whole family.  I got there, and my friends were not.

And I remember one of my friends on my freshman floor, we became very close.  And she was from a dysfunctional kind of broken home, but she got money.  She had a car.  She got money sent to her every month because of divorce settlements and all that.  Her school was all paid for.

I’m in debt.  But she came home with me one fall break, and she said, “I would give up all of that for this any day.”  And I assumed that what I had was what everybody had.

And it’s the same way for our kids.  They take for granted almost the way they’re being raised, to live by faith, that that’s just normal.

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Make Your Day Count with Lindsay Roberts

March 5, 2010 – 3:59 am

NC: That’s right.  Well, Niger, a nation that is less than one percent Christian, it’s, like you said, the poorest country.  It doesn’t have enough resources to sustain the population.  It’s the lowest in education, ranked on the education index in the world; 208 countries, it’s last.

So from the natural standpoint, you say, “What is in Niger?”  Even two years ago the news media was referring to it as the silent crisis, the forgotten nation.  But we know God has not forgotten Niger.

And from that point, the Lord just began to open doors.  And when President Roberts was hearing the voice of the Lord to come, that opened the nation up, as far as our ministry is concerned, and we could then take the gospel to a higher level.

We’ve been preaching in the villages and in the towns, but now we wanted to penetrate the capitol city.  We were able to hold this Rally that was across the city.  We had over 90 churches all gathered together
LR: Never been done before in the history.

NC: Never been done before.

LR: Healing Rally, Christian rally.

NC: Healing Rally.  People were getting saved in this rally, more people saved in this week than 70 years of Christianity all throughout.

LR: In one week.
NC: In one week.  So it was incredible.  Niger is a country that really, the harvest is great.  And, really, that’s what the passion is right now that we’re trying to tell people, to say, “The harvest is great, the laborers are few.”  We’ve got to join together.  We’ve got to take the gospel to a land where they’ve not heard.  And that’s our vision, (foreign phrase)—we’re preaching the gospel in a land where they’ve not heard.

And we want to really begin to set up an infrastructure where the gospel can go forward.  We’re talking about a school.  We have a primary school where we’re not only preaching the gospel in our Bible schools.  We’re not only planting churches.  We have 27 churches planted now.  But we’re now getting into the area of education.

This is a nation where there’s less than 20 percent of the people that can read and write.  You can’t send them a tract and then read about Christ.  It has to have a voice.  It has to have somebody go.

But now in our heart, we’re wanting to raise up from the children, kindergarten, K3, K4, K5, you know, all the way through sixth grade.  We have a school that we’re just in our second year now, but it’s a school that we’ve already outgrown.  We’re having to build our next school block of three classrooms.  And that’s where, praise God, chapel today, I mean, I was just blown away that President Roberts wanted to take up an offering for us.

And then hearing Jordan’s heart about God speaking to her and Amber about this Revolution project, I mean, we’re excited just to be a part of that.

These are children that are growing up in Moslem families.  Our school is a Christian school.  We have a normal curriculum of the government, but we pray over the kids.  We teach the Word.  And they’re learning.  And these are coming from Moslem families.

And the unique thing about this is, that the Moslems are willing to pay for their kids to come to our school because education is in such high demand, they’re willing to pay their kids to come to a Christian school because they know we’re going to offer an excellent education.

And so that’s what we’ve been experiencing.  But there’s just so much more opportunity.  There’s so many kids, and some kids can’t afford it.  And one of the things that’s on our heart is to be able to sponsor the children of our pastors to come in to the school.  And a lot of times they’re pastoring out in these villages, they don’t have the funds to be able to send their kid in to come to school.  Out in these villages, there won’t be schools.  So that’s really what our heart is.

We’ve been thinking down the road, possibly have dormitories and a setup where we can bring the kids in.

LR: They came back and are bragging about Danette.  And all my babies and all the kids are bragging about you and your family.  And yet here you are in immense poverty, raising three children.  You’re from Minnesota.  You were not born into the mission field, and yet it’s home to you.  And you see the need, and you’re doing something about it.

DC: As far as our children, raising our children there, we can’t think of really a better place.  I mean, we’re honored to have our children be a part of our ministry.  After we were married, and probably before we were married, we started praying for our children, whatever children that God gave us, knowing our future, that they would adapt to whatever culture that we were going to sit in.  I think everybody can testify that that is an answer to prayer.

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Make Your Day Count with Lindsay Roberts

February 26, 2010 – 3:48 am

LR: Welcome to Make Your Day Count.  My name is Lindsay Roberts.  And today on the program you’re going to hear from my daughter Jordan and her friend Haley and her friend Amber, and Neal and Danette Childs, the people that they went to see in Niger when they went to Africa, in the crusade that they had, the feeding program that they had.  My husband Richard Roberts conducted a Crusade there just a couple months ago.

There was a medical, a dental, evangelistic crusade, a feeding program.  And they’re the ones that were responsible for taking the 285,000 meals to Africa.  We’re going to talk about that, talk about the need that is still very great and how the Holy Spirit has really birthed in our kids a need to do a school for their kids.  And I really believe it will bless you. 

What a day!  What a day it is here on our campus, learning all about how God is ministering in Africa.  So stay tuned.  We’re going to bring them on the program, and I believe they will be a tremendous blessing to you.

LR: Okay, now as you can see, my puppy baby here is kissing grandma because this is Jordan’s baby Ella.  This is Amber’s baby Lucy.  This is my baby Jordan.  This is Amber.  This is Haley, and this is Danette and Neal Childs.

Now why are we all here?  Okay, Amber is here totally against her will.  And they came over because she wanted to watch us tape this program with Neal and Danette.  And she was going to dog-sit the babies, but I wouldn’t have it because I said, “No, you know what?  You’ve got to talk.”

And she’s never done this before, except one time she cooked for me on TV.  And we want to talk about something that is just absolutely overflowing in our hearts.  We have set it up the best we can. 

Twenty-four years ago I went to Africa, ran into Neal when he was in high school, barely.  He was a baby.  I’m old.  Say a word now and I’ll push you right out of the . . .   Neal comes to ORU, marries Danette.  At ORU both meet here, going to just be a business student, sociology major, social work.

The next thing you know, God calls them back to Africa where your family is from.  And you are opening work in Niger, poorest, hottest country in the world.  God lays it on Richard’s heart to go there.  Richard tells Jordan, and she can’t wait.  Jordan tells Haley, and Haley was going to go, no matter what.  And Amber and I are sitting back home.

AMBER: I got stuck in the rowboat.

LR: You got stuck back home because we all said, “This is so not fair.”  (All talking at once)  She is itching to join you.  And Laura and Amber griped the entire time.  Now think about this, they are going to the hottest, poorest country in the world that has never had a crusade before like this in the country and now mad they didn’t get to go.  Talk about missions heart!

And that’s the kind of thing we’re producing here at ORU.  Obviously you know that because you’re from ORU. 

AMBER: I had to stay and baby-sit.

LR: She had to baby-sit me, and I was crying every day because I miss my family.  And something happened over there that we knew would happen.  I’m going to let you guys pick up the story.  In spite of enormous opposition, you knew God was supposed to bring Richard there.  And the crusade was something that the country had not seen before.

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Prayer Requests by Lindsay Roberts

February 19, 2010 – 6:12 am

LR:

And, you know, we’re sitting here live, believing God for those same miracles that you saw on that roll-in to come into your life.  Now I’ve got three different groups here, and this group is testimonies since last night that have been healed as a result of prayer.  This group is sowing a financial seed, believing God for financial miracles and any other miracle that they have need of.  According to Malachi 3, when you give offering, then God rebukes the devourer for your sake.  That’s what He wrote in Malachi.

And then this group is believing for miracles, and this particular group have just now called in.  And I want to go through these as fast as we can because there’s quite a big stack.  And then we’re going to go in the back and pray again with the Abundant Life Prayer Group.

I want you to listen to this.  And if you see yourself in any of these categories, and as we’re praying for these categories, you attach your faith to that prayer and believe God for your miracle.

Now God said He’s no respecter of persons.  So what He did in the different people that you just saw giving their testimonies, testifying to the presence and the power of God, you begin to experience the same thing in your life.  What God did for somebody else, as you stretch out your faith, God’s not a respecter of persons.  He is a respecter of faith, the Bible says.  Jesus said He saw their faith.  So we’re going to stretch out our faith and go into agreement for your miracle.

(Reading requests).  And, you know, I’m just going to say this right out.  I’m reading them, but I’m not in agreement with the diagnosis.  I’m in agreement with God’s miracle.  Okay?  But we want to say—the reason I want to give it a name, the reason I want to call out the people’s names with their need, is that my Bible says that God has given to us a name that’s above every name named in heaven and earth and at that name, the name of Jesus, all this other stuff has to bow.  And that’s what we’re going to pray.  (Reading requests)  God said if you lack wisdom that He would freely and liberally give you wisdom.  (Reading requests)

Right now, Father, in the name of Jesus, we lift these up and every one that continues to come in.  And we thank You, my Father God, according to Your Word and Your will.  You sent Your Word and healed them and delivered them from their destruction.

I thank You, Lord, as people are calling in and stretching out their faith, You are a God that stretches right back with miracles, in Jesus’ name, amen.  Amen.  We want you to stay tuned.  Keep calling.  We’re going to be right back.

AD:  60 Years of Miracles

LR:

Okay, we’re back and once again we’re right here standing with the Abundant Life Prayer Group.  If you call right now, 918-495-7777, this is the particular group that you’re looking at right now that will be on the telephone.

And I want to tell you something.  Someone said, “What is the scripture I just read about rebuking the devourer?”  That’s Malachi 3:10 and 11.  It says, “When you bring your tithe and offering into the storehouse that God opens the windows of heaven, he pours you out a blessing where there’s not room enough to receive it, and he rebukes the devourer for your sake.”

A lot of people are sowing seeds against their need, believing God for a miracle.  (Reading names of people sowing Seed-Faith)  There’s a whole stack, and we’ll never get to them.  So right now in the name of Jesus, Father God, we thank You that Luke 6:38 says, “Give, and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over.”

And You also said, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked.  Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”  And so we are praying for harvest, financial blessing to come on each and every person sowing seed.

If you feel like you’d like to sow a seed, feel free to call the Abundant Life Prayer Group.  Give us your prayer request.  Sow your seed at 918-495-7777.  That’s 918-495-7777.

But if you’re going to plant a seed, you be sure and give us a prayer request and say, “I am planting this seed to defeat this need, in the name of Jesus.”

And I also want to tell you, we’re going to be back live tonight at eight o’clock, Hour of Healing live, right here tonight from the Prayer Group.

Now I’m going to give you one more number, same number I’ve been saying, 866—that’s toll-free.  That means it’s free.  Toll-free means freebie—866-870-6932.  If you would like the Overcoming Stress book, please allow me the privilege of giving this book to you.  No charge.

I remember when Oral Roberts was on television and I was a little girl.  He’d say, “My book is free and postpaid.”  Well, I want to tell you, so is mine.  This book is my free gift to you, Overcoming Stress.  And all you have to do is 866-870-6932.  That number is on your screen.  And don’t forget, you can call the Abundant Life Prayer Group, because we’re going to be around here praying.  You can write to Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts, Tulsa, OK 74102.   And we’re coming back tonight live at eight o’clock on The Hour of Healing to pray for your needs.

So bless you in the name of Jesus.  You be healed, set free and delivered, in Jesus’ name.  Make it count today.

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