Welcome to From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons.
Each week we bring you a different message
from some of history's greatest speakers in the
Christian faith and powerful sermons for modern preachers
too.
This week we have Oral Roberts with his
messages, How to Use the Faith You Already
Have, and then a touch of heaven.
I am not here in this particular service
to tell you how to get faith, but
to tell you how to use the faith
you already have.
In the book of Romans, chapter 12, verse
3, it says that God hath dealt to
every man the measure of faith.
So we see by that that faith is
not something we have to get.
It is something we already have.
It is a gift of God to us,
but we do have to learn to use
it, to use it in the right way
and at the right time.
I am convinced after my experience in dealing
with multiplied thousands of people that the average
person is not aware of the faith that
is in him, and second, that he does
not know exactly how to release that faith.
I believe the average person has a rather
cloudy understanding of his faith.
For example, I was praying for an individual
in the prayer line one evening when this
person said to me, Brother Roberts, I have
all the faith in the world.
I replied to that individual, that's your trouble.
You still have it.
It's one thing to have it inside you.
It's another thing to release it, to make
it a definite act of faith and to
believe God in a single moment.
Now a point of contact is something you
do, and when you do it, you release
your faith, your faith toward God.
A point of contact is something tangible.
It's something that you do, and you do
it to attain or to receive from God
his great promises which he has recorded in
his Holy Bible.
That's why God has given us faith, to
attain or to receive from God, and to
use what he has given us for his
glory.
But if God has promised us some specific
blessing, force, or power, and we do not
use the weapon he has given us for
its attainment or receiving it, we might as
well not have known about God's promise in
his Holy Word.
God has given us faith.
God has shown us how to use our
faith, and that's my purpose in speaking to
you today, to talk to you about a
point of contact for your faith, how to
obtain a point of contact, how to use
a point of contact, how to make a
point of contact something to which you cling
after you've used it, when you might reach
a negative state of mind a little later
on.
Now God has promised many things to people
in the Bible.
He's promised us eternal life.
He's promised us healing for our bodies, strength
and soundness for our minds.
He has promised to supply all our needs
according to his riches for Christ Jesus and
glory.
He has promised to be with us.
He has promised to use us for his
glory, to make our lives worthwhile, to help
us fulfill our mission, to have a sense
of destiny about us.
God has promised us many great and powerful
things through his Holy Bible, but to obtain
them or to attain unto a certain position
and to use what we have attained, to
do that our faith must be released, and
to release our faith usually we need a
point of contact, and a point of contact
in the first place focuses your attention upon
God.
For example, I read about the impotent man
who had been a cripple since his mother
gave him birth.
This impotent man was present when the Apostle
Paul was preaching in the town of Lestrom,
and the man was sitting down there as
if to say, why don't you tell me
to get up and walk in the name
of the Lord?
And when Paul perceived that he had faith
to be healed, he cried out, stand upright
on thy feet.
The Bible says the man leaped and walked.
He didn't learn how to walk.
He never had walked.
In a moment of time he leaped and
he began walking.
You see, he became one with his point
of contact.
What was his point of contact?
The words of the Apostle Paul.
When Paul said, stand upright on thy feet,
he became one with it.
He focused his mind upon the God who
was in the life of the Apostle Paul.
So you, by using a point of contact,
focused your attention upon God.
You get it off of your sickness or
your sin or your need, and you turn
your mind away to God who alone is
the answer to that.
You focus your attention upon him.
You see how important it is to make
your faith or your believing a single act
of faith.
When you use a point of contact, for
example, the laying on of hands, that's a
point of contact.
You use the anointing oil, as mentioned in
the fifth chapter of the book of James,
that is a point of contact.
When you use the prayer of faith, that
is a point of contact.
When you use any words in the Bible
or any words of a man of God,
when you read these words or you hear
these words, that is a point of contact.
Now, when you use that point of contact,
whatever it is, through it your faith is
released.
Once you've released your faith, it is sent
to God, and the answer to what you
have asked for has begun to come to
pass.
The saving of your soul, the healing of
your body, or the supplying of some need,
whatever it may be, once that starts coming
to pass, then your point of contact becomes
a great force to which you cling.
After you've received what you have prayed for,
you hold on and you say, I will
never doubt.
I know that I have received this from
God.
There are many examples in the Bible of
how people use the point of contact to
receive or to attain things from God.
They used a point of contact to receive
from God.
They used a point of contact to attain
for God, to do things in the service
of God.
Moses raised his rod.
The raising of his rod became a point
of contact.
Now, many people look upon the rod of
Moses which he raised, and through it performed
outstanding miracles as a magic wand.
They think all Moses had to do was
just raise up a rod and suddenly the
Red Sea would part, or God would give
manna, or bring water from the plenty rock.
But the fact is that if Moses had
not released his faith when he raised his
rod, nothing would have happened.
The raising of his rod was a point
of contact.
He became one with that point of contact.
When you use a point of contact, you
become one with it.
You put your mind on it.
You turn yourself toward God, and you and
your point of contact become one.
So that as Moses raised his rod, he
was one with it, reaching up to God,
that God would perform those mighty miracles.
Our hands are a point of contact, if
we believe.
The anointing oil is a point of contact,
if we believe.
The words of Christ in the Bible are
a point of contact, if we believe.
They are nothing if we do not believe.
If you have sin in your life that's
unconfessed and unforgiven, and you come to receive
the laying on of hands of anointing oil,
what can happen?
If you are willing and honest and sincere,
and you want deliverance from those sins, even
in a healing act, you can receive forgiveness.
And if they have committed sins, they shall
be forgiven them.
Let every head be bowed.
Reverend Roberts is making an appeal for the
people to make their personal decision for Christ.
Hundreds are accepting this invitation and coming from
all over the tent.
Now they are praying a prayer of dedication
with Reverend Roberts.
They have made their personal decision to live
a Christian life.
Now they are going to a place for
further prayer with Christian workers.
Here now is Reverend Roberts to talk to
you.
I'm sure while you have been watching your
television screen, listening to the message, participating spiritually
here in the great tent cathedral with us
in the worship of God, that you too
have a desire to dedicate, to give yourself
to God in a new way.
Most people need to rededicate their lives.
And now may I have the opportunity of
praying a prayer with you.
While the others remain quiet here before me,
I'm asking you to put your hands together
in prayer, there as you watch your television
screen, and repeat after me.
Oh Lord, I dedicate my life and surrender
it into thy loving hands, knowing I am
unable to manage my own life.
And so I ask Christ to take control,
to guide me in all my endeavors, that
I may serve thee forever, through thy Son
Jesus Christ, I pray and I believe.
Amen.
I think if you prayed that prayer sincerely
and with faith that God heard it and
has given you a sense and a feeling
that's indescribable in its peace, its security, and
its joy.
I have a little article here that I
have prepared, Ten Ways to Know You Are
Saved.
Ten unmistakable evidences by which you will know
that your heart is right with God, that
you have eternal salvation.
It will be a privilege to me to
send you a copy of this, if you
will write and ask for it.
It is a free piece of Christ-centered
literature prepared by me, entitled Ten Ways to
Know You Are Saved.
Anyone here in the audience can write for
it, Oral Roberts Tulsa to Oklahoma, anyone the
television audience, ask for it by name, Ten
Ways to Know You Are Saved.
Now I will be, I will be praying
for the healing of the sick shortly, knowing
that Christ is a merciful being, that he
is our hope.
We know that God is merciful, that he's
concerned over the healing of the human family.
He has given us wonderful doctors, medicine, hospitals,
nurses, and he often heals through those methods
and people.
We know also that God heals through prayer,
and as we come to him in prayer,
we know that it is not something we
can do by depending upon ourselves.
We must look away from ourselves to the
great and merciful God.
And just before I pray for the first
person here today, I suggest that all of
us will bow our heads in a moment
of silent prayer, asking the great healing God
to be in our midst.
Amen.
I'm glad to see you folks.
Glad to be here too.
I noticed on your card, but before I
noticed it, I had a feeling that you
were a ranger.
Yeah, I am.
Shake, pardon me.
Mr. Leo Olson of Kevin, Montana.
Keevan.
Keevan, Montana.
A ranger.
You and your wife, you have a bad
heart.
Yeah, and my phosphate glands have all swollen
up.
But I notice here on your card, your
heart beats 120.
It should be 80.
Yeah.
And it skips.
Yeah.
And the wife has high blood pressure.
I remember you, you working with the Indians
through our ministry.
Yes, Brother Roberts.
How do you do?
Why didn't you tell me?
I was at Brother Griffin's desk when you
was at McLeod there.
Yes, you've been taking our literature among the
Indians, right?
Yes.
Well, how wonderful to see you again.
You had some good experiences among them.
Oh, Brother.
Wonderful.
Well, tell me what?
Well, we was way north up there where
they bury them in the trees and on
the ground.
They don't bury them in the ground.
It freezes too hard.
They don't put them in the ground.
And those Indians up there, your radio station
on Peace River, don't ever take that off.
All the work that's wonderful doing up there.
Among the Indians.
Oh, yes.
And all those people up north there, 400
miles between us, full gospel churches up there.
All you people who are supporting our radio
broadcast, listen to this.
We've contacted many of those people up there
that when we told them we've been in
our Roberts meetings, you can talk to them.
They hear you on Peace River.
Oh, Brother, that's all I got to look
forward to.
God bless you for being so wonderful to
work with.
And oh, what a blessed trip we had.
We wanted to go this summer, but I
got sick in March.
All right.
And you're healed.
Would you go back to the Indians?
Amen.
I'm going to go.
You will go.
Father, heal him that he may work among
the Indians for Christ.
Heal him!
Thank you, Jesus.
Yes, praise God.
What do you feel like doing right now?
Oh, I'm ready to go any day.
I've enjoyed talking with you.
God bless both of you.
Go with you.
How do you do, my sister?
Who are you and where are you from?
I'm Hope Askew.
You're from Japan?
Yes.
Well, you don't look Japanese.
I wish I were.
You mean that?
I mean it with all my heart.
How long were you in Japan?
We've been there eight years, invading territory where
the gospel has never been preached before.
Is that a fact?
Well, have you returned home on furlough or
something?
My husband is still there, but he sent
me home to rest.
He thought I was breaking.
He said I would rather have you go
home and rest and live without you than
not to have you.
All right.
Why are you in our prayer line to
receive prayer for your body?
No, I have nothing physically wrong with me.
I just need rest.
But I wanted to thank you, Brother Roberts,
for the literature that you sent to us,
barrels and barrels of it.
And I want to invite you to Japan
from thousands of Japanese and servicemen and missionaries.
How long have you been here?
I left Japan in May.
I know.
But here in the crusade, I came Tuesday.
Well, let me shake your hand.
We welcome you here.
It's nice to have you.
I love to have missionaries visit our crusades.
I would love to go to Japan.
I've been invited there by some of the
Japanese officials.
Your literature has been carried to many villages
that never had heard the name of Jesus.
In fact, I put on forty five pounds
of gear and flew to an island that
had never heard the gospel with a young
Baptist pilot who offered to take me.
We found thirty seven thousand people on that
island that had never heard the name of
Jesus.
So we went back by ship and took
a crew with us and saw that everyone
had at least a tract.
We don't have enough literature.
Was it our tract?
As far as yours went.
We didn't send you enough?
No, it's never enough.
Well, Sister, we're putting out almost one million
copies a week, fifty million pieces a year.
We must increase that.
I see that now.
Well, over there, we give out thousands every
day, so there's no end to the need.
God help us.
Well, I'm glad to know you're in our
crusade.
Thank you for coming up here and telling
me this.
God bless you.
Give you strength.
Amen.
Isn't that wonderful?
We are working with missionaries all over the
world.
We seldom ever see them.
And it's a happy surprise to see her.
Robert Boyd, Pomeroy, Washington, a farmer, Church of
the Nazarene.
Robert is thirty five years old.
He's a choir director in his church.
He has rheumatoid arthritis, constant pain for five
years.
He has been to the Mayo Clinic.
And here he is asking for prayer from
this great audience and from me, Robert Boyd.
Have you a family?
Yes, I have.
Are they with you?
My wife is with me.
Where is she?
Mrs. Boyd, raise your hand.
Quickly come forward and stand by your husband.
Robert, while she is coming, I want to
ask you a simple question.
What makes you think you will be healed?
I know the Lord heals.
I believe him completely.
I've watched your ministry.
My wife is from a praying family.
I'm from a praying family.
We just believe in God.
Mrs. Boyd, what makes you think your husband
will be healed?
I just know that God will heal him.
Do you think he will begin the healing
today?
Yes, I know that he will.
What do you base that on?
He's already started the healing.
As my faith grows through this campaign, I've
felt better day by day.
And today I felt better than I felt
in several years.
And the main thing to me is my
mental depression.
Over this affliction?
Yes, after enough years of pain, I think
the mental depression is probably as bad as
the pain.
But I thank the Lord that I have
felt better today and happier.
And I praise him for that.
Robert, we're going to pray with joy, not
with begging and despair and hoping.
We're praying with joy.
The joy of the Lord is your strength,
the Bible says.
Father, I ask that you take the last
pain from his body, remove the stiffness from
his limbs, and heal him from the crown
of his head to the sole of his
feet.
Robert Boyd, disengage your arm from your wife's
hands.
In the name of the Lord, do exactly
as I do.
Raise your legs up and down.
Now move your shoulders up and down.
Robert Boyd, say praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord.
I do praise the Lord.
Robert Boyd, where is the mental depression?
It's gone.
It's gone forever.
I know it is.
Open and close your hands.
Find one single pain or stiffness anywhere in
your body.
Move and find it if you can.
It's gone.
I know it's gone.
Tell me, how do you feel in your
soul?
I feel good in my soul.
I love the Lord.
What do you feel like doing?
I feel like praising the Lord tonight.
Well, praise him.
Praise him.
Let's all raise our hands and praise the
Lord.
Yes.
The point that I want everyone to see
in this service is when we pray for
the healing of the sick or we receive
healing for ourselves, let us do it with
joy, with the joy of the Lord, praying
with gladness.
Thank God there is a God.
We have an opportunity to be healed.
Glory to his name.
Miss Boyd, how do you feel?
Wonderful.
I thank God.
Are you surprised?
No, I'm not.
She had my faith for me to begin
with.
Brother, you had all the faith in the
world then.
I did.
I had a lot of faith.
Yes, you did.
That's what did it.
I thank her and I thank the Lord.
I thank you for your prayer.
God bless you.
This is your moment.
This is God's hour to heal you and
make you whole.
Please come up here and touch my hand
with yours.
And let me touch yours with my hand
and let me pray for you.
I know God can heal you.
Ready?
Oh, God, through Christ, through Jesus Christ, through
Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ,
through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, through Jesus
Christ, through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, through
Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ,
through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, through Jesus
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Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ,
through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, through Jesus
Christ, through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, through
Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ,
through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, through Jesus
Christ, through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, through
Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ,
through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, through Jesus
Christ, through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, by
whose stripes we are healed.
I come to thee as an instrument and
may thy healing power flow as I pray.
And may this friend feel the power of
God.
May thy healing spirit go from the crown
of their head to the soles of their
feet.
Heal.
Oh, God, heal.
Heal.
Father, I thank thee that thy healing power
is flowing.
Let it continue through the name of thy
son, Jesus of Nazareth.
Amen and amen.
Now look up and believe.
We take you now to the Oral Roberts
Million-Soul Crusade at Eugene, Oregon.
Reverend Roberts is reading the text of his
message.
Now from Psalms chapter 34, verse 10, I'd
like to read these words.
They that seek the Lord shall not lack
any good thing.
Now here is Reverend Roberts with his sermon
for today.
Well, we have a great subject for this
evening's service and it is titled, A Touch
of Heaven.
It is my opinion that the Lord wants
us to have many of the wonderful things
of heaven while we walk this narrow veil
called the earth.
And there are so many things that speak
of heaven as we follow after God.
For is not the peace of God in
our hearts a touch of heaven?
Is not the healing in our bodies a
touch of heaven?
Is not freedom from fear a touch of
heaven?
Is not the joy unspeakable and full of
glory from the hand of God a touch
of heaven?
Is not his presence with us every day,
every hour, every moment, isn't that a touch
of heaven?
Do we not have the portion of the
heavenly world in us from time to time
reminding us of that wonderful place called heaven?
And is it not true tonight that all
of us who have ever felt the wonderful
blessing of the Lord in any way, isn't
it true that every one of us should
think of that in terms of eternal life
and what's going to happen to us forever
when we leave this world and cross over
to the banks of sweet deliverance?
Well, it's a wonderful thing to think about
heaven.
No doubt the psalmist David was thinking about
heaven and a touch of heaven down here
when he said, bless the Lord, oh my
soul, and forget not all his benefits, who
forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your
diseases, who redeems your life from destruction, who
crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,
who reneweth your youth like the eagles.
Here we have forgiveness, deliverance, redemption, tender mercies,
loving kindness, satisfaction, a renewing of our youth,
and all those things speak of the kingdom
of God and heaven and eternity, and they
began right here.
Do the miracles all have to be performed
in heaven, or can we expect miracles to
be performed down here?
Did not Christ go about over the earth
giving people a foretaste of that heavenly world?
Did not he touch them with his wonderful
hands, healing, saving, delivering, blessing, giving them life
and body, soul, and mind, and wasn't that
his way of saying, this is what heaven
is like, this is what you're going to
have a lot of when you get over
there?
Didn't he give people a touch and a
taste of that better world?
When we think of miracles, we usually think
of the heavenly world.
We look upon a hopeless situation on earth
and speak of a miracle, and almost invariably
someone will say, well, someday yes, over in
heaven.
But we can't expect that down here.
So can we look for miracles to happen
here, or do they happen only in heaven?
Let me give you a story from the
fifth chapter of Luke's gospel.
And in preaching these sermons, I've always tried
to take my stand by the side of
men and women of the Bible, rather than
someone else I know, men and women who
have dealt with God, and whose stories are
placed in the Bible for a purpose.
For I think that is the only kind
of preaching that I've ever understood, that makes
me know what God is like.
Now one day Christ came up to the
disciples, before they were his disciples.
Before they had left all to follow him,
and they saw, he saw them mending their
nets.
He asked for the loan of Peter's boat,
which was graciously given, which he used for
a pulpit to preach.
And then he said to Simon Peter, launch
out in the deep and let down your
net for a catch.
Well, Peter spoke up and said, Lord, we
have toiled all night and have taken nothing.
Jesus said, put out into the deep and
let down your net for a catch.
But Lord, we've toiled all night out there
and have taken nothing.
In other words, Lord, it is like Peter
is saying, Lord, that would take a miracle.
And miracles only happen in heaven.
There's no need for me to go out
in the same body of water and fish,
for I've feasted all night and caught nothing.
And Jesus answered, put out of the deep
and let down your net for a catch.
In other words, it was like Jesus was
saying, Peter, miracles don't happen in heaven.
They're made to happen on earth.
Now, as you think about this answer, consider
this.
Can anyone tell me of one need of
a miracle in heaven?
Can anyone anywhere tell me where anybody who
ever goes to heaven will ever need a
miracle?
Now, just think a minute.
I imagine the one in heaven isn't thinking
about miracles.
He isn't even thinking about it in need
because he's not in need.
Now, we people don't always think right, and
our wrong believing is hindering us, and we
can change that if we only will.
What do we expect God to do?
To do in heaven that we don't expect
him to do down here?
Well, we expect him to completely save our
souls.
In my opinion, you'll never get there in
the first place if your soul is completely
saved.
We expect God to heal our bodies when
we get to heaven, but up there we'll
have a brand new body, a resurrected body.
We need to ask him for healing down
here.
Isn't that right?
It is up on this earth that we
must make miracles take place.
We must make them happen.
So Peter said, Lord, nevertheless at thy word
I will do it.
I will do what?
I will put out into the deep and
let down my net for a catch.
I will make this thing happen.
Miracles have to be made to happen, and
they always happen when they're made to happen.
When men and women cooperate with God, God
makes miracles come to pass in our lives.
Not on the streets of glory, but on
the streets of our towns, on our country
roads, in our houses, our businesses, out on
the lakes, in the creek, in the kitchen,
wherever we are, God makes the miracles come
to pass.
Do miracles only happen in heaven?
They also happen here.
And Peter launched out, he threw out his
net, he caught so many fish his net
began to break, and when they got the
net of fish in the boat, the boat
began to sink.
That's a net-breaking, boat-sinking load, and
that's a miracle catch, because later Simon Peter
fell upon his face and cried, Depart from
me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.
The miracle catch brought him to his knees
and humble surrender to Christ, who said, Follow
me, and I will make you.
This is what a miracle should do.
It should humble us, it should make us
fall upon our faces and cry, Lord, Lord,
have compassion upon me, I haven't been living
right, I surrender my life to thee.
Here is the touch of heaven.
Boy, you would think of catching fish like
that over in heaven, but Christ thought of
catching fish like that down here on earth.
Now what is your thinking compared to what
I am talking about?
Is your mind off in another place?
Is your hope in that world called heaven?
Or are you expecting God to take a
hand in your life now, here, in your
everyday affairs, in your house, your job, your
business?
What do you expect God to do?
That is the question.
Do you believe in a touch of heaven?
Do you believe that God wants much of
heaven to happen to us here, for us
to have and to enjoy while we live
upon this earth?
Do you believe that Christ came down into
this world to break the barrier between man
and God, to crush the wall of separation
and to make us one?
Do you believe that Christ opened up a
new realm of possibility, of miracles, of a
limitless kind of living?
Do you believe that Christ had the keys
to the kingdom and gave us the keys?
Do you believe he opened the door and
said to us, follow me, follow me, and
we follow him into that world of miracle
working power?
Do you believe that tonight?
You see, your mind has to be transformed
and renewed by the Holy Spirit.
You cannot think of God in terms of
man or of heaven in relation to this
earth.
You must see that God has the power
to intervene in human affairs.
He has the ability to change earthly circumstances.
God coming into our midst changes our very
lives.
He changes our social status.
He changes our bodies, our minds, our circumstances,
our souls, our abiding place, our everything.
Glory to his name.
But it's like wasting my breath if you
do not accept it, if you do not
believe it.
If you can sit there and hear this
and leave with the same opinion, why have
you come to begin with?
If you're not here to open your mind
and to learn the way God works, then
you're wasting your time.
We're serious in this meeting.
We smile and we have a wonderful time,
but in the hard core of our believing
is a streak of soberness and seriousness because
we are here not to play but to
work.
We are here not to be seen or
to see but to reveal God to men
and to women and to children and to
let people have a true picture of God,
that God is good, that God will intervene
in our affairs, that miracles are for this
life, that faith is our keys to the
kingdom, that we have an open door into
the green pastures and down beside the waters,
that his rod and staff comfort us, he
leads us into the paths of righteousness for
his name's sake, he anoints our head with
oil, our cups run over.
God is a good God and he has
a world of goodness waiting for us to
participate in, to walk into, to walk through,
to live in, and to use as a
very foretaste of that world called heaven.
Will you bow your heads please?
I want every man, every woman, every boy
and every girl without exception in the audience
who believes in my prayers and you want
my prayers for your soul, just leave your
body out of it for a few minutes,
just for your soul, the salvation of your
soul, that Christ will be your Lord and
you will know it, that you're a stand
up on God's side Christian.
That's what I want to pray with you
about tonight.
If you're not really, really, really saved, if
you don't truly, truly, truly have the Lord,
if he's not the Lord and master of
your life, I'm asking you to let me
pray for you.
And now will you take the first step?
I want every man, every woman, every boy,
every girl who wants me to pray that
prayer for your soul.
Will you take the first step please in
his name right now and raise up your
right hand quickly.
Up high, up high, up high, put them
up high.
Hold them there, don't take them down.
Several hundred hands.
Now if you're sincere, take the second step
and stand on your feet for my prayer.
Please stand right now.
They're standing, they're getting up everywhere.
Beautiful, beautiful sight.
Now we have a place here at the
platform where I want you to walk forward
and stand.
Do not sit back down, but I want
you to quickly, rapidly walk up here for
my prayer.
Quickly, step right out in the aisle, come
forward as quickly as you can.
While these dear friends are coming from all
over the Tent Cathedral, I'm asking you, the
viewer there, to join with me in this
prayer.
And let me pray the prayer of forgiveness
for your own soul and ask God to
come into your heart.
And while they are coming, will you prepare
yourself.
As you prepare yourself, I want to be
praying for you, for your salvation.
Now then each one of you raise your
head up please.
Close your eyes.
Now earnestly repeat after me out loud this
prayer.
O Lord Jesus, I want to make Thee
my Lord and Master, to surrender my life
to God, and ask Thee to take charge
of my life.
I repent of all my sins, ask forgiveness
and pardon, and now I receive Christ as
my Lord and Master.
And by God's grace, I will endeavor to
live a Christian life, a life of faith,
forever and ever.
In His dear name, the name of Jesus
Christ, I pray and I believe.
Amen.
I hope that while I prayed the prayer
with these many hundreds of our friends who
came to give their lives to Christ, that
you prayed the prayer too.
If you prayed that prayer from your heart,
I believe that Christ has come into your
heart, for he hears the earnest sincere prayer
of any human being.
And might I have the privilege of receiving
a letter from you telling me about your
decision, how you feel in your heart since
you offered this prayer.
I assure you when I receive your letter,
I will answer it and I will pray
with you further.
Write your letter to me, Oral Roberts, Tulsa
2, Oklahoma.
I know God has a new life for
you.
I'll be back in a few moments to
offer prayer for the healing of the sick.
Right now, we're going to send you to
our prayer tent for further prayer and inspiration.
Now we ask the blessing of the Lord
upon the prayer line.
We thank God for good doctors, for what
they're doing to help people everywhere.
We also thank God for the power of
prayer.
We're coming out to pray, not in our
name, but in Christ's name.
Not to try to heal ourselves because we
cannot heal, but to pray in his name
who alone can heal.
We're looking forward to his mercy, his compassion.
I'll be praying for you in the audience
shortly, so everyone keep your mind on God.
We'll be praying for you too.
All right, Brother Deweese.
My brother, what's the matter with your leg?
Osteomyelitis.
Osteomyelitis of the right knee and leg.
When did this happen, Alfred?
Around the 1st of January.
I had an operation of the right knee
and they put a cap in it, but
it started over on my left side now.
Alfred Lash of 1657 McKinley Street, Eugene.
All right, sir.
Is your leg normal size or normal length?
Yes, sir.
They're both the same length, but the knee
cap, the one that's operated on, is a
lot larger.
It don't even look like a knee cap
now.
What did the doctors say about your knee,
sir?
Well, they said that I'd be in a
wheelchair within five years if I couldn't find
some way to get treatment for it.
Well, Alfred, what makes you think God can
heal that?
Well, the Lord says he'd heal you, you
know.
All you have to do is believe and
I believe in him.
It's up to me to pray, isn't it?
Father, we ask you for his healing, for
the swelling of the knee to go down,
for his leg to receive strength and health.
Heal through Jesus Christ, the son of the
living God.
Amen.
Sir, can you raise your leg up and
down?
Now the other one.
Take hold of your right knee.
What are you smiling about?
Thank you.
Well, I know you mean to thank God,
don't you?
You're not thanking me.
You're thanking God.
Well, God bless you and go with you
is my prayer.
Amen.
Sister, if you have faith as big as
the smile you have, you should get your
healing.
Hello, sir.
What's your name?
I am W.B. Scogerson and my wife
Mary Scogerson.
From?
Boise, Idaho.
Your church?
Presbyterian.
Are you losing your sight?
I am.
I have a cataract in my right eye
and a tumor in my left eye, which
has almost destroyed the sight in my right
eye.
All right.
You're a consulting engineer, sir.
In what field?
Civil and mining.
Even now?
Even now, yes.
And here you are 73 years young.
Yes, sir.
All right.
Are you ready to receive prayer?
Father, we lay our hands upon him in
the holy name of Jesus Christ and we
ask for the miracle of God to heal
the cataract.
Sir, sure as you live, you have faith
and that faith is going to God now.
I felt it when I touched your body.
I'm choked up now.
I can see.
I know you can see.
I felt it when I touched you.
Can you see me now?
I can see you now.
Yes, I can see you.
Praise God.
Yes.
You know, sir, I've heard my hands.
You can see your hands.
Yes.
How long?
Oh, almost two years now.
You can see your hands.
I can see my hands and I can
see you.
I wish I had the courage to ask
you how I look to you.
Mr., you look wonderful.
God bless you, my engineer brother.
Thank you.
May you return to your work with your
sight and may God get the glory.
I'm going to.
Amen.
God go with you.
Brother Robert, we have Brother Telford returning with
a testimonial.
Mighty fine, Brother Telford.
Bring your little girl.
We're so anxious to see you.
Tell me, how are you?
Fine, thank you.
We haven't seen you since our Salem organ
crusade.
That's right, sir.
Hi, you're the little shy girl I prayed
for with the spine, with the meningitis in
your leg.
Isn't that right?
From from from Salem, Oregon.
And the last I saw her, she was
waving with her head to head in your
arm, waving at me like that.
Isn't that right?
That's right, sir.
If I recall that night, she was able
to even run, wasn't she?
Ran off of this very platform like a
deer.
I was down at the end there.
Here now is what actually happened on the
night of August 21st, 1957 at the Salem,
Oregon crusade.
Girl of defect in her leg.
Mr. Telford?
Yes, sir.
Your daughter?
Yes, sir.
You're from Boring, Oregon, of the Methodist Church?
Yes, sir.
Mr. Telford, your baby has been afflicted spinal
meningitis, sir.
For very long?
Since she was nine months old.
Does she talk?
Oh, yes, she talks like a magpie.
Would you hold her in your arms a
minute, sir?
I know you've been holding her a long
time back there waiting.
I want to touch the little leg.
Uh, honey, what is your name?
Becky.
Becky?
Rebecca?
Well now, I have a daughter named Rebecca.
Do they call you Becky?
Well, uh, some of my little daughter's friends
call her Becky, but I call her Reb.
Which leg, sir?
Right.
Right leg?
Jesus, heal this limb.
Heal!
Mr. Telford, put her down a minute, please.
Mr. Telford, I want to ask you an
honest question.
Hasn't the Lord begun to help this child
before you came up here?
Yes, sir.
Was it in the meeting tonight?
Not tonight, sir.
I was here Saturday night.
Was it Saturday night?
Yes, sir.
This child has received something.
When I prayed, there was nothing came against
me.
This child has received at least a partial
healing, if not a complete one.
Do you think if you, uh, went over
there alone that she'd walk to you, you
don't think she'd be frightened?
Would you walk clear off the platform?
Becky, you wait, darling.
Darling, you wait and you can go to
your father because he's eager to see you
take all of those steps.
Walk up here, sir.
I tell you, this is extraordinary that this
child could have received this help out in
the audience.
Mr. Telford, she actually ran when she got
down there.
I see, sir.
How does that make you feel?
Oh, I can't describe it.
I'm so happy.
We can't.
God, thanks.
Becky, how do you feel?
Okay, Becky, may I say bye?
May I say bye?
Okay.
Rebecca, how do you feel tonight?
Good, too.
Are you enjoying using your little leg and
running and walking?
Yeah, yeah, Robert.
A lot.
Do you, uh, you go to Sunday school
now?
Yeah.
You enjoy it?
Uh-huh.
Who healed your leg?
God.
He surely did.
God bless you.
May I shake your hand and bless you,
darling.
And, Brother Telford, thanks for coming down here
to tell us this.
Amen.
Now, as always, here is Oral Roberts with
outstretched hands to pray for you.
Place your hands across your body somewhere.
Receive my prayer as a point of contact.
God is there.
God is here.
He's hearing and answering prayer here, and I
know he'll hear and answer prayer there.
Now, receive my prayer as though I were
by your side.
I know Christ is there by your side.
Father, in the name of Christ, we do
come to thee for the healing of these
dear friends who are watching our ministry through
their television screen.
We pray for each and every one, and
in particular, do we pray for this one
now who is placing their hands across their
body.
In the name of Christ, let your healing
power flow through every fiber of their body.
Heal and cast out each disease and make
them whole.
Make them whole in the name of Christ.
And now, in his name, in his name,
be healed.
Receive your healing.
Be healed and set free by the power
of that man, Jesus Christ, for I ask
it and believe it in his name.
Amen.
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