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 summaries from modern preachers,
too.
This week, we have Oral Roberts with two
messages.
First is, What You Should Know About Your
Faith, and the second is called, Transferred Power.
History from the Book of Romans, Romans 12
.3, the last 12 words.
God hath dealt to every man the measure
of faith.
God hath dealt to every man the measure
of faith.
Will you say it, please?
God hath dealt to every man the measure
of faith.
Again.
God hath dealt to every man the measure
of faith.
I wish to speak to you now on
what you should know about your faith.
Number one, faith is not something you get.
It is something you already have.
When I made this discovery, I said to
myself, I wish I might have known this
long before, for I have wasted hundreds and
hundreds of prayers begging God to give me
something He had already made as a gift
to me.
One day I was reading the Bible when
I came across Romans 12.3 and found
these words, God hath dealt to every man
the measure of faith.
So I said to myself, I already have
faith.
God has dealt me a measure of it.
He has given me faith.
He has given you faith.
Even sinners have faith.
A man heard me say that once.
He said, Brother Roberts, do you mean to
say that I, a sinner, have faith?
Of course you have faith, because if you
didn't, you couldn't get saved, because people are
saved through faith, through faith.
Not through works, but through faith.
And if a sinner did not have faith,
he could not become a Christian.
And every Christian in this audience once was
a sinner, and as a sinner you had
faith, else you could not have become a
child of God.
So faith is not something you get.
It is something you already have.
Say it, please.
Faith is not something you get.
It is something you already have.
Say it again.
Faith is not something you get.
It is something you already have.
Now, so many people waste their prayers begging
God.
Oh, God, give me faith.
Give me faith.
Why don't you thank God for the faith
you already have and start using it for
a change?
Now, it's perfectly scriptural to say, God, increase
my faith.
It is right to say, Lord, help me
believe better and make my faith stronger, but
it's out of tune to say, Lord, give
me faith, for God has already given to
every man, every woman, the measure of faith.
Number two, this is what you should know
about your faith.
Faith becomes aroused by the preaching of the
word of God.
So many people say, Brother Roberts, if I
have faith, then why doesn't it work?
For the simple reason that faith is not
automatic.
You can't press a button and make your
faith work.
Faith comes.
Faith comes, the Bible says.
Romans 10, 17, faith cometh by hearing and
hearing by the word of God.
Why do I preach?
Because my preaching the gospel of Christ by
the power of the Holy Spirit upon me
makes my faith come forth.
It brings it out of me.
You know, there's oil in the ground, but
somebody has to drill into the ground and
find the oil.
People, you've got this faith.
God's put it there.
He's given you a measure of faith, but
the word of God drills down to it
and brings it out.
That's why we preach the word of God.
Some people have faith, but they don't know
how to believe.
They don't know what to believe for.
But as you hear the word of God
preached, you learn how to believe for the
right things.
It gives direction to your faith.
My faith is always the strongest when I've
just finished my sermon.
That's why I like to pray for the
sake just after I have preached.
A man came in our great tent cathedral
one day.
He came up to one of the members
of my party and said, Why can't Brother
Roberts pray for me without preaching so much?
And my man said to him, Because faith
comes by hearing and hearing by the word
of God.
If Brother Roberts stopped the preaching of the
gospel and decided to go out and pray
for people indiscriminately, he wouldn't have very much
success.
Neither would they have very strong faith.
So some of you people like my preaching
and some of you probably would like for
me to hush up and get to you
a little quicker.
But I say to you, if you will
listen to the word of God, it will
build your faith strong so when you do
come up here for prayer, something can take
place worthwhile in your life.
If you believe it, say Amen.
Number three, you have faith.
The word of God arouses your faith.
But your faith never becomes powers for your
concern until you release it.
It won't save your soul, it won't heal
your body, it won't supply your needs until
you release it.
How do you release it?
You release it by a point of contact.
A point of contact is anything you do,
which one you do, you turn your faith
loose.
And the Bible teaches, among other things, the
laying on of hands.
That's why I lay on hands for praying
for the sick.
When I lay my hand upon you, that's
when I believe.
That's when you should believe.
When you come in this prayer line and
I put my hand upon you, may that
be a point of contact.
Release it, because unless you release it, it
will never bring the deliverance of God into
your life.
Release your faith.
Christ once said, where is your faith?
What have you done with it?
He didn't say you never had it, because
he knew they did.
He now wanted to know where it was.
You've had it, you say you don't have
it now, then you've lost it.
You did have it, now what have you
done with it?
Where is it?
There's a man in the Bible who lost
his faith by the name of Thomas.
The man who was an apostle, he walked
and talked with Christ for some three years.
And at the Lord's death, he lost his
faith.
And he became a man so bitter, disillusioned,
until he went off and hid.
Then after the Lord's resurrection from the dead,
he appeared to the other 11 disciples.
And when he did, they were so glad,
they ran and told Thomas, Thomas, we have
seen the Lord.
He said, I don't believe a word of
it.
The following week on the Lord's Day Sunday,
the disciples met together to wait for the
Lord to reappear.
And Thomas just decided, well, I better go.
He may come.
And when he arrived, the Lord appeared.
The Lord walked over to him and showed
him his hands, his side.
He said, Thomas, reach into thy hand and
thrust thy finger into my hands and thy
hand into my side.
Be not faithless, but believing.
And Thomas took one look at the evidence,
and he cried, my Lord and my God.
Now, friends, you say that you've lost your
faith.
You say that you don't know what's happened
to you, and you don't know what to
do.
I'll tell you what you can do.
Just open your eyes and look about you
and see the evidence that Christ is risen
from the dead.
Think about the man here last night, the
Greek man, who said, Brother Roberts, when I
first saw you on television, I cried because
I saw with my own eyes what God
was doing for the people.
Thomas looked at the marks in his hands
and side.
We're looking today at the outstretched hand of
God upon human lives.
We're seeing him save people.
We're seeing him heal people.
We're seeing this with our own eyes.
Be not faithless, but believing.
Find your faith again.
Recapture it.
You can.
Let me tell you a story.
There was a preacher, a pastor of a
great church, who grew very cold in his
soul and began to preach sermons that were
dry and had not the anointing upon them.
One Sunday morning he noticed on his pulpit
a little note and he read, Dear Pastor,
we would see Jesus sign your church.
He heard through his sermon, went off to
his study, and sent a message to his
wife that he would not be home to
eat.
And all the afternoon he prayed.
He said, Oh God, have I lost the
Lord?
Have I lost my faith?
And as the evening wore away and he
kept on praying, he felt the spark of
God's presence again.
And suddenly he felt that warming experience of
faith found.
And so he opened his Bible and got
a brand new sermon.
And that night he preached like a man
from another world.
Sunday after Sunday he preached.
The crowds came back and filled the building.
The sinners were saved.
The people rejoiced.
And one Sunday there was a note penned
to his pulpit and it said, Dear Pastor,
then were the disciples glad when they saw
the Lord.
People, you can find your faith again.
Will you bow your heads?
Now with your heads bowed, will you give
your life to God tonight?
I want every man, every woman, every boy,
and every girl who believes in my prayers,
and you want my prayers, that Christ may
become your personal Savior.
That you may receive the forgiveness of your
many sins.
That you as a sinner will be a
child of God.
That you will give your life to Christ.
And you want me to pray for you
tonight.
Take the first step, please, in his name
right now.
And raise up your right hand, quickly, please.
Up high, up high.
Keep your hands up.
Take the second step, please, and stand on
your feet for my prayer.
Please stand right now.
And they're really getting up.
That's wonderful.
Take the third step and come down the
aisles.
Stand in front of me here at the
platform so I can pray for you to
be saved.
Come on, right now.
And they're coming down every aisle.
Come right now!
Oh, that is wonderful.
Now then, you realize tonight that no man
can save you, only Christ can save your
soul.
Is that right?
How many of you have come forward that
you may be saved and give your life
to Christ?
Raise up your right hand.
All right.
I want you to repeat after me the
sinner's prayer.
Ready?
Oh, Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner.
I repent of my sins.
I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son
of God.
I receive him.
As my personal Savior, live for him forever.
Amen.
If you meant that, say amen.
I feel that many of you have surrendered
your life to Christ.
You have made a decision for Jesus.
You have made a decision that from tonight
your life will belong to God.
If that's so, let me see your right
hand and let me hear you say amen.
Amen.
Well, that's wonderful.
Brother Deweese, I'd like to ask this couple
here, are you together?
Yes.
Who are you folks?
I'm Evelyn Ellsbury.
You both came forward to make your decision
for Christ?
Yes.
Did you make it?
Yes.
Did you make it, sir?
Yes.
Well, how does it make you feel?
Well, it makes me feel a lot better.
Yes.
Well, it's mighty good to see you come
up here.
Brother Deweese, let's ask this lady right here.
Did you get saved tonight?
Yes, Brother Robert.
I've been saved, but I've been really angry
and I've worked for the Lord.
I do missionary work.
But you wandered away and now you came
back.
I did spiritual work.
And now then do you feel that you
have re-surrendered?
I made my decision and I made a
special trip here because I knew God had
a message for me to you.
You made a special trip here to surrender
to Christ and get back in step with
God.
Yes.
If you feel there that you have surrendered
your life to Christ, if you have made
a decision, I'd like for you to write
me, Oral Roberts, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and say, Brother
Roberts, I did surrender to Christ.
Or if you did not, if you want
my prayers, write me, Oral Roberts, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I'll be happy to send you a little
booklet titled How You May Know That You're
Saved.
Free and postpaid, just ask for it, Oral
Roberts, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and say send me your
free booklet, How I May Know I Am
Saved.
Now I want you friends to go to
the prayer room, get down on your knees
and pray that you know you're saved, and
I'll come back in a few minutes and
pray for the sick.
And now friends, this is a wonderful campaign.
God has really been working.
Isn't that right?
Now I want to point out one thing,
that you must respond to God in order
to be healed.
Healing does not come from a man.
It comes through faith in Jesus Christ of
Nazareth.
Do you believe that?
Say amen.
Amen.
Yes sir, we believe in medical science, just
as you do.
We believe that people should do for themselves
what is available.
We also believe that when nothing else can
be done, we have a right to come
to God, and that God can do what
no mortal power can do.
How many of you believe that so?
I'm ready now to pray.
Hello here.
You are who?
What's your name?
Lenore Cone.
Where are you from?
243 West 26th St. John's Lutheran Church.
In Erie, Pennsylvania.
You have arthritis in your knee and your
feet.
Your feet swell, also your ankles.
You have to go up steps one at
a time, and you mean by that what?
Well, when I go like this, I can't.
I have to wait until I put this
one up first.
I can't go up one and then the
other.
You put one foot up on a step,
and then you have to bring the other
one on the same step before you can
move again.
And how long has that been going on,
Miss Clem?
About six years.
Six years.
Do you love God?
I do.
Have you been enjoying this campaign?
I love it.
You love it.
What do you like about it?
Oh, everything.
Everything?
Say, that's a big God statement, isn't it?
It is.
That's wonderful.
We ask the Heavenly Father for this thy
child to be healed from the crown of
her head to the soles of her feet.
Heal.
Oh, Miss Clem.
You've had faith quite a while, haven't you?
Sure have.
Raise your limbs up and down, please.
I wish I had some steps.
I do have, Brother Deweese.
Now, those steps are very steep, I understand.
I know they're steep.
Step back down and try it again.
I wish I had some not quite so
steep.
You just can't do it?
Come over here a minute, please.
Everyone raise your right hand with me, please.
Father, we ask thee for this thy child
to be able to lift her limbs.
Heal.
Oh, glory to God.
Well, I felt his presence and his power.
Brother Deweese, would you lightly hold her by
the hand?
Those steps are steep for anybody.
Whoa.
Stand down.
Oh, you know, you had the faith.
I thought you did.
How does it make you feel?
Wonderful.
God bless you.
Go now and give God the glory.
That's good.
Repetitious man, Mr. Frank Keller of what city,
sir?
Coyopolis, Pennsylvania.
And you have?
Multiple sclerosis.
Is this Mrs. Keller?
That is correct.
How do you do?
How long has your husband had it?
For six years now.
Six years now.
That is none of it.
That is.
All right, Lord, we ask for this miracle.
Heal!
Oh, brother, you were ready.
You were ready.
Raise your legs up and down, please.
I think you can walk.
Seek you can in God's name.
Oh, that's good.
That's good.
Come back over here, sir.
You know, even that much is wonderful, isn't
it?
Yes, it is.
How long has it been since you could
walk like that?
About two years.
Now you're going all the way down, all
the way.
Mrs. Keller, he, you know, he's, he's, he's,
he's, you're welcome.
He's holding that crutch up now.
Oh, he is.
He is.
What?
Hello, young fellow.
Tell me who you are, please.
Paul Spring.
Paul Spring from Erie, Pennsylvania.
Wayne Street Methodist Church.
You have a heart condition, a hole in
your heart.
Are you the mother?
How long has he had the hole?
He's had it since birth.
How does it affect him?
Well, his whole body has been, he just
hasn't been able to do like other boys.
He's had to be very careful in climbing
stairs.
It's putting behind two years in school.
Miss Spring, do you believe?
I believe.
Young man, do you believe God?
Yes.
Put your hand on your heart, son.
Jesus, we ask for the miracle of God.
We ask that.
Oh, Lord.
I believe that.
Paul, I think you felt the presence of
God too, didn't you?
What did it feel like, Paul?
I was all nervous and excited.
You were all nervous and excited.
How about now?
I'm calm.
You're calm.
Well, amen.
God grant that that heart will be completely
healed.
Amen.
Well, Glory, what's your name?
Jesse.
Jesse what?
Brownings.
Geneva, Ohio?
Yes, sir.
You have club feet?
Yes, sir.
How long you had club feet, Jesse?
Ever since I can remember.
How would you know if your feet were
healed?
I can tell.
You can tell?
Yeah, I did.
Oh, God, let his feet come straight.
Let his feet come straight.
Raise them up and down as I pray
for you, Jesse.
Jesus.
You left foot is the worse one, Jesse.
Yes.
Take a few steps and come back to
me.
Come back to me now.
Jesse, you're walking just a little different than
you did when you walked up here.
Yes, sir.
And you can tell it.
Yes, sir.
My feet was hurting no more.
They were hurting, but no more.
Walk over there and back, sir.
Say, you're using your heels good too, aren't
you?
Yes, you are.
Fred, it's so easy, isn't it?
Yes, sir.
Did you really expect to be helped?
Yes, sir.
I wish everybody could come like that.
You're so quiet and yet, you must be
feeling something inside.
I do.
You do?
Yes, sir.
Take it home with you.
All right.
You will?
God bless you.
Yes, sir.
Well, now, little crippled sister, just tell me
this.
What are you doing up here anyway?
Looking for a little help.
Do you remember the Episcopal Church?
Episcopalian Church from Canton, New York?
That's right.
You're Mrs. Della...
Bouchard.
You're very lame for ten years.
Now then, you've seen what God's done for
others.
Oh, I sure have.
Have you really seen the Lord do great
things here?
How could I miss?
How could you miss?
Well, He is doing great things.
Have you enjoyed the campaign?
Oh, every minute of it.
Every minute of it.
I was here the first day.
Well, now, how do you explain all these
people here from different churches, and yet they
all just meet in unity and we have
the greatest time in the world?
Wonderful.
Well, how do you explain that?
I couldn't explain it.
I don't know how.
You're just enjoying it.
I sure do.
There you are.
It doesn't require an explanation, does it?
Now, Miss Bouchard, when I touch you, let
that be your point of contact now, and
believe for the laying on of hands.
Oh, God, let her be healed tonight.
Healed.
That's yours?
Well, I can't take it away from me.
It's your property.
You want it?
I hope I never have to use it.
Miss Bouchard, I hope I'm saying your name
correctly.
When you walk off this platform tonight, remember
how you felt when you came up?
You were saying, I'm going to believe God.
I felt God when I touched you.
I expect you to walk off right, but
you too must believe that.
Now, you walk off like you should in
God's name.
I'll do that.
I'm watching you now, and I'm praying for
you too.
Pray right now.
Are you ready?
Oh, God, not in my name or in
my strength, but in the name of thy
son, Jesus Christ, I come to thee.
I ask thee to fill this room with
thy presence, and may the people in this
place be healed from the crown of their
head to the sole of their feet.
My brother, in the name of Christ, I
ask the Lord to heal you.
Heal him, O Lord.
Heal him.
My sister, in the name of the Son
of God, be healed.
Be healed and set free.
Father, heal the children.
Heal this little child.
Heal this baby.
Heal it.
Heal it and give it new life.
Lord, fill this room with thy glory, thy
presence, and heal the people in it, and
make them whole in soul and body.
Thank you, Lord.
I believe that you hear and answer prayer.
Amen.
Now then, I'm happy to call your attention
to the blessed word of God, which I
believe in with all my heart, to the
book of 2 Kings, chapter 2, beginning to
read in verse 8.
And this certainly is a dramatic part of
the Bible.
And Elijah took his mantle and wrapped it
together and smoked the waters, and they were
divided hither and thither, so that they too
went over on dry ground.
It came to pass when they were gone
over that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what
I shall do for thee before I be
taken away from thee.
And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a
double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
And he said, Thou hast asked a hard
thing.
Nevertheless, if thou see me when I am
taken from thee, it shall be so unto
thee, but if not, it shall not be
so.
And now I wish to speak to you
on this subject, transferred power.
For some time now, the Lord has been
dealing with me about transferred power.
That as the power of God in the
life of Elijah, the mighty prophet, was transferred
to the young man whose name was Elisha,
so the power of God in the lives
of people of Bible times can be transferred
to you and me in our generation.
Now I know that's a tremendous thing even
to think about, but the Lord has been
dealing with me and he's shown me it
can be done, it is being done in
our time.
I believe in transferred power.
Now Elijah was one of the greatest and
mightiest men of God who ever lived on
this earth.
It was Elijah whose prayer was responsible for
the great rain that came and broke the
drought of 42 months in the nation of
Israel.
He prayed the fire down from heaven that
broke the backbone of Baal that brought revival
and deliverance to his nation and people.
It was he who took the mantle from
his shoulder, smoked the waters of Jordan in
the name of the Lord, the waters rolled
back, and he walked across Drishon.
He was one of the two men in
the Bible who was translated, who was lifted
bodily from this earth and taken straight to
glory without having to die.
Yes, he was a mighty man of God.
And there were a few people who believed
that the power of God in Elijah's life
could be transferred, but he believed it and
a young man believed it, a young man
by the name of Elisha.
Now the first contact Elijah had with this
young boy Elisha was the day that he
saw him plowing in the field.
Now Elisha was just a young farmer boy.
I suppose he had never been to town
much.
He certainly didn't have much of this world's
education.
But you know, God doesn't look on outward
appearance.
He looks upon the heart.
He sees what's on the inside of us
and he deals with us accordingly.
As Elijah walked by, he just pulled off
his mantle and threw it over the shoulder
of this young boy as he walked behind
the plow.
Well, when the young boy felt the mantle
of Elijah, the mighty prophet of God, upon
his shoulders, he stopped.
He said to Elijah, I'll just go home.
I will take my plows and make a
fire.
I will take my beast and I'll make
a barbecue and I'll call my friends and
I'll kiss my mother and my father goodbye
and I'll go with you.
And he did it.
He made a clean break.
He stepped out to follow the mighty prophet
Elijah.
Now the second contact that the prophet Elijah
had with this young man, Elijah, was to
test his powers of spiritual perception.
He said to the young boy, you stay
here.
The Lord has called me to go to
Bethel.
But the young man said, no, as the
Lord thy God lives and as thy soul
lives, I will not leave thee.
And he went with him.
When they arrived, he said, you stay here.
The Lord has called me to Jericho.
The young man said, no, I'm going with
you.
And every time they would stop, Elijah would
say, young man, you stay here.
The Lord has called me to go to
some other place.
And finally he said, he's called me to
go to Jordan and you stay here.
The young man said, no, I'm going with
you.
You know why Elijah told him to stay
at each of these places?
He was testing his powers of spiritual perception.
He wanted to know if this man was
spiritually minded, if this boy had a desire
for spiritual things.
You know, there are some people who don't
care about God.
They don't care about spiritual things.
They don't care about making heaven their home.
They don't care a thing about the Bible.
They don't believe in prayer.
They don't believe there does anything to faith.
They don't even believe God heals today.
They don't believe in miracles.
They're not spiritually minded.
And your powers of spiritual perception are being
tested right now to see if you can
believe in the Spirit of God.
Did you know that we have more people
today seeking prayer than we can ever personally
pray for?
And I know that the time is coming
when we'll believe together in one explosive moment,
and in that incomparable hour, God will reach
down his hand and touch a whole crowd
and they'll be healed simultaneously.
If you believe it, say amen.
The third contact that Elijah had with this
young man, Elijah, was on the banks of
the Jordan River.
Now the Jordan is a type of the
thing that stands between us and God and
his power.
As they stood there, Elijah took his mantle
and walked out and smoked the water to
the right and to the left.
They rolled back.
And he walked across with Elisha dry shod.
When they got over on the other side,
Elisha looked back and the waters closed in
behind them.
About that time, Elijah said, Young man, the
Lord is going to translate me today.
Now ask of me what I shall do
for thee before I am translated.
What is the one thing you would like
for me to do for you, son?
The young man looked at that water of
the Jordan and remembered how the miracle had
parted those waters.
He remembered the tremendous miracles of this man's
life and of the way he used that
power to bless the human family.
And without hesitation, he looked at his master
and he said, Elijah, let a double portion
of thy spirit be upon me.
Friends, if God came to you and asked
you what was your one desire, what would
your answer be?
Well, he asked for what he felt in
his heart.
What he really believed in and wanted most
of all, he said, let a double portion
of thy spirit, thy power, be upon me.
Now the next contact that Elijah had with
this young boy, Elisha, was while he was
en route from earth to glory.
Elisha stood there, just a boy.
He had just asked for a double portion
of the man's spirit and power.
As he looked up, he saw the prophet
Elijah disappearing.
And he screamed, my father, my father, the
chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof.
In other words, he said, there goes the
army and the navy.
There goes the power of our people.
You know, he thought that when Elijah was
translated that the power of God would go
back to heaven with him.
That's what he thought.
But you know, there's one last thing Elijah
could do.
Just before he got out of sight, he
just turned his shoulders and loosed the mantle.
And down it came and fell at the
feet of this young boy, Elisha.
There it was.
In other words, Elijah on his whirlwind trip
to heaven was saying, son, you asked for
it, there it is.
Pick it up, smite the water, and they'll
roll back.
Glory.
My friend, you better not ask for the
power of God and mean it because something's
going to happen to you if you really
want it and you're sincere in believing for
it.
He picked it up.
He walked out to that old river.
He stood there on the bank.
He leaned over and he smoked the water
to the left and he smoked it to
the right.
Then he said, where is the Lord God
of Elijah?
And the waters rolled back, and he walked
across dry shore.
My brother, that's transferred power.
He got it.
He received the power of God.
You say, Brother Roberts, can I have the
power of God?
Yes, if you want it.
If you'll be spiritually minded.
You can have it if you will meet
God's conditions.
If you will have the courage, once you
ask for it and believe for it, to
take it and use it, you can have
the power of God.
Let every head be bowed, please.
Now while your heads are bowed, listen carefully
to me and do as I tell you.
If you will do as I tell you
in this service, God will save your soul.
He'll recover your soul.
He'll forgive your sins.
Now, please take the first step in his
name.
I want every man, every woman, every boy
and every girl who believes in my prayers,
and you want my prayers that God may
save your soul, and you want me to
pray that you will be saved in this
service, take the first step, please, in his
name right now and raise up your right
hand quickly.
Raise your hands up high.
Hundreds and hundreds of hands.
That's wonderful.
Take your hands down.
Now, friends, will you take the second step
and obey God?
I want every man, woman, boy and girl,
without exception, who raised your hand for me
to pray for you to be saved in
this service, take the second step in his
name right now and stand on your feet
for my prayer.
Please stand right now.
Oh, they're getting up all over this tent.
I'm so glad you're standing.
This is God's hour to save your soul
and make you whole.
We have a place in front of me
here at the platform where you may come
up and stand for prayer, and I'm going
to pray for you to be saved in
this service.
Please step out in the aisle, come down
the aisle right now, stand before me for
prayer.
And they're coming down every aisle.
Come on.
And now while they come down these aisles,
to repeat after me the sinner's prayer and
get saved, I want you there in your
home to get ready.
I want to pray the same prayer with
you that I pray with them, and I
know God will save you.
He will do it if you're sincere, and
you'll pray from your heart.
Please get yourself ready.
And now I want each of you friends
standing in front of me, put up your
right hand.
There in your home, put up your right
hand.
Don't be ashamed.
Put up your hand and pray this prayer
after me.
Ready?
Oh, Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner.
Save my soul from all sin.
Oh, God, come into my heart and save
me now.
Forgive my sins.
Make me thy child, and I'll serve thee.
In Jesus' name, amen.
If you meant that, say amen.
Say praise the Lord.
You there, listen to me.
Did you mean it?
If you meant it, the Lord has come
in your heart.
For if you're sincere as you pray, God
will hear you pray.
And if you feel that you are saved,
I want you to write me a personal
letter, Oral Roberts, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
That's all the address necessary, just Oral Roberts,
Tulsa, Oklahoma, and say, Brother Roberts, I was
saved through your prayers.
I want to know.
And if you don't feel that you're saved,
you write me, and let me pray for
you again.
And now you friends standing here, and you
there too, I want you to promise me
you will join a good church, the church
of your own choice, and live for God.
If you'll do it, say amen.
Amen.
Back in a moment to pray for the
sick.
Friends, we're ready now to start the healing
line when I pray for the sick.
I want to invite you there in your
home to open your heart and to participate
with us in prayer and faith.
I'd like to remind you that every week
at this time, many people in their homes
are healed while participating in our healing service.
You can be healed too.
I want you people here in the audience
to open your hearts and believe God.
I want you to know that we believe
in medical science just as you do, but
we also believe that God can heal by
faith.
So we're praying for the sick because we're
commanded by Christ to pray for the sick.
Are you ready here in the audience?
Good.
All right.
Right over here, William Broughour, Lakeland, Florida.
Mr. William, did you come from Lakeland, Florida
to Billings, Montana?
Yes, sir.
How far did you come?
I guess it's over 2,000 miles.
Oh, I reckon it is over 2,000.
It's probably more than 3,000 miles.
Why did you come, William?
I was looking at one of your programs.
On TV?
Not the last one, but about two weeks
ago.
I just went in not thinking I'd have
a chance.
I could hardly walk to the place.
And all my bones ached with this disease
I had.
What disease is it?
Hodgkin's disease.
Hodgkin's.
What is that disease?
It's cancer of the lymph glands.
Uh-huh.
And you came in the room while I
was on TV, and what happened?
Well, I thought my feet felt better.
I was just watching the program.
No, I took that prayer with you, and
I put my hand on my chest.
Oh, I see.
And I never had faith before.
All of a sudden, I seemed to have
a funny feeling in my feet.
And I didn't tell anybody in the room
because I couldn't just understand it.
But then I stood up and nothing hurt
anymore.
I jumped about a foot off the floor,
and I ran all the way home and
chinned myself on a swing in the back
of the yard to see if I had
the strength.
And that's when you entered the TV prayer
with me, when I said put your hand
on your body and praise it, right?
You've been feeling better ever since.
Yes, I have.
Then you decided to come to the campaign
and be prayed for in person.
Yes.
What church are you a member of?
Methodist Church.
Methodist Church in Lakeland?
Yes.
Well, well.
William, we're glad you're here.
And I'm sure this audience in this big
tent will pray with me.
And you people there in your home, pray
with me as I pray for this boy.
Everybody ready?
Answer me.
Ready?
Ready.
Good.
Jesus of Nazareth, Son of the living God,
completely heal this boy.
Doubtless you've already begun to heal him, for
we have the evidence of it here by
his own testimony.
But Jesus, whatever is left of this dreaded
malady, heal!
In Jesus' name, and may he be completely
well.
William, I hope you felt what I felt.
I want to thank you very much for
what you've done for me.
Oh, brother, you don't have to thank me.
You thank the good Lord.
Did you feel his presence when I prayed
for you there, William?
I thought you should because I felt it
so strong.
And I like to feel God's power when
I pray for the sick.
And listen to me.
Let me shake your hand.
As you go back to Florida, we want
you to write us.
We want you to keep in touch with
us.
We feel something has happened.
God bless you, Richless.
God bless you.
Yes, sir.
We're proud you came.
Give us your name and address, please.
Frank Anderson, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
And what church?
Methodist.
Mr. Anderson, how old are you?
77.
Just a boy?
Just a kid.
You have, uh...
Heart trouble.
Oh, you have heart trouble.
Palpitation.
Period.
I see.
Ringing in the head.
Ringing in the ears.
And they tell me that's an awful thing.
It's a bad thing.
Yes, sir.
Keeps you awake at night.
Yes, I know that you believe or you
wouldn't be here.
Oh, I absolutely do.
Oh, I'm glad.
Oh, God, heal your child.
Heal the heart.
Heal the ringing in the ears.
Set him free!
Oh, glory to God.
Brother, you just have faith.
That's what it takes.
Sure you have.
That's why I come down here.
And are you disappointed?
No.
No?
No, sir.
Brother Anderson, you are a chiropractic doctor?
Yeah.
Are you practicing in Vancouver?
Yeah.
You know, we have many wonderful friends among...
I got a lot of patients waiting for
me to come back to.
They know I'm down here.
Oh, your patients know you're down here?
Yeah, sure.
How do you do?
Sure I do.
Dr. Anderson, we have had many medical doctors,
chiropractic doctors, osteopathic doctors in our meetings.
You're not the first one.
And it's a wonderful thing to me, your
attitude, the attitude of many doctors toward God's
healing power.
It's the only thing.
Because God heals my patient through me.
That's the way I figure it.
I've always told them that.
What are you going to tell them this
time?
The same thing.
God bless you, doctor.
I'd like to talk to you a lot
longer.
I've got a lot of folks waiting.
God bless you and your patients.
What did you say, sister?
I can't get my balance very good.
What's the matter?
Well, I was in the hospital for 20
days under observation for a brain tumor.
And then I was scheduled for operation at
1 o'clock in the afternoon and 20
after 12.
They told me it couldn't operate.
They told you after scheduling the operation it
couldn't be carried through?
Why was that?
Mrs. Bonine, is it?
It's Bonine.
Bonine, I'm sorry.
I don't know why, but something's wrong.
They didn't think they could do it.
As far as you know, it's a brain
tumor.
Mrs. Bonine, how long have you been here
in the meeting?
I've been here all week.
I came Monday so I could be here.
Well, I believe that something good is going
to happen to you.
I know it is.
You know it?
Sure, that's why I came.
That's why you came.
Jesus, take...
Yes, sister, something happened then.
Yes, it's better.
It's better.
Sister, don't you be ashamed of crying and
shaking like that.
You've got every right.
Because if you're better, if God is healing
you, you have a right to shout to
high heaven.
People, let's raise our hands and help her
rejoice.
Are you the son?
Oh, I see.
You brought your son with you.
Sister, I think you're going to walk off
this platform and you aren't going to stagger
and you aren't going to be busy.
Walk off.
I'll send your son to you.
Walk right on up.
Oh, isn't that how this works?
People, isn't that wonderful?
Let the world see what Jesus can do.
Hallelujah!
This is the son of the woman, Mrs.
Benin, I just prayed for.
He's 34.
Harold, you do have epilepsy.
You're hard of hearing.
How hard of hearing are you?
Not very hard.
Is your hearing just dull in the left
ear?
But you do have epilepsy.
Yes, sir.
Jesus, heal the dull hearing.
Make his hearing acute and normal.
Now, audience, bow your heads, please.
Oh, God, I come against epilepsy in the
name of Christ.
Jesus of Nazareth, I ask in thy name.
Have compassion and mercy.
Heal!
May it never recur in Christ's name.
That smile speaks volumes, Harold.
Sir?
That feels wonderful.
In what way, Harold?
I just feel it.
Just feel the spirit of God.
Feel it.
Let's close up this ear a minute and
let me see...
Put your finger in that ear.
Say, praise God.
Praise God.
Amen.
How about that for a whisper?
I was whispering to you.
Say, praise God.
Praise God.
Amen.
Let me shake your hand.
God bless you, boy.
I'm ready now to offer the TV prayer.
You friends here in the audience, put your
hand upon your body as a point of
contact.
You there in your home, put your hand
upon your body like this.
Just put your hand on your chest.
Just as if I was there in person
and I was putting my hand on you.
People, if I was ever ready and anointed
to pray for you, that time is right
now.
So many of you have written me that
you've been healed through these prayers.
I want to encourage you to believe now.
Are you ready?
Dear God, I come to thee in the
name of thy son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
As you've healed the people here in the
line in the big tent, I ask thee
to stretch forth thy hand there in the
home of the people and heal them.
Heal the master.
Let your healing presence fill this place and
heal in the name of Jesus.
Now, my brother, I'm reaching forth my hand
to pray for you.
Get yourself ready.
My brother, in the name of Jesus of
Nazareth, the son of the living God, be
healed.
Jesus, heal your body, your soul and mind.
Heal you and make you whole.
I believe that.
My sister, are you ready?
Oh, God, put thy hand upon her.
My sister, in Christ's name, be healed.
Be healed from the crown of your head
to the sole of your feet.
Be made whole in Jesus' name.
I felt that prayer and I believe God's
helped you.
Now, young people, young man, young woman, I
know God can heal you.
In Jesus' name, O Lord, heal him and
heal her.
Heal them and make them whole.
Now, would you put your hands on your
baby or get near it?
Or if you're a little child, you put
your hand on your body and I'll pray
for you.
Jesus, heal this child.
Heal it.
Heal the baby.
Heal in the name of the holy child,
Jesus.
Heal and make them whole by your power.
People, if you feel what I feel, something
has happened to you.
The Lord's here and he's there.
There's no distance in prayer.
I can pray here.
He can heal you there.
I believe it.
Now, I want you to raise your hands
and I want you to praise him right
now.
Thank him for what he's done for us.
Did you do it?
Everybody.
Amen.
You've been listening to the From the Pulpit
in Classic Sermons series.
This week, you heard Oral Roberts with his
messages, What You Should Know About Your Faith,
and Transferred Power.
Tune in next week to hear John Rhys
Watkins talk about the Antichrist Unmasked on From
the Pulpit in Classic Sermons.