What are you doing here? by Richard Roberts

August 23, 2011 – 1:30 am

Everybody in our city is aware that each year thousands of ORU students register to vote.  And if you take our community, if you take the community here at ORU, we amass, if you take all the students and their families, the graduate students and their wives, husbands, children, so on and so forth, as well as our faculty, staff and students and their families, we have a voting force of about 10,000.

What are you doing here, when I called you to be there?

But the Christian way has been to bury our heads in the sand and be uninvolved and then complain about the results.  I’ll tell you what, if you don’t gather the wheat, if you don’t crunch the wheat, if you don’t bake the bread, you’ve got no right to say, “This bread doesn’t taste right.”

What are you doing here, when I called you to be there?

It’s time for we Americans who call ourselves Christians and charismatics to stand up for what’s right.  Because if you don’t stand up for something, you’re going to fall for just about anything. 

Now back to Elijah.  He obeyed.  And the time came when the anointing came on him to bring his protégé along.  And Elisha has now had his backyard barbecue.  And Elijah has learned.  But he wants to see what Elisha has learned.

And so as he travels, he says to Elisha, “You stay here.  I am going there.”

But Elisha has also studied the life and ministry of Elijah.  “No, no, no, no.  I’ve seen the mistakes of the past.  I’ve learned something by history.  I’ve read of your ministry.  I’ve heard you preach.  I’ve been under your ministry now.  I am not staying here.  I’m going there.”

And they get to the next place.  “Elisha, you stay here.  I’m going there.”

“No, no, no, no, no.  As the Lord liveth, I will not stay here.  I will go there.”

Why do we rehearse the heres of our life?  Look at Mark, chapter 16.  Look at those women coming to the tomb.  Their Messiah was dead and buried.  It was over.  He had been crucified, whipped until virtually unrecognizable, put in a borrowed grave.

And now they came out to the Sabbath.  The Romans had not been overthrown.  Their enemies had not been vanquished.  And they came with certain spices and found the stone had been rolled away, and a man seated on a rock in a white outfit.  “Where have they taken him?”

 

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The power of God by Richard Roberts

August 15, 2011 – 9:30 pm

RR:   You that stood for back prayer, stand up one more time.  Begin to twist and turn and move and bend.  See what you can do now!  How many of you can tell when someone laid hands on you, you felt the power of God? Oh, my, my. .Look around.  Look at the hands.  Look at that, hundreds. Look at that.  Come on, twist and turn and move.  That’s God.

Real quickly, you who have problems in your shoulders, stand up. There’s a word of knowledge.  I just felt this snap!  I’ll oftentimes say to Lindsay, “Lindsay, I just felt my shoulder just snap and pop.”  Well, that’s not because there’s anything wrong with my shoulders, it’s because God is giving me a word of knowledge.  That’s how I oftentimes know.

And when the word of knowledge works through you, suddenly you feel something.  Pastor Bill I feel it first. I feel it; then I see it in my spirit.  I see someone who is suffering with that, and then someone gets healed.  And when I launch out and say what I feel….

And I’m instructing you.  When you say what you feel, at that moment it may make absolutely no sense to you.  And it may happen while you’re preaching.  God may just mess with your preaching.  And don’t do what I used to do.  I used to say, “God, wait until I finish preaching.”  Don’t do that!

Once we had a miracle that happened right in the middle of my sermon.  I gave the word, the person got healed and people began to rejoice.  I tried to preach, but God said, “Give an altar call.”  I said, “God, I’m not finished preaching yet.”  Don’t do that.

He said, “I said give an altar call.”  Well, Can’t I just get to the third point?  “No!”  Don’t do that.  Look, it’s His service; it’s not your agenda.  Don’t get on your agenda; get on His.

I remember one time I gave an invitation.  In the middle of the sermon a thousand people stood to give their lives to Christ.  And I said to God, “I wonder what would have happened if I had waited until the end?”  You know what He said back to me?  “Not much!”  (LAUGHTER)

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God will give you methods by Richard Roberts

August 8, 2011 – 6:56 am

And I tried to sign it, and I couldn’t write.  So I said, “Well, I’m just going to put my RR on it.  If you want me to sign it, I’ll just put my RR, and when I do, I’ll release my faith.”

Well, the phones started ringing.  And that wasn’t too long ago. And I’ve now signed over 70,000 of them.  And as of yesterday I’m 11,000 behind.  I ought to be signing them this week, but you’re here.  And I haven’t had any time.  And she’s got one right there with my RR on it. I signed that, ma?am.  Nobody signed that but me.

And God gave me a Bible method.  And I got a testimony from a woman last week whose husband had a stroke and went into a coma.  And the doctors were about to use the word, they were getting real close to using the word brain dead.  And she went into the hospital room in the ICU and put the prayer cloth on his head and prayed.  And the next morning he came out of the coma, and they released him from the hospital.

 Another testimony from a girl who fell and broke her ankle and put the prayer cloth on her ankle, and God healed the bone.  We’ve had hundreds and hundreds of testimonies. This is another Bible-honored way of praying for the sick.  And God will give you methods.  And you’ve got to be willing to launch out and reach out and do whatever He says, whenever He does it.

Now oftentimes I say, “Lord, I don’t want You to do that in this circumstance.”  And that’s when He’ll always do it.  “I don’t want the word of knowledge to work when I go to Walmart.”  But it does.  It works wherever I go, not because of me but because of Him.  And it will work through you if you will open yourself up.

And I want to challenge you tonight to be open and say to the Lord, “However You want to use me, if it’s through the laying on of hands, if it’s through the operation of the gifts of the Spirit, if it’s anointing oil, if it’s a prayer cloth, whatever it is, if it’s a good word.”

Another method that God has given me is from Psalm 107:20, “He sent his word and healed them and delivered them from their destruction.”  Oftentimes on television I’ll take my hand and say, “According to Psalm 107, I send the word to you.”  And I’ll say, “Walk over and touch my hands as a point of contact.”

I remember in the 1950?s watching my father put his hand up on television.  I remember how the kids in my class would laugh and mock at that.  I thought about that the first night the Lord said, “Put your hands up like that.”  And that’s when I found that Scripture that God worked through the hands of the disciples.

One of the first times I ever did it, the Holy Spirit said, “Say this out loud.  There’s a woman who’s got cancer of the cervix.  She’s pregnant.  She’s going to have to abort the child and have immediate surgery, and she’ll never have a child.  Tell her I’m healing her right now.”

II said that on television.  I said, “Whoever you are, Ma?am, come over and lay your hand on my hand.”  There was a woman who had just been diagnosed with cancer of the cervix.  She was pregnant.  Her husband was a policeman.  He was on the job.  She couldn’t tell him.  So she went to her mother’s house to tell her first.

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Something Good is Going to Happen to You, Expect a Miracle by Richard Roberts

August 3, 2011 – 8:08 am

GP:  Well, it’s so good to be here with you.  And this is a moment for me, as I stand here before you right now, because sometime during the last century I was here.  When I graduated from high school, I was not born again, and I had my life really planned out.  I was going to go to art school, I was going to follow in my father’s footsteps, and then go on to New York into advertising.  And about the second year of art school, I was born again.  At the end of that year I left and went back home, got involved in a church.  And every Sunday morning, before I would go to church, I would watch Oral Roberts on television. 

And every Sunday I would watch that fly-over introduction, “Something Good is Going to Happen to You, Expect a Miracle.”  And week after week after week the Lord, the Holy Spirit was pulling on me and drawing me to this place.  Where I got to a place where I had to come here.  I knew that there was something more for me here.  Now, at the time, I was not spirit filled.  I wasn’t praying in other tongues, but I knew, I knew that the Lord had something for me special in this place.  So I applied, I was accepted, I came here.  And, Richard, the very first day, the first day that I came on campus, and I know that – how many of you have attended school here or graduated? 

Let me see your hands.  You’ve attended or you’ve graduated.  The very first day, when I drove up the drive, and I saw the Prayer Tower, and I saw all the buildings, the Holy Spirit came on me, and I felt like I had just stepped into the will of God.  And I went to my room;  I unpacked and I got things settled.  And then I decided to go out for a walk.  And I walked around the campus and looked at the different things, preparing my self for classes.  And I went down to what is now called Lake Evelyn, and I sat under a tree and just began to pray.  Now I came here to major in music.  I wanted to study music. 

And I sat down under that tree, and I began to pray, and the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “You are called to be a pastor.”  And He had me change my major.  So right there, the very first day that I came on campus, the Holy Spirit spoke to me.  And I want to tell you, and I’ll be real quick about this, I want to tell you that every moment – now I was here for 9 months.  Now during that 9 months I met someone on my sister wing named Terri Copeland.  And we started dating each other and so forth, and by the end of that first year that we were here, we were engaged.  I mean, God moves fast.  When He wants something done, He moves real quick. 

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The body of Christ by Richard Roberts

July 26, 2011 – 8:19 am

It reminded me of the book of Acts, where they said to Peter and the others, “Don’t teach or preach in that name,?  ”cause they knew what would happen when they used that name.  They knew that sickness and disease would begin to pack their bags and leave town!  …APPLAUSE…

And the judge in his ruling…  I read it with my own eyes.  I didn’t believe it until I read it.  The judge in his own ruling said, “And to make certain you don’t use the name of Jesus, I’m going to assign two United States marshals to the commencement.  And if the name Jesus is used, that person will be incarcerated for six months.”  And I quote, “They’ll wish they died as a child.”

Now let me tell you, we can blame a woman all we want for taking Bibles and taking prayer out of schools, but it’s our fault.  You can blame it on that woman all you want, but the truth is it’s our fault, “cause if you don’t stand up for something, you’ll fall for anything.

I want you to know as the body of Christ we have unlimited, untapped power if we will exercise it.  And there are forces in this country that are terrified that one of these days the Christians are going to wake up and see the power that they have in this nation.  …APPLAUSE..

Now listen to me.  I am compelled to say this.  I’ve never preached this in my life. I was not alive in 1941 on December 7 when forces of the Imperial Japanese Army struck Pearl Harbor.  I wasn’t alive.  I read the stories as I grew up, in my history classes, about President Roosevelt declaring war after that day.  I read the stories of how the commanders of the Japanese forces made a statement like this:  “I fear we have only awakened a sleeping giant.”  And, brother, that was prophetic.  He was right.

I was alive this past September 11.  I was alive, very much alive. And even in the wake of what’s happened, God is moving.  Friends, there is a revival in this land.  There are more people who have come to Christ since September 11 than we can possibly imagine.  Altars have been filled,people are getting saved, getting baptized in the Holy Spirit.  There has been more talk about the second coming ofChrist, about the rapture of the church.  Every time I’m interviewed by the media, they want to talk about the rapture and the second coming of Christ.  Time magazine called me on Friday and said, “We want to talk to you about the second coming of Jesus.”  …APPLAUSE…  I said, “Yes, I’ll talk about the Bible.”

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