SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Melva Jo, would you sing for us?  Would you step over and get yourself ready?  And we’re kind of informal here, Melva.  Just come right on by.  Get yourself ready to sing. And while she’s getting ready to sing, I have another letter that I want to share.  This is from Kensington, California.  “Dear Richard, God always comes through for me.  And I want to share a miracle that my husband and I have received through your program. For the past ten years my husband suffered with diabetes.  I felt helpless because he was growing worse and I could do nothing to help.  The pain medications were not working and the insulin shots had become such a daily routine.  Finally he had to be hospitalized here in California.  And the doctors said they had done all they could do.  It seemed like it was time to give up. One morning I was visiting my husband in the hospital and I turned the television on and there was your program.  You said that if God can move mountains, then He can heal sickness and disease.  You said to have faith and believe God for a miracle.

Then you began to pray.  And I joined hands with my husband and we agreed for a total healing.  Then you spoke a word of knowledge.  God gave you a word about diabetes that was being healed.  The next week the doctors released my husband from the hospital with a clean bill of health.  Thanks to God, my husband is a different person.  He is healed from his head to his toes.” (Applause)  Now that’s a miracle.  You know, I thank God for the prayer and I thank God for the medical doctors that were doing everything they know.  You know, I just give the glory to God. It doesn’t matter to me if it’s the prayer or if it’s the doctors working or if it’s a combination of both.  I just want to see you get well, from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet. And I praise God for it.  Let’s give the Lord a good handclap. Isn’t that a good word?  (Applause)  If you have a prayer request, step to your phone right now and call the Abundant Life Prayer Group, area 918-495-7777.  And let us know what your name is, what your need is, and we’ll pray.  We’ll believe God for a miracle for you.  Melva Lea is coming to minister to us in song. Let’s give her a welcome as she sings.  Melva, God bless you.

(Applause)

SPKM MELVA LEA Romans 14:17 says, “The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.” Jesus said, “His kingdom will be within us.”

SPKR MELVA LEA  SONG When_His_kingdom_comes (Applause)

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Give her a good handclap.  Melva, God bless you.  (Applause) Praise the Lord.  CITY OF FAITH

SPOT  (Applause)

SPKM JIM WINSLOW If you need to come to the City of Faith and you live outside of Tulsa, the City of Faith will pay your airline fare to Tulsa, Oklahoma and back home again, if you need to come to the City of Faith. (Applause)

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Jim, the, the biggest problem–let me just, you know, we talk about a lot of different things on this program and, honestly, the biggest problem that we’ve had with the City of Faith is the fact that people have health insurance and they want to come, but they have not been able to afford the air fare ticket to come down here.  Now what you tried to work out with American, what you have worked out with American Airlines is a way to solve that problem.

SPKM JIM WINSLOW That’s right.  If you have insurance and we can verify that, confirm it, then we’ll pay your air fare.  Now you say, how can you afford to do that?  Well, it’s not very complicated.  We worked out an arrangement with American Airlines so that we get a preferred price. If you come to the City of Faith with an insurance, with a diagnosis, we take care of you.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS With a diagnosis.

SPKM JIM WINSLOW With a diagnosis.  In other words, we’re not doing this for physical examinations.  But if you have a diagnosis and you need to see a doctor or need surgery or need another opinion about something, then we’ll take care of you and we will pick up the cost of the airline fare because with American Airlines we’ve worked out a program so we can afford to do that.  And you benefit, we benefit.  You’re going to get the finest health care in the world.  I know that the City of Faith has the very best.  (Applause)  And you need the very best.

SPKM LARRY LEA Dr. Winslow, I live in Dallas and I picked up the paper and read about this.  And my question was simply, is this program to every city where American Airlines flies?

SPKM JIM WINSLOW Every city that American Airlines goes to has this program available to us.

LR: Now when you see this book, the stress book, it has a price tag attached to it.  That’s going away today because I want to give it to you.  Don’t pay any attention to it.  Our prayer partners know the people at this number, 866-870-6932, know that when you call and order this book, this is a gift to you.  There is no charge.  It’s my Seed-Faith gift to you.

I believe in sowing seeds.  Am I a little stressed out lately?  You could say that.  So you know what?  I’m sowing my stress book into you, believing that as you read the book and God ministers healing to you, God’s going to multiply that seed back to me.  So 866-870-6932.

Are you pressured?  Sometimes.  Stressed?  Yes.  Frustrated?  Well, yes.  Overcoming Stress, take charge of the negative situations that come to attack you.  Overcome them with the Word of God.  So please call that telephone number, and please allow me the privilege of sowing seed into your life.

Now I want to tell you about a goofy phone call that I had from a very sweet lady.  She is a lady that is one of the hosts on QVC.  Now I had never met her, had not talked to her, didn’t know anything about her until she started contacting our ministry.

And as she contacted our ministry, she began preaching to us.  She began preaching Oral’s Seed-Faith message to us.  And today she called me, and she said, “Lindsay, I want you to know what I’m doing right now.”  And I said, “Okay.”

She said, “I am putting a check”—and it was a very sizable check—“into an envelope.”  And she said, “I am licking it right now, and I am walking to the mailbox.”

And I said, “Why are you doing that?”  And she said, “I want you to know that I have to sow seed into good ground.”  She said, “God doesn’t need my money.”  And I thought, Well, okay.  He walks on streets of gold, walls made out of jasper, gates made out of pearl.  I bet He doesn’t need our money.

But she said, “I have a need to sow it.”  She said, “There’s areas in my life where my needs are not being met, and I believe Malachi, that God will open me the windows of heaven, pour out a blessing where there’s not room enough to receive it, and rebuke the devourer for our sake.”

And I said, “Have you been listening to me on Make Your Day Count?”  She said, no, actually she works during that time.  And I said, “I want you to go on-line, and I want you to listen to what I have to say today because that is exactly what I have my Bible open to is the book of Malachi.”

And I want to show you something.  Malachi 3:10 and 11, and I know I’ve kind of been on this scripture a lot.  But, you know, until we get the revelation of it, let’s stick with something until it gets in us.

It says, “Bring tithe and offering into the storehouse,” or where you’re being fed spiritually.  If it’s this program, if it’s something where you are being fed, you’re to bring tithe and offering into that storehouse—“that there may be meat,” or resources, “in that storehouse.”

Now this is the only time in the entire Bible, Genesis to Revelation, where this word is going to appear.  And I’m going to read it to you.  It says, “Prove me.”  The only time in the entire Bible, all 66 books of the Bible, where God uses this word and says, “Prove me,” is right there, proving tithe and offering and opening the windows of heaven and rebuking the devourer.  That’s the only place He said, “Put me to the test.”

And it says it’s not like, “I dare you,” but it’s sort of like that in saying, “I want you to test this thing.  I want you to see how it operates.”

What I think God was telling us is that He wants to see in us, in our situation, He wants us to understand the system.  If you want God’s answers, then you’ve got to do it on God’s system.  If you want spiritual answers, miraculous answers, you have to do it in God’s miraculous way.

“Bring all the tithe and offering into the storehouse, that there may be meat,” or resources, “in my house.  And prove me now, says the Lord of hosts, and see”—prove Him now.  That’s a good one—“see if I will not open you the windows of heaven, pour you out a blessing where there’s not room enough to even receive it all, and rebuke the devourer for your sakes.

“He shall not destroy the fruits of your ground.  Your vine shall not cast her fruit before the time in the field, says the Lord of hosts.  And all nations shall call you blessed, and you will be a delightsome land.”

LRHi.  I’m Lindsay Roberts.  And I’m on the campus live right now from Oral Roberts University.  And I want to tell you, it is a beautiful day here at the Prayer Tower.  A couple of days ago it was 46 degrees.  It was windy.  It was pouring rain, and now we’ve got a beautiful sunny day here on Oral Roberts University campus.

And we want to tell you, this is the day that the Lord has made, and we’re going to go into the Prayer Tower and we’re going to begin to pray for you.  So stay tuned because we’re going to be right back.

LR: Okay, we want to make sure you get this book, Overcoming Stress.  I’m going to give you a toll-free number.  And since I can’t read it up on the screen, I’m going to read it off this piece of paper—866-870-6932, 866—that’s toll-free—870-6932.

I want you to get this book as my gift to you.  First of all, I want the privilege of planting seed into your life.  And second of all, I believe this book can help you.

And I remember so vividly one day I was working on this, and how I felt overwhelmed and how I felt like, “Okay, this is crazy!  I’m stressed out over a stress book.”  And I realized, you know what?  Sometimes we can get stressed out over the silliest things.  But left unchecked, those silly things can get bigger and bigger and bigger.

I remember having a sermon one time where I took a little tiny piece of Saran wrap, just plastic wrap, and left by itself, it’s basically harmless.  But if you let that Sarah wrap wrap you up round and round and round and round, pretty soon you’re completely bound up and wrapped up in something that may have been very harmless at first.  But the more you give in to it and the more it wraps itself around you, the less able you are to move around and hear the Word of God and act on the Word of God.

And I realized that stress is a real live thing that is overwhelming people today.  So this says, “Are you pressured, stressed, frustrated?  Take charge of the negative situations.”  Don’t let them take charge of you.  You take charge of the negative situations that attack you.  Overcome them with the Word of God.”  It’s my gift to you.  I want to give it to you.  All you have to do is go to the website at makeyourdaycount.com, or 866-870-6932.

You know, we’ve been talking about doing this program live, and we’re live right now.  It’s a little after two o’clock Tulsa time.  That’s Central Time.  And it’s Wednesday afternoon.  And we’ve been getting prayers from the Abundant Life Prayer Group, prayer requests, as well as praise reports.

And this one called in, and the precious lady called in right when we went off the air on our program yesterday.  And she said she called the Abundant Life Prayer Group for her daughter’s pregnancy, and she was having complications.  Immediately after prayer, they called us right back and said the granddaughter delivered a healthy baby boy named Nathan.  Praise the Lord for that.

Debbie called the Abundant Life Prayer Group for loneliness and depression.  And she said her daughter had told them that she was always praying for other people, but God had never dealt with the depression in her life because she had never given it to God.

So she called for prayer, and they all began to ask and believe God for His intervention.  After prayer, she called back to say God gave her her joy.  The depression was gone.  The loneliness is gone, and she said, “I just want you all to know I am praising the Lord.”  Well, we are praising the Lord with you.

This lady called in and said her son-in-law Lee was diagnosed with cancer in his neck and called the Abundant Life Prayer Group for prayer.  After prayer, he had surgery, went through treatment.  And the doctors came back and said, “We want to stop the treatment.  There is absolutely no need for the treatment.  You are cancer-free.”  Praise the Lord for that!

We’ve had lots and lots of different praise reports.  But right now I want to stop, and I want to do two things.  We talked yesterday, if you remember, about Malachi 3, where it said, “Bring all the tithe and offering into the storehouse.”  Bring the tithe and offering in the place you’re being fed.

And then it said, “Prove me now,” God said, “see if I’ll not open you the windows of heaven, pour you out a blessing where there’s not room enough to receive it all, and I will rebuke the devourer for your sake.”

Your tithe and your offering is completely connected to God rebuking the devourer for your sake.  Why is that?  I don’t know.  That’s what God wrote.  He said when you bring the tithe in, He would open you the windows of heaven, pour you out a blessing where there’s not room enough to receive it, and rebuke the devourer for your sake.  That’s the way God set it up.

So I want to show you what people have been doing as a result of that.  They’ve been specifically naming their seed for a specific harvest, just as Malachi was saying.

In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this precious woman called in and sowed $200 to believe God for her healing.  Now is she trying to buy a miracle?  Well, I don’t think they’re for sale.  And if they are, I’m not sure what you’d charge—like what’s a cold cost?  What’s cancer cost?  That’s not how God set it up.  He said, “When you bring your tithe as offering and seed unto God, he would open the windows of heaven, pour out a blessing where there’s not room enough to receive it, and rebuke the devourer for our sake.”  And that’s what this precious woman is doing.  (Reading names)

In Ohio, $25 seed for financial miracles.  You know, that seems so, to the world’s system, to the natural system, seems so silly.  When you need finances, why would you give what finances you have?  Because God said very clearly in Luke 6:38, when you give it would be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.  And I believe the Bible.  I believe the Word of God.

So if you want to plant a seed, if you’d like information about that, call the Abundant Life Prayer Group, 918-495-7777.  Or you can write Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts, Tulsa, OK 74102. In fact, if we go to a Living Proof right now, while we’re doing that, I want to go into the Abundant Life Prayer Group, where we’re going to stand with those prayer partners and begin to pray for you.  So stay tuned because we’re going to be right back.

LP:  Abner Torres, Orlando, FL

BRAD: With some 50 million tourists each year, Orlando is one of the world’s top vacation spots.  In fact, only Las Vegas tops Orlando when it comes to US cities with the most hotel rooms.  That’s where Abner Torres comes in.  He owns an employment agency here in Orlando where he finds jobs for people mostly in the hotel and service industry.

AT: I’m sending you a qualified person just right now, one that you need right now.

BRAD: Not long ago though, Abner’s livelihood and life came to a screeching halt after he had a bad fall in his home.

AT:

And when I fell down on the floor, suddenly I could not move.  From the lower part down, I couldn’t move anything.  It was a very bad fall because I wasn’t able to move nothing, nothing.  I couldn’t even move not even my feet or my toes, nothing.

The ambulance came and took me to Florida Hospital.  And there they did some testing.

BRAD: The doctor told Abner that he twisted his back, injuring the nerves in his lower spine.  He then told Abner he would never walk again.

AT: I kind of didn’t believe that, but then I asked another opinion from another doctor.  And the other doctor said the same thing, I would never walk again.

BRAD: Doctors at the hospital told Abner an operation was his only chance to restore any feeling or movement to his legs and feet.  But Abner said doctors gave him no guarantees.

AT: The doctor said I had to go for an operation.  And the doctor said, “We’ll give you a 30 percent of recovering, just 30 percent after the operation.”  They wanted to break my spine again and be able to put things together again.  But he would not give me a promise on that.  He said, “You might have a 30 percent chance.”

BRAD:
Abner didn’t like the odds he was given.  But without the operation, he knew he’d need a miracle if he was to ever walk again.

So one night from his hospital bed, he was flipping through the channels and came across The Hour of Healing.

AT: Every night what I would do, I would put the TV on on Oral Roberts.

RR: In the authority of Jesus’ name, I pray the prayer of faith.  Now listen to me.  Let me give you the Bible tonight.  The Bible says, “The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise them up.”

AT: He talked about the healing, you know, God’s healing, you know,

He’s the only person that you can go to.  So that gave me like more strength, you know, when I heard him talking.

BRAD: Abner also called in and had a prayer cloth sent to him.

AT: I use to put the prayer cloth that they send me, and I put it on my back and my legs.

BRAD: He watched Richard and Lindsay for several nights from his hospital bed, when he decided to call the Abundant Life Prayer Group.

AT: When I called them, I started feeling a little warm on me and I started moving my toes, then moving my legs.  So I said, “Thank God, you know, I’m getting healed,” you know.  And then I started thanking God and praising the Lord, you know.  And I know that God was healing me, you know, because I started moving my legs.

BRAD: The next day, Abner couldn’t wait to show his doctor how he could move his legs and feet.

AT: The doctor came again, and asked me, you know, how I feel.  But I told him, you know, that I was starting to move a little bit, you know.  And he said to me, “You will never walk again.  I’m sorry to tell you.”

BRAD: Abner though refused to be discouraged, and little by li0ttle he kept getting more feeling and movement in his legs.  A month later he could walk with a walker.  Six months after that, he started walking all by himself.  And today Abner says his legs and back are healed by God.

AT: It’s a miracle!  It’s a miracle.  It’s a miracle!  I couldn’t even stand up.  I thank God for this ministry.  That program gave me courage and hope.  That was the only hope I had because I had nobody else to turn to.  The doctor could not do nothing for me.  The doctor gave me no alternative.  The doctor gave me no alternative whatsoever.

The only source that I would have is the man upstairs, the healing for man, Jesus.  When man says no, God says yes.

LR:  God is so good, if we just allow Him to be good.  This person talks about knowing God but slipping away.  He said–this is a gentleman in Chicago and he said, “God is a healing God and I’m proof of that.  I was in a car accident last summer and I ruptured the discs in my back.  I know it sounds like a small problem, but I’ve never felt so much pain in all of my life.  I had a terrible limp, and sleep was almost impossible.  I was a Christian, but I decided to put God in the background.”  But he said he decided that.  How about that.  “But when the pain became unbearable, I decided the only thing I could cry out to was God and I needed God’s help.  The following morning I was changing channels and I came across your program.  You said that God was there for us and He hears our cry for help.  You began to pray for people’s healing and I felt an electric shock touch my back. God healed me that morning.”  That’s right.  “And I rededicated my life to Him.  Now I praise God and I’m serving God with all of my life.  And I’m so glad that God loves me in spite of all my faults.”

RR:  Lindsay, let’s just have prayer.  Let’s just have prayer right now.  (Amen)  Someone watching this program who does not know Jesus as their Savior–yeah, yeah–and the Lord’s healing somebody in their right leg right now.  Knee, the kneecap that you’ve injured is being healed right now, being healed right now. You know, Lindsay, the other day my dad and Jim Winslow, who is the head of the City of Faith, and I were talking and praying together.  And we joined hands to pray.  And as Dr. Winslow was praying, the Lord gave me a word of knowledge.  And I instantaneously by the Spirit of God knew that Jim had had a problem in his wrist.  Now I didn’t know anything about it, but the Lord showed me.  And while we were praying, God completely healed his wrist.  He had had some trouble with his wrist, and God healed it all.  And I know that there’s no distance in prayer.  What God did for Jim Winslow just the other day, He can do in your life as we pray.  Lindsay, first of all, I want to pray for those who don’t know Christ.  I’m going to ask you to lead the prayer and then I’ll pray.

LR:  You know, it’s just like this gentleman who knew Christ, he knew all about Him, but he decided–he said, “I made a decision to put God in the background.”  We can make a decision that we know all about God but we don’t want anything to do with Him. But God is so real and He wants to help us and He wants us to serve Him and have abundant life. But if we make the decision to put God in the background, then there’s nothing God can do.  We tie God’s hands.  And right now, in the name of Jesus, let’s untie God’s hands so God can work a miracle for us. Father, right now, in the name of Jesus, I pray for anyone who is backslidden or who has never known Jesus Christ as their Savior before, in the name of Jesus, I ask you right now repeat this prayer after me–Father God, I pray and repent of my sins.  I ask You to forgive me.  I know I’m a sinner and I’m sorry.  And I repent right now.  I take Jesus Christ as my Lord and my personal Savior.  I ask You to help me never to do the sins again.  And, Father, work a miracle for my life.  In Jesus’ name, amen.

RR:  Friend, if you meant that prayer away down in your heart, Jesus is entering your life right now.  Just before I pray a healing prayer, I have a little book here called HOW TO LIVE YOUR NEW LIFE.  If you meant that prayer, Jesus has entered your heart and you have a brand-new life.  And I’d like to send you this book, HOW TO LIVE YOUR NEW LIFE.  If you’ll just write me, Richard Roberts, Tulsa, Oklahoma, I’ll put it into the mail. It’s free, there’s no obligation, and I know it will be a blessing to you.  Now, in the name of Jesus, I stretch out my hands to pray the prayer of faith for you.  I come against the sickness and the disease in your body and I pray for you to be delivered from the oppression and depression of the devil.  I command that thing that’s unlike God to come out of your life, in the mighty name of Jesus.  And I pray for you to be healed, delivered, and set free.  Through Jesus’ mighty name.  Now sit up tall.  Stand up tall.  Expect a miracle to happen in your life. And I believe it’s beginning now, in the name of Jesus.  Praise God.  ORU Singers, are you about ready to sing?  They’re going to sing a beautiful song called “We Are Persuaded.”  We are persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor any power, nor anything above or below can separate me–notice that word–can separate me from the love of Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. Singers, are you about ready?  Let’s give them a good handclap as they sing from the Bible, “We Are Persuaded.” (Applause)

DB:  Ephesians 2:8,9.

RR:  All right now, when you came to Jesus through this man’s witness, what did it do?  How did it change your life?  How did it effect your fellow players?

DB:  Well, first of all–

RR:  Because you began acting in a way that you weren’t used to acting before.

DB:  First of all, you know, I had a strong wife.  My wife Rhonda who I’ve been married to for ten years now, she was a Christian at the time.  And she was just really a strong witness in front of me.  She always stood by me.  She was my support and really I just feel so fortunate and blessed to have a wife like Rhonda. And once I became a Christian and I started reading the Bible for myself and studying it and allowing God to work through my life just saying, in every situation, you know, I’ve made a choice this day to follow after You, Lord, to be the man of God that You called me to be.  And I don’t know what to do.  You just show me through Your Word and through my spirit, the Holy Spirit that You’ve given me, and show me how I am to live. And each day as I’ve been obedient to the Word of God I’ve been revealed more and more from studying the Word of God, spending time in prayer and fellowship with other believers and witnessing.  This is what I’m doing right now, just telling what God has done in my life. I’ve just grown and grown.  (Applause)

RR:  A question I want to ask is the reaction, the reaction throughout your teammates and throughout the NFL and the fans, because suddenly people began seeing you do things, like, for example, the time that you, that you intercepted a pass, ran for a touchdown, the second largest interception in NFL history, and when you got into the end zone you got down on your knees and thanked the Lord.  I’d like you to, I’d like you to talk about that, how people responded.  And also when they saw you after Seattle came up in the world and you wound up beating the Miami Dolphins in the playoffs, you all were having a prayer meeting back in the dressing room afterwards.  And cameras came in and the news media came in and saw all this.  What was the response of people?

RR:  Dave, I want to give you an opportunity to tell your story, and I guess maybe the best way to do that is for me to just ask you a question.  When you were young did you dream of, everydream that you’d wind up in the National Football League?  would be a professional football player.

DB:  When I was real young, something like 8 or 10 years old, all the other kids were allowed to play football but my father wouldn’t let me play football.  I wasn’t football, and plus the other thing was that unless I got good grades I couldn’t do anything other than go to school.

RR:  So you had a strong family that believed in your education and wanted you to be healthy and was concerned that you might get injured or something in football.

DB:  That is correct.

RR:  By the time you were 15 things began to change in your life.

DB:  My father felt I was big enough to play, so I was allowed to play.  I had played baseball all the up to that point and basketball.

RR:  Now I know you played through high school and of course you went to the University of Michigan and you were the number one pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers.  Was that in 1976 or 7?  (75) 75.  The number one pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers.  When you got to the Steelers right out of college and wound up, you know,in the Super Bowl.  What did that do to Dave Brown?  All during my first year playing football, bantam league, in high school and college, you know, all we ever did was win.  So I think in college I lost, in high school I lost four games, in college I only lost two games.  So I hadn’t been used to losing at all.

RR:  So you were ready for the tradition of winning with the Pittsburgh Steelers.  the expansion draft in 1976, God moved me from there to Seattle, and we lost 12 games in the first year and only won two.  And God let me know that it was only because of His grace that I was able to be fortunate enough to be playing on one of these teams.

John, somebody would say to me, Richard Roberts, what can I do? What can I do? Here’s what you can do. You can keep your university opened. See, this isn’t our university.

It’s your university. I, Richard Roberts, don’t know anyone who hasn’t come into contact with a graduate of Oral Roberts University. Practically everyone I know has said to me at some time, “I saw one of your students,” or “I heard from one of your graduates,” or “I went to some medical clinic and they were there,” or “I went into some dentist’s office,” or “I went to, I was at some church,” or “One of the graduates from the undergraduate school,” or “I talked to one of your nurses.”

Practically everyone I know has said to me, “Wherever I go, I meet the Oral Roberts University graduates.” Tommy Tyson was on our program recently from North Carolina, wonderful evangelist, the founding chaplain of Oral Roberts University. He said, “I can’t go anywhere without running into your ORU graduates.”

Jimmy Buskirk, the founding dean of the school of ministry here at Oral Roberts University, now the Methodist pastor of First Methodist Church here in Tulsa, our dear friend, and comes on the program quite often, said to me, “I cannot go any place in this nation to preach without running into a graduate of Oral Roberts University.”

I met Margaret in Kibera, Kenya. Margaret’s husband suffers from an ad­diction to alcohol and doesn’t work, forcing her to attempt to provide a living for her family through her business—washing and selling bottles. Though she works hard, she usually makes less than a dollar a day, far less than what she needs to buy meals that will feed all her children.

People like Margaret are all-too-easy to find in Kibera, the second-largest slum in the world…and home to more than a million in­dividuals. Margaret and her children usually eat only one meal a day, because they simply don’t have the money to buy enough food.

“It is hard to raise a family with the little money I make,” Margaret told me. “Any help you can give would make a really big difference. I’m asking for God’s help, and the help of anyone kind enough to reach out.” Since January 2009, our team has gone into overdrive to provide hun­gry people like Margaret and her children with meals. So far this year, we’ve been able to ship more than three million nutritious meals of fortified rice, oats, and/or dried fruit to five countries: El Salvador, Kenya, Haiti, Niger, and Honduras.
And we want to do even more! It’s for Margaret, her children, and others like her that Hunger Needs a Voice exists

Opening Our Hearts to Their Cry

I have a burning passion to help the children of the world. Wherever I go, I can’t help noticing the children as they play in dusty streets, their clothes dirty and their feet bare. Many of them are thin and weak from their hunger. They have such sad stories. I’m compelled to do what I can to bring them food, hope, and the Gospel.

And I know Hunger Needs a Voice® wouldn’t be able to reach people like Margaret and her children without your help. I want to thank everyone who has donated food, supplies, finances, time, and other aid to our outreaches, especially Bill Meyer and Reach Now International; Kids Against Hunger; Feed My Starving Children; Gleanings for the Hungry; and Hope for Haiti. And, of course, I am so grateful for all the Oral Roberts Ministries Partners who already support Hunger Needs a Voice® financially and through prayer. You are helping us reach hungry children and their families with food and medicine.

Have childlike faith. The third story in Luke 18 that tells us how to get our prayers answered is the story of the little children who went to see Jesus (vv. 15-17). Apparently someone had tried to shoo them away, but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” Then He declared, “Anyone who doesn’t have their kind of faith will never get into the Kingdom of God” (vv. 16-17 NLT).

Have you noticed how willing children are to believe you when you tell them something? That’s the attitude Jesus wants us to have concerning His Word. He wants us to believe what He says. If you want your prayers answered, have childlike faith in God and take Him at His word.

Be a giver. Verses 18-30 tell the story of the rich young ruler who asked Jesus, “What shall I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus told him, “Obey the commandments.” The man said, “I’ve done that since I was a boy.” Jesus then said, “Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Learn to be a giver.” The man went away sorrowful because his heart was attached to his money.

God wants you to put your trust in Him, not in your possessions. He wants to be your Source for what you need. One of the best ways I know to get your needs met is to sow a seed to God. When you give of yourself—your prayers, time, compassion, money, whatever you have to give—God can begin to open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that you won’t have room enough to receive it (Malachi 3:10-11). If you want to get your prayers answered, learn to be a giver!