He said, “I must work the works of my Father.”  He said, “I will say what my Father says, and I will do what my Father does.  And if you have seen me, then you have seen my Father.”

Why did God send His only begotten Son?  Because people seemingly could not touch God.  They saw God their Creator up in heaven, that He was about His heavenly affairs, that we have no way of touching Him.  And so He sent His Son in flesh.  He came down to our level, when we couldn’t get up to His.

And for three years Jesus was in His ministry, in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, in the Bible.  The stories are told of the sermons He preached and the great miracles that He did.

He came to show us what God was like.  He was man, and yet He was God.  He was so much God, it was as if He were not man.  He was so much man, it was as if He were not God.  He was God incarnate.  What does that mean?  It means God, who came down in flesh.

Then one Friday they crucified Him.  They accused Him of crimes He hadn’t done.  And they drove nails into His hands and they drove nails into His feet.  And they thrust a spear in His side.  And they put a crown of thorns on His head.  And they striped His back, 39 stripes.

There Jesus hung on that cross.  And the devil mocked and laughed at Him.  The devil thought he had won a great victory.  But there was a reason why Jesus went to the cross, for in His shed blood was the remission of sin.  He shed His blood so that you and I would not have to shed our blood.  He became the sacrifice so that you and I would not become the sacrifice.

And through the shedding of His blood, there is the forgiveness of sin.  But not just the forgiveness of sin, but each stripe He took on His back was for our healing, 39 stripes on His back.

In that day, 40 stripes was a death sentence, only one less stripe than a death sentence.  Why 39 stripes?  Why not 38?  Why 39?  I recently read an article in a medical journal.  Medical science is lopping all kinds of sickness and disease into 39 categories.

RR: She’s walking without pain.  Hallelujah!  Dr. Ablorh.

DR. ABLORH: Dr. Roberts, for nine years this young man couldn’t walk.  For nine years he couldn’t play football.  He couldn’t run.  But today, do like this, do like this, do like that.  Nine years he couldn’t walk.  Walk, walk.  (Response)

RR: Nine years.  Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!  Yes, Dr. Cordray.

DR. C: Dr. Roberts, this man could not walk for three years.  You have his cane.  He came up here, and now he’s walking.

RR: I have his cane.  Walk.  Hallelujah!  Let Niamey know, let Niger know, let the people know that God is a healing God, that what He did in Bible days, He’s still doing these days.  Hallelujah!

many of you tonight felt the power of God when I prayed?  If you felt the power of God when I prayed, then I want you to wave your hands.  If you felt God touch your body tonight, then wave your hands.  Hallelujah!

Yes, David.

DAVID:Richard, this lady’s been blind for three years, could not see out of both eyes.

RR:Can you see?

INT: Oh, yes, I can see now.

RR: She was blind?  How long?

INT:  Three years she can’t see.

RR: Three years she was blind.  Three years?

INT: I’m grateful.

RR: Can you see me?

INT: Yes, I can see you.

RR: Can you see me now?

INT: You are wearing a white shirt.

RR: What am I doing?  How many fingers?

INT: One.  Two.  Three.  Four.

RR:You can see?  Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!  God heals blind eyes.  Thank the Lord.  Thank the Lord for His healing touch.  Lift your hands unto Him tonight.  Give Him praise.

Right now there’s an anointing for healing.  Lay your hand on yourself.  Wherever there’s pain in your body, lay your hand on yourself.

Welcome my students from Oral Roberts University who are singing tonight.  (SINGING)  Hallelujah!  These are students from Oral Roberts University, and they’ve learned a song in Zarma.  And they’re going to sing in Zarma.  It’s in Zarma and Hausa.  This is Kelli.  This is Chris.  This is Hailey.  This is Luke, and this is my oldest daughter Jordan.  Give a handclap unto the Lord.  (SINGING)  Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!  Praise the Lord.

Tonight I’m going to ask Dr. Scott Cordray to come up for a moment.  He is one of the doctors in our medical team.  He is an ear, nose, and throat surgeon.  And he is a part of our medical team this week.  And I’m asking Dr. Cordray to give a word of testimony.

DR. CORDRAY: Well, hallelujah!  Hallelujah!  We are so happy to be here in Niger.  We’ve come a long way because God loves you.  God has His eye on every single one of you.  We’ve been seeing many patients, and we have had a joy in our hearts to serve the people of Niger.

We want to thank you for having us.  And I want to challenge you, many of you have been saying, “I wish God would speak to me.”  I believe God has sent a man from the United States, halfway across the world, to speak the Word of God to you directly.

So I want you to begin to expect miracles, and I want you to expect to hear a word from God.  Amen.

RR: Thank you, doctor.  Now I want everyone to be quiet.  Over here on my left, everyone quiet.  Why am I asking for quiet?  In order to give honor to the Word of God, for the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power.  It’s active, energizing, and effective.”  The Bible says it’s sharper than any two-edged sword.

And listen to me.  Tonight when this Word gets in you, then you’re going to become alive like never before, alive to the things of God.  So give me your attention tonight, and give respect and honor to the Word of God.

The Bible tells a story in the book of Mark.  A man was sitting beside the highway.  His name was Bartimaeus.  He was blind, and he was a beggar.  And he wore a certain type of beggar’s garment.

He said, “I am the Lord that healeth thee.”  It’s not by my works, it is by His power.  Tonight in just a few moments when I begin to pray, miracles are going to begin to happen throughout Liberty Stadium.  (Response)

I saw it in a vision before I came.  I saw this stadium.  I saw you here.  I saw people walking up on this platform and giving their testimonies of healing.  I saw eyes being healed.  I saw ears being healed.  I saw cancers and tumors fall off of people’s bodies.  I saw people throw down their walking sticks and throw down their crutches.  I saw cripples walking.  I saw signs and wonders.  And I heard the people say, “These are Bible days.”  Put your hands together and give praise to the Lord tonight.  (Applause)  Hallelujah!

It’s time to pray.  When you hear me call something out, I want you to release your faith.  How do I release my faith?  You turn it loose.  How do you turn it loose?  You let it go.  If you have something in your hand and you want to give it to someone, you must open your hand and release that which you have.  You cannot just hold it.

It’s like that with your faith.  Your faith was not meant to lie dormant in your heart.  Faith was given that you might believe.  And so tonight when I pray, I want you to let your faith go to God.

When I was a boy, I had many growths on my hand, and they were spreading, getting worse.  And my father said, “Let’s pray.”  And he sat down with me.  He said, “I am going to pray.  And when I do, I want you to release your faith.”

I said, “How do you release your faith, daddy?”

He pointed to the wall.  He said, “Do you see that light switch?  That switch is a point of contact.  And when you press the switch, the lights come on.”  He said, “Your faith is like that switch.  And when you release your faith, you touch God.  When you believe, you touch God.”  He said, “When I pray, let your faith go.”

I say to you tonight, when I pray, let your faith go.  I was ten years old.  He prayed.  He came to his prayer when he said, “Let your faith go.”

I was just a little boy, but here’s what I said:  “Faith, get up to God.”  And the older I get, the better it sounds.  “Faith, in the name of Jesus, I release you.  I turn you loose, and I expect a miracle.”  Every growth disappeared.

RR: Hallelujah!  Hello, everyone in Ibadan.  God bless you tonight.  I have been waiting for you.  I have been looking for you.  I have been expecting to see you tonight.

God put on my heart 40 nations in my lifetime.  Nigeria is one of those 40 nations.  Hallelujah!  And I am honored to be here tonight and to stand before this great crowd at Liberty Stadium.

The apostle Paul said, “I am ready to preach,” and that is how I feel tonight.  I am ready to preach the good news of Jesus Christ, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.  He’s not a dead God but a live God.  And He shows himself by miracles, by signs, and wonders.

And I’m expecting the blind to see.  I am expecting the deaf to hear.  I am expecting the lame to walk.  I am expecting the miracle power of God tonight.  Let us lift our hands unto the Lord and let us shout out “Hallelujah!”  (Response)

Heavenly Father, I come to You tonight not in my name or my strength, but in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.  I live because of Him.  It is in Him that I live and move and have my being.

I thank You for this night, and I take authority over this night.  Satan, I bind you in the name of Jesus.  You take your hands off this service.  You have no part in it, for we were paid for by the shed blood of Jesus.  The debt was paid in full at the cross.

And I thank You for the anointing of the Holy Spirit.  I receive it upon me now to preach, to teach God’s Word, and to bring His healing power to people here tonight.  I give You honor and glory, Lord.  Let everything said and done bring honor and glory to Your name, for it is in the name of Jesus that I pray.  And everyone said amen.  Hallelujah!  Amen.  God bless you.  You may be seated.

Then a young man came up on the platform, and he began to run and jump and leap.  Dr. Idahosa, you were there that night.  He would run across the platform, and as he ran, the crowd, they began to leap and praise God.  And I didn’t know what was going on, so said to my interpreter, “What’s happening?”  And he told me the story that I’m telling you.

Everyone knew this young man.  Everyone knew that he couldn’t walk.  But now he was walking.  He was running.  He was leaping, and he was praising God.  And the people were jumping, and they were shouting.

And the members of the news media were there that night, and they brought their cameras up on the platform.  And they wrote his story, and they put it on the front page of the newspaper the next morning.  And the television stations carried the story.  And the next night the crowd tripled.  And there were many more miracles.

How does it happen?  It does not happen in my name.  It does not happen in my strength.  It happens in the authority of the name of Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son.  Shout hallelujah!  Not because of me, but because of Him, on the basis of the shed blood of Jesus.

Jesus took the stripes on His back that you and I might be healed—thirty-nine stripes.  Recently someone sent me an article from a medical journal, and the article talked about medical science putting sickness and disease into thirty-nine categories.  And I thought to myself, Isn’t it amazing?  Medical science is confirming the Bible.  Each stripe He took was for a disease.

And I’ve not come tonight in my name.  I’ve not come tonight in my strength.  But I have come in the authority of the name of Jesus, whose name is above every power, whose name is above every principality, whose name is above heart disease, whose name is above crippling diseases, whose name is above blindness, whose name is above deafness, whose name is above arthritis, whose name is above diabetes, whose name is above cataracts, whose name is above cancer, whose name is above tumors.

Now anyone that has pain in your stomach, put your hand on your belly.  Kidney problem, liver problem, ulcer, colon problem, digestive tract, gall bladder.  In the authority of Jesus’ name, I speak to it.  Every pain, every sickness, come out.  Come out.  Come out, in the name of Jesus.

And someone’s stomach is being healed right now.  There’s burning that’s coming out now.  There’s burning coming out of stomachs right now.  Examine yourself.  Examine yourself.  Someone’s being healed right now.  There is an anointing.

Tumors and growths and cancers, in the name of Jesus, every tumor, every growth, every cancer, come out.  Come out.  Come out, in the name of Jesus.  There’s cancer falling off someone now.  There are tumors and growths that are falling off now.

Just the other night a woman had a large growth in her breast, and God completely healed her.  He’s doing it again tonight, in Jesus’ name.

There’s some that have throat problems tonight and a balance problem.  When you walk, you waver.  Someone’s getting healed of a balance problem.  You’ve not been able to walk without help.  And God is healing you now.  You can take some steps now.  If you can tell that’s you, come forward.  If you can tell the tumor or growth is gone, begin to come.  Come and share your testimony.

Now for those who have a problem with your hearing, put your hand on that ear.  Put your hand on that ear.  In the authority of the name of Jesus, I speak to deafness and hardness of hearing.  I take hold of that problem and pull it out.  In Jesus name, come out.  Come out.  Come out.  There’s hearing coming now.  Someone’s ear just popped open.  Suddenly my voice sounds about twice as loud.  There’s hearing coming in ears right now.

They were living in the shadow of that.  They had seen and heard of the healing power of Jesus.  The miracles had spread throughout the land, throughout all that known part of the world.  And Jesus was alive.  Not only alive, but He was alive in them.

And wherever they went, this was their message, “Is any sick among you?  Is there any sick emotionally?  Is there any sick physically?  Is there any sick in your spirit?  Is there any sick or diseased, anyone who is not at ease or dis-eased among you?  Is it something that’s hurting you in your family, or your marriage, or your business, or your job, or your ministry?”  That was their hallmark, “Is any sick among you?”

And they were in fear of their lives at almost any time, and they suffered greatly for this gospel message.  Some, as you know, history teaches us, were boiled in oil.  Some were crucified.  There are many who believe that Peter was crucified upside down.  There were others who were thrown to hungry animals, in the coliseum in Rome and in other places of that part of the world.  And they suffered greatly.  They suffered because of their faith.

But something happened in the fourth century.  Constantine became converted to Christianity and was named the emperor of Rome.  And he stopped all of the persecution of the Christians, becoming a Christian himself.

Suddenly the Christians were no longer persecuted, and they no longer suffered for their faith in God.  And somewhere along the line, someone got the brilliant idea, “We have to have something to suffer for.  Therefore, let us suffer for God through sickness and disease.”

And the prayer, which I’m sure some of you have heard from time to time in your life, “And if it be God’s will, He will heal you.”  How many of you have heard that prayer at some time in your life, put your hand up.  Yeah.  If it be God’s will, as if God had not already made up His mind.

But before I go into that, let me just share with you just briefly from this scripture, James 5, which we’ll use as our hallmark scripture tonight.  I don’t know about in the morning.  We’ll see what God wants in the morning.  But beginning at verse 13.  Notice that James, who may or may not have been a disciple.  We don’t know.

There are many who believe that he was one of the disciples, but there are others who do not.  We don’t know, but we know this, he was very close to Jesus.  “Is any among you afflicted?  Let him pray.  Is any merry?  Let him sing psalms.  Is any sick among you?  Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

“And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.  And if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed.  The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”  May God bless the reading and hearing of His Word.

This was the hallmark of the early disciples.  Wherever they went, if it was on a street corner, it was in a home, it was in a cave or some hidden place, they asked this question, “Is there any among you afflicted?  Is any among you sick?  Let them pray.  Let them call on someone to pray the prayer of faith, and the prayer of faith,” not the prayer of doubt, “but the prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will raise them up.”

They were just fresh from the resurrection of Jesus, where He had been nailed to a tree on Golgotha at Calvary.  He took the stripes on His back for your healing and mine.  The nails pierced His hands and His feet, the spear thrust into His side, as the blood was shed for the remission of sin.

The second thing He said write down is:  You must sow in quality soil.  Cornerstone is quality soil.  Why?  Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, broadcasting the gospel of Jesus Christ, with the saving, healing, delivering power of God.  There’s not a day that goes by without someone giving their life to Christ through this great Christian network.

You’ve got to sow in quality soil.  And anyone who sows in the natural understands that you want good soil.  No one wants to sow in rocky, thin soil.  You want to sow in good, good ground because it’s that quality soil that produces the mighty harvest.

I was talking to a farmer out in New Mexico who said, “I can take four pounds of chili pepper seed and reap 40,000 pounds of chili peppers.”  Now that’s a hot dinner right there, if you like chili peppers as much as I do.  But four pounds of chili pepper seed will produce 40,000 pounds of chili peppers.

It’s a divine principle.  God set it in order.  All we have to do is discard what we’re hearing and believe it and do it.

First of all, He said, “Sow and sow first.”  Second of all, “Sow in quality soil.”  And third, “You must sow with expectations.”

I was out at my dad’s—my dad lives in California, and I was out with him three weeks ago.  And when I got to his house, he had seven preachers at his house.  And that’s not unusual for him.  About every week he has pastors that come to his home.  He teaches them.  He preaches to them.  He hears their questions, what they’re going through in their ministries.  He counsels them.  He lays hands on them.  He prophesies over them.  He lets them take pictures with him, and he gives them autographed copies of his book.  They sow an offering into his life because he’s living by his preaching.