The Lord had healed me while I was in a hospital room at the University of Kansas. Because I was facing surgery, and I said dangerous words: “Lord, if You’ll heal me, I’ll serve You.” Now those are dangerous words. And He healed me and spoke to me and told me, ”Your destiny is here.” I didn’t know He’d called me to preach. I certainly didn’t know He’d call me into the healing ministry. And I really didn’t know that the day would come when I would become President of the school that I ran away from. Isn’t God good? Well, give Him a shout tonight.
These students on this campus, more than 20,000 graduates, and another 20,000 who’ve attended ORU – we’ve impacted more than 40,000 lives. There are hundreds of them that are in more than 30 nations this summer in mission teams. They’re all over America; they’re all over the world. You can scarcely go anywhere without bumping into one of them. And you may have them in your church as graduates; you may have them as students here now, or some that are on the way. And I am so thrilled what’s happening on this campus, because ORU has not lost the marriage of academics and the Holy Spirit. That’s what makes the difference. While other schools are lowering their standards – I was telling a group earlier today that one of the premier Christian universities in America, up in the Chicago area, just had a vote of their Board of Regents; and they decided that after more than a hundred years of existence, they’re going to allow their faculty and graduate students to smoke and drink alcohol. And this is one of the most prestigious Christian universities in America. ORU is not lowering our standards. We’re raising our standards in Jesus” name. Raising up a new generation of young men and women filled with the Holy Ghost, academically trained to go into all the world. Now Jesus said we are to go into all the world and preach the gospel. And to me that’s always meant you have to go into every person’s world. That’s why we have more than 60 majors on the undergraduate level. That’s why we have 10 masters” programs, and several doctoral programs. That’s why this place is alive with the power of God.
Summer school is on now. I wish this conference sometime could be held when school is in session. And I wish you could be in a chapel service so I could just peel you off the ceiling when you feel the presence of the Lord like we feel in those services. And I thank God for it.
And there were several in this room, including Pastor Daugherty, who were on the platform that day. And they called me forward, and I stretched out my hands, and I prayed a Holy Ghost prayer over him for the angels of the Lord to encamp about him. I prayed over him, I prayed over his family, over his children. I anointed him by the Holy Spirit, laid my hands on him, and set him. They said, “What gives you this authority?”
Because he asked me. He asked me.
What does the Bible say? “You have not because you ask not.”
He asked me to…and set him in the office of mayor. And I didn’t use any namby-pamby prayer. I prayed in the authority of the name of Jesus, whose name is above every name named in heaven and earth, knowing that at that name every knee should bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. That’s the name I used.
They said to me afterwards, “It’s the first time the name of Jesus has been used in a prayer over a mayor in this city over the last ten years.” I’m not dwelling on the past; I’m telling you what’s happening now.
Something is changing in the spirit realm. Joyce Meyer said it very well. Twenty-two percent of Christians voted in the last presidential election. It is a tragedy. And we, the body of Christ, have been sold a terrible bill of goods. We’ve been told that the separation of church and state is something that it is not. We have been told that as citizens we don’t have any rights. We’ve been told that we cannot get up and talk about issues. We’ve been told that we cannot endorse candidates who are godly. And it is a lie and a trick of the enemy.
The law, the laws says that we as a ministry, a church, a ministry, a board, a university, a college, a Bible school, as an entity we cannot endorse or support anyone. But as an individual you can stand up in your pulpit and say whatever you want and be within every bounds of the law of the United States of America.
I am not a politician. I don’t intend to be a politician. I’m a minister of the Gospel. But, friends, I’ve got a right and a responsibility.
Heart, beat normally in the name of Jesus. Every vein, every artery, be unclogged. Carotid arteries, open up in the name of Jesus. Cancer, I speak to you in the authority of the name of Jesus, you take your filthy, rotten hands off God’s property now. Every cancer cells, go.
Leukemia, go. Hodgkin’s disease, go. Cancer in the lymph glands, be healed. Cancer in the lymph nodes, be healed. Cancer in the colon, cancer in the pelvis, cancer in any organ of the body, in Jesus” name, go. You take your hands off God’s property, for we were paid for by the shed blood of Jesus.
Just keep your prayers going. Something’s happening. Something’s happening. Something’s happening. There’s a move of the Spirit right now. Lives are being changed. New callings are coming on people right now. Holy Ghost decisions are being made, ”I’m going to do it.” Some who have been thinking about quitting the ministry are saying, “No, I’m going to stay with it. I’m going to be like that stamp on the letter. I may have taken a lickin” but I’m going to stick with it till I get delivered.”
Thank You, Father. Praise You. We bless You. We worship You. We give You all the honor and all the glory. Thank You, Lord. We’re doing Your business this morning. We’re about our Father’s business all throughout Mabee Center this morning. Thank You, Father. Thank You for the anointing of the Holy Ghost. Thank You, Father.
I prophesy your churches are going to be different. Why? Because you are going to be different. You’re getting new ideas and new concepts, new revelation, new vision. There’s Holy Ghost transformation going on. It’s all over this section right here. The Spirit is moving across this place. (Tongues)
Find somebody else if you can and pray for them. Find someone else you’ve not prayed for. (Tongues) Backs are being healed. Legs are being healed. Feet are being healed. God’s healing disks and vertebrae. Pain is leaving someone now. The Scripture is being fulfilled. As we pray one for another, the healing is coming back to us.
Father, we want to launch out from this place like a rocket, with jet propulsion, with a singular purpose in our heart, to be obedient to the Father, to go and to do and to be what You’ve told us to do.
That’s what happened to Israel. They had been down in the land of Egypt. Things had gone well for them for generations. They were great helpers to the Egyptians. But one day a new pharaoh arose who did not know Joseph, who did not know his forebearers. and suddenly the times changed, and the Egyptians became those evil, hard taskmasters. It wasn’t long until they were making bricks without straw, crying out to God, crying out for a Redeemer. They became so uncomfortable.
I remember in my youth, in my twenties, or especially in my late twenties, I began to get so uncomfortable. I knew in my heart that God had a healing ministry for me. I didn’t know how it was going to happen. I didn’t know how God would use me. I just knew that I had grown up as the son of Oral Roberts, walking in those crusades that he described with Brother Kenneth Copeland.
I was in those crusades. I was in those crusades from the age of a little boy, walking along with him. And many times I was there when he would lay hands on ten thousand people. And I would help him. I’d walk along, and many times he would stop and say, “Richard, put your hands on them.” And I didn’t know any different. I just put my hands on them and prayed. I grew up in the healing ministry.
And as I came into my late twenties, I was so uncomfortable because I knew God had something for me. I knew God was ready to launch me into something. What? I didn’t know. How? I didn’t know. Sometimes we want to have all the answers, and most of the experience that I’ve had is, God does not give you all the answers at one time. He expects us to walk by faith. Turn to the person next to you and say, “He wants you to walk by faith.” (Response)
I’ve told God how to do it, when to do it, where to do it, and who to do it too. He’s never done it my way once. Maybe you’re uncomfortable today. Maybe that’s why you’re here. Maybe your uncomfortableness brought you to this conference because you know in your spirit that God is ready to launch you into something you don’t know exactly how, but you know somehow. You don’t know what way, but you know some way. I’ve got news for you, this is your hour. You may be uncomfortable.
RR: You know it’s gone?
LADY: I know it’s gone.
RR: What happened to her stomach? What did you feel just now?
LADY: I felt a warmness and a pressure because I haven’t been able to keep food down for about a month, so I know that God’s healing me because there’s just like somebody came and put their hands on top of my stomach.
RR: That’s what I saw. I saw like a rumbling. I saw God touching your stomach, and I saw like a rumbling. And I saw sixteen people, just like I’m seeing three people get healed in your right ear drum right now. You know, God has all of the gifts of the Spirit. And He will manifest them through any of us if we’ll open ourselves up and realize it’s not us, it’s Him. There are three of you, just as she gave her testimony, all of a sudden you felt healing going into your ear and suddenly there is an increase in your hearing level in that ear. Three of you as she was giving her testimony.
And I’m going to talk for a second here so you’ll be able to tell there is an increase in volume. There are three of you. It just happened while she was talking about her stomach. Where’s number one? There’s number one right there. Bring him down here. Where’s number two? Just as she was testifying, wham, it hit right into your ear. Where’s number two? Where’s the second person? Where are you? Are you sure it’s you? Come down here quickly. Where’s the third person? Because God showed me three. It’s you, and you were already down here.
Billy Joe, ask him a question. Ask him, what did you just feel in your ear?
MAN: I felt warmness come in my ears, a warm spot.
RR: A warm spot?
MAN: Yes, a warm place in my ear.
RR: Like a warm place come in your ear. What difference can you tell?
MAN: I just hear a little better, that’s all.
RR: You’re just hearing better. In the authority of the name of Jesus, get it all. Just take those hearing aids out and examine yourself.
CARLTON: Got a powerful one over here.
MAN: My ear just opened up a while ago. I’m hearing real well now, and I know it was God, and I thank God for it. Hallelujah! As a matter of fact, I’ve been wrestling this for a good while here. I took a bath and the spout got into my ear and the doctor said I had a hole in my ear, and I feel like God healed it tonight. Hallelujah!
RR: Hallelujah! Hallelujah!