Saving Souls | Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts Ministries

Jesus said, “If you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father.” I deserved that. When someone’s sick, to the physician that’s a person in need who needs a healing. And all the business about where they came from or even what their belief system is or anything else really sort of vanishes from our mind. We see a person who is sick who needs to be healed, who needs treatment, diagnosis treatment, prayer, whatever they need. And all the rest of it disappears, so that when you as a patient go into a physician’s office you are a sick person who needs healing.

He forgets all the rest of that. I’ve taken care of your dad for a long time. It may come as a surprise to some, but when I was operating on your dad’s shoulder, your dad was a sick person with a shoulder that needed to be operated on. He ceased to be Oral Roberts, a personality, and became Oral Roberts the patient who had a specific need that I could meet.

That’s right. So when you get into the examining room or the operating room or the Xray room or you’re a patient in a bed that she’s taking care of or a person that David Wakefield comes to pray for, all the rest of that disappears. You are now God’s child who has a need that we can help meet. And that’s the way we see people.

Melanie, let me ask you a question. As a nurse here at the City of Faith, what do you feel in your heart toward the patients that are coming? Well, I just think that it’s a caring atmosphere that the City of Faith has. I’ve been in nursing nine years and never have I experienced the caringness that’s here, all the way from the housekeeping staff through the physicians, the prayer partners, the whole person nursing. It’s just wonderful.

Now what do you mean whole person nursing? Ministering to the spirit, to the soul and the body. Other hospitals that I’ve worked in, we were free to give patient care but praying, you just didn’t pray. You didn’t talk about God in those situations. Melanie, how do we manage to say to patients that we love them? The thing that I hear most of all, Richard Roberts, in the mail that we get is that at the City of Faith we felt loved. What are we doing to make people feel loved? How is that coming out of Richard Roberts and us?