God speaks with His almighty voice by Richard Roberts

18 August, 2011 (10:55) | Richard Roberts | By: admin

What a day that must have been!  What a moment, when God speaks with His almighty voice.  And all Elijah wanted to do was rehearse the problem.  God’s not interested in hearing about all the problems.  What He’s looking for is someone who will stand up strong in faith and believe.  And as Lindsay has taught tonight, to allow that substance that’s on the inside of us to come out.

I can’t begin to tell you what I’ve been through these past 13 years.  I did not major in business at ORU.  I did not minor in business at ORU.  But in the past 13 years, as President of this university, I have learned a lot about business.  I have become a businessman. 

And that is scriptural, because Jesus said, Harold, that I’m to be about my Father’s business.  Well, I have been a businessman for these past 13 years.  And the experiences that I have had, it’s unbelievable.  If I told you some of the things I went through, you would think I was lying.  You can’t imagine the things that I have had said and done to me and about me while being President of ORU and the attacks that have come. 

You can’t imagine the money I have been offered if I’ll just allow, if I’ll take the Holy Spirit out of this campus, if I’ll just close down the Prayer Tower and stop having the chapels.

One man wanted to meld his school with ORU so he could be in charge and become the new President and put millions of dollars.  You can’t believe what I’ve had offered.  And most people won’t know and will never know because I’ll never tell the details, because it doesn’t matter.  Who cares what somebody said or what somebody did?

Turn to the person next to you and say, “Who cares?”  (Response)  What was that country and western song, “Here’s a quarter.  Call somebody who cares.” 

What was I talking about before I started talking about quarters? 

Listen, my friends, being President of a university is not all it’s cracked up to be.  You take on more than $60 million of debt.  One day I owed nobody.  The next day I owed everybody.  My hair went white.  Thank God for Miss Clairol.