Healing Ministry by Richard Roberts
Our students come from more than 50 nations around the earth, including Nigeria. We have students right now at ORU from Nigeria. We have students from Ibadan right now at ORU. (Applause)
When I arrived at the airport, the members of the press were there to interview me. And I announced to them, as well as to the executive governor yesterday, that I brought a gift with me from ORU. And I am putting the gift in the hands of the pastors. By authority of the Board of Regents of Oral Roberts University, I am granting two scholarships, one to a young man, one to a young woman, who qualify academically. These are four-year scholarships. (Applause)
I am asking the pastors to select two worthy young people and send them to me. And I will send them back to you better than you sent them to me. Hallelujah! That is my heart. I did not come to receive. I came to give. It is more blessed to give than to receive. It is more productive to give than to receive. Because God can only bless what you sow. “Be not deceived,” the Bible says, “God is not mocked. Whatsoever a person sows, that shall they also reap.”
If you want a good harvest, then sow good seed. I’ve chosen to reap a good harvest, and so I’ve come to Nigeria. I’ve come to give my best, to preach and to pray for the sick. I came to Nigeria with my Bible, and I’ll go home with my Bible because I believe in the power of God.
I never dreamed that God would use me in the healing ministry. I had watched my father pray for the sick. I had seen him stretch his hands out and pray. I’d seen great crowds around the world. And even when I was a boy, he would stand me by his side and have me join him in praying for the sick. I did not know that God was preparing me for this night. I did not know He was preparing me for the 40 nations that He commanded me to preach in.
Thirty years ago He spoke to me. He told me He was calling me into a healing ministry. He said, “It will be different than your father’s ministry.” He said, “Your father has primarily laid hands upon the sick. But I will manifest the word of knowledge through you. And you will be before great crowds,” like here tonight in Ibadan. And this crowd will grow each night through this crusade. It will get larger and larger and larger, until this stadium cannot hold the crowd. God said, “I am calling you to a healing ministry.”