Saving Souls | Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts Ministries

But we need your help.  And it’s a joy to give you an opportunity to sow a seed of your faith of $40 for one square foot of that magnificent phase two.  And, incidentally, phase two will be five times as large as phase one.  And it will carry you throughout the rest of the Old Testament, all the way up to the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem.  And I’ll be sharing more about that later.  But I want you to have an opportunity to get your copy in leather of The Roberts Family Guide To Miracles For The Rest Of Your Life. Praise God for it.  Sow a seed.  Write me, Richard Roberts, Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Or if you live in Canada, Richard Roberts, Toronto, Ontario.  Or you can pick up the telephone and call the Abundant Life Prayer Group at 918-495-7777 and say, I want to sow a seed to help you build that Healing Outreach Center, phase two.

And we will send The Roberts Family Guide To Miracles For The Rest Of Your Life By Oral, Evelyn, Richard and Lindsay Roberts immediately to you in the mail.  I believe it will be a blessing.  Cheryl Prewitt Salem is here and is going to minister in song in a moment.  But, Cheryl, before I turn to you, I want to bring you a great report, an ulcer healing in Tucson, Arizona, just got word of that.  From Gilmer, Texas, a shoulder healed when we prayed on the program.  From Tacoma, Washington, another shoulder problem, “for weeks, but I’ve been set free. Richard, you gave a word of knowledge that someone’s shoulder is being healed and all the pain disappeared.” From Wilmington, North Carolina.  “I’ve had asthma for three years. But last week on your program someone gave a word of knowledge that asthma was being healed.  I’ve had asthma so bad and it’s kept me in bed a lot since January, but now since you prayed I’ve gone back to my doctor.

My doctor has taken me off all of my medication and I am healed.”  Hallelujah.  Give the Lord a great cheer.  And from right here in Tulsa, headache pain is gone and an eye healed. Oh, thank God for that.  Thank God for the healing power of God.  And later in this program we’re going to pray the prayer of faith for you. So get yourself ready.  Right now Cheryl Prewitt Salem is standing by to minister the gospel in song.  I’m proud that Cheryl is a part of our television family and we receive so many calls and letters letting us know that Cheryl is a blessing to you.  And I’m proud to introduce her to minister the gospel in song.  At the piano, Cheryl Prewitt Salem, Miss America 1980.  God bless you, Cheryl. Minister’s Conference Spot

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS June 23, 24, 25, the Oral Roberts Minister’s Conference and the Charismatic Bible Ministries Conference together.  And you’ll want to attend that if you are a minister of the gospel.  Already thousands of people have made their reservations and the hotels are filling up very fast, or some of them have already filled.  But I’ve got good news. The dormitories at ORU are being rented out during this great conference.  For $20 a night you can stay right here on campus in a dormitory.  And we thank God for those dormitory rooms.

Somebody may get to stay in the room I stayed in when I was born again while I was a student here at Oral Roberts University.  If you’re a minister of the gospel, come and enjoy this exciting conference, the Oral Roberts Minister’s Conference in association with the Charismatic Bible Ministries Fellowship, the fastest growing fellowship in America, June 23, 24 and 25.  I believe it will be a blessing in your  life.  My very special guest today is Don Potter.  Don is a musician. He is the guitarist and arranger for the country and western singing group called The Judds.  I’ve seen them many times on television.  He has quite a remarkable testimony.  But before he and I share that testimony with you, I want him to take his guitar and minister the gospel to you in song.  So right now I want you to join me in welcoming the man who is the guitarist and who is the arranger for The Judds.  His name is Don Potter.  God richly bless you, Don, as you minister and as you sing the gospel.  Here he is.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Hallelujah.  A great testimony. Give us a word about what you’re doing right now.  I know you’re playing with The Judds and others, but I know there’s a testimony there that you shared with me and I want the people to hear it.

SPKM DON POTTER When I first got saved I assumed this was really only an assumption on my part that I would immediately go full-time Christian music and run away from the world and never be in the world again and never have to face all the people I knew in the world, because it was many.  And so I made one Christian album on Murray Records and I’ve just finished my second one, as a matter of fact.  But I assumed that that would be, “O.K., I’m ready for the Christian music business.  Thank you.”  And it changed from there.  The Lord said, “No, I’ve got something better not better than that, I don’t mean that.

That’s the wrong term, but I have something that I want you to stay in.  I’ve trained you to be in that business, I want you to stay there.  And that’s when I first met the producer of The Judds and he asked me to come to their house one afternoon when they were very, very first starting.  He said, “This mother and daughter, I love the way they sound.  I just want to get some arrangements and try to make a demo.”  And I got into their house; meanwhile, still carpentering, and stood there with them and began to play.  And they decided somewhere, by God’s grace, that I was very important to their sound.  And I thought, golly, when was the last time an act said, you are important to our sound?  And then the record company heard the first demos that we did and their first reaction was, that’s very important to your sound.  That little guitar thing is very important to your sound.

And suddenly I got swept up into this thing and never even expected it, quite frankly.  I really expected to do a demo and go home, is pretty much what would be the normal.  And the Lord began to lift me up in their eyes, is really what it was.  I’d love to say it was because I’m so handsome, but it was the Lord really lifted me up in their eyes so that I wouldn’t say I became a spiritual father, but in some ways it was like a spiritual father because the Lord had really put a burning desire in my heart to talk about the Lord with them.  I just couldn’t shut up after I first got with them.  And after a year of being with them, we were on the road.  I worked with them on the road.  And one night the daughter, Winona, who is a sweet, tender girl.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS She’s the lead singer.

SPKM DON POTTER She’s the lead singer.  Just came to me on the bus and she said, “I just need to know more about this Lord that you serve.”  And I led her to the Lord and she’s a blessing, you know.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Well, I want you to do something for me, Don.  I want you to do two things, number one; I want you to greet The Judds for me.  I’ve never met them.  I’ve seen them many times.  I’ve seen them win awards and I’ve always enjoyed their music.  I want you to greet them for me and give them an invitation some time to come on this program and just sing and enjoy themselves.  And the second thing is, I want you to sing and play another song.  Give him a welcome.  Here’s Don Potter. Don, bless you.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS How did you come to grips with that when you were in the middle of drugs and suddenly you realized that your life was incomplete?  What’s the testimony there?

SPKM DON POTTER Well, uniquely, kind of one of the pit bottoms of it is one morning, early in the morning I was laying in bed sort of convulsing from overdoing it all night and beginning to lose all semblance of sanity. And my wife looked me in the face and said, “I’m leaving a person who wants to kill himself.”  And it was the first real shock I ever had. It was sort of like and I could barely talk because I was so strung out and I guess it was sort of the thing of the shocking realization, you know, drugs are very subtle.  They come on very quietly.  And before you know it, you’re acting like something you think is cool.  I don’t know how to put that into clear terms, but when I’m high, you know, I’m this thing that I’ve never been before and everyone thinks  I’m so cool like this.  And it’s like that demon that comes around behind you and gets hold of you and starts convincing you that you are something that you’re not, of course.  Your ultra ego begins to take place and you step into an area that is just totally unrelated to life itself.  The Lord began really at that time, I had a, I had a 92-year-old grandmother, Spirit-filled, who has prayed for me for 30 years.  And

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Thank God for grandmothers.

SPKM DON POTTER And that is what saved my life.  Yeah.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Thank God for grandmothers.

SPKM DON POTTER And I have an aunt and uncle who I spent many years when my parents had split up and that kind of thing, and when I was younger my uncle who I stayed with, my grandmother and aunt and uncle, had recognized that at about six or seven years old that the Lord had put a gift of music inside and he lifted me up before the Lord.  He prayed that I would give this gift back to the Lord and it would be to glorify Him. I proceeded to spend the next 30 years trying to do it my own way and being in the music business, which I have for that many years, and the, I’ve been real close a lot of times, real close to becoming whatever the words are, famous, I guess is the only word I can think of now, but the Lord always pulled it short, always held it up, always kept it from being something that I want to be this, I want to be that and money was spent and everyone was happy and suddenly it fell apart.  And there’s been countless times and when I finally came to the end of myself and the drug problems and the Lord came into my life.  He moved like only He can move. I mean, I’d love to tell you it through my intelligence, but it certainly was not.  It was through my total need.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Through your desperation.

SPKM DON POTTER Through my desperation to need Him.  Then we went through a period of two years really of laying music down, which was like pulling my heart out of my body.  But I did.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS You actually gave it up.

SPKM DON POTTER Oh, yeah.  I had, I was a carpenter when I first got to Tennessee, you know, the Lord had used; I call it the carrot theory.  He had guided me to Tennessee through all kinds of, well, I’ll be this and then I’ll get this and I’ll sign with this company and I’ll sign with that company and everything. I’ll be just wonderful and as soon as I got there, that disappeared and I was literally thrown into the arms of the body of Christ at that time.  And we had nothing, no money and no job, and I couldn’t get a job right away.  And the Lord had also gifted me with carpentry, which I really enjoy.  And He said, “You’ve got a job.  You know how to work.”  And I spent the next two years as a carpenter remodeling buildings out of music row, of all the places.

And it not only adjusted I shouldn’t say it’s adjusted.  I mean, I hate to tell you I think I’m even humble by a long shot, but it really had an awful lot to do with bringing me to a realization that the gift, any gift that God gives you is a beautiful thing and it is a gift.  You know, I’d love to say I made it up or I worked very hard and I’m now a great musician because I’ve worked hard, because I’m not, that’s not true.  God has anointed it.  And I’ve played in front of people when He wasn’t there and they didn’t like it.  And when He’s there, they love it.

Richard, you gave a word of knowledge that someone’s shoulder is being healed and all the pain disappeared.” From Wilmington, North Carolina.  “I’ve had asthma for three years. But last week on your program someone gave a word of knowledge that asthma was being healed.  I’ve had asthma so bad and it’s kept me in bed a lot since January, but now since you prayed I’ve gone back to my doctor.  My doctor has taken me off all of my medication and I am healed.”  Hallelujah.  Give the Lord a great cheer.  And from right here in Tulsa, headache pain is gone and an eye healed. Oh, thank God for that.  Thank God for the healing power of God.  And later in this program we’re going to pray the prayer of faith for you. So get yourself ready.

Right now Cheryl Prewitt Salem is standing by to minister the gospel in song.  I’m proud that Cheryl is a part of our television family and we receive so many calls and letters letting us know that Cheryl is a blessing to you.  And I’m proud to introduce her to minister the gospel in song.  At the piano, Cheryl Prewitt Salem, Miss America 1980.  God bless you, Cheryl.

SPKM CHERYL PREWITT SALEM SONG I must tell Jesus   AD02 MINISTER’S CONFERENCE SPOT

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS June 23, 24, 25, the Oral Roberts Minister’s Conference and the Charismatic Bible Ministries Conference together.  And you’ll want to attend that if you are a minister of the gospel.  Already thousands of people have made their reservations and the hotels are filling up very fast, or some of them have already filled.  But I’ve got good news. The dormitories at ORU are being rented out during this great conference.  For $20 a night you can stay right here on campus in a dormitory.  And we thank God for those dormitory rooms. Somebody may get to stay in the room I stayed in when I was born again while I was a student here at Oral Roberts University.

If you’re a minister of the gospel, come and enjoy this exciting conference, the Oral Roberts Minister’s Conference in association with the Charismatic Bible Ministries Fellowship, the fastest growing fellowship in America, June 23, 24 and 25.   I believe it will be a blessing in your Su01 life.  My very special guest today is Don Potter.  Don is a musician. He is the guitarist and arranger for the country and western singing group called The Judds.  I’ve seen them many times on television.  He has quite a remarkable testimony.  But before he and I share that testimony with you, I want him to take his guitar and minister the gospel to you in song.  So right now I want you to join me in welcoming the man who is the guitarist and who is the arranger for The Judds.  His name is Don Potter.  God richly bless you, Don, as you minister and as you sing the gospel.  Here he is.

SPKM DON POTTER SONG Do not walk on the path

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Bless you, Don.  My orchestra sure does like it.  Give them a good handclap.  Did you start, did you start playing guitar when you were a kid or did you just pick this up last week?

SPKM DON POTTER I was pretty young.  I failed to tell you earlier that I use to….and that’s how I basically….and then The Judds.  It was an interesting situation how that even came about. The Lord was working very strong in my life at that time.  I had been only saved about five years.  I’d been very deep in drugs and all of that.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS You came out of the drug culture too then?   I see.

SPKM DON POTTER Oh yes.

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS Richard kept turning off the tape and saying, “Now catch your breath.” I said, “You’re not supposed to do it like this.”  I quit.  I give up.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS From–you’ll get a little bit more of it tonight.  You know, you just had a baby.  Give yourself a break. Fresno, California.  “A year and a half ago I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior through your program.  This Sunday I am being baptized at my church.  I am so excited”–now I want you to notice this.  Here is a person who attends church who never received Jesus as their personal Savior.  Oh, I wish more pastors at the closing of their service would stop and give an invitation and give people an opportunity to receive Christ as your Savior.

Pastors, if you’re listening to me, don’t let anybody intimidate you or stop you from giving an altar call in your services and receiving Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior for your people.  Don’t be ashamed.  Don’t let somebody talk you out of that.  “This Sunday I’m being baptized at my church.  I’m so excited. I’m 57 years old, having never been baptized.  And I called today to share this joyous occasion with you and to thank you for your ministry that brought me to Jesus Christ.”  I thank God you received Christ.

You pastors, don’t be ashamed to give people an opportunity to receive Christ at the end of your services, or at the beginning, or in the middle, whenever the Holy Spirit leads you. Sometimes we pray for people’s salvation right before, just as we’re starting the program.  Lindsay, from San Jose, California.  “I watched your program.  You had a word of knowledge about someone’s right arm being healed.  I’ve had arthritis so severely that I could hardly raise my arm.  But as the word came forth, all the pain left.  I am completely healed.  I can raise and move my arms now without any pain whatsoever.  Thank God, God has healed me.”

SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS I’ve got one.  Mine is somewhat the same. Mine is arthritis too. This lady called in from, is that Lawrence, Michigan.  And she said she was healed while she was watching your program, the same thing. You had said somebody was being healed in their arm and their wrist. She said, “I had so much arthritis in my arm and wrist, and when you prayed,” she said, “praise God, I want to report with you, all the pain has gone.”  And she said–oh, bless her heart–the note from the prayer partner says that she had just given her heart to Jesus. Praise God.  Boy, that’s a double miracle, getting your heart saved and your body healed all at once.  That’s a miracle.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS You gave a word the other day, Lindsay, from God about, well, let’s see, “Since Lindsay gave that word about someone’s hip being healed”–remember that the other day?–”who had a burning sensation in the hip, since then my hip has been healed.”  Fairfax, Virginia. Let’s see, there’s another one I wanted to read here somewhere.  Oh, which one was it?  Here. Here, right here.  From, yeah it was a back healing from, from Garland, Texas.  But this one from Chicago is the one I really want to read.  “Richard, three months ago you encouraged me on television to call the Abundant Life Prayer Group about my suicidal thoughts.  I did.  One of your prayer partners”—now here we are in the midst of the Abundant Life Prayer Group–”One of your prayer partners prayed a powerful prayer.”  Now that’s a good word. When these prayer partners that you see seated behind us and also in other places in this building and up in the Prayer Tower, when they pray for you, they pray a powerful prayer. They’re all filled with the Holy Spirit.  They know how to pray. “They prayed a powerful prayer and I was set free.  When I feel a little depressed now, I start praising God and victory comes.”  I thank God for the Abundant Life Prayer Group.