Saving Souls | Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts Ministries

Now you can do it by the month, or you can do it as a one-time gift, or however the Lord lays it on your heart.  Use your credit card, your debit card.  You can send a check to Cornerstone, I’m sure.  You can do it right over the phone tonight when we pray and you can call in a few minute’s time.

And that’s what the Lord laid on my heart.  Then He also has laid one other thing on my heart, which I’m going to speak about in a moment after I pray.

Now, friend, I know the Lord.  I met the Lord when I was 19 years of age.  I’m 59.  I’ve known the Lord many years.  I’ve served Him with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength.  I’m an evangelist in the healing ministry.  I’m traveling nations all over the world.  I’m on television five nights a week with The Hour of Healing.  I understand television.  I understand traveling.  I understand the ministry.  I understand all the callings of God that’s on my life.

And God told me when I reached 60, which is only six months away from now, when I reached 60 I will step to a new level of ministry that I’ve never known in my life.  I know who I am.  I know the call of God on my life, and I know just as sure as I know my name that He spoke to me tonight to say this to you.

You could not possibly—and my wife would tell you—you could not possibly get Richard Roberts to get up on national television and say something that God didn’t say to him.

He said, “I’m going to speak to ten people, and you’re to be the first, at $5,000.”  He said, “I’m going to speak to thirty people at $1,000.”  He said, “I’m going to speak to 200 people at 100.”

Then He said, “I’m going to call on one individual to make a $100,000 pledge outright.”  He said, “I’m going to speak to one individual.”  It could be a business or ministry, or it could be a family.  “I’m going to speak to one person to make a $100,000 pledge.”  And He said, “That person is going to cause another person to respond.”  And it could be done with a challenge.

Now, Ron, I know I’m stepping out on a ledge tonight, but I’m only telling you what I heard the Lord say.  He said, “I’m going to speak to one individual to make a $100,000 pledge.  And when that person does that, in addition to all else that’s going to happen, it will cause a second person to give an additional $100,000 gift or pledge.”

You see, people get in their minds that they can’t do something.  I think you ought to cut the word can’t out of your vocabulary.  I saw a commercial the other day on television where it depicted a scene where a little angel was sitting on this guy’s shoulder on this side, whispering in his ear.  And a little devil was sitting on this side, whispering in his other ear.

And I thought, God, it’s not like that.  But it is like that in the sense that God by His Spirit is whispering in your ear, and satan, by the antichrist spirit, is whispering in your other ear, “Do this, don’t do this, don’t do this.”  You know, which voice do I listen to?

It reminds me of when our little Chloe, who is with us on this trip—she’s 18 now—but when she was just about four or five, she decided to fill my shower with water.  I have a glassed-in shower.  And she filled it up to about chest high and was in it and filled it up and was having a wonderful swimming pool in it.

And then she decided to open the door.  And our bedroom’s upstairs, and so the water naturally went right to the floor, knocked out the security system, part of the ceiling.  And I said, “Honey, before I discipline you, do you have anything to say?”

And she said, “Yes.  My heart said no, but my mind said yes.”  She said, “How do I know the difference?”  And I thought to myself, That’s the question of most Christians.  When satan is saying one thing in one ear and God is saying it, how do I tell the difference?  “How can I tell the difference,” people say, between the voice of the Lord and the voice of the devil?”  Well, friend, if you can’t tell the difference between the voice of the Lord and your worst enemy, you need to get saved, give your heart to Christ.

In the name of the Lord, I send the word to you tonight, be healed.  Now I reach in by faith.  Now stay with me.  The Lord’s been having me do this a lot lately.  I reach in, I take hold of that thing and pull it out of you, in the authority of the name of the Lord.

I send His word to you tonight for healing.  I rebuke the migraine headache.  Come out, in the name of Jesus.  Be healed of every sickness, including sickle cell anemia.  I rebuke the AIDS.  I rebuke the AIDS virus.  I rebuke the COPD, in Jesus’ name.  I rebuke all those letters, ALS, COPD, whatever it is.  In the name of the Lord, I rebuke it.  I command it to come off you, to come out of you, in Jesus’ mighty name.

Now right where you are, lift your hands.  Begin to give praise.  Begin to give honor.  Begin to say, “I speak forth the healing into my life,” just like that woman said, “If I can touch the corner of His garment, I’ll be healed.”

And Jesus whirled around and said, “Who touched me?”  You’re touching the Lord.  He’s touching you.  He’s touching you, and you’re touching Him.  Be healed in Jesus’ name.  Oh, hallelujah!  People are getting healed all over the world, across America.  Get up and call the TBN prayer line and give your testimony.  God wants people well.  He wants people well.

That’s what He said to my father about us who have come through ORU.  He said that, “Their work will exceed yours, and in that I am well pleased.”

We took a census this past spring.  God told me to find out how many have been won into the kingdom of God this year through ORU, its students and graduates all over the world.  And we took a census.  And we found that through ORU we had 665,000 souls come to Christ in the last year.  (Applause) 

And that is not an updated number.  That number is still rising, because we’re still hearing from alumni around the world.  I just talked with one of our alumni in Argentina just the other day, who has added 17,000 souls in his ministry this year to that number.  So that number is going up.

And the Lord said, “I want you to double that this next year.”

Like a fool, I said, “Why?”  Don’t we ask the craziest questions?  “Why?”

He said, “Because My Son, He’s coming back.  And there’s an end-time harvest of souls coming into the kingdom of God.”

It’s not going to bankrupt heaven if more than one gets saved in your church, if more than two, if more than three.

Ministers across the world are telling me now they’re seeing the largest altar calls in their churches and in their ministries that they have ever seen.  It’s because God is gathering in an end-time harvest of souls.

Why are we here when He wants us to be there? 

I don’t know about you, but I’ve decided to live there.  Anybody want to live there?  And when there becomes here, I’m going there. 

Stand up on your feet with me.  I want all the Trustees to step out, and I want Trustees to go to each aisle way, about how many?  About five in each of the rows, all of you Trustees and spouses, all of you Trustees and spouses. 

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.