Make Your Day Count

RR: Hello, everybody, and welcome to the campus of Oral Roberts University and the City of Faith Health Care Center and the newly opened first phase of the Healing Outreach Center with the Journey Through the Bible, and welcome to little Jordan Lindsay Roberts. Jordan, can you wave at everybody and blow them a kiss. Blow them a kiss. Blow them a kiss. (Applause) Can you hug your daddy? Oh. We just thought you’d like to see little Jordan. She’s almost 15 months old and we sure do praise God for her. She is a little miracle baby, Lindsay.

LR: She is. She was our little belief that God could really give us a second chance. We had tried and tried and failed and failed by the world’s standards, but God had a miracle for us and this is our little result of never giving up on God because He never gave up on us. This is what we got to show for keeping holding on to our faith. It pays to hold onto your faith because God really blesses you.

RR: Who are you looking at, Jordy?

LR: She likes to sing in your microphone.

RR: What does the cow say? (Moo) Moo. What does the kitty cat say? (Laugh) No, that’s what Billy Joe says. Laugh like Billy Joe Daugherty. (Laugh) What do you say when you go over to the doctor at the City of Faith? (Ah) What? Ah. The doctor says, ah. What does the lion say? (R-r-r) Well, we’re delighted that little Jordan is with us today and as we open this program. What are you going to do with my microphone? You want to sing? I want to sing, want to sing. Well, daddy will sing. Do you want to stay right here while I sing? O.K., well you just stay right here. In a few moments my dad and my mother have a very special announcement for you. God has been dealing with Oral Roberts again and he has a special message for you. So don’t change the channel. Stay right where you are. And, Lindsay, why don’t you and Jordan just stay right here next to me, and I may need help. I don’t know what Jordan is going to do when I sing this song. But I want to sing a song and as I’m singing this song, show you some of the people down at the Healing Outreach Center as they tour the Journey Through the Bible and to remind you the Journey Through the Bible is opened this summer and ready for you. And this is a song that is dedicated to the healing power of prayer. It’s the place for miracles. (Singing “This is the Place”) (Applause) Now here’s a special message just for you. Blow them a kiss. HEALING OUTREACH CENTER SPOT (Applause)

LR:  And don’t ever be ashamed where you’re at.  If you’re on the street today, don’t be ashamed of that.  You’re you.  You’re unique. You are irreplaceable before the eyes of God.  You’re special.  If you are a bartender in a bar listening to my voice right now, you’re irreplaceable to God.  If you’re thinking of taking your life for suicide, don’t do it because there’s not another you.  There’s no business failure, there is no job failure, there is no marriage failure bad enough to take your life because there’s not another you. There’s always more money, there’s always another car, there’s always another job, but there’s not another you.  You are the very best product of you that God has to work with.  Right now I want to pray for you.  I want to pray for you if you want to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.  Maybe you’ve been listening to what we said and you said, “That’s fine, but I don’t know Jesus.”  Do you want to know how simple it is?  All you have to do is confess Him.  All you have to do is say this–I want you to repeat this after me. Father, in the name of Jesus, I confess my sins to You.  I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and my Savior.  I pray You will forgive my past and forgive my sins.  And, Lord, forget them, as Your Word promised.  And in Jesus’ name, make me a new creature.  In Jesus Christ.  All things that are old are behind me, and my past is forgiven and forgotten.  And I am a new creature in Christ, reading to start over.  Thank You, Jesus, for saving me.  Amen and amen.  And I want to pray for you right now, whether your need is physical, spiritual, financial, emotional.  Maybe you have a job that you need and you’re not getting it.  Lord, in the name of Jesus, right now I pray for every need to be met, whether it’s a spiritual need, a physical need, a financial need, an emotional need.  In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, be healed.  In Jesus’ name, be healed from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet and make today the very best today you can make it.  Be your very best.  Do the best you can today and accept yourself as God’s instrument, that He can use you and use you to the fullest, in Jesus’ name.  Amen.  Rhonda, we appreciate you.  We appreciate your witness for Jesus Christ, and may you go on to do whatever God has called you to do, in Jesus’ name. We’ve run out of time right now, but I want you to take these words with you, no matter what the devil throws in your face, no matter what it looks like in your life, I want you to know this, God can take the situation that you’re in right this moment and He can turn it around for your good.  Amen.  (Applause)

ANNOUNCER:  Richard would like you to have a copy of his new personal Bible Commentary, which includes the Four Gospels and the Book of Acts.  In this handsomely bound special edition, Richard shares from his heart on Scriptures concerning salvation, the Holy Spirit, healing and Seed-Faith.  To receive your copy, send your Seed-Faith gift of $25 to Richard Roberts, Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Or call 1-918-495-7777. Call or write today.  I’m Bill Nordstrom, inviting you to join us tomorrow for another exciting program.  And remember, God can turn it around in your life.

 ORUS:  Singing “Turn It Around”  APPLAUSE

LR:  –but while we’re there, while we’re expecting our miracle, be content carrying Jordan for seven months, eight months, nine months. Now let me tell you, after seven months and when you gain 51 pounds, you’re not very content.  You’re big as a barn and you want to say, “I want this over with now.”  I said to Richard one day, I said, “Richard, I want this baby born tonight,” when I was seven months pregnant.  I said, “I can’t get any bigger.  If I get any bigger I will burst.”  And I was so huge.  And Richard said, “You don’t want that baby born tonight.”  I said, “Oh, yes, I do.”  He said, “Oh, no, you don’t.”  He said, “That baby is only seven months along.  If that baby is born now, it’s premature.  Your harvest isn’t complete.  That baby doesn’t have all the parts ready.  If you have that baby now, it’s wrong, it’s not in God’s perfect harvest time.  You want that baby born when that baby is ready to be born, in God’s perfect timetable.”  And I said, “You know, you’re right.”  We try to hurry our harvest along.  We try to be–we’re so discontented during the growing time that we sometimes want our harvest too soon and it’s the wrong harvest.  It’s not ready.  It’s like an apple, you want it red and ripe and if you eat it when it’s green and too soon, it will sour your stomach and make you sick.  You want it when the harvest is right and ripe.  You don’t want it too soon.  Be content where you are during the growing time, knowing, knowing that God has the perfect timetable for that harvest.  Don’t get so down and dwell in that little puddle that you’re never going to get out.  But have an attitude of expectancy–my harvest is coming, my harvest is coming. I’m not going to moan and gripe and complain about where I am because my harvest is coming.  And expect that miracle.  Expect it, and make a statement of faith right now that you’re going to get out of the mess you’re in by faith, by planting your seeds of faith unto God and turning your life over to God and God will work that miracle and that harvest time will come in due season.  (Applause)

CPS:  Well, what made you go back when you would lose and you would lose, see, because there’s a lot of people, and like I’ve said earlier, it’s not–

LR:  You didn’t always win either.

CPS:  No, I lost, year after year after year.  I don’t even tell–one time I entered a pageant.  Usually I tell because I was the first runnerup, then I was second runnerup, then third runnerup, and then, I mean, I was going the wrong way but I was at least in the top five. But one pageant in there I entered that I didn’t even make the top 40 and I don’t even tell that one. It’s too embarrassing even to me. But what kept you going back?

RC:  Learning.  I would learn more about the pageant and learn things to do that were different, but it was–

CPS:  But did you learn about Rhonda?

RC:  Yes, it was a desire inside and how to overcome the other things that would get in my way, like when I first entered the Miss Illinois, allowing Satan to have control of me instead of the Lord.  And just the desire to try again and try one more time.

CPS:  Well, honestly, what taught you more, the years that you lost or the year that you won?

RC:  The years that I lost.  It’s the times when they were down that taught them the most. I really believe that.

CPS:  And that’s hard because we don’t want to hear that, but that’s really the truth.

LR:  Exactly right.

RC:  Sometimes the Lord allows us to get down so low so that we can finally look up.  I was talking to a gentleman on a plane and we were talking and he said, “Well, I pray when I’m down, but it seems like when everything starts going good, I forget to pray.” And he was asking me about that.  I said, “That just takes spiritual growth to learn that when things are going good to praise Him for it and to keep the vibrance and the life in you glowing and to keep working on that.”

CPS:  And that doesn’t mean that the Lord wants us to lose.  It means that when we are losing, He wants us to learn.

 LR:  See, I believe that.  I believe that we need to be content in the situation where we’re at.  Not the fact that we need to stay in it–

CPS:  But that while we’re there–

LR:  Amen, that’s right.  And, you know, what if your desire is to become a nun.  If your desire is to become a nun and everyone is saying to you, “You can’t do it because you’ve done this, this and this,” God can cleanse you.  If your desire is to be a mother, praise God for it.  That was my desire.  And, you know, the Lord tried everything to bless me and the devil tried everything to rob me, and I had to make a decision to either quit and give up or try again.  And I had to make that decision.  I had a dream in my heart.  If your dream is to be Miss America, if your dream is to be a nun, if your dream is to be a lawyer, if your dream is to be a doctor, if your dream is to be a priest or a pastor or an evangelist, or if you know God has turned you into a prophet of God, don’t give up your dream in the face of adversity.  The devil isn’t going to make the road to God easy. He’s not that dumb.  One thing about the devil, he’s not dumb. He knows where your weakest points are.  When I saw my precious little son go to be with the Lord after two miscarriages, I finally said, honest, this is the truth, I looked in the face of my husband and I said, “Don’t you ever ask me to get pregnant again.”  Don’t ever do it again.  Now that was the devil talking. That was the “give up and quit” talking.  Had I quit, I would have missed my precious beautiful little Jordan Lindsay.  But the Lord finally gave me a peace and He said, “Now you know better than that.  I told you try again.  I gave you a strength.  I gave you a peace.”  And the Lord gave me the strength to try again when I was pregnant.  The whole time I kept saying, “This is God’s baby, this is God’s miracle, this is my little miracle.” Every time I look at her, I said, “I named you Jordan Lindsay, but your name is miracle,” because she is a miracle.  But it began with my conscious decision to say, “I’ll do it again.  I’ll get up.  I’ll get up from the ashes.  I’ll get up from the”–I was in the heap, I’ll tell you what.  I felt like I was in the floor, I was a failure.  It wasn’t me that caused that baby not to live.  The doctors to this day don’t have an explanation.  I couldn’t, I couldn’t physically say, “I did this wrong, I did that wrong.”  But I felt like a failure.  Even though I had nothing to do with it, I felt like a failure.  But, see, God didn’t make failures.  God doesn’t create, He doesn’t supernaturally give you birth to be a failure.  That’s not His plan and His purpose.  He gives you birth to be a child of God. And He said, “I will put you in high places, not low places,” like Miss National Teenager and Miss America.  He said, “I put you to be the head and not the tail.  That means I made you to be the top and not the bottom.”  If you’re living on the bottom right now, that’s not where God wants you to be.  You have to be content in the fact that God is in control.  But you’ve got to be tenacious in the fact that God has a plan for you to get up and get out of that mess and become what God created you to become. He called us all to be winners. (Applause)  And whether you ever win the crown or not, you’re still a winner.  If you’re the second runnerup or the third runnerup or the fifth runnerup or you never get to the pageant, you’re a winner in God’s eyes.  If you’re doing what God called you to do, you are a winner.  I really believe that.