2010 February | Make Your Day Count

LR:
And welcome to Make Your Day Count. I’m Lindsay Roberts, and I am standing here in the midst again of the Abundant Life Prayer Group. We are live today from the Prayer Group here. It’s a little bit after two o’clock Tulsa time, Central Time, and we are just standing here listening to the prayers of our prayer partners praying for the needs of people.

And I’ll tell you, when you walk in this atmosphere, when you walk in this particular room, you can feel the presence of prayer going on in this place, 24 hours a day, seven days a week The Abundant Life Prayer Group has been on duty for over 40 years. And we’ve gotten prayer requests, sometimes two and three thousand prayer requests per day.

And when you have people around here praying for the prayer requests of our partners, two to three thousand prayer phone calls per day, I’ll tell you, that’s a lot of prayer. And you feel like you’re absolutely bathed in it.

You know, some days when I come to work, whether you’re a little bit up or you’re a lit-tle bit tired, you walk in this atmosphere and you walk in this room and it’s literally like walking into the presence of prayer and the presence of Father God. And I’ll tell you, it is the most re-freshing atmosphere to be in.

And I want to tell you that it’s important for you to call in your prayer request. And if you’re watching right now at two o’clock Tulsa time, these are the particular prayer partners that you will actually get on the telephone because we’re live right now, 918-495-7777. I want to encourage you to call that number, 918-495-7777, and make your prayer request known to us. And then they will bring that to us, and we will pray for you. They will pray for you.

If you need prayer, 918-495-7777. You can go on-line at Oral Roberts Ministry website, orm.cc, write Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts at Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74102, or like I said, go to the telephone, 918-495-7777.

I was reading some of the letters and some of the prayer requests that we got in just re-cently, and I thought, You know, it’s such a diversity of things that are going on. Not only in this country, but we receive prayer request literally all over the world.

(Reading names) This one called in, and it’s just the most precious story because, I’ll tell you, it reminds me in many ways of myself. First of all, she’s praying for a job and praying that God would send her to the right place and the right employment.

And then she said this. She said, “Pray for me physically.” She said, “So many things have happened in my life. As a result, I have gained an enormous amount of weight.” And she said, “Lindsay, I want you to pray for extra weight.”

And I started thinking about women in general. But, you know, sometimes when we’re stressed, we stop eating. Sometimes when we’re stressed, all we do is eat.

Last week I was with a really, really precious friend of mine, and last week, for some rea-son, over stress, I was in the “I really don’t feel like eating” mood. I didn’t want to eat. That was the mood I was in.

And so she said, “No, let’s go to Cracker Barrel.” So we went to Cracker Barrel, and she was frustrated over something else. And I was frustrated and didn’t want to eat. So I had a baked potato with nothing on it. And I was just sitting there picking, you know, and it was just the emotion of where I was that day.

And she looked at the precious little waiter—and God bless her heart—he said, “Can I take your order?” And she said, “I’ll have page one.” And he said, “What?” And she said, “Just bring me everything on the whole page.”

And the strange thing was, as he started to bring her different things, the table was just filled with food. And she looked at me and said, “Why am I doing this?”

That’s exactly what this woman was saying right in this prayer request. Because she was frustrated over a job, she started eating. And that became her comfort.

But remember in the Bible where Jesus said, “When I ascend to heaven and I leave this earth, I’m not going to leave you comfortless. I’ll send you the Holy Spirit.” You know, so many times we don’t let prayer be our comfort. We don’t let Father God be our comfort. We don’t let the Word of God be our comfort. We don’t let the Holy Spirit be our comfort.

When we’re stressed out, we let food be our comfort, or something else somewhere down the road, either too much or too little. And that’s what this precious lady was saying. You know, I think that when you realize the soul realm is your mind, your will, and your emotions, and God said in Psalm 103, “Bless the Lord, O my soul,” we’ve got to line up our soul, our mind, our will, and our emotions, with the Word of God, not line it up with television, or line it up with food, or line it up with this or that. But in the name of Jesus, we’ve got to line up our emotions with the Word of God.

So right now, sweetheart, and I’m not going to call your name because it’s very personal to her, but I pray in the name of Jesus that you’ll not only stop stressing over your job or the need for a job, but you will also allow the peace of God that surpasses your human understanding, that you will allow Father God to come in and minister healing to you in Jesus’ name.

(Reading names) I pray in the name of Jesus for God begin ministering healing right now live from the Prayer Tower in the name of Jesus. And if you feel like you need further prayer, please call the Abundant Life Prayer Group. If you want to give us your prayer request, or if you want to give us a praise report, or if you want to sow a seed into this ministry, right here right now—we’re live. I’m standing right now listening to this precious one pray—918-495-7777.

I believe these prayer partners can be a great blessing to you. And instead of going to something that isn’t from God, let’s go to the telephone right now. Call the Abundant Life Prayer Group, and let’s get into an atmosphere of prayer and let’s get into an agreement of prayer, 918-495-7777.

And while you’re doing that, I want to show you a commercial. Now those of you who have been on our website or seen this book before know that this book actually use to have a cost to it. We would sell this book.

Well, we’re not going to do that this week. We’re going to give it to you. Last week I gave it to people. And you know what? The response was so overwhelming, our phones were jammed. And we want to do it again this week.

The book is called Overcoming Stress. And just by the reports that I read, it’s obvious we need to learn how to overcome stress the Bible way. And that includes me. The one time I had was the worst stress attack was writing a book about stress. Go figure that one! But you know what? God doesn’t want us to stress. Instead, this says, “Take charge of the negative situ-ations that come to attack you. Overcome them with the Word of God.”

This is my gift to you. This is my Seed-Faith gift to you. I want to give it to you. The number that you have to call is a toll-free number, so the call is free and the book is free, 866-870-6900(6932). Stay tuned. We’re going to show you a commercial about that. And we’re going to be back right here live in the Prayer Tower to begin praying for you in Jesus’ name. Stay tuned.

LR:
We look at some of the product that has come out of our nation and some of the godlessness that’s come out of our nation, and there’s many time I think, you know, going to these nations where God is God, being in missionary’s homes where they have to depend on God. They have to depend on God for the next meal.

You know, there’s an enormous amount of—this may sound silly to someone, but I’ve been there—an enormous amount of benefit to that. Because their trust is not in the government. Their trust is not in their friends. Their trust is not in their iPods and in their myspace and facebooks. Their trust is in God.

And what a way to raise children. They are different when they’re generation in a generation like that.

DC:
And, in fact, a lot of times they don’t even realize that there’s anything different. I came to ORU, and I had a great home life. I was raised as a Christian, my whole family. I got there, and my friends were not.

And I remember one of my friends on my freshman floor, we became very close. And she was from a dysfunctional kind of broken home, but she got money. She had a car. She got money sent to her every month because of divorce settlements and all that. Her school was all paid for.

I’m in debt. But she came home with me one fall break, and she said, “I would give up all of that for this any day.” And I assumed that what I had was what everybody had.

And it’s the same way for our kids. They take for granted almost the way they’re being raised, to live by faith, that that’s just normal.

LR:
And it is normal to God. Well, they came back, and we’ll kind of switch over to Haley. Haley’s desire was most of it, in my opinion, in the missionary outreach and the healing outreach.

Jordan’s was in the feeding and the educational side. And when Jordan came back, your heart was, you didn’t want to leave. And then the biggest thing I think that touched you was seeing the healings. I think that’s probably the most reasonable to say.

HH:
Yeah, it was huge for me to see the healings, just because I’ve known from a young age that God would use me to be a part of healing crusades overseas, to reach a mass amount of people with the gospel. I didn’t know where. I didn’t know the parts of it, but just the healing ministry.

So somehow along the way, God has prepared a way for me to be under President Roberts since I’ve been at ORU, which I never thought about that. I’m an ORU TV Singer. I never thought that would happen, that’s how I would get to travel and do all those things.

My mom said, “You should be an ORU TV Singer.”

I said, “Okay.” (Inaudible)

Somehow I ended up there, and it’s not just being able to sing on TV. It’s being able to minister to people and to go with President Roberts and learn the inner workings of a ministry like that. That’s huge for me, and I got to go to do. And it wasn’t just . . . it’s a place—

LR:
Fallen in love with, go ahead and admit it. I can take it now. We had to beg her to come home, and now they’re begging her to go back.

HH:
I talk about it all the time, warming you all up.

LR:
I know, she’s preparing me. So Jordan comes back with mostly Haley’s story. And she sat down with Amber, and they talked about how many people they were able to minister to with the mission field, with the ministry outreach in medical missions, the nursing missions, the feeding program, and the doctor program, evangelistic program.

And Amber began to hear Jordan’s heart about wanting to feed more. They fed 285,000 meals, and found out immediately that was not even a dent, not even close.

So the moment they got home, it was, “What can we do to do more?” The million meals popped in their mind. And they were determined at that moment it’s going to be a million meals.

Well, she talked to Amber about it, and they were about to do the new Revolution album. And as they are about to put together the album, Amber is the one to market the album. And Jordan starts talking about the school. I think Amber did. And pick it up from there what happened.

AMBER:

We were just talking, and I was bitter because I didn’t get to go.

LR:
She was complaining the whole time.

AMBER:
Bitterness, I was just like, it’s something that—as hard as we try, there’s going to be kids out there that are just going to be hungry and stuff and they’re going to not be educated or whatever. But we were talking about how cool it would be to go over there. You know, even if we went over there and we actually built this school and went over there and established a relationship with these people and, you know, just gave them something, stuff like that, an education and food and stuff. In a sense, money can’t buy that stuff like the relationship that you build with these people.

??:
But it can build a school.

AMBER:
Right, but it takes money to do all this stuff, but something that grabs people—

LR:
But your heart has been connected.

AMBER:

—is our relationship with them. And through that relationship, they’ll see God through you. And we were just all talking, actually sitting probably on the floor of Jordan’s office, and we were all sitting there.

LR:
Everybody sits on the floor in Jordan’s office. It’s like a counseling session on the floor.

AMBER:
We were all just sitting there, and we were talking about the album and just everything that we wanted. We wanted this album to be something bigger than us, you know, something that’s going to last way beyond when we’re gone, you know, when our children are here and whatever. So we wanted to established Hunger Needs a Voice.

It was something that I just kind of came about it, and we wanted to give to that and make sure that these kids, you know, that people loved them and that God loves them.

LR:
Then you got the idea, “Why don’t we consider building a school?” And immediately it was a light conversation of, “Well, yeah, that could do.” And you went, “No, that’s doable.” It just hit you it can be done.

So in the process of all that, we went back to the Childs and voiced what we wanted to do. Come to find out, that’s exactly what you’re doing.

NC:
You’re right on the same page.

LR:

And so we are on the same page, and we invite you to join our page. And at ORU we are doing everything we can to work with them to build a school, to fund the school, to hopefully and prayerfully equip the school, teachers, administrators, the needed things, the educational things that are the nuts and bolts of the school.

But then their idea was to bring the feeding into the school, to guarantee that as the children are in the school, they are fed at the school. And each step of the way, obviously the money issue was never the issue. The idea was, this is something we have to do, and God will provide the money.

And I think that that way of thinking has infected all of us. And we want to ask you to be a part of it. We want you to think about this. Do you want to go to Africa? Got some neat people to hook you up with. Do you speak French? That wouldn’t hurt either. It’s a French-speaking country.

Are you interested in education? Hmm, they’re desperately in need of teachers and in need of the educational side of it. And then let’s toss in the fact that financially, they’re in need of that. And the food program that you work with. So there’s a great need.

There’s a great bunch of kids that have produced an album, the Revolution album, so that the proceeds can go towards this. Instead of sitting back at home and going, “Isn’t that nice of them?”—yes, it is, and I agree. But what about all of us? What is our part? Has God put some of this in your heart?

Now it was so strong in Haley’s heart, we had to fight her to come home, and we can’t keep her here. We’ve just all come to that realization. So what’s your part? We all know that there’s something for us to do, but we want to inquire, “Have you got something in your heart that God is laying on your heart to do?”

All I’m asking you to do is pray. And if God does move on your heart, would you pick up your phone, call the Abundant Life Prayer Group at area code 918-495-7777. That’s area code 918-495-7777. Not only will they pray with you, but they will believe God with you for whatever your part is, whether it’s the financial part, whether it’s to join them, whether it’s a missionary part.

And then if you want more information, go to makeyourdaycount.com. That’s all you have to do is go to makeyourdaycount.com. I believe it will be a tremendous blessing. We’re going to link you over to all that they’re doing. And you can write Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts, Tulsa, OK 74102.

And I don’t know about you, I went 24 years ago. It’s never left my heart. Jordan, that’s all she talks about. Amber didn’t get to go. She’s mad as a hornet. We have told her she is going to get to go. So it’s okay, and the bitterness will get healed when you get over there.

And Haley just cries, and her husband Nick, he’s determined to go. And you all live over there. So what more can we say, except, now it’s your time. We need you to participate. So we want to encourage you, if you’d like to be a part of this, again, makeyourdaycount.com.

Thank you guys all for being here. Whatever you do today, pray about Africa and make it count for the kingdom of God.

LR:
In one week.

NC:

In one week. So it was incredible. Niger is a country that really, the harvest is great. And, really, that’s what the passion is right now that we’re trying to tell people, to say, “The harvest is great, the laborers are few.” We’ve got to join together. We’ve got to take the gospel to a land where they’ve not heard. And that’s our vision, (foreign phrase)—we’re preaching the gospel in a land where they’ve not heard.

And we want to really begin to set up an infrastructure where the gospel can go forward. We’re talking about a school. We have a primary school where we’re not only preaching the gospel in our Bible schools. We’re not only planting churches. We have 27 churches planted now. But we’re now getting into the area of education.

This is a nation where there’s less than 20 percent of the people that can read and write. You can’t send them a tract and then read about Christ. It has to have a voice. It has to have somebody go.

But now in our heart, we’re wanting to raise up from the children, kindergarten, K3, K4, K5, you know, all the way through sixth grade. We have a school that we’re just in our second year now, but it’s a school that we’ve already outgrown. We’re having to build our next school block of three classrooms. And that’s where, praise God, chapel today, I mean, I was just blown away that President Roberts wanted to take up an offering for us.

And then hearing Jordan’s heart about God speaking to her and Amber about this Revolution project, I mean, we’re excited just to be a part of that.

These are children that are growing up in Moslem families. Our school is a Christian school. We have a normal curriculum of the government, but we pray over the kids. We teach the Word. And they’re learning. And these are coming from Moslem families.

And the unique thing about this is, that the Moslems are willing to pay for their kids to come to our school because education is in such high demand, they’re willing to pay their kids to come to a Christian school because they know we’re going to offer an excellent education.

And so that’s what we’ve been experiencing. But there’s just so much more opportunity. There’s so many kids, and some kids can’t afford it. And one of the things that’s on our heart is to be able to sponsor the children of our pastors to come in to the school. And a lot of times they’re pastoring out in these villages, they don’t have the funds to be able to send their kid in to come to school. Out in these villages, there won’t be schools. So that’s really what our heart is.

We’ve been thinking down the road, possibly have dormitories and a setup where we can bring the kids in.

LR:
They came back and are bragging about Danette. And all my babies and all the kids are bragging about you and your family. And yet here you are in immense poverty, raising three children. You’re from Minnesota. You were not born into the mission field, and yet it’s home to you. And you see the need, and you’re doing something about it.

DC:

As far as our children, raising our children there, we can’t think of really a better place. I mean, we’re honored to have our children be a part of our ministry. After we were married, and probably before we were married, we started praying for our children, whatever children that God gave us, knowing our future, that they would adapt to whatever culture that we were going to sit in. I think everybody can testify that that is an answer to prayer.

LR:
Kenneth Copeland said to me about his grandkids, actually it was his granddaughter said it to me, that, you know—and I talked to Joyce Meyer about it. I’ve talked to Benny Hinn’s family. We’ve had all their kids here, kids, grandkids. We’ve got lots of kids that are missionary kids, all the way to evangelist’s kids, all the way to everybody else’s kids, a lot of kids here, and how unique, difficult it is to be a Copeland kid, to be a Roberts kid, to be a Hinn kid.

Kenneth’s granddaughter came to me, and she said, “You know, the Lord really gave me a revelation through my grandfather that when people say something, you can lock in and agree that it’s the worst thing in the whole world, and then everything negative will follow. Or you can lock in to the fact that it’s a privilege and an honor to be in a family that really does serve God, and the positive side will follow.”

But it’s all how you absorb it and make a mindset of it, the negative or the positive will follow. If you think, Oh, yeah, it’s horrible. I’ve got to run away from here because if I don’t get away . . . and then that will follow.

NC:
Some people are like that about going to Africa. “I’ll go anywhere, but don’t send me to Africa. But we love it.

LR:

Exactly. And when you realize it, that God puts families together for a reason, He puts children together for a reason. And Joyce Meyer said the most incredible thing to me because she said, “Your children are called to be your children. And they will fit in to your call because they’re called to be your children.”

And that’s what they came back from Africa, so many of them saying, that your kids were fabulous. They were great kids. And that anointing has hooked in to them.

DC:
Well, they’re part of it. And that’s one thing that we always determined to from the very beginning was to make our children part of the ministry. Because if they don’t feel a part of it, if they’re not connected, they’re just going to be kids of missionaries. But they’re really missionary kids. They’re missionaries in their own right.

Our children are involved. They speak the language Hausa fluently, better than we do, all three of them. They communicate with the people. I mean, Toby was born in South Africa. He’s in culture shock here. He doesn’t know American culture.

LR:
Exactly. And, you know, some of that way isn’t so bad.

DC:
No, it’s not, and we’re thankful for that.

NC:
Trey this past year preached his first messaged, preached in a church out in the village, so we were really excited.

DC:
His own choice, nothing we forced him to do. We didn’t want to make him—even when we were here in the States and go to different churches, we don’t force them to get up on the platform and do their thing typically, except that I know they want to do it. Because we don’t want them to hate this part of life. But they’ve had a great life.

Trey and Tanneka(?), Trey is 15, Tanneka is 14, and they love Africa. And they’re doing great.