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ANNOUNCER: On tonight’s program, Chancellor and founders of Oral Roberts University, Oral and Evelyn Roberts.  Now let’s welcome our host, Richard and Lindsay Roberts.

RR: Hallelujah.  This is the Hour of Healing!  Hallelujah.  Well, go ahead and give the Lord praise.

RR: Hallelujah!  Come on, this is miracle night!  This is healing night!  This is the Hour of Healing.

LR: Yes, yes!  I agree in Jesus’ name.

RR: Praise God, Lindsay, last night when we got home, we were watching on Channel 53, watching “Chronicles of Faith,” which takes people way back into the tent crusade days with my father, Oral Roberts, and I saw my father Lindsay, I saw him last night on television, about the middle 1950s, I saw him say, “Lay your hand on my hand.”

LR: We did.

RR: And for the past few nights, I’ve been saying that, “Lay your hand on my hand,” and the miracle, healing testimonies that have been coming through the Abundant Life Prayer Group to us each night, well, it’s just been absolutely astounding what God is doing.

LR: You know

RR: The Bible still works today in your life. If you will attach your faith and set your faith in agreement with the Word of God, miracles will happen.  Glory to God.

LR: Remember how Jesse Duplantis kept saying the other night that there was so much heat.  He said, “Richard, I just keep feeling this heat.”  He said it was like a heat coming all over him.  He said, “Even my ears got hot.”  But he said the anointing had never felt like that before on him.  But the minute he sat down on this platform, he said the heat just came over him. We had a gentleman in our studio last night that said it just felt so hot in here.  The heat just came over him, and he said he went home and watched the replay of it at night and

RR: It replays in Tulsa about midnight.

LR: Uh-huh, and he put his hand up on the television when you said that, and he said, “The anointing right then started up with that heat again.”

RR: Praise God.

LR: And it’s amazing that even on the replays people are getting touched and delivered and set free.

RR: Lindsay

LR: There is no distance in prayer.

RR: That’s right.  Here’s BJ calling from Coweta from last night. “Richard…”  BJ said, “I was watching the program last night because I couldn’t sleep.”  Watching the replay late last night. “Something Good Tonight, the HOUR OF HEALING, was on.  Richard, you gave a word about someone with ringing in the ears being healed.”  BJ said, “I’ve had ringing in my ears, but after that word was given, the ringing is gone.  I am healed.”  Hallelujah.

LR: Praise the Lord.

RR: Mamie in Orlando. Remember the word I gave about fingers last night being healed?

LR: I do.

RR: Now what does medical science say about offenses?  What does medical science say about unforgiveness?

J: Well, medical science literally has found out that there is connected to bitterness and unforgiveness, connected with it is rheumatoid arthritis and cancer.  Now not all cases, but it can be.  There is actually one medical doctor that I know of that is prescribing the Bait of Satan book to his patients, rheumatoid arthritis patients and cancer.

RR: Are you serious?

J: I’m not kidding.  He buys them en masse from our ministry and then actually writes on the prescription, Bait of Satan book, and says to the people, “You have to read this book.”  And people are getting healed. See, in meetings God has had me preach on offenses.  I’ve preached it all over the world, Richard, for the last four, five, six years.  In every service I have preached it, fifty to eighty percent of the people respond fifty to eighty percent in every congregation I’ve been in all over the world!  They respond, saying, “I’m holding an offense.”

And in those services we have seen many times people come up to us, saying, “I was healed of this.  I was healed of that.  God totally delivered me.  I’ve been believing for years to be healed of this sickness.  I’m healed of it.”

And there’s a scripture, listen to this, in Proverbs, chapter 18, verse 14, the Bible says, “The spirit of the man will sustain him in sickness.”  Now if your spirit is weakened because of offense, if it’s wounded because of offense, it cannot sustain you because out of the spirit, out of the heart flow the issues of life.  And so many are poisoned by the root of bitterness. And bitterness is a root.  It fuels that sickness in that body.

RR: You may be watching tonight and you have an offense, you have a hurt that’s deep on the inside.  And first you were hurt, youwere crushed, and then it turned to bitterness and it turned to unforgiveness.  It turned to an anger.  It turned to a, you’ve just eaten up on the inside and there’s some things that are beginning to go haywire in your life because of it.

I was talking to one medical doctor, a well-known orthopedic surgeon, who said, “Many times I find that patients who are dealing with arthritis, they’re literally driven inside themselves.”  And he began to do like this.  He said, “Bitterness kind of makes you do like this.”  And he says, “Now look at the shape of my body,” when he did this.  It makes you turn in on yourself.  It makes you kind of roll up almost in a ball.

RR: Hallelujah.

LR: And she said she knows the lady that’s called in with the testimony bending over with her back.

RR: Lindsay

LR: God is a healing God.

RR: last night after our program was over, we just wound up having a healing service in the room.

LR: We had a party.

RR: We laid hands on everybody that moved last night.

LR: My idea of a party is a healing line.  That’s a party to me.

RR: And Marilyn Hickey was here last night and gave an altar call, and two ladies who came from that hospital gave their lives to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

LR: That’s a party!  That’s a party to me.  The world parties, but to me that’s a party.

RR: What’ve you got, Lynwood?

Lynwood Wells: Richard, last night you gave a word about a seven-year-old who was being healed

LR: Yes.

LW: of tonsillitis.

RR: I did, I did.

LR: And said, “Swallow,” remember that?

LW: And you said, “Swallow.”

RR: Yes.

LW: Well, we got this call that there was a seven-year-old in Grand Rapids, Michigan …

LR: It’s Michigan.  Hi!

LR: who was healed last night, and we just happened. We just called back to make sure she’s still healed.  We have both her and her mother on the line right now.  Would you like to speak to them?

RR: Is the mother’s name Jennifer, or is that the little girl’s name?

LW: The mother’s name is Jennifer.

RR: Jennifer, are you on the line?

Jennifer: Yes, I am.

RR: Are you in Grand Rapids?

Jennifer: Yes.

RR: Hi.

Jennifer: Hi.

RR: Come here, honey.  Were you watching last night when I gave that word of knowledge?

Jennifer: Well, you know, it was the strangest thing.  I was watching and I was also on the phone with a girlfriend.  We were praying together and praising the Lord, and you had mentioned something about a prolapsed heart valve.

RR: I did.

JOHN: Well, I have a condition on my legs.  I’ve had swelling and cysts and tumors in my legs and sore that come on the outside that sometimes go clear to the bone.  And they’ve been real bad again, and it’s a condition that the doctors up in Indiana said was from Agent Orange.  They said

RR: Does this go back to when you were in the Vietnam war, John?

JOHN: Yes, sir.

RR: What happened when we prayed, John?

JOHN: Well, you had a word of knowledge that someone with a right leg, the swelling was going down, that they had tumors and sores on their leg, and that the swelling was going down and that the tumors were disappearing.  And immediately I felt a heat come on my legs, on both of them, and not just the right one the left one too.

RR: Both legs.

JOHN: Both legs.  And the sores are completely healed over now. There’s new skin over them, and you can’t feel the cysts anymore.

RR: Whooo!  Hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

LR: Praise the Lord.

RR: John, we set our faith ablaze with that testimony.  There may be somebody else watching right now, you’ve got problems with your legs.  Just lay your hands on your legs last night.  Here’s John in Orlando, Florida, we’re talking to him live on television, a Vietnam veteran having this condition, and he said those things are just beginning to come off his legs.  God is no respecter of persons.  If He can do that for John in Orlando, He can do that for you.  And … go ahead, Lindsay.

LR: And in Jesus’ name, John, we say Nahum 1:9 to you, “Afflictions shall not rise up”

RR: A good word, a good word.

LR: “a second time.

RR: Good word.

LR: We call it done and finished in

RR: Good word.

LR: the name of Jesus.

RR: And I add my word of faith to Lindsay’s word of faith.  You who are having problems with your legs and something like that  maybe you’re a Vietnam veteran.  Anyone who is a Vietnam veteran, you need prayer tonight.  You need to get up and call the Abundant Life Prayer Group at 918-495-7777 and let us stand in faith in agreement with you in Jesus’ name for you to be well.  Maybe something went terribly wrong in your body or something else has happened because of your service to the United States through our military services.  Let us stand in faith and agreement with you in prayer.  And in the authority of Jesus’ name, whatever it is, I come into an agreement with you in Jesus’ mighty name for you to be healed.  Hallelujah.

John, I give praise to the Lord for what He’s done in your life, and I’m believing that God’s going to heal other veterans, maybe veterans from the Korean War, some other veteran from some other conflict in our history.  And I just set my faith in agreement with you.  John, praise the Lord, praise the Lord. You’ve got another one, Steve.

STEVE: We’ve got another praise report of a healing in a right ear as a result of a word of knowledge that you gave last night.

RR: Where is this … this is from

STEVE: This is from Ohio.

RR:  Ohio.  Who is this?  Pam.

STEVE:  on the line.

RR: Pam, are you on the line?

PAM: I am.

RR: Hello, Pam.

PAM: Hello.

LR: Isn’t technology wonderful?

PAM: Where are you in Ohio?

LR: It’s amazing.

PAM: Eaton.

RR: Eaton?

LR: Eaton.

RR: And what happened last night, Pam?

PAM: Well, you had given a word of knowledge, and I believe it was while Marilyn Hickey was praying.  And you had said something first about an ear lobe and so I

RR: Inaudible, Both Talking At Same Time

RR: You may be watching tonight and you have an offense, you have a hurt that’s deep on the inside.  And first you were hurt, you were crushed, and then it turned to bitterness and it turned to unforgiveness.  It turned to anger.  It turned to a, you’ve just eaten up on the inside and there’s some things that are beginning to go haywire in your life because of it. I was talking to one medical doctor, a well known orthopedic surgeon, who said, “Many times I find that patients who are dealing with arthritis, they’re literally driven inside themselves.”  And he began to do like this.  He said, “Bitterness kind of makes you do like this.”  And he says, “Now look at the shape of my body,” when he did this.  It makes you turn in on yourself.  It makes you kind of roll up almost in a ball.

John, there are people right now that are in need of help. They’re in need of someone to pray for them.  Because you talk about a people who need a healing, people need healing who are into unforgiveness.  And I want you to just pray and minister to the people right now.  That’s what this program is about, the healing ministry.

J: The thing I want to say to you right now is this; you’ve got to be able to admit that you are offended.  That’s the first step for getting free.  Most people won’t admit it.  They’ll say, “No, I’m fine.  I’m over it.  I’ve handled it.”  Tonight as we talked, Richard and I, Lindsay and Lisa, it came back up.  The reason it came up, it’s the Holy Spirit trying to get you free.  Pride has kept you from getting free because pride has always said, “No, I’m fine.”  No, you’re not fine.  You’re wounded and you need to be able to confess it, because that’s the first step to getting free.

The next step you have to understand is, Jesus forgave you when you didn’t deserve it.  He freely forgave you.  He said that you are to forgive the way He’s forgiven you.  That means you’re to be able to forgive this person, no matter what they did to you.  I don’t care what was done to you.  Somebody says, “But you don’t know what was done to me.”  No, you don’t know what you did to Jesus.  You were the one that put Him on that cross.  I’m the one that put Him on that cross.