RICHARD : Dad, before you began this ministry in 1947, the year before I was born, you put a'fleece,' or petition, before the Lord, asking Him to offer you a clear sign that you were to leave the church you were pastoring and go into the healing ministry fulltime- as you thought He had told you to do.
You said to the Lord,'If you're not the God who saves, heals, and delivers people, then I want out of this.' And you had a job waiting for you in a men's clothes shop, did not you? Are you able to share a little bit about that?
ORAL : Well, I rented a building in central Enid, Oklahoma, where I was pastoring, to hold my service, and I asked God to heal somebody in the service in a way that they would know it, and I would know it. In the service, there had been a woman who'd had a problem with her arm for 38 years. When I walked past her, she reached out and touched me. The movement in her arm became loose and she could freely move it. She began to raise her arm and praise God, crying at the top of her voiceand it really stirred the crowd to want my prayers. I prayed for the sick that afternoon from 3:00 until 600, and I went home knowing that God had answered my prayer. I was to go to the ends of the earth with His healing power.
First we moved to Tulsa for a more central location to airline travel. Then a friend asked me if I would preach for him for two nights. By the second night, the bunch was beginning to grow, and by a couple of days later, you could not get a seat in the tent ; you had to bring your own chair and sit outside of the tent. The power of The Lord God had started to heal the people, and it was marvelous what was happening!
RICHARD : Something else happened in those services that caused your name to become known around the planet.
ORAL : Yes, there was man who had a gun, and he had hate in his heart. He stepped across the way and shot at me, and the bullet missed me by about 3 or 4 inches above my head. The title in the Tulsa paper read,'Evangelist Shot At,' and it was carried on the front pages of paperspapers across America. Pastors saw it and began to telephone me and see whether I would come and pray for the sick in their areas.
About
Lindsay Roberts Lindsay Roberts and the Revival Ministries international is a ministry that crosses denominational boundaries and geographical borders to fulfill what the Lord has called it to do, to stir up the Church, enlightening her to get ready for the approaching revival.
