*Healing is Here, BIG TIME!
On 1st April 2006, as with every Saturday, it has become a habit, a holy habit for me to go to church. I thought I would probably see the usual crowd, the usual praise and worship and the only thing that is going to be different this week was the guest speaker,
Reverend Richard Roberts.
Boy was I wrong! It was a healing service and there was a sense of expectancy in the atmosphere. My cell group was sitting right behind an area reserved for the
Dialect Ministry which consist mainly
elderly. Many of them were so old, they had to come in wheelchairs or they will need someone to hold on to them as they walk. Not surprising, many of them have age-related diseases.
As the praise starts, these elderly really stood up and praise the LORD! They
clapped, they
sing (I am not sure how they sing in English but they do look like they are opening their mouth to sing) and they look really
excited! During worship, some of them lift up their hands through out the whole session! In fact, they look more
energetic and
passionate then some of the teenagers I see in church!
The next time I see some teen members praise or worship with a sloppy attitude, I am not going to hesitate to tell them,
“My grandmother can do better than you!”
Anyway, seeing the way these elderly loved God really touched my heart. When I am touched, I will have this
BIG wide smile plastered on my face and I will be staring intently at them. I was almost looking at them throughout the whole praise and worship. In my mind, I was thinking,
“If these elderly can be so passionate at their age, then surely my grandparents could also be saved! Praise the LORD!”The main attraction of this week’s meeting would be the guest
speaker.
Dr. Richard Roberts is a renowned
Healing Evangelist (which means that he has the gift of healing and goes around using the gift and reaches out to the lost), President of
Oral Roberts University and
Oral Roberts Ministries. Everywhere he goes, the
blind sees, the
deaf hears and the
lame walks! Cancers are healed and people are getting saved. In fact, the healing can occur even through the television programmes he host.
You may think this is one man who takes after his father,
Dr. Oral Roberts, who was also a famous Healing Evangelist during his own time. Well, that assumption is correct but in his earlier days, that wasn’t so. When Dr. Richard was much younger, he aspired to be a singer and he never imagined he will become a Healing Evangelist like his father.
“I sang in night clubs!” confessed Dr. Richard Roberts during
Emerge Conference 2005, when he talked about his younger days.
No wonder this Man of God could sing so well!
Reverend Kong Hee asked him to sing during the meeting and he willingly did so. He didn’t sing just one song, he sang a solo and got his students from ORU to sing another with him then he got them to sing another song on their own! The songs were a little jazzy and it holds quite a punch. What can I say?
He can really sing!Dr. Richard then brings out
Seven Promises God made in the bible.
The
First Promise is,
“The land is yours to possess!” (Deut 1:8) Dr. Richard proclaimed,
“And not even an inch belongs to the devil.” Indeed, God wants us to walk on our faith and be a faith participant in everything HE is doing. Faith is something that we have and it is something that we
DO.
The
Second Promise,
“You are the head and not the tail!” (Deut 28:13).
“Animal live by instinct, we live by choices,” said Dr. Richard. We have authority, we have a position. We are
First Class Citizens in the Kingdom of God indeed!
For the
Third Promise, Dr. Richard declared,
“No weapon formed against you shall prosper!” (Is 54:17)
“You may lose a battle but not the war.” Having failed doesn’t mean you are a failure. Our weapons are not carnal but mighty to pull down strongholds. Put on the full armours of God and
be ready today!
“Healing is here, BIG TIME!” (Ex 15:26) is the
Fourth Promise. Dr. Richard recounted an event when his daughter’s dog broke its leg. The dog was named
Puppy, which was bought after their first dog pass away. Dr. Richard’s daughter,
Chloe really loved Puppy a lot and it was bad enough that the first one had died. Now the second one may be put to sleep because of the broken leg.
While waiting for the X-ray to be taken, a holy anger came upon Dr. Richard and he cried out,
“We want a dog with four legs, not three! Devil! Take your hands away from my dog!”
Lo and behold, the X-ray showed that the dog was alright! The vet initially said the leg was broken and the dog was not able to walk before that. Now as the nurse gave the dog back to Dr. Richard, the dog was able to walk around and even jump!
Dr. Richard put forth,
“If God would heal a dog, and how much more will God wants to heal man!”
The
Fifth Promise,
“You are God’s property!” (1 Cor 6:19-20) Dr. Richard talked about a case where a student was almost raped. She kept repeating,
“I belong to God and you cannot do this to me!” to the rapist and before anything happen, the rapist got up and ran away!
The man was caught and was questioned why he didn’t commit the crime, he claimed that he felt something was wrong when the girl kept professing so he fled!
Yes! We are God’s property.
Guarded jealously by God!
Dr. Richard wants us to know that the
Sixth Promise is,
“You have the right to the harvest of the seed you sowed!” (Mal 3:10) In the first place, the reason why the windows of heaven have to be opened is because it is closed! When we tithe, we have the rights to keep it open. When bad things happen, when trials and testing come, we have the right to
REBUKE the devil. Dr. Richard defined
rebuke as telling the devil to
“Stop it! That’s enough!”As for the
Seventh Promise, Dr. Richard assured us that,
“He will never leave you or forsake you!” (Heb13:5) God is with us when we do right and also when we do wrong. He is with us whenever we make a right decision or the wrong decision. He is there when you repent and
He is always ready to forgive you.
God is the same yesterday, today and forever. He has never fallen off the throne. The promises He made still stand today. That concluded the message.
Then the healing session began. Just as Dr. Richard had preached, he wanted all of us to participate in faith and lay hands on the people who were ill as he prayed on stage. The power of God moved
strongly and one by one, people started
getting healed!
Together with a few people, I was praying for this woman who was sitting in front of me, she had neck stiffness and couldn’t move her neck for the past five years. The lady was tearing and crying out in the spirit as we were praying for her. She was trembling and before you know it, she was slain (or she passed out, I am not sure) and
Yixuan caught her with both hands. Later on, she went to testify the healing on stage and proclaimed that she was
healed! Praise the LORD! She was turning her neck all around and there was no pain or stiffness!
A couple of people who were either blind on one eye or deaf in one ear were also healed! An old man went to testify of his healing to the ears by
taking off his hearing aid and showed that he could hear without it!
Also,
two wheelchairs were put “out-of-commission” on stage. A young lady who I identified as one of the choir member was wheelchair-bounded because of brain tumours. She testified of her healing by
walking on stage! An old lady who came in by wheelchair as she could no longer walk because of kidney failure
walked once again after many years!
Is God moving or what! God loves us; He brings blessings to us and heals us of our diseases. That is the God I know and that is the God I serve.
So is God your God?
GOD IS GOOD. :)
