Ask God for Boldness
From the archives of Oral Roberts – Third of three parts When Peter and John returned to their company of believers and they began to lift their voices to God with one accord, they prayed: “And now, Lord, behold their threatening: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, […]
Get Somebody Praying with You
From the archives of Oral Roberts – Second of three parts After Peter and John were threatened and then released by the religious leaders who had commanded them never to speak in the Name of Jesus again, Peter and John went immediately “to their own company” (Acts 4:23). In other words, they went back to […]
Don’t Agree to the Threats!
From the archives of Oral Roberts – First of three parts Are you being threatened by something today? Is your back to the wall so that you’re about to give up hope? Do the odds seem insurmountable? The disciples of Jesus knew this feeling. In Acts 3 and 4, we read how Peter and John […]
Do You Need Patches?
Richard Roberts In the hills of Kentucky there was a coal mining town where the houses were built so close together that one family could sit on their front porch and carry on a conversation with the family next door. The families of this town were also no strangers to hard times, since layoffs could […]
Refuse To Give Up
From the archives of Oral Roberts We can learn a lot about the power of not giving up from studying the Old Testament. For example, in I Kings 18:42˗44 AMP, we find the prophet Elijah on the top of Mount Carmel, praying for rain. There had been a terrible drought in the land for 3 […]
Seeing Only Jesus
Lindsay Roberts My father-in-law, Oral, once told me a story about a woman who wanted to attend one of his healing crusades. She didn’t live in the city where the crusade was going to be held, and she didn’t have the money to make the trip. It was her heart’s desire to see Oral Roberts. […]
Fresh Evidence
Richard Roberts Has something bad ever happened to you that shook you to the core of your being? When John the Baptist was arrested by King Herod and thrown into prison, John’s faith was shaken to its core. As he lay in a filthy jail cell, waiting to die, doubt began to creep in. He […]
The Heroes of Faith
From the archives of Oral Roberts The mother of little Moses raised him up to a certain age, until the daughter of Pharaoh took him, and he became the son of Pharaoh, heir to the kingdom and the future Pharaoh, in a land that knew not God, but enslaved some two million people of the […]
Live By Your Faith, or Die By Your Doubt
From the archives of Oral Roberts Romans 1:16˗17 says, For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth: to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as […]
A Shield of Faith
From the archives of Evelyn Roberts – Second of two parts When tragedy, adversity, and trials come into your life, you have to have God’s Word in your heart. The Bible says to hide the Word in your heart. If you have hidden the Word in your heart, when a struggle comes, the Holy Spirit […]