Overcoming the Adversary of Weakness

From the archives of Evelyn Roberts – Fourth of four parts About six weeks after our eldest child, Rebecca, was killed in an airplane crash, I began to get sick. I felt totally without energy, and Oral said, “Go to the doctor and see what’s wrong.” The doctor said, “You’ve been through a traumatic time […]

Overcoming the Adversary of False Judgment

From the archives of Evelyn Roberts – Three of four parts When God opens a great door of opportunity for you, the devil will often send an adversary in the form of someone – or even an entire group of people – who doesn’t understand what God is asking you to do. They’ll do their […]

Overcoming the Adversary of Temptations

From the archives of Evelyn Roberts – Second of four parts Temptations aren’t always temptations to do something bad. Sometimes they are temptations to choose a path that is second-best. During the time after Oral had come to Texas and had proposed to me, and before we were married, I had two opportunities to marry […]

Overcoming the Adversary of Circumstance

From the archives of Evelyn Roberts – First of four parts The Apostle Paul once wrote to the Corinthians: “For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries” (I Corinthians 16:9). This verse says to me that for every one of God’s great opportunities, the devil has an adversary […]

A Visit from God

From the archives of Oral Roberts Luke 7:16 has a tiny verse that caught my attention one day. It says God hath visited his people. I believe the Lord wants to invade each of our lives and visit us individually and personally. Everything begins with an idea. And I believe God wants to enlarge our […]

What Moves God?

From the archives of Oral Roberts What moves God to action? Contrary to what many people think, it isn’t our prayers. Prayer moves you and prayer moves me, but it is faith that moves God. Prayer gets us into faith. Once I prayed in the Prayer Tower for seven hours before I felt faith being […]

An ‘If–Then’ God

Richard Roberts I believe God is an “if-then” God. If we do our part, then God does His part. When Jesus died on the Cross to save us, He said, “It is finished” (John 19:30). There was nothing else that needed to be done… on His part. However, God doesn’t just stretch out His hand […]

The God I Know

Richard Roberts Some people think of God as an old man sitting on a throne up in heaven with a big stick in His hand, just waiting for us to make a mistake so He can whip us. But that’s not the God I know. The God I know is not a condemning God. He […]

God Isn’t Dead!

Richard Roberts Back in the 1960’s, a group of theologians made a statement that made headlines across the nation: “God is dead.” I had just given my life to Christ, and when I heard them say that, I thought, Who killed God? Who signed His death certificate? Who was so well acquainted with Him that […]

‘Bow, Devil!’

From the archives of Oral Roberts My home state, Oklahoma, was once known as the wildest of the Wild West. The story goes that one day a prospector came out of the Ozark mountains of eastern Oklahoma, rode down into a little country town, and hitched up his mule by a saloon. Some half-drunken cowboys […]