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Hope Came To Kenya! by team member/staff writer Michele Chiappetta

God opened the door wide for Richard Roberts and the Oral Roberts Ministries team to share the saving, healing, delivering message of Jesus Christ in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya.

Take Dominion Over the Everyday Issues of Your Life by Lindsay Roberts

Through Jesus, you have a right to take dominion in every area, every day of your life.

Redigging the Wells of His Father… During Richard Roberts’ two-day crusade in Montana, a new generation of the Crow Nation opened their hearts to God’s power.

The Lord Is My Shepherd a Classic Message by Oral Roberts

A classic message by Oral Roberts about the love, guidance, and comfort we receive from our Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ.

Thank You for Helping Us Help the Nation of Haiti by Richard Roberts

With the help of our friends and partners, the Oral Roberts Ministries was able to send 570,000 meals to the hungry in a devastated Haiti.

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In 1968 my father, Oral Roberts, held a crusade in Kenya. He and his team ministered on television and radio, in a remote Masai tribal village, and in open-air crusade meetings in Nairobi’s Kamukunji Park. Dad considered his

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Kenya outreach the greatest interna-tional crusade of his life and ministry.

When the doors to Kenya first opened to me in 2009, I felt a leap-ing response in my heart. Then, sev-eral months ago, the Lord spoke to me through a word of prophecy, telling me that Kenya would be the greatest crusade I would have so far in my life. I knew He was about to do something powerful in that African nation.

What I saw in Nairobi this past Janu-ary was nothing short of a supernatural miracle of God. I was privileged to teach

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about the impact our ministry made there. They are so thankful for what you and I—as partners together in this healing ministry—have done for their country. The God we serve is so big, so mighty, and so good.

I pray that the following articles on our Kenya crusade bless you and help you get a clear picture of the impact that you are making through your part-nership with the Oral Roberts Minis-tries…and that you will be encouraged to reach out for the miracles you need. God is no respecter of persons, and the goodness He showed in Kenya, I believe He is willing to show in your life too.

Richard Roberts meeting with Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Odinga.

God’s Word to thousands of Kenyan pastors and ministers—many of whom told me they had accepted Jesus through my father’s 1968 meetings. The man who sponsored our crusade, Nairobi’s spiritual father, Bishop Arthur Kitonga, was one of them.

I met with Kenyan heads of state and laid hands on the sick in the pov-erty-stricken slums of Kibera, where our medical team and humanitarian outreach Hunger Needs A Voice® treated the sick and fed the hungry. And I stood in Nairobi’s Uhuru Park to share Jesus Christ with thousands upon thousands of people—a crowd easily twice as large as any other crowd I’ve ever seen in the 30 years of my ministry. So many of them received salvation and healing!

I can honestly say that because of this crusade, my life will never be the same. But most importantly, I believe with all my heart that the people of Kenya will never be the same. I’ve received telephone calls, emails, and messages from Christians in Kenya telling me

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This January, God opened the door wide for Richard Roberts and his team to share the saving, healing, delivering message of Jesus Christ through medical clinics, the food outreach of Oral Roberts Ministries’ Hunger Needs A Voice®, and open-air crusade meetings in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya. Thousands of people were touched as they reached out to receive God’s love in action.

Nine-yea r-old Ian wanted one thing: to be able to run, just like other boys that he was friends with. But unlike his friends, Ian had asthma, which prevented him from running because he couldn’t breathe…at least, he couldn’t until he came to Uhuru

Park with his mother one January night to attend the healing crusade of Rich-ard Roberts.

As Richard prayed for the crowd to be healed of breathing problems, Ian was with his mother at the top of the park’s hill. Ian heard that prayer and believed he received his healing. Then he did something he’d never done be-fore. He ran all the way down the hill to the platform to testify—and he did it without losing his breath. It was one of countless miracles of healing, salvation, and God’s love revealed in the heart of Kenya through the Oral Roberts Ministries(ORM) January 2010 Heal-ing Crusade.

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Richard and Ian

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Open DoorsFrom the moment Richard

arrived in the capital city, Nai-robi, he and his team worked tirelessly to share the healing Jesus with the Kenyan people in every way they could.

One open door came through the airwaves. “I was asked to be on all four network television stations,” Richard said. “They reach all of Kenya, as well as many other countries in Africa. I thought I would be on for a just a few minutes to advertise the crusades.” In-stead, he was given free rein to preach, share testimonies, and pray.

Richard spoke at several local church-es, where some of the crowds numbered into the thousands. “It was standing room only,” he said. “It was a tremen-dous, tremendous time in the Lord.”

He also led a two-day pastors conference—a vital time of ministry to those who would disciple the people who received salvation during crusades.

An unusually large gathering of ap-proximately 3,500 ministers attended the sessions. At the end of the conference, Richard laid hands on every minister in attendance, anointing them with oil and agreeing with them for a fresh imparta-tion of the Lord’s anointing on their lives.

Richard said, “I thank God for pas-tors hungry to be a part of the healing ministry who want to take it back to their local churches.”

Reaching Hungry HeartsBecause the Oral Roberts Min-

istries believes in treating the whole person—spirit, soul, and body—free

medical clinics were held in four Nai-robi slums, reaching into the most impoverished areas in the city. Hunger Needs A Voice® —the humanitarian outreach of ORM—brought in 2.5 million nutritious meals for Kenya’s children and their families.

Once people see the love of God in action—once their bodies are fed and treated medically—their hearts are often more open to receive God’s Word. As always, ORM also provided spiritual food to the people of Nairobi with three nights of evangelistic meet-ings in Uhuru Park.

John Kangethe —a Kenyan busi-nessman who now lives in the United States and who helped arrange the crusade—said, “Every minister who was there said this was one of the big-gest crowds they had ever seen. Uhuru Park seats roughly 200,000 people, and it was crowded and full.”

The Kenyans came out by the thou-sands—many of them walking miles to reach Nairobi’s Uhuru Park early enough to have a place to sit on the hillside.

“I believe that Kenya is the prize of Africa…a special nation for which God has great plans,” Richard told the crowd. “This is Kenya’s hour! It’s

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a time for new beginnings, increase, miracles, signs, and wonders.” With special guests including Fox News’ Kelly Wright, popular Kenyan gospel singer Ben Githae, the ORM singers, a local choir, Masai dancers and others, the nightly meetings were a festive celebra-tion of faith, hope, and healing.

“I Send the Word”Each night, Richard encouraged the

massive crowds to remember that God is good and that He can and does heal people. “I believe sickness is death trying to reach out its hand,” he said, “but God wants you well in every area of your life.”

Richard then prayed for healings as the Lord led him. Each night, hundreds of people came forward to be examined by the doctors and then share the story of what God had done for them.

Marta told the crowd that her back pain of eight years had disappeared. “The pain is completely gone,” she said, and she showed everyone that she could bend over with no problems.

Ben had fallen from a roof 20 years ago and was unable to lift his legs, until God did a miracle in his body during the crusade. “Tonight when you prayed,” he told Richard, “I put my hand on my hip and believed God for healing. Now, there’s no pain!” Ben marched proudly across the stage, jumped, and ran like a young man.

God also restored vision and hearing to many people. Joy told the crowd, “I nor-mally don’t see well, but I can see clearly now…even with the sun in my eyes!”

Reverend Joshua of the Masai tribe could barely see when he arrived at the crusade grounds. He had surgery

Marta said her back pain disappeared.

Richard and his youngest daughter, Chloe, greet the crowd at Uhuru Park.

Ben demonstrated that he could walk pain-free.

Joy testified that her eye was healed. (continued on pg. 10)

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One of the greatest tes-timonies of the Kenya heal-ing crusade came from a woman named Gerri. Her miracle began in 2009, when Richard Roberts traveled to Kenya to begin the planning process for the 2010 outreach.

Gerri attends the church of Bishop Arthur Kitonga, who helped sponsor the cru-sade meetings and medical clinics. After several years of being HIV positive, Gerri’s body began to show the advanced effects of AIDS. She had boils and lesions on her body, and suffered from great fatigue and terrible headaches that left her un-able to cook, clean, and care for her three children without help.

As a Christian, Gerri never wa-vered from believing that God would heal her. The night before Richard arrived in Kenya in 2009 to meet with Bishop Kitonga, Gerri dreamed of a minister who prayed for her, and after he prayed, she was healed.

That minister turned out to be Richard Roberts. During his meetings with Bishop Kitonga, Richard preached at the church. After the service, Gerri came to Richard and explained her situ-ation to him, and he prayed for her.

Later, she realized that the head-ache she’d had earlier that day had totally vanished, and she believed that God had healed her of AIDS when

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Gerri with Richard

Richard laid his hands on her and prayed for her.

Soon, the boils and lesions on Ger-ri’s body began to disappear. She no longer suffered headaches and quickly regained so much strength that she was able to do her housework without help for the first time in a long while.

After several weeks of improved health, Gerri returned to her doc-tor for new tests, and they came back negative. The doctor found no signs of the disease!

With the boldness that comes from a changed life, Gerri joined Richard on the platform during the healing crusade in Uhuru Park and told the crowd she was healed—and that she had the doctor’s report to prove it. Her story became a tremendous testimony of God’s compassion and care, and His ability to do the miraculous for everyone who comes to Him in faith.

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Pastor Joshua reported healing in his eyes. Julius declared he could hear in his right ear again.

scheduled to repair his eye problem. But when Richard prayed for the crowd and told sickness and disease to “come out,” Joshua said, “I felt something come out of my eyes…Now I can see clearly. I can see ev-erybody!”

Julius was sitting at the top of the hill in Uhuru Park, at the farthest point from the stage. He had been deaf in his right ear. “My ear was not hearing, not even a little,” he told Richard. “But when you prayed and said, ‘I send the Word to you for heal-ing,’ I was able to hear!”

Countless others received healing during the crusade nights. Hundreds stood to testify that their pain was gone. And in the greatest miracle of

all, an enormous number of people came forward each night to dedicate their lives to serving Jesus Christ. Lo-cal ministers were on hand to pray and connect with those accepting Jesus for the first time, so they could be wel-comed into a local church where they can grow in the knowledge of God.

Even after the crusade ended, the miracles have continued. The Oral Roberts Ministries is still receiving reports from people whose lives have been changed as a result of the outreach in Nairobi. Thousands of people have been added to the kingdom of God through the miracle of salvation. And countless others received their healing, medical care, and much-needed food through the Kenya 2010 outreach.

FOX News journalist Kelly Wright joined the Oral Roberts Ministries team for the Kenya

outreach. “You’re affecting a whole generation—a

generation that can be changed for the better through hope,

faith, and love,” he said.

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The first slum that the Oral Rob-erts Ministries team visited was Hur-uma. Life is hard on the people who live there. Because of the crushing poverty, promiscuity and prostitution are common and frequently lead to sexually transmitted diseases. Many people—including young children and even babies—suffer from HIV/AIDS, and many are orphaned as a result.

Family life can be very unstable in the slums. Often, fathers unable to find work abandon their families, forcing mothers into the streets to look for money and food, and leaving children to fend for themselves.

The lifestyle takes a heavy emotional toll on the people of Huruma…like Caroline, who is 30 years old but looks

Shining the Light of God’sLovein the Slums of Kenya

much older. She suffers from anemia and depression due to a lack of healthy meals and the harshness of daily survival.

Children especially suffer in the slums—which is why Hunger Needs a

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A baby is treated at one of the free medical clinics.

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Voice® went there to help them. One young mother came to us with a tod-dler who was crying in pain. He was vomiting, severely dehydrated, and too weak to walk any longer.

Doctors and the local church sponsoring our mission outreach helped get this child to a hospital to receive fluids. Without this help com-ing when it did, he could have died.

More than 1,200 people in Hur-uma—mostly mothers with chil-dren—received food and medical care. HNAV® also gave boxes of food to local churches in Huruma to distribute in the future.

Dorcas and Effie’s story

Effie’s twin died young, most likely because of malaria or typhoid fever. Effie had pneumonia, while Dorcas had symptoms of tuberculosis.

Dorcas can’t afford to buy med-icine and she doesn’t eat regular, healthy meals. Through the clinic we were able to give them food and medicine.

Many people saw the love of Jesus for the first time through our outreach. A Muslim woman told us she had walked a long distance to get to us. Both her chil-dren had respiratory problems. After she saw the doctor and received medicines and food for her children, she returned to thank the nurse for what we were doing to help her family.

Giving the gift of lifeKayole is on the outskirts of Nai-

robi. Over the past several years, this area has struggled with violence, gang activity, and a cholera outbreak.

Food is hard to come by because the people are so poor. Our team saw a lot of children with iron deficiency. Others had asthma brought on by the filthy living conditions.

One of the saddest cases we saw was a three-month-old baby girl. She

A grateful mother thanks one of our nurses.

Dorcas and her 2-year-old son Effie

Next, our team went to Korogo-cho, where 150,000 to 200,000 people live in tiny shacks made of aluminum, wood, canvas, and plastic. Between the garbage piled in the streets and the lack of fresh water, Korogocho’s children often get parasite infections that rob them of needed nutrients. We gave more than 1,000 children there medical care and food.

31-year-old Dorcas and her 2-year-old son Effie are a typical local family.

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had been hospitalized for malaria and then released with a prescrip-tion for medicine.

The baby’s mother is so poor that she couldn’t fill the prescription, so her daughter got worse. By the time the baby was brought to our clinic, she had a fever of nearly 107 degrees and was severely dehydrated.

Our medical team treated the baby to stabilize her condition. We prayed for her, and sent her home with medicines and food. Our nurse later told me that this baby could have died if we hadn’t been there to help.

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I f we’re going to take the Gospel to children around the world, I be-lieve we do it by show-

ing them a Jesus who loves them. I’m grateful we were able to do that through our ministry outreach, Hun-ger Needs A Voice® this past January in four of the largest slums of Nairobi.

There is so much need there… so many hungry people. But we worked with the Kenyan prime minister’s wife, local pastors, and our ORM ministry partners to bring two and a half mil-lion nutritious meals and the Gospel to needy children in some of the poorest and neediest slums in the world.

The families living in these slums are starving. The children you see ev-

erywhere are so tiny and thin because they have nothing to eat. When we first visited the slums over a year ago to plan our outreach, the mothers said to me, “Help me feed my children!” That’s why we went to Nairobi. We went to feed the children. And we did!

—Jordan Roberts, Director of HNAV

Dr. Stephanie Gillette treating the dehy-drated baby girl.(continued on pg. 14)

Jordan with Prime Minister Odinga’s wife, Ida.

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KiberaKibera is the largest slum in Nai-

robi, home to around 1.5 million people. The streets are dirty and dusty, and smoke fills the air, caus-ing the children who live there to suffer from chest congestion, coughs, asthma, and eye problems.

Many people from Kibera walk miles to the industrial district each morning, hoping to get hired for a day’s work. They earn less than a dol-lar a day, which means that they often skip meals. That’s why the food we gave them made such a difference.

ORM’s team of doctors and nurses worked long, hard hours to bring medi-cal care to some of Nairobi’s poorest people. But as these stories from our team members reveal, the effort was more than worth it. So many individual people experienced the love of God through the partnership of medicine and prayer.

Relieving PainAs a chiropractor, Dr. Tim Tre-

goning doesn’t think twice about ad-

Dr. Tim Tregoning

Hundreds of families received medical treatment and nutritious meals during the clinic in Kibera. The people were so thankful we were there. “This outreach is a wonderful thing,” a local pastor told us. “We’re grateful you came to help us and to bless our community.”

TeamMemberTestimoniesjusting spines in his office in Tulsa. But on the mission field? That was a new experience for him. Yet he quickly saw the usefulness of his ex-pertise in the slums of Nairobi.

“These people work hard,” Tim said. “They end up with a lot of numb-ness in their shoulders and pain in their arms.” For such people, chiropractic care was a good pain reliever.

Medical care is important, but the key to this medical outreach was in sharing the Gospel message. “I saw the heart of God on this trip,” Tim said. “And His whole heart is souls.” Ultimately, Jesus is the answer to the problems of Nairobi’s slums.

This truth was demonstrated when Tim met a man named Martin —his very first patient of the trip. Stricken by polio at age five, his left leg is withered so badly that even as an adult, he can only get around by crawling.

Nurse Jennifer Kolb

“This outreach is a wonderful thing,” a local pastor told us. “We’re grateful you have come to help us and to bless our community.”

Tim took Martin to his makeshift chiropractor’s office—a folding table separated from the rest of the clinic by a hanging bedsheet. Although Tim couldn’t do much for the man physi-cally, he believed there was something he could do spiritually. He was able to lead the man in a prayer to receive Jesus Christ. Afterward, Martin was beaming. It was an amazing trans-formation.

Fighting DiseaseIn thinking about what she saw

in the medical clinics, Nurse Jennifer Kolb said, “We saw a lot of patients with HIV and AIDS.”

Among the patients that Jennifer saw was a woman suffering from a severely advanced sore on her foot, a typical complication of full-blown AIDS. She desperately needed medical attention.

“We gave this woman four different injections, as well as oral antibiot-ics and painkillers,” Jennifer said. “I dressed and cleaned the sore so that new skin can form and it can heal.” She taught the woman how to keep the wound clean.

Then she spoke to her about God’s healing power and ministered in prayer. The woman told Jennifer she had joined the church that sponsored the ORM clinic in Huruma. “I’m believing I am healed, in Jesus’ name,” she told Jennifer.

By the end of the healing crusade, the medical team saw more than 4,000 patients. Hundreds of people accepted Jesus Christ as Lord in both the clin-ics and the nightly crusade meetings. Millions of meals were distributed to hungry children. As a result, we be-lieve Kenya will never be the same!

A glorious celebration!

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I believe this DVD can help you receive your miracle! –RR

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One day my mother-in-law, Ev-elyn Roberts, called me on the

phone…and I could tell that she was frustrated. Now many words could be used to describe my mother-in-law, but I would never have counted the word frustrated among them. She was a very calm, comfortable person and sure of who she was.

But this morning, she was frustrated. She told me, “Lindsay, I had a con-versation with God earlier. You know, when God talks to Oral, Oral ends up going to the nations. I’m the one who has wanted to be a missionary my whole life. So I decided to have a conversation with God about my feelings.” Oh my, I thought, this is going to be interesting!

Evelyn went on: “I began to say to God, ‘Lord, You talk to Oral in such ways that generations start chang-ing, and nations change, and people get healed. God, I want You to speak to me the way You speak to Oral…I would love for You to speak to me and I would see angels, as Oral has seen angels. Then heavens begin to move…and this happens and that happens.’

“But the Lord said ‘No,’ to me. At first I was upset over that. But then He said, ‘Evelyn, I will speak to you in the way I’ve designed you to receive it. I will speak to you in the everydayness of your life.’”

Evelyn Roberts was a practical, logical, everyday-kind-of woman. She could easily take the Word of God, apply it to her life, and pass that wisdom on to others. While Oral was going out to the nations, Evelyn would go person to person. She was gifted at calmly, quietly touching hurting people right where they were at, in the everydayness of their life. God used her to minister to more people than we will ever know.

Evelyn’s secret was simple: she knew who she was in Christ, and wherever she went she took that knowledge and that gift with her. She took dominion, or spiritual au-thority, over the situation in her calm, sweet way. And she carried that dominion with her everywhere she went. I believe we all can carry the spiritual authority God has given us…each in our own unique way…

TAKE DOMINION over the Everyday Issues of Your Life

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Make the Most of Every Moment With

Busy days… work… errands… cooking meals… caring for your family…

Check your local television listing, or visit www.oralroberts.com to watch Lindsay live via the Internet.

Does this sound familiar? You work hard to care for your loved ones… Make sure you take time for yourself too! Tune in to Make Your Day Count with Lindsay Roberts, a refreshing half-hour of biblical encouragement, prayer, true stories from people whose lives have been transformed by God’s power, and much more.

Inspiring interviews Lindsay with daughter, Chloe

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and touch people for Jesus in the everydayness of our lives.

From the beginning of creation in Genesis, God told us in His Word to take dominion over situations that we face. Every day our ministry receives about 3,000 calls for prayer. In many ways we see Satan, our spirtual ad-versary trying to take dominion over us…and our allowing him to. Many things that we are supposed to take dominion over are taking dominion over us. So what do we do?

I believe we need to take action to make it happen. No matter what we do or where we go, we need to “gather up our dominion” and take it with us.

Think of a woman’s purse, and all the stuff we carry. There may be a scarf in our purse, tissue, pens or pencils, things that belong to our kids…a wallet, maybe a calendar…and other valuable things. But sometimes there’s a lot of junk in our purses, isn’t there, ladies?

What God wants us to take with us is dominion. So I actually took a bag and wrote the word “dominion” on it to remind myself to always take dominion,

our God-given spiritual authority, with me. Wherever I go, I want to always take the authority Jesus gave us over sin, sickness and fear, or any other attacks of the devil. Yes, I need to take dominion over those things in my own life, but I also need to be ready to pray with anyone who needs it. And I think when we’re open to that, God brings people across our path that we can minister to and help them learn to take dominion over the enemy too.

When something negative or destruc-tive comes against us, it’s very easy to get into fear. But in 2 Timothy 1:7 God says,

“I didn’t give you the spirit of fear, but I gave you power, and love, and a sound mind.” When we remember that and re-member who we are in Christ—we’re the head, not the tail—we can take authority over those things that are not from God.

Jesus gave us all power and authority over the tricks of the evil one. I want you to have all that is rightfully yours in the Kingdom of God. That includes healing, salvation…anything and everything Jesus went to the cross for. Let’s not leave it at the foot of the cross. Let’s appropriate it, so that in our everyday lives we walk with authority and dominion over the junk that the devil tries to throw our way.

Through Jesus, we have a right to carry with us our healing, our prosper-ity, and victory in every area of our lives. So, remember your symbolic

“suitcase” of dominion. Take it with you in the spirit wherever you go, into whatever problems you encounter. Re-member what it is that you’re taking with you, and every day as you get up to get dressed and face the day…don’t leave home without it!

Always take dominion with you!

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Dan Old Coyote, Vice Secretary of the Crow Tribe, officially inducting Richard and Jordan as members of the Crow Tribe.

Oral Roberts honored in Montana, 1955

Just as his dad did before him, Rich-ard Roberts felt the leading of the Lord to minister to the Native American people of the Crow Nation in Montana.

In 1955, Oral Roberts conducted a great crusade with the Crow Nation. Many tribal members still remember

that time and what God did in the services that were held not more than a few hundred yards from where Rich-ard recently ministered in a two-night Crusade of his own.

In spite of the fact that many on the Crow reservation don’t attend a church, miracles and healings that occurred a generation ago in Oral’s crusade have continued to have a positive effect on this current generation. So when tribal members learned that Oral’s son, Rich-ard, and granddaughter Jordan, were coming to minister to them—by invi-tation of Native American pastor, Jay Swallow—with the same power and anointing of the Lord that they had heard about as a result of their elders’

A NEW GENERATION OF THE CROW NATION AWAKENED

TO THE POWER OF GOD

Redigging the Wells of His Father…

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Special commemoration for Richard and Jordan on the site of Oral’s service in 1955.

This man tells of his healed arm.

Back pain declared healed.

Richard receives a warm welcome.

Richard prayed for those who had needs.

experiences years before, there was great anticipation of what God might do.

For two days in Montana, the wells of God’s power and love flowed once again as Richard preached and ministered in the power of the Holy

Spirit. Surely God’s Word in Psalm 100:5 is true and was in evidence on the Crow reservation in Montana: For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

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Testifying of an elbow healed! The ministry of the Holy Spirit was evident throughout the service.

A heartfelt response to Richard’s message.

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Effect of Father’s Deliverance Felt Many Years LaterWhen I was six years old, my father was struggling with an alcohol addic-tion. He wrote Oral Roberts for prayer. When he saw Oral read his letter on television, he realized someone cared about him. That day, he quit drinking cold turkey and never drank again. I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior when I was eight years old. I remember my father watching Oral regularly on television.

Now, I am 45 years old, and when I need prayer, I remember my father’s miracle, and I call your ministry. Thank you so much for being there!

—Dwanna (no city listed)

We Were Saved from a Terrible AccidentMy wife and I live in the snow coun-try of Wisconsin. As we were leaving our home one day to go to town, we reached a stretch at the top of a hill that had not been sanded.

Our pickup truck hit black ice, went out of control, and flipped over a few times, breaking every window in it. My wife was able to crawl out of the truck, but I was seat-belted in and could not reach the clasp to re-lease it. My wife had to crawl back in to release the belt so I could get out of the truck. I’m 73 years old, and my wife is 62, but we both walked away from our totaled pickup with-out a scratch.

I’ve been a seed-sowing partner with the Oral Roberts Ministries for thirty years, and I know that only our trust in the Lord could have delivered my wife and me safely out of this accident. We give Him all the praise!

—Chester from Wisconsin

The First Miracle I Ever ReceivedI had a lump about the size of a rad-ish in my armpit. I requested a vial of anointing oil from your ministry, and I used it on my lump. As soon as I ap-plied the anointing oil, the lump disap-peared right before my eyes! From that

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day until now, nothing has returned. That was the first miracle I had ever received from the Lord, and I’m so grateful for it.

—Ofelia from California

Painful Pleurisy HealedI’d had pleurisy in my back and shoul-der for three months. The pain was so bad that I could hardly sit and could not lay down. While I was watching The Place for Miracles, Richard gave a word of knowledge about someone’s back and shoulders being healed. I felt the presence of the Lord upon me, and now I am pain free!

—Jean from Alabama

I Don’t Walk Bent Over AnymoreDue to severe back pain, I could not even walk in an upright position. While lying in bed one day, I watched The Place for Miracles. Richard had a word of knowledge that someone’s back was being healed. I got out of bed and put my hands on Richard’s hands on the TV screen. All the back pain left me. I don’t walk bent over anymore!

—Dorothy from South Carolina

I’m Pain Free After Years of Suffering I had experienced back pain for 9 to 10 years as a result of having surgery on my tailbone. So I decided to call the ALPG and agree with them for healing. After prayer, I am now pain free. I believe that calling the ALPG made the difference.

—Donna from Arkansas

A “Suddenly” Harvest Comes from Seed SownI needed to sell my house quickly. It had already been on the market for over a year and things looked bad. But after I heard Richard teach on sowing a seed-faith gift toward your need, I decided to sow a seed by faith. I called the ALPG to sow my seed* and agree in prayer, believing God would provide a “suddenly” harvest. Within a few days, my home was sold!

—Claudie from Georgia

Seed-Faith Gifts Are Opening Doors!We just want to tell you that since we agreed to send a seed-faith gift of $300 to your ministry*, God has been opening doors for us. My husband got a $200-a-week raise. And he’s also been able to preach his first sermon. God is good!

—Vicky from Missouri

Now I Have More Than Enough!When I needed employment, I called the Abundant Life Prayer Group to agree in prayer and I planted a $100 seed into your ministry*. As a result of prayer and giving, I have found a job that pays me more money than I’ve ever earned. I now have more than enough!

—Jaseth from Connecticut

*To plant a seed-faith gift into the Oral Roberts Ministries, visit us on the web at www.oralroberts.com/seed, call us at 918-495-7777, or write to Richard Rob-erts, P.O. Box 2187, Tulsa, OK 74102

•• We’re here to pray with you when you’re hurting and feel that you can’t even pray for yourself.

•• We’re here to pray with you when you have no one else to pray with.

•• We’re here to pray with you in the middle of the night when everyone else is asleep.

•• We’re here to pray with you at Christmas or on your birthday—when everyone else is gone and you’re alone.

•• We are always here to pray with you…No matter what your situ-ation is, no matter what has happened, we are here and we want to see God meet you at your time of need…to share the love of God with you as He has freely given it to all who call upon Him.

•• We want to pray the Word of God and send His peace that passes all understanding into your life and circumstances.

•• We want to believe with you for the answer and miracle that you need.

•• And we want to rejoice with you in all your praise reports!

For prayer anytime, call 918-495-7777, or log on to our website at www.oralroberts.com/prayer.

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I believe the sweetest psalm ever written is the 23rd Psalm. It was written by a shepherd, and a Shepherd is its in-spiration. This entire psalm is a complete picture of the journey of the Christian from the pasture fields of life to the shelter of a better world.

AStoryofGreatLoveAs a boy, David had been a shep-

herd…with an unsurpassed love for his sheep. Now he is old and ready to be folded into the Great Shepherd’s arms of love and to lie down in the green pastures of Heaven. His war clubs are traded for a shepherd’s crook. His soldiers, his subjects, become sheep, and once more, he is back among the beloved hills of his youth.

His sheep are scattered before him—how familiar is this flock! He knows them all by name. He knows their peculiarities —here is one that wears a scar. He had to rescue it from the jaws of a lion. There is one that limps as it walks. It had fallen into a deep pit of miry clay, and David had reached down and pulled him out.

Many a night David had spent in the hills in search of some of his sheep, and it is a tender scene to him. He knows his love for them and theirs for him. It reminds him of another scene. As the sun is sinking over the western

rim and the sheep lie quietly at his feet, he murmurs, “I, too, have a shep-herd, a Good Shepherd. He brought me up out of an awful pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock. He restored my soul. The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.”

The 23rd Psalm is the most personal of all psalms. It individualizes the shep-herd, and brings the sheep and shep-herd into a tender personal relationship.

David said, The Lord is MY shepherd.

A thing becomes more precious when we can claim it for our very own. Children are loved by every-one…but they are never loved as much as when they are “our” children, and we know them to be our very own.

I shall not want.

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Want is an awful thing. Many people in this world know what want is. Beauty has turned into ashes. They have no peace, no joy…because the Lord is not their Shepherd. When Jesus Christ be-comes the Shepherd of our lives, He fills the emptiness in our hearts, and His Word tells us in Psalm 84:11 NKJV that no good thing will He withhold from them who walk uprightly with Him.

HeGivesUsRestHe maketh me to lie down in green pas-

tures: He leadeth me beside the still waters.Sheep are helpless animals. They can-

not find pasture by themselves. They must have a good shepherd, for unless they are fed, they will not lie down…and unless their drinking water comes from a quiet pool, they will not drink.

The ancient shepherd was ever shift-ing his flock from place to place in search of green pastures and water springs. The shepherd must find a stream and dam up the water so the sheep may drink from “quiet,” or still, waters. Thus David wrote, He leadeth me beside the still waters.

Once the shepherd had fed the sheep, he sought a cool place where they could rest, and he would have the sheep lie down and relax from the morning feed. While they were lying down, he would take his horn of oil, go among them, and pour a tiny stream down each one’s head, which was very refreshing. Then he would go among them, pulling the briars or burrs that had become caught in their wool. In this way, David cared for his sheep.

From the day the Good Shepherd found me, lost and undone, and

picked me up and carried me back to the green pastures of His love and presence, my soul has found rest and refreshment and I have longed for nothing more. The Good Shepherd ministers to the needs of His sheep.

HeProvidesGuidanceHe leadeth me in the paths of righteous-

ness for his name’s sake.In David’s day, there were no roads

as we know roads today. How im-portant it was that the shepherd led his sheep in the right path. Unless the right path was followed, the sheep would be lost.

For us, this life is a series of paths. There are broad and narrow ways. Every day we come to the parting of the way, a fork where the road ends and one must turn either right or left. Many ways are open for us to take. Many voices call for us. How impor-tant it is that we have a guide, for we, like sheep, are prone to lose our way. If Jesus Christ is our Shepherd, He can lead us in the right paths.

HeIsOurComfortThough I walk through the valley of

the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

In Israel, there was an actual death valley, or “valley of the shadow of death.” Climatic conditions make it necessary to move sheep through this valley for seasonal feeding, but many wild dogs and other animals infest this region and seek to attack the sheep. As the shepherd leads his sheep along this narrow valley, he goes ahead with

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his rod and staff, and while the sheep watch, he drives out the sheep-killers and makes the way safe for his flock.

When there are slippery places, he personally leads each sheep over them, safely through this death valley to the green pastures.

What a picture of our blessed Shep-herd, Jesus Christ, and of the way He leads us through the valley of the shadow of death and down streets of gold to the throne of God, where there is “rest from our labor.”

AttheEndoftheJourneySurely goodness and mercy shall follow

me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

When the gathering shadows fall upon the earth, the shepherd rounds up his sheep, calling them by name, and leads them into an enclosed shelter. This shelter is built by the shepherd’s own hands. He never leaves nor for-sakes his sheep, but always leads them into the shelter at night.

This is but the shadow of another picture, the picture of the faithful Shepherd Jesus, who gave His life for us who were lost from God’s fold. Through the midnight of man’s sin, Jesus came over the rugged trails, His hands torn with the thorns of life, His feet pierced with the sharp rocks of the way. He falls on the Cross at the door of the sheepfold, a sacrifice, but on His shoulder is a lamb. He cries from the Cross, “I have found my sheep!”

Through the ages, the Lord, the Great Shepherd, has been gathering His sheep into the great fold above as they finish their days. Millions are

already safely sheltered there and are basking in His presence where they are forever free from storm and strife. Some of us are still on our way, but we know it will not be long until He calls us by name and bids us to lie down in the shelter of heaven.

YouCanKnowtheGoodShepherd

If you would like to be able to say, “The Lord is my Shepherd,” and if you want to give your life to Someone who will guide and protect you and love you beyond anything you could ever imagine, just say this simple prayer right now. When you do, the Good Shepherd will find you and bring you into His tender care…and you can dwell in His house forever.

Let’sPray:Lord, I ask You to be the Good Shepherd

of my soul. I repent of my sins and my turning away from You, and I ask for Your forgiveness. Thank You for loving me, for dying for me, and for accepting me as Your beloved child. From this day, I will listen for Your voice and follow only You…and I will serve You joyfully, until You call me to go home to heaven with You someday. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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Just as soon as we heard about the ter-rible devastation from the earthquake in Haiti, I appealed to the viewers on my television show, The Place for Miracles, and asked them to “Help the people of Haiti.” My daughter Jordan, our Director of Hunger Needs a Voice®, said, “This is a part of our mission.

We’ve got to do something; the pre-cious people of Haiti need our help.“We are working with our contacts

of Reach Now International in order to obtain as much food as possible, as quickly as possible,” Jordan reported,

“and we are also partnering with other relief organizations in Haiti.”

THANK YOU FOR HELPING USHELP THE NATION OF HAITI

Report by Richard Roberts

Devastation in Haiti after the earthquake.

In the wake of one of the most devastating earth-quakes ever to hit our neighbors in Haiti, the Oral Roberts Ministries—with the help of our friends and Partners—were able to quickly send more than 570,000 nutritious meals to those who were hurting.

The presidential palace and other government buildings had been de-stroyed, many of the major hospitals were leveled, and most survivors were without electricity, clean water, and food. As I told our audience, “This is a major humanitarian emergency, and a time when Christians must step up to the plate.”

And step up they did! Very quickly, we were able to send the first half of our shipment —285,000 meals —to the hurting people of Haiti. Not long after, the second shipment of an additional 285,000 meals followed.

In 2009, we had a lready sent 285,000 meals to children in or-phanages throughout this nation, in conjunction with a native non-prof it organization.

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with 72% of its population living below the poverty line. Every day, people face illnesses of all kinds, especially HIV/AIDS, and many people are starving to death. Haitian President Rene Preval has stated that death tolls from the earth-quake could reach as high as 300,000 people.

Thank you, friends and Partners, for your generosity and seed-plant-ing in helping us help a nation that needs to know they are not forgotten and that God knows and cares about their plight.

To plant a seed-faith gift to help us con-tinue to feed the hungry in impoverished areas of the world, call 918-495-7777, go online to www.oralroberts.com, or write us at: Richard Roberts, P.O. Box 2187, Tulsa, OK 74102.

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