How to Use the Faith You Have - Oral Roberts — From the Pulpit & Classic Sermons

Welcome to From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons. Each week we bring you a different message from some of history's greatest speakers in the Christian faith and parable sermons for modern preachers too. This week we have Oral Roberts with his messages How to Use the Faith You Already Have and then a touch of heaven.

Here in this particular service to tell you how to get faith but to tell you how to use the faith you already have. In the book of Romans chapter 12 verse 3 it says that God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

So we see by that that faith is not something we have to get. It is something we already have. It is a gift of God to us but we do have to learn to use it. To use it in the right way and at the right time.

I am convinced after my experience in dealing with multiplied thousands of people that the average person is not aware of the faith that is in him and second that he does not know exactly how to release that faith.

I believe the average person has a rather cloudy understanding of his faith. For example I was praying for an individual in the prayer line one evening when this person said to me Brother Roberts I have all the faith in the world.

I replied to that individual that's your trouble you still have it. It's one thing to have it inside you it's another thing to release it to make it a definite act of faith and to believe God in a single moment.

The Point of Contact for Faith

Now a point of contact is something you do and when you do it you release your faith your faith toward God. A point of contact is something tangible. It's something that you do and you do it to attain or to receive from God his great promises which he has recorded in his Holy Bible.

That's why God has given us faith to attain or to receive from God and to use what he has given us for his glory. But if God has promised us some specific blessing force or power and we do not use the weapon he has given us for its attainment or receiving it we might as well not have known about God's promise in his Holy Word.

God has given us faith God has shown us how to use our faith and that's my purpose in speaking to you today to talk to you about a point of contact for your faith. How to obtain a point of contact. How to use a point of contact.

How to make a point of contact something to which you cling after you've used it when you might reach a negative state of mind a little later on. Now God has promised many things to people in the Bible.

He's promised us eternal life. He's promised us healing for our bodies, strength and soundness for our minds. He has promised to supply all our needs according to his riches for Christ Jesus and glory.

He has promised to be with us. He has promised to use us for his glory. To make our lives worthwhile. To help us fulfill our mission. To have a sense of destiny about us. God has promised us many great and powerful things through his Holy Bible but to obtain them or to attain unto a certain position and to use what we have attained.

To do that our faith must be released and to release our faith usually we need a point of contact and a point of contact in the first place focuses your attention upon God. For example, I read about the impotent man who had been a cripple since his his mother gave him birth.

Paul’s Healing of the Lame Man at Lystra

This impotent man was present when the Apostle Paul was preaching in the town of Lystra and the man was sitting down there as if to say why don't you tell me to get up and walk in the name of the Lord and when Paul perceived that he had faith to be healed he cried out, stand upright on thy feet.

The Bible says the man leaped and walked. He didn't learn how to walk. He never had walked. In a moment of time he leaped and he began walking. You see he became one with his point of contact. What was his point of contact?

The words of the Apostle Paul. When Paul said stand upright on thy feet he became one with it. He focused his mind upon the God who was in the life of the Apostle Paul. So you, by using a point of contact, focus your attention upon God.

You get it off of your sickness or your sin or your need and you turn your mind away to God who alone is the answer to that. You focus your attention upon him. You see how important it is to make your faith or your believing a single act of faith.

Laying on of Hands, Anointing Oil, and the Prayer of Faith

When you use a point of contact, for example the laying on of hands, that's a point of contact. You use the anointing oil as mentioned in the fifth chapter of the book of James, that is a point of contact.

When you use the prayer of faith, that is a point of contact. When you use any words in the Bible or any words of a man of God, when you read these words or you hear these words, that is a point of contact.

Now when you use that point of contact, whatever it is, through it your faith is released. Once you've released your faith, it is sent to God and the answer to what you have asked for has begun to come to pass.

The saving of your soul, the healing of your body or the supplying of some need, whatever it may be, once that starts coming to pass, then your point of contact becomes a great force to which you cling.

After you've received what you have prayed for, you hold on and you say, I will never doubt. I know that I have received this from God. There are many examples in the Bible of how people use the point of contact to receive or to attain things from God.

They used a point of contact to receive from God. They used a point of contact to attain for God, to do things in the service of God. Moses raised his rod. The raising of his rod became a point of contact.

Moses, the Rod, and Faith in Miracles

Now many people look upon the rod of Moses which he raised and through it performed outstanding miracles as a magic wand. They think all Moses had to do was just raise up a rod and suddenly the Red Sea would part or God would give manna or bring water from the flinty rock.

But the fact is that if Moses had not released his faith when he raised his rod, nothing would have happened. The raising of his rod was a point of contact. He became one with that point of contact. When you use a point of contact, you become one with it.

You put your mind on it. You turn yourself toward God and you and your point of contact become one. So that as Moses raised his rod, he was one with it, reaching up to God that God would perform those mighty miracles.

Our hands are a point of contact if we believe. The anointing oil is a point of contact if we believe. The words of Christ in the Bible are a point of contact if we believe. They are nothing if we do not believe.

Forgiveness Through Confession and Prayer

If you have sin in your life that's unconfessed and unforgiven and you come to receive the laying on of hands of the anointing oil, what can happen? If you are willing and honest and sincere and you want deliverance from those sins, even in a healing act you can receive forgiveness.

And if they have committed sins, they shall be forgiven them. Let every head be bowed. Rev. Roberts is making an appeal for the people to make their personal decision for Christ. Hundreds are accepting this invitation and coming from all over the tent.

Now they are praying a prayer of dedication with Rev. Roberts. They have made their personal decision to live a Christian life. Now they are going to a place for further prayer with Christian workers.

Personal Dedication to Christ

Here now is Rev. Roberts to talk to you. I'm sure while you have been watching your television screen, listening to the message, participating spiritually here in the great tent in the worship of God, that you too have a desire to dedicate, to give yourself to God in a new way.

Most people need to rededicate their lives. And now may I have the opportunity of praying a prayer with you. While the others remain quiet here before me, I'm asking you to put your hands together in prayer.

There as you watch your television screen and repeat after me. Oh Lord, I dedicate my life and surrender it into thy loving hands, knowing I am unable to manage my own life. And so I ask Christ to take control, to guide me in all my endeavors, that I may serve thee forever.

Through thy Son, Jesus Christ, I pray and I believe. I think if you prayed that prayer sincerely and with faith that God heard it and has given you a sense and a feeling that's indescribable in its peace, its security, and its joy.

I have a little article here that I have prepared. Ten ways to know you are saved. Ten unmistakable evidences by which you will know that your heart is right with God, that you have eternal salvation.

It will be a privilege to me to send you a copy of this if you will write and ask for it. It is a free piece of Christ-centered literature prepared by me, entitled Ten Ways to Know You Are Saved. Anyone here in the audience can write for it, Oral Roberts Tulsa to Oklahoma, anyone the television audience.

Ask for it by name, Ten Ways to Know You Are Saved. Now I will be praying for the healing of the sick shortly, knowing that Christ is a merciful being, that he is our hope, that God is merciful, that he's concerned over the healing of the human family.

He has given us wonderful doctors, medicine, hospitals, nurses, and he often heals through those methods and people. We know also that God heals through prayer, and as we come to him in prayer, we know that it is not something we can do by depending upon ourselves.

We must look away from ourselves to the great and merciful God. And just before I pray for the first person here today, I suggest that all of us will bow our heads in a moment of silent prayer, asking the great healing God to be in our midst.

Prayer Line Testimony: Leo Olson and Ministry to Indigenous Communities

Amen. I'm glad to see you folks. Glad to be here too. I noticed on your card, but before I noticed it, I had a feeling that you were a ranger. Yeah, I am. Shake, pardon me. Mr. Leo Olson of Kevin, Montana.

Keevin. Keevin, Montana. A ranger. You and your wife, you have a bad heart. And my phosphate glands have all swollen up. But I noticed here on your card, your heart beats 120. It should be 80. And it skips.

And the wife has high blood pressure. I remember you, you working with the Indians through our ministry. Yes, Brother Roberts. How do you do? Why didn't you tell me? I was at Brother Griffin's desk when you was at McLeod there.

Yes, you've been taking our literature among the Indians, right? Yeah. Well, how wonderful to see you. Have you had some good experiences among them? Oh, Brother. Wonderful. Well, tell me one. Well, we was way north up there, where they bury them in the trees and on the ground.

They don't bury them in the ground. It freezes too hard. They don't put them in the ground. And those Indians up there, your radio station on Peace River, don't ever take that off. All the work that's wonderful doing in that there.

Among the Indians? Oh, yes. And all those people up north there. 400 miles between us, full gospel churches up there. All you people who are supporting our radio broadcast, listen to this. We've contacted many of those people up there that when we told them we've been in our Roberts meetings, that you can talk to them.

They hear you on Peace River. Oh, Brother, that's all I got to look forward to. God bless you for being so wonderful. We took your literature up there. And oh, what a blessed trip we had. We wanted to go this summer, but I got sick in March.

All right. And if you're healed, would you go back to the Indians? Amen. I'm going to go. You will go. Father, heal him that he may work among the Indians for Christ. Heal him! Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

Prayer Line Testimony: Missionary Work in Japan

Yes, praise God. What do you feel like doing right now? I'm ready to go any day. I've enjoyed talking with you. God bless both of you. Go with you. How do you do, my sister? Who are you and where are you from?

I'm Hope Askew. You're from Japan? Yeah. Well, you don't look Japanese. I wish I were. You mean that? I mean it with all my heart. How long were you in Japan? We've been there eight years invading territory where the gospel has never been preached before.

Is that a fact? Well, have you returned home on furlough or something? My husband is still there, but he sent me home to rest. He thought I was breaking. He said I would rather have you go home and rest and live without you than not to have you.

All right. Why are you in our prayer line to receive prayer for your body? No, I have nothing physically wrong with me. I just need rest. But I wanted to thank your brother Roberts for the literature that you sent to us, barrels and barrels of it.

And I want to invite you to Japan from thousands of Japanese and servicemen and missionaries. How long have you been here? I left Japan in May. I know, but here in the crusade, I came Tuesday. Well, let me shake your hand.

We welcome you here. It's a pleasure to have you. I love to have missionaries visit our crusades. I would love to go to Japan. I've been invited there by some of the Japanese officials. Your literature has been carried to many villages that never had heard the name of Jesus.

In fact, I put on forty five pounds of gear and flew to an island that had never heard the gospel with a young Baptist pilot who offered to take me. We found thirty seven thousand people on that island that had never heard the name of Jesus.

So we went back by ship and took a crew with us and saw that everyone had at least a tract. We don't have enough literature. Was it our tract? As far as yours went. We didn't send you enough. No, it's never enough.

Well, sister, we're putting out almost one million copies a week. Fifty million pieces a year. We must increase that. I see that now. Well, over there, we give out thousands every day. So there's no end to the need.

God help us. God help us. Well, I'm glad to know you're in our crusade. Thank you for coming up here and telling me this. God bless you. Give you strength. Hey, man, isn't that wonderful? We are working with missionaries all over the world.

Prayer Line Testimony: Robert Boyd’s Healing

We sell them every see them. And it's a happy surprise to see her. Robert Boyd, Pomeroy, Washington, a farmer, Church of the Nazarene. Robert is thirty five years old. He's a choir director in his church.

He has rheumatoid arthritis and constant pain for five years. He has been to the Mayo Clinic. And here he is asking for prayer from this great audience and for me. Robert Boyd, have you a family? Yes, I have.

Are they with you? My wife is with me. Where is she? Mrs. Boyd, raise your hand. Quickly come forward and stand by your husband. Robert, while she is coming, I want to ask you a simple question. What makes you think you will be healed?

I know the Lord heals. I believe him completely. I've watched your ministry. I my wife is from a praying family. I'm from a praying family. We just believe in God. Mrs. Boyd, what makes you think your husband will be healed?

I just know that God will heal him. Do you think he will begin the healing today? Yes, I know that he will. What do you base that on? He's already started the healing. As my faith grows through this campaign, I felt better day by day.

And just today, I felt better than I felt in several years. And the main thing to me is my mental depression. Over this affliction? Yes, after enough years of pain, I think the mental depression is probably as bad as the pain.

But I thank the Lord that I have felt better today and happier. And I praise him for that. Robert, we're going to pray with joy, not with begging and despair and hoping. We're praying with joy. The joy of the Lord is your strength, the Bible says.

Father, I ask that you take the last pain from his body, remove the stiffness from his limbs, and heal him from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet. Robert Boyd, disengage your arm from your wife's hands.

In the name of the Lord, do exactly as I do. Raise your legs up and down. Bingo. Now move your shoulders up and down. Robert Boyd, say praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. I do praise the Lord. Robert Boyd, where is the mental depression?

It's gone. It's gone forever. I know it is. Open and close your hands. Find one single pain or stiffness anywhere in your body. Move and find it if you can. It's gone. Tell me, how do you feel in your soul?

I feel good in my soul. I love the Lord. What do you feel like doing? I feel like praising the Lord tonight. Well, praise him. Let's all raise our hands and praise the Lord. The point that I want everyone to see in this service is when we pray for the healing of the sick, or we receive healing for ourselves, let us do it with joy, with the joy of the Lord, praying with gladness.

Thank God there is a God. We have an opportunity to be healed. Glory to his name. Miss Boyd, how do you feel? Wonderful. I thank God. Are you surprised? No, I'm not. She had my faith for me to begin with.

Brother, you had all the faith in the world then. I did. I had a lot of faith. Yes, you did. That's what did it. I thank her, and I thank the Lord, and I thank you for your prayer. God bless you. God bless you.

Healing Prayer as a Point of Contact

This is your moment. This is God's hour to heal you and make you whole. Please come up here and touch my hand with yours, and let me touch yours with my hand, and let me pray for you. I know God can heal you.

Ready? Oh, God, through Christ, by whose stripes we are healed, I come to thee as an instrument, and may thy healing power flow as I pray, and may this friend feel the power of God. May thy healing spirit go from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet.

Heal. Oh, God, heal. I thank thee that thy healing power is flowing. Let it continue through the name of thy Son, Jesus of Nazareth. Amen and amen. Now look up and believe. We take you now to the Oral Roberts Million Soul Crusade at Eugene, Oregon.

A Touch of Heaven in Present Miracles

Reverend Roberts is reading the text of his message. Now from Psalms chapter 34, verse 10, I'd like to read these words. They that seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing. Now, here is Reverend Roberts with his sermon for today.

Well, we have a great subject for this evening's service, and it is titled, A Touch of Heaven. It is my opinion that the Lord wants us to have many of the wonderful things of heaven while we walk this narrow veil called the earth.

And there are so many things that speak of heaven as we follow after God. For is not the peace of God in our hearts a touch of heaven? Is not the healing in our bodies a touch of heaven? Is not freedom from fear a touch of heaven?

Is not the joy unspeakable and full of glory from the hand of God a touch of heaven? Is not his presence with us every day, every hour, every moment, isn't that a touch of heaven? Do we not have the portion of the heavenly world in us from time to time reminding us of that wonderful place called heaven?

And is it not true tonight that all of us who have ever felt the wonderful blessing of the Lord in any way, isn't it true that every one of us should think of that in terms of eternal life and what's going to happen to us forever when we leave this world and cross over to the banks of sweet deliverance?

Well, it's a wonderful thing to think about heaven. No doubt the psalmist David was thinking about heaven and a touch of heaven down here when he said, bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

Who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies, who reneweth your youth like the eagles. Here we have forgiveness, deliverance, redemption, tender mercies, loving kindness, satisfaction, a renewing of our youth, and all those things speak of the kingdom of God and heaven and eternity.

And they began right here. Do the miracles all have to be performed in heaven? Or can we expect miracles to be performed down here? Did not Christ go about over the earth giving people a foretaste of that heavenly world?

Did not he touch them with his wonderful hands, healing, saving, delivering, blessing, giving them life in body, soul, and mind? And wasn't that his way of saying, this is what heaven is like, this is what you're going to have a lot of when you get over there?

Didn't he give people a touch and a taste of that better world? When we think of miracles, we usually think of the heavenly world. We look upon a hopeless situation on earth and speak of a miracle, and almost invariably someone will say, well, someday, yes, over in heaven.

But we can't expect that down here. So can we look for miracles to happen here, or do they happen only in heaven? Let me give you a story from the fifth chapter of Luke's gospel. And in preaching these sermons, I've always tried to take my stand by the side of men and women in the Bible rather than someone else I know, men and women who have dealt with God and whose stories are placed in the Bible for a purpose.

Peter’s Miraculous Catch of Fish

For I think that is the only kind of preaching that I've ever understood that makes me know what God is like. Now one day Christ came up to the disciples before they were his disciples. Before they had left all to follow him and he saw them mending their nets, he asked for the loan of Peter's boat, which was graciously given, which he used for a pulpit to preach.

And then he said to Simon Peter, launch out in the deep and let down your net for a catch. Well, Peter spoke up and said, Lord, we have toiled all night and have taken nothing. Jesus said, put out into the deep and let down your net for a catch.

But Lord, we've toiled all night out there and have taken nothing. In other words, Lord, it is like Peter is saying, Lord, that would take a miracle. And miracles only happen in heaven. There's no need for me to go out in the same body of water and fish, for I've fished all night and caught nothing.

And Jesus answered, put out of the deep and let down your net for a catch. In other words, it was like Jesus was saying, Peter, miracles don't happen in heaven. They're made to happen on earth. Now, as you think about this answer, consider this.

Can anyone tell me of one need of a miracle in heaven? Can anyone anywhere tell me where anybody who ever goes to heaven will ever need a miracle? Now, just think a minute. I imagine the one in heaven isn't thinking about miracles.

He isn't even thinking about it in need because he's not in need. Now, we people don't always think right, and our wrong believing is hindering us, and we can change that if we only will. What do we expect God to do in heaven that we don't expect him to do down here?

Well, we expect him to completely save our souls. In my opinion, you'll never get there in the first place if your soul is completely saved. We expect God to heal our bodies when we get to heaven, but up there we'll have a brand new body, a resurrected body.

We need to ask him for healing down here. Isn't that right? It is up on this earth that we must make miracles take place. We must make them happen. So Peter said, Lord, nevertheless of thy word, I will do it.

I will do what? I will put out into the deep and let down my net for a catch. I will make this thing happen. Miracles have to be made to happen, and they always happen when they're made to happen. When men and women cooperate with God, God makes miracles come to pass in our lives.

Not on the streets of glory, but on the streets of our towns, on our country roads, in our houses, our businesses, out on the lakes, in the creek, in the kitchen, wherever we are, God makes the miracles come to pass.

Do miracles only happen in heaven? They also happen here, and Peter launched out. He threw out his net. He caught so many fish, his net began to break, and when he got the net of fish in the boat, the boat began to sink.

That's a net-breaking boat sinking load, and that's a miracle catch, because later Simon Peter fell upon his face and cried, Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man. The miracle catch brought him to his knees in humble surrender to Christ, who said, Follow me, and I will make you.

This is what a miracle should do. It should humble us. It should make us fall upon our faces and cry, Lord, Lord, have compassion upon me. I haven't been living right. I surrender my life to thee. Here is the touch of heaven.

Boy, you would think of catching fish like that over in heaven, but Christ thought of catching fish like that down here on earth. Now, what is your thinking compared to what I am talking about? Is your mind off in another place?

Is your hope in that world called heaven, or are you expecting God to take a hand in your life now, here, in your everyday affairs, in your house, your job, your business? What do you expect God to do?

That is the question. Do you believe in a touch of heaven? Do you believe that God wants much of heaven to happen to us here, for us to have and to enjoy while we live upon this earth? Do you believe that Christ came down into this world to break the barrier between man and God, to crush the wall of separation, and to make us one?

Do you believe that Christ opened up a new realm of possibility, of miracles, of a limitless kind of living? Do you believe that Christ had the keys to the kingdom and gave us the keys? Do you believe he opened the door and said to us, follow me, follow me, and we follow him into that world of miracle-working power?

Do you believe that tonight? You see, your mind has to be transformed and renewed by the Holy Spirit. You cannot think of God in terms of man or of heaven in relation to this earth. You must see that God has the power to intervene in human affairs.

He has the ability to change earthly circumstances. God coming into our midst changes our very lives. He changes our social status. He changes our bodies, our minds, our circumstances, our souls, our abiding place, our everything.

Glory to his name, but it's like wasting my breath if you do not accept it, if you do not believe it. If you can sit there and hear this and leave with the same opinion, why have you come to begin with?

If you're not here to open your mind and to learn the way God works, then you're wasting your time. We're serious in this meeting. We smile and we have a wonderful time, but in the hard core of our believing is a streak of soberness and seriousness because we are here not to play, but to work.

We are here not to be seen or to see, but to reveal God to men and to women and to children and to let people have a true picture of God, that God is good, that God will intervene in our affairs, that miracles are for this life, that faith is our keys to the kingdom, that we have an open door into the green pastures and down beside the still waters, that his rod and staff comfort us.

He leads us into the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. He anoints our head with oil, our cups run over. God is a good God and he has a world of goodness waiting for us to participate in, to walk into, to walk through, to live in, and to use as a very foretaste of that world called heaven.

The Invitation to Receive Christ

Will you bow your heads, please? I want every man, every woman, every boy, and every girl, without exception in the audience, who believes in my prayers, and you want my prayers for your soul. Just leave your body out of it for a few minutes, just for your soul, the salvation of your soul, that Christ will be your Lord and you will know it, that you're a stand-up-on-God-side Christian.

That's what I want to pray with you about tonight. If you are not really, really, really saved, if you don't truly, truly, truly have the Lord, if he's not the Lord and master of your life, I'm asking you to let me pray for you.

And now will you take the first step. I want every man, every woman, every boy, every girl who wants me to pray that prayer for your soul. Will you take the first step, please, in his name right now and raise up your right hand quickly.

Up high, up high, up high. Put them up high. Hold them there. Don't take them down. Several hundred hands. Now, if you're sincere, take the second step and stand on your feet for my prayer. Please stand right now.

They're standing. They're getting up everywhere. Beautiful, beautiful sight. Now, we have a place here at the platform where I want you to walk forward and stand. Do not sit back down, but I want you to quickly, rapidly walk up here for my prayer.

Quickly. Step right out in the aisle. Come forward as quickly as you can. While these dear friends are coming from all over the Tent Cathedral, I'm asking you, the viewer there, to join with me in this prayer.

And let me pray the prayer forgiveness for your own soul and ask God to come into your heart. And while they are coming, will you prepare yourself? As you prepare yourself, I want to be praying for you, for your salvation.

Now, then, each one of you, raise your head up, please. Close your eyes. Now, earnestly repeat after me out loud this prayer. O Lord Jesus, I want to make thee my Lord and Master, to surrender my life to God and ask thee to take charge of my life.

I repent of all my sins, ask forgiveness and pardon, and now I receive Christ as my Lord and Master. And by God's grace, I will endeavor to live a Christian life, a life of faith, forever and ever. In his dear name, the name of Jesus Christ, I pray and I believe.

Amen. I hope that while I prayed the prayer with these many hundreds of our friends who came to give their lives to Christ, that you prayed the prayer too. If you prayed that prayer from your heart, I believe that Christ has come into your heart, for he hears the earnest, sincere prayer of any human being.

And might I have the privilege of receiving a letter from you telling me about your decision, how you feel in your heart since you offered this prayer? I assure you, when I receive your letter, I will answer it and I will pray with you further.

Write your letter to me, Oral Roberts, Tulsa 2, Oklahoma. I know God has a new life for you. I'll be back in a few moments to offer prayer for the healing of the sick. Right now, we're going to send you to our prayer tent for further prayer and inspiration.

Prayer, Healing, and Dependence on Christ

Now we ask the blessing of the Lord upon the prayer line. We thank God for good doctors, for what they're doing to help people everywhere. We also thank God for the power of prayer. We're coming out to pray, not in our name, but in Christ's name.

Not to try to heal ourselves because we cannot heal, but to pray in his name who alone can heal. We're looking forward to his mercy, his compassion. I'll be praying for you in the audience shortly, so everyone keep your mind on God.

We'll be praying for you too. All right, Brother Deweese. My brother, what's the matter with your leg? Osteomyelitis. Osteomyelitis of the right knee and leg. When did this happen, Alfred? Around the first of January.

I had an operation of the right knee and they put a cap in it, but it started over on my left side now. Alfred Lash of 1657 McKinley Street, Eugene. Yes, sir. All right, sir. Is your leg normal size or normal length?

Yes, sir. They're both the same length, but the knee cap, the one that's operated on is a lot larger. It don't even look like a knee cap now. What did the doctors say about your knee, sir? Well, they said that I'd be in a wheelchair within five years if I couldn't find some way to get treatment for it.

Well, Alfred, what makes you think God can heal that? Well, the Lord says he'd heal you, you know. All you have to do is believe and I believe in him. It's up to me to pray, isn't it? Father, we ask you for his healing, for the swelling of the knee to go down, for his leg to receive strength and health.

Heal through Jesus Christ, the son of the living God. Amen. Sir, can you raise your leg up and down? Now the other one. Take hold of your right knee. What are you smiling about? Thank you. Well, I know you mean to thank God, don't you?