BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Before God spoke to him as a teenager, he was dying of tuberculosis. Lying on his bed, next to a wall spattered with blood he'd coughed up; he'd wasted away to practically nothing but skin and bones. Despite his illness, however, and the stuttering that made it difficult for him to talk, his praying mother kept saying, "This boy is going to be a preacher!" So, when a minister named Brother Muncey came to town, preaching healing inside a tent, Oral's brother, Baden, carried him to the car and took him to the meeting. On the way, Oral heard the voice of The LORD. I am going to heal you, He said, and you are going to take My healing power to your generation. Sure enough, Oral Roberts left that meeting healed, without a stutter and with healing on his heart and mind. For a while, he pastored a small church in Enid, Okla. He preached healing to the people there but, although they listened and loved him, nothing happened. The only person healed was a man who had dropped a piece of machinery on his foot. When those who witnessed the accident saw blood pouring out of the man's boot, they sent for Brother Roberts, who rushed over to pray. The moment Brother Roberts touched the man's foot, the power of God came on him, and the man stood up completely healed. "Oral, what did you do?" the man asked. "I don't know!" he said. He eventually became so desperate he could hardly sleep. The desire to see people healed totally took over his being. He dreamed about it. He cried for it. He prayed night after night about healing and nothing else until God's word to him came to pass. He preached to millions, laid hands on over 2 million people, and took God's healing power to his generation. Above-All-You-Can-Ask-or-Think Power Where did Brother Roberts get that burning desire to see people healed? Why was he so passionate about it? Because God is passionate about it. He is so committed to getting His healing power to us that He included healing in the price Jesus paid for our redemption. As Isaiah 53 says: Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment]…. He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole (verses 4-5, AMPC). Think of it! The God who calls Himself The LORD Who Heals You included healing in the New Covenant and backed that covenant with Jesus' blood! Then He had that covenant of healing written down for you in the Bible, so the same thing can be said of you that was written about the people in Psalm 107:20: "He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions." B V O V : 7 Jesus hasn't changed, and neither has the Holy Spirit. God's healing power operates today the same way it always has—only now it operates in and through us as believers. What's more, when you were born again, God sent His own Spirit to live inside of you. That means you have access to the same healing power Jesus walked in when He was on earth. Jesus Himself said you do. Just before He went to the Cross, He told His disciples:

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