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A Man of Miracles
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| Oral Roberts was so a man of God. | |
| People will come. | |
| The press would fight him and all. | |
| He did bring the great move of healing to our country, to our world. | |
| And he was a man who taught me so much. | |
| He changed the spiritual complexion of the United States. | |
| Yeah. | |
| When it began, people hated healing. | |
| They scoffed at miracles. | |
| And by the time he got through, I mean, everybody was. | |
| Now, not many men have done that anywhere. | |
| That's right. | |
| He changed the spiritual complexion of this nation. | |
| One time he came to Heritage and the big barn auditorium, which was going to be our studio and production center and all. | |
| I moved out there and I said, I'm not going to leave. | |
| And on stage, we had a big amphitheater. | |
| So we were doing our show in the rain, sun, moved, and we had no studio. | |
| And I made a stage in front of the big barn, and it was open on both ends, and the wind was whipping through. | |
| And so Oral said, I'm going to come and be on your show. | |
| And I'm sitting there, and he said, Jim, I've got seed faith I want to put in. | |
| He gave me a chat for in the neighborhood, somewhere around a quarter of a million dollars. | |
| Wow. | |
| And he ministered to that audience. | |
| And within days, every penny was there, and that building was finished. | |
| And then he came back to dedicate it. | |
| That's the kind of man he was. | |
| Jim, let me give you a snapshot of him. | |
| It startled me. | |
| This was the first time that I had been invited back to speak on campus there at Oral Roberts University. | |
| And I spoke at each one in each department and then at night in maybe sent him for a couple of days. | |
| And we went to his home for lunch. | |
| Now, you just think this is so typical of Oral Roberts. | |
| He said, you know, he orders everybody around. | |
| And he says, now, Kenneth, you should take your shoes off and sit right there on the floor. | |
| And he said, Gloria, take your shoes off and sit right here on the floor. | |
| Evelyn, take your shoes off. | |
| She said, Oral, I am not taking my shoes off, and I'm not sitting on the floor. | |
| I'm sitting in the chair. | |
| Well, he had his Bible and his pad out. | |
| Oh, man, I thought, glory to God. | |
| Whoa, man, is this going to be good? | |
| We sat down there. | |
| He said, now, Kenneth, teach me about faith. | |
| Wow. | |
| Wow. | |
| I said, you've got to be kidding me. | |
| No. | |
| No, no. | |
| See, at that time, I had become an ardent student of Kenneth Hagin on the subject of faith. | |
| He said, you boys have learned things about faith I don't know. | |
| And I'm the hungriest man for God you've ever seen in your life. | |
| Wow. | |