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