Jan 4

Written by: glendajoy
1/4/2010 12:09 PM

When I was a young girl, I used to have a favorite program that came on Sunday afternoons. It was all about a man that had been gifted by God to do something that many consider impossible.

I loved to watch his face, and the faces of those that he encountered. Even as a child I realized something out of the ordinary was taking place before my eyes. I think the entire program would last an hour, but I could have sat there for hours. What I watched only made me want to see more.  I was like a sponge that could not get enough. 

What I am describing is a program that came on in the 1950’s of the evangelist, Oral Roberts, conducting healing meetings under a huge white tent.  The blind received their sight.  The deaf began to hear.  The crippled walked again.   Yet, he never claimed that the healing was from him.  He was adamant that only God can heal.

I didn’t realize it until I was grown that the 1950’s was a window of time when God was raising up people- like Oral Roberts, Katherine Kuhlman, and others- to demonstrate His power to heal people in what some would call a ‘healing revival’. I like to think of it as a reminder from God that He is still doing the same work that He demonstrated through His Son, Jesus. But, because sometimes we forget that, He anoints ordinary people to do His extraordinary work in a very public manner to remind us.

Because Oral Roberts has recently gone home to be with the Lord, it brought back a flood of wonderful memories from my childhood. Perhaps it was then that the passionate love to see people healed found it's beginning in my own heart. That seed was planted in very young dirt, and heavily fertilized when I committed my life to Jesus in 1974.  Seeing God heal our physical bodies in response to a prayer of faith should not be the least bit unusual for those of us who follow Jesus.  It shouldn't be a surprise.  It should be our expectation.

I am so grateful to pioneers such as Oral Roberts for not just talking about the power of God to heal, but actually demonstrating it. Talk is cheap, but actions change the course of people’s lives.  Like that one little girl sitting in front of a television set on Sunday afternoons.

Is the healing power of God still available to heal and restore bodies to wholeness? Yes. Are there many mentors that are actually out there demonstrating it? I will let you answer that from your own experience.

Thank God for Oral Roberts. Not because he was a perfect man, but because he made himself available to be used as a conduit for the healing and restoring power of God to flow from heaven to earth.  He was a living commercial that our God is still the God of healing, and he still uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Enjoy heaven, Brother Oral Roberts.  May God raise up thousands of brave souls that are willing to pray and lay hands on the sick and see them recover in the name of Jesus! 

Copyright ©2010 glenda clark

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