The Joy Of The Lord | Richard Roberts | Tuesday PM

[Music] how they lose there's healing in the name there's healing in the name the [Music] there was a revival that began when John the Baptist was in the wilderness and he began to proclaim the kingdom of God's at hand and whenever he left the scene Jesus picked up that exact same message he went looking for a different message he picked up the same message because that was the heavenly vision set in motion for that era and then when it said that Jesus sent out the disciples two by two it says they went everywhere preaching the kingdom of God's at hand then they picked up the message it wasn't trying to find something new it was a continuation of what got it or even sang and sang it with greater revelation saying it with a more far-reaching voice it was one man in the wilderness and it became Jesus and the multitudes followed him then it became 12 more multiplied carrying the same message when I hear brother Richard Roberts I don't hear a different message I hear the same one when his dad part of a revival the healing revival and brother Richard not looking for a different message because it needs something for you know of your own Jesus wasn't looking for a message of his own he picked up what John the Baptist was saying and so I'm so grateful that we hear what past generations get to hear but more of it I love something pastor Edwin Anderson said several years ago when he was here teaching on revival and he said God is doing the same thing he's always done just more of it and that's what a revival is it's not something completely different it's what he already did he keeps building and building and building and building and building and so we've gotten to here over these past few days really a continuation and so now we know what to put in our mouth and just keep going with amen dad Hagin started this generation but this is the exact same message and we're just so grateful to be the same company who recognizes the message that needs to be heard the message that brings help to people it's not about what's popular it's about what bears fruit it's the anointing that destroys the yoke and that message which brings the anointing and parents that anointing and fosters and gives place to that anointing to manifest and change the lives of people if your message doesn't end up with the anointing it's just a motivational speech you know and so when I hear rather richardroberts I really hear a continuation of what I used to watch on TV in the 70s as a little girl with his dad on television I watched it every week I always dreamed of being one of the oru TV singers and watching him sing every single week and it's the same message because when it's the right message you don't need a different one when it's the message that brings deliverance and help that's the right message so brother Richard thank you for coming but I have just a little something a little bit a little something I want to read to you if I could I just maybe insert myself where I shouldn't but I'm doing it anyway [Music] that may it be known this is what this says may it be known that Richard dr. Richard Roberts is an honorary member of world Harvest Church of Murrieta California this certificate also serves as recognition of his faithfulness to Minister the uncompromising Word of God to bring God's divine healing power to this generation and to tell the untold all around the world so whether you receive it or not at least its presented and I know you're and I'm going to just say we have a new member [Music] thank you Wow I remember Wow [Laughter] [Music] can I have it right now merci merci look at that Wow you see that see that Chloe's got my name on it look at that Wow why didn't you tell me you want to be a TV singer how to put you in just like that praise God Wow thank you thank you what an honor praise the Lord [Music] [Applause] Wow I'm at home [Music] that means I can kick off my shoes and that clock yet watch out that might be dangerous tonight cuz we just might have a Holy Ghost blowout let's just lift our hands tonight and give thanks and praise unto God praise be to God praise be to God all honor all glory all praise be to God we take no glory in it thank you Father thank you thank you thank you thank you for the anointing I receive a refreshing and new tonight thank you father in Jesus name Satan you have no part in us you have no part in the service bind you and cast you out and we thank you in Jesus name and everybody said amen god bless you you may be seated Wow pastor my my dad used to tell the story of his traveling to North Carolina for a crusade and there was a woman in a little town a couple of hundred miles away who got the bus fare to come to the crusade all of her friends came to the bus station to see her off and she was there in that crusade all week long and when she arrived back home on the bus all of her friends gathered to meet her and they wanted her to talk to them about what they had seen at the Oral Roberts crusade and they said did you see Oral Roberts she said no I didn't what do you mean you didn't see him didn't you go to his crusade oh yes I attended every service well didn't he preach oh yes did he preach well didn't he pray for the sick oh yes weren't there miracles yes and yet you never saw him no I didn't see him and they said we don't understand it she said that man held Jesus so high that I couldn't see him for seeing Jesus now that's what I feel here as they began to sing that last song and I just burst into tears because I felt the presence I felt the presence of God and that's what makes the difference praise God you mentioned it a moment ago Philippians tells us that God exalted the name of his son Jesus he has exalted that name and given him a name which is above every name named in heaven and earth you speak any name and the name of Jesus is higher speak the name of cancer speak the name of heart disease speak the name of diabetes or hypertension or arthritic pain you speak the name any name and Jesus name is above it for God has highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name named in heaven and earth and at that name every knee should bow that means the dictator of North Korea every knee should bow every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father as I was standing here worshiping with you the Lord said to me I'm going to heal shoulders tonight I'm going to heal knees tonight and I'm going to heal arms tonight so if you have pain in your shoulder or you have pain in your arm or you have pain in your knees I want you to stand right now whoever you are said I'm going to heal shoulders I'm going to heal knees I'm going to heal arms especially around the elbow and below the arm where the pain shoots down you said I'm gonna do that tonight now someone might say well that doesn't seem like a big healing well it is if it's your knee if it's your shoulder if it's your arm it's big so father and the authority of the name of Jesus I want somebody next to them to touch them somebody next to them to touch them in the name of Jesus I come against this arthritic pain the pain that is in the knee in the in the tendon in the knee bone itself in the patella in the name of Jesus I come against the pain that is in the shoulder I know a lot of people were healed in their shoulder last night the pain that's in the shoulder I come against that in the pain the debilitating pain that comes down the arm and it causes the arm to throb and the elbow to throb in the name of Jesus I now here comes healing it's like a wave that's coming across the church tonight in Jesus name in Jesus name I speak the word into your shoulder I speak the word into your arm I speak the word into your knee right now in Jesus name be healed every pain come out everybody say every pain come out in Jesus name hallelujah thank you father we praise you now we praise you now now their knees and their shoulders being healed right now right now right now this moment right now they're our knees and they're our shoulders and they're our arms that are being healed right now right now we don't have to wait until the end of the service right now who can tell right now there's healing happening put your hand up wave your hand to me if you can tell their scenes look at the hands look at the hands look at the hands somebody give praise to the Lord tonight hallelujah praise God praise the Lord praise God well what shall we do tonight I've just been living in anticipation of tonight I've had barbecue and I'm dangerous tonight [Laughter] what's that scripture in Nehemiah chapter 8 eat the fat drink the sweet I'm sure he meant barbeque for what the joy of the Lord is our what strength watch out it's liable to get on you doesn't have to be manufactured or have to do anything special I told you last night that my wife prophesied over me yesterday and said when you walk on the platform this was last night when you walk in the platform there will be an overshadowing over you and you'll stand there and you God will manifest the the gifts of the Spirit and you will just speak and people will be healed all over and we saw that happen last night and she said there's going to be a very special manifestation tonight she said Richard you don't have to do anything we oftentimes think we have to do something we have to have a different message we have to have we have to have a fresh new message what's wrong with the original message what's wrong with ministering when a saving healing delivering Jesus who cares about you my father taught me that Jesus is a healing Jesus he was either on his way to heal somebody or he was there healing them or he was on his way to heal somebody else and I've been asked a lot of questions lately and I wrote a few of them down tonight that I thought I would share share with you one question that I get asked a lot is what do you do when it seems like faith is not working and my reply is I hold on and then here's the question another question that I get what do you do when you pray and the answer doesn't seem to come and I answer I hold on the next question I get a lot is what do you do when you pray for healing and healing doesn't seem to come my answer is I hold on are you getting the drift tonight here's another question I get what do you do when you have planted your seed and it seems like the harvest hasn't come I reply I hold on holding on that's what you do when you don't know what to do and faith is what you hold on to until you receive what you're believing for Christianity is a hold on kind of faith it's a hold on belief system because God has the schedule we don't have the schedule God has the schedule turn to your neighbors said God has the schedule tell him he has the agenda tell him he has the agenda Galatians 6:9 says be not weary in your well doing for you shall reap in due season but my experience is we have plenty of opportunity to get weary when you prayed when you believed when you walk the floor when you've prayed in tongues when you've done everything you know to do and you don't seem to get an answer what do you do well many people quit but the Bible says don't be weary in your well doing for you shall reap now that's a process that's a positive word it doesn't say you might read it doesn't say you can hope that you'll reap you shall that's a very powerful word American English doesn't use the word shalt very often British English uses it a lot you shall you shall receive Jesus used those that phrase you shall receive power that's a definite word you shall receive be not weary and your will doing for you shall reap in due season little boy ate some green apples and got a stomachache and the teacher said how do you know you have a stomachache he said believe me I know I got inside information there's a season for apples you shall reap in due season now I don't know about you but I told God how to do it I told God when to do it I told God where to do it and I told God who to do it to and he's never done it my way once he has the season and when the season comes I always say why didn't I think of that that's the best time I don't know about you but I'm waiting on the Lord for things right now how many you have something in your heart right now you're believing God for every one of us - I believe God and I'm not going to quit therefore I'm going to hold on I'm gonna put my faith hands on it and I'm gonna believe and I'm not going to turn loose [Music] when I was a boy and my parents used to take me to the rodeo at the old fairgrounds arena in our city and they had a a calf chasing contest with a bunch of little boys and little boys were running around the arena trying to catch the calf and the deal was if they kept if they caught the calf and kept it down on the ground for at least a second or two then they got to take the calf home and it was just precious and I wanted to be out there with him and there was one little boy that had only one arm and he was running and trying to catch this calf and every time he'd get one in one arm the cap would slip out and the whole crowd just was so moved with compassion just cheering this little boy on cuz you only had one arm and finally he got this he got this little calf and he sat on it and they they helped him carry that calf off in the crowd just stood and cheered and cheered and cheered because they wanted to see him he wouldn't let go until that calf was his if you get anything out of this camp meeting I hope you get holding on everybody say in Jesus name I'm gonna hold on I'm not gonna quit I shall possess it it's mine by faith I call that which is not as though it is because it's mine now doesn't the Bible say the violent take it by force well he wasn't talking about physical force he was talking about your faith force be not weary in your well doing for you shall reap in due season if you talked about connecter words if you don't quit if you don't give up I served in a number of different positions over the years when I gave my heart to the Lord at 19 two weeks before my 20th birthday and I joined my dad's team immediately the relationship between him and me between he and I were healed was healed and I joined his team and he made me his assistant and whatever he needed assistance in I did it if he and if he needed a tie for television if he needed a glass of water or whatever he needed that was my job I did whatever he needed to do I was by his side our relationship had been restored and there was a healing between us and we became very very close which we hadn't been for a number of years but now I had I had given my heart to Christ I was baptized in the Holy Spirit and my life took a different turn I had wanted to be a nightclub entertainer I had had a contract offered to me at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas to sing in their lounges I've been the lead singer in a rock and roll band and and I was on my way to becoming a star when I gave my heart to the Lord and God changed everything and I joined my dad's team and first of all I was his personal assistant I was his aide and then as time went by I got involved in the university I got my degree later would get a master's on top of that and then I got a doctorate degree a doctor professional degree of Doctor of Ministry degree which is a three-year program so I earned my bachelor's degree my master's degree in my doctors level degree and I was on TV one night and I was talking about my degrees and I said I was a live television and I said I got my bastard's degree I got cry and then I realized what I'd said and the doctor who was here with me at the time was that was was one of the deans and he called me said you know I've looked through all of our programs and I can't find a bachelor's degree in to work you know the things you say when you don't have a gun you say some unusual things on television but but I was with my dad and everything that he did every building that he built right there on the architectural renderings they were laid out on our kitchen table and I was involved in everything the raising of the funds and and the hospital that we built and everything that we did I was involved in it then I then I I got more involved in the university and I became a vice president of the university and I was in that role for a number of years and then I became executive vice president of the university and as he got older I got more and more involved and when he turned 72 he came to me and said son you're the only one that can take the university now you're the only one because you have the anointing and and I said yes but I don't have any ability and he said well I'd rather have the anointing he said you can learn how to do it but you can't learn the anointing and he said you will not allow the university to go away from healing and you won't allow the university to go away from the principles of the Holy Spirit and he so he put me on a special three-year training path when he turned 72 because he had made a decision when he was 75 he was going to step down and I would be elected as the second president and chief executive officer so during that time I had an intensive training program now I was executive vice president but I was doing more and more and more of the president's job during those three years in the last year of the three years i virtually was president without the portfolio of being the president and that was a tremendous plan on his part to help the transition because second generation transition is difficult because there are some people who do not want there to be a transition now i'm saying that particularly tonight because you who are in ministry may be facing that and if you haven't faced it you may be facing it someday of how to have a smooth transition so that people people accept the next generation it's difficult it's difficult elijah had to have a tremendous miracle for people to accept him after Elijah now I know what it's like to walk in the footsteps of someone who has a giant for God and all of my early life people would say to me how are you going to fill Oral Roberts shoes well in the natural he wore a size 11 and I wore a size nine and a half so in the natural I knew I would never fill a size 11 shoe but God said to me I'm not asking you to fill a size 11 I'm asking you to fill out a nine and a half all the way to the toes he said Ubu he said I already got him I don't need you to be him I got him I need you to be you so I'm talking now to ministers tonight who are thinking and praying about next generation leadership because you might get something out of this tonight so during that three-year period I did more and more of the president's role and my father did me a a great service it didn't seem like a great service but it was a great service he left me with 40 million dollars of debt I went from owing no man to owing 40 million dollars in one day and it nearly killed me I thought hell had entered my house I felt a personal responsibility and he moved to California and began laughing at me he laughed I'd call him and he'd laugh and laugh and laugh and I said dad there is nothing funny about what you left me he didn't intend it was not his intention to leave debt that was not his plan but that's the way it wound up and so I had 40 million dollars worth of debt and it looked like everything was going down the drain and I thought it was gonna be my fault everything's gonna be my fault and I had nightmares I would wake up in the middle light and a cold sweat seeing everything just go down the drain and it would be my fault and I have to take my family my daughter Chloe's here tonight I take my family and her sisters and we'd have to go to some remote desert island where nobody nobody knew us I didn't have visions of grandeur I had visions of demise and it affected my health it affected my marriage it affected everything about me and I was so immersed in it and I became angry and I became bitter Lindsay was at home cooking and she turned the gas stove on and the pilot was out and instead of turning the gas off she lit a match and stuck it there and the flames jumped up as you can imagine and it blew off her eyebrows and it blew off a huge chunk in the front of her hair and I came home and she came to the door and she said do you notice anything different about me and I said to her did you get new glasses [Laughter] I was so out of it and she got so bad that I didn't notice that her eyebrows were bald I mean there's nothing there not a hair and the whole chunk right here of her hair was gone and I didn't even notice it I want to know she had a new pair glasses and the Lord spoke to her he said no don't be angry imagine what he must be going through he doesn't even notice your eyebrows are bald and your hair is gone and that's how bad it was I was miserable I wanted to take the job and tell him where I could where he could stick it you know he was out here in Newport Beach and it was laughing laughing at me and he would I would call him and he would say welcome to my world so what I've been through all these years and he would say now son you know oh did I know it was so miserable and I got a phone call from pastor Carl straighter down in Lakewood Florida and he said I want you to come and preach for me and I said no thank you I don't want to come you see I want you to come he was on our board at the time and I said Carl I don't want to come I said I'm miserable he said I know said I don't want to come he said you need to come and Lindsay was there and she said yes you're going I'm gonna get you out of the house you're going you've got to go I said I don't want to go not interested in preaching I want to sit here in my misery and she said no you're going I'm taking you to the airport you're going and we packed a few things and she took me to the airport and I got on the plane and flew down and went over to to Lakeland which is just outside of Orlando maybe 30 40 miles and checked into a Holiday Inn and I got to my room and took off my shoes and sank into water in the carpet orange shag soaking wet the smell of mold fill the whole room and the air conditioning had not been on so I turned it on and that just multiplied the mold suddenly I'm all stopped up I'm all plugged up I can't smell I can't hear and I'm standing in water in a Holiday Inn and I began to weep and I said God it isn't fair I've done everything you told me to do I have prayed I have believed I have I have fought I have I have dealt with faculty I have dealt with entitled students I have dealt with parents I've done all this it's just not fair and my wife made me come down here and I fell across the bed and I wept and I wept there was nobody there I was alone I wept and I wept and I wept and I finally fell asleep in the next morning I woke up and I knew it was time to go to church I was there I had to go go sometimes you just don't want to go to church and so they came and picked me up and began to tell me about an outbreak of joy that had been in that church and I said I don't got to the service and sat down on the front row and there are a couple thousand people there and I just sat there waiting for my time I had had enough time in the hotel room to come up with a message and I titled it how to get through your present miss and I decided I was gonna preach to myself maybe I'll get something out of it sometimes the best preaching we do is when we're preaching to ourselves because we're trying to believe what we're preaching because if we can't believe it would make you believe it pastor straighter introduced me and I I walked up there and I started my message and you talk about cold wasn't like here the whole room was cold was like icicles in there and I thought to myself they said they've had a breakout of joy everyone was straight faced I felt like I was in a Morgan I wanted to say when do we view the body I mean he reminds me the story of the little boy who's standing out in the vestibule of the lobby and there's a plaque on the wall and he's standing there looking and the pastor walks up and said son can I help you he said pastor what are all these names on the wall he said well these are the names of men who died in the service he said which service the 830 or the 11 what it felt like I mean it was dead [Laughter] and during the service God gave me a word of knowledge and a man came out in the aisle to testify of his healing and I just stopped in my message because a certain message wasn't going anywhere anyway don't look at me like that some of your messages don't go anywhere either and you keep thinking if I just preached longer it might get better when the truth is it's getting worse the law of diminishing returns is working so he came down the aisle well I thought well you know let's have something happen I jumped off the platform and I walked out to greet him in the hall in the aisle way and when I got there I don't know why I put my hand on him I have no idea why I touched him but I did and when I touched him he began to fall under the power of God and as he fell you know how fast your mind can work as he fell there was no catcher out of my mind sin lawsuit lawsuit lawsuit lawsuit he's going to hit his head now I'm not only all 40 million I'm gonna get sued cuz this yeah who has fallen and busted his head wide open and it's gonna be my fault and so in the flash of a second I reached around to catch him myself but he was a big man and as he fell he took me with him and what I'm going to describe to you I can promise you it's true I didn't believe it until I saw the video myself but as he fell I turned a somersault over his head and landed on my feet now they told me later I did it but I didn't believe it until I saw the video I don't know how I actually turned the somersault in the air and landed on my feet and the whole church started laughing and I got angry why are you nothing don't you know what I'm going through I'm dying here I didn't want to come in the first place I I'm not enjoying myself let's just get through the service and get lunch and go home and I walked back to the platform to finish my message and the people were just laughing by now people are on the floor they're rolling around I've never seen holy rollers before people are rolling on the floor and I tried to preach but nobody was listening and I just this anger God I'm trying to do what you and my wife made me do I don't want to be here I am miserable and I keep trying to preach and nobody's paying any attention whatsoever so I looked at brother straighter and I said what is this he looked at me and he said this is that [Applause] wait a minute wait a minute it's getting better I said what is that he said this [Laughter] and stunned whole church was falling out laughing hysterically and there was nothing funny and I didn't know what to do and I'm a person who usually knows what to do I pride myself and I know what to do but I didn't have any clue what to do and suddenly right here in my belly right here where I live in my solar nut my stomach my solar plexus area in my belly remember jesus said out of my belly shall flow rivers of living water out of my belly I felt my still started starting to chuckle and as I chuckled I said to myself why are you chuckling because there is nothing funny and the chuckling turned into a laugh and I'm standing there I'm stunned I don't I don't have any reason to laugh and I didn't know what to do and it didn't make any difference cuz nobody was paying any attention anyway and so I just walked off the platform and there were pews in the church not chair of pews and I just laid down and put my face in the lap of this woman and I it must have been 20 minutes I just laughed and laughed and laughed and when I raised my head I left a whole pile of spit all over her dress I said ma'am I'm so sorry she didn't seem to care she was laughing so hard I honestly don't remember how the service ended the next thing I remember was we were at lunch and I said to Pastor streeter well what has happened here what happened today he said Richard we've had an outpouring of the Holy Spirit through his joy and he reminded me of the scripture where the Apostle Paul said the joy of the Lord is a strength but he also reminded me the scripture also says be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might and he said Richard how can you be strong unless you have joy which is your strength he said you don't have any joy and I said you're right he said I know what you've been through these past nine months since you've been president of the University you think the whole thing's going under I said that's right he said you need a touch of the joy of the Lord to help you hold on to what God has put in your hands and I said well pastor straighter I've never experienced anything like this in my life and he said well wait until tonight so we went for the evening service but nobody was laughing everyone was stone-faced again I thought well I guess it's a one-time thing and they had their preliminaries and their worship and they raised their offering and made some announcements and showed a video and the next thing you know he was introducing me and when he introduced me I fell off my chair into the floor and I began to laugh hysterically there was no reason I just laughed and I laughed and I laughed and I heard pastor straighter say for the benefit of our radio audience our Evangelist is on the floor I never got to take the microphone that night the joy of the Lord engulfed my life and as I lay there the Lord said as you laugh I'm going to help you pay off the debt [Applause] and when I got home I shared the story and the video with my wife and she just nodded her head yes this is what I saw this is why I told you you had to go she said I knew that God was going to turn a corner in your life and a healing in me began and I served as president for some 15 years graduating some 8,000 students and I thank God for that I recently ran across an article printed in the Orlando Sentinel it says research confirms that laughter is the best medicine humor now these are secular doctors humor increases the body's flow of beneficial compounds many of them with disease preventing properties here are some facts about laughter children on average laugh about 400 times a day adults about 15 times scientists who study humor want to know why 385 laughs disappear laughing is aerobic providing a workout for the diaphragm and increasing the body's ability to utilize oxygen laughter increases immunity to infections by instantly increasing a flood of disease fighting cells and proteins into the blood brain wave activity and some of us have need a brain wave activity brainwave activity changes when we catch the punchline of a joke frequent laughter helps control pain it lowers blood pressure and it relieves stress if you could bottle a belly laugh or compress a good goof off into a pill the result would be a super drug capable of treating everything from about with the blues to heart disease and cancer laughing researchers say is hearty medicine that boosts the immune system and triggers a flood of pleasure inducing neuro chemicals into the brain to California scientists who study the mysteries of mirth what in God's name is merr I thought it was an embalming fluid Oh mirth not myrrh okay okay and the medical benefits of chortling giggling and being overcome by a hoot say humor has health enhancing properties some of which I'll stand over here are yet to be explored if we took what we now know about laughter and bottled it says dr. Lee Burke a professor of pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Loma Linda University in California he says it would require FDA approval pioneering studies by Burke and dr. Stanley tan also of Loma Linda have shown that laughing lowers blood pressure increases muscle flexion and triggers a flood of beta endorphins the brains natural morphine like compound that can induce a sense of euphoria laughters most profound effects the researchers say occur on the immune system natural killer cells that destroy viruses and tumors increase during a state of Mirth what in God's name is a state of Murph gamma-interferon I don't know what that is either I just go here do what it is a disease fighting protein Rises with laughter as do B cells which produce disease destroying antibodies and T cells which orchestrate the immune response doctors berta know but Burke whatever his name is and tan presented their data at the sixth annual meeting of the American Association for therapeutic humor which was held over the weekend in Orlando the Association is a group of physicians and psychotherapists these are doctors and psychos from gist abbreviating just abbreviating and other health care specialists trying to inject humor into day-to-day medical care dr. tan an expert on laughters effects on the nervous and endocrine systems says humor provides a safety valve that shuts off the flow of stress hormones the fight-or-flight compounds that come into play during times of stress hostility and rage recent rage studies did though they studied rage at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Yale University in Connecticut comprised the flip side of the Burk and tan work people who are typically hostile and prone to anger are more likely to suffer heart attacks and sudden death than their chuckling laid-back counterparts the reason stress hormones which include adrenaline bombard the hearts of hostile people forcing the organ to beat as if in a constant state of fight-or-flight stress hormones also suppress the immune system raise blood pressure and increase the number of sticky cells called platelets that can cause fatal obstruction in arteries so health dividends are multiplied say dr. tan and dr. Burke for those who indulge regularly in a big old belly laugh dr. Saul clots I'm just reading this who names their boy clots and Susan hunter of Winter Park Florida immunologists agree they are working with psychologists at the University of Central Florida on a study examining the immunological effect of humour for people with cancer and AIDS preliminary results show that M you know global oven a I guess that's different than B or IgA that's easier for me a key immune component secreted from the eyes in saliva and mucus membranes becomes profuse when patients are exposed to something funny IG A's profession is a sign that the immune system responds quickly to humor there's more and more interest in humor in medicine says dr. Edward dunkeld loud take your bow and you dunk it president of the therapeutic humor Association and Illinois psychotherapist Dunkel Blau regularly uses hope humor to treat patients with a variety of medical conditions encouraging his patients to laugh medicinal humor Dunkel bow at it is inexpensive and has no negative side effects in fact it's fun to laugh he said indeed at a conference that could have been dominated by charts and graphs the Association practiced what it preaches big-footed red nosed therapeutic clowns some wearing fright wigs and at least one with synthetic lavender hair [Applause] [Laughter] roamed the sessions bursting into laughter every now and then sometimes for reasons known only to themselves the clowns were from Morton plant hospital in Clearwater Florida which has a Clown College graduates patrol the hospital floors handing out joke books smiley faces and baby clown dolls these unusual Hospital volunteers spend much of their workday chuckling and giggling dr. Burke of Loma Linda summed up the benefits of laughter this way blessed are those who laugh he said for they shall last [Applause] why is medical science ahead of us when the Bible says laughter do with good like a medicine it's therapeutic it releases endorphins into your brain a hundred times more powerful than morphine and there are no side effects and it's free how does it begin [Laughter] you don't have to pump it up you don't have to run around the room you don't have to slam people on the head it'll have to hit him you just and it begins to catch on and there'll be a pocket in the side of the room where it will break out and suddenly it will spread down the road you don't have to manufacture it it just happens it's infectious some laughs like a chicken some cackle like her don't have to do anything it just happens just happens ha why did we get so intimidated it's just joy unspeakable and full of glory and the more that you laugh the more joy comes in I don't have to do anything [Applause] whenever I just start talking about it it just happens let's spread from there or down there you just spread right across watch he'll just spread right across people lose all their inhibitions all their worries here it comes coming down this out right there see it's coming over here next it'll come right down that row come right in here because it's Fred's don't have to manufacture it I'll have to run around the room do anything crazy don't have to get a bunch of modesty cloths I mean ah it's good for what ails you it's like taking your body on an internal jog [Laughter] laughter raises your blood pressure but afterwards drops it down below where it was before causes you to dance no music but it's dancing it's good into Khloe's good it's good and it's free doesn't cost anything and there's no hangover [Applause] you'll feel better in the morning when I came home and explained to people what had happened to me in Florida they thought it was time for the straitjacket they thought richard has been so balanced but now he's gone off the deep end and then it began to hit them and it spread it spread came into our family I remember one service we were in our older daughter Jordan could not stop laughing when we got her home we put her in the bed and she would fall out of bed laughing we finally made a bed for her in the bathtub so she wouldn't fall out [Music] here comes here it comes it's coming your way here it comes I was in a service of brother and sister Hagen and my dad and my mother and I knew it was real when I saw Evelyn and Oral Roberts and brother and sister Hagen on the floor on a pile together all four of them on top of one another now when you see oral and heavenly Roberts and Kenneth and Aretha Hagen in a pile on top of each other on the floor laughing hysterically you know it's real my mother said to me son you think this is something new don't you I said well I've never heard of it she said when I was a girl we went to revivals in Missouri and the people laughed and laughed and laughed and they couldn't drive their automobiles home and they got carts driven by horses and laid them on the carts and drove them home she said this is not anything new she said it says real and it happens to people just like you it's so real and we get so down on ourselves and we think that because of something that has happened we've done or what somebody else has done or what has happened through other circumstances that we just can't do what we're supposed to do trying to be serious over here you know and we look at people in the Bible and we think well they were so special and we put them on a pedestal as if they're really something special just because they were in the Bible well let me dispel that rumor for Noah was a drunk Abraham was too old Isaac was a daydreamer Jacob was a liar Leah was ugly [Applause] so so says it she was not fair Joseph was abused Moses had a stuttering problem Gideon was afraid Samson had long hair and was a womanizer Rahab was a prostitute Jeremiah and Timothy were just too young David had an affair and was a murderer Elijah was suicidal Elijah was bald [Applause] [Applause] now I don't want anybody to respond to this man Isaiah I'm not sure if I should say this one or not Isaiah preached naked [Music] Jonah ran from God Naomi was a widow job was bankrupt John the Baptist ate bugs Peter denied Christ the disciples fell asleep during prayer [Laughter] [Applause] there's more Martha Martha worried about everything [Laughter] Mary Magdalene was well the Samaritan woman was divorced more than once Zacchaeus was too short Paul was too religious Timothy had an ulcer and Lazarus was dead [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] ha [Applause] [Laughter] that's the bicycle laugh you don't have to manufacture it just let the holy spirit move in jest hitter [Applause] [Music] so good so good [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] brother you look like you're stoned [Applause] [Laughter] now now there are those who will tell you that you are crazy crazy and you can say to them no I'm not crazy I'm just out of my mind then they'll really think you're crazy what you mean is you're out of your mind and your into your spirit which is how you were made during this time when the joy came into my life we had a piece of property that we wanted to sell it had an appraised value the bankers were putting intense pressure on me to sell it I wanted to sell it I needed to sell it I was desperate for it to sell and we had an appraisal done on the property and the building and we started getting calls from buyers and from the banker and the banker did not fall off his chair laughing when I told him that the Holy Spirit spoke to me and told me that I was not to accept any offer under five million dollars and we got an offer a little bit below the appraised price which was way much lower than that about a half and I turned it down and the banker called me and said you need to take this offer I know it's under market value but we need to get this loan off our books and we want you to sell it and I said no I'm so sorry I said to him the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said I should take nothing less than five million and he said well it's not worth five million I said who are you to tell God what it's worth and he was not happy with me and so I turned that off her down another offer came and I turned it down another offer came which was above the appraised price and the banker called me and said mr. Roberts you've made your point now you have an offer in excess of the appraised value selling I said well I have a problem he said what's that I said the Lord said five million dollars and the banker got very angry at me when I said I would not sell it at that amount he said you're not ever going to get five million dollars and I said who are you to tell me what that what God said is incorrect he was very upset at me and a more time passed and then a group came in and offered me five million cash I said Seoul we drew up the papers and the banker called and said can I come see you and he walked into my office and he said to me these words my hat is in my hand for I did not believe and I cut him off I said yes that's right you didn't believe but I did and I broke into laughter which he didn't understand but it was okay because God understood and I understood and with God and me that's a majority now this is how I live my life I face struggles and battles every day Satan is faithful he comes before to steal and to kill and destroy I have a new challenge every day something is always coming against me I feel it every day but I have the joy of the Lord which is my strength I have my tithe and my offering and as I sew it unto God he opens me my windows of heaven and He pours me out of blessing so much so that there will not be enough room to receive it and he rebukes the Devourer for my sake I have a piece of property right now that my wife and I are believing God to sell it hasn't sold but it is going to sell God's going to send the right buyer it's coming and so I am holding on I'm not turning loose of my faith I'm not going to get discouraged I'm not going to get weary because God has not fallen off the throne he's the same yesterday today and forever this piece of property will shall sell it shall sell there is a major endtime transfer of wealth the Bible has prophesied it it's coming it's going to come into the hands of those who so and so unashamedly who give their best and then ask God for his best we have to have the finances not millions not billions but trillions of dollars in order to take the gospel of Jesus to every person on the face of the earth and the world is not going to do it we Christians are the ones that's why it's important that we come together and we quit fighting and arguing why is it that the devil's crowd is always our Bernard and we Christians are worrying about how we dot our i's and cross our T's and because we have ducked doctrinal differences we think that we are out of fellowship why don't we just love Jesus and put our arms around one another and not criticize and not judge why don't we show love and compassion [Music] that's how I live my life yes I face issues I face them every day but I'm facing them I'm not turning around and running for my god shall supply you gave me he gave me a Rhema word on that tonight Craig that's gonna be preached again and I'll give you no credit I'll say the Holy Spirit has revealed this said to me but my God shall supply all my need according to his riches in glory sometimes it may not look like it sometimes it may not feel like it but the just shall live by faith and not by what they see because what you see can kill you so that's how I live my life and now as an official member with a certificate of membership world Harvest Church Marietta California I am an honorary member not an unranked but an honorary there's a difference it says honorary I am an honorary member now that I am I feel that I am at home and I am grateful I take it very seriously and I want you to know pastor that I will be praying over you and over all of your staff over all of your family I'll be praying over this church you will be in my prayers you'll be in Lindsey's prayers and when I get home she will take this certificate from me and she will say we are one so therefore I am also an honorary member and for this opportunity to come and to give of myself and pour out of my heart to you Sunday and then last night and then this morning and tonight is an extreme blessing to me my father prophesied over me that in my mid-60s I would become a minister to ministers and I would impart into their lives on three specific subjects which I talked about the last time I was here healing the Holy Spirit and seed faith and this was a little different time and I've shared what the Lord has laid on my heart and I want to express my appreciation to you I'm honored to be here my daughter Chloe and I are greatly honored we couldn't wait to come when she called and said can you can you come in June even though it was short notice I said yes we'll be here and when you need me call me I'll close with this the big animals and the little animals were having a football game and at the half the big animals were leading 50 to nothing and the coach of the big animals gathered his team at the half in the locker room and said now let's just go out there and kill him and the first play of the second half they handed the ball to the lion and the lion took the ball and roared and ran through the line when something grabbed him and hurled him around by the tail and dropped him in the dirt and when he got to the huddle his fellow player said what hit you he said it was the centipede and the rhinoceros said give me the ball and the rhinoceros took the ball and lowered his horn and went right straight up the middle and something grabbed him by the horn and whirled him around and dropped him in the dirt and when he got back to the huddle they said to him what hit you he said it was that centipede and the elephant said give me the ball and he put it in his trunk and with a blast he took off around the right side when something grabbed him by the trunk and hurled him around and dropped him in the dirt and when he got back to the huddle nobody said anything he just said it was that centipede and the coach of the big animals called timeout and walked across the field where the coach of little animals were standing and said to him where was the centipede in the first half he said he was putting on his shoes [Laughter] listen my friends it's time for us as the body of Christ to put on our shoes our gospel shoes of peace to be the witnesses that God has called us to be to walk'll over the devil roughest territory and to take the nation's for Jesus Christ hallelujah somebody give praise to the Lord tonight hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Applause]

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Published: Tue Jun 12 2018