Until You Know What to Do

Richard Roberts When our firstborn son died after living only 36 hours, Lindsay and I both cried until we had no more tears. Yet we kept crying deep in our souls. We tried to pray and the words just seemed to bounce off the ceiling. We felt the devil mocking us,...

Persistence

Lindsay Roberts When do you stop crying out to God for the miracle you need in your life? Only when you have received the miracle! Several years ago, our oldest daughter, Jordan, came to me after she had hurt her foot in the car. She said, “Mom, Pray for my foot. It...

Enduring Hardships

Richard Roberts Do you know people who seem never to have a problem? They have plenty of money, are never sick, and everything goes right for them … but they wouldn’t know God if they met Him coming down the road? Yet you are struggling. If you know someone like this,...

The Lord Loves Those He Can Trust

From the archives of Evelyn Roberts I told my husband Oral recently, “Honey, you know the Lord must love you a lot.” He said, “Well, I know He loves me, but why do you say that?” I said, “Well, I have a feeling that the devil went to the Lord and said, ‘Look, if You’d...

God Will Be With You in the Time of Famine

From the archives of Oral Roberts In I Kings 18:41, we read where the prophet Elijah make a great pronouncement to King Ahab. He Says, “Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.” Let me set the stage for that announcement by Elijah because...

Overgrown Cucumbers

Lindsay Roberts A few years ago, I gathered a bushel-full of cucumbers I’d planted in my garden, but they were not very impressive. They were overripe and all tangled up with overgrown vines. I asked my mom to cut one open, but she said, “No these cucumbers are not...