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LINDSAY ROBERTS

DAILY GUIDE TO MIRACLES from Oral Roberts Ministries
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
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MAKE THE CONNECTION
Lindsay Roberts
Oral Roberts Ministries
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"Did you ever try to turn on a lamp that was unplugged? It didn't light up because it was not connected to its power source. By the same token, if I say to Richard, 'The girls and Ia re going to meet you for dinner,' but I don't tell him the time or the place, we aren't going to be able to have dinner together because we haven't established the connection, or point of contact, to make it happen.

You have to have a connection-a point of contact-for thing s to happen.

Mark 5:25-34 tells the story of a woman who had suffered with an issue of blood for 12 years. She had spent all of her living on physicians, but she had only grown worse. She joined a crowd of people around Jesus, and believing that she would be healed if she could only touch His clothes, she reached out and touched His garment. Instantly she was healed. She had made a connection with Jesus. her faith attracted His healing power like a magnet and drew it out of Him.

When you put your faith into action through a faith agreement with a body of believers, you set the time and place for your miracle to begin, and they you stand firm and expect a miracle. You say, 'I am setting my faith as a point of contact, and I am trusting God for my miracle!' When you connect with Him, He can move on your behalf.

God has given us the ability to believe for His healing anointing, just as the woman with the issue of blood did. The healing virtue of God is contained in the Cross for our healing and salvation. Now it's up to us to make the faith connection to Him and receive it!"

ON DOCTRINE NOTE:
In her attempt to establish a connection between faith and healing, Lindsay Roberts uses the incident about the woman with an issue of blood, and in the process she makes a disconnect between how the woman expressed her faith during that incident and the manner in which she claims that healing can be obtained.

The disconnect is in relation to the connection that the woman made in the incident, which was to reach out to Jesus Christ, but in Lindsay Roberts' connection, a person makes an agreement with a group of people, "so you can put your faith into action through a faith agreement with a body of believers." By making that connection, "you set the time and place for your miracle to begin." So, the answer, according to Lindsay Roberts, is to make an agreement with a bunch of people who don't know any more about the time or place that God will choose to do a miracle than the person making the request. Of course, what Lindsay Roberts is trying to do is make a different connection, to Matthew 18:19, where she claims the "Prayer of Agreement" doctrine is found, whereby if two or more people agree about some particular issue, God is bound to accomplish what the individuals desire (See her article, "There's Power In Agreement").

However, her main connection is the application of the "Seed Faith" or "Giving and Receiving" doctrine that was originated by her father-in-law Oral Roberts, (See her articles, "The God of Increase" and "Breaking the Power of Debt"). It is claimed that giving "seed," the "best seed" or the largest amount of money that a person can give, a person can in effect buy a quantity of faith from God, and that money given in "faith" believing without doubt and in agreement with other individuals, will coerce God into granting whatever is desired, and the money given will also be returned to the individual with a one-hundred fold increase. So, to whom is the "Seed Faith" money to be given? Since Oral Roberts created the doctrine to fund his own organization and Lindsay Roberts is part of that organization, then the reality is that it is to be given to the Oral Roberts Ministries.

That is such a good deal, because everyone wins in the transaction: Oral Roberts Ministries gets the "Seed Faith" money to use as they please, the giver gets what they desire and in the process becomes rich with the one-hundred fold return on their money given. How could anyone find fault with that particular teaching?

A person says they didn't receive their healing or other request that they desired, and God did not give the one-hundred fold return on the money given? Well, that's just too bad. Oral Roberts Ministries still gets to keep the "Seed Faith" money and they don't have to provide the one-hundred fold return, but instead the response is that the person had some doubt or they didn't give ther "best seed" therefore they did not have enough faith, so it is their fault and they must try again and do better. It's a win-win situation for Oral Roberts Ministries, and a loose-loose situation for the person looking for a miracle and riches the easy way.

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