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DAILY GUIDE TO MIRACLES from Oral Roberts Ministries Wednesday, January 24, 2007 www.orm.cc RECOGNIZING THE VOICE OF GOD Oral Roberts Oral Roberts Ministries www.orm.cc "People often ask me how God speaks. I can only tell them how He speaks to me. When He does, I grab some paper and a pencil and start writing as fast as I can. God often speaks to my spirit on the inside of me, and I understand the words. At times He will speak to me in a still, small voice. Other times His words will come up from my spirit into my head and fill it until it’s as if my head is roaring. Each time I have heard God’s voice, it has been crystal clear and the words were spoken as distinctly as if you were speaking to me. When I was dying with tuberculosis, I heard the voice of God on the inside of me say, “Son, I’m going to heal you, and you’re to take My healing power to your generation.” Then He added that someday I would build Him a university. Before I had finished high school and gotten into college myself, God told me that I would someday build Him a university! And He told me this after I had just accepted Christ, at a time when I didn’t fully understand what miracles were all about. I’ve learned that God will usually speak to you at the point of your need, when you’re hurting the worst. He knows things you don’t know, and He sees things that you can’t see. That’s how it was when I was hurting. God told me things I could not have imagined and revealed things that I had not thought of. God desires to speak to each of us. Jesus says in John 10:27 NASB, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” As we develop a listening ear, we can begin to recognize God’s voice when He speaks to us." ON DOCTRINE NOTE: Apparently Oral Roberts is claiming that he has honed his "listening ear" so he not only hears the voice of God, it is unmistakable that what he hears is actually the voice of God. Teaching that hearing the voice of God is a learned response, he is also saying that God speaks to individuals who may not hear what He says because they have not developed or practiced the ability to listen. God takes the time and effort to speak words to individuals that He knows will not be heard and will not be comprehended. Why God would engage in that bit of useless undertaking is quite unknown. But, on the other hand, if God is actually speaking, who could resist the receipt of His words? Oral Roberts claims that he is possessed of a finely tuned receptivity to the voice of God that is so sensitive that "it’s as if my head is roaring." Not only does he possess this ability late in life, he had it immediately after becoming a Christian with no learning curve involved, "And He told me this after I had just accepted Christ, at a time when I didn’t fully understand what miracles were all about." What are these words that Oral Roberts hears and claims are the unmistakable, crystal clear voice of God? Some of the conversations that Oral Roberts claims to have had with God regarding the City of Faith are good examples.
No matter how Oral Roberts may express his claims, whether they are through "words" or "impressions", what he eventually reveals is a God who lies in relation to what He says. Oral Roberts claims that God told him to build the City of Faith in order to merge "the healing streams of prayer and medicine" and to build it in a place not "defeated by a lack of faith" or "where My full healing power is not freely accepted." It was a fortuitous coincidence that the place not defeated by lack of faith and where God's healing power was freely accepted, just happened to be the campus of Oral Roberts University. However, the City of Faith, which the 900-foot Jesus could so easily lift, was never completed and was occupied at only a fraction of its capacity, went bankrupt in the process of its development and was abandoned. Oral Roberts claims that he did everything that God told him to do, including obtaining the 8 million dollars needed to send out medical missionaries (the famous 8 million dollars that God told Oral Roberts he had to raise or lose his life) but strangely enough, no medical missionaries were ever sent. The real problem with the City of Faith was not that medical missionaries had not been sent out, but that it owed a crushing debt of money, which was the real reason that Oral Roberts wanted the 8 million dollars. However, the 8 million dollars was actually only a fraction of the amount that was needed just to keep the facility operational, and did not include the amount that would have been needed in order to make the facility completely functional as had originally been intended by Oral Roberts or to eliminate the debts that had already been incurred. Because Oral Roberts had not calculated the real cost of the operation of the City of Faith and the resources that he had available, it became a giant money-consuming black hole, dependent on funding being provided by donors who were also funding Oral Roberts' many other projects, including his television ministy and the other adjuncts of the Oral Roberts University, and no appeal could obtain the funding necessary to keep it afloat. In April 1987 Oral Roberts received his 8 million dollars, in November 1987 (eight months after receiving the money) he anounced that the City of Faith would be closing, in January 1988 medical scholarships were discontinued, and in September 1989 the City of Faith was officially closed and abandoned. In Oral Roberts' scenario, God is made to look like a fool, because He was so concerned about sending out medical missionaries at a cost of 8 million dollars, that He either ignored or was unaware of the fact that the entire City of Faith endeavor was financially bankrupt and could not continue to operate at its then current level, let alone send out medical missionaries to the rest of the world who had not even completed their training. Then, there is the troubling issue of claims that Oral Roberts made in relation to finding the cure for cancer that was to be accomplished through the research facilities of the City of Faith when he said God told him, "I would not have had you and your partners build the 20-story research tower unless I was going to give you a plan that will attack cancer." The City of Faith failed, was shut down and abandoned, and Oral Roberts claims that God told him that He had accomplished His purpose in the matter, yet the cure for cancer was never found. The reality is, that again Oral Roberts makes God into a liar when He claimed that He would give Oral Roberts the plan for curing cancer and then allowed the research facility to be closed before the cure was found. "God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent; has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?"The god that Oral Roberts worships lies, says he will do what he does not and speaks that which he will not accomplish. SEE: The article, ORAL ROBERTS, on the On Doctrine website. |
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