My Story
Autobiography of Oral Roberts
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Evangelism, Denominations, Pentecostalism, Biography & Memoir, Religious
| Author: | Oral Roberts | ISBN: | 1230000226748 |
| Publisher: | Revival Library | Publication: | March 20, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Oral Roberts |
| ISBN: | 1230000226748 |
| Publisher: | Revival Library |
| Publication: | March 20, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
In 1947 Oral Roberts fasted and prayed intensively for God to direct and anoint his ministry as he launched his own independent evangelistic organization. Roberts conducted his first revival in May 1947, in Enid, Oklahoma and soon added healing to his evangelistic methods.
He began his own magazine, Healing Waters, in November 1947 and reported his first major healing when he removed the braces from the legs of a young polio victim and reported that she was healed, in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Such stories of healing spread like wildfire rapidly across America. In January 1948, he ordered a "tent cathedral" to seat 2,000. Gordon Lindsay wrote in The Voice of Healing, "Brother Roberts has provided himself with perhaps the greatest and most complete equipment ever used by an American evangelist in gospel work. In the summer of 1950 the tent was destroyed by a storm and early in 1951 a new tent seating 7,500 was used but the success of his ministry required a tent seating 12,500 two years later. This was the largest portable tent ever used to promote the gospel.
By the end of 1948, Roberts calculated that in ten revivals he "prayed for 50,000 sick" and had 7,000 "saved." In one 1950 campaign in Columbia, South Carolina, there were 13,500 "altar calls." In eleven tent campaigns in 1952, reportedly attended by 1,500,000 people, the organization recorded 66,000 people prayed for in the healing lines and 38,457 conversions.
This is his amazing story up to 1961.
For books similar to this one please enter 'Voices from the Healing Revival' in the Search box.
In 1947 Oral Roberts fasted and prayed intensively for God to direct and anoint his ministry as he launched his own independent evangelistic organization. Roberts conducted his first revival in May 1947, in Enid, Oklahoma and soon added healing to his evangelistic methods.
He began his own magazine, Healing Waters, in November 1947 and reported his first major healing when he removed the braces from the legs of a young polio victim and reported that she was healed, in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Such stories of healing spread like wildfire rapidly across America. In January 1948, he ordered a "tent cathedral" to seat 2,000. Gordon Lindsay wrote in The Voice of Healing, "Brother Roberts has provided himself with perhaps the greatest and most complete equipment ever used by an American evangelist in gospel work. In the summer of 1950 the tent was destroyed by a storm and early in 1951 a new tent seating 7,500 was used but the success of his ministry required a tent seating 12,500 two years later. This was the largest portable tent ever used to promote the gospel.
By the end of 1948, Roberts calculated that in ten revivals he "prayed for 50,000 sick" and had 7,000 "saved." In one 1950 campaign in Columbia, South Carolina, there were 13,500 "altar calls." In eleven tent campaigns in 1952, reportedly attended by 1,500,000 people, the organization recorded 66,000 people prayed for in the healing lines and 38,457 conversions.
This is his amazing story up to 1961.
For books similar to this one please enter 'Voices from the Healing Revival' in the Search box.
