I watched a little of the celebration of Oral Roberts life the other night and was reminded of the night my Daddy took us to one of Roberts tent meetings for a healing. I was 7 years old and we stood in line for hours before it was his turn. My Mama had died only a few months before and I guess he thought Oral Roberts could heal him so he could take care of us.
When Mama was alive she would drag me to all kinds of religious groups, not sure what she was looking for, I even went with her to a snake pit where they worshiped with snakes, that was scary. Also those holy roller churches and all those people would be talking weird and jumping around like chickens without heads, not sure which was scarier them or the snakes.
I am not a religious person, but I believe in God and miracles however my Daddy didn’t receive one that night and they said it was because he didn’t have enough faith or he put more faith in the man instead of God. That was back when Roberts still laid hands on people. I have never met anyone that has ever claimed a healing from any Evangelist, but my sister-in-law totally believed because she sent 200 dollars to Jim Baker and the PTL Club that she got pregnant.
At any rate my Father died 6 months after my Mother and a few months after the tent meeting so he did get his release from pain just not in the way he had hoped.
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