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You Can <strong>Attack</strong> <strong>Your</strong> <strong>Lack</strong> With <strong>Your</strong> Giving<br />
a judge in Indian Territory in Oklahoma where I<br />
was born and raised...and who was my<br />
grandfather and my hero.<br />
That dream was so big in me I couldn't care<br />
less about getting saved. In fact, I falsely believed<br />
if I got saved that would mean I would never get<br />
to go to law school and become a lawyer—and<br />
later fulfill my highest dream of someday<br />
becoming governor of Oklahoma.<br />
Three events changed my mind.<br />
First, I was struck down at 17 with<br />
tuberculosis. I had no hope of a cure in that day<br />
when there were no medicines to cure TB as<br />
there are now.<br />
Second, after people of the church—who<br />
didn't believe it was God's will to heal—came to<br />
me and nearly turned me off from God forever,<br />
my sister Jewel came to my bedside and said<br />
seven words that changed my life: "<strong>Oral</strong>, God is<br />
going to heal you."<br />
Third, Papa believed I was going to die and,<br />
wanting me to get saved so I would go to heaven<br />
when that happened, said, "<strong>Oral</strong>, I'm going to<br />
kneel here and pray for you to be saved tonight. I<br />
will not get off my knees unless you give your<br />
heart to God." I lay listening to my father's<br />
prayers for me to get saved. I felt nothing, no<br />
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