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Attack Your Lack - Oral Roberts

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Chapter 8<br />

8 Roses Will Bloom Again!<br />

One day a pastor went to pray for a man who was<br />

suffering with a bad case of arthritis. His joints were<br />

badly swollen and he was in constant pain.<br />

This sick man also had a doctor friend who came<br />

each week to work with him. Despite the prayers of the<br />

minister and the medicine of the physician, there came<br />

a day when the man believed he would not get well and<br />

his spirit fell. The smile vanished from his face and soon<br />

a terrible bitterness came over him.<br />

Neighbors who had been bringing food didn't<br />

come anymore because he didn't welcome them<br />

anymore. The only person left was his nurse. And she<br />

didn't really want to be on the case because he had<br />

become so bitter and hard to deal with in both body<br />

and spirit.<br />

The pastor said, "When I went to see Robert, I used<br />

my cheeriest voice. But there he lay drawn up in a knot.<br />

He refused to look at me... to speak ...or to try to smile. I<br />

wanted so desperately to reach him at least one more<br />

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