TULSA, Okla. (WordNews.org) July 17, 2012 — As evangelist Oral Roberts lie in a hospital room following a fall, his youngest daughter Roberta Roberts Potts could hear a loud voice coming from down the hall as she walked to his room.
Roberts, 91, had been on morphine to deal with the pain and been in a comatose state until this brief 45- minute period on Dec. 13, 2009.
The sound Potts heard was her dad singing.
“When I say singing, I mean singing loud,” Potts told WordNews.org. “He was totally coherent for 45 minutes. He knew all the words to these songs. He was singing the old songs he had used in his ministry.
Songs such as “When He Reached Down His Hand to Me,” and “God is a Good God” and “Something Good is Going to Happen to You.”
“After that 45-minute window, he just went right back to where he had been, he was comatose and he died the next day,” Potts recounted.
As she spoke with her husband, Ron Potts, about the experience, he said the songs Roberts was singing was more than just a trip down memory lane. He was recounting his entire ministry.
“Each one of those songs represents a portion or section of his ministry,” Potts concluded.
Potts then began feeling nudged to write a book about her dad, the evangelist with the healing ministry that led to the formation of Oral Roberts University.
“I don’t have time for this. This is just a daughter wanting to milk the reputation of her father,” she thought, pushing the idea aside for months. “But the idea kept coming back to me so many times I began to realize it was the Lord.”
Potts is the author of “My Dad, Oral Roberts.”
Potts is honest about her father’s human failure, the “clay feet” of this man of God. She tells about the trials and tribulations that she and her family experienced.
Potts knows her father had his critics.
“Folks either seemed to love him or hate him and never the twain shall meet,” she wrote. “I pray this book will help you better understand what drove Dad, and more importantly, I pray that you understand his heart.”
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