Faith & Spirit Quote by Oral Roberts

A triple benediction that doubles as a sales pitch: Oral Roberts stacks three short sentences like steps on a stage, moving the listener from survival to success to total selfhood. The repetition of "God wants" is the engine. It shifts the burden from human desire (which might sound selfish) to divine intention (which is harder to argue with). Wanting to be healthy or financially secure stops being a guilty wish and becomes obedience.

The word choices are calibrated for maximum reach. "Well" is intimate and immediate; it meets people in pain, sickness, and anxiety. "Prosperous" widens the promise into the marketplace, quietly baptizing ambition and consumption. Then Roberts lands on "a whole person", a phrase that sounds pastoral and therapeutic at once, borrowing the aura of modern psychology without surrendering the authority of revival preaching. It implies that brokenness is not just emotional but material - and that the remedy can be comprehensive.

The context matters: Roberts helped popularize postwar televangelism and the prosperity gospel, packaging faith for a mass audience in an America drunk on mobility, suburban aspiration, and medical modernity. This line doesn’t just comfort; it recruits. If God wants you prosperous, then your setback isn’t merely bad luck - it’s a spiritual problem with a spiritual solution, often mediated through the preacher, the ministry, the "seed" offering. The subtext is transactional without naming the transaction: align yourself with God’s desire, and the world will align with yours.