Robert Tilton
"Several years ago Satan walked into my bedroom and he was infuriated with me. He said, 'Every time you preach on prosperity God rebukes me.' For 15 minutes we fought in my room. This is an actual overwhelming experience that I had."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 12, 2004, The Word Network)
"The man who fears God, riches shall be in his house [Tilton quoting Psalm 112]. Which means I've got to have a house."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, October, 11, 2004, BET, Black Entertainment Television)
"Not only is worrying a sin, but being poor is a sin when God promises prosperity!"
"Then we can tell God on the authority of his Word what we would like him to do. That's right! You can actually tell God what you would like his part to be in the covenant to be!"
"I like a thousand-dollar vow, because I don't like half-hearted people, lukewarm, just, "Well, I'll do a little . . ." I like a thousand-dollar vow of faith. . . . I'm not talking to you that's got it. You that's got it don't pay a bit of attention to me. I'm talking to you that don't have it, and I'm showing you how you can get it! Yes, the Lord's work gets a portion of it. But you get the biggest portion. You get the biggest blessing. I'm trying to talk you out of that dump you're in! I'm trying to talk you into a decent car!... I'm trying to help you! Quit cursing me! Quit cursing me! God, what will pull this blessing from you? I am a blessing. I have been blessed supernaturally by God. I bring a blessing to you this day, and I know it, and my responsibility is to take it to you."
"Quickly! Go to the phone and make a vow for a new home, job, your marriage, and salvation for your family."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 12, 2004, The Word Network)
"Faith is a creative force."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 12, 2004, The Word Network)
"You have been eating your words...If I could just get you to speak prosperity...This is how faith filled faith words work."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 19, 2004, The Word Network)
"There is money in your mouth. It is creative faith."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 19, 2004, The Word Network)
"Open your mouth and God creates the fruit of your lips."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 19, 2004, The Word Network)
"There is somebody watching that recently came into some money. You need to call in a tithe on it."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 12, 2004, The Word Network)
"Say the word $1,000. The Devil hates the word $1,000, say it!"
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 12, 2004, The Word Network)
"God is leading people for the $1,000 vow of faith."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 12, 2004, The Word Network)
"I am annointed by God to bring the message of prosperity."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 12, 2004, The Word Network)
"Say, God, according to Psalms 50, 66, and 76 and the verses in the New Testament I'm vowing a vow of $1,000."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 12, 2004, The Word Network)
"Every time you vow and every time you pay on your vow it rebukes demons."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 12, 2004, The Word Network)
"Do not attack this annointing! Do not attack this annointing, Saith God! For this annointing gives you the power to get wealth."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 12, 2004, The Word Network)
"Am I talking to you? I tell you someone greater than me is talking to you."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 12, 2004, The Word Network)
"I'm going to pray the prayer of faith, not one of those, 'Lord if it be thy will' I don't have to pray a prayer of doubt and unbelief!"
(Robert Tilton, Christianity In Crisis, audio-tape, Christian Research Institute.)
"Is it possible to experience more financial increase than you ever thought you could? Is it possible to have everything you always wanted?...Some of the people who read this book are going to catch hold of the eternal principles here and become rich. Some are going to become very rich. Some will even become millionaires."
(Robert Tilton, "How to be Rich and Have Everything You Ever Wanted." page 5)
"God has sent me to help you be able to accept and receive more from the Lord. God uses me as a 'prophet of prosperity,' an 'architect of abundance,' an 'instructor in increase.' If you will give close attention to the Biblical teaching in this book, you can have more than you ever dreamed possible."
(Robert Tilton, "How to be Rich and Have Everything You Ever Wanted." page 6)
"Lack of knowledge--that's what creates poverty, need, and lack."
(Robert Tilton, "How to be Rich and Have Everything You Ever Wanted." page 12)
"You can literally speak things into existance if you believe in your heart. That is a powerful step towards success, prosperity, and riches!"
(Robert Tilton, "How to be Rich and Have Everything You Ever Wanted." page 28)
"You must plant a seed to receive a harvest [an envelope to Robert Tilton's address is convienently placed in the back of the book]. Pay your tithe and believe God will fulfill His Word of riches and wealth to be in your house (Psalm 112:3)."
(Robert Tilton, "How to be Rich and Have Everything You Ever Wanted." page 48)
"There is power released through your words, and great increase can come as you act and speak in obedience to the Word of God."
(Robert Tilton, "How to be Rich and Have Everything You Ever Wanted." page 49)
"For those that don't like me preaching on prosperity, who cares! Let them live in poverty."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, BET, June 12, 2004)
"Your faith creates the size of your world the same way God's faith creates the size of His world."
(Robert Tilton, Success n Life, May 4, 2004)
"Don't miss this Word from God or else you will be in that same boat, same car, and same house next year."
(Robert Tilton, Success n Life, May 4, 2004)
"There is an extra blessing to someone that will call right now."
(Robert Tilton, Success n Life, May 4, 2004)
"There is somebody watching. There is an extra blessing for you when you call and we go off the air."
(Robert Tilton, Success n Life, May 4, 2004)
"I'm not sent to everybody, God only sends me to a few people. Some people watching will get mad at what I'm saying. That is the spirit of Cain."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 19, 2004, The Word Network)
"The force of faith takes out of the hands of the enemy and gives us what we need."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 19, 2004, The Word Network)
"The Lord Jesus is speaking to someone right now. God is sending his [prosperity] angel before you to prosper you in your way. That is a word from the Lord. I am speaking prophetically."
(Robert Tilton, Success in Life, May 19, 2004, The Word Network)
“[You say,] ‘Well, I want to give a hundred’ or ‘I want to give two hundred and fifty,’” he would often say. “Nope. Nope. Let me tell you something, if you don’t have faith to make a vow of faith to God for a thousand dollars and believe that He’s going to show you where to get the seed to pay on it or pay it the best you can, it won’t work.”
"If you saw him on TV during the late Eighties or early Nineties, you will not have forgotten Robert Tilton. Not the Howdy Doody dimples, nor the frosted, frizzy hair. Not the bizarre facial contortions, nor the Babylonian babbling that passed for speaking in tongues. Not the antics: Tilton climbing aboard his desk to wallow in a pile of viewers' prayer requests; Tilton explaining why he had gone for plastic surgery (ink from those same prayer requests had seeped into his bloodstream and created bags under his eyes); Tilton telling his TV audience that those who messed with him were "messin' with the apple of God's eye."
"While skeptics dismissed him as a low-rent Southern cultural phenomenon, Tilton was hee-hawing all the way to the bank. At his peak he purchased 5000 hours of airtime per month and appeared in all 235 U.S. television markets. His daily Success-N-Life show reached virtually every TV set in North America. Tilton's mass-market ministry pulled in $80 million per year, and his Dallas church drew as many as 5000 worshipers to Sunday service. He trotted the globe, wore $2000 tailored Italian suits, and drove, depending on his mood, a Mercedes-Benz or a Jaguar. He occupied multimillion-dollar residences near San Diego and Dallas and a waterfront vacation home in Fort Lauderdale. Of course, the facts of his gaudy lifestyle and the astonishing size of his business enterprise remained largely hidden until after his eclipse began."
"One issue Tilton did dwell on was worldly wealth. Day after day he pitched a narrow, well-oiled version of the Pentecostal "prosperity gospel." In exchange for $1000 "vows" from followers, Tilton promised to lobby God for miraculous improvements in their health and finances. "If Jesus Christ were alive today and walking around, he wouldn't want his people driving Volkswagens and living in apartments," he explained."
"Texas Attorney General Dan Morales launched a fraud investigation of Tilton's ministry, and the FBI and the U.S. Postal Service subpoenaed the church's records the day after the ABC broadcast. Tilton called Morales "a flea." Morales countered that Tilton was "raping the most vulnerable segments of our society -- the poor, the infirm, the ignorant ... who believe his garbage."
"A few months ago, according to one attendee, the congregation took up a collection for Tilton's lost scuba gear."
"What hasn't changed is Tilton's repetitious message. He quotes a bit of Scripture and speaks in tongues, but mostly he pushes emotional buttons: Cancer. Emphysema. Alcoholism. Credit card addiction. Job layoffs. These ailments can be cured through faith. But faith requires proof, a "vow." To make a vow, preferably of $1000, call the 800 number on the screen."
