Nellie Mae Hargett Nash Prayed

Ms. Nellie Nash is pictured. 

  The late Evangelist Oral Roberts published in 1961 a small “Abundant Life Prayer Diary,” and the late Ms. Nellie Mae Hargett Nash wrote prayer requests in a copy of that diary. 

Ms. Nellie was grandmother to Mr. Millard Robertson (a member of Faith Temple Church, Taylors, SC) and his brothers and sisters.  

Ms. Nellie (Aug. 24, 1902—Feb. 9, 1986) was the mother of the late Barbara Delane Hargett Robertson, better known as “Dillie.” Dillie was Nellie’s only child and married Mr. Anclee Robertson. They attended Faith Temple Church for many years. (Mr. Anclee passed on June 12, 1995 and Ms. Dillie on June 13, 2016.) 

Nellie lived part of her older years in a mobile home located behind Dillie and Anclee’s home in the O’Neal area of Greenville County, SC. 

Evangelist Roberts wrote in the prayer diary: 

“After you write your request in the diary each week, write me a letter and tell me your requests. I will pray and the Abundant Life Prayer Group will join me in praying for them.”  

Each diary page featured a place to write the date. Below that, a Bible verse was pre-printed. Next was this heading: “Prayer Requests.” Below that were lines on which to write a request. 

On the first prayer page, Ms. Nellie wrote this date: “July 22, 1964.”  

The verse on that page was Luke 18:27: “But Jesus said, ‘Things impossible to men are possible to God.’”  

Ms. Nellie wrote:  

“Dear Brother Oral, the Lord has ancer my prayed. My request was for God to save my granddaughter and her husban, and he did, prayse god. — Mrs. R.B. Nash, Greer, SC, Rt. 3, co A L Robertson.”

Another page offered this:

“Brother Oral, I wand you to help me pray for my husban. He is not saved. He is a sick man. His name is R.B. Nash.” 

On another page, she wrote:  

“My request is I want you to pray for my grandson and his wife. Pray god will save them. Their names are Richard and Barbarrie Robertson, Greer, SC, Rt. 3.”

That request was for Richard and Barbara Robertson. The late Toy Richard Robertson (that’s his full name) accepted Christ during his youth but went away from the Lord. Before his death in Jan. 2016, he accepted Christ. Barbara accepted Christ at Faith Temple after she and Richard were married at young ages by the late Pastor James H. Thompson, but she went away from the Lord. She returned to Faith Temple with her husband and renewed her faith when her husband did.     

Ms. Nellie’s 1964 prayer request for Richard and Barbara was answered in 2015.  

She also wrote this in her prayer diary:  

“My request was for god to heal my hand. It is all most well. Prayse god for it. I show it to peple for the glory of god and to show them god can heal … My faith is on god and in him. Prays his sweet Name.” 

Barbara, who remarried in 2020, says about Ms. Nellie, her first husband’s grandmother, “She had what looked like a skin cancer on her left hand. It was the size of a quarter and stood up about an inch. She kept a Band-aid on it so it wouldn’t get injured. She had been praying about it, and one day it fell off and didn’t come back.”  

In his prayer diary, the Rev. Roberts listed these three reasons to keep such a book:  

1. A prayer diary will encourage you to pray.

“If you will carry this diary or place it near your Bible or keep it in some convenient place, it will serve as a constant reminder of the power of prayer,” Roberts said. “It will help you be specific in your prayers. Recording your requests will ensue your continued intercession for this needs every time you pray.”  

2. A prayer diary will encourage your faith.

“As you write these requests down and pray over them, this diary can become a point of contact for the releasing of your faith,” he said. “You will find, by going back over previous requests, that his answers have been as specific as your requests. This will prove to be a great faith builder for you."

3. A prayer diary will encourage your testimony.  

“As you see God’s promises fulfilled by your prayers, you will want to tell others,” Roberts said. “Your testimony will serve as an encouragement to others to trust God, too!”

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