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Walk to the Inauguration
00:04:31
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| We got up that morning, the morning of the inauguration, and we tried to get a cab. | |
| We tried to get an Uber, or what do you call those cab things? | |
| They love Uber. | |
| No. | |
| Nothing was going to move. | |
| Nothing was moving. | |
| No. | |
| So Mondo says, well, I've got it on the phone. | |
| I'll follow the map at the GP. | |
| And he said, well, we have to walk. | |
| So Pennsylvania Avenue was closed. | |
| I mean, absolutely. | |
| You couldn't get across it. | |
| You couldn't do anything. | |
| The police were so heavy that it was a sight that I've never seen before. | |
| Nobody's ever seen it before because it's never happened in the history of this country or the history possibly of the world. | |
| What our eyes took in and saw of the police force, which were just so amazing. | |
| And I'm talking Secret Service, police, every kind of military government, everybody, they were all there. | |
| The special forces. | |
| What Washington was like was an armed camp. | |
| And I want to tell you something. | |
| This is what America will be if our president doesn't isn't allowed to put into effect new laws, new rules. | |
| We're going to pray, and he's going to pray. | |
| Yes. | |
| I mean, they said when Obama was sworn in, the Capitol grounds were all open. | |
| There wasn't all these barriers. | |
| Right. | |
| And I mean, you had to want to get there to get there. | |
| Yes. | |
| We were there a few days before, and our limo driver, we had the same one. | |
| We go off and we have the same guy that drives us around. | |
| Right. | |
| He said, don't come back. | |
| Because we could have gotten on a plane and come back. | |
| But he said, the next day, we closed our meeting on Thursday night. | |
| He said, you won't be able to move. | |
| Taxis are not going to move. | |
| Cars are not going to move. | |
| And he told us all these things that were going to happen, which you telling me did happen. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| And through my time of sickness, I was in bed for seven weeks. | |
| And so my legs and feet began to have pain. | |
| And so to walk has gotten harder and harder for me to walk long distances. | |
| And so we walked for how many miles did we? | |
| All I know is we walked from the house. | |
| We walked three miles a time, we went to the house. | |
| We walked over an hour. | |
| Let's put it that way. | |
| We walked from the hotel to try to find Trump Tower. | |
| Trump's Hotel. | |
| The closer we got to Trump Hotel, the more things were closed up. | |
| That's actually all the way at Trump Tower there and their Trump Hotel. | |
| I call it Trump Tower. | |
| Old Hostel. | |
| That's right. | |
| But we walked through D.C., which looked like an abandoned city. | |
| Nobody was there in the center of the city. | |
| We couldn't get in there. | |
| Early in the morning, it was dark. | |
| We got down near Pennsylvania Avenue and the police were there, the gates. | |
| Everything was like a war zone. | |
| And we said we were trying to get to the Trump Hotel. | |
| We got to get across Pennsylvania Avenue. | |
| They said, you'll have to go 10 miles. | |
| Whoa. | |
| And you'll have to go around the Capitol and you'll have to come back around to get there. | |
| And I looked over at Mondo. | |
| I said, Mondo, I can't walk 10 more miles. | |
| I just can't. | |
| My legs just won't do it now. | |
| You can't make the inauguration. | |
| That's right. | |
| And that was to be at the prayer breakfast. | |
| Right. | |
| And so. | |
| And so we were to be there at 7 a.m. | |
| We were walking and ahead of us, it looked like a concentration camp. | |
| When I was in prison, when they had moved us, they had moved us to prison to prison, and they would put us in holding pens when we get to a big central prison. | |
| And I remember being in those pens, and they're like big walls and all, and fences. | |
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Struggling Through Faith
00:05:52
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| And I remember being in them, and I thought, that looks like a prison. | |
| And there were thousands of people, and they had been there for several hours. | |
| So Mondo got on the phone. | |
| He said, I'm going to page, or I'm going to try to text. | |
| Well, first of all, before that, we turned the corner. | |
| Mondo was on the phone. | |
| We didn't want to complain about our feet because it was cold and my feet were numb. | |
| His feet were numb, but he was having a hard time. | |
| So we were like, okay, Mondo trying to find, tell Rabbi, we can't get. | |
| It's hopeless. | |
| We can't get there. | |
| And so what happened? | |
| You were standing there. | |
| She just happened right by the prison wall. | |
| Yeah. | |
| It's like it was a prison. | |
| Turn the corner, and here comes Michelle and Marcus Bachman right then. | |
| Right then. | |
| She just, right then, she just shows up. | |
| And they were on the way to another inaugural prayer breakfast. | |
| And she said, we give up. | |
| We can't even get there. | |
| But they showed up. | |
| You know who Michelle Bachman is? | |
| Yeah, senator, former senator from Minnesota. | |
| Minnesota. | |
| One of the most amazing Christian ladies who we just happened to be sitting next to the day before in the service at the prayer with Jim Carlos. | |
| Which was in a former temple. | |
| Incredible. | |
| And so what happened? | |
| She just literally just said, we're going to pray right now in Jesus' name. | |
| And she just laid hands and just started praying. | |
| And just laying hands on. | |
| She knew I was struggling. | |
| And so she said, well, let's pray. | |
| And she didn't pray quiet, folks. | |
| And look at all those cops. | |
| Look at all those people. | |
| Those people are all in a pen. | |
| They're all that whole street being a lockdown place. | |
| And they had been there two hours. | |
| And she's laying hands on us, praying in Jesus' name. | |
| And she took this, the authority of the believer. | |
| She used the authority. | |
| I mean, God sent. | |
| That's what was. | |
| And her husband said, Jim, I watch your show every day. | |
| So I've got to say hi to the Bachmann. | |
| We love you so much. | |
| And everywhere we went, people were telling us, what was it like? | |
| Jim Baker, I'm going to just bless you all and just tell you what Mondo and I experienced. | |
| We got to be the witnesses. | |
| I'm going to tell you, I have never seen anything like what I'm about to share with you. | |
| As amazing as all of this was, as amazing as this atmosphere of electricity, excitement, people in one accord, all of that. | |
| I have never experienced what I experienced and Mondo experienced. | |
| And you can help me out with this, Mondo. | |
| The love that God lavished out on Jim Baker was like nothing I have ever seen, ever. | |
| And almost 19 years of being with this man. | |
| And I am talking from the Uber driver, the first guy we were with, to the maid when we walked in our hotel room, to the senators, the congressmen and women, to the big name preachers, to the everyday person. | |
| We couldn't even take a step. | |
| We would take one step and someone would stop us. | |
| Take another step, someone would stop us. | |
| Lavishing love. | |
| Lavish, It was the most beautiful, unbelievably beautiful thing I have ever seen. | |
| I'm like, oh, my goodness. | |
| People going, we honor you. | |
| We honor you, General. | |
| We serve you. | |
| We love you. | |
| We believe in you. | |
| We've been praying for you. | |
| You are. | |
| I mean, I was just like, oh, my goodness. | |
| And they're like, yeah, we watched you back in the day, but we're watching you now. | |
| And we love what you're saying. | |
| Jensen Franklin said to you, Jim, he said, Jim, he's been around you since he was a young man. | |
| And he still looks John Jensen, but you know, he's a grandpa now. | |
| He has two grandchildren, Jensen and Sharice. | |
| But Jensen said, Jim, he said, you know what I love about you? | |
| When it comes to, you know, on the media, he said, all of a sudden, you'll hit this vein, the Holy Spirit, and you go with the vein of the Holy Spirit right when he's speaking, right then, right at that moment. | |
| And I'm thinking, wow, Jensen Franklin watches the show. | |
| I mean, you know, I'm watching Jensen Franklin all the time on TV. | |
| I mean, it's like I watch Billy Brim all the time when she's on with Gloria Copeland and the Copelands. | |
| You just never know. | |
| And that's why when President Trump, at the time President-elect Trump, but President Trump called Jim, you know, right after the election and said, thank you, and took time to talk about 15 or 20 minutes, he said, just to thank you and thank the viewers. | |
| You never know who's watching you. | |
| Everybody has a circle of influence around them, everybody. | |
| And I just want to give God the glory and the honor to be able to experience that and to realize that you really are, Jim, the pioneer. | |
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Dedicated Despite Prison
00:00:29
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| You really are. | |
| You really are. | |
| And the thing is, you've never given up. | |
| And you've been dedicated the whole time. | |
| I mean, they had to put you in prison to shut you up for a little bit. | |
| But guess what? | |
| You didn't even shut up then. | |
| You are still leading people to the Lord. | |