Jim Bakker Show - Thank You for Your Kindness - Pastors Jim and Lori Bakker
Aired: 2017-03-09
Duration: 06:17


=== A Moment of Comfort (06:09) ===

[00:00:00]  I received a card and this lady wrote me and she said, I just lost my mother.
[00:00:10]  And she said, you had talked about losing your dog buttons on television.
[00:00:16]  You just mentioned it one day.
[00:00:18]  Yeah.
[00:00:19]  And she said, you don't know how much it meant to hear Lori grieving over her little buttons who's been with us, what, how many years?
[00:00:32]  She was just almost 17.
[00:00:35]  Right.
[00:00:35]  17-year-old little thing.
[00:00:38]  And I was so shocked, Lori.
[00:00:40]  And this lady said, your sharing the death of your favorite pet put comfort.
[00:00:52]  It gave her comfort, even though there's no comparison between a mother and a pet.
[00:00:58]  But, you know, really, it's just at the same time, it gave her comfort.
[00:01:04]  And then we just kept, all of a sudden, there was just so many cards that all of you sent to us saying, talking to us about your precious dogs.
[00:01:18]  But, you know, we had our dogs cremated.
[00:01:20]  We had buttons and bow.
[00:01:22]  And so I actually brought what I have sitting right in what I look at every day at home.
[00:01:27]  And so first Bobies, we called him our nickname in our family.
[00:01:32]  He was a little shihzu.
[00:01:34]  So we had buttons and bow.
[00:01:36]  Yeah, so we always had these.
[00:01:38]  Grandma Bonnie actually gave these to us years ago.
[00:01:41]  And look how cute.
[00:01:42]  And literally we had a little black shihu and a little white shihzu.
[00:01:48]  This is sweet.
[00:01:49]  This is, I just want to show you some of the cards.
[00:01:53]  Isn't that cute?
[00:01:55]  So so many of you sent us little buttons, like literally buttons.
[00:02:00]  You know, we have like handshakes.
[00:02:02]  It's right on the card.
[00:02:04]  This one's right on the card, but it puts Peter and Sandra, Gypsy Rose from Pennsylvania, Pam from Ohio, Thelma Davis from North Carolina, Peggy from Indiana, just a few of the people who they send buttons.
[00:02:27]  I just can't get over this lady, this is the lady I was telling you about.
[00:02:32]  She says, my heart goes out to you as buttons moved on to her heavenly home.
[00:02:37]  Thanks for sharing your sweet love.
[00:02:40]  Real words that touched me so.
[00:02:43]  My mom passed away last week.
[00:02:45]  Grief is grief as Jesus washes our souls.
[00:02:50]  I love you dearly.
[00:02:56]  It just, it hit me that we were opening cards as we sit on our bed.
[00:03:01]  Lori, now that's our favorite spot to open cards.
[00:03:03]  We just sit there where it's soft and comfortable and read and read and read and read.
[00:03:09]  And look at this, look at this card.
[00:03:11]  Is that gorgeous?
[00:03:13]  And it says, I express my sorrow for the loss of your dog buttons.
[00:03:19]  It is never easy to say goodbye to them for a while.
[00:03:24]  I too believe Jesus will let us have our beloved pets in heaven.
[00:03:30]  Revelation says he is coming back at the second coming on a white horse.
[00:03:35]  And so we are his army when he comforts us one last time.
[00:03:44]  I know there's a couple people out there identify with this.
[00:03:46]  This is just for you guys.
[00:03:49]  All the cats and dog lovers.
[00:03:51]  This lady has a bunch of cats and dogs.
[00:03:55]  She just says, I never let them go off to heaven alone.
[00:04:02]  I am always there looking in their eyes one last time.
[00:04:06]  Oh, yeah, absolutely.
[00:04:09]  I know your sadness.
[00:04:13]  And I know how happy you will be in heaven.
[00:04:16]  Running and playing.
[00:04:18]  Jim's dog, Lucky.
[00:04:19]  She remembers me talking about my dog that I had when I was a little boy.
[00:04:25]  Yeah.
[00:04:27]  This card here was so beautiful.
[00:04:29]  Can I show you the cover up?
[00:04:32]  This person prayed for me because she knew that I was sick.
[00:04:41]  I'd been sick for quite a while.
[00:04:43]  And it's a long card.
[00:04:45]  I read every word of it.
[00:04:47]  And it just poured in, as the song sang, the wine and the oil, the kind that restoreth your soul on the Jericho Road.
[00:04:59]  And this card has nothing to do with dogs, this next one.
[00:05:02]  But I have to say it because it came from Dr. Susanna, director of the Christian Friends, who led us into the Yavasham when it was no longer allowed to take pictures.
[00:05:16]  Oh, wow.
[00:05:18]  Is that that lady?
[00:05:19]  This is Susanna.
[00:05:19]  Oh, she stays in touch with us all the time.
[00:05:21]  Oh, yeah.
[00:05:22]  And it was one of my favorite moments.
[00:05:25]  It was walking into that museum.
[00:05:27]  It was the highlight of what we were filming because we got to see your heritage, but we also got to see Corrantin Boom's heritage on what happened in those days.
[00:05:39]  That lady was the sweetest.
[00:05:40]  Thank you so much for letting us film there.
[00:05:42]  That was very kind of you to let our partners in through the cameras to be a part of that moment.
[00:05:48]  That's right.
[00:05:50]  So this is an actual oil painting of one of the little girls that was killed in the Holocaust.

=== Card Sent, Heals Hearts (00:22) ===

[00:06:04]  And she had this put into a card, made a beautiful card.
[00:06:09]  And she sent me this card.
[00:06:12]  When you guys write us and you let us know that you share these moments, it heals our hearts too.