Jim Bakker Show - A Prepper Mindset - Ray Gano on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2017-06-20
Duration: 02:25


=== Always Be Ready (02:24) ===

[00:00:00]  You need to be prepared.
[00:00:01]  Are you a prepper?
[00:00:02]  Oh, call yourself a prepper.
[00:00:04]  Yeah.
[00:00:06]  I wrote a book about it.
[00:00:07]  Yes.
[00:00:07]  Yeah.
[00:00:08]  Yeah, big time.
[00:00:08]  Yeah.
[00:00:09]  So you believe in practical prepping as far as food and all of that?
[00:00:14]  What people don't understand, especially with Christians, is that God mandates it.
[00:00:18]  He tells us to do this.
[00:00:20]  It says, always be ready to share the hope in meekness and fear.
[00:00:23]  Always means always, always is in good times, always is in bad times, always.
[00:00:27]  And if we are not always ready, then how do we share the hope?
[00:00:32]  And by being prepared, by having food on hand, by having these things on hand, it's less of a distraction now that the enemy can use against us.
[00:00:40]  And now I have that freedom because I'm not burdened with, oh, wow, what are my kids going to eat?
[00:00:44]  Right.
[00:00:44]  Or whatever.
[00:00:45]  And I can now share the hope.
[00:00:47]  Exactly.
[00:00:47]  And people will listen about Jesus.
[00:00:50]  We've said it a million times on this broadcast, but I know for a decade I worked in the inner city, went down, and that's how I ended up adopting our kids and all of that by meeting them in the inner city.
[00:01:01]  But you know what?
[00:01:02]  We would always go down and feed them first.
[00:01:05]  Give those little babies, give those little tummies some food, and then we would teach them Bible stories and teach them about Jesus.
[00:01:12]  And then they would want us to meet their moms, typically.
[00:01:15]  Usually dads weren't around, but typically moms.
[00:01:18]  And the next thing you know, you know, 20 years later, Jim and Lori Baker adopt five Mexican kids and they were from the inner city.
[00:01:27]  But that's how it happens.
[00:01:28]  And so that is so real because you have to be practical with the food.
[00:01:33]  That's why we have all these amazing food offers for you.
[00:01:36]  I know, Jim, you were going to go to one earlier, but we have these individual buckets now that we have available, like the Fiesta bucket, probably Mondo's favorite.
[00:01:45]  I keep thinking about the people who never started.
[00:01:49]  That made you.
[00:01:51]  Just do something.
[00:01:53]  Just do something to get started.
[00:01:54]  I know, Ray, were you, was your family preppers?
[00:01:58]  How did you get that naturally?
[00:02:01]  Well, my mother is a depression era child.
[00:02:03]  And because of that, I learned a lot of that.
[00:02:06]  And then I was in the military.
[00:02:07]  I was in special operations and learned a lot of stuff there.
[00:02:11]  And then I just, the Loma Prieta earthquake also had a lot of effect on me.
[00:02:16]  Other events like Rita and Katrina had effects on me.
[00:02:19]  So it's all these things combined has created this preparedness mindset.
[00:02:24]  And I live it.