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May 1, 2020 - Jim Bakker Show
06:01
Witnessing For Christ On A National Platform - Mike Lindell
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Reading at the White House 00:06:01
You know, your book came out a few weeks ago.
Yeah.
And I hope everybody reads it.
And you have become, I hope I don't insult you by calling you an evangelist because you have become a preacher.
You are preaching the gospel with everything that you do.
Amen.
And I tell you, I just love what you did at the Rose Garden.
Yes.
And I'm still overwhelmed by it because I've been going to the White House for decades and decades.
Ronald Reagan, I used to go all the time there.
And it was amazing.
I never saw to the world any preachers preach what you did in that moment.
And then you took over.
And why were you there?
Why were you at the White House that day?
You were invited for.
Yeah, there's a little backstory on that, which I'll tell here.
I think this might be the first time told nationally.
But since that White House, by the way, I've done 91 interviews from all the way across the country from everybody.
But here, so I've been busy every day since.
But what happened was, is when we started making the mask, I got an email from the White House and from the vice president's office.
And they said, they go, you know, Mike, would you come to a roundtable event we're having?
And I said, sure.
Well, then it said, could you write some remarks about what your company's doing to help during the pandemic?
And I thought, well, that's strange.
I've been into a roundtable back in 2017 with the president for a Made in America thing.
You just sit around a table.
And I said, so I wrote down what we did and, you know, just typed it all up or whatever and sent it in to get approved.
I thought, that's weird.
I told my couple of people I was with.
I said, oh, it don't matter.
Just put some notes down there.
I said, I'm not going to go by that script anyway.
You sit around a table and talk.
Well, anyway, we got there.
We got there and I get into the White House and we go to this room.
I got there early and I got in there to the roundtable and there was like five CEOs, four other CEOs and me and the vice president and a couple other people on the end.
And we started going around the table and he says, what are you guys doing?
What have you heard out there?
You know, trying to grab what every, you know, what's going on?
How much can you make and all this stuff?
Well, then the president came in and he sat down and he goes, he says, he kind of went around the table again.
Well, nobody was taking out their paper.
I had my paper ready and I'm going, okay, I guess, you know, I was right.
Nobody's going to read their thing.
And he goes up to leave and to go in the other room.
And I grabbed the vice president.
I said, how come we didn't read our papers?
And he said, well, Mike, he said, those were for the Rose Garden.
And I said, we're going to be bringing you out there.
And you might be called up.
You might be called up.
So we went in the other room and the president's talking to these other CEOs.
And they're sitting there was right next to the room, right next to the Oval Office.
And I just got it.
It felt like it came from God.
I said, you know what?
As long as I get to talk out there, I'm going to write something, give people a message of hope.
I didn't just want to brag up on what my pillow's doing, what they had told us to send in.
I mean, I don't need to, I do stuff, but it's a blessing just to help people.
But I wrote on the back of the page, and this is the actual sheet that I wrote here.
If you see, if you can see that, all that writing, I mean, I have arrows.
I have arrows going down to start here and go down to here.
I kept crossing stuff off.
And I was doing it so fast because we were the president, and I was already looking at his speech that he was going to read out there.
And I was going to recopy this on another sheet of paper.
And all of a sudden, they go, Well, come on, you guys, we're going to go seat you out in the Rose Garden.
And I'm going, my prayer as I left there and walked out was, God, please let me read my writing and we got out, and I'm sitting.
They seat me right in front of the president, the vice president to my right.
Now, we didn't even know what we were going to do or how this was going to go.
And by the way, I had been so busy, I hadn't watched any of these press conferences, so I had no idea what was going on.
And I didn't know how big the audience was.
I didn't know it was basically a worldwide audience.
Well, when the president called me up, I went straight up to the podium, and I guess we were all supposed to go around on the left.
So that, but then they stopped the other guys from coming up.
So at that moment in time, it was just myself and the president.
And as I read it, and I turned to him and I said, Can do you mind if I say something or read something or say something off the cup?
And he goes, Okay.
Sure.
And this is, and then I read it.
And I guess you guys have the footage for that.
But I read it and I didn't realize how big of a thing it was going to be.
But I'll tell you, when I went back into the White House, the vice president came up to me and he was like, almost like in speeches.
He goes, Mike, he said something like you've opened up the heavens.
He goes, he was like, just, it would just make whatever he said, it made me feel good because I thought, did I talk right?
My voice was a little hoarse because I had had vocal cord surgery just 10 days earlier, very serious surgery where I couldn't speak for a week.
So I was kind of hoarse up there, but I just didn't know if I had done something I should have done.
But he assured me, this is the best thing ever.
And when I left the White House, I had 750 text messages.
I didn't know that many people had my phone number.
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