Jim Bakker Show - Such A Time As This - Carl Gallups
Aired: 2021-09-20
Duration: 02:04


=== Wife's First Editing (02:03) ===

[00:00:00]  I wish my wife was here.
[00:00:01]  She was supposed to come, but we had a family thing and she couldn't, but she was going to come.
[00:00:06]  But she could verify this.
[00:00:08]  And I know you know I'm not lying to you, but I just, what I'm going to say is so incredible.
[00:00:13]  I told her three or four times in that seven or eight months I was working on that, getting it ready.
[00:00:18]  It was already under contract.
[00:00:19]  I had given the idea to the publisher, and I said, this is what I think God's put on my heart.
[00:00:23]  Yes, we want that.
[00:00:25]  So I'm writing it three or four times.
[00:00:28]  I had my hand on the phone to pick up and call my publisher and say, I just, I can't do it.
[00:00:33]  It's just too much.
[00:00:34]  There's just too much going on in the world, too much in my life, too much in my ministry.
[00:00:39]  I'm uncovering things that I don't know how I can wrap my mind around, and it's overwhelming me.
[00:00:45]  It was a demonic warfare.
[00:00:47]  Satan didn't want it out there.
[00:00:49]  No, that's right.
[00:00:50]  But yet, after I would voice that to my wife, she would encourage me as a good spirit-filled wife does, and she'd listen to me, and then she'd roll her eyes.
[00:00:59]  No, no, no, I tease her about that.
[00:01:04]  Women know how to do it.
[00:01:05]  Yeah, they do.
[00:01:07]  But she would encourage me.
[00:01:08]  So the bottom line is, Sister Lori, you're right.
[00:01:11]  I finished it right up to the closing pages.
[00:01:14]  It was a struggle.
[00:01:16]  And then, after it was done, I felt this relief.
[00:01:20]  And then my wife does the first editing.
[00:01:23]  Then it goes to the publishers and they do all the professional editing.
[00:01:27]  She came to me.
[00:01:28]  She said, I see why you had your spiritual struggle.
[00:01:31]  And I said, why?
[00:01:32]  She says, this book blew me away by editing it.
[00:01:35]  Then, then, when I sent it to the publishers, the professional editor that worked on it for weeks and weeks and weeks, I got two notes from her.
[00:01:45]  She said, I just had to stop several times and just take a breath and go back and forget editing it.
[00:01:50]  She said, I was just reading it.
[00:01:52]  She said, this is changing my life.
[00:01:54]  That's what the editor said.
[00:01:55]  Yeah, that's true.
[00:01:57]  Now I can see, now I understand it.
[00:01:59]  But while I was writing it, and I'm not saying it's the best book of all time, I'm just saying it's a word for today.