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June 26, 2025 - Jim Bakker Show
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The Jim Bakker Show with Cristina Baker
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A Minute of Hope 00:05:33
Welcome to the Jim Baker Family Show.
Today, Christina Baker talks about her brand new book, A Minute of Hope.
Our co-host today is Reverend Mondo de la Vega.
And now, here is your host, Pastor Ricky Baker.
Hello, friends.
You're watching the PTL Television Network.
It's exciting to have you tune in with us today.
You're not going to want to miss this.
Today, we have Christina Baker.
She's a wife, mother speaker, and prayer warrior who has dedicated her life to helping others encounter the love of God.
One prayer at a time.
Mondo, a lot of people think we have to do it all at one time.
We have to get it all figured out and have all of our prayers lined up, ducks in a row, and knock them down piece by piece by piece.
But sometimes it's just one prayer at a time.
She invaded TikTok world with one prayer at a time that has gone viral over and over again.
And I want to tell you something.
Today's world, we need prayer more than anything.
And I want to tell you something.
We don't need this long-lasting prayers for hours.
We can leave that for prayer meetings.
But I believe I'm talking about you.
I'm like, we're eating lunch.
Why are you praying a three-hour prayer?
I'm the longest prayer in the world.
That is true.
But I want to tell you something.
Minute prayers can change everything.
And today, I love this little book right here.
The olives.
This is amazing.
I love the artwork.
Very earthly.
Say that again.
A minute of hope.
Absolutely.
And sometimes that's all you get with people, especially today's audience.
You can captivate them with 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 90 seconds.
And I want to tell you something.
More, you can do more in one minute than you can do in more time than what you think.
I think this is a great idea, great gift for someone.
Start a little Bible study with it or just get it to gift it to somebody that needs to have prayer in their life.
And I know I know a few people who need prayer in their life.
All of us.
Yes.
Every single one of us.
Prayer is our direct line of communication with God.
You know, Mondo, Romans 12, 21 says, do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good.
It is impossible to do that outside of Christ.
It is impossible to know the heart of God without knowing, having a good prayer life, without knowing the word of God.
You need to make sure that you are diving in.
A minute of hope is honestly all it takes to change someone's life sometimes.
All because of a minute of hope.
Absolutely.
Christina, I want to say thank you for being on the broadcast with us today.
Welcome, Christina Baker.
I want to ask you this question.
Why a book of one minute prayers?
Like what inspired you to create something so powerful, yet simple and accessible?
Yeah, well, I got on the, as Mondo was talking about, I got on TikTok during the pandemic and I didn't have, I'm going to take the world by, you know, just sharing one minute, a one-minute prayer.
In fact, it was just, God, if I reach one person tonight, that I feel like I've done my job because everybody was locked up.
You know, we were all locked up in our homes and I could feel the, there was just this desperate need.
It was almost like I can feel the need of the people just like needing a touch from the Lord, whether or not they knew the Lord or not.
And so I realized, and my husband and I talked about it, it was like, I didn't have a great phone.
I didn't have great lighting.
I didn't have great anything other than just, God, would you reach one person?
And over the last five and a half years, what we've seen is it's not, it's, and I think that excellence, you having excellence and presenting excellence to the Lord is, is always, should be our heart's posture.
But the reality of it is, is, is that it's the anointing that breaks the yoke.
It's the power of the Holy Spirit on a prayer.
It's the power of the Holy Spirit on a television show.
It's the power of the Holy Spirit on preaching.
That's why we don't have to come up with a lot of, you know, we don't have to come up with any games or gimmicks.
We preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
And Paul talked about how he didn't come with eloquence of words or he just came with the power of the Holy Ghost.
And that's what, and that's what was the power and should be still the power of every ministry, of every marriage, of every any endeavor that we have in front of us is that the power of the Holy Spirit, the smearing of the anointing, the anointing of the Spirit being on everything that we do.
And that's what breaks the addictions.
It's what breaks the yokes.
It's what shatters the fortresses that keep us bound.
So that's that's where a minute of hope came from.
So in your own life, was there a specific minute or a moment of hope that changed everything for you?
Yes.
I was about to take my life the night that someone tapped me on the shoulder at work.
And I wasn't going to tell anybody.
I had already tried the night before and didn't work that way.
So I, in a very cowardly fashion, just thought, okay, let me just think of how I can do this painlessly.
God's Interruptions 00:15:48
And I was interrupted by someone, a group of people that had been praying for me at a secular university.
So I kind of see TikTok and Instagram and Facebook and social media and not just social media, but we are the Lord's, like, we're his pawns.
We're his soldiers that are constantly interrupting, whether it be the scroll, whether it be the suicide attempt, whether it be that person is just headed to the grocery store and God puts a word on our heart and we interrupt their day because the Lord wants to interrupt their life.
He wants to interrupt our life.
And I think that we see that facet of the Lord's heart like the woman at the well.
Jesus is completely in this position where his, you know, he's waiting for her.
And he is the, he embodies the interruptible life.
The disciples, they had places to be, they had cities to be healing and, you know, setting these cities on fire with revival.
But Jesus is waiting by the well for a woman from Samaria.
And he is interrupting the plans of everybody else he's with.
He's allowing for the Father to interrupt his day and also interrupting this other woman's day.
And it's that moment that he sees right through her.
She sees through him.
She runs to this village and sets the entire village on fire for Jesus.
And for those that think that Jesus was just there smiling at her, looking through her, no, he called her out and said, no, you have five husbands.
And the one that you're with now isn't your husband.
And so, but I think about what was it about that moment that so caused for her heart to be turned to the point where she encountered the presence and the love of God.
She turns right around and is set on an entirely new life.
I believe that it was the fact that he looked at her with the eyes that nobody had looked at her with before, loved her.
She recognized this is truth.
This is love.
And this right here, even though he's calling me out, has caused me to change.
There's been genuine repentance in my heart.
And so she just runs the other direction.
She tells everybody about this beautiful man, this beautiful man who has the authority to forgive sin and who sees right through me.
And so I ask myself that question often.
Am I really living an interruptible life?
Can my life be interrupted by the Father at any given moment?
And I believe that's the challenge.
You know, do we want to live an interruptible life?
Do we want God to just show up?
Because I think that it's not necessarily about being an interruptible life.
It's about will we be led by the Spirit of God?
Because what we call interruptible is all a part of his plans if we believe what Proverbs 3 says, to lean not on our own understanding, but acknowledge the Lord in all of our ways, and he will make crooked paths straight.
So maybe it's not an interruptible life, Ricky.
Maybe it's more so, Jesus, what do you want to do today?
I invite you to interrupt every plan that I have.
I'm doing this, this, and this, but you can interrupt it and you can have your way and you can do whatever you want to do with my schedule, with my life, with my heart, with my family, with my children, with my marriage, with the ministry, with the business, whatever that is for you and I. Wow.
I believe God is interrupting you right now.
Whatever you're going through, whatever your thought process is at right now, I want to tell you something that God doesn't interrupt you just to entertain you.
He's interrupting you to grab your attention.
Something has to shift.
And I want to tell you something.
There's people that watch this program that you watch to make fun of us.
You watch to point or flaws and people call themselves Christians.
And yet you may be typing something that can push us over the edge or it can push us to be interrupted by God to self-reflect on people like you that love to attack the body of Christ because maybe we're not enough to you.
But if you're watching right now, you're enough to God.
I believe that God interrupts moments to reconnect with you.
And Christina, that brings me to this point in this conversation.
How do we help people that feel disconnected from God find their way back through prayer?
I like to tell my son this, Evan.
My son's name is Evan.
I say, Evan, well, let me tell you, let me tell you about a little testimony we had in church.
We were downtown last year and he touched his shoulder.
He said, Mama, my shoulder hurts.
And I said, okay, Evan.
And we've been teaching him how to hear the voice of God and listen and be able to speak from God's heart, right?
And so I said, Evan, close your eyes.
So he closes his eyes and I said, look at the Lord.
Just look at him.
And so he closes his eyes.
I was like, when you see him, let me know.
And so he has his hand.
Well, first he's just sitting there and he goes, okay, I see him.
I said, what are you feeling?
And he says, I just feel his love for me.
And I said, Evan, take your hand and put your hand on that place where it hurts.
And I want you, don't lose, don't lose.
Don't look somewhere else, but keep looking at him.
And so he's like, okay.
So I said, the Holy Spirit, he comes to comfort you.
He's come to heal you.
He's come to be a helper.
So I want you to touch that part of your body that hurts.
And I want you to thank the Lord as you just don't just lock eyes with him.
And so he has his eyes closed and he just and he opens up.
He goes, mama, the pain is gone.
I said, there it is, Evan.
And I'm not saying that this happens every time, but I do believe that God gave my son and I that moment together, just grace, just mere, mere grace that God would give me the opportunity as a mom in that moment and that God would actually like,
that he would do something in that moment so that I could teach my son an important aspect of his walk with God, that everything that he needs is found when he looks up and looks at Jesus.
And this is not about looking at a Middle Eastern man or a man with blue eyes.
I'm talking about by the spirit.
When you look at Jesus and you close your eyes and you remember everything that he's been to you, everything that he's done for you, even if you've just been walking with him a day, or maybe you've never walked with him a day in your life, or maybe you've walked with him 50 years, whatever the case may be, you have some sort of history that you know that Jesus or someone was looking down on you and taking care of you.
And when I tell my son, look at Jesus, my son has a history with the Lord where he's looking at him.
He understands that, yes, in the scriptures, there's one place where it tells us what the eyes of Jesus look like.
And it says, eyes of fire.
So the eyes of fire are looking back at you, which is the all-consuming love.
When he looks at you, he looks at you passionately.
It's that passion that drove him to Golgotha.
It's that passion for the joy that was set before him.
He endured the cross for you.
And that wrecks me every time when I think about the fact that, okay, he would have, it's not this blanket love.
It's not this, we'll just throw a blanket over humanity, past, present, and future, over the billions of people that have ever existed and say, I love you.
But it's, it's looking at this, at the screen like I am now, Ricky, Mondo, myself, my son, my husband, all of our spouses, all the people that we love.
And Jesus is like singular vision, like, I love you.
And if you were the only person to ever go to the cross or to ever choose me, I still would have gone to the cross.
And that is, it's closing your eyes.
Ricky, to answer your question, it's just a, and Mondo, closing your eyes and just going, Jesus, I'm looking at you.
I need you.
And you're everything that I'll ever need.
I need you now.
And not looking at, sometimes when we look at it with our mind's eye, we think, oh, well, who am I looking at?
Is he light-skinned?
Is he olive-skinned?
That has nothing to do with it.
You're looking at him through your spirit, man.
And your belly, the spirit, the spirit of God lives within you.
If you've given your life to Jesus, if you've surrendered your life to him as Lord and Savior, out of your belly, rivers of living water will spring forth.
The rivers of life from the Spirit of God will spring forth.
Some of you, maybe right now, just need to do that.
You feel that disconnection.
You feel like I've been disconnected from the Lord and I need to reconnect with Him.
Put your hand on, just put your hand right here on your stomach, on your just where your Spirit Man is, where you know your Spirit Man is.
And just say, just close your eyes and just say, Jesus, I need you and I need you now.
I want to reconnect with you.
Forgive me of my sins.
Forgive me for all the sins that I've committed that have disconnected me from you.
You know, it's not a lot of times people say, Is this sin?
I think the question that we need to ask ourselves is: is this decision that I'm making disconnecting me from my relationship with Jesus?
Or is it fortifying my relationship with Jesus?
Am I eating from the tree of life or am I eating from some other tree?
No matter what tree you've been eating from, the beauty of the blood of Jesus is that He reconnects you.
And so, even right now, Father, I pray that you would come and that you would touch every person that is crying out and that is calling out to you.
I pray, Father, that you would repair the breach, Father, where the bridge has been broken, where the Father, where sin has consumed some of your children.
Father, I ask you right now that you would thank you, Father, for restoring, repairing, and I thank you for the blood that speaks a better word than that of Abel.
And I thank you for your blood that is going into every crevice, every Lord, the caverns.
Just kind of get the sense of just the caverns of some of your hearts.
I see the Lord just with the breath, the breath of the Holy Spirit, just breathing new life into those places.
So, Lord, we just thank you.
I just thank you for every person.
I thank you, Father, that as your people cry out, God, you're near to the brokenhearted and you save those who are crushed in spirit.
And you also said, Father, that you will perfect that which concerns us.
So, Lord, for every mother, for every father that has felt distanced from you because they haven't seen the answer to their prayers, God, would you come right now and would you restore and would you repair by the power of the Holy Ghost?
We ask you right now, Lord, that you would restore the years that the locusts have eaten.
And we thank you for it right now, God, for a reconnecting, a reconnecting your heart knit together with the heart of your children.
And we just thank you for strengthening them.
I just feel like the Lord is bringing a new wind and a second wind to some of you where you felt like I can't go on any further.
I just saw the Lord just bring up like a second wind underneath that.
Those that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength, they will mount up on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
Lord, we thank you for a second wind in Jesus' name.
And I thank you, Father, for making their knees that have been feeble.
Thank you that you're making them strong.
And I thank you for fortifying their backbones.
Some of you are getting your backbone.
I just hear the Lord saying that right now: that some of you have been crushed in this last season, or at least you feel like you've been crushed.
But you know what?
The scriptures say we're pressed on every direction, but we are not crushed.
The Lord is strengthening your backbone and giving you that second win that you've been praying for.
And thank you, Father, for reconnecting your heart, their hearts back to yours.
God, that it's a simple Jesus, forgive me.
Jesus, I look at you.
You are the finish, the author, and the finisher of our faith and the object.
You are the one that our hearts burn for and lean towards.
In Jesus' mighty name, amen.
Wow.
Christine, I want to ask you this question.
Just a few minutes left in the broadcast.
Why is forgiveness so central to staying steadfast in the faith?
I look at the Lord's prayer, Ricky, and I think about the fact that the disciples didn't ask Jesus, teach us to prophesy, teach us to cast out devils, teach us to preach, teach us to heal, teach us to give wisdom.
Forgiveness and Healing Doors 00:06:50
They asked one thing, and it was, teach us to pray.
That was it.
Now, were there other accounts in the scripture or were there other accounts during the life of Jesus where they asked questions?
Absolutely.
But the Lord was very intentional about seeing to it that the disciples only asked Jesus, Jesus, teach us to pray.
And for him to, in the Lord's prayer, where he's like, forgive us our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us, who have trespassed against us.
Our forgiveness, for us forgiving other people, and I want to share something really, this might help someone today.
Because if we're going to ask for the Father to forgive us of all of the things, all of the debt that we have that we'll never be able to repay, and yet we cannot forgive the few shekels that someone owes us,
and we owe billions and billions and billions of dollars per se in sin and in our own debt, then what business do we have coming to the Lord asking him for anything?
That's one side that you could look at it.
But forgiveness demonstrates who God is.
It's who he is.
If he tells us, how many times are we supposed to forgive?
70 times seven, which is the equivalent to it never ends.
Forgiveness releases us.
And my husband and I, we've many different just traveling the country and many different times, the first thing when people would come and they'd say, I have cancer or I have a brain tumor.
Years ago, I had a brain tumor, Ricky.
And for me, I believe it was a different issue.
But I believe that one of the things that opens up the doors for the enemy and for infirmity and disease in our life is unforgiveness because we shackle ourselves.
And so we think, you know, we've heard that whole unforgiveness is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
We're the ones drinking the poison because we're not releasing ourselves.
So forgiveness releases us.
There's been so many times where we've asked, I'll never forget a woman in Sacramento, California.
We asked her what she had going on.
She had the same kind of brain tumor that I had.
And a friend of mine says to her, is there anybody that you need to forgive?
And we saw her just, you could just see the blood just beginning to boil in her eyes.
And she said, she started talking about her mom, something that her mom had done like 40 years prior.
I thought, there it is.
So we prayed for her, but we didn't pray for a brain tumor or anything first.
We prayed if she would be led because we don't want to do anything by compulsion.
If she felt like it was time to release her mother, who, by the way, was not even alive anymore.
This woman forgives her mother.
And then we're like, oh, okay, that's right.
She's here to pray for a brain tumor.
We prayed for her that the Lord would, he would heal the tumor that was in her brain.
That was on a Sunday evening.
By Wednesday, when they went to do her MRI, the tumor was gone.
And she came back to the church and the following Sunday with her scans.
And I mean, we're like, whoa, you know, I mean, we never get used to the miracles.
We're never like, oh, another miracle.
Yeah.
So great.
No, we're like, oh my gosh, this is incredible.
Like God is still healing bodies.
He's still doing miracles.
He's still opening up doors.
And there's no such thing as sometimes people think that the Lord is like playing chess with the devil.
Like, didn't see that one coming.
You move the rook somewhere.
That's not how the Lord operates.
He's like arm wrestling the devil.
No, like the Lord has the final say and the Lord is still doing what he said he will do.
And I am very passionate about forgiveness because forgiveness for me is what unlocked the freedom that I needed from drugs.
It unlocked the freedom that I needed from myself.
I'm like, save me from my own prison.
I want these prison doors open.
And the Lord's like, yeah, but you got to forgive the person that raped you.
And you've got to forgive the person that hurt you.
And you've got to forgive the people that abandoned you.
And I'm just like, I remember the first time that I even started to speak on these things.
And I'm like, it was like I had a frog in my throat, Ricky.
And I'm like, I forgive you.
And it was like the Lord, you know, just taking, ripping open the prison doors.
Like, okay, now walk right through it because I was setting my own self-free.
Now, whether or not people ask for forgiveness, that's their prerogative.
But when we say, I forgive you, it's one of the most powerful weapons that God has put in our tool belt because the weapons of warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God by the pulling down of strongholds.
It's not just fasting, praying.
Those are parts.
Those are tools that are in our belt.
But forgiveness is also part of this pulling down of strongholds that are weapons of warfare that the Lord has given us.
Amen.
Friends, I want you to go right now.
You can go to Amazon and get A Minute of Hope, 100 Intentional Prayers for Times of Challenge and Change.
Christina, I want to say thank you for being on the broadcast with us.
If somebody wants to follow you quickly, where would they go on to follow you on social media?
Just my name, Christina with no H. Christina Baker, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, ChristinaBaker.com.
Thank You For Your Support 00:00:52
For those that want to request prayer, you can do it anonymously, or you can put your name in there.
And we pray over every single prayer request that comes through, but just under my name.
Awesome.
Well, we encourage you guys to go follow her on social media.
Thank you for being on the broadcast today.
Fro, we want to say thank you for helping us continue to broadcast the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world.
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