Pat Robertson
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"I think George Bush is going to win in a walk," Robertson said on his 700 Club program on the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network, which he founded. "I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004. It's shaping up that way. And, "It doesn't make any difference what he does, good or bad. God picks him up because he's a man of prayer and God's blessing him."
"Hello, this Pat Robertson of CBN and the 700 Club. It's a great pleasure to be on this program and to congratulate my friend Benny Hinn. He is doing a fabulous job in America and around the world. God had given him a unusual gift and unusual annointing...So, I do hope that you will be able to support his ministry in this special Telethon on the LeSea Network. Benny, keep it up! May the power of the Lord bless you and many through you."
(Pat Robertson on the Benny Hinn Telethon, LeSea Network, April 16, 2004)
"We speak to money, and it comes. We speak to storms, and they cease. We speak to crops and they flourish."
(Pat Robertson, PFO Quarterly Journal, July-September 2002, Vol. 22, No. 3, pg 22)
"Praying "in the name of Jesus," Robertson said he believes that God will put up "a wall of protection."
He added that he and those praying with him "command this storm to go out into the sea and to pass land harmlessly."
"Robertson, who heads the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network, made the remark while interviewing author Joel Mowbray on "The 700 Club" television program last week. Mowbray wrote a book called "Dangerous Diplomacy: How the State Department Endangers America's Security."
"I read your book. When you get through, you say, 'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer.' I mean, you get through this, and you say, 'We've got to blow that thing up,"' Robertson said during the interview.
The State Department's headquarters are located in Foggy Bottom, a Washington neighborhood.
Richard Boucher, the agency's top spokesman, called the remark Thursday "despicable."
"Well, it looks like Congress had better do something, and maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up," Robertson said.
The Christian evangelist regularly condemns the State Department as a rogue element he says consistently undermines U.S. policies and the principles of freedom.
"It's like an entrenched bureaucracy that has their own agenda, and it doesn't comport with the will of the American people. How do we get rid of them?" he said during the June interview."
"If you want to release the superabundance of the kingdom of heaven, we first give...I am as certain of this as of anything in my life. If you are in financial trouble, the smartest thing you can do is to start giving money away ...Your return, poured into your lap, will be great, pressed down and running over.”
Pat Robertson frequently proclaimed this principle in his books, TV programs, and audio cassettes promising that God would perform a financial miracles for whoever supported God’s work by sending money to CBN. Many givers attended Robertson’s TV show as guests and shared stories how they offered money to CBN and God’s reward afterward."
(Hadden, Jeffrey D. and Shupe, Anson. Televangelism. Power And Politics on God’s Frontier. New York, New York. Henry Holt And Company. 1988. 131. Notes from Georgetown College, "As A Televangelist And Business")
"Yes. These are not just Christian and Jewish principles, any more than the law of gravity is Christian and Jewish. The laws of God work for anybody who will follow them. The principles of the Kingdom apply to all of creation. And what the law of faith is all about is "If you believe you can have something--you'll get it!" If you believe that you are going to get well--you'll get well. If you believe that you are going to get money--you'll get money. If you believe that you are going to get married--you'll get married, because you are enacting a law and it is an immutable, inviolable law that works for anybody, anytime. It's impersonal, it's fixed."
Question: I'm 40 years old and have had a sex change. I've been watching your program and wonder if God forgave me, should I live as I am now or go back to my birth gender? Goodness. I'm glad you’re answering this one.
Pat Robertson: "There are people who are born with various types of hormonal activity in their bodies and they feel more male than female or more female than male. I know a plastic surgeon here in this area who indeed does that sort of thing, and to accommodate what's going on in people's lives.
MEEUWSEN: "Which is often a very legitimate hormonal thing happening."
Pat Robertson: "Exactly. So it is not a sin, and so you don't need to feel guilty..."
Question: Some Christians give the impression that God has given us creative power with our words. Can we really speak something into existence?
Pat Robertson: "...Your confession is extremely important, and, indeed, your words do have creative power, if they are energized by the Holy Spirit....God's thoughts will be transmitted by the Holy Spirit to our spirits, and if we speak them forth, things will begin to take shape and change...In my experience, the way I've seen healings take place has been to speak the word, to see creative miracles, to command storms to cease...When you exercise the authority of Jesus' name, and command evil spirits to be gone, they must obey. Taking authority over demons is a scripturally sound activity. It is not some hocus-pocus, mind over matter or some weird magic...Similarly, agreeing with God's Word, and speaking to our circumstances is not a "name it and claim it" game of "let's see what we can get from God." We are not talking about magic, formulas, tricks, or games; we are talking about the power of God having real results in our everyday lives according to clearly annunciated biblical teachings."
Question: When you pray for one particular person on your show, does it just come to you from God, or do these people write to you telling you of their needs?
Pat Robertson: "People write and tell us of their need. We have thousands and thousands of telephone calls asking for prayer, and there are times when we get some of those. But when the Lord begins to move with the word of knowledge, it is the Lord speaking. Of course, it could describe one person, but it could also describe a hundred persons. Pick up your Bible and read 1 Corinthians 12 and see about the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. This is one of them."
Question: A Christian brother told me that in 2 Peter 2:24, where it says, "with His wounds we are healed," is not for physical healing, but for spiritual healing. He believes all miracles stopped when the last apostle died. Can this be true? Why would God stop doing miracles?
Pat Robertson: "It is not what the Bible says. It says in the Bible that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is not limited to some timeframe. We see tens of thousands of miracles here on this program, hundreds of thousands of answers to prayer. George Gallop told me some years ago that he had recorded, according to his surveys, at least seven million people in America had experienced healing through prayer. Of course God continues to do things. If you read Isaiah, 'by his stripes we are healed,' but He says He has borne on Himself our sicknesses and our diseases .It is specific to sicknesses and diseases [when the Bible says] 'by his stripes we were healed.' We are freed from our sin by the blood of Jesus on the Cross, by His death and Resurrection. But the wounds on His back and the stripes that were there are for the sicknesses and diseases. Look at Isaiah 52 and 53. See what you think."
Note: If this is true why are Pat Robertson's eyes sick? Why does he wear glasses?
Question: A friend's husband was diagnosed with Leukemia. I had a word from the Lord that he was going to be healed. I shared this with my friend, but then her husband died. Did I not hear from the Lord after all? How do you know the voice of God?
Pat Robertson: "...What I got back in response is that sometimes the symptoms will outweigh what the word says. And people get into a belief pattern where they start to believe the symptoms more than they believe the word. I believe that healing is for everybody. Jesus paid the price and by His stripes we were healed [Since Pat believes every christian should be healed, if you are not it has to be your fault! How tragic! Imagine the guilt of a sick christian if they are not healed]. But sometimes the enemy comes in like a flood, and regardless of the amount of the word you get, you believe the symptoms more than you believe the word. And in that situation, even Jesus had problems getting people healed. In the gospel, there is an amazing verse where Jesus says He could do no mighty miracles in their midst because of their unbelief."
Question: How do you get divine healing? I've been praying for healing for my mom, who suffers from congestive heart failure and bad lungs.
Pat Robertson: "I remember Kathryn Kulhman saying that every time she thought she had God figured out, He changed the way He did things...How do you get it? You have to empty yourself and ask Him. Sometimes it is spontaneous. I believe it was in Toronto that a fellow was walking along the street. There were TV sets in a window of an appliance store and he stood outside. There was a word of knowledge that came during a telethon. He received it and was healed. He didn't know the Lord, but all of a sudden -- bingo! -- God describes him and God heals him. Don't ask me why the Lord does what He does when He does it. Normally speaking, when we pray and we seek His face and we ask Him, He will do something. He says, 'When you stand praying, if you have ought against any, forgive that your Heavenly Father might forgive you' [Mark 11:25]. It is very important that we do forgive others, because it depends on entering into the supernatural with the Lord [Since Pat believes every christian should be healed, if you are not it has to be your fault! How tragic! Imagine the guilt of a sick christian if they are not healed.]...It isn't like a magic trick where you ask, 'Could you give a word of knowledge for me?' The biggest thing is that the word is in the Bible. It is in Isaiah 53 and all throughout the New Testament and in all of the Gospels about the healing power of God."
Question: I have been looking for single women in nightclubs because there are so few in my church. Do you have advice on how I can meet Christian women?
Pat Robertson: "Go to another church...Go to another church, if that's what your need is, where you will find Christian women."
"That is a tremendous question. I remember Kathryn Kuhlman said, "One day I am going to ask God, 'Why do some people get healed, and some don't?" Kathryn couldn't fully answer that question; nor could I without having the same wisdom, anointing, and discernment that Jesus had."
"If you truly want to live your best life now, Joel's [Osteen] book is for you. Take it from one of this generation's most inspiring leaders, enlarge your vision and start believing in what you can become today!"
(Pat Robertson, Letter from Joel Osteen's ministry, 2004)
