2015 Volume Two

Pastor Bakke is no passive wall
fl ower of a Christian. Robert
Bakke takes God command to be
the “light on the hill that cannot
be hidden” very seriously. He
feels that God has given him a
job in life to convey to others that
“all things are possible” through
Christ. His grandfather, who
came over to this country from
Norway at age 18 in search of a
better life, made an everlasting
impact on Robert’s life with
his bravery and courage, and
Mr. Bakke is fully caring on the
legacy of courage in his own
existence. In the questions
Mr. Bakke answered below, he
goes into detail about some of
the main points of his book and
shares the message of hope
that with prayer, all things are
possible.
Prayer at Full Throttle, How
Performance-Based Prayers
Make Miracles Happen is your
second book. Can you tell
us what the writing process
has been like for you? How
were the first and second
experiences different?
The process used in writing
the two books was completely
different. The call to begin the fi rst
book came while I was reading
the New Testament in college. I
was shown visions for the many
journeys I was to complete, and
was to be taking notes along the
way…notes about what I was
learning. Those notes were to
be the foundation of the book. So
essentially, I was compiling notes
for many years in the process
of writing the fi rst book. The
book is an inspirational comedy
entitled, “BIG Wallet, NO Pants!”
The book is still available today
through Amazon in paperback
and e-book and has (truly!) one
of the cutest covers of all time.
The second book, “Prayer at Full
Throttle” was never planned. In
fact, I had no intention of ever
writing another book! But then
one night the presence of the
Lord came upon me and said,
literally, “You’re going to write a
book on prayer.” I had no idea
where I would come up with
enough information to write a
book on the subject! So, I told
the Lord that if He’d have to
provide the content. Unlike the
fi rst book, there were no journeys
involved. No notes. No research.
I just sat down and begin
writing the thoughts that were
coming into my head. Twentyfi
ve months later the book was
completed and instantly became
a bestseller on Amazon. As of
this moment the book is in its
twenty-fi fth straight week as
a bestseller and has already
gone around the world. Nothing
I would have written on my own
could have done something like
this. Make no mistake…”Prayer
at Full Throttle” is God’s book,
not mine.
In your book, you stress
the importance of reading
the Bible for yourself. What
specifically about reading the
Bible on your own changed
you? Before you read the Bible
for yourself, how were your
beliefs about God different
from what they are today?
Before reading the Bible for
myself, my perceptions about
God and Christianity were
shaped by my closed-Bible
Sunday morning religion. I was
taught to believe I was a sinner;
that I was to be passive, and
that “living without” was the way
God wanted us to live. Since
we never opened the Bible in
church, how would we know
anything different? Keeping the
Bible closed never made any
sense to me, but nobody ever
challenged it. As for me, I was
just the scrawny little kid who
was picked last in gym class
almost every day. There was no
way I was going to challenge
it either. Trust me, confi dence
was not my strong suit. But
that all changed while I was
reading the New Testament in
college. While reading I found
myself repeatedly saying, “Why
don’t they teach you this stuff
in church?”The content was
powerful. It was inspirational. It
was making me stronger by the
day, and then visions for my life
began appearing. It was then
I realized there was a calling
being placed on my life. As
crazy as it seemed at the time, I
believed the Lord was asking me
to complete a list of journeys…
the visions I was being shown, to
prove to the world that “all things
are possible.” My life today is a
refl ection of that effort. Had I not
have read the Bible for myself, I
cringe at the thought of what my
life might have looked like.
You call Christians to action.
You stress that, as the Bible
says, “Faith without works is
dead.” Ephesians 2:8-9 says,
“For it is grace you have been
saved, through faith-and this
not from yourselves, it is the
gift of God-not by works, so
that no one can boast.” Can
you clarify the line between
these 2 very important
messages?
There is an “entitlement” styled
false teaching spreading through
the Christian community today
about “grace.” Certain ministries