- It's time for your questions

and some honest answers.- All right, let's go for it.

- [Terry] Pat, this firstone comes from Jacob,

who says Pat, what isthe biggest challenge

you've faced in the ministry?

- Well, it's hard todesignate one challenge.

We have challenges all the time.

But I think the first one,of course, is starting.

I had $70.

And the Lord had sent me tobuy a television station.

I didn't even own a television set.

I didn't know anything about television.

What's the biggest challenge,

was to buy that stationand put it on the air.

That was the first challenge

and it's been challenges ever since.

I mean, it's like, I'vehad a life under pressure

year after year after year after year.

The bigger you get, thebigger the challenges are.

So that was the biggest one.

It was just getting going.

I mean, just coming alive.

- Okay, this is Beth, who says:

One of my biggest fears is death

and not knowing where I'm going.

I try to live my life as a good Christian,

but how do we know if we'vedisappointed God in some way?

Can I rest in the fact thatonce saved we are always saved,

or is that not true?

- I don't think that'swhat you ought to rest in.

You ought to rest in the fact

that you're walking with the Lord.

If we walk in the light,as he is in the light,

we have fellowship one with the other

and the blood of Jesus Christ

continuously cleanses us from sin.

So there's a walk.

You keep on walking with the Lord

and you keep on beingcleansed by the blood

and you keep on being saved

and the Holy Spiritcontinues to bear witness

with your spirit thatyou're children of God.

And that's what it is.

It's a life being lived inthe presence and alongside

and the Lord in you, you in the Lord.

That's what salvation is,

is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

So that's what you need to.

And if you have the presence,

the Holy Spirit will bearwitness that you're a child,

with your spirit thatyou're a child of God.

So rest in that.

Don't always be worrying aboutare you saved or not saved.

I mean do what the Bible says.

Give your heart to the Lord

and let him take care of the rest.

- And this is Connie, who says:

Commercials are showing more and more

homosexual couples on them.

I'm tired of seeing women kissing,

a man sitting in hislover's lap, et cetera.

Is there nothing we can do?

We should not have to change the channel

because of a 30 or 60 second commercial.

- Well, I'm sorry

that's the way it is.

But the truth is if a lot ofpeople change the channel,

then the people who areputting that stuff on

won't be able to sell products.

It all depends on audience.

Television is based on audience.

Audience is what brings on commercials.

Advertisers buy time onthe basis of ratings.

And the ratings dependon how many people watch.

I mean it's just that simple.

And I've programmed TV stations

and I know about all that stuff.

But you say what can you do,

it grieves me to see thisblatant assault on our values

that goes on under theguise of entertainment.

It's just there all the time.

And what can you do about it?

Well I think the best thingyou could do is not watch.

Other than that, you know,we can't live our lives

constantly protesting.

What is it Father Keller said?

It's better to light a candlethan to curse the darkness.

Let's be a light where weare and watch what happens.

- This is Devin, who says:

I believe in God, but I don'tbelieve He loves everyone

like you said he does.

I don't think he loves me.

I've been dealt onebad hand after another.

I've been such a loser all my life.

I want to live the restof my life a winner.

What can I do to changethe course of my life?

- Well, the Bible saysa man shall eat good

through the fruit of his lips.

And that means you begin tospeak a positive confession.

What you just finished telling me

was a constant litany of failure.

You're a loser, your lifehas been nothing but bad,

and so forth and so on.

Why don't you start saying today,

this is the day the Lord hath made

and I will rejoice and be glad in it.

God loves me and I'm his child.

I've given myself to Jesusand I am one with Christ

and he is my savior andhe's cleansed me from sin.

Why don't you just begin to confess stuff.

How do you change your life?

With your mouth.

Speak it.

- Mm-hmm.

This is Barbara, who says:

God answered our prayers.

We now own a home, but it's a fixer-upper

and it needs major work.

Is it wrong of me to pray for help

in fixing up our homethat was built in 1989?

I long to have a full bathroom downstairs.

We are good people,have six grown children,

five of them serve or haveserved in our military.

Is it okay for me to pray andas God for financial help?

- What does Jesus sayin the Lord's Prayer?

Give us this day our daily bread.

Well, your daily bread isgetting that bathroom fixed.

There's nothing wrong with asking God

to help you do a fixer-upper.

I mean, of course he'll give you help.

But the thing you can do,

if you get everythingready, get the plans ready,

get people lined up, getyour carpenters lined up,

get the material lined up,get everything ready to go,

and what you need isGod to do the impossible

and give you the money to make it happen.

But if we do everythingwe can and get it ready

and, you know, he saidyou pray and you believe

that you've already received it

and you will have the thing that you say.

- Barbara, this from a man

who knows what it means to do that.

Follow his instruction.- Right.

- This is a viewer, Pat, who says:

Several times in the gospels,

Jesus performs a miracleand tells the person

or the group to, quote, tell no one.

Yet, they always did.

If Jesus knew they'dnot respect his request,

why did he bother tellingthem to tell no one?

- Well look, I'm not Jesus

and I can't tell you what was in his mind

at any given point of time.

He didn't want people coming after him

to get food, to getmiracles, to get things.

He wanted them to love himbecause he was the son of God

and he was going to die for their sins

and he was gonna go to heaven

and if they accepted him assavior, they would be saved.

That's what he wanted.

And he was, it seemedlike they wanted a king.

They wanted somebody as their leader.

They wanted an earthlypresence as a leader.

They wanted a commander of the army.

They wanted somebody to takecharge of their government.

That wasn't what his role was

and so he didn't wanta whole lot of people

running around saying Jesus for king.

You know?

He wanted to be Jesus as savior.

That's what he wanted.

So of course they didcontrary to what he said,

but they didn't always do that.

But that's what was onhis heart, all right?