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America Reads the Bible - Founder & Art Depicting All 66 Books of the Bible
May 1, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min
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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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Welcome to WPN and America Reads the Bible Overview 0:21 Well, we welcome you to the World Prayer Network call. Thank you for being with us. My name is Jim Garlow.0:25 And I'm Rosemary Garlow.0:27 And I wanna remind you of our purpose. It's very simple. We pray for holiness, for righteousness, for biblical justice as opposed to social justice, and truth to prevail throughout the land and the nations of the0:39 earth. If you're part of the media, part of the press, we ask you to step off the call. Nothing ever shared here is to be shared in the media. Last, we're way beyond the issue of partisanship. We're way beyond the issue0:47 of Republican versus Democrat or even right versus left. Where we are squarely planted is right versus wrong, good versus evil, light versus darkness, biblical truth as opposed to anti scriptural constructs,0:59 the things of God as opposed to things of the evil 1. That being said, the official beginning of the World Prayer Network call is always the sounding of the shofar, all the way from Israel, Robert Winger, From Beit1:10 Hoagla Israel, our official shofar sounder. Robert?1:29 Thank you so much, Robert. We're gonna get right to our guest. We have 2 guests tonight. This is a profoundly exciting program. There's something going on in our nation right now. It's in Washington, DC, and the nation1:39 is watching it all the way from the White House throughout congress, the media. You see it on the news a great deal. It's America Reads the Bible. It was the, dream of 1 lady named1:51 Bunny Pounds who put all this together and had a dream, and she's pulling it off with God's help for almost 500 people to read the Bible out loud in Washington, DC at2:02 Museum of the Bible for 84 hours, that's 9 AM to 9 PM, every day, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday for 7 days. That's2:14 1189 chapters. That's 31102 verses. But who is counting? I'll tell you who is, Bunny Pounds. She's been working on this for the2:26 longest time. After her, we're gonna come to Mindy Oaten, and you're gonna hear something, see something you have never seen before in a walk through the entire Bible, all 66 books. But first, we're gonna go right to2:37 Bunny. Wait a minute. Before we do that, Rosemary, tell your responses. As you were there, you read on Sunday night. You read Numbers Shepper 13. No. 14. You read Numbers 14. I read Numbers2:49 13. And then we sat in the audience, and we listened. And then we've been watching ever since we got back home and watching it on all day today, we've been watching it.2:58 TVs on the phones, on the iPads.3:00 Nehemiah, Job, Psalms, and we're in Proverbs. Let's see. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes. Right now in Ecclesiastes. We're watching it. Rosemary, tell tell what you're experiencing by this, then we're gonna go right to3:12 Bunny.3:13 Well, first of all, it's such a glory and honor to give to God. And this is the 70 eighth rebirth day of his nation. I can't think of a better gift3:25 to give to the Lord, to exalt him in the sight of all nations through the reading of his own word. I know his heart is touched. I can feel it. We keep wanting to cry as3:36 we're listening again and again because it's so anointed and powerful. God is God is in the midst of a huge spiritual transaction bringing the kingdom of God upon the earth3:48 through this portal at the Museum of the Bible over our nation's capital. And, it is something you must you must listen and experience. You don't wanna miss not4:00 being a part of this historic spiritual event taking place. This is not anything that can be replicated, but it's always done4:12 by a leader before a great revival. When God gets ready to restore a nation, to pour out his glory so that it covers the earth as the waters cover the sea, he4:24 has a leader come up and recite the word of God over the nation to remind them of their connection to him and his eternal government.4:35 At 9 AM Eastern time this morning, they started the reading, and this is day let's see. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday went for day 4, and they started Ezra 7. And by the time you get to verse4:47 6, what does it say, Rosemary?4:49 It says that Ezra was well versed in the scriptures, in the ways of God, and he was the 1 chosen to help reestablish the worship and the government for5:01 Jerusalem, for Israel, after the after the destruction of the first temple, after 70 years of Babylonian captivity. God prepared the temple5:13 again, again for the coming of Messiah. And just as we're preparing for his coming soon, this is a important aspect and element for the5:25 return of Messiah to the earth.5:28 Ezra 7 6 in the NIV translation said he became well versed. Boy, somebody ought to come up write a book on that topic or maybe have a ministry by that name. That'd be a good idea. Okay. Now let's go right to BunnyBunny Pounds: Supernatural Impact in DC 5:40 Pounds. Bunny, we are so proud of you. I'm amazed what you pulled off. Bunny, just talk to us from your heart. You're in day 4. You're just finishing day 4. You've got 3 more days to go. A lot5:51 more hours, a lot more reading to do. Talk to us.5:56 Yeah. Well, we're experiencing an open heaven in what I've called the darkest place on the planet for years, having worked for members of congress for 16 years. This is a very dark city, a place6:07 of pride, a place of envy, a place of riches, a place of power. I'm telling you, I've never felt the Holy Spirit in the presence of God in this city like I'm feeling it right now. There is something powerful6:19 about proclaiming the spoken word of the Lord over our country and the humility that is coming from 122 ministries that are partnering with us, 6 cabinet members.6:31 We just had our cabinet secretary, secretary of the interior, Doug Burgum, read scripture, read Psalms, 1 17 and 1 18 from the podium. I got to pray for him before he went to the6:43 stage. Danny Gokey is here right now singing over our nation, for free. Like, none of no 1 we didn't pay anybody honorariums. We didn't pay their travel. They're coming here to do6:55 this on their own accord, because God has spoken to them to to give an offering, before our nation. So it is a powerful thing, guys, and we just hit the halfway point when when Doug Burgum7:07 was doing, Psalms 1 18. That's the the halfway point of the Bible. So I just yeah. I encourage you, take advantage of this moment. Use it in your family room, in your community7:19 center, in your church. Tell everybody you know what's happening because, yeah, I think by this this morning, we had over 3100 media hits across the7:31 world already on this. I couldn't imagine that. I mean, even, you know, people that don't share our values are talking about it. Hey. There's no bad press, right, when the word of God is is going7:42 out. So and I'm just so honored that Mindy is here with her paintings and Time to Revive are partnering with us, doing evangelism on the street. We're, like, working on a way to have7:54 a baptism here on Saturday. Like, what's happening? It's it's historic. And most of y'all saw probably. If you didn't, the president of the8:06 United States, read second Chronicles chapter 7 verses 11 through 22 of our nation yesterday. Never in American history as a United States president8:18 I mean, from George Washington on, read scripture uninterrupted for more than 1 verse in a in a message. It was historic. And the best part of the night for me, for all of you8:30 prayer and worship people out there, is my beautiful friend, Jason Hershey, who has literally led worship and prayer on the National Mall for a decade. You know, had missionaries, had prayer8:42 people, had worshipers on the National Mall leading David's tent here at YWAM base. Members of congress that I know that are friends of mine come by that tent, run by the tent, sit in the presence of8:54 God, get refreshed. So many people in the city that work in government and politics and, business come by that tent. Jason Hershey got to read about the glory descending upon the Temple of9:05 Solomon and read all the way up to President Trump reading. That made my whole year worth it. Why? Because it was so equalizing. The word is so9:17 equalizing. It's like Jason, then president Trump, then doctor Carson, and Candy Carson, and then Heidi Saint John in Washington state. Just reading9:29 scripture. It's the most powerful thing. Even though I dreamed about it, seeing it seeing it is 1 of the most powerful things I can ever imagine. So go back, check the archives,9:41 but join in right now on Great American Pure Flix. Join in on this live stream and share it with everybody you know because we're never gonna have this moment again. I'm telling you, this is this9:53 is something special.9:55 I was talking to 1 of your team members, and at 1 point, I think it was yesterday, had 300000 unique individuals on in the course of the day listening, and your numbers may be way above that now. But this this is this10:07 is a moment. It's exceeded my expectation. I I was watching when Jason Hersey read yesterday, and like you say, he's led worship for 10 years 24 7 in10:18 in in David's tent, and he's been through a lot. He's had to move that tent so many times. He's gone through winter and bitter and bitter cold, snow heats, sleet and hail, and and10:30 he went under everything. And and yet and when he read that, it was it was very moving. It was just very powerful. His his emotions were in it. And then when the president read, I I didn't realize what you have10:42 just said. Historically, no president has ever ever read more than 1 verse at 1 time publicly in a public setting before. This is this is quite stunning. No. Rosemary knows I'm a newsaholic. I watch10:54 the news all the time. I've had the news off, and I've had this on, the whole time. This is what we're we're listening to. And have the speaker of the house, such a a godly man as as he11:06 read. And then Rosemary just said something I never thought of. She said, this is the preparation for the great revival. And I just think about May seventeenth, we won't we'll talk about this in a later broadcast, but11:16 May seventeenth, Sunday at 1 PM eastern time, launches rededicate 2 50. President Trump has called for us to rededicate the nation to God. So you you, Bunny, through what God11:28 has shown you, you are laying the foundation for that incredible moment. The word is going forth. I don't know about sound waves, but I don't think they ever stop. So that word is going out,11:40 and here they are in the preparation. Bunny, how did how did you first when did you first have the idea to do this? How did God stir this in you?11:50 Well, I was at the Museum of the Bible here 2 years ago. We love to raise up young people. We have 50 or 60 young people here starting our Gen Z Summit right now. I just got done speaking to them. But I was with12:02 all these young people, and I was in the end of the Old Testament section of the Museum of the Bible where Ezra stands up with the scroll and reads Genesis 1, and he says, Let there be light. And this light goes around12:13 the room in the exhibit, and I just started weeping. I just finished a draft of my new book that comes out May 19 called Stepping Up to Rebuilding a Nation in the Footsteps of Nehemiah. I've been a12:24 Nehemiah junkie for years as a former congressional staffer and working in government, and I've always wanted to emulate his leadership and mobilize people and galvanize people and have a, you12:36 know, be a revivalist and be someone that prays and worships and has favor on their life, all the things that Nehemiah said. But it hits me as I'm watching Ezra, and I just written 2 chapters on Ezra, that12:48 it took Ezra reminding the people of Israel who they were. They had forgotten their national identity. They had forgotten the promises and miracles of God, and I'm just weeping going, we need an Ezra moment13:00 in our nation. The American church has forgotten who we are. We're living in complacency and apathy. Why? Why? Because we're addicted to our iPhones. We're addicted to to, Netflix.13:12 We're addicted to everything that keeps us from seeing the greatest fascination of his face and his voice. And so, yeah, I had this random idea. I thought, wouldn't it be awesome if our national13:24 leaders from all spheres of influence would humble themselves in front of the American people and say, we have to have the Bible. We're poor in spirit. We need the Bible every day to make it. And, what if we call the13:35 American people back to daily Bible reading and discipleship for the 200 and fiftieth birthday of the country? And, yeah, we started on this 14 months ago by faith. 1000000 dollar budget turned into a13:46 1700000 dollar budget and then another million dollars being put in by Great American Pure Flix for production and distribution. We never could have seen the response on this, but I've been praying for the last 213:58 months. God do exceedingly abundantly unto him who's able to do exceedingly abundantly more than we can ever ask or think. He's doing exceedingly abundantly more than we14:10 can ever ask or think. And it's the power of his word, just his word alone, and it it just reminded me, doctor Garlow, of of of acts 2. My husband's gonna read acts 2. It's14:22 been our family motto for years. We used to have pastor house churches for 10 years, that we would go back to the simplicity of worship, prayer, and the word of God. And, I mean, what we're seeing14:34 in this this auditorium, in this theater, is the word, just meditation on the word, worship alone, and we're having an ongoing prayer meeting in the green room as I pray for every single reader.14:46 And it's messing me up, absolutely messing me up because this is all we need, guys. Like, we are so complicated. We don't need all this complication. This is all we need, and I14:58 think the next generation's gonna catch it.15:00 Walked back in the green room, and here I thought money would all be she'd be stressed with all that's going on because there's, like, there's 500 people she's trying to organize and keep on time. That's pretty15:11 challenging. There she was on her knees, and they were praying. Every time I walked back through there, there was another prayer meeting going on. It was it was really powerful. We're gonna be hearing about the art in a15:21 moment. There's some unbelievable art, folks. You gotta stay tuned for what you're about to hear. What we're about to show you, you have never seen before. I didn't quite like this. But also, speaking of the art area,15:33 we walked around the corner from the green room to go into the auditorium, and there was a stunning statue. I don't know if it was maybe 8 foot tall, maybe 9 feet15:45 tall, and maybe it's longer more than that, of Ezra holding the scrolls. Here here is Ezra chapter 7. The Torah scrolls. Yeah. The Torah scrolls. And and and I was15:56 told that was delivered I may have this wrong button, you should correct me, from the White House. Do I have my details right on that? Tell me the story of that unbelievable statue that16:08 was so relevant, and it had just been delivered, I was told, and it was mass I suppose it may have been 10 feet tall. It was just massive.16:16 Yeah. I'll I'll never forget this as long as I live, and what a testimony to my young sons. They're 29 and 27 and saw Ezra be delivered to this museum. Yeah, I got a call from a friend in the16:28 White House about 3 months ago that they had found an artist and they wanted to commission some art statues of biblical figures for the rededication on May 17. They didn't even16:40 have a date for it yet. And he says, Hey, we're gonna commission Jesus and Paul and Peter and Moses, but I think we're gonna add Ezra because of America Reads the Bible, because16:52 this is an Ezra moment. And he asked me to pick out all the scriptures for all the statues. So it literally gave me 15 minutes to to come up with scriptures for all these statues. So I did it real fast17:04 and, you know, went to Bible Gateway. I'm like, who? What? Just praying in this praying, God, help me figure out what scriptures need to go on these statues. And, so, yeah, I I thought they were gonna17:16 be at the National Mall for the rededication, and then, all of a sudden, I get, my sons come back in the green room as we were doing Genesis and said, mom, you're never gonna believe this. Ezra is here at the17:27 Museum of the Bible. And they had done a rush on Ezra to bring him here for America Reads the Bible. So, yeah, I'm I'm up I was absolutely stunned, but17:39 it's such a prophetic picture. And you know what's happening right now, guys? Ezra's in the great cloud of witnesses cheering us on. You know? He's cheering us on. He's going, go America.17:51 You know? Proclaim the word of God over the nations. I mean, this is impacting the nations. And Ezra and Nehemiah are right now just like going, thank God18:04 for crazy people joining together in the spirit of John 17 that would lay down their differences. And, you know, another thing last thing I'll say is I grew up Seventh day Adventist and I18:16 grew up a pastor's kid, 5 generation Adventist. And just to see my Adventist brothers and sisters, 2 of our Adventist pastors, our conference18:27 director from Indiana and the national chief of staff of the Adventist Church, read in a program with Catholics and Protestants and people from other denominations. This is unprecedented, what we're18:39 seeing. I'm reading John 17 that we would be 1 as he and the father are 1. I don't have any words for it. It's it's supernatural, and it's something that we've all been18:51 praying for. Any of us have been praying. We've been praying for this for literally decades. And, yeah, not since Ronald Reagan has the president of the United States since 19 82 as the president even19:03 president even cited second chronicles 7 14. So yeah. I mean, it's it's deep, guys. It's deep, and we've got 3 or 4 more cabinet members to read. And, governor19:15 Jim Phelan from Nebraska is flying in to read live. Dan Patrick, our lieutenant governor from Texas is coming in to he's flying in to read. Everyone's feeling the weight of this19:27 and, yeah. Use it to however you can to share the gospel and to share the importance of scripture. And I'm just absolutely honored to have my sister Mindy here with her art.19:38 Mindy, just like we've been praying, God's wrecking people with his art and his presence. And it's just so deep. So I will let you show everybody's Mindy's amazing art and19:50 support her because this needs to go, like, around the country.19:56 Bonnie, you've been on the World Prayer Network before, so you're not a stranger here to us at all. We have such high regard for you. I didn't realize that we were together in Washington, DC a couple days ago that you20:07 were a student at Christ for the Nations. I think at the same time, I served on the board of Christ for the Nations. We are so proud of what you have accomplished. I I hate to end on a light note, but if20:19 I can, I think the story needs to be told? Benny for everybody to know, Bunny is a go getter. You've already picked that up, a go getter. We're talking about a 1700000 dollar budget plus another million in20:31 production. This is staggering. Everybody has the courage to do that. Very few can pull this off. And, and and I I gotta tell you how I got brought into it. In fact, I think, Bunny,20:42 you need to tell me how I got brought into it.20:48 Well, doctor Garlow kept telling me no, that he wasn't gonna come to DC, through his staff, and I was like, no. I'm not taking no for an answer. His ministry is well20:59 versed. Right? It's all about public reading of scripture. I'm like, and doctor Garlow, many of y'all don't know, but, I mean, he just means a lot to me, not only in teaching biblical worldview and heritage.21:11 He pastored a church here in Dallas Fort Worth called Metroplex Chapel years ago and, had a ministry there called Footloose, and they did Christian concerts. And I pretty much got discipled there for 2 years at Christian21:23 concerts when I was 16, 17, and 18. So Wow. I'm like, you're not gonna entertainment center. Yeah. I'm not gonna say, you know, doctor Garlow cannot get off the hook here. So we're at a conference21:35 with some other ministry leaders that we all know, and I'm doing a panel on this and talking about it. And I said, a lot of people in this room are reading the bible, and I'm about to close ministry21:46 partners down because I can't go over 100 or so. We went to 122. But I just called you out, and I said, doctor Glarlo, why aren't you reading the bible? You need to be reading the bible.21:58 You you didn't make it a question. You didn't make it a question. You made an exclamation mark. So you did not sign up. You shamed me in front of her. She says, you are signing up and you're going to read the bible,22:08 period.22:09 I think that's like Frida Lindsey.22:10 How she used to Yeah. Yeah. Frida Lindsey used to do that.22:13 I got compared to Frida Lindsey today by all the CFNI people that were here too. Yeah.22:19 I gotta tell you, I'm so thankful you did recruit me because we would have missed out on an unbelievable spiritual blessing.22:26 Oh my god.22:27 And I would have been so disappointed had I not gone there. I gotta tell you, there's an anointing of God that's on you that's really profound for this to come together. And God has uniquely chosen you.22:39 It's going to be very intriguing to see how God uses, because what's what's Genesis say? God said. God said. God said. God said. God said. It was first oral. So and and the the22:51 prophets all say, the word of the Lord came unto me saying Yeah. It was oral. It was all oral initially. It came into the ears of those who wrote it down. So it went from oral23:03 to now written. Now as we read the Bible, we're taking it from written back to oral. It's being pronounced as it was once pronounced before it went into to being23:15 written form. Now it's being moved back into the sound waves again. And then people, tens of thou hundreds of thousands are listening,23:26 and it's being deposited in their spirits. Then they're getting their lips connected to their spirits, and they're speaking the word of God, and it's going back oral again. So oral to written, back23:38 to oral into the spirit, back to the tongue, back and it's speaking being spoken to the situations of life. And that is what is happening right now that's significant on the entire23:51 earth. Money, pounds, I'm gonna pray for you. Lord, give her strength. If there's any more funds to be raised, we call the dollars to come in in the name of Jesus. Dollars come forth in Jesus' name.24:03 And may everyone who's yet to read for these next, what, 3 days, so, lord, we pray upon them strength that everyone's able to read, no technical problems at all, that everything24:15 continues digitally to work, and then give Bunny supernatural strength. And her whole team and all those that are involved, the leaders of worship, every 1 of the readers, may and may a supernatural24:27 anointing continue on every 1 of them until, father, you have fulfilled the full and complete reading of your word on the earth, and it's going forth in sound waves,24:39 unstoppable, this very moment. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen.24:45 And those of you listening, if you're watching on time, we're only halfway through, so we're not talking about something that's taken place in the past. You haven't missed it. You have several24:57 more days to go to pray dot com and sign up for free and get on with your phone, your iPad, your computer, and just listen and It's Pure25:09 Flix.25:10 Pure Flix. Yeah. It's on pure25:12 america reads the bible dot com. Yeah. Just go to America Reads the Bible dot com. America Reads the Bible dot com. Yeah. And just know, guys, you can't be a prophetic voice if you don't have his words in you. That was25:24 the last thing I felt like I was supposed to say. So that's what God's doing right now as he's realigning us back to his word. I really appreciate you guys. Rosemary and Jim, I love you guys so much. Thank you for,25:36 believing in this and, really is an honor and appreciate you guys so much for your prayers.25:42 We admire you, respect you, and honor you this day. Thank you, Bunny Pounce, for being on with us. We'll let you back to the, you'll be closing off, and you got, what, 30 minutes left, tonight. So Yep. Blessings on you.25:54 Yep. Okay. Thank you so much, Bunny.25:56 Okay. Bye bye.25:57 Folks, you're about to see something that is absolutely stunning. I was told while I was there that, the fifth floor is where we were in the Museum of the Bible. Beautiful building. Museum of the Bible is 1 of the most26:09 spectacular thing. And on the fifth floor is the World Stage Theater. If you go up 1 floor is the the gathering room. That's where we host the National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance each26:20 February. So I was told that there was an art display there depicting the books of the Bible. So I had something pictured in my mind. I walked up and I went,26:32 Wow. This is stunning. And I'm not a guy who's into art as much as many people are. I appreciate those who are. I just oftentimes don't understand it. I seem dull, and I say, Now, what does that mean? I don't understand26:43 that. I walked around and I said, This is this is holy. This is righteous. This is this is spiritual experience. The way they had arranged it, the person you're about to meet is a cousin to a man named Kyle26:54 Martin, a ministry called Time to Revive, out of the, Dallas area, I believe it is. And he and his team, a huge team, working with their cousin, Mindy Oaten, who you're about to27:06 meet, set this all up in a stunning way. And so right now, we're gonna meet that artist. Her name is Mindy Oaten. She's a Canadian by birth,27:18 but lives in the states now, in the state of Oklahoma. Mindy, I cannot tell you how how impressed I am with what I I saw. I just couldn't believe it. So we're going to do something27:29 that, I guess, Mindy, you said you've never actually done before. We're gonna do a walk through 66 books of the Bible. We'll obviously have to move at a very fast pace. And for you just to take a moment I know you27:41 could probably take an hour on each piece, rightfully so, but we'll have to take about 30, 45 seconds on each piece and to move through them as quickly as we can because I want people to see this because most of the27:53 people listening are not going to make it to Museum of the Bible, unfortunately. I want them to see your work. So, what what do you wanna say, Mindy, before we start this walk? Thank you for being with us on the World28:04 Prayer Network. Talk to us, Mindy, about how this came together, and let's start in Genesis in just a moment.28:10 Okay. Well, thank you so much for having me on. This is an honor. I'm I'm usually behind a needle, so I'm not so much a speaker, but, I'm getting used to it now.Show more In this video 0:00 Welcome to WPN and America Reads the Bible Overview5:38 Bunny Pounds: Supernatural Impact in DC28:14 Mindy Oaten's Art: Visualizing All 66 Bible Books
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