Martin asked Paula White: "Does it offend you when a lot forget that there was a pre-Paula White pastor of a large church who went through a whole lot?"

"Well, I know, for myself, I never forget," she replied.

"In fact, I believe true empowerment is reaching your hand out with the principles that have transformed you, and not just telling a person what they can have do. But, as you have learned how to lead a life of empowerment, how to take the word of God, and use it to transform your life, you reach your hand out and give that person the same principles that changed you. And that, for me, has been the transformation. I know what it is to live in that double wide trailer, to turn the corner, not know what utility is going to be turned off. And it's fundamental that you never forget your history tells a lot about your destiny.

"I do believe I can reach people effectively because of the journey that I have taken in life. I understand that pain. But I also understand what it is to be able to take those principles and see them applied and work in your life effectively. And I believe that the truest sense of prosperity, when you ultimately begin to prosper, talking in financial terms, is when you begin to affect another person's destiny."

Martin asked if Jesus was walking the Earth today, what would be his focus?

Bishop Jakes responded: "That's a very difficult question, probably the most difficult question that you asked me today. He said: 'The spirit of the lord God is upon me to preach the Gospel.'

"And I think the priority is to preach the gospel. But then he goes on to talk about to bind up the wounds of the brokenhearted. You know, many times, people will label you for a lot of things. And prosperity was really never my deal. My ministry was ministering to hurting people, and particularly (hurting women).

"'Woman, Thou Art Loosed!" really was the catalyst of my national ministry," said Jakes, adding: "And I climbed on the stage not to talk to people about being rich, but about being healed from abuse and from trauma and that sort of thing. Those were some of the things that Jesus did, but to preach good news to the poor, the acceptable year of the lord. I think he would be ashamed of the bickering that goes on amongst religious people today, how we build careers out of tearing one another down.

"And I think that he would be ashamed of the way that we live today, with so many things that we have to work with, not using the communication tools more effectively to communicate a good message and a positive message, like we're doing today."

Paula White concurred with Bishop Jakes: "I agree with Bishop's mission statement, Jesus was there to preach the Gospel.

"And I would also say that he declared that he came to save and to seek that which was lost. And it literally means to rescue that which was out of position. Sometimes, life will miss-position us. We get lost. We are not on the right pathway.

"And I believe, whatever that wrong pathway is, that God, through his son, Jesus Christ, would come put us back on it, to experience that wholeness, that freedom, that abundant life, just as I have been so transformed and experienced, in fact, am a product of sitting under that Gospel preached by Bishop Jakes, 'Woman, Thou Art Loosed!' that so transformed my life from brokenness, (a) father who committed suicide, sexual and physical abuse, to really being able to stand in front of a mirror and say, I'm OK from the inside out.

"God has designed a life for me. And, at my core being, I'm valuable, I'm worthy, and I was not defined by the externals that happened to me, nor the experiences that took place in my life."