Faith & Spirit Quote by Pat Robertson

It’s a startlingly transactional kind of piety: not a litany of names and needs, but a request for “favor” and “anointing” that will make his work land. Pat Robertson frames prayer less as intercession and more as calibration. The desired outcome isn’t primarily changed circumstances for others; it’s spiritual efficacy for himself while he “minister[s] to people.” That phrasing is revealing. The people are present, but as the field in which power is demonstrated.

The line about not having “a prayer list that I go down” does two jobs at once. It signals spontaneity and intimacy with God, a way of saying his faith isn’t clerical bureaucracy. It also quietly dodges the vulnerability of specificity. Lists force you to name the sick, the desperate, the messy particulars that don’t resolve cleanly on television. By contrast, praying for “anointing” is elastic: it can cover a sermon that hits, a broadcast that draws donations, a political intervention that feels providential, even a personal brand that keeps its sheen.

Context matters. Robertson’s ministry lived at the intersection of televangelism, politics, and charismatic Christian language, where “anointing” implies not just moral uprightness but authority - a kind of spiritual mandate. In that ecosystem, asking God for “favor” reads as a request for continued access: to influence, to platforms, to a sense of chosenness.

The intent, then, is partly devotional and partly performative. It’s a prayer built for a life conducted in public, where the measure of blessing is often indistinguishable from the ability to move a crowd.