Robert Bakke:
Life With God at Full Throttle
By Jessica Price
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God’s plan. After Bakke’s first
obert Bakke’s passion book, he thought that he was
for life translates through the never going to write another.
pages of his book Prayer at He felt he had checked that box
Full Throttle much the same off. God had other plans. After
way that it does when he took he experienced the miracle
the time to speak with me over that saved his friend Riley’s life
the phone. It becomes clear on the race track, God made it
almost immediately during our clear to Robert that he wanted
conversation that Pastor Bakke him to write a book about
is “all in” in life. Pastor Bakke prayer. Pastor Bakke describes
made time during his ever-in- his writing experience as a
motion life to speak with me huge lesson in “obedience and
at length about his past, his sacrifice.” He humbly credits
present, and his desire to fulfill God with providing him with all
the motivation to complete his
now best selling book. At the
time of our conversation, Prayer
at Full Throttle was in its 26th
consecutive week of being the
best selling book in its category
for kindle sales on amazon.
That is an almost unheard of
accomplishment for a selfpublished work.
With his black belt in karate,
his career as a jet captain, his
NASCAR accomplishments, and
his work as an ordained minister,