SID: Hello. Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. I can just taste the rarified air of Heaven. Most people I know, they believe in God. They believe that God answers prayers, but they prayed so many times and it appeared as though the heavens were crass and they somehow did not get through to God, and their faith level is all the way down here, and they ask other people to pray for them. There’s something wrong with that picture. I’m so excited about guests, Brenda and Hank Kunneman, because they’ve got revelation for you. God’s gonna answer your prayer of, “God, why can’t I get through to you?” It’s going to be answered. And if you have young children, teenagers that are sick, there is a special presence of God. They’re gonna be healed. And if they’re not with you for some reason just take a piece of paper, write their name, and if they’re with you get them out immediately. Well Hank, you had this birth. You had a problem. Is God going to answer your prayers? Tell me about that.
HANK: Well it was a problem. It was such a problem, Sid, that I would fall asleep in prayer. This lasted like six months. I had what I call spiritual attention deficit disorder. I’d go to pray and everything would distract me. I felt like God was a million miles away, and I said, “Lord, have I sinned? Have I done something wrong?” So I finally decided to do the spiritual thing.
SID: What’s that?
HANK: To go on a three-day fast. And I’m talking about not just fast Snicker bars or Mars bars or something. I’m talking about I really was so hungry. I said, I’m gonna go out and I’m gonna do a water fast. But then I snuck something. I snuck a bag of snacks because the Lord hadn’t been talking to me.
BRENDA: Just in case.
HANK: Just in case for six months, yeah. The fact is I’m not going hungry. And so I went out for three days–
SID: Fasting with snacks.
HANK: Yeah. They were my back up survival kit.
BRENDA: If God doesn’t come immediately.
HANK: If God doesn’t show up. And I’m sure there’s people that feel that way, you know, like where is God? But I decided, you know, I’m gonna take three days and I’m gonna go and I’m gonna fast, and I’m gonna get a hold of this God. I’m gonna refuse to leave this God alone. And I read in the Bible where Moses didn’t leave Him alone. Jacob didn’t leave Him alone. And the names go on and on. I said, “I am gonna get a hold of God.” So again, I brought my snack survival kit. And what happened is I set everything up in my cabin and I walked out in the woods to go pray trying to get a hold of God. Now keep in mind, I’d been falling asleep. I would wake up praying for a fast food restaurant, and that’s why they’ve sold over a billion hamburgers, the one I’ve been praying for.
BRENDA: ‘Cause we interceded one.
HANK: ‘Cause I interceded and I would find the name of that restaurant. I mean, crazy stuff like that. So I was walking through the forest, the woods, and I looked and off in the distance in this field were deer. And I was so determined. And I said, “God, you know, and I tried to quote the scripture that talks about, “As the deer panteth for the water so my soul longs after you.” I was trying to get spiritual with God. So these dear were out there and I said, “Lord, if you’re even listening to me make those deer come to me.” Do you know what happened, Sid? I got to tell you. You’re not even gonna believe this. The deer ran the opposite direction. And I said, “That’s it. I must have done something wrong.”
BRENDA: You didn’t get your prayers answered.
HANK: And I said, what did I do wrong? And I was so frustrated, and I don’t encourage anyone to do this. I shook my fist to the Lord and I said, “God, that’s it.” And then I do what a lot of times we do when we’re really frustrated at God. We try to tell Him how to do His job. I said, “Well if I was you, Father, if I was God and somebody was out here trying to seek your face I would at least have answered and I would have brought those deer to him.” And I began to really be a real brat. So I decided I had enough and sat down and I fell asleep. Forty-five minutes later I heard a noise and I could not believe what I saw. I mean, very close to me, a few feet a way were the very same deer that looked like they went the opposite direction. God was listening and He brought those deer right next to me. Immediately, I went back into my prayer cabin and I started to grab the door and I walked in the door, because I was gonna repent, because I mean, I was in big trouble after what I said I knew. But the Lord is so merciful. He’s such a good Father. I mean, he knows when we’re brats. And so as soon as I opened the door a power, the power of God Himself grabbed a hold of me and threw me across the room, and I was literally overcome by the spirit of God’s presence. And He said to me, “I’ve taught you something that will never be taken from you. It’s spiritual pursuit.” See sometimes people only pray when everything’s good.
BRENDA: Right. That’s right.
HANK: Jesus prayed in three primary places: the desert, the wilderness, okay.
BRENDA: That’s right.
HANK: What was the other one. Desert, wilderness.
BRENDA: The mountaintop.
HANK: Mountaintop.
BRENDA: That’s when things are going good. The mountaintop.
HANK: I like having her here today, Sid. She helps me out. But anyway, on the mountaintop, you know, where everything is good. We don’t praying in the valley when things are low. We don’t like praying when things are hot. And so I learned something. I learned how to get a hold of God and not to give up. That’s why we have supernatural experiences. Is we’ve had to press through some pretty hard things.
BRENDA: That’s kind of how we started our ministry. I think it’s just many hours of pacing the floor when it looked like it was not gonna go right, and I think that’s the big hurdle that many people have to overcome in their pursuit of God, is you’re not always gonna feel like it. It’s not always gonna seem like anything is happening. It’s not always gonna feel like the prayers are working. But that is where you learn to press into God anyway, because when you do that’s when you break through. And of course, I think of the woman of the issue of blood. She had to break through the crowd and press to where Jesus was. And when she did that she got her answer. And I think that’s something in the early years of our ministry. Sid, we are walking in supernatural things today. And I really want the audience to hear this part. We are walking in supernatural things today that we pace the floor and prayed out to God.
SID: Give me an example.
BRENDA: Well 20 years ago–
HANK: That list that we had. We had a list. You need to talk about this.
BRENDA: We had this list. We said, “God, we need you to do X amount of things in the ministry.” We were praying for big things. They’re not so big now, but they were huge then. And we just called out to God, put this list on our fridge, had scriptures, prayed them out, slapped that fridge everyday. Every time we got, we figure put it on the fridge. Every time we got to get something to eat you got to remember what you pray before the Lord. And we eventually moved out of that house. And several moves later the list got put in a box. And you know, you always have those boxes that don’t get unpacked at the next house. So probably, I think it was last summer. Was it last summer?
HANK: About two summers ago because we got into a big argument, because it was all my stuff that she wanted to go through.
BRENDA: We were cleaning out boxes and I said we got to get through this stuff.
HANK: We were on vacation. You’re not supposed to do work when you’re on vacation.
BRENDA: We took some time off and we cleaned out these boxes. And I pulled out this piece of paper and, Sid, I’ll bet you can’t guess what that was. It was the list.
SID: Of course. How many had gotten an answer?
BRENDA: As God as my witness, that, every single thing on that list was answered and then some. And you know what? It was bigger than we even put on the list. And I realized at that time that we don’t even believe God for enough. We don’t even ask Him for big enough.
SID: And here’s the deal. Brenda and Hank are not God’s favorites. The Messiah is God’s favorite and the Messiah is in them. And guess what? Brain storm. The Messiah is in you or you’d better say a prayer real quick. Be right back after this word.