Our Guest Joan Hunter
Sid: We want everyone everywhere to be walking in such holiness that they’ll be a contrast between you and the world. Right now most people can’t tell the difference between a good Christian and a good non-Christian but there is a difference. God’s about ready to release His Glory where you know you see the pictures of the saints with the halos over their head? Well, that was the best way the artist could describe the Glory of God that was radiating from them. And when your walk in this realm in which God is ready to get you to walk into and He can trust you with finances, you are going to be the head and not the tail. And God has principles; he has patterns for you to be blessed. And many Christians, good Christians have thrown out the baby with the dirty bath water because they’ve seen the abuse in raising money that you see all the time on radio, Christian radio and Christian television. And they’ve seen that it’s a greed motivation, but God wants you to walk in His spiritual principals and He wants to bless you as much as His heart was to bless Abraham. Now Joan Hunter, where the rubber meets the road is not what you preach, it’s what you live. Tell me how these principles have released open heavens in the financial arena over your family.
Joan: The word of God says, number one “We are to lay hands on the sick and they are going to recover.” It doesn’t mean to exclude your family or yourself. The financial blessings as I talk about are not to exclude me and my family. I practice what I preach in every area of my life, as I teach and as I minister, I do majority of it and my books and the majority of it are based on personnel experiences, which I think are the best. Now in regards to my family I could spend the next eighty hours just telling you just some of the things that God has done in my family, specifically financially. Many years ago when my daughter was pregnant with her first child and the baby was getting ready to come in a few months and they looked at the price of disposable diapers and you know cloth diapers. And they weighed out the finances and she is phenomenal in the area of finances and she said, “Well, in order for us to have disposable diapers, you know the Daddy “Ted” is going to have to go and get a second job in order to do that and we’d rather have the cloth diapers so that he can spend more time with his son.” And the natural mind “Grandma, it is better for the baby to be in disposable, I could help with $25 a week maybe or something like that and trying to be as the mother and the grandmother to help in the natural.” And then I went and priced them and I’m like man that’s enough for a day or two, and I’m like no wonder he has to, they are so expensive, it’s crazy. And so I said, “Why don’t we just pray and ask God to bless you with some diapers,” you know and you bless God out of the scenario, which is good to plan it financially, but you got to let God in there too. So it’s like, Oh Mom you know, like God’s going to bless us with diapers, you know. And so anyway, they live in Nashville, I flew home to Houston; the next day I got a phone call saying, “Does your daughter need diapers?” And I’m like, “Yes.” And well, “I live in Nashville and I have these boxes and cases of diapers, can I take them to her?” I’m like, “Yes,” didn’t need to pray about that one, because we had already prayed. The next day the lady comes and she puts three of four massive cases of diapers on the front porch, rings the doorbell and my daughter Charity goes to the door and opens the door and is trying to see who it is behind all these boxes. And the lady says, “Here’s some diapers can you help me get the other cases out of my van?” So she brought all these cases in and then continued giving more, we had another source that gave us some more and I have three grand children from that daughter and another daughter that has one and their still using some of the diapers that were given over almost seven years ago.
Sid: You know God is a very generous God!
Joan: Abundantly above all we could ever ask, hope or dream of even to the point of diapers.
Sid: How about, I think this is pretty amazing, how about the need for college? How’d you handle that with all these daughters?
Joan: So many times in the process of what I went through about twelve years ago and having to be divorced because of Bible reasons and a variety of things like that and you know and standing praying and believing and He’s the one that made all the money and we had three girls out of the four in college at the time. And I’m like God “How am I going to do this, I can’t even do food much less pay their college. Two of them were in a community college; the government just started sending money, sending monthly checks so they wouldn’t even have to work, that they could just go to school. Paid for all of their school, all of their car expense, all of their gasoline, their everything, all of their expenses while they were in college. I had another daughter who was a senior at Oral Robert University who is now a doctor, who was up there and she got a scholastic scholarship, she got a grant from the government, she had already been turned down from the government and everything. And she just I mean out of $17,500 for her senior year, this was years ago, out of $17,500 she had to pay $1,400 for her senior year. I couldn’t have even gotten food for six months for her for that amount of money.
Sid: You know, if it works for you, if it works for your family, if it works in third world countries then if it’s not working that means that you have to figure out where you are missing it. And there are many hidden hindrances and roadblocks to receiving finances. Give me an example of some.
Joan: There are so often times that people are wanting to get from God, not just receive, but get from God. But the word of God says in Luke 6:38 “If we give, as we give we will receive” and as we give there’s conditions for God’s promises. It doesn’t say “God’s going to give, and give and give. It says, “As we give, as we do our part we are going to receive.” Now, that means, obviously finances because that’s what we are talking about. But as you give love, you are going to get love pressed down, shaken together, running over. As you sow in hate and judgment, you are going to reap in hate and judgment. And God wants to take, He wants to bless us, but He doesn’t want to bless our greed, He wants to bless us so that we in turn can bless other people. And there’s many times through the scripture that it talks about that we need to give. Once again, Deuteronomy 8:18, “He’s given you the power to get wealth.” People are praying, “God bless me, God bless me, God bless me; Father, I thank You that You are going to meet my needs,” but they are not willing to give. And then it’s like “Father, I thank You somehow or another You are going to bless me.” Oh, man, in conversation, “I am so tired, I am just working morning and night and they have given me twenty hours of overtime, I’m so exhausted.” You know “Father I thank you that you are going to supernaturally bless me financially.” And it’s like “Hello,” God is, you know He’s given you twenty hours of time and half or double time and so often the answer to our financial needs shows up with overalls, that we’ve got to work for those finances.
Sid: I think that people are in a fantasy when it comes to these principals and by the way, when someone follows the principals that you outline in your new book “Supernatural Provision, Financial Freedom” it works in every area of their life.
Joan: Every area, every country.
Sid: It’s not just money, it’s their marriages, it’s their health, it’s everything is; I mean God is interesting in the whole person.
Joan: Right, totally and this, you who are listening to the program is well like, “They just want money.” Well, you know what, we both, Sid Roth and Joan Hunter want you to be blessed. This is not about how we can get more money, this is about how you can be supernaturally blessed, supernatural provision, I mean how exciting would it be to write a tithe check for a million dollars? You are going to have so much left over you can send a million to It’s Supernatural and God wants to bless you in every area of your life. And I sign all of my emails; I’m blessed to be a blessing.
Sid: Tell me about cars, your family has an anointing for cars!
Joan: It sure does, and it is awesome what God is doing in the area of cars. I had my daughter again; Charity who was expecting number two and she now has three. And when number two was coming, she said, “We got to get a bigger car because my car can’t handle two car seats and the seatbelts broken” and she like, “I don’t know how I’m going to be able to afford it you know I just started a new business, and dadadada and I don’t know how I’m going to do it.” And she said, “I’ve got six thousand dollars saved up, but that’s not enough to buy like and SUV type car.” And you know I said, “Why don’t you, and I said I really appreciate how good you are with finances, how you have this whole thing planned out,” and I said, “You are phenomenal at what you do, but you king of left God out of this.” And I said, “Why don’t we pray and ask God to bless you a car?” Once again, “Oh Mom,” they don’t say that any more, they just say, “Go Mom and thank You Jesus! And so I had a prophetic word for her and God says, “That God is going to bless her with a car which will be part natural, part supernatural.” And so she says, “Okay, we are just going to see how it pans out.” And so the next time I came to see her she was still pregnant, she had a picture of the car on her refrigerator; and underneath it the car that she is going to bless us with. I thought, “Yes, they do listen, they do listen.” And so, about a month later she was still pregnant, a friend of mine had two vehicles, and she was going to get rid of them. And one of them was, the one that she was going to get rid of is the sister vehicle to what was on the fridge; same color, same interior, every…
Sid: Joan we are out of time, but we will pick up right here on tomorrow’s broadcast.