Sid: My guest is red hot for the Messiah, maybe the thermometer is going off the charts. Her name is Joan Hunter; I’m catching up with her in Dallas, Texas; her office is in Kingwood, Texas. Many of you may not be familiar with Joan, but all of you are familiar with her parents, and they’re known as the “Happy Hunters.” Joan I go back many years with your parents. They were probably the first people I ever saw minister that prayed for people and had what is called “Slain in the Spirit,” I think that is awful terminology, but we’re people that are overcome by the Spirit of God and fall over backwards. I remember going to a meeting with them, Joan, and they said “We can show everyone else how to do it too.” So they laid hands on people and then I got up there and I prayed for people and they fell over in the spirit. Then I have to tell 2 weeks later I tried it and they didn’t fall over in the Spirit. What happened?
Joan: Well sometimes when you… the anointing of God is just in a meeting for getting slain the Spirit, and sometimes it’s a part of your ministry, and sometimes it’s not. Now for me, I remember many many times through the years mom and dad would just go, you know wave their hand and then whoosh 50 or 500 would all get slain in the Spirit at one time. They would each hold one hand on each end of the aisle and the whole aisle would get slain in the Spirit. It was an awesome move of God to see that happen. I don’t know if you ever saw that happen, but they had… my dad would by people and they would just get slain in the Spirit. What’s interesting is that doesn’t really happen with me; people do get slain the Spirit, but it’s very very rare. I don’t necessarily push for it, so to speak, or encourage it because when I pray for the people, the people get healed. I want them to test it and to show themselves actually and test their healing, show themselves, show the congregation that they are healed. If they get slain in the Spirit then I go onto somebody else, and if I forget to go back and ask, and you know, they get going and nobody knows that they got healed, but it’s an incredible uplifting situation when you pray for people one right after the other, after the other, after the other, and they’re all healed.
Sid: That’s much more important to me rather than falling over. It seems to me we have a group of Christians that have been trained, and God forgive me if I’m stepping on toes in the wrong way but I don’t think I am, are trained to fall in the Spirit because you’re expected to, and all they do is fall and nothing really is happening to them.
Joan: We have a little cliché for that it’s called a CD, and that’s a courtesy drop. In comparison to somebody really really getting slain in the Spirit, as in comparison to expected to fall then they in turn… they are expected to fall so they do. Whereas, when the power of God overcomes you… many times when a person is really hurt in their heart and I have prayed for their heart to be healed, the majority of those people do get slain in the Spirit. Then we were talking earlier about, you know, if Charles or Francis can do it you can do it too. That’s how I feel because the scripture says “Those who believe are going to lay hands on the sick” it doesn’t say… in my Bible it says “Joan” because she believes she is going to lay hands on the sick and see them recover because my Bible was written for me, but it pertains to every single person who believes that they’re gonna lay hands on the sick and see them recover.
Sid: Joan, you were raised with healing is normal not the exception. Out of curiosity, I mean you spent ministry healing with your parents for over 30 years. You’ve probably seen more miracles than any Christian on earth just because you travelled with your parents. What type of… were you up front with them, or behind the scenes?
Joan: I was behind the scenes, but I was right there. Basically, I was the one that held up their arms and did a lot of the behind the scenes things so that they could actually be in the front and do the ministering. They wouldn’t have to worry about… you know they could rest between the services and things like that. Yet I was there on the platform with them literally around the world. Have seen at times when 50 people got out of wheelchairs, and the people that were in the wheelchairs were now raising their wheelchairs over their heads in praise to God to what God had done. Canes, you know, and blind eyes open, deaf ears open, and I mean by the thousands not just the hundreds, just thousands.
Sid: Now just out of curiosity, I’m sure because your parents teach it’s not just me, it’s whosever which is part of their calling. You prayed for people they got healed. Why didn’t you just run off in your own ministry? Why did you stay with them for over 30 years?
Joan: I think a lot of has to do with timing and different situations in our life. In preparation for that, I was… most of you who know my parent’s, mom is extremely strong willed and a very strong woman. My brother is bull-headed and strong and he’s about 8 years older than I am, and very very strong willed. So I was the quiet one for peace in the home. I was raised to be the quiet one, “Don’t say anything” I was encouraged by my teachers and my brother that what I had to say was worth nothing. So I just didn’t say anything. I would just do the work of the ministry and by going through different situations in my life it got me from behind the curtain up onto the platform, and it has taken many years of preparation to do that. Because like for example, if I went out 10 years ago I would not be as strong, definitely not as strong as I am now to be able to be out in the forefront, and to be in the front, to be the governess of a ministry and take it forth, and take it around the world.
Sid: How strong are you when someone walks up and they say “My doctor says I’m prone for a heart attack, I’ve had one before.” How strong are you when someone walks up like that to believe they’re going to be healed?
Joan: Well the hardest one is “I’ve had everybody pray for me. Oral Roberts, Charles and Francis,” you know, they go down a list which is a lot harder to pray for those people than it is if they had gotten a bad report from the doctor.
Sid: Hey it’s harder to pray for Christian than a non-Christian is my spin.
Joan: I agree with you on that in many areas. What happens is when people come and they want to be healed; for example like “I was told several years ago that I would not survive breast cancer.” I repented for any words that I had said that did not edify, exhort, or confirm, then I in turn cut-off the power of the word…
Sid: Woe wait a second. I have to stop you because you just said a mouthful. You had to repent for what?
Joan: The words that were not good.
Sid: How can someone do that because to be candid with you, we’re all trying to be better in that area, but it would take forever to repent of all the words someone has said, that were not edifying. So how does someone practically do this?
Joan: Well the word “all” is inclusive of everything and absolutely nothing. So I believe you can repent for all the words that you have said at one time. Then sometimes…
Sid: Hey such a deal I like that!
Joan: It is it’s great. Because see when I was diagnosed with breast cancer and I would not survive, my CPA said I would not survive financially. I might as well plan on filing bankruptcy, this, that and the other. About 5 years ago, because I repented for the words I had said through the years, then I in turn had the power to cut those words off that were spoken over me.
Sid: Now had you not repented for what you’ve done, then had the words eliminated, they’re called curses, word curses…
Joan: Right.
Sid: Over you, had you not and you had developed this breast cancer that the doctors gave you no hope for. Do you think you would have been healed?
Joan: I probably would have had a mastectomy.
Sid: Okay, so you repented for everything you did wrong. Now what did you do about the word curses that other people have spoken over you? You didn’t do wrong, they did wrong.
Joan: Right. At that point, for example, the doctor is saying “You’re not going to live.” Well because I repented of my words, I in turn was able to cut the power of those words off over me.
Sid: Now did you cut the power of by an intentional prayer, or just because of your own repentance it did it?
Joan: I believe that either one would work. It is better to verbalize “In the name of Jesus I cut the power of those words spoken over me. I will live and not die and declare the works of the Lord.” So for example that man you were talking about, that’s exactly what happened last night here in the house that I’m at. The guy I had him repent for words that were spoken over him that he had just gotten a doctor’s report. He’s supposed to have an angiogram this week, found out yesterday he had a heart problem didn’t know it been in perfect health. The doctor says “You’re gonna have a heart attack by the end of the week.” So we cut the power of those words off last night in the name of Jesus. All the high blood pressure left, the pain left, and it was incredible.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth