Unstoppable Faith: Joan Hunter's God Story

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Hey friends, you know I love a good story, especially when it's a God story that

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equips, encourages, and inspires us in our walk with the Lord. I'm your host, Jodie Chiricosta,

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ministry leader at Somebody Cares America International, author and traveler on this

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journey of faith. Welcome, I am so glad you tuned in. Hey, have you heard about our Her

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And it's very simple. Listen to the same episode, download our prepared episode questions from

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reach out to friends who don't know Christ yet. Include them in the conversation and see what

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God will do. Gather some friends and try it out. When you do, email us at prayer at somebodycares.org

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to let us know so we can be praying for you. You know, Acts 1.1 says that the Book of Acts is the

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story of what Jesus began to do and to teach. The miracles and healings described in Acts are only

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the beginning of what Jesus did and continues to do through the Holy Spirit in his disciples.

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If you've confessed with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and you believe in your heart that God

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raised him from the dead, you are one of his disciples. And while God gives us different

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gifts to each member of his body, praying for and seeing healing, deliverance, and miracles is

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something we can all participate in. My guest, Joan Hunter, knows this very well. Joan Hunter is a

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compassionate minister, dynamic teacher, an accomplished author, and an anointed healing

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evangelist. She has devoted her life to carry the message of hope, deliverance, and healing to the

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nations. In fact, she just returned from ministering Agana. And as founder and president of Hearts for

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Him and Joan Hunter Ministries, her vision is to equip believers to take the healing power of God

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beyond the four walls of church to the four corners of the earth. Joan's genuine approach and candid

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delivery enables her to connect intimately with people from all walks of life. In a moment, you'll

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see why some people describe her as a caribonette with the anointing of Jesus. Joan ministers the

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gospel with manifestations of supernatural signs and wonders in healing school sessions,

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miracle services, conferences, and churches around the world. Being sensitive to the Holy

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Spirit, Joan speaks prophetically in these services, releasing personal and corporate prophetic

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ministry to those in attendance. And I am so honored to have her join me on this podcast

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to share her God story. Welcome Joan. Well, I'm so excited to get to see you again and be with you

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and talk to you. And we've kind of known each other off and on for about 20 years before you were

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married. So that was really awesome. And it's so awesome to see what God has done in your life. And

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I've loved Doug Stringer for many, many years. And it's just a privilege to be on the program with

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you. Well, Joan, you have a worldwide healing ministry, but most people don't know your personal

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journey of faith. Some may know that your parents were Charles and Francis Hunter, the happy hunter

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worldwide healing evangelist. And I imagine you probably traveled with them quite a bit. But

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what was life like for little Joan? But when did the gospel become real to you? Well, little Joan

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was raised by a drinking, smoking, cussing mother, aka Francis. That was an interesting experience.

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So it wasn't like born into a Christian home. And so at that point, when I was 12, my mom,

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making a long story short, met Jesus. And all of a sudden she quit smoking, drinking, cussing.

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I mean, like almost instantly. And I'm like, I like this mom that I have now. And the house didn't

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smell like smoke or any of that kind of stuff. So she changed so radically. I'm like, I want in on

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this. I want to have that radical change. So I gave my life to Jesus at 12. And never smoked, never

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drank, never cuss, nothing like that. And the closest I've come to cussing is it's a damn breaking

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service. And, you know, it's like D. A. M. You know, I almost got shut down because I said that word

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in the service, which is kind of either no, we know, I might know, damn, you know, like Uber damn.

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So that was kind of funny. But before I was born, my father abandoned me. My mother and father got

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married. She was like, Oh, just enamored by him. And then they got together the first night on their

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wedding. And by morning he had tried to kill her. And she ran for her life, having no idea, even with

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the contraception, that she was pregnant with me. So I'm an unwanted pregnancy. And so she's, like I

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said, she ran for her life. I met him when I was 16. Very glad that he didn't raise me. And that's

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just an understatement. My cousins are good friends. So I found out even more reasons why I'm really

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glad he didn't raise me. Like I said, I gave my life to Jesus, got married when I was 20, and went

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to a Roberts University and got married when I was 20. First of all, then my mom, when I was 16,

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came to Texas and to speak. And she had had a couple of phone conversations with my dad,

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who kept inviting her to come stay at his house. She didn't hear he would get a hotel.

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So she called him that dirty old man. So then they finally actually met and she's like, oh,

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this is that dirty old man. So she puts her hand out to shake his hand politely. And they were like

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stuck. And like five minutes later, all of a sudden she's like, whoa, shaking her hand and

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like whatever. And 88 days later they were married. So this is Charles that she married.

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Charles and Francis now. Yeah. A lot of people think that mom and dad technically raised me then

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nine months later he adopted me. And immediately when I got to Texas, I went and to the courthouse

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changed my name to Hunter. Like he didn't want anybody to know me but by Joan Hunter. So,

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which I'm still known, I still honor him in carrying that name. I moved into the house with a

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stranger and my mom traveled and was gone a month at a time. So it was a very strong of a transition.

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And there's a lot more to the story there. That's kind of funny. But God literally put them together.

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And then a couple years later, I went to our Robert's University and then I met my now ex-husband,

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met him, married. We had four kids, variety of things like that. And I was kind of like wondering,

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you know, I wonder what he's, I'm really sensing in my spirit that he's doing something he shouldn't

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be doing, you know, and then, but I don't want it to be gift of suspicion. I wanted to have,

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to have the facts. Okay. Is something going on here? And yes, he was, he was having affairs

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with other men and standing praying and believing realistically for years. All right, you know,

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I quit, you know, and I'm like, okay, whatever. I believed him. And so toward the end of the marriage,

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I said, God, I, if he's still doing this, I want you to rebuild to me that he is,

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which he did, you know, and it hurt just at least. So standing praying, believing finally got released,

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got the divorce, two days later diagnosed with breast cancer. I personally believe I deal with

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healing is what opens the door for sickness. Trauma, family related relates to the breast.

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Okay. Family is more like breast. So people that get breast cancer, everyone has had a family,

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whether they're kids, their spouse, their mom, dad, et cetera. And so that's what opened the door

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for that. So I, they gave me about two years to live. Now that was in the year 2000, 23 years ago.

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I said, God, I can live without a breast, but I can't live with a broken heart.

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As long as you're a short one after God to heal my heart, trauma, stress,

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and forgiveness, betrayal, abandonment, and obviously the list goes on. And I would just, you know,

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pray in the shower. So I didn't want my girls to see me sobbing. And so I'd be in the shower

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and daily just getting better. I would go to counselors that I'm sure they can help me,

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Spirit, Phil Christian counselors. So I go in, they said, seven, eight years, you might feel a

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little better. You're never ever going to get over this. And I'm like, okay, so I would go to a

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different one. Maybe they might have a different outcome. Said the exact same thing. I went to a

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third one, seven, eight years, maybe a little better, but you're never ever, I'm so over it. I've got

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both CDs, everything, healing a broken heart. I got my broken heart healed. I medically diagnosed

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broken heart syndrome, medically. I went for my exam in February of this year. And they said,

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you have a beautiful, perfect heart. I said, I know, thank you, Jesus. So then in dealing with all

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that in my heart, then from there, I went and few months later, I called my mom and dad, I said,

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let's pray. That's all I did about the cancer. It was my heart I was going for. So I go back in a

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few months later to see what they recommended. So I go in there and they, they're looking on the left

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side, which is where it was. Then they went to the right side, then they came back to the left side,

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and the cancer was gone. They said, what did you do with the cancer? I said, I sent it home to hell.

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Thank you, Jesus. And told me super naturally healed. I got to keep my breast and I got a healed heart.

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So we're good. Amen. Amen. I did. I can talk fast. Yeah. So Joan, I mean, gosh, you went over a huge

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span of your life right then, but I know, well, let's go back a little bit. You had some labels

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when you were younger on you. God removed those labels for you as well. And I think a lot of

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people, they have these labels put on when they're young and they never get over it because they

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believe in those labels. Share what happened with you and how you got rid of those labels.

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I believe, I believe the labels. I believe the lie. It can be brought on by a parent.

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Like don't start anything because you never finish it. Okay. So that's a curse. It's a curse

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supposed to be over them. So they're 50 years old and they can't realize how come they can't finish

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anything. You know, and then I was told I was dumb, stupid, and retarded, never amount to anything,

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never be able to hold a job, never be able to read or write. And I haven't had any books come out

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this year, but last year I had my number 27 come out. Wow. And I, one publisher has asked me for

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five more books this year, but five more books in a period of a year, maybe, but not in a year,

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not in a few months, which I think is really awesome. And people are literally getting touched

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all over the world. They're getting touched all over the world. Yeah. Through my books.

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When I was growing up, I saw some healings when I was young and I know the power of

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seeing and experiencing healing when you're a child. And you had kind of front and center to

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seeing a lot of healings. How did that really impact your faith and your life and your future?

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Yeah. I personally thought it was just really amazing. Somebody said, well, when did you get

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the call? I'm like, I said the prayer and then according to Mark, it says I can do all that.

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I can lay hands on sick. I can leave people to Jesus. I can cast out demons. I can eat any

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deadly food that includes GMOs and, you know, and just to do, you know, that's just what's normal.

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A lot of people are taught or think that only the pastor or only the evangelist or only,

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you know, so and so can do it. Right. But the Bible says believers, if you're a believer, you're

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qualified and people go, it has to be you. I'm like, no, it's Jesus who healed through me and he

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can heal through you too. And this is something that is just very fun teaching this around the

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world. Like, like you said, I just got back from Africa literally a week ago and a week ago from

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the recording of this. And I'm like, I've already been to Colorado for sick services. I thank God

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for supernatural energy, especially at 70 years old. And, but it was like, how could God, you know,

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God's not going to use a poor African and to see these people that are in these massive crusades,

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you know, 60, 70,000 people there. I teach, I pray, I do an example, then they pray for each other

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and they're all getting healed. Yeah. And they're like blown away that God's using them

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uneducated, you know, never seen a toilet. Hallelujah. Yeah. You appreciate those the

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more you go overseas, you know, it's just absolutely amazing to show them that they can

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operate in the power that they already have. They don't know it's there. So in addition to being a

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worldwide evangelist and minister, you're also a mom. I am a mom. I have four amazing daughters

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all in their 40s. I'm still having trouble with that one. You know, when you and your first husband

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split up, I mean, they were having to deal with everything as well as you. I mean, what, what

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could you share? Maybe other parents who are trying to help their kids go through a painful

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situation. What are some things that, that you can equip them with that you used and saw work for

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your kids? I have two children out of the four that are going to church and involved in church.

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And I have two that one will talk about God, but not participate in church. Because I mean,

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they're all, they were all burned in church. Sure. You know, because of him. And then the other one,

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when I go to their house, I am mom or grandma. I'm not Joan Hunter, the, you know, the evangelist.

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And so I, you know, once in a while, I may tell them a miracle or, you know, like something

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happened years ago. I'm like, thank you, Jesus. That's awesome. I'm free to do that. But they

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don't need a preacher. They need a mom. Girls need their father's love and approval. I mean,

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it's, it's almost in a negative supernatural. How important that is. So if I don't, I'm,

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I'm assuming there's going to be some men listening here. Love your daughters. Love them

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unconditioning. Be affectionate with them. Hug them, et cetera. Let them know that you love them.

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And the girls really never felt that kind of love from their dad. And they were trying really hard

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to, I mean, really all of them trying to get their dad's approval, like big time, you know,

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and it was, it was really tough. And he just didn't have it to give basically. And so I know what I'm

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going to do to get my dad's approval. I'm going to become a lesbian. So one of them went to the

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lesbian lifestyle and, you know, she goes, I know you don't approve of what I'm doing, mom.

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And I'm like, I never, I close lips on that. And, you know, I know you don't approve of what I'm

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doing. Yeah. And that's telling me she knows it's wrong. You know, she's now set free, delivered,

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has a family of her own and very, very happy. But that was held for me during that time. And I

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learned, and I, you know, of course I have books on all this stuff, I put 27. It's like, how do you

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fix your children? And if you preach to them, they're going to rebel. Everything you tell them to do,

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they're going to turn from that. God just rebuilds me. He's like, Father, I'm going to just use a

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generic name Susan. I can't fix Susan. God, you know, I've done everything I know to do to fix her,

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but I can't. So I layer on your altar. I release her to you, show me what I need to do as a mom,

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send people to her, to minister to her and, and help get her free. So now she's free. So praise

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God. I'll tell you a perfect example of that. I was in Arizona, same girl. I was in Arizona,

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and she had a doctor's appointment. We were there early. We just happened to be early for the doctor

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appointment. Let's get a bite to eat. So we got to, what's this place to get a sandwich? So I'm sitting

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there, we're the two of us are in this, in this restaurant, and there's a younger man, probably

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35, 40, and he had three or four older men who got an air worth nothing at two tables down.

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And he was doing a Bible study for them. So he is reading the scriptures so loud, you know, and it's

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all on healing. And I mean, it was, it was really good what he was saying. And she's like, do you

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hear, you know, I'm trying to get the word into her, but I can't give her the word for me, but God

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can give her the word. And so anyway, so she's like, do you know, you hear what he's saying?

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What's he saying? He's just telling the scriptures on healing. You know, I mean, it was, it was so

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loud, so loud. Okay, it's like two o'clock in the afternoon with nobody there. And, and I said, oh,

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that's, that's cool. You know, I mean, if it comes by hearing, hearing the word, whether you believe

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it or not, she's hearing all these, these scriptures. And so she goes, Hey, my mom's a healing

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evangelist. I'm like, wow, that was came out of nowhere. You know, but it was so funny because

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she's on the altar and people start quoting scripture to her and helping her. And, you know,

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it's pretty cool. Amen. Well, you've seen some amazing miracles in your finances as well, because,

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I mean, gosh, right after a divorce, divorce is one of the things that they say puts women in

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poverty. But God came along and did some amazing things, not only for you personally, but in

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starting ministries. I mean, you've seen some share some of those financial stories. Okay,

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well, at the time of the divorce, he was making about eight to $10,000 a month on a secular job,

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including we were pasting, co-pasturing in church. Okay, so he, we got divorced because of sin.

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Church closed down right before that. No alimony here in the state of Texas, no matter if you were

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married 25 years and the youngest was 17 and a half. So child support for six months. So that

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was basically nothing. And so at that point, I'm, you know, I'm like, you know, I'm gonna hit and

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pack here on a couple of things. I got so desperate one time, I picked up the phone to call my mom and

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dad because they would help me. And guys says, are you going to trust them? Or are you going to trust

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me? It's time you grew up. So I put the phone back down and said, I'm going to trust you. I went

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to my CPA and I said, my, you know, I made $1,600 a month before taxes, taxes, insurance, everything.

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And so, but my tithe was 160 off the gross. So tithe came first and that was 160.

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How soon it was 1,100. My take home was 1,200. That's 1,260 out of 1,200. Okay, which I'm really

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good at math. I've always been good at math, but I'm $60 in arrears. And I got three girls in college,

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two, I think it was two house pay or car payments, one house payment and utilities, food,

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I mean, everything. I mean, there was no way I could make it. He says, first of all, quit tithing,

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secondary, quit giving offerings, third, plan on filing bankruptcy. I knew exactly what to do.

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Change CPAs. Just that simple. I'm going to get one that's not going to curse my finances.

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Who's going to come into agreement? Now I'm all for listening to what they say and if there's truth

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in it, do something about it. But the first thing out was a tithe. And he says, it will rebuke the

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devourer. So at that point, I mean, it was so amazing. Checks were coming in the mail, food was

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being delivered. I came on my girl's trash, the house out, what happened here? And it's like

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50 bags of groceries that couldn't fit in their fridge or the pantry. Wow. I'm not really sure who

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actually did that. They left me some cash to go get milk and produce. I mean, it was amazing what

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God did. And, you know, and every time I turn around, there was finances growing, you know,

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going in. Now I'm not a millionaire yet, but you know what? I ain't broke. Praise God. I often

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share this story that I was poor and I was Poe. Poe is when you're so poor you can't even afford

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the other. Oh, and that's when you got to dig out a garbage can to get food. And that's what I did

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when I was like three years old. My brother and my mom, at this time, I picked up every empty can

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of aluminum can and sold it to put food on the table. You know, I sold a lot of things at home.

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I sold my jewelry. I did everything trying to keep my head above water and which is like really

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awesome and how God has totally taken care of all that. So you are at a place where you're no income

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at, you know, I mean, not enough to survive. All the girls got scholarships. It was supernatural

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what God did on that one. And so here I'm going and it's like we used to go and get a disgusting

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container of peaches and try to carve out a bowl of from that, from the garbage can. And it is an

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incredible feeling to actually go to the store and buy a peach that doesn't have a bruise on it.

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And if it's a dollar a peach, it's okay. I've got that dollar to do that. I was just giving

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a whole big bushel of peaches in Colorado. And they're delicious. How did you get from that place,

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Joan, to having the faith to start Joan Hunter Ministries and Hearts for Him? I mean, that had

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to have been miraculous to start these ministries when you're can't even put food on the table.

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The latter part of 2000, 2001 is when I started the ministry. God had called me. I started traveling

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with my mom and dad. I had a secular job in Dallas. I started meeting my parents on different

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locations on the road. I would take care of holding the offering until we got home, things like that.

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And then there would be notes in there and I thought, okay, I just need to see if they need

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to answer this question. Oh, it'd be get your daughter off the road. She's an embarrassment to

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God. I'm like, really? So I'm like, okay, God, they say you can't use me. And I was sobbing my

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guts out. I mean, literally sobbing my guts out that night in the hotel room. He spoke to me. He says,

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just remember, they're not the ones that call you. What a totally major shift in my life.

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Some of you that are listening today needed to hear that you think that God can't use you

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because you're past. Trust me, God will use your past, but we don't have to linger there.

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And then it was kind of funny when my book, Healing the Heart came out. I talked about

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getting my heart healed. I got some CDs on broken heart syndrome, things like that.

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When my book came out, my mom and dad read it. They said, why didn't you tell us that you needed

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money? I said, because then you would have been my hero and not Jesus. And they go, okay, that's

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what they would teach. You know, so, but it's so awesome because I love teaching Philippians 419

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that my God's just apply all your needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus and to see

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how God is blessing the people around the world, third world countries, Haiti, Africa, all over.

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I mean, it's absolutely phenomenal, really phenomenal with how God is blessing with cars,

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with jobs, with just breakthrough financially. So you started Joan Hunter and Hearts for Him

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ministries. Was that before or after your parents had stopped ministering? No, they didn't stop

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ministering until mom took her last breath in 2009. So they kept going. But I did travel with them

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off and on for about 35 years. And by 2009, I was, I would read it by the latter part of the 80s.

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We did all the healing exposure, which I'm sure you're familiar with. We did all those around,

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all over the world. And then we came and then we did one big one in Houston as their last

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hoopla raw at the astronaut, which is so fun. And then my parents were there at that one,

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actually. That's cool. And so what happened is at that point, that's when, and that was in 04.

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That's when the ministry really, really took off and with Joan Hunter ministries and started

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doing a lot of individual travel and not just with mom and dad. So you've now remarried,

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you have a wonderful husband, Kelly. How did you fall in love again in the midst of ministry?

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And after all that hurt, I mean, I'm sure you were, even though God had healed you,

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I'm sure you were cautious. Very cautious. In the year 2001, the latter part of 2001,

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maybe 2002, in that general timeframe, a friend of mine that lives in Florida,

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he's like a little brother to me, even though he's like five years younger. But anyway,

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he came to Texas and I said, this is what's going on. They told me in the year 2000 to

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renounce the soul ties I had with him. I call him George for generic George. And so I renounced

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soul ties. I said, but I can tell when he's doing something that's not good. And I get this yucky

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feeling all over. And then I find out that he's doing the yucky, you know, and he goes, because

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you're still in covenant with him. I'm like, what do you mean covenant? I renounced the soul ties.

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So, and so at that point I said, what do I say? So I said, renounce the covenant with George.

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We're no longer married. Anything bad that came in through that take it from me now.

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I'm Jesus name. Thank you, Jesus. And it was like, he's never come in. I've never felt him

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like touching me again. I mean, everything because that covenant was broken. And so then

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he says, well, how are you doing? I said, I'm doing really good. And he says, you're doing really

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good. It's have that wall you have up. And I crossed my arms. I'm animating it in verbally

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with you guys that are just listening. I'm like, I don't have a wall up. I'm like, maybe I do.

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But I had been hurt and death. Oh, just horrifically hurt. I didn't want to get hurt again.

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So I put a wall up to protect me. And of course I have that in a book, Love Again, Live Again,

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teaches you about how to get healed of that. I said, you know, I don't have a wall up. So I,

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at that point, we go back to our hotel rooms. And I said, God, I don't want to, I don't want to wall

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up. I can't be loved. But more importantly, I can't love. I can't love my children. I can't

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love the people I minister to. And, and I said, you know, I take the wall down. So he took the

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wall down. Guaranteed, you know, if you do this, you're going to get hurt again. Guaranteed. But

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if not, you'll never love again either. And, and so you've been healed once, so you know what to do

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on getting that healed. And there are certain people that hurt you and he's going to keep

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submit, keep him at arm's distance. You know, it's not like pushing them away. It's just,

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I still be very careful, you know, with relationships. How did Kelly make it, make it

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past the wall? Yeah, well, the wall was gone by then by the time I met Kelly. So he was gone.

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That was gone. And I was going around the area of churches promoting the healing exposure going

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to be at the Houston Astrodome, getting people to come and attend the school that Joe Lozzi

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opened up for us to have at his church. So I did, you know, six months of training over there.

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And at the other location. So I would go and I would do that. And so I spoke at his, at his

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church and he goes, I've always felt led to do healing. And so he started going and he missed

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one out of three Monday nights, a month for six months. He only missed one out of 18 because

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he didn't hear about it. So he immediately looked at it and went to every single one. It was the

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same video, mom and dad on their videos. And then I did the interim between like intermission and

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stuff like that, training the people. And he, and so he said, he sent me an email. He says,

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I've met you. He says, but I've been trying to ask you a question. So I'm sending you an email.

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So he's sending this really long email. And, and he says, I'd love to, you know, take you out or

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something. And, you know, and, and so I respond with, well, I don't, I won't have anything available

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until after the October meeting. And he says, well, I'll wait, I'll wait for you, you know,

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kind of a thing. I'm like, okay. So anyway, so then I said, if you wouldn't mind going out,

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maybe on a Tuesday or Wednesday, because no weekends were available. I said, we can try to

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work that. So, so he said, that'd be great. And he says, I'm a bald, gray-headed, bespeckled man,

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AKA glasses. So, you know, so the next week, there he is. So I knew who he was. He seemed pretty safe.

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But we did both drive to our first and second and maybe, I think the third day,

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I actually had him pick me up at the house. So, and then we got married in December.

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You know, God's taught you so much. So your personal experience, you've shared a little bit

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about that. Tell us a little about your schools of ministry. I mean, there might be listeners

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that are saying, hey, I need some of what Joan is talking about. How do I learn? How do they get

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connected, Joan? I have johnhunter.org. That's how we get connected. Number one. Number two,

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I have a healing school, which is seven books, 12 hours of teaching on DVD. Now here's something

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hard to fathom. Learn from somebody who's been doing this for 52 years. But I've been in the

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healing ministry for 52 years. Okay. And I teach on healing of the body, mind, soul, spirit, and

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finances. And you can get set free. God has healed me physically, breast cancer, needs,

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goiters, adrenal glands when I prayed for myself. Okay. And God wants to heal. Now I had, like I

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said, I was so broke. It was, it was ridiculous how poor I was, you know, and God is truly blessed

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with a beautiful home. And I'm moving out of it in a couple of days. And it was kind of exciting

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because before I came on here, we found a house and we got a contract on it. So we're putting

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that on there today. So which is like really exciting to do that. And, and I have an interim

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place to live in the meantime. But the point is, it's like, you know, how God has truly blessed me

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is unbelievable. Now years ago, I have a, anyway, back to that, I do healing schools around the nation.

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We also have it available online that you can watch a majority of the services, etc. And,

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but I've been healed in the heart and my soul and spirit every area. So we have hands on teaching

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at all of our conferences at, with healing school and ordination. And it's just, it's really awesome

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and amazing. And to see people come in and they can get healing school certified or ordained.

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And it's just really awesome. So you can call our office and contact us there, jonehunter.org.

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So we'll have all that information on our show notes. During COVID, I mean, you had been traveling

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before of course, but during COVID, a lot of that international travel stopped, but you've recently

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restarted, you went to Ghana share what God did in Ghana. Well, I went to Uganda two years ago,

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Rwanda last year. And then the beginning of this year, I went to Togo and I recosted and I was in

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Ghana. And I am like the hottest thing going on in Africa right now. Now I'm going to, this is a very

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this is a very good point right here. I said, God, why did you choose a 70 year old woman

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and not a 50 year old man to do what I'm doing? Cause it's hard. I mean, it's really hard over

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there. Hot. I'm called to air conditioning and, you know, and things like that. That's concern.

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I said, how come you didn't choose a 50 year old man? You know, he told me, he said, no,

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the 50 year old man said, no. And like with Catherine Kuhlman, why are you not having a man do this?

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And, and guys showed her there was three men that said no, before he asked her when the God

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asked us male or female, when he asked us to do something, we need to, I said, God, I'll go anywhere

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you want me to go except Africa or Pakistan. I was, I was in Pakistan a couple of months ago,

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but there is no conditions on the yes. I'll go where you want me to go. I'll do what you want

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me to do. And it's been absolutely phenomenal. During the pandemic, I stayed home, wrote five

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books. That was awesome. Let me give you another really cool situation that happened in the year

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2000, face with divorce. And then at that point, I am like totally devastated, broken heart, etc.

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And my whole life was him, children and the church. And I, my identity was that and I was

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Charles and Francis Hunter's daughter. And we lost the church, lost the marriage and emptiness

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all at the same time. I was still Charles and Francis Hunter's daughter. I was a wreck.

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No idea who I was because my entire identity had just been wiped out. And so, you know,

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to eat alone, you know, I don't remember eating alone. And this is, I was 47, like ever,

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you know, elementary school, growing up, high school, college, married, I never, I never ate

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alone. It was a weird experience. So I went out to eat and entertain myself at a nice little restaurant

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had a Caesar salad with chicken on it. I still remembers that by the fireplace all by myself.

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And just ate and something I had to do, you know, to break that fear of can't do it. So did that.

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And I'm like, God, I have no idea who I am. Now there's who you are in Christ, then there's who

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are you. And a lot of times people lose their identity. Like, you know, an executive who worked

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for this company for 50 years, then they retire and then they're like, I don't know what to do. I

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don't know who I am. I worked since I was 15. You know what I'm saying? That's their whole identity.

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And a lot of times they'll just die, you know, shrivel up and die. And so anyway, I went after

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trying to figure out who in the world I was. And so I found who I was by also at that point,

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I had to fall in love with Joan. I didn't love Joan. So I fell in love with Joan. And now I can be

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alone with no problem whatsoever. I'm a people person, but it's okay if I'm alone. It's okay.

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I'm not like, Oh my God, help me. No, I'm not that way. And I, you know, I was, but I'm not. And so

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I'm like, okay, who am I? So long story short, you know, I'm a person of mercy. I'm a radical

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giver and I'm a servant. Those are my three primaries. I love to serve even though people go,

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will you just put that play down? Let me serve you. Okay. You know, it's hard because I'm such a

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servant. And, and so then, so I God revealed to me my identity. Okay. During the pandemic,

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I had to, I'm laying in bed and I'm like, I can turn to the right and get up because I had tickets

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to cancel, you know, and maybe go to the grocery store because we're going to be inside for a while.

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pray with people and so forth. We just couldn't have meetings. So I did a lot of zooms and a lot of

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writing and, you know, and praying for people online. They would do interactive, you know,

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Facebook or whatever. And I would be praying for them as they are online, which is pretty cool.

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And I mean, God used the time, but I'm laying in bed. This is before all that. So it's like,

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I can turn to the right and get up, turn to the left and go into depression. I had that choice.

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So I made the decision to turn and get up and go about what I needed to do. I'm like, God,

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I have nothing to do. I'm a go getter. I'm going to do something all the time. Okay.

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Mega multitasking type person. Sit at home. No. So I actually cooked for myself when I lost,

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you know, the family lost 20 pounds instead of eating out every night. So we just ate home and

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lost 20 pounds. I thought that was cool. I need to lose another 20, but I don't want to stay home

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but I don't want to stay home for that one, to say the least. So, so a few months into the pandemic,

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because they told me we have run our payroll through a company and they said, you're going to

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need to get rid of 40 to 60% of your employees, you know, with the pandemic. So who are you going

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to get rid of? We walked to the office and we're like, there's nobody. I don't want to let anybody go.

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So I told the staff, I said, we need to pray for God to meet our needs, basically in a nutshell.

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And I said, if fear comes in, I will correct you because I can smell it, you know, if there's fear

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there. So anyway, so that was, that was pretty cool doing, doing all that and, and, you know,

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walking through the excuse me, you know, what am I, we're not doing that. I'll answer all your

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questions, but what are we going to do if we have to shut down? So I'm not going to answer those

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kind of questions. It's not an option. Okay. So we made it through the pandemic. Everybody got

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it was paid for, you know, nobody missed a paycheck, nothing. It was supernatural. God did

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that. So anyway, so I am, um, got me have some conversations either in the shower or in bed.

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So I'm laying there and I'm like, okay, so you don't need me to travel because I mean, all the

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needs of the ministry was met. Absolutely phenomenal. We had money saved up for Christmas,

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didn't need it, didn't use it. And we had money saved up that turned out to be for the pandemic,

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didn't even touch it, our savings account for that. So I was like, thank you, Jesus.

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So at that point, um, and I'm said, so you don't need me to travel and you know what he told me?

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No, I don't. Well, after my got my feelings healed because it hurt me a little bit, but he said, no,

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I don't. And anyway, so he said, no, I don't. He says, but then right after he says, but I want

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you to travel. Do I need to travel to support the needs of the ministry? Absolutely not.

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Okay. But I got, I travel, it does bring some finances in, but the trips and the book sales

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are not our source. God's our source. And I know that people that are listening today need to hear

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that. Okay. In order to meet my needs, I've got to get a third job. Well, then you're worthless,

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worth nothing physically. And then you have opened the door for getting sick and then you

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can't work any of them. Then what are you going to do? Okay. There's got to be wisdom. There's

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got to be like, well, I live on a fixed income. You've just cut off any kind of blessing that

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guy's trying to get you, get to you because you're on a fixed budget. Now fixed income.

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It's important that you have budgets and all that kind of stuff, but you know what? It's important

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that you trust him to make up the difference. And when I was $60 in a rear with just making

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a house payment and paying the tide, wow, God, that may every need. It was awesome. Yeah. He

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doesn't always do it the way we think he's going to do it, but he always does it. Right?

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Absolutely not. I think it was all me. He was like, I got to work. I got to do this. I'm like,

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just rest because he'll pull that rug out from under you thinking this is all you're doing.

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He doesn't say just sit and wait. Yeah, this one guy, he says, I'm going to sit here and he's rocking

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a chair. I'm going to sit here and God's going to provide my every need for the house payment

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everything. You know, and you know what happened? He broke the rocker. That was it. No money came

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in or nothing. Oh, it's funny. People are funny. So, Joan, what message would you have for listeners

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that are out there? They're hearing about the incredible things God's been doing

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in for and through you. And they think God wouldn't do that through me. Well, first of all,

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stop that thinking. It's called stinking thinking. My opinion is God can do it for me.

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God will do it for you. And scripture is that God wants to point to you or me as an example of

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his incredible wealth of his favor and kindness in all he's done for you through Christ Jesus.

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So, God has pointed to me as an example. If you just trust it, as I've trusted in him,

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God has met my every need, whether ministry or whatever. And it's been literally supernatural

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what God's done. Joan, it has been so great having you as a guest. And as we close, question,

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I ask all my guests, would you share about a woman of the Bible who's inspired or encouraged or

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taught you something? Absolutely. My hero is the woman with the issue of blood. Unfortunately,

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she never got a name. She just got a label. She didn't get an email. She didn't get a text message.

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She didn't have GPS. And if she left her house, she could be killed legally. But she left in

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being determined to find Jesus. And she found him and was healed. That's a nutshell. I've got a great

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deejing on that. But the thing is where she's concerned is she could have easily quit. She

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could have easily died in those 12 years that she had, you know, she needed blood transfusion. She

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needed all new female body parts. She needed everything. Couldn't go to church. Couldn't get

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married. Depression. Couldn't be have parties. Oh, guys, that would be horrible. And, and, and, and.

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And so it's just very, very exciting how she did it and touched him in this garment and was made

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every, every whithole slash completely well. That means that when she went home,

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there were shekels on the counter. There was donkeys right there. There was chickens in her yard,

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got it restored everything to her completely well, every whithole. I'm looking forward to meeting her,

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not today. I'm looking forward to meeting her besides Jesus. She's on the top of my list. Top 10.

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Yeah, she was tenacious. Yeah, and determined. You know, one of my books I wrote during the pandemic

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is just don't quit. You know, I could have easily quit, easily quit through the years.

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And I didn't, and I'm glad I didn't. Yeah, that's good. Just don't quit. During the last supper

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that Jesus had with his disciples, it's found in John 14 12 through 15. He says, I tell you the

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truth. Anyone who believes in me will do the same works I've done and even greater works,

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because I'm going to be with my father. You can ask for anything in my name and I will do it so that

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the Son can bring glory to the Father. Yes, ask me for anything in my name and I'll do it. Dear

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friends, we can be bold and ask Jesus in Jesus' name for anything that will bring glory to the

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Father and he's going to do it. Joan, would you take a moment and pray for our listeners? Yes,

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I'm going to add one more testament. I could talk forever, but I know you picked up on that with no

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problem. I have a little house I bought for a rental house and I went by there yesterday after

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I got back and I'm like, Oh man, the grass needs to be mowed, but instead, I mean, because they

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haven't had any rain and there's no sprinkler system there. And I'm like, I don't have time to come

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and water because there's no rain in on the 10 day thing period, no rain. So I'm like, Oh Jesus help.

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And so I'm like, who can I get to, you know, do this spring? There's no, you know, the whole bit.

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Okay. So I go out to get in the car. I'm like, what is, what is that? I look at my arm and I'm like,

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there's, there's drops. And then on the way home, massive thunderstorm, no cloud in the sky,

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not on the thing, probably an inch of rain in less than 30 minutes. I mean, God open up the

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windows I've had it, boom, da, da, da, da, da. And I'm like, God help me. Well, I'm like, I'm thinking

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God help me, help me find somebody to help me water the yard. Well, he helped me even better than

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the room. Now I can get it mowed in this whole nice green again today. But see, you can ask him for

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anything. God, I need rain. You know, we were moving some stuff out of the house. And I'm like,

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I love the rain, but please have a stop between one and three. It did. See, we can ask him for

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anything and he'll do it. Amen. So Father, right now in images, we just thank you that your word

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has confirmed that we can lay hands on the sixth and recover. We have all authority that you have

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given us. And Father, right now, I thank you that you're going to heal those that are watching,

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touch their hearts, heal their hearts. And Father, we just thank you for healing family situations,

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a blessing them financially, getting the revelation of Philippians 419 that you're

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going to meet their needs not according to them, but according to you and who you are. So Father,

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right now I just thank you for supernatural provision in Jesus name. Father, we just thank

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you for turning things around in their life where relationships are concerned, no matter

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if it's husband, wife, children, parents, whatever, touch them. Father, give them greater determination

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to just not quit in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah.

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Well, thank you for tuning in. In our show notes at HerGodStory.org, you can find scriptures and

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