SID: Sid Roth here with Joan Hunter, put yourself in this situation, married 25 years to a pastor, four beautiful daughters, and one day your husband says, I am going to leave you for another man, devastation, hurt, shame, Joan, you handled it, I’ so pleased, but what about those four girls, they’re devastating, I mean you know they are devastated, you hurt for them more than they are hurting, but they are hurting, what did you do?
JOAN: They didn’t understand, I mean they are just so hurt, and here is their, you know, their father preaching from the pulpit that it is wrong and yet the deception that he had actually been doing it all along. And that was harder than everything else.
SID: How does someone, curiosity, when someone is involved in sin, how are they preaching that it’s wrong, what is going on inside, is it that the heart is so deceived?
JOAN: Yes, that is one of the things, and he, it’s selfish, and its just flesh, it is driven by selfish flesh. And one of the things he said in the process of divorce, he said, “What can I say, I have just been a very good actor for all these years.” you know, acting in the pulpit, acting at home, acting in the marriage, and you know and things like that, and you know it was a good act, you know I mean he would have won the academy award with no problem on that one.
SID: Okay, all right, the girls, tell me about them, what’s going on with them?
JOAN: Okay, three of them are married now, and one of them is waiting for the best husband in the world, and
SID: Now take me back to right after the devastation.
JOAN: The, we would, at the house we would just, they would get home from school and we would just cry you know and that’s all that we could do, I mean we lost, we had to move out of our house and move into a really small house as in comparison to what I could afford and what he could afford, and it was just unbelievable
SID: Did they, but the way, she also came down with cancer, did they know you had this cancer?
JOAN: No.
SID: Was it life-threatening cancer?
JOAN: It could have been, I mean if you don’t get healed of it, yeah, for sure, but God healed me of it.
SID: Okay, so what did you do with your children, did you send them to counseling, did you, how do you, Jewish people call it, make them (Jewish word)
JOAN: We couldn’t send them to the pastor cause that was the Dad you know, and then, even six years ago, even today people, the average person has no idea how to deal with somebody, whether it had been me or whether it had been the children, how do you deal with somebody like that, what can I say to help you? They don’t need counseling from friends, they just need to know your love, tell them that you love them, tell them that you are praying for them, don’t try to correct it.
SID: Fine and good, but what did you do, I want to know what you did because there are a lot of people watching right now that have problems with their children, maybe not in such a devastating circumstance as Joan had, but you’ve got some real problems between children and parents, what did you do so they can do it?
JOAN: I tried to fix them, I tried to make them well, I tried to get them healed, I did everything I knew to do, especially having been in the ministry for so long, I did everything to fix my children, and you know and say, now you know better, you are not supposed to do this, well what did that do, it brought rebellion like you have never seen, I mean I’m just like, everything that I said you need to do this or stop doing this, it just caused the adverse effect, and I mean it just kept getting worse and worse and worse, and a lot of the things they were doing they were just doing to cover up their pain, and so I said, God, what am I going to do, I can’t fix them? He goes, dud, you know in so many words, it was just like okay now are you going to let me take care of them? And I said God, I repent for trying to do your job, I know you and the Holy spirit can do a whole lot better than me, I give You my children, I lay them on Your altar, and I said Father I lay charity on Your altar, she’s Yours. And then I’d say Father I lay Spice on Your altar, and I would say Melody, and then Abigail, and I said God, they are Yours. The more I try to do, the more I try to do as a Mother, as a minister, it just caused adverse reaction, I mean really bad adverse reaction, and I gave them to God.
SID: Joan, that sounds too simple, it sounds too simple.
JOAN: Well, it’s not a one-time thing, I’ll tell you that, cause then situations happen, and all of a sudden if you start feeling pain in your neck, in your shoulders, more than likely you’ve picked them back up, because if you’ve got a child that weighs say 130, 200 pounds, depending on the child
SID: But you told me the bottom line, they’re (Hebrew word) today. As Joan was speaking, God began to speak to me, there are going to be such physical healings when we come back, I have been interviewing people that have demonstrated miracles for, close to thirty years now, I have never had so many reports and letters of people being physically healed as I did the last time Joan Hunter was my guest, don’t go away.
