Sid: My guest by way of telephone is Joan Hunter. Many of you are familiar with her parents the Happy Hunters. They’ve had healing explo’s all over the world, Charles and Francis Hunter. Of course Joan being raised in that family has spent over 30 years travelling with them and ministering healing. The secrets, that may be the right word to use, the secrets that she has learned about healing and how to approach… Joan you told me that you do not approach every disease the same way.
Joan: That is correct. Now I do believe that if you lay hands on somebody and say “In the name of Jesus, name of Yeshua, be healed.” I know that God heals that way I do not limit God. If for example you have something that needs to be lasered out you don’t want the doctor to guess about where to aim the laser. So I believe the more specific that you can be with the disease, with the ailment, with the situation dealing with the root cause of it that you will get greater results; as in comparison to say 2% getting healed it’s like 90-95% that you lay hands on will be healed.
Sid: Now I have this brand new book right in my hands that you and your partner Michael Hinson wrote called “How to Heal the Whole Man.” It’s actually a handbook, and it has prayers for everything from marriage to arthritis, and very specific how to minister. There is no way you could have written this book without having such hands on experience, explain that.
Joan: Between Michael and I we have I think about 55 or 60, I think it is about 60 years’ worth of experience in the healing ministry. Travelling with mom and dad, seeing what works, what doesn’t work. You know the doctor practices medicine, so we need to see what works and what doesn’t work. In somewhere between 55 and 60 years’ worth of experience we have put into a book what has worked, and then very very affective for us.
Sid: I tell you what, where the rubber meets the road is not what you preach, but what you live.
Joan: That’s right.
Sid: You’ve been very transparent and you’ve opened up in our pre-interview, and in your book. Five years ago you were diagnosed with breast cancer…
Joan: Yes.
Sid: First of all how could you have even gotten breast cancer just because you have your defenses up, you know what not to do, how did that even penetrate you?
Joan: Well what we deal with in the book is “How to Heal the Whole Man” handbook we deal with the root causes of disease. For example, arthritis not 100% because I’m gonna leave leeway for other things. Somewhere between 90-94% of the time is brought on by unforgiveness and bitterness, angry resentment things like that. Well breast cancer, the majority of the time, is brought on by worry. Even though being, you know, being Charles and Francis Hunter’s daughter does not inoculate you from the trials, tribulation, and testing and fire and everything else like that.
Sid: It seems as though, and correct me if I’m wrong Joan, it’s almost like the devil has insight, he doesn’t know what it is but he has insight that someone is going to be used mightily by God and he throws everything but the kitchen sink to stop someone from achieving their destiny.
Joan: That is correct and what happens in Genesis 50:20 is that “What the enemy meant for evil, God will turn it around for His glory.” Everything the devil has hit me with I have been able to overcome be stronger learn from it and don’t do it again. Instead of being in the background I am now on the forefront, and I’ve been equipped and I know what to do, I know how to handle pretty much every situation that comes my way, and if I don’t we certainly go to the prayer closet and figure it out.
Sid: Okay, the doctor said you have breast cancer.
Joan: Yes.
Sid: Did he have any other solution beyond surgery, or had it even progressed beyond that?
Joan: Well they said they were going to wait a month and see what happens. Come back in we’re gonna do another sonogram, and all that kind of stuff. What I had to do is I had to recognize the fact because I had heard that worry brought on breast cancer. At that point I had been married for 25 years, stood by my husband and believed God everything was fine; we had served the Lord together, pastored a church and it was a very very difficult time in my life. I worried about him being faithful in the marriage because there was signs he was not. So I constantly was worried “Is he faithful, is he faithful, is he faithful” and that worry attacked my immune system. It attacked everything and opened the door, the sin of worry, opened the door for cancer to come in specifically to my breast. In the process of that year, of the year 2000, it was confirmed what I had suspected through the years and we had dealt with this, and we had prayed about it and I asked him about it, and he refused to repent from a homosexual lifestyle. Because of an un-repented heart, and not willing to turn from his ways I felt like Biblically I had grounds for divorce, and I felt like my life was threatened for many reasons where that was concern. So at that point I had to file for divorce then 2 days later I was diagnosed with the breast cancer. At that point I did not have to worry about his infidelity. God started healing me that year of codependency of a broken heart, of financial ruins after the divorce because he made a lot of money and I didn’t make as much as he did. This and that and everything, then I went before God, and the doctor said “I’ll never get over this,” not he physical but the emotional. “I’ll never be healed, “I’ll never be normal” and after cutting those words off too. My spirit started healing, my soul started healing, and becoming rejuvenated and happy and free and knowing that it wasn’t my fault, and recognizing that I had been blaming myself for so many years for what was going on; being free of that and by being free of the worry, of the bitterness, of the anger, of the broken heart that God came in and healed me emotionally in my spirit, in my soul, and the physical came right along with it.
Sid: So what happened on the second doctor’s visit?
Joan: All the cancer was gone, the lumps were gone, all the scars from biopsies were gone, and everything.
Sid: The scars from the biopsy were gone?
Joan: Uh huh.
Sid: My goodness God really did a complete work on you.
Joan: He did! Don’t limit God for anything that’s for sure!
Sid: Out of curiosity, the doctor did he have anything of interest to say?
Joan: I don’t understand what happened, he actually said “This is not the same breast we that examined.”
Sid: [Laughing]
Joan: They actually told me not to come back. So I have since moved to Houston and in the Kingwood area. I just had another mammogram about 2 weeks and everything is still wonderfully clear.
Sid: Let me ask another that a lot of people struggle with, and you did according to my notes your whole life, and that’s being overweight.
Joan: Yes.
Sid: How did you solve that particular one?
Joan: Well it’s not solved, let’s put it that way. Okay, somebody who has ever had eating problem it will always… cause you know food is always gonna be in front of you. It’s not an option to stop eating. So you have to recognize why you are eating, in particular why you are overeating, or why you are eating certain foods. When I was raised trauma basically took majority of my weight off, but it’s the keeping of the weight off that’s the miracle because anybody can lose weight, it’s just keeping the weight off. I asked God about 4 or 5 years ago I said “God why do I eat like this? Why do I feel like I have to eat ice cream with hot fudge on it every day?”
Sid: Sounds good to me. [Laughing]
Joan: [Laughing] Yeah it sounds good to you, but you know what, guess what you’re gonna be changing you’re clothe size quite a bit. [Laughing]
Sid: [Laughing]
Joan: My mom was raised during the depression, and the biggest treat in the world was to have a partial scoop of ice cream once a week, or once a month. She says “One day I’m gonna be rich enough that I have a hot fudge sundae every day of my life.”
Sid: Gotcha!
Joan: She still has ice cream to this day, every day. At 89 years old she’s still having that ice cream every day. It’s amazing…
Sid: But that’s where you got it from.
Joan: Yeah. With growing up I was raised by a single mom, working mom, and she worked all the time so we ate fast food which is terrible to raise children on number 1. Number 2 I was an extremely, extremely good child; I never got spanked, I remember I got one talking to in my whole life and that was it. So my mom at the end of the day, because I was so good, she says “You are so good, you have just been so good today go get us a hot fudge sundae.” So I’d go and get us a hot fudge sundae. Then I in turn would go… then when I got older if I didn’t feel I was good enough, if I felt like there was problems in the marriage, problems in the home, I felt like I was good, I would reward myself with ice cream. I was emotionally starved trying to fill that void with the ice cream because I’m a good girl, and I would reward myself with ice cream.
Sid: Quickly, how did you solve it?
Joan: I recognized the fact of why I was doing it. It didn’t satisfy that hurt it just made me have bigger hips.
Sid: [Laughing] So did you repent?
Joan: I repented for that, I repented for any kind of rebellion, and I asked God to fill that void, that emotional void, that the food cannot, and He did.
Sid: Well it must have worked you went from 26W down to size 10.
Joan: Yes.
Sid: Our time is slipping away. You make a statement in your “How to Heal the Whole Man” because you talk a great deal about how to move into your calling. You said “You believe that when someone reads this book it will help fulfill God’s call on their life.” You really believe that?
Joan: I have absolutely no doubt. Part of the vision of this ministry is the equipping of the saints. Everybody says “You need to lay hands on the sick; you need to lay hands on the sick.” “How do I do it, do I lay on my hand and it happens?” This is a handbook, hands on 60 year’s worth of experience, and into a very very simple handbook…
