SID: This is Brenda Kunneman, who has been a guest several times on the television show. You are known for talking about the power of words. Why is this so important?
BRENDA: Well, first of all, I like to say it like this, don’t become the devil’s prophet with your mouth.
SID: That’s strong.
BRENDA: So don’t become the devil’s prophet with your mouth. And here is the thing, we have a tendency as human beings, much of the time, to lean on the side of the negative. The world is pushing in some kind of magnetic pull to pull us down like we’re going downstream with the circumstances. So this is the tendency of most people. It is much easier to speak the circumstances, especially under pressure, emotional pressure, with your family, because that’s where it strikes home when it comes to people’s homes, their marriage, their family, their children.
And so what we as God’s people have to do is develop the ability that in the moment we speak according to God, we speak according to faith, we speak according to His Word. And not only do we speak right, but we know how to declare right. And this is so important because words are very powerful. Words have the ability to create. God didn’t give creative ability of words to angels. He gave them to people.
And so we have a weapon in our mouth. You have a weapon in your mouth to be able to decree a thing and command something and watch it be established. And this is an art, Sid, that people have to learn as believers on how to go from the natural human reaction to the divine reaction when we face something. It’s just so important.
SID: Yeah. You have written a number of books, but why this book, why now? And I might add, my staff says, this is the best one you have ever, ever done.
BRENDA: So families are under assault right now. And the culture is telling people that marriage doesn’t matter. There is an all-out war on our children. Parents are more fearful right now about the outcome of their children. You’re almost kind of live apprehensive when your child graduates from high school to go into college. Do you want to send them to a university where they’re teaching them to be atheists? So families are under attack.
And so the reason I felt prophetically to put this particular writing for this time is parents, families, children, they need a weapon when they are under pressure. Your kid comes home and they announce to you, they don’t believe in God. When a spouse is going a different way, they are not serving God while you’re serving God. These are the things that we pastored for two decades. So I’ve seen many, many things when it comes to the assault on a family.
This book is so important right now because I feel like we have to fight back for the integrity of our families. We have to fight back. I don’t believe God wants half family saved half not. So the book is meant to be a weapon in the hands of people that in their moment of pressure, when they’re hurting, when their children are hurting, when they’re watching their family being assaulted unmercilessly by the devil, when they’re seeing that, they have something to fight back with.
And I put those declarations there for them, so that when they’re tempted to speak wrong, Sid, they’ll grab a hold of them and say, “No, no, no, no. I’m going to speak this and put this into the atmosphere.”
SID: People don’t understand this. I want you to nail it. She nailed it in this book, let me tell you. How many different decrees are there?
BRENDA: There is 65 in the book, all about families.
