Sid Roth welcomes Brenda Kunneman

SID: Hello. Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. My guest, Brenda Kunneman, has a supernatural ability for you to believe that everything that the Bible says you are is really true, and to just draw that out of you. In fact, Brenda, were you a cheerleader? Because you have that capacity of drawing people out and getting them to really believe.

BRENDA: You know God has put something in my heart that I want everybody to be able to partake of and everybody to be able to be supernatural. Everybody has, you know, we’re made in the image of God, are we not? And everything that we know about God from the Book of Genesis all the way to the Book of Revelation, He is supernatural. We see the Red Sea turned up on its side. We see the plagues of Egypt. We see all kinds of supernatural happenings through the Proverbs.

SID: But it wasn’t always that way with you. I’m going to take you back as a young person. You’re raised in a Bible-believing home.

BRENDA: Yes.

SID: But it’s kind of like part of the Bible was left out, the supernatural part, and especially speaking in supernatural languages. But what I find amazing is God obviously wanted you to understand this because, were you a military brat?

BRENDA: Yes I was. I was.

SID: That’s what I thought.

BRENDA: My father was in the military. Now we moved all around and my parents were Christians. They loved the Lord. But there was that little piece, like you said, that was missing and in my Christian experience I was hungry. I said, “You know, there has to be more.” I got kind of tired of knowing a God that was a concept and a God that was on paper. I wanted to know a God that I felt. I want to feel Him.

SID: May I be candid with you?

BRENDA: Yes.

SID: I don’t understand how Bible believers cannot believe in the supernatural or if they do and they’re not moving in it be very frustrated, and that’s where you were.

BRENDA: That’s right.

SID: But how in the world did your father, who was against things like speaking in supernatural languages, how in the world did it happen to him?

BRENDA: Well as a teenager I went to my mother one day, and I said, “Mother, now what is this thing about supernatural languages, this thing, this Holy Spirit?” She says, “Well you know, there are some people that believe in that, but we don’t do that.” And the funny thing was in the military you move around all the time. We moved from station to station, and there was always that one person that worked with my father that spoke in supernatural languages. They were real spiritually empowered people, and I got hungry for that. Well we kind of went through that. See, when you live powerless Christianity or you live concept Christianity there isn’t any real presence that empowers you to be victorious, to overcome your problems, to deal with difficulty. There’s so many people that they’re trying to connect with God but it’s like there’s no gas in the car. And so we were at a time where we were just waning from any relationship with God. And I thin in desperation my father went to a gentleman that he worked with and began to talk to him about the Holy Spirit. And this man said, “I’ve been waiting for you to ask.” And he absolutely, he prayed with him. He was filled with the Holy Spirit, spoke in a supernatural language, and from that moment on I knew that’s for me. And I said, “God, I’m gonna get that.” And for the first time, Sid, in all of my experience in Christianity I felt, now here’s the key, I felt God. That’s what, I mean, come on, let’s face it, is that not what people are hungry for? They want to feel the presence of God. They want to feel His power. They want to feel that electricity of God. I remember when the Holy Spirit first came in to me fully. I was baptized in the Holy Spirit. My stomach would jump up and down. For the first time I felt like an electricity jolt of God. I knew. And I didn’t understand it all at the time.

SID: Now you told me that you literally would go to sleep at night praying in supernatural languages and wake up praying in supernatural.

BRENDA: I could not get enough of this new supernatural power because, for the first time, I felt something real. I discovered a God that wants to heal people. You know, people want a power that’s bigger than themselves. But God has always been supernatural. And the thing of it is that’s so incredible about God His supernatural wants to help you. He wants to heal you. He wants to help you with your financial situation and give you a real tangible power to do that.

SID: Speaking of power, 1999, Brenda is praying in this supernatural language, which the Bible says charges up, builds up your spirit so you can walk in the same power that the Messiah walked in. And so one night your father is critically ill. He’s in the hospital. Was he dying?

BRENDA: He was really dying. He had renal failure. He had a complication with diverticulitis. His bowel had exploded and it had been leaking in his cavity for about six months, and his body began to shut down. He was on a hundred percent oxygen, kidney malfunction, liver malfunction. All of his organs were completely infected. And the doctors pretty much said, “We don’t know if he’s gonna live.” And so we prayed, and I think we just paced the hospital floor up and down just seeking and calling out to God. And I knew how to draw on the power within me, because I knew when I had the Holy Spirit I had seen so many supernatural occurrences with God before, and so I went back to that. And one night I was in the hotel room and I was praying, and I began to pray in the spirit, pray in supernatural languages. I said, “God, I don’t know anything else to pull on, but I know you’re supernatural. I know that I have that supernatural power in me. I’ve seen it operate. I’ve seen it manifest.” And I prayed, and all of a sudden it was like I was transported into the hospital room. It was as real as I could ever remember. And Sid, let me just interject this. This is what God wants to do with every person that wants the Holy Spirit. This isn’t just because I’m special or you’re special, or we’re doing a TV program. It’s for every person to have in their own life, their loved ones, their relatives. And I was transported instantly into the hospital room and I saw Jesus, and he walked into my father’s room. Now if you’ve been in a hospital with someone critically ill, here he’s laying there. His body has blown up three times its normal size. The doctors are giving him no chance to live. He’s convulsing. And I remember I said, “Lord, I need you now.” And Jesus walked in. Now I know, Sid, this was because I’ve learned how to pull out the supernatural that God has put in me that Jesus came in.

SID: But if you had not been praying in supernatural languages, do you know in Romans 8 it says, “All things work together for good to those that love God.” But just before the verse before that says, “If you’re praying in groanings and utterances that you…” That’s speaking in supernatural languages. If pray in supernatural languages all things work together for good. We’ll be back in just a moment. I want to find out what happened to her dad who was dying, that Jesus walked into his hospital room. Don’t go away.