Featured Interview With Barbara Miller
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I live in tropical north Queensland Australia, Cairns to be exact with 2 world heritage areas on my doorstep – the Great Barrier Reef and the Wet Tropics rainforest. I live with my husband Munganbana Norman who is an Aboriginal artist and our son Michael. I mostly write history, biography and memoir and have published about 12 books. I am now writing Christian non-fiction.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
At primary school, (around 11 years old) I used to read books in class after I finished my tasks, while waiting for the others to finish. My teacher was frustrated with me when I filled a whole copy book when asked to write an essay as it gave her extra work to do.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I like reading biographies. I remember reading biographies of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jnr after they were assassinated and I was still at school. I was touched by reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall. I also read the Diary of Anne Frank. These were the books that influenced me growing up. Today I like to read the biographies of Australian Aboriginal leaders and I like to read Christian books. The kind of writer I am today has been influenced by my early choice of books to read.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book, self-published in May this year is Decrees and Dangerous Prayers: 7 Steps on How to Change Your Nation or Community and records the way I have been led by God to pray over social issues and the way I have led groups to pray. It contains practical strategies and passes on tips to the reader. This is an excerpt from my blurb:
“You can change the history of nations. You can shift atmospheres. You can command barriers to come down. Doors to open. Hopeless situations to shift. God wants you to partner with Him to establish His will. Yet, prayers of petition will often not be enough. Instead, it is more powerful to decree from your position in heavenly places with Jesus Christ. To do that, you first must spend time with God and listen to His heart. Decree from the Father’s heart, not vain imagination.
In light of the tectonic shifts happening in the world today, international speaker and author Pastor Barbara Miller, an ordained prophet – believes now more than ever – the world is in dire need of more carriers of our Father’s power.
Hence, she took her decades of ministry experience and shaped them into a short, comprehensive how-to manual on writing decrees. To make sure any Christian can apply this process, she broke it down into 7 simple steps.”
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