Sid: This week were talking about the secret to the power of the First Church. It’s called tongues or supernatural languages. That’s a language that you’ve never been instructed in your natural mind. That’s what Paul is talking about when he said we will pray in the Spirit and will pray in our understanding. We will sing in the Spirit but we will also sing in our understanding. And it’s called tongues or supernatural languages. And when I was a new believer there was a book that came out by John Cheryl, it was called “They Speak With Other Tongues” and I remember and my guest this week is Janie DuVall, who is the Co Producer of Its Supernatural Television and Messianic Vision Radio. And Janie I read a book called “They Speak With Other Tongues” and it was by John Cheryl and I was so impressed because this was a man that disbelieved in speaking in supernatural languages. And so he went to a language lab of a university and he had collected a lot of people that spoke in this supernatural language and gave it to these professors and they found out that everyone was a real language. But even today they have much more scientific research. As a matter of fact the scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, what did you find out that his research showed us Janie?
Janie: Well he said that the frontal lobe is where you are thinking when you’re talking. But when people were praying in the Spirit they analyzed it. So when were speaking in the language that we speak in there’s activity in the frontal lobe. But when we are speaking in supernatural languages all a sudden the activity in the frontal lobe totally stops. Which means it’s not coming from our mind.
Sid: Now you told me that you had a surprise for me because you did what John Cheryl did so many years ago. You spoke into a tape recorder and made a CD of speaking in supernatural languages and what did you do with it?
Janie: Well I have to tell you, this is something I have been wanting to do for years but I spoke, it takes about three minutes of praying in the Spirit and we contacted a number of universities around the United States with professors of linguistics. We just said we would like you to listen to this and just tell us what this is. We didn’t say anything about it and that’s all we said. One professor said the recordings sound like old French. Oh by the way, my last name is DuVall, but I’m not French, I’m Jewish but this man said this professor said the recordings sound like old French or a variety of medieval language from the area, maybe Provence Zaul. That was the area he said. And another professor said our native speaker of French who is also a professor said that this is a performance art piece of constructed passage performed by a native speaker. They were saying this native Frenchman, Professor said that when I was praying in the Spirit it was definitely done by a native speaker of French.
Sid: Well, you know what impressed me even more than what you’re saying right now, Janie is your Jewish mother, that I had the privilege of knowing. Tell me about her experience when she heard you praying in tongues. Was she a believer at the time?
Janie: My Jewish mother was a secret believer. She was afraid of what are the neighbors going to think so Jesus had appeared to her on Yom Kippur a few years before I was born. She even argued with Him when He appeared to her. I’m Jewish I can’t be seeing you. But she really knew that He was the Messiah and she believed it but she kept it kind of hidden in her heart. But my mother was, she didn’t speak different languages at home. She only spoke English but when she in her younger days she was an expert in the romance languages French, Italian, Spanish and also Latin. But she knew her daughter. Basically I could speak a little Spanish really crummy, and that was about it. So when I was at church, all of the sudden I was just saying, praising the Lord, I was just saying hallelujah I had just heard about speaking in supernatural languages a week before that and really through John Cheryl’s book and hearing other people. Well I just started saying hallelujah but all of the sudden, I could feel God’s love just poof overwhelm me where I wanted just to hug everybody and just really hug everyone. It was this incredible love and then all of a sudden my English went into a Scottish accent and I’m thinking this is really interesting. And all of a sudden I was caught up somewhere, I didn’t know at that time what that meant but I’m mean I was caught up in the Third Heavens but I knew I was somewhere just not here on earth but all of the sudden all of these languages poured out of my mouth. And I went home and I just said to my Mother okay, listen this happened to me speaking in supernatural languages. Sit down, I want you to hear this. Tell me what you think of this. Well my mother was absolutely amazed because she could totally understand what I was saying. Now she said you are going in and out of those different languages of French, Spanish, Italian, Latin and she could hear “Come to me, Jesus is coming soon; worship Him; sing to Him and that made her an absolute believer.
Sid: I was just thinking that if she was worried about people at that point she was more concerned about God than what people would say.
Janie: Well, yeah and she use to be so shy and then she would ask about her faith but then when she heard that happening to me she would talk to everyone “You have to hear, I know that my daughter can’t do this; you’ve got to hear this; in the natural she can’t do this and you got to listen to her listen.”
Sid: Well, you know my experience was very different from yours. I went to a Full Gospel Businessmen’s meeting and I believed that these people heard from God, that they belonged to God and anything they would tell me I would believe. So, I asked about supernatural languages because I had heard it before I was a believer and I thought it was the most amazing thing. I was in awe. I remember saying to people, how did you learn this? And they said, it just comes out of my mouth. I thought that was so cool so I wanted this after I became a believer and they prayed for me and they said now speak in tongues. I have to tell you Janie, had they said go walk on water at that point, I would have walked on water. I thought that would be normal and so I started speaking in tongues and they said that’s it keep it up. But. I had a problem Janie, and the problem was that right after I did that the thought crossed my mind, your making that up. So I would each week on their Full Gospel Businessman’s Meeting I would go and I would have them pray for me again and I would speak in tongues and they would say that’s it Sid that’s perfect and I would still have that nagging feeling maybe I’m just making this up. And one day I was with an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi that had come to the Lord and a woman walked up and that was expecting a child and she was very pregnant and she said the doctors have told me that my child is dead inside of me. Pray for the child to become alive. Well, I’m a brand new believer, I don’t know what to do so the only thing that I can think of doing was praying in my supernatural language. And when I prayed in my supernatural language the Rabbi said to me “Sid, do you know what you’re praying? And I said no, you have just prayed that the child is with God the Father and not to worry” and I thought, isn’t that cool. And I said ” What language was I praying in?” And he said, “An ancient form of Hebrew” and Janie, I never doubted again when I was speaking in a supernatural language. But I am so concerning about believers that don’t know how to pray for others to speak in a supernatural language or have never done it themselves so we produced a special DVD. And then years ago some twenty years ago I interviewed some of the top people that were believers at the time people like Harold Bradeson, who if you don’t know who Harold Bradeson is he coined the word “Charismatic Renewal” he’s now in Heaven and he was the one that prophesied to Pat Robertson about the 700 Club. He was instrumental on Dale Evans and Pat Boone coming to the Lord so we interviewed these people that really were in the thick of the Charismatic Movement . And also I do a teaching, as I use to do twenty years ago but I did this new DVD and we put those two CDs together with Braedison and other people in teaching that I did twenty years ago, we put those two CDs together. Then we have one DVD, we went out to our home congregation and invited a number of people that had never spoken in supernatural languages. Janie, to be candid with ya, I didn’t know how many would show up, two or three or four. And we professionally videotaped it and describe that evening.
Janie: Well, when you asked for people who wanted to get their prayer language, it was an amazing number of people that went up. I mean it could have been twenty-thirty people from young to old. And people that had never prayed in the Spirit, people who wanted to and some who kind of thought the whole thing was crazy. All these people started praying in the Spirit.
Sid: I felt so good about that evening. I can’t wait for this tool to get all over, we put it all together. We call it “Supernatural Languages, Supernatural Power.” But on tomorrow’s broadcast I’m going to show you how because of my supernatural language I believe the ministry I have today was birth. And I’ll go step one step further. Had I not in the early years prayed in the supernatural language , I don’t think I would be talking to you on the air right now. So we’re making this special DVD and two CDs called “The Supernatural Languages Supernatural Power” available.
