Sid Roth welcomes Glenn Arekion

We want everyone everywhere to speak in supernatural languages to build up their spirit, to do the same works that Jesus did and even greater.  If not now, when?  The question that I’ve been posing to myself and posing to anyone that will listen is.  Why oh why have we demoted supernatural languages or as the Bible calls it tongues to the back room?  Why is it not front and center stage as when I became a brand new believer in the Messiah with the Charismatic Movement it was.  I have on the telephone, Glenn Arekion and Glenn has a brand new book called “The Power of Praying in Tongues.” And by the time that you finish this book, if you pray in tongues you’ll start praying; and you’re are not doing that right now; at least 99.9% of the people that I’m talking to.  And I actually have named this CD your personal CD that’s going with the book “Your Personnel Trainer for the Supernatural.”   Because by the time you finish listing the 101 reasons why the Bible says to pray in tongues someone would have to be “mishuga” that’s a Hebrew word for crazy for not to want to be investing a portion of their day praying in supernatural languages.  But I especially enjoyed this section where you talk about some of the pillars from the past.  The people that moved in such extraordinary sign and wonders that they’ve become legions’ we don’t see people of that magnitude and they had certain secrets.  And they were doing things were not doing today.  For instance, what about someone like, John G. Lake.

Glenn:  Yes sir, he was somebody who told us to seek with himself.  He said this himself; tongues have been the making of my ministry.  It is that peculiar communication with God where God reveals to my soul the truth I utter to you day by day in the ministry.  This man walked in supernatural power, he had a great healing ministry.  I mean, he had he…he had a book on dominion over disease and death.  Why?  Because he walked in the power of God.  He said the secret of his ministry was the supernatural prayer language that helped him to shake the world.

Sid:  And he did if I remember right he got over 100,000 people in Seattle, Washington healed and I mean it was a sickness free zone.  It was miraculous and the secret to his success was praying in supernatural languages.  Well, how about someone that a lot of us have heard of the pioneer of faith, Smith Wigglesworth? 

Glenn:  Yes sir, he was transforming to the Apostle of faith.  This is somebody that was not educated, this is somebody who didn’t have any formal education and yet when he when received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, before that he had a stutter. Here’s somebody with a stutter who was not educated, but when he received the baptism of the Holy Spirit with supernatural language he was transformed from a timid shy stutter to somebody who walked in a great healing ministry and great power and became one of the most phenomenal preachers of the gospel this world has ever known.

Sid:  And one of my heroes of the faith is an African American man by the name of William Seymour, a one eyed pastor.

Glenn:  Yes, sir.

Sid:  Tell me about the secret to William Seymour, and for those who aren’t familiar with him tell us what he did.

Glenn:  Well, he was the one who God used to inspire the Azusa Street Revival.  Which not only shock up America, but were still seeing the effects of the Azusa Street Revival today in all the world.  The great Pentecostal that reached and touched the world was fired up by the Azusa Street Revival.  This man, his secret was power and the power was praying tongues.  He said this himself; he said he asked the Holy Spirit what else must I do to experience revival?  The Holy Spirit told him to pray more.  And again the Holy Spirit said to him a few years later, there are better things to be had in the spiritual life, but they must be sought out with faith and prayer.  And so he increased his prayers to seven hours a day.  He prayed in the Spirit.  He prayed in tongues, he prayed in supernatural language, seven hours a day; and we’re still reaping the benefits of the Azusa Street Revival today in America and all over the world.

Sid:  How does someone pray in supernatural languages seven hours?  You really have to die to self to do that. 

Glenn:  Yes.

Sid:  Well, it’s like fasting, I guess, the same thing.

Glenn:  Yes, well you mortify the deeds of the flesh by the Spirit so when you pray in the Spirit or when you pray in supernatural language you are dominating your flesh and you’re giving your spirit man ascendency over your flesh.

Sid:  Let’s whet the appetite of some of our listeners right now, “What happens according to the Bible when we are praying in a supernatural language?

 Glenn:  Well, there are many things I could talk to you about you know; in this book I give you sixty explanatory benefits to praying in tongues, but one of my favorite is that when you pray in tongues the scripture says that you are charging up, you are edifying yourself.  That means you will charge up your spirit man like you would charge a battery.  And so when you begin to pray in supernatural language you are charging up your inner man where the dunamis or the explosive power of God.  So that when this happens it your life, Satan can’t just come and touch you because there’s power coming out of you.  There’s power radiating out of your life.  So to me it’s all about the power of God.

Sid:  Now, you also talk about when you pray in tongues you fine tune your spirit to hear God’s voice.  Explain that.

Glenn:  Yes, because language creates intimacy.  When you may be overseas and you don’t know anybody.  The moment you hear somebody speak in English all of a sudden it creates and intimate relationship.  You have something in common.  When we speak the language of God we are building intimacy with God.  We are building an intimate relationship with God because we are speaking His language.  Okay, so it’s all about creating a relationship with God.  And the scripture says “God says with other tongue I will speak to this people.”  So God wants to speak to us through tongues.  It fine tunes your spirit to be on track with where God wants you to be.  When the apostle Paul wanted to go to a lot of different places in the book of Acts the 16th chapter, the scripture says the Spirit of God told him not to go.  Well, he had to be in connection, he had to be with an intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit for the Holy Spirit to guide him to where he needs to go.  And that’s the benefit of knowing the Holy Spirit through supernatural languages that He will synchronize your steps to take you where he wants you to go.

Sid:  You know the thought that’s crossing my mind, many people don’t fast for health reasons, they have to have food every day for various circumstances etc.  But everyone can speak for hours in unknown tongues if they want to.

Glenn:  Yes, well yes.  Paul said I will pray with my Spirit and I will pray with my understanding.  So you can do that for hours on end. 

Sid:  Out of curiosity, I have not done this for hours and hours.  I believe when I was a newer believer, I did but when someone starts to doing it for hours every day.  Do you ever find yourself after a point just so zooming into the Spirit, into the glory realm, does this happen to you?

Glenn:  Yes sir.  It happens all the time, the more you pray in the Spirit you break through that glass and all of a sudden you are in that realm.  You’re in that realm that you can hear the voice of God. 

Sid:  Speaking of hearing that voice of God, you heard all about the woman that was going to be your wife one day.  Tell me about that.

Glenn:  Well, I was young and I wanted to know, I didn’t want to just have girl friends, I said no,  if I am going to get married I’ll be married to one person and that’s it.  And I was talking to the Lord that I need to find out who this woman is.  So I spent hours, hours, praying in the Spirit, not looking around everywhere; but spent hours praying in tongues praying in that supernatural language.  Because the scripture says I’m speaking divine secrets.  Most people don’t realize when you speak in that language you are actually prophesying your future.  You are about to enter into the path that God has for you.  So I began to pray and pray and I fell asleep and when I fell asleep I had a dream.  I dreamt that I was standing at the altar and getting married.  And while I was standing there I heard the music you know, the bridal music and I turned around and I saw this girl coming with a veil on her face and she came in front of me.  But I couldn’t see her face, but right there and then I heard the audible voice of God, your wife’s name will be called Anna.  So right there and then I knew that my name would be called Anna, so I didn’t have to wake up the next morning find out if my wife is going to be called Sue or Peggy because I knew from the mouth of God that my wife’s name will be called Anna.  So right then I heard the audible voice of God and today my wife’s name is Anna Rose.

Sid:  Well, you know I’m looking at some of the benefits I’ve never even thought about before that you list in your book and especially this CD, “One Hundred and One Reasons Why to Pray in Tongues.”  And the title of the CD, I’ve named it “Your Personal Trainer for the Supernatural,” because speaking in tongues breaks you into every arena of the supernatural.  You just learn that your spirit to hear God’s voice when you speak in tongues.  You open yourself up to the other gifts of the Spirit; in fact I love it when you say it’s a brain-storming session with God.  It gives you supernatural strength, supernatural peace, supernatural joy; it removes fear from your life.  You know what I love about your book; it covers every objection as to why people say that it’s no longer necessary to speak in tongues; or you can’t speak in tongues today its called sensationalist belief.  By the time someone finishes your brand new book “The Power of Praying in Tongues” and this CD which is a bonus I believe there are going to be superman as they start moving in the supernatural.