Sid: My guest is red hot for the Messiah, his name is Glenn Arekion and Glenn has a brand new book that I believe is mandatory for every free believer in the world. It’s called “The Power of Praying in Tongues” unleashing the supernatural dimension within you; it’s brand new, but it will literally light a fire under you. And I know something about you; I know you need a fire lit. Tell me a bit Glenn about George Washington Carver.
Glenn: George Washington Carver was a great man of God who believed in prayer and as he began to pray he called it, communicating with my Father.
Sid: You know you don’t hear about that side of him. You hear about all the inventions, but you don’t hear about the source of the inventions.
Glenn: That’s the reason why he had all the inventions. He had so many recipes and so many use for the peanut just by knowing the voice of God; by just communicating and having and intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit. And so he had so many inventions. That’s what supernatural languages will do to you. It will open you up the creativity of God because when you are praying in that supernatural language you’re tapping into the mind of God. And God’s mind is loaded with ideas. God’s mind, God knows God’s got more ways to deliver you out of your problems than sickness got to keep you the problem. So when we begin to tap into that supernatural language just like George Washington Carver, God will give us all kinds of ways to get us blessed, to get us prosperous to get us out of any situation that we may find our self in.
Sid: Give me your definition of speaking in a supernatural language.
Glenn: Well, it is a supernatural utterance by the Holy Spirit in a language never learned by the person doing the speaking. It is coming from your spirit man and you’ve never learned that language but it is a language of the Holy Spirit that’s coming out from your spirit. Just tongues is the language of the supernatural realm. Just like French is the language of France.
Sid: Why is it that there’s a whole group of Christians that say speaking in supernatural languages was necessary in the first church but is not necessary today? How did that happen? Where did we go astray?
Glenn: Well, this is some those people who call themselves sensationists that they don’t believe that tongues is for us today, they don’t believe that the gifts of the spirit are for us today that it all passed away with the apostles. But if that was the case then they should never have been called the gifts of the spirit. They should have been called the gifts of the apostles. And the last time I checked we are still living in the church age. The gifts and especially tongues or supernatural language is for us in the church age. Jesus said that the believer will speak in new tongues. So there is no record in the Bible that tongues ceased. Eventually one day it will cease, but not today as long as the church age is still here it is for us today; as long as the Holy Spirit is here it is for us today.
Sid: You know, I’ll tell you a funny story. I know a man that I just gave a copy of your book “The Power of Praying Tongues” to. And he…I said why don’t you speak in supernatural languages today? He said, well to tell you the truth I don’t know anything about it. So that’s why I gave him your book and then I said, I said what do you do in church without the miracles or anything? And he says well to tell you the truth, I sit on my hands. And then I said to him well isn’t that boring? And he said to me, well to tell you the truth I’m comfortable doing this. I mean it’s really pretty sad, he literally…I’m reminded of the scripture, my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge at God’s word.
Glenn: That is so true; and were walking away from power just having like a social club because we don’t want to tap into the supernatural language of tongues because we don’t want to offend anybody. But there’s power available. I mean life would become a great adventure; church will become a great adventure; ministry will become a great adventure when it is led and directed by the Holy Spirit. And if we are led by the Holy Spirit of God, see to me praying in the Spirit is the beginning of being led by the Spirit of God.
Sid: Now, let me read a quote of yours; “As long as the devil can keep you from speaking in supernatural languages he will keep you away from miracles.”
Glenn: Yes, that is correct because tongues is the entrance to the supernatural. If he can keep you away from that, he can keep you away from all other miracles. I mean there are people that would tell us today that tongues is not for us today. Well, if the devil had his way, tongues would not have been for any day. But it began on the day of Pentecost and is still for us today.
Sid: Well, I’ll go one step further, with what anyone that has even a limited understanding of end time Bible prophecy and reads the newspaper today must recognize we’re in the last days.
Glenn: Yes.
Sid: And if tongues was so important in the beginning of the church and so important in these great moves of God’s Spirit throughout the history of the church, I don’t see how we’re going to be able to even survive in these last days without using that supernatural language.
Glenn: That’s right. It is the key to effective last day living. That’s what Jude tells us, he tells us, but you beloved, he’s has already mentioned to us that there will be a time of apostasy; he said in verse 18 Jude, he told you that the apostles told you that there would mockers in the last days who would walk after their own ungodly lusts. But you beloved that’s us Christians in the last days, we are living in the last of the last days; building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. So he was telling us that last day’s effective living come by praying in the Holy Ghost; especially in the world in which we live right now. There is so much fear if you look at the news media. If you look at what’s going on in the world today; all the news media, all the negative news of what can happen to America. How the economy is so bad. Jesus even, himself said that in the last days, men will look at things that are happening and they would have fear in their hearts.
Sid: You know you brought something out that I’ve never seen before in your brand new book from Acts: 6:4 which says but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and the ministry of the Word.
Glenn: Yes.
Sid: But, it was not a prayer, explain that.
Glenn: Well, the little Greek texts says that we will give ourselves continually to the prayer, meaning a definite article. Meaning that the people who said the prayer it was something that was already known among the disciples. And in the book of Acts in the early church, the prayer was praying in the Spirit. The prayer was praying in tongues. That’s the reason why it said that we would not neglect that, we would give ourselves, we will dedicate ourselves to praying in the Spirit and that’s what happens to Peter after James was beheaded. The scripture said that the church began to pray without ceasing, the prayer was made without ceasing.
Sid: And somehow the devil has lifted the prayer from even spirit filled Christians, let alone those who think that God doesn’t do this anymore. He’s literally high jacked the prayer.
Glenn: But, I’ll tell you what happens when this prayer has been high jacked. The scripture says that when the church began go pray without ceasing, God sent an angel. That’s what praying in a supernatural language will do. It will activate angels; it will create angelic activities on our behalf. And we need angelic activities on our behalf in the last days. Especially with all this threat and all this stuff coming against us. We need the protection of angels and one of the ways that we can activate angels is by praying in the supernatural language. That’s why Paul says though I speak with tongues of men, and tongues of angels. So tongues will release and activate angels to work on our behalf.
Sid: I like it when you needed to buy a church building, it became available but you had no money, briefly explain that.
Glenn: Well, I just moved here from London, England. I had just moved to Louisville Kentucky and I did not know any building. I was holding service, but I just came here in the hotel and then they came and told me that the hotel would be demolished so I would have to find myself another venue for church. And I did not know where to go and I did not have any money what so ever. So I just began to, I locked myself in my prayer room. I called it my holy room and I began to and nothing goes on in that room except prayer. So I just began to pray in tongues and I stayed in that room for three days and just prayed in that supernatural language. Saying to God that I don’t know anybody here. I don’t have any money, I can’t buy the building, you are going to have to give me a building. So I spent three days praying in that supernatural language of tongues. And on the third day I got a phone call from a friend of mine that says, hey Glenn there’s a building available do you want to go and have a look at it. So I said sure. So I went to have a look at it and while I was driving there and I heard the Lord in my spirit, that’s your building. So well, thank you Lord and I got there and it was a brand new building about two or three years old. And there was everything in that building; there’s nothing to be done in that building; chairs open, everything in that building. I said to that man, well how much is that building? He said well, you know it should go for a million dollars but for you we will give it to you for $500,000. Now he could have told me any price, would make no difference to me because I have no money whatsoever. He said well, if you want that building just come over on Thursday and just sign for it and bring 20% down for the deposit. I said sure, I’ll do that. So I went back home and again, cause I had no money whatsoever, I needed to bring for deposit $100,000. I didn’t have any $100,000, so I went back to my prayer room and I just prayed and prayed in the spirit, prayed in tongues, prayed in tongues, and prayed in tongues and prayed in tongues and I heard the Lord say just give him $5,000.
Sid: And the amazing thing is they took the $5,000 on a million dollar building although it was available for a half a million. I’m going to tell you something, you won’t survive if you are not mentored in praying in tongues. We will teach you in this book, “The Power of Praying in Tongues,” how to be baptized in the Holy Spirit, the reasons to motivate you if you already are; to pray in tongues and this special CD called “Your Personal Trainer for the Supernatural.