SID: Hello. Sid Roth here with Janie DuVall. Janie is co-producer of It’s Supernatural television. And Janie and I have similar backgrounds. We came to the Lord about the same time. We both come from a Jewish background. And Janie, there was a book that you read and I read in the early’70s. It was by John Sherrill, “They Speak in Other Tongues”. And that book really, it was so amazing. You see, in this book, it was kind of a bestseller back then and everyone that was speaking in supernatural languages was most brand new believers, there was a movement, the charismatic movement at that point, was reading that book. And this fellow was a skeptic. He did not believe that these languages were anything but gibberish. So he went around and he took a tape recorder and he recorded these languages. Then he went to a language lab of a university and had many of these experts. They study semantics. They know if it’s a language or not. So they listened to these languages and they said, “We know through the science of semantics that they are old, ancient languages, but they are real languages. It’s not just gibberish.” And that impressed me so much that Janie DuVall did an experiment. She didn’t tell me about it ‘till after she did it. But she spoke into a tape recorder or made a CD of her prayer language. And what did you do with it, Janie?
JANIE: I taped three minutes. And we contacted a whole bunch of universities around the United States, university language experts, linguistic experts, and we didn’t tell them anything. We just said, “Here we’d like you to listen to this. Tell us what this is.” And so I’m a Jewish New Yorker. My last name is French, but that’s because of my husband. I am not French. But I prayed in supernatural languages on that tape, and this is what some of the professors said. They said, “This is definitely a native French speaker.” Several of them said that. And they said, one said that it was a performance art piece constructed passage performed by a native speaker of French, purely for the sound. But they said, and that professor himself was a native French speaker himself. But then another professor said that he believed that it was old French, a variety of Medieval language, and he said, and maybe from Provencal. So I thought, you know, I didn’t tell you this one, and here’s the surprise. I looked up Provencal. I thought, what is that? And it was a little French language. It’s extinct now. And it was spoken in the 1300’s, and listen to this. It was spoken by the Jewish French community in 1300.
SID: That is super. But I’ll tell you what’s even more exciting than that is several scientists did brain studies of people that speak in supernatural tongues. And you see the center of speech, I learned this from some people I was interviewing, is what’s called the frontal lobe. And Janie, what did their research find?
JANIE: Well Dr. Andrew Newberg, a scientist, said, in the frontal lobe when we’re speaking the language that we know there’s activity going on in the frontal lobe. But he did studies, when people speak in supernatural languages there’s no activity. So it has to be coming from Spirit.
SID: So it’s not coming from the mind.
JANIE: That’s right.
SID: It’s coming from your spirit. And this is a kind of interesting story. I had the same experience. Janie and I are kind of going parallel with these experiences. But Janie’s mother, on Yom Kippur, now this is her Jewish mother, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, had an experience with Jesus. What happened?
JANIE: Jesus appeared to my mom on Yom Kippur a few years before I was born. But she argued with him, being Jewish, saying, “I cannot be seeing you,” which I thought, how do you argue when he appears to you. But she just said, “I can’t be seeing you. I’m Jewish.” So inside she believed, but, hmmm.
SID: Okay. So Janie comes home after becoming a believer. What caused you to speak in a supernatural language to your mother? You knew she wouldn’t understand that.
JANIE: You know, I thought, okay, my mother is just gonna have to hear this. My mom was an expert in the Romance languages. She never spoke it at home, but she knew French, Italian, Latin, Spanish. And so I thought, you know when I heard the supernatural languages coming out of me for the first time I heard a whole bunch of languages. So I said, “Okay Mom, listen to this. Tell me what ‘s going on.” And my mother just absolutely flipped. She said, “You are speaking in Latin. I hear French. I hear Italian and you’re saying that Jesus is coming back soon. Worship Jesus. Sing to him.”
SID: You know, I had something so amazing that parallels what Janie’s talking about. When I received my supernatural language I didn’t feel anything. I didn’t hear anything. Just by faith I started speaking. The man told me to do it, I believed that he knew what he was talking about, so therefore, I could do it. I was like a child. I had like childlike faith. If they had said you could sing, you could walk on water, I would have walked on water. But then immediately after I started speaking my language the thought popped in my head, you’re making that up. And so I was kind of, James calls it, I was kind of double-minded as far as my supernatural language. And at that time an orthodox Jewish rabbi became a believer in Jesus. And I was talking with him and a woman came up that was expecting a baby, and the doctor had said the baby was dead within her. And she walked up to me, and I’m a brand new believer, and she said, “Pray for my baby to come to life.” Now I didn’t know anything. That was a little too much for me. And so when I prayed for the baby to come back to life all I could think of doing was praying in my supernatural language, and I did it. And after she left, the rabbi said to me, “You were speaking in an ancient form of Hebrew. Where did you learn it?” I said, “Rabbi, I know Bar Mitzvah Hebrew. I know how to read it. I don’t speak too many words.” This rabbi said to me, “Sid, you prophesied that the child was with the God the Father and be at peace.” And I, Janie, I never doubted again. And doubt is not good because the just shall live by faith. We’ll be right back with some amazing harmony, like a symphony of a group of people that have never rehearsed, praying in supernatural languages. Be right back.
