SID: Hello. Sid Roth here with Corey Russell. What an amazing, amazing supernatural gift. Because shortly after Corey had this encounter with God, half the high school becomes, would you say that they didn’t become nominal Bible believers, but they were literally normal? That’s the word I like. Were they normal according to the Bible?
COREY: They were normal according to the Bible. They got lit on fire.
SID: But then someone prayed for you and you started speaking in supernatural languages. Tell me about that. I’m curious.
COREY: Yeah. Because not only did half the high school get saved, but a local church began to host meetings every week. We would have five meetings until three in the morning and God would just break in. As He was breaking in, in one of those early meetings I remember some old lady praying for me. I fall back.
SID: Wait a second. This gift that Corey received, that he’s about ready to tell you, he says a hundred out of a hundred times, you heard me, a hundred out of a hundred times when this gift is properly used, he says, depression, fear, hopelessness, even resurrection from the dead has occurred with this particular gift. Now again, tell me what was going on.
COREY: Totally. This lady prayed for me.
Woman: Son, son, let me pray for me. In Jesus’ name, I pray for you. I pray for you in Jesus’ name.
COREY: I fall out and this language is coming out of me.
SID: You fall out. The reason he falls over backwards is he can’t stand.
COREY: Totally.
SID: That’s the only reason.
COREY: I mean, you read the Bible. Any time anybody comes in the presence of God they’re going to, something is going to respond. And so I begin, this language comes out of me. And from that moment I begin to connect , every time that I prayed in this language, I felt closer to Jesus. It was that simple. I felt closer to Jesus when I prayed in this language. And so I gave myself to it in those first six months, first years, just gave myself to it. Every time that I did I felt closer to Jesus. That was the initial thing that got me hooked to the reality of praying in this supernatural language.
SID: But today you’re a leader with the IHOP, International House of Prayer organization, and he prays something like, according to my notes, 30 hours a week.
COREY: Totally.
SID: That’s a lot of prayer. And he told me something that is so wonderful. This supernatural language, as Paul said, I pray in supernatural languages more than any man. Why is it when some people get this language they don’t do what you told them? They pray for the first month like that, maybe, maybe. Or they may even pray for the first day like that and then they stop. Why do they stop?
COREY: Totally. Well I think we have to go back to that passage. The apostle Paul, I mean, we got to just stop for a second. The man who pretty much wrote the whole New Testament, the man who has done more for Christianity than just like anybody else, the man whose character of Christ, the power of Christ, the love of Christ, no man exemplified Christ like this man. And this man gave us the clearest doorway into his devotional life by saying, “I thank my God that I speak in this supernatural language more than anybody else.” That right there is a doorway into the realm of the supernatural. I tell you what I think it is. I think we treat this gift, this power of this gift like we do so many other things in Christianity. We treat it like a badge. Either you have it or you don’t, and once you experience it one time we treat it like a badge on our coats that we walk around with some kind of sense that we’ve arrived or we have everything that God has, fully misunderstanding that it’s actually a gateway into the realm of the supernatural. We stop it. We treat His gift and now use it as a sense that we’ve arrived. And it’s such a travesty, Sid.
SID: I agree with you. What are the advantages of doing what Paul did? What have you seen is the advantage?
COREY: Paul tells us in First Corinthians 14, he says that, “When I speak in this language,” he goes, “I’m not speaking to men, I’m not speaking to devils, but I’m speaking straight to the throne room of God.” I have a spirit to spirit contact and connect with the Father of Glory, the President of the Universe. I have a direct phone line by my spirit to His, and that when I pray in this language I’m talking directly to Him. That’s number one. Number two, the Bible says that we speak mysteries out of our spirit straight to God. These mysteries are hidden truths, not hidden from us, but hidden for us. Truths about God, truths about who He is and what He’s like, and what He’s doing, and how He feels, truths about us, truths about who we are to Him, about our destiny. I believe that when I’m praying in this language I’m prophesying my Divine destiny. And I believe that when I—
SID: By the way, I can tell you as a fact that when I was a brand new believer in the Messiah and I prayed for hours and fasted, and hours and hours in supernatural language, and what you’re seeing today is because I was speaking into the atmosphere what God had for me. But you know what? You said something that was so, to me, I mean, as a believer, that’s changed my whole paradigm for praying in supernatural languages. So you listen and listen well. When most people pray in this supernatural language, they’re praying into the atmosphere, into the air. And that’s good. But that’s not a focus. Tell me what you do.
COREY: I have found, because I found that many times we get distracted, we lose focus, a lot of times people quit because we just think we’re talking into the air. We just, we’re talking to the air. But the Bible tells us we talk to God. So what I love to do is that when I’m praying in the Holy Spirit, when I’m praying in this language, I picture in my mind’s eye, Revelation 4, God sitting on the throne, shining in glorious light, burning like fire, a rainbow surrounding it, lightening and thundering breaking out. And I stand on that sea of glass with my mind’s eye and I speak straight to the heartbeat of Heaven. I will either picture Him on the throne or I’ll picture the Holy Spirit living on the inside of me.
SID: Because Paul says in the new covenant, when we speak, we’re speaking mysteries to God.
COREY: That’s right.
SID: So what I find is I just started doing this, I can see Jesus in front of me. In fact, I do it at my desk and the chair opposite, like where Corey is right now, I’m speaking to the Messiah and he smiles at me, and I’m pouring my heart out. And I’m talking to him. I’m no longer speaking there. Corey has a friend that spoke in the supernatural language and someone came back to life. Very quickly, tell me.
COREY: A friend of mine was in Bolivia to where they were being taught about the power of praying in the Holy Spirit, praying in this language. He was a worker, he was a farmer and one day his co-worker didn’t come to work. He went to his house at the end of the day, began to smell a stench from his room. Walked in the door and his friend had hung himself.
Man: Oh my god!
COREY: All he knew was this language. He took him down from the rope and laid him on the ground, and began to pray in this language for hours and hours, and hours. After so many hours a praise came out of him, “Jesus, I thank you that you are alive. Jesus, I thank you that you are alive.” After a while the friend sat up. He still wasn’t breathing, but he began to sit up, and the guy continued to pray in the language. After so many hours, the man received breath again, received life again, got saved, met the Holy Spirit and began to pray in the language himself. And it was by that simple farmer that took God at His word and created that atmosphere of resurrection.
SID: You know, Paul says that when you pray these supernatural languages you edify yourself. And in the Greek the word “edify” means you like charge your battery. And all the gifts of the Spirit of God that God has for you are going to start coming out. Don’t go away because a if you’ve never prayed in this language, you are going to. I tell you, you are going to. And if you have prayed in this language you’re going to become normal. Be right back.
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