Can ancient secrets of the supernatural be rediscovered? Do angels exist? Is there life after death? Are healing miracles real? Can you get supernatural help from another dimension? Has the future been written in advance? Sid Roth has spent 30 years researching the strange world of the supernatural. Join Sid on this edition of It’s Supernatural.
SID: Hello. Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. I have been investigating miracles for over 30 years, and I thought what if I take the best of the best miracles, the most verified and put it in a book, how helpful would that be for people to encourage them and to find out how wonderful our God is that He heals in so many different ways. And I asked my guest, Linda Josef, who has a Ph.D. in psychology and has practiced for over 30 years, to author the book with me, and she took it to an even higher level by putting in nuggets at the end of each chapter that will help you grow and be able to capture your miracle. Linda, we’ve known each other about 25 years. You used to listen to me on the radio.
LINDA: That’s right.
SID: And then you had an automobile accident. What happened to you?
LINDA: Well I got a very severe whiplash injury and after about, I don’t know, two years, it still hadn’t cleared up, and I was in constant pain. I had a lot of trouble sleeping. And it wasn’t a devastating injury, but it was pretty difficult to live with.
SID: And you came to a service where I was speaking. What happened?
LINDA: Well I had never been to any service where there was healing and I was completely unprepared for it. And at the end of the service you said, “Someone is here with a neck problem and God has a healing for you.” And I was looking around, you know, who could this be? And then all of a sudden it occurred to me, maybe it was me, you know, and no one stood up. And I stood up, and the minute I stood up I realized my pain was gone.
SID: I love it when that occurs. You know, Linda, you told me that the various healing miracle stories in this book are primarily in two categories.
LINDA: Well one thing I found is that there’s two different kinds of healing. There’s the kind that God initiates for reasons of His own. Often it’s to lead somebody into ministry or to inspire people who are observing it, and these are usually very dramatic miracles. But there’s a second kind of healing that people can have, and that is the healing that is the right of the believer. And one of the Bible parables, Jesus calls healing the children’s bread, and it’s our bread. If you’re a believer you have as much right to physical healing as you do to forgiveness.
SID: And I believe the dinner bell will be ringing throughout this entire television show for healing to go be interactive, go right through the TV. So give me an example of the miracle that just happens at sovereign.
LINDA: Well we have one person in the book, and you’ll show in a few minutes some clips of her, her name is Jan Aldrich. She was born with a hideously deformed tongue.
SID: You know what? A picture is worth a thousand words. Let’s take a look at the way she was when she as born.
JAN: When I was born, what they actually, they called it an elongated tongue. I don’t think they knew of another word, and it was a tongue of a 10-year-old, which was double in length, thickness and width. And so when I went home they had in fact keep me in the hospital the first month after I was born. They had to feed me and put my head lower than my feet and feed me with a medicine dropper when the tongue would go to the side. But when I went home my parents treated me just like my brother and sister. And a young child, we don’t know race, we don’t know gender. There was no prejudice. I was in a loving home. But it didn’t take long for me to realize that I was the only member of the family, but my tongue would not go into my mouth. And so shortly after starting school, the tongue continued to grow, and as it grew, there was a severe speech impediment, and later on the doctors, the dentist had devised, they pulled nine teeth out of my mouth to make room for the tongue. And then they taught me to use the lower teeth, as they called in speech therapy, a fence, and the tongue, I would have to kind of manipulate it with my hand and double it behind. And as long as I kept my mouth closed, didn’t eat or speak publicly, I could keep it, even though my cheeks were kind of–
SID: And what would happen when you would speak?
JAN: Oh when I would open my mouth all the, the larger the tongue, the more saliva that you create. So the tongue, the mouth was always full of what you could call saliva or drool. So when I opened my mouth it would, you know, come down. I would drool and then the tongue would come out and then I would have a very heavy accident.
SID: You know, that is one of my favorite testimonies. Wait ‘til you hear what happened to her. Linda, tell us.
LINDA: Jen was sitting in church and she wasn’t’ expecting to have anything happen. And the pastor had a word of knowledge for her that said, “You’re gonna be healed.” She went rushing home and told everyone, but it didn’t come for months, and she kept believing and kept holding on. One day she was in church. A lady prayed for her that she didn’t even know. An electricity shot through her. Her tongue started burning and vibrating, and it shrank up to its normal size.
SID: Wait ‘til you hear the first words she said when she got home.
JAN: When I walked in the door my parents had already laid down for the night. And when I opened the door, for the first time in my life, I said, “Mama” plain. And my mother came down the hall and met me and she said, “He’s done gone and healed you, hadn’t he?”
