Sid: Well, I have a woman that’s been raised up by God that is as radical as I am and I believe as radical you are for the things of God. She has such a hunger for God it’s contagious. And I want to find out a bit more about Patricia King’s background because as I’m reading my brief notes here I see that we have a lot of similarity. Patricia King reached a critical point in her life where she actually believed that she would end up in a mental hospital and that they’ll throw the key away. Well, as I like say Patricia I thought that I would either be dead or in prison or insane. And that’s the way and that’s not exaggerating before I knew the Messiah. But you were in a real bad bad way and you were about ready to have a baby and you wanted your baby baptized and things started changing. Tell me about that.
Patricia: That’s right. Well Sid, I was in a very traumatic state emotionally. In fact I was so erratic emotionally I had no control over my emotions. And people outwardly didn’t understand that, they only saw one part of me that I would present in public and then behind the scenes I was in torment. I had two little children at the time, a brand new baby and I was afraid for their lives because of my erratic behavior. So I called an Anglican minister because I felt that it was time for me to expose what was going on behind the scenes in my life and to try to do something about it. And I had this belief if I did that I would be committed and so I wanted to make sure my children were Christened because I thought if they were then if I never got out of the mental institution then that maybe I would see them in Heaven or something. And so when I called the Anglican minister he came over within twenty minutes of hanging up that call and began to share the gospel with me and that was my first time of hearing the gospel.
Sid: So actually this was the first light that was really beginning to shine on your world of darkness.
Patricia: That’s right, it was like I had gone to Sunday school as a little girl, but I never new, I never knew that you could have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ by having Him live inside of your heart, inside your life and have him transform you; and literally be your life in you. And when this minister came in and shared certain things with me I didn’t accept it right away. In fact I was scared, I realized that I had been demonized because of my past and so those demons started to react in me and through me against this minister, but he never gave up on me. Invited me to a meeting that week in which I ended up going and that is where the power and the presence of the Lord was so real, so tangible I felt him, I saw him on people’s faces. I saw that light that did penetrate the darkness and that night after I got home I knelt down before the Lord, I said, “Lord Jesus if you are real, like I saw in those people tonight, if you are real like the presence I felt tonight, I would love for you to come into my life and forgive me of all my sins.” And he didn’t hesitate Sid, He was just, I felt His presence come in, I felt my sin and my guilt and my shame get removed and I actually felt the new life of Christ enter me. So I was so blessed to have that experience where…
Sid: But you know, the thing that interests me so much is when I first became a believer I had the presence of God. I felt so clean; actually I got set free of all the demons from the New Age that I’d been involved in. But, I didn’t understand repentance, no one had ever taught, coming from a Jewish background, no one had taught me, now, I might add I did nothing but repent for the next few years. However, with you it sounds like it was just in this one night you became totally cleansed!
Patricia: Yeah, I actually felt the cleansing power of the Lord. Before I became a Christian I knew that I was in trouble, like no one had to tell me I was a sinner, I knew I was, I just didn’t know how not to be. I tried self help programs, I tried of course all kinds of spiritual things, that is what actually got me into the New Age which I was practicing before I got saved. It was because I was searching for answers so I went for spiritual help, and of course it only made it worse because anything that is not of Christ is just going to destroy you even more. And so I didn’t need to be told I was a sinner, I knew I was doing wrong things, I knew I was hurting people, I knew that I was hurting myself; but I didn’t know how to overcome. And so when Jesus came into my life and I felt the guilt, the shame and everything leave me, then that was my greatest gift, was to know forgiveness and to know that I could now have a fresh start.
Sid: And the thing that’s amazing to me and was amazing for me as well as for you, is that you immediately went into the streets! I immediately started telling everyone I knew about Jesus, I hadn’t even read the New Testament.
Patricia: Ha, ha ha, I know and it’s like as a believe when that life enters you don’t understand why it’s good, you just know it is and so the next morning after I got Born Again I went to my neighbors. I knocked on the door to the first neighbor and I said, “Last night Jesus came into my life and took all my sin away and He can do it for you too.” Because I thought I was absolutely convinced that the only reason that the whole world was not saved yet was because they had not experienced what I had experienced. And if they could just hear that Jesus could take their sin away they would want him. And so I was really surprised at the first door that I didn’t get the response I was thinking I would get. I thought they would say, “Oh yes, yes I would love to have my sins taken away.” I was so sure that everybody would want it, but instead they said, “Patricia are you crazy; have you gone crazy?” And I remember saying, “No, I was crazy, but now I’m not crazy.” And it’s like they just looked at me like I had gone off my rocker. And of course that news spread around the neighborhood. But I continued to go door to door that day, I could not keep quiet, I would go out on the streets and share with whoever would listen. I was so excited about having this new life, and it was so real and you know Sid, most nonbelievers are only one revelation away from receiving Christ because as soon as the light goes on you know that you know that you know.
Sid: But do you know what I feel sorry for? I feel sorry for Christians that believe because their parents believe and they have attended church their whole life and they could go their whole life and miss the whole purpose of life and think their fine.
Patricia: Yeah, that’s true.
Sid: And another thing you know, that when I watch you on television I see something that is so wonderful; I see you out on the streets with people that are in the worse shapes of anyone in society and I see a compassion and a love in you. Where does this compassion come from when I see you out in the slum areas and just putting your arms and weeping with these people?
Patricia: Well, you know Sid, that’s exactly where I was and that’s where I would be now if God hadn’t loved me to life. When I received Christ, I didn’t deserve to be loved, none of us do, but we serve a God of love; He is love. And He saw everything about me, He saw everything I’d done in the shadows; He saw everything I did in the secret places; He saw it all, all the horrible things that I did and yet He loved me perfectly. On the night that I received Jesus Christ I felt that love fill me; and I came to know that God is a God of love; He is love. And so when you know Him as a God of love and when you’ve received His mercy then it’s easy to give. Freely, freely we have received, so we freely freely give. And I do love; I love loving people to life. And I find that Sid and I know that you know this too is that most often people don’t need a good preach, but they need a good love. They need to be touched by the presence of love and I find that when people feel the presence of God His love and His favor towards them, His friendship is being offered towards them that they melt and they reach out to Him. And why wouldn’t you? He’s so delicious, He’s so amazing; He’s so there’s no one like Him.
Sid: …Tell me one changed life of someone that had attended your school.
Patricia: My gosh, this is so awesome; I mean we get emails all the time Sid, of people who said that the Glory School when they attended it was there point of being transformed. I remember one Baptist couple; in fact he was a Pastor and had never been introduced to the supernatural and did not understand that the scripture teaches very clearly that we have invitation to access and the reality of the Kingdom realm by faith; and he had never seen that in the scripture before until he took the Glory School. And it opened up a brand new world to him and in fact now he operates in the prophetic…
