Sid: My guest by way of telephone I’m speaking to her at her home in Porter Ranch, California is Patti Perior. Now Patti is an evangelist very sensitive to the Holy Spirit, moves in the miraculous and prophetic gifts of the Spirit. And Patti you really provoke me to jealousy you had an encounter with Tommy Hicks. For those that aren’t familiar with Tommy Hicks would you briefly tell me his background?
Patti: Well Tommy Hicks was used mightily in the 50’s when they had a marvelous outpouring of the Holy Spirit revival broke out in Argentina. He got…Tommy had got on a plane and as an evangelist the Lord told him He’s sending him to Argentina to do a great work. And he asked the stewardess he said “Have you ever heard of Juan Peron? She said “Yes he’s the President.” Well God had told him that he was to meeting with Juan Peron and to rent the largest stadium I guess in Argentina. And that was quite miraculous. Any way I’d read the story of the great Argentina revival and it so impressed me of how God had used this man so mightily. The man who gave me this book was the head of the Navigators at that time in Pasadena, California. I called him and I said “How could I get a hold of more of these books I want to share these books. It’s a very small book and he said “Why don’t you call Tommy?” And I said “How could I call such a great man of God you mean call and ask him if I can get some books?” And he said “Yes I’ll give you his phone number.” Well with fear and trembling I took the phone number and I thought “Lord I can I just call this man in such an anointing he’s never heard of me how can I get your book?” The Lord began to speak to me and gave me a prophecy to give to him and I wrote it down. So I call Tommy and I said “Tommy I’ve called to see if I could order some books but by the way the Lord gave me a prophecy to give you.” So he told me to give it to him so I read it to him and he said “How soon can you get over here?” So I called my brother Paul and I was really nervous now Sid that I was going to meet Tommy Hicks in person; so my brother and I went over to meet Tommy. And when we came in he was sitting in a big black leather chair and it seemed like there was a haze around him. It was like there was a cloud that it was even hard for me to distinguish his features.
Sid: Could you feel a greater presence of God than say before you entered the house?
Patti: Oh yes, oh yes the presence of God emanated from Tommy. And while we were sitting there…
Sid: But the presence of God was so strong that it appeared to you as a haze around him that’s amazing. You had difficulty making out all of his features?
Patti: Yes it was so strong and I asked my brother later I said “Could you distinguish what he looked like? (Laughing) He said “No” he said “There was such a haze around him.” That his hair was grayish white at this time and all we could distinguish the hair and very faintly his features but if I would have passed him on the street I would never had recognized him the anointing on him was so strong. As we sat there and talked it was a hot summer day and the front door was open there was a screen door. The screen door opened and closed and there was a fragrance came in through that door that so filled the room also.
Sid: Are you telling me it opened and closed by itself?
Patti: Yes.
Sid: The fragrance came in and filled that room I know whose fragrance that was.
Patti: Yes.
Sid: That was the Lord’s fragrance.
Patti: Yes so it was not only the anointing on Tommy it was as though Jesus walked Himself into that place.
Sid: But one of the things that I told you before we started this interview that intrigues me greatly is at another time Tommy Hicks prayed for you. And said that “You were the first person that received this specific anointing besides himself and it’s called “The baptism of love.” We’ve heard of “The baptism in the Holy Spirit” what is the “baptism of love”?
Patti: Well it seemed like it was a process it didn’t happen at his house it happened in our home. There was an increase of the desire of the love of God. And it’s more than believing about Him, it’s more than power for miracles or to bring forth fruitfulness. It’s such a desire for the intimacy of Jesus of love and it increased over a period of perhaps a couple of weeks. But it came to a point where I thought “If I don’t receive this baptism of love I think I’ll die.”
Sid: You know what that reminds me I interviewed a man by the name of Rodney Howard Brown and he went into his prayer closet one day and he said “Lord if you don’t touch me take me I want to just die.” And he had an experience with God that has affected the world, but go ahead. Is that the way it was with you?
Patti: It was it was like I couldn’t stand it it was such a deep desire, a craving is not a strong enough word for it and so one night I invited Tommy Hicks, my brother Paul Lincoln, Georganne and Bill Tenny and one other man over to house and we were going to have Tommy share with us. So they all came over and Tommy began to share and talk and at the end he said “Let’s make a circle in the middle of the room and pray.” And so when he prayed for me this Holy Spirit came upon me in such a degree such an overwhelming manner I just dropped to floor, flat on my back. And I could see a vision of rivers of living water pouring out of the midst of me filling the room, filling and it was just like an ocean and this overwhelming love. This was the occurrence in my case of this baptism of love I was so filled with the love of God. My love for Him had so increased, my love for the hurting and those in pain and those who don’t know the Lord as their Savior became so intense and it has never left me. And you know although you have all of the gifts of the Spirit you have not love…but there is even a greater degree of love the Lord wants to give to His church which He calls His bride.
Sid: Well if not now when (Laughing)?
Patti: (Laughing) Yeah, yes. Yes I feel the Lord is calling people to even ask for the Lord to give them the Baptism of love or even to that their desire for the love will come because the Holy Spirit draws us to receive Jesus as Lord and Savior. And I believe the Holy Spirit woos us so that we will open up to surrender to receive the initial baptism of the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit is continuing luring and drawing us to bring us into greater dimensions of all that He is into the fullness. And I believe that there are those listening to us today that they just want so much more of Him. They just want their lives are filled with mundane things that do not satisfy and they just need the love of God to fill them.
Sid: Patti I believe that if starting now those that are listening will be praying out to God “God I need more of Your love, I need more of Your compassion for people, I need to experience your love I know there’s more.” If you’ll start crying out to God right now that either on Thursday or Friday I’m going to ask Patti to release this anointing upon you and I believe it’s going to have a major impact on your life. But between now and then I mean even if you can fast and pray and say “God I know I’m desperate and I’m not desperate enough God but I want to be desperate make me desperate.” If you’ll pray along those lines I believe God’s going to meet you because that’s what Rodney Howard Brown told me he said “You have to be hungry.” And if you’re not hungry you have to be honest and say “God make me hungry.” But you have to be hungry for more of God. Now Patti you told me that there is a book that makes people hungry for more of God it’s called “The Wigglesworth Standard”. I was not aware of it until you made me aware of this book, it’s based on the life and unpublished messages of Smith Wigglesworth. The author of this book found 37 unpublished manuals of Smith Wigglesworth and he puts in this book Wigglesworth. And for those unfamiliar Wigglesworth prayed for 14 dead people that came back to life, for people that are insane and they got their sanity back, he’s literally stumps became legs and feet, cancers have fallen off, deaf people heard. And one of the great men of faith and he reveals his keys to walking in miracles and having your prayers answered.
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