SID: Patricia, you said you have a favorite quote from John Wesley. What is that?
PATRICIA: It’s where I said, “I want to be set on fire so other people can watch me burn.” And that really has to do with our passion and our passion for Jesus, and we burn for him, because how else are we going to win the world if we ourselves are not on fire. How can I say to somebody, hey, come to know Jesus and be born like me. We need to be full of the spirit, full of passion, walking out the great commandment to burn for him and then people will be set on fire. The world will be set on fire.
SID: You were at the Toronto Airport Church in its very beginning. But recently, something new is going on there. What is going on in your congregation?
PATRICIA: You know, that’s true. It’s like a second wave has been released. But I would just say in one word: presence. The presence of God is so absolutely thick, which we just love.
SID: Do you realize when you said that, the presence of God just descended on us. I believe some of you are feeling it in your home. I really do. Now at age 12, you became a believer. You learned how to get excommunicated for seeking the supernatural as a young girl. At 19, you bumped into something you weren’t too happy about, a demon.
PATRICIA: Wow.
SID: And you couldn’t get rid of it. You had prayed to be filled with the Holy Spirit and you didn’t speak in supernatural language. What did you figure when you didn’t speak in supernatural languages?
PATRICIA: Well I found out I needed it.
SID: I know you found out you needed it. But did you kind of give up on it? Did you think that perhaps that maybe it’s not for me?
PATRICIA: Yes. Maybe my story will help someone, because when I was 17, I received prayer for the baptism of the Holy Spirit and nothing happened. And so I’m thinking, oh no, God doesn’t want me to have this. This is only for an elite few. So then he put me in a corner to show that I really needed it, and that was when I was 19. I was home from university for the summer, and every night at two a.m., for three weeks straight, I was awakened by demonic beings in my room.
SID: That’s got to be scary to anyone.
PATRICIA: Absolutely. I wanted to go sleep with my parents and I’m 19. So I was, I saw hooded creatures. I heard voices, candles would throw across the room, something would fall off the wall. So I’m petrified.
SID: So it’s real. It’s not your imagination.
PATRICIA: Absolutely. And I’m like, God, what’s going on. And I knew that I lacked power. I lacked authority to really take authority over these beings. And that’s when I went after a pastor that I knew that was filled with the Spirit, and I just said, hey look, I need this, and two years ago, nothing happened. So anyway, so he prayed for me. I felt fire from the top of my head to the tips of my toes.
SID: Now people say that. Did you really feel fire?
PATRICIA: I did. I did. It actually felt like liquid fire, and for me, was very distinguishable. Drove home in the car, started speaking in tongues, and I am just overwhelmed and just undone. I go to my room and say, “In the name of Jesus, get out.” And that was the first time I slept in three weeks. And it’s like I learned something. I learned the authority that we can walk in, in God through the power of the Holy Spirit.
SID: Now you had something else. You personally, and your husband live a lifestyle of supernatural experiences and your children live a lifestyle of supernatural experiences. Tell me about one of your children and their experience.
PATRICIA: Well for example, our daughter Gabrielle, she’s right now on staff at International House of Prayer in Kansas City. But when she was little I heard a crash from her bedroom. I go tearing into her bedroom and I find her on the top bunk of a bunkbed with this little sheepish look on her face. And what she told me was that she was climbing the dresser to get something from the top. The dresser started to topple when she was picked up by unseen hands, went through the air, carried through the air onto the top bunk of the bunkbed. And I mean, unbelievable. To us there was no doubt it was an angel. I certainly believe in the power of prayer and the angelic warriors all around us.
SID: And it’s not just her daughter, by the way. Tell me briefly about your son.
PATRICIA: Well our son saw with his natural eyes a green snake in his bedroom, a white light comes and consume the green snake. And so he comes tearing into my room, he’s so afraid. And so we prayed. We broke off fear, all that. But it was a week later, in Canada we get a lot of snow, and my father-in-law was actually blowing snow with a big snow blower. These are very powerful machines. He unwisely had left it running as he just got something in the house. My son’s scarf got caught in the snow blower and his face was being dragged into those powerful blades.
SID: That’s awful.
PATRICIA: It just stopped at the last minute. This was a few days after this green snake, white light. And we were like, we just know that we know that the Lord sent an angel to protect him.
SID: You had a major life event when in a dream you went to Heaven.
PATRICIA: I would say this. My body was on Earth, but my spirit was in Heaven. And I saw all these people, and I just immediately knew they were my family tree or my ancestors. And I saw my grandmother, and she had been dead for 10 years at this point. And I’m thinking, oh my goodness, I’m not dead yet. But I am seeing all these people and my grandmother. And I just remember them saying things to me. They said, “You are Patricia and our race is over and our time is done, but you have the capacity to bring light into dark places. Tell them of this place. We’re cheering you on.” And they said, “Tell them of this place and tell them he’s worth it all. He’s worth it all.”
SID: Some of you are sitting back and saying, I hear what Patricia is saying and that’s wonderful. She’s so gifted. But she has a husband and her husband would say, he believed a lie, actually. He would say, “She’s the one that hears from God, I don’t hear from God. I’m just a good teacher.” It was a lie and many of you have believed a lie. We’ll be right back.
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