Sid: I have a new friend on the telephone Patti Perior and I’m speaking to her at her home in Porter Ranch, California. And Patti moves in prophetic gifting walking in the miraculous very sensitive to the Spirit of God. And one of the things that intrigues me Patti is that before you were baptized in the Holy Spirit you had an almost insatiable hunger for the word of God you used to read the Bible for 4 hours at a time and you kept asking the Lord for more. A lady crossed your path had something you didn’t have. Tell me about her.
Patti: Well this is quite interesting first of all I want to tell you one thing when I was a teenager something happened and the doctor said that I would never be able to have children. But I believe in prayer and I did pray that God would give me a wonderful husband a comfortable home and fill it with children. And I now have 6 children when the doctor said I could have no children. So…
Sid: But you knew about miracles from a child when you were told by doctors that you wouldn’t live so.
Patti: Yes so I believe in the power of prayer but after I gave my life to Jesus I knew nothing about a greater help how one gets more of Jesus in your life. I went to a neighborhood Bible study for women and there was a woman there that we would go around the room with prayer requests and then go around the room with if anyone had an answer. Well this woman had such a fantastic week after week of things that God did after so quickly. I thought “Whatever it is she has I want I want to get closer to Jesus, I want to know Him even in a greater depth, I want to have greater answers to prayer.” Because with a house full of children one gets sick and the other one gets sick and you go all through the line and then mommy is worn out and then she gets sick. So I thought this woman had a boy a son and she would take him to Bible class and he would play in the back room. Well I said to her not knowing her too well “I live just a half a block away and I have a lady that lives in that watches the children when I’m away why don’t you take your little boy to my house?” And I thought “I’ll find out what makes her tick how she gets into this speaking to fevers and they leave.” I had never heard of speaking to a fever and having it leave or something like that. I thought “I want a greater power gift of Jesus.” So she told me about the Holy Spirit and I thought “She didn’t understand what I want I want more of Jesus.” And so we went round and round her talking about the Holy Spirit and me talking about Jesus. So finally she said “Could I pray with you to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit?” Well Sid I really I just wanted her to leave because I thought “She doesn’t get it.” So I thought “Okay I will say yes to her you can pray for me.” But I had a heard a long time ago that there is something called speaking in tongues that I didn’t want a part of.” So anyway she laid her hands on me, which I had never had anyone lay their hands on me to pray before the phone rang and the doorbell rang. And I though “Oh I’m just saved by the bell.”
Sid: (Laughing).
Patti: So I said “You answer the door and I’ll answer the phone.” And I did and she answered the door and I said “Alright Jesus if it’s getting more of You more of this thing called speaking in tongues if it has anything to do with this baptism of the Holy Spirit alright I’ll take it.” So I sat down again and she put her hands on me and prayed and Sid it was like electric volts went through my body and in my innermost being I heard like a rushing like a mighty wind like you’re sitting on the beach and a mighty these winds come and crash. We had become crashed by the wind it was something in the innermost being I’d never heard before. I’d never expected to have anything like this happen like this. An energy went through me I used to call myself perpetually pooped Patti because with the 6 children I was…
Sid: That would do it (Laughing).
Patti: Yes (Laughing) so anyway she left and I said “Lord what is the Holy Spirit all about I don’t understand?” The next day we have a swimming pool and I was taking the children out to the backyard swimming. One of my little boys named Michael he always like these gushy things like frogs and he always wanted a lizard. And Michael said “Mommy in the bottom of the pool there’s a lizard.” He jumped in and got this dead lizard out he was so happy he ran in the kitchen and he showed the dead lizard to the lady who was doing the dishes and she said “Get out of here with that thing.” She chased him out and stood there with her hands on her hips being sure that he doesn’t return with that lizard. So he ran to me and said “Mommy pray for it.” I don’t really like it that thing is really icky you know from sitting in the water dead. So the Holy Spirit said “Take it by the throat.” So I picked it up by the throat. And the…I prayed for it and it began to breath and it came back to life. So my cleaning lady screamed….
Sid: She wasn’t too happy over that miracle.
Patti: Right and I said “God what is this?” He said “I’m showing you the Holy Spirit is my resurrection power. And this miracle of bringing a dead lizard back to life. The next day my bedroom was filled with dead animals. The neighborhood children…
Sid: Uh oh.
Patti: It had spread and they said “Jesus is working miracles.” And there was dead rabbits, dead cats (Laughing).
Sid: Were they coming back to life?
Patti: (Laughing) No they didn’t. One felt better.
Sid: (Laughing) Well tell me about because this is very intriguing for 2 weeks water was flowing from your eyes.
Patti: Oh yes because when I would go to pray it was like the presence of Jesus was right there so real that my eyes would just run that I could not ask for one thing but just absorb His presence for 2 weeks. And the tears if you notice when you really get in the presence of God the tears flow. But He so manifested His presence to me for 2 weeks because…right after I received the baptism. And the Holy Spirit began to teach me He began to speak things to me of things I didn’t know.
Sid: For instance you were at a meeting and you had a vision of a woman with brain damage and tell me about that.
Patti: Oh yes I was speaking at a meeting they were all Charismatic Lutherans. And when I was preparing to go to the meeting God gave me a vision of a woman with brain damage. So I went to the meeting and I saw this woman sitting in the front row. And after I preached the word of God or taught the word of God I went to her and said “The Lord is showing me that you have brain damage.” And she said “Well, well yes yes I do.” And I said “The Lord said that if I lay my hands on you and pray you will receive your sight.” So I said “Would you like me to?” And she said “Yes.” I put my hands on her and I prayed for God heal her brain damage. And she screamed “My God I can see out of my blind eye.” Her mother was across the room sitting there and she stood up and she said “I never gave up, I never gave up praying.” I asked her how she became blind? She said when I was born they used instruments and damaged my brain.
Sid: Hm.
Patti: And damaged my eye I never had sight out of that eye.
Sid: Was this the first time you ever had a vision like that?
Patti: Yes, yes it was so clear I think that if the Lord would have said she’s blind pray for her sight I think I may not have had faith for that as yet. She told me later she said “Patti if you would have said ‘I’m going to pray for your blind eye’ I would not have received it because I gave that up long ago so I never expected it.” So you see God in His wisdom went to the core the very cause of the blindness and that’s what he wants to do in so many lives. He ah…so many times when I prayed for teeth the Lord will show me the root cause why somebody has a certain condition it usually is in the soul.
Sid: Unforgiveness or hurts as a child things like that?
Patti: Yeah abuses an rejection and things of that nature so crushes them that it causes it literally sends damaging chemicals through the body that will bring on sickness and disease.
Sid: Patti we’re out of time…
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