SID: You teach that a lot of people don’t understand that when they plant or sow, it must be intentional.
PATRICIA: Right. Well, that’s what Isaac did. I believe Isaac intentionally sowed that seed because obviously it wasn’t the greatest land to sow in and they’d been in drought and famine. It was just like. But he knew the covenant that he had with God through his father Abraham. And so he intentionally sowed believing for results. And I find faith is the key, Sid. Faith is the key. So when we get a word from God and we intentionally respond to that, knowing that I’m being obedient to your word, Lord, and I’m intentionally doing this, then there’s an expectation for what God said is going to happen is going to happen.
SID: That’s the faith dimension.
PATRICIA: Right. It is the faith dimension.
SID: Now, I understand you lived in Mexico and you became very, very rich.
PATRICIA: That’s right. Well, a lot of times, Sid, people in our Western culture, they equate being rich with the world’s monetary system or material things, but in the kingdom it’s so different than that. So there we were in Mexico living in the slums of Mexico and we were living in a very humble place. We were in one room. Our whole family was in one room, in a little apartment that was maybe 600 square feet or so, and we had six other young guys living with us. One bathroom, a little kitchen area, and we were rich as could be. We had, of course, everything that we needed as far as shelter. We had a good sleep every night. We had transportation to get to where we were going.
SID: You were really happy with one bathroom for all those people?
PATRICIA: We were at so much grace at the time and grace makes you rich. I tell you. But every day we were able to go out and see people run to the Lord. We saw people healed from sickness every day. I’m sure, and I don’t think I’m exaggerating on that in that season. We saw them delivered from demons. We saw supernatural provision come in. We were building homes for the poor. We were building orphanages, medical centers, furnishing them with supplies. We had an abundance, and it was a good thing that we didn’t have a great big house to look after, whatever, because we wouldn’t have time for it anyway.
SID: But you felt so satisfied, so rich.
PATRICIA: Yep. That’s what rich is all about. When you’re satisfied, like just think of it, in our Western culture we think we have to have everything bigger. In fact, people go into debt to get something bigger because the world’s expectation is that’s what calls you rich, right? Or a greater car or a higher end handbag or whatever it is. And they go, ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching, go into debt with it. That’s not rich. That’s bondage. But you can have a small place that you live in with everything paid for, no debt, everything that you need and more, no worries. Free to serve God, I call that rich.
SID: I do too. Did you know that you can ascend to and descend from heaven at will and it’s biblically true? Be right back.
Tags: It's Supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: It's Supernatural, Sid Roth