
Pat Schatzline: Hey, this is Pat Schatzline! Welcome to Something More! I am so excited because really one of the churches that God has used to awaken America their pastor is here with us right now! And Patricia Bootsma, thank you for coming here! Thank you for coming and being a part of what and telling us all that God is doing! And so I’m so glad to have you here with us today!
Patricia Bootsma: Thank you so much for having me! I’m excited!
PAT: You know your heart burns for the next generation! And you and your husband John, God uses you guys! You lead Catch the Fire church there in Toronto and tell us what’s going on there right now.
PATRICIA: Well at the church great things are happening! I’ll tell you God has been moving now for really or 24 years with this outpouring of the Spirit. So right now I would say there’s just a lot of salvations, like around, I don’t know, 20 a week let’s say.
PAT: Wow.
PATRICIA: And so we’ve, you know, increased our services. God is moving! His presence is there. And there’s been planting of churches, Catch the Fire Churches worldwide! So yeah God’s doing some really good stuff up in Toronto!
PAT: And John and Carol Arnott are over the whole vision type of thing?
PATRICIA: Absolutely! They’re going strong in their 70’s traveling the world. They haven’t stopped just bringing revival to the four corners of the globe!
PAT: You know I had a chance, Karen and I, we minister a great deal in Canada and I had an opportunity, one Sunday night, a youth conference there at the Airport Vineyard and now it’s Catch the Fire. And when you know when you pull on the grounds you feel the glory of the Lord! You feel the presence of God!
PATRICIA: Yeah!
PAT: I really believe with all my heart that something God spoke to us is that we’re stepping into the prodigal awakening. 2018 would mark – the number 18 is chai. In the Hebrew it means
life! And I really believe we’re about to see the prodigals come home!
PATRICIA: Oh.
PAT: And you know the Lord has used you to write a book, a powerful book, Raising Burning Hearts. Which man, when I saw the title I’m like okay! We’re about to have some Holy Ghost on TV! But tell us how God has used you even in your own family to get 6 children. Talk to me about that.
PATRICIA: Yeah. We have 6 children. So one son and five daughters. Three are married. But you know if the great commandment is that we are to love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, strength, then I would see that as the most important thing that I’m going to want to impart to my kids is that they would love the Lord with all their heart, soul, mind and strength! And so this began just a time of enquiring of the Father who knows how to father, how to parent!
PAT: Yeah.
PATRICIA: And how can we raise kids that really love You and walk in the fullness of their destiny? So the Lord has taught us some things along the line, along the way. Our oldest is 26, the youngest is 14. And so yeah I put it in the book. And one of the things it’s just you know the power of blessing! The power of speaking blessing! The power of speaking identity! I actually do a lot of prophetic teaching around the world but I want to be a prophet in my own home before I’m a prophet in the nations! Like how can we call out, you know, the destiny of God on our kids? And for every word of correction there really should be like 7 to 10 words of affirmation of you’re doing amazing or what has God called you to do or called you to be? So you know we’ve really learned some of those things. One of the things we like to say over our kids is you’re the head and not the tail. You’re above and not beneath! You’ll lend to many nations and never have to borrow. Everything you put your hands to prospers and succeeds!
PAT: Wow!