Excerpts from Wednesday's Message (St Patrick's Day)
These are some ideas the Lord had put on my heart as we looked at Matthew 7 (Christian Discernment) this past Saint Patrick's day. Hope they might be helpful to you.
Saint Patrick was not Irish. He was born in England around 387 AD. His Father was a deacon but young Patrick didn’t really have a faith of his own. He was a bit of a rebellious teenager and at 16 cut school to go to the beach instead. Irish pirates had been patrolling the waters and when they saw they kidnapped him and took him back to Ireland to be sold as a slave.
He was bought by a man named Michael who made young Patrick watch his sheep and pigs in the mountains of the Slemish countryside.
It was there that he turned his heart over to the Lord. He wrote: “I was 16 and didn’t know the true God, but in that strange land the Lord opened my unbelieving eyes and I was converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God who had pity on my youth and ignorance.”
Every day, for six years, Patrick worked in those mountains. He began to pray intensely that God would release him and set him free so he could go home. He says:
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