Saint Patrick Was A Slave

Testimony Of Saint Patrick

 

Saint Patrick was taken against his will from his family in Britain as a 16-year-old boy.  He was taken across the waters in a boat headed for Ireland.  There he was sold as a slave to a rich leader.  He was given the job of herding swine.  He toiled in slavery for six years.  His life of servitude was a time of great suffering and misery.  He lived in poverty, filth, and dirt.   Many times, He was desperately cold and hungry.  He described himself as a stone stuck in the mud.

When Patrick regained his freedom, he started preaching the gospel that Baptist preachers preach today.  Patrick found the Lord Jesus, sometime during the 6 years he was in slavery.  He confessed he did not know the true God as a 16-year-old boy, but while in a strange land, The Lord God opened his unbelieving eyes to the truth of the Gospel.  He confessed his sins to the Lord and turned his life over to the Lord God wholeheartedly.  God became a father to him and comforted him as a father does his children. 

He started loving the Lord God more and more.  The Spirit of God moved him to pray many prayers.  He prayed both day and night while in the forest and in the mountain herding his flock. He suffered severe cold, rain and frost.  The Lord helped him and he became eager to learn more and more.  He loved to think about God and God’s Word became a fire in his soul. 

Patrick was saved as a slave, the Holy Spirit greatly moved within his heart.  He became a preacher to the lost, the idol worshippers, the heathen of Ireland. 

He was recognized by the Catholics as a Saint because he lived blamelessly, but He was Baptist in his doctrine and beliefs. 

This is just a small bit of the testimony of Saint Patrick.  We can learn from his life and his struggles today.  We can understand that Patrick still had problems but God was there for him and comforted him through his sufferings.

Susan Y Nikitenko 2022©

Coloring Page 

 Romans 8:15 

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to

fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Daddy God

When We Become A Christian 

We are adopted into the family of God we become his child and He is our Father in heaven.

The comforter the Holy Spirit helps us through our troubles. Jesus abides with us.

Clovers are green living plants - 

When Christ saves us we become

 alive to God and are given everlasting life. The promise of heaven.

We should grow in faith and want to please God with our choices.

If we trust and obey we become stronger in our faith and will see prayers answered.

We are not saved by luck that we lived good enough, we are saved by believing and trusting Christ as our Saviour.  God paid the penalty for our sins.  He died in our place.  His blood was shed for us so we could be saved and live an everlasting life in heaven when we die.

Saint Patrick had a purpose for his life and became a preacher of the Gospel of Christ.

God has a purpose for you too.  You are young yet, but God can and will lead you in life as you ask him to direct your path.  When you make decisions ask God what he wants for you to do.  If you want what God wants then you know you will do well.  

 

Proverbs 3:6 

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

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