Happy St. Patrick's Day!
I remember our friend Lonnie Frisbee used to share different stories about some of the ways that the Lord would lead him into divine appointments and ministry situations at times…
Interestingly enough Lonnie Frisbee’s Funeral was on St. Patrick's Day which seems significant in that they were both radical missionary evangelists, but whose histories have often been misunderstood.
Those divine appointment and divine leading stories Lonnie shared were inspiring, as is the story of the Real St. Patrick.
A Holy Ghost Ski Story with a St. Patrick Twist
Last year we discerned the Lord leading us to just head out east… eventually towards Colorado with some stops on the way, we felt that the Lord was going to do something… wasn’t sure what though.
After some stops we eventually made our way towards Colorado.
As we crossed the border into Colorado we got a phone call from an old pastor friend of ours that invited us to come and speak at his church in Colorado Springs.
We hadn’t been to his church in two years and though we had written him a number of months earlier we had never heard anything back.
It was quite divine timing to receive that call right as we drove into Colorado.
We had some free time since we were already there in the state way before the service to do some stuff in between the coming service.
We took a little time to do some skiing in those awesome Colorado Rockies and then headed over to Colorado Springs.
It worked out that the day we were to preach at their “Missionary Sunday” service which was on St Patrick's Day last year.
We shared some mission stories from the book of Acts and some of our mission adventures and the story of The Real St. Patrick who was a missionary led by God’s Spirit to preach the gospel to the Irish. Which was followed by us praying for a bunch of people and especially some young men in the service who got touched powerfully. The Lord was releasing an empowering, especially for evangelism, upon their lives.
We also ministered at the YWAM base in Denver to some young people preparing for missions later on.
A little later on from that we were doing a little more skiing and it was warm enough to do a bike ride afterwards.
We returned to the ski village after the bike ride as well as skiing earlier on, coming back quite famished, after all that exercise in the cold weather.
It had gotten late and the village had the appearance of a ghost town as everything was closed and no one was around.
I sat down on a bench while Mercedes went to use the restroom and I noticed a bag next to me that had a bunch of food that had been boxed up in it.
The place was deserted and we sat there for a while checking our phones etc…nobody ever came around for the food.
I finally took a look inside and realized it was a bunch of Irish food that had been boxed up from a restaurant as a to go order that had never been touched.
We waited quite a bit longer, hanging out for a while and still there was no one around and no one was obviously ever returning for this.
I felt an impression from the Lord “I have provided….”
It was so much food that we couldn't even eat it all. The next day we decided to finish it off at the little motel we were at. Downstairs they had some tables and a kitchen in the back.
One of the women who worked there actually heated up the Irish Stew for us that was left and actually gave us some really nice bread to go with it.
The Lord opened a door to begin witnessing to her and I ended up using the story of the real St Patrick as a bridge to share the Gospel with her and plant some seeds and pray for her and God touched her heart.
I then noticed that her name was Patricia… It all then hit me:
Wow ! We're sitting here eating divinely supplied Irish Stew while sharing the story of the real St. Patrick to a woman named Patricia—the feminized version of Patrick—a little later after that divine appointment in Colorado where we had that divine timing to preach and minister about the real St. Patrick.
I felt the Lord emphasizing through all this:
The story of the real St Patrick can be a bridge to share the Gospel! Especially with those who might have a religious background but haven’t received Christ. It is important to share with others that the Lord calls us into a relationship with Him through His Son Jesus Christ so we can have that promise and security of eternal life.
It helps sometimes to find bridges as a way to share the Gospel.
The Holy Spirit empowers us to be witnesses, and the story of St Patrick can be a bridge and is a good tool to use at the appropriate times, to help share with those who need the Gospel.
- More videos on the Celtic Christian Legacy:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9zt0pZyg_bP-KrzXvXNxb1P-VrIdn4Sz&si=DyPa5BjPej4zATeA
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