Pat Lawrence

I ended by saying the enemy’s plan from the beginning was to assault the heart. ‘The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10) Have you ever asked yourself why Jesus put those two statements together? God intends life for you and me but right now that life is opposed. Fullness of life doesn’t just happen easily because there is a thief. He comes (the thief) to steal and kill and destroy. In othe...Continue reading

I love to listen to worship music because it lifts me up and draws my eyes to God, so I have places like in my car or when I am exercising, where I put music on and worship God. A song that spoke to me the other day was ‘God is Faithful’. There is a line in that song that says God wrestles for the heart of a sinner. God wrestles for our heart because He knows that is where life is and that is where war happens. Many of us have been told that the heart is for emotions and th...Continue reading

I've been reading an author Grahame Cooke. He said something I've been thinking about. He asks 'What is your vision of God?' He says,' How you see God is how you see yourself. It determines how you view your life, your church, even the events that are going on in Body of Christ.' If you fail to see Jesus as your Prince of Peace, that maybe why you cannot find any rest. The way we live is profoundly shaped by our image of God. Are you a sinner who struggles in the love of God, or are you a lover of God who occasionally struggles with sins?

I would like to share with you a new chapter that God started in me a few years ago in me. Let me back up for a minute. I believe that we are all on a journey with God in our redemptive stories, each one of us has chapters or gates that we walk through. When I became a Christian it was if I walked up to the gate named ‘salvation’. I took off all the externals of the world. I had my sins forgiven. Walking through the first gate my sins were forgiven. I had a true inner identi...Continue reading

I believe that we are all on a journey with God in our redemptive stories, each one of us has chapters or gates that we walk through. In my journey God has used authors such as John Piper and Kyle Idleman to help me to understand that to be whole we must value truth above all else, to be committed to it, to cherish discovering it, knowing it, and making decisions based on it. 1. truth about me 2. truth about God As we learn about truth lets not forget we are...Continue reading