Lord, Use Me

By Dr. Bonnie Etta

This book, Lord, Use Me, is a divine provision to every one with a yearning for more of God in this generation. It is my joy and privilege to recommend this book as a must read to every God loving soul with a passion to be used by God.

- Bishop Chris Raymond

Dr. Bonnie Etta has authored several life

• Language: English
• Publisher: Book Vine Press
• Release date: Jul 31, 2020
• ISBN: 9781952835551

Dr. Bonnie Etta

Dr. Bonnie Etta is the president of World Mission International School of Ministry. He is the founder and bishop of the World Mission International Worship Center in Maryland, USA. He has been on short-term missionary projects to Germany, Spain, Italy, South Africa, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. He is an international conference speaker and has authored several Christian books. He has yearly church growth conferences in Africa, Europe, and the United States. Dr. Bonnie Etta is happily married to the first lady, Pastor Estella, and are blessed to be the parents of four sons who are very committed to the ministry. He holds a Master Degree in ministry and PhD in theology and philosophy. Bishop Bonnie Etta has been in active ministry for almost three decades. He is worth listening to. - Dr. Nojang Evelyn

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Born to do exploits for God

Dr. Bonnie Etta

Contents

Foreword

Appreciation

1. The Life of Faith

2. Understanding Your Calling and Assignment

3. Preparing for Effective Ministry

4. The Anointing for Your Assignment

5. Growing Your Gifts: Becoming a Better You

6. Provision for Mission

7. Walking under Open Heavens

8. Parental Blessing and Success

9. Dealing with Vision Killers

Notes and References

Foreword

This book, Lord, Use Me, is a divine provision to every one with a yearning for more of God in this generation. It is my joy and privilege to recommend this book as a must read to every God loving soul with a passion to be used by God.

Bishop Chris Raymond

Dr Bonnie Etta has authored several life changing books; I think this particular work is of utmost importance in these last days. This book in your hand is a great step towards a new dimension and platform in your life and ministry.

Dr Abraham King

Wow! A great piece of work, so inspirational, I just got a taste of it going through the manuscript. I do recommend Lord, Use Me, to every God loving and God seeking child of God.

Justine Ndam

Reading through the manuscript, I learned that effective ministry is not for lazy individuals. Ministry demands dedication, time and purpose. This is a book you need if you really desire answers to your ministerial challenges.

Linda Ijang

As I read through the chapters of this excellent book, I was encouraged and compelled to spend greater quality time with God. If you have little or great faith, this book will stir and propel your faith for greater works in God.

Elizabeth Dennis

Appreciation

I give special thanks to Pastor Ernest Angley, Dr. Manga William, Bishop Tembi Alfred, Bishop Alan Pateman, Bishop Abraham King, Dr. Billy Lubansa, Pastor Bob and Linda Arnold in Kassel, Germany, Pastor Werner and Ella, Pastor William Hill, Dr David Njemo, Pastor Benny Hinn, and Dr. Morris Cerullo. These men and women of God have been used by God to greatly impact my life in the past thirty years of my ministry. Pastor Ernest Angley, with his busy schedule, had always made the time to personally write, counsel and pray with me for many years before the Lord called him home to glory.

Many thanks go to my son in the Lord, who gave me a quiet place to write most of this book while visiting with him in Pretoria, South Africa. Special thanks to my wife, Pastor Estella. I call her my physical angel, and my four boys, Immanuel, Elijah, Elisha, and Bonnie, my ministry partners, for giving me the grace to always draw away to write.

Dr. Bonnie Etta

Chapter One

The Life of Faith

Faith isn’t the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It is simply taking God at his Word and taking the next step.

—Joni Earekson Tada

When God calls you to do something, He enables you to do it.

—Robert Schuller

CHAPTER ONE

The Life of Faith

And Jesus said unto them, ‘Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you’

(Matt.17:20).

Faith is not for some privileged few; faith is a willful choice. You choose to walk in faith or in fear and unbelief. Adam and Eve, in the Bible, chose to doubt God and believed the serpent; they became the parents of a fallen and afflicted humanity. Their will to be in agreement with the serpent, instead of being in oneness with God, cost them everything they were created for. Adam became a castaway son, driven from the blessed garden and from the presence of God.

Unbelief is a choice based on human reasoning. Faith is the willingness to live by every Word of God. Noah was a man of faith; he took God by his Word and built an ark in a dry land. His faith saved his entire family and himself. Because of the faith of Noah he became a covenant father of the new world. Noah and his children had the responsibility to multiply and replenish the earth.

Abraham was a man of faith. He walked in faith and obedience to the call of God. By faith, he accepted the call as a missionary to the Promised Land. He was called unto Canaan, the cursed land, for Noah had cursed Ham, who became the father of the Canaanites. Abraham was charged with the commission to transform Canaan land into the Promised Land through his covenant relationship with the Almighty God. By faith, he wandered in a strange land, with a prophetic vision to possess the land. Today the natural children of Abraham have filled the Middle East and they control the political and economic climates of the world.

By faith, Joseph believed God; he knew that what the Lord revealed to him would come to pass. The trials and difficulties that later came his way could not destroy his faith in the Rhema Word of the Lord for his destiny.

Joseph walked in faith; his faith strengthened him in difficult times. He refused to yield to fear and compromise; he willingly went through the tough times of his life with his eyes fixed on the Word for his life. This is what the psalmist wrote on his account:

He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant: whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him. The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance: to bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom (Ps. 105:17–22).

Joseph was called by God into a very special ministry, that of sustaining and preserving life in the years of crisis due to severe drought. God foresaw that his people would go through a challenging situation that would demand divine intervention. He raised up Joseph to be the vessel through which they would have their food supply in the long years of famine. God provided the solution long before the problem.

Joseph was a man of faith; he was connected to the Holy Spirit for supernatural revelations and for interpretation of dreams. His faith and his gift made a way for him in a strange land. A man of faith will always survive, no matter the condition and situation he finds himself. May your faith open you doors to the palace, as it did for Joseph and Esther, in the name of Jesus Christ. A man of faith can never be desperate, for faith will always take you through where others have stumbled. The faith of Joseph took him through the years of pain and torture to the place of his blessings and fulfilled dreams. He became a solution to the crisis of the land.

Moses was indeed another unique man of faith. The life and ministry of Moses has affected almost every religion in the world. Faith gave Moses the courage to start a new life in Midian as a simple shepherd. Faith caused Moses to go back to Egypt in obedience to the call of God, to tell Pharaoh to let go the children of Israel. Moses, by faith, accepted to take a journey into the wilderness, with more than three million people and children, without fear of what the people would eat or worry about where they will sleep. They moved by faith from Egypt to the unknown wilderness. Only faith can take you from the known to the unknown future without fears.

Moses, by the grace of God, received the Ten Commandments and his life of faith has brought order in the lives of millions through the Ten Commandments. Moses succeeded in his forty years of ministry as the pastor of the church in the wilderness simply because he had unwavering faith in the God that called him.

Your life and calling have to do with faith in God through Jesus Christ.

Your level of faith will determine the level and nature of your platform in life.

How far you go and what you accomplish in life depends on your level of faith in God.

Your level of faithfulness to the Word of God determines the nature of the grace you will carry for life.

The steps of faith you are able to take determines the nature of exploits and achievements you will be able to realize in life.

The gifts of the Holy Spirit are only and absolutely operated by faith.

It takes faith to walk in obedience to the Holy Spirit, and it will require active faith to grow in intimacy with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Faith in the Word of God is food for your spiritual growth.

Supernatural manifestations are a result of active faith in the supernatural God.

Your increase in the anointing depends on how much you feed your faith life.

Fearfulness to God demands fearlessness. You cannot have faith and fears.

Failure to attempt great things is failure to experience divine and supernatural intervention and manifestations.

Faith is conceived and developed through the revelation of the authority and lordship of Jesus Christ, for he is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

Faith is accepting the Word of God as it is, and acting upon it.

Your gift depends on your faith. When faith dies, the gift dies.

Doubt is decline in faith. Doubt is humanistic and secular reasoning.

Faith is supernatural thinking, speaking, and living.

Faith is walking in