The Humility of Multiple Blessings

By Dr. Dess Amanu

The Humility of multiple blessings highlights the extreme variations between the abundant amenities of life in the developed western world and the extreme abject-poverty abound in the underdeveloped world leading to destitution. While recognizing the missing hard work in some elements of the society at both ends, the book focuses on the abundance of possibilities so long as one does not yield to failures as the conclusive dead-end, but instead takes a positive look at the failures in order to reap beneficial outcomes by not accepting crushing defeatism.
Countering the adversities, the author, brings to light the critical importance of extreme hard work to achieve a set goal laid out according to the will of God showered with blessings on a person. In fact, the author motivates, energizes and exhorts all generations never to take failure as permanent defeat, but instead keeping away from cutting corners to blame others rather than taking actin to work harder every step of the way until success is achieved, since it is doable. It is undeniable that failure is an integral part of a journey to success and simply a precious price we are bound to pay in order to achieve that most desirable success.

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• Release date: Jul 22, 2021
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Dr. Dess Amanu

Dess. Amanu holds doctorate in Ministry from Oakland City University, USA. Relinquishing his admission to Kennedy School of Harvard University, God’s divine grace redirected him to Fordham University to be blessed with MBA. Immediately after graduation he joined the United Nations where he served for 18 more years. This was preceded by a 24-year servanthood services as professional Auditor; Finance Director; Chief, Finance and Budget; and, Controller, in four different prestigious international institutions abroad. Dess believes in the principles of humility which encourages that we must serve even without a payback benefit that we may deserve, noting that the loving God will prevail according to His Sovereign will.

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SCHOLAR’S REVIEWED COMMENTS

This book sincerely described the enormous hardships Dess. encountered in the fledgling seasons of his life exasperated by being snatched from his mother at age four by a stepmother who became a catalyst in enabling him convert the adversities into blessed amenities. One especially notes the unprecedented educational awards garnered from dedication to achieve invaluable multiple blessings showered upon him by the loving God. In my view, this book can be considered one of the best testimonies ever presented in great clarity of purpose. Its aspirational, exhortative, inspirational, and motivational nature has been displayed in a systematic alignment with the true biblical teachings applicable to all generations to be obedient even under strenuous circumstances where commitment, dedication, devotion, patience, and resilience are extraordinarily needed today more than ever, in this fallen world that is drifting from the anchor of truth.

Abraham A. Gemechu, MSc, George August University. Author of Competition Between Yellow Nutsedge and Maize (2019). Senior Agricultural Specialist at APHIS of USA. Board Member, and CFO of an Evangelical Lutheran Church, USA

SCHOLAR’S REVIEWED COMMENTS

The Humility of Multiple Blessings is the crown jewel of blessings wherein Dr. Dess. proficiently articulated the results of his dedication, devotion and accountable commitment with competent transparency to reach a destination charted for him during his incredible adventure of life. Having thoroughly read the manuscripts of his testimony, I cannot help but greatly wonder how he sailed successfully through extraordinary difficulties of life ending with precious crowns of outstanding achievements. The book amplifies the humility in the pursuit of excellence that clearly revealed the truth that in a disciplined determination age is never a limitation when God is in full involvement. Dess’s invaluable productivity from age five through the end of his teen age assured me why he became the source of inspiration to so many. He points out, among many others, godly wisdom that prayers are to change oneself and not to change the mind of God; that there are productive fruits in listening and obedience; and that turning sacred marriage bonds to a train of love could be possible.

Workineh Torben, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Author/Co-Author of more than 33 Scientific articles and Reviewer of some Scientific Journals & NIH grants

Louisiana State University, USA

THE HUMILITY OF

MULTIPLE BLESSINGS

Dr. Dess Amanu

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Preface

Dedication

Abbreviations

The Author’s Exhortative Messages

Introduction

The Heroes in My life

1     Duty to Witness

Witnessing by Serving

Witness with Humbleness: Trembling in Obedience

The Historicity of the Scene of This Testimony

Snatching Me from My Mother’s Arms

Turning Sacred Marriage To A Train of Love

2     Washing My Father’s Feet, Not For Any Payback Benefit

My Stepmother Snatching Me at Age 4 from My Mother by Leaving Her to Devestating Abject-Poverty

In a Disciplined Determination, Age Is Not a Limitation

Positive Actions to Proceed Helps Us to Succeed

Building Fire to Boil Feet-Washing Water

Water Supply on My Shoulders

The Dilemma of a Water Shortage

Innovative Water Storage

Physical Thirst Quenched; Hunger Unsated

Drying the Single Towel

Constructing Two Sets of Crossbars for Drying a Towel

The Unrelenting Humble Mind

Lessons Learnt from Washing My Father’s and Guests’ Feet

Prayers Are Also To Change Self

Lessons of Obedience

The Fruits of Listening: Gaining a Joyful Ending

Trusting in God’s Provision

Rendering Servanthood Services to My Father

The Penalties of Incompetence?

Nearly Dead but Survived

Serve As if They Deserve

Serving as Postmen

The Rescuing Tree

The Battle of the Cattle

Apes and Monkeys: Keeping Them Away like Arch Enemies

Nearly Dead, Loaded On Top Of An Overly Speeding Truck Escessively Overloaded

Feeding, Just To Postpone Dying

Planned Suicide

3     The Blessings Began Flourishing

The Unplanned, Harvested

Held but Not Withheld: Hope for Education Not Dead

The Special Blessing

A Preschooler’s Walk with Less Talk

The First Day of Travel Testing My Level

The Darkness—We Overcame

Looking Away from Unneeded Layover on the Way

A Caregiver, a Good Helper

Obedience Benefits, Disobedience Destroys

First Thing by Testing

4     My Father, My Hero!

Instilled Discipline

Buckle Up to Rise Up

Humility in Discipline

Effective Time-Management Discipline

Maturity Picked in Sincerity: Perdure to Mature

5     Blessings in the Gracious Gifts of Education

Education Changes Direction

Admission to Shambu - My Second Semi-boarding School

Second Caregiver: The Best Caretaker

Brokenness Boosting Meekness

The Cojones in My Failures

6     The Double Promotion Gift

Achievement Uncompensated

Homebound: Forced to Exit but Never Surrendered to Quit.

Restored to Education with Jubilation

Our Lives Nearly Disappeared in Water, God Rescued Us from Deep Under

7     An ‘Exile-Type’ Wilderness to an Unknown Place

Debunking an Unyoked Marriage

Seeking Unconfirmed Accommodation

Dire Need For Financial Support

The ‘Cancer’ in Cultural Marriage

Agility to Escape Poverty Losing Integrity

Forgiving the Hostile Host

Counting On Undependables Is Useless

Leave It If God Did Not Approve It

Returning To Shambu Not A Taboo

The Prayers That Overcome Nay Sayers

Man Proposes but Only God Disposes

God’s Forgiveness Stops Distress

Bold Return to Shambu School

Man Rejected, God Accepted

Left Exposed Tied to a Logwood

Lessons of Exile-style Mistreat

8     The ‘Exodus-Type’ Return

Malaria Destroys Humans in The Area

My Body Left – Dead 99, Not 100 Percent

My Caregiver’s Shock—Stepping on a Body

Funeral Processing To Bury The Living

Nearly Dead But Revived

God Provides and Truly Sustains

Shambu School — Resisted but Not Denied

My Hero—The Fighter for the Nonquitter

Nearly Dead; Yet Received the Top Educational Award

9     Dream Admission, Receive Promotion

Study Times, Not Happy Times

Solution Devised, Its Result Proved

Bleeding Kneeling for Eternal Healing

Reaching Mountain Top: Raising My Hope

Governor Celebrated What He Witnessed

When God Wills It He Gives It

The Road via Education to Promotion

Support Me Not God Provides It

10   Setting National Precedence

11   The Gift of a Cure

Malaria at age Six

Malaria from Desert Travel

The Gastric Just a Syrup Cured

Medication Refused, Allergic Tragedy Defused

The Remarkable Cure from Asthma

Conquer the Fear with Faith’s Powerful Gear

12   The Equality that Finds Equity

Defending the Truth

Part I: The Lord’s Prayer: (Mat 6:9-13, ESV):

Part II: Orating The Testimony

Part III: Witnessing to God’s Grace

13   Précised Remarkable Events in the Past Seasons of My Life

Conclusion

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

FOREWORD

The Humility of Multiple Blessings is a revelation of grand humility that shined with bright light in the life of Dr. Dess. Amanu whose testimony of what transpired during his teenage years is a truly amazing one. He testifies to the facts of his very challenging encounters from birth until the end of his nineteenth birthday. In those years, he had faced an enormously stressful, intensively and extensively hard child labor, persistent hunger and thirst, while also living semi-naked and walking bare feet in extraordinarily humiliating circumstances, all the while suffering from several devastating illnesses that were untreated back then for total lack of healthcare facilities.

All these happened to him while he was serving his parents with extreme dedication and devotion, including regularly washing their feet, guests’ feet and the feet of many others for twelve years from age five until he turned seventeen when he received a scholarship award for winning the top performance award in his class. At one time, he was nearly dead in the sharp horns of an angry cow and received a series of inhumane beatings and floggings by his stepmother. He had even been refused, several times, parental release to go to school, and denied admission to his school by the director after Dess. returned from wilderness under exodus and exile life that resulted in many other devastating hardships. Had God not provided people who helped him secure release to go to school, he could have remained without education his entire life. At that stage, Dess. was left without a choice but almost commit suicide in a lake multiple times until God dramatically spared his life.

And yet, the unprecedented outstanding educational achievements in which Dr. Dess. Amanu was blessed with are the truthful demonstrations of God’s endearing character in disciplining the children He loves and blesses. This teaches us that we need to go deep down in order to pass the test of going high up to the stages of progressive ladder of growth. One notes that Dess’s achievements of excellence even led to their celebration by the highest dignitaries of that location while positively contributing to his educators’ probable promotion. This is truly a humility in multiple blessings of God that teaches all to pursue dedicated duties charted for them by Him. The role model set in this testimony deserves congratulations to those who choose to pursue the humble path of never giving up, under any circumstances, but instead use the hardships as one of the most rewarding bridges to success.

I had the privilege of being born and raised in a similar rural setting as Dr. Dess. but under especial endearment care of my parents and by far not at all comparable with what Dr. Dess. went through. His testimony clearly manifests the culture of the environment in which he and I lived during our youth. It emphatically expressed the conversion of all the difficult hurdles to beneficial outcomes, thereby making this testimony an amazing role model for a multi-stage generation. Dr. Dess. has powerfully articulated with eloquent demonstration of humility of obedience to his parents in rendering the direly needed services including feet-washing for twelve years.

Dess. reveals his dedication as the role-model in upholding one of the commandments of God resulting in multiple blessings from his father and the Triune God. The book rolled out the most needed aspirations for all generations whom Dr. Amanu cordially invited to set their God-given resources to lovingly maximize the truthful application of obedience, patience, persistence, positivity and resilience. In the book one clearly observes the biblical truths Dess. so ably manifests as models of unconditional love of others obediently expressed with sincerity.

I came to note this incredibly amazing testimony of Dr. Dess. that it has some small element of resemblance to that of the childhood life of ancient Moses who lived on earth over three thousand years ago. When Pharaoh of Egypt decided to kill all Hebrew male infants in Egypt, Moses’s mother named Jochebed, got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch and threw him into the bank of the Nile river (Exodus 2:1-10). Pharaoh’s daughter found Moses in the Nile and picked him up to eventually connect Moses to his own mother. Moses’s life was subsequently restored, ending in him being a famous religious figure who was also thrown into wilderness. Even from wilderness, too, God called him to lead the oppressed Israelites to the Promised Land.

One thing Moses and Dess. do not have in common in their fledgling age is the fact that the Bible does not say Moses washed anyone’s feet while Dess. testifies that he did throughout twelve years. Moses was married to an Ethiopian woman named Zipporah over whom he had encountered animosity by others who had some disgraceful sentimental intimidations against him. Dr. Dess. was coaxed into an unequally yoked early marriage but he tactfully escaped into wilderness by the special help of his devastatingly abject poverty-stricken mother. The status of Moses’s mother is unknown.

When we realize the legendary nature of the stories of Moses that took place in some remote land, overseas, many thousands of years ago, one cannot help but be incredibly amazed by these events of Dr. Dess. Amanu, which happened in the twenty-first century when one expects dramatic changes for the better. The testimony of Dr. Dess., in that sense, is not only one of a truly heart-breaking nature but it becomes a role model of extraordinary courage and dedication with resolute determination to achieve a goal set for us all by the loving and merciful God. There is no doubt that this testimony can be an exemplary role-model for application by so many others who could be in the same boat as Dess. and yet humbly thrive with rewarding series of successes alongside failures, in all seasons of their lives.

Dr. Alemayehu Gondere, pastor and counselor of churches, Toronto, Canada.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

All honor, praise, reverence, veneration and profound awe must go to The Lord, Jesus Christ, whose name, Jesus, means God is salvation and Christ, means ‘the anointed one’ who created, provided, and sustained me, as well as even healing my lost soul. He is the true Shepherd who selflessly and self-sacrificially died for salvation of even the weakest person like me by eternally reconciling me with God the Father, who adopted me to become His child and heir with His begotten Son, Jesus Christ, thereby bestowing upon me eternal forgiveness of all my sins – past, present and future – so as to enable me faithfully and obediently live a life of holiness. (John 19:30; Romans 8:29-30; Colossians 1:10)

Also, I thank my father who instilled in me the most desirable discipline through an inspiring Biblical doctrine of tough love reflected in the four-word exhortative blessings: God bless you, son! He always said these words wholeheartedly every time he became satisfied with several kinds of services I obediently rendered to him, tirelessly. His blessings laid a strong and lasting foundation for the most rewarding advanced education and several top-notch professional jobs. They all ended up instilling in me invaluable receptacles of care that lovingly kept rendering servanthood humanitarian services to others, worldwide.

My father’s blessings were spiritually superimposed by that of the loving God that prepared me to humbly place sharp focus on enhancing high moral and ethical values of integrity in a humble global biblical application of instilling in others by training them how to selflessly serve all people, globally. One is bound to learn these kinds of training approach from the examples of Jesus Christ in His training of Saul for seventeen years and Moses in the wilderness for forty years before assigning them to mission duties to serve others. Jesus also invested a great deal of time in training the apostles who became the most dependable, in every way, other than Judas, who turned out to be His staunch enemy. Even Judas’ feet Jesus washed along with all the other apostles. He knew Judas was going to betray Him, and yet even to His enemies Jesus Christ offered loving care and rendered admirable servanthood services. I have always had some Judas type personalities with me my entire life. For me, they became the greatest ever boosters that propelled me to more energized successes than I ever expected.

My appreciation also goes to my late mother (an Abigail of the ancient, who managed her household sensibly) for giving me her last hard-earned pennies to help me at my two childhood boarding schools, even when abject poverty had crushed her body and spirit during all the seasons of her life. Every kind of effort I made, later on, to restore her lost dignity and moral values, it looked too late to resuscitate and revitalize my mother.

Nevertheless, after securing her permission, for a much better lifestyle, I had relocated her to a town away from my brother’s dilapidated jungle home where she lived in a devastating abject-poverty, while raising his son. Yet, overtaken by the love of the grandson, she went unnoticed to visit both of them at their home. Walking part of the hundred miles away from her new comfortable home she travelled all the distance heading towards her ‘final destination.’

On the route to the riskiest mode of travel, she had unknowingly waded across the deepest part of the freezing lake Choman to shockingly face her death in her early fifties from the resulting pneumonia. The regrettably nonexistent health care system at the location was also unable to provide medical care to even attempt to cure such a poverty-stricken person as my mother.

My sincere thanks and a special debt of gratitude goes to my own beloved daughter, Dr. Bezy, who took the worthy initiative of choosing a profession in the pharmaceutical industry to make medicines available to those in need. Even when she didn’t know the humbling story of her grandmother, a remarkable instinct had taken the best of Bezy to provide medicines to the world in memory of her loving grandmother. Her decency may not value the importance of such an impeccable contribution. But I surely do admire her invaluable humanitarian vision, greatly! Besides, she spared some of her weekends and helped me put together the technological aspect of dealing in the formatting and reformatting of the writing style using her invaluable experience.

Salutations to my wife, Tarik Amanu, who managed our lives with endurance while I busied myself deep into thorough research at universities, libraries and other scholarly institutions. All these had played various roles in my being blessed with a doctorate in ministry many years after retiring from my United Nation’s CFO job. Our children Doctor Andinet and Begashaw also encouraged me to complete this testimony that could give moral courage to many generations in many ways. These exhortations include the discipline to work extremely hard, aiming at achieving godly blessed goals to earn advanced degrees, topnotch jobs and spiritual development, growth and maturity.

PREFACE

It never crossed my mind to write a testimony, the first of which turned out to be about 300 pages supported by evidences that give it invaluable augmentation to the fruitfulness of exhortative learning through model examples and experiences that extreme dedication and devotion unveil in our lives. The witnessing was necessitated by the fact that I had reverently held several invaluable truths in my heart that are wanting to burst open within me. As a result, even when writing didn’t fall within my educational and experiential grid, this brief testimony contains huge volumes of truths presented for honorable use with humility in motivational and inspirational teachings to an audience of incredibly valuable attentive listeners.

While this book testifies to the remarkable events in my life from birth through completion of a stage of progress that transitioned me to the other part of the season of my life beyond that time which has been witnessed in my book titled The Nobility of Harvesting The Fruits of Hard Work. In The Humility of Multiple Blessings, I am revealing the truths of what transpired in my life over the years from birth until I attained the end of my 19th birthday, except chapter 10 that took place between my 21st and 35th birthdays. Both books are designed to inspirationally boost their application to life by any generation.

The overall testimony that will be witnessed in this book is bound to lead to fruitful spiritual actions and corresponding invaluable outcomes. The readers might compare the truths in this testimony with their own personal experiences to see the many different experiences of people out there that are struggling to make a living while encountering extremely tough challenges, especially in the underdeveloped countries around the world. I also had a feeling of guilt that if I did not release these inspirational witnessing, then an aspiring generation in great need of dedicated and devoted Christian role model may lose out on the exhortative encouragements this testimony truthfully unveils.

In all honesty, we are all expected to learn from one another taking account of the fact that even ‘iron sharpens iron’ (Proverbs 27:17) and positive energies may be drawn to convert any failings to invaluable ‘successes’ by galvanizing inspiration that helps us rise strong, even after we had badly failed. We need to be sincere in the awareness of the legend that says Rome was not built in one day. Many good things take time to cultivate, nurture, develop and eventually grow to maturity level in order to bear fruitful outcomes that best fit in glorifying Jesus Christ, the full partaker in the original creation with the Father God and the Holy Spirit, the Triune God, where the dignified and honorable spirit of the Great Team was first established.

This testimony is about the inspirational rejuvenation and exhortative uplifting that took place in stimulating my wretched life that could have been ditched to be eternally forgotten. While encouraging me to progressively succeed, the loving, faithful and merciful God graciously recreated in me a spiritually energized personality in the process. He detached me from continuing to remain spiritually dead in my sinful nature right from the very first chapter of the seasons of my life and transformed me to become a true Christian. This testimony is fully and completely about the Triune God’s graceful presence in my entire life from the beginning to end and it is not at all about myself whose weakest nature was incompetent to produce anything. The truths of this reality is manifestly asserted by the Bible’s Deuteronomy 33:27 that says:

"The eternal God is my dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms."¹

Throughout my life I have taken all of the encountered-challenges at their face values and kept on moving, doing my very best to succeed in whatever I was doing with those challenges. Its outcomes have consistently been excellent, way beyond my imagination. Inspired by the tenacity of hope, positivity in aspiration, and optimism in confident outlook, and faithful trust in godly promises my cojones must have emanated from failing in the first-grade examination at age nine at my second semi-boarding school located some ninety miles away from our shabby and dilapidated home. At that embryo stage of my life, God was correctly setting me up for the good days that I should encounter at some stage in my life known only to Him.

After my admission to either of the semi-boarding schools, I was never going to see my parents the entire school year. At each of the semi-boarding schools, I was delivered to two different old ladies who had volunteered to feed me during the school year. They were both strangers I never met before arriving at their homes, neither did they know each other. When the second caregiver saw me for the first time, she stared deep into my eyes with an examining look only to observe mucus oozing out of my eyes. This raised an alarm of my being rejected. I was terrifyingly scared of rejection.

It was true that my eyes had rarely been washed for the most part of my entire childhood. But praise be to God, she did not reject me outright by being fearful of contamination of some kind of disease that might be transmitted from me to her. This was one more blessing of God to me that avoided rejection that could have ended in terminating my education at that very spot. He faithfully opened the door for me to be educated.

From the look of it, the caregiver must have also expected that I could never make it at the school which had a rigorous education program. And so, it happened. I failed class in the same year as I arrived. Had repeating a class not been permitted, I should have been sent home as soon as I failed to achieve promotion to the next grade. It would have been so devastating to me.

Yet, even when I did not know God, He must have turned my failures around and gave me so many outstanding successes by standing first in all my classes up to the end of high school except 11th and 12th grades when I could not achieve any better than becoming second in class. It was due to student Abera Belete who always stood first in class. Also, my part-time work at Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERS) took away a chunk of my study-time. It continued with Him granting me double promotions to third and six grades skipping second and fifth grades followed by enabling me to place a first-time, unprecedented record of outstanding performance in the national exam given upon completion of Ethiopian eighth grade. This was coupled by another unprecedented first attempt passing of the most difficult international professional final exams of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants from England, the United Kingdom.

This lesson teaches us humility in that even failures, when applied purposefully, wisely, and objectively, can result in the good spiritual gift to us by the Master. Any failures must never be considered wasteful since they have incredible values with the Provider who favorably uses them to mend, heal, reenergize, revitalize, rejuvenate, and build in us inspirational experiences.

With a view to bring this testimony to fruition, while searching for the truth, I carefully took note of a reflection in Psalms 126:5-6 the exhortative promises that say,

"Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy! He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him."²

Although I knew no God back then, between birth and forty-two years of age, this verse must have instinctively enlightened me as I had been shedding much tears in some seasons of my life. Even those tears kept consistently energizing me, thereby giving me more encouragements by the grace of God. It ended up in showering me with abundant life of faith in Christ for my salvation.

I continue being humbled by the precious gifts of multiple blessings. These experiences would inspire, exhort and motivate others to understand how God can work in their lives when they remain committed to the truth, do what is fair and just, work extremely hard, trust God for the outcome and continue doing the right thing without waiting for counter-offer of a pay-back nature. Planting these fruitful ingredients in our lives would mean heading towards obedience.

This precursor of the testimony gives more enlightening facts later on in the book. I respectfully invite the reader(s) to keep reading until the entire content of the story is discovered after reading the whole book. There are invaluable lessons to be learnt. The major experiences include, on the energizing side, the hardships I endured from being snatched at four years old from my mother and placed in the hand of a stepmother whose overkill unintentionally became my super-motivator; the overpowering saga and extensive abuse of a child labor; the overwhelming struggle against the forces of