Yesterday. You read about my “Showers of Blessings” physically and materially. Today I am sharing about my ministry and how the Lord is enlarging its territory. But first, I will share about Burnett Ministries’ small beginnings.
It was 2005 , almost twenty years ago that the Lord gave me a vision to start Burnett Ministries. A team of people were asked to be on the board of directors, and they agreed. Two of those people are still a part of the ministry. When I told the original board that the Lord said the ministry would be global (by way of the internet), they believed the Lord had spoken then and they have seen the vision come to past.
A few others have joined the ministry in the last three years; my teacher and his wife, whom I call Aquila and Priscilla. My prayers have been interceding with me for twenty three years and they are included as part of the ministry.
Sadly, the teacher that the Lord used to instruct me for thirty three years passed suddenly in June 2024. However, what the Lord used him to impart to me and others who are connected to the ministry is motivating us to move forward more than ever in continuing his work and the legacy he left for us.
I must say this! As the teacher, his wife and I were going over some notes that they had recorded from the book of Romans, I was in awe at the insight, illumination, and the anointing that the Lord had given to our lead teacher. I never heard or witnessed to anyone teaching Biblical principles as he did. What is even greater still, he was humble to the point of including me in the commentary that we had intended to write “The Perspectives” from the book of Romans, meaning God’s perspective versus man’s perspective.
I am fast forwarding to how I have been asked to lead a Bible study in Africa, which would be an online Bible study class. This is in addition to the existing conference call Bible study class. I cannot praise the Lord enough for the call, the house He built (Psalm 127:1), and how He is continually enlarging my territory; expanded the ministry more worldwide than ever. I am eternally grateful to the team at Burnett Ministries, all of my readers, and all of you who pray for us.
This is my theme scripture for 2025 – “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope” (Jeremiah 29:11). The reason for this verse is because at my age, and the preexisting health issues, it didn’t seem as though the ministry would be expanding to this point.
I thought one way but the Lord said something different. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:8-9).
What to take away from this story: First of all, be sure that you were called to a specific ministry, don’t rush into ministry; wait for your turn; when the Lord gives it to you, be patient. Please do not take giant steps, take it slow and easy, so there will be no setbacks.
His handmaiden, Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org
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