My Ministry Name is Servant/Handmaiden 8-6-24
After writing about servants and how Jesus calls all those who belong to Him, servants, I pondered it in my heart and that really struck a chord with me. I remembered how I closed letters with “His handmaiden”
Mind you, this was in the 1990’s before I had any idea the Lord would have me licensed (two thousand) and ordained into ministry (2002).
I will go back to using handmaiden, which means servant. Although I have a dual fold call in the five ministry offices as evangelist and prophetess, I am still a servant of the Lord and to mankind. Therefore, it does not bother me when I am called Minister B, BB, evangelist, prophetess or sister.
As a matter of fact, the apostles called each other brother and Paul told other believer to greet his fellow laborers. For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building (1 Corinthians 3:9). Paul even called his fellow workers by their first name (Romans 16:3-16). Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother (1 Corinthians 3:1).
This was the only reason Paul addressed himself as an apostle of Jesus Christ. When he came to Jerusalem, he was trying to associate with the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple (Acts 9:26). How would you feel about someone who had persecuted the very church of God?
Paul’s evil acts got worse. He agreed to Stephen being stoned to death (Acts 7:58-8:1). He had also made havoc on the church, entering into every house, and dragging off men and women to be put in prison (Acts 8:3).
He acted like a mad man. Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. (Acts 9:1-2).
So, you see brothers and sisters why it was difficult for anyone to believe Paul had a transformed life, because of his actions. That’s why he said in most of his letters that he was Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ.
When Paul wrote in Romans about ministry, it meant to serve. Anyone who serves does it humbly, yet boldly and they are not ashamed to tell others who they are in Christ as Paul did. Even though all of us were messed up, like Paul we can say that it is by God’s grace. But by the grace of God, I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me (1 Corinthians 15:10).
His handmaiden,
Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org
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