Bonnie Pennel
Testimony and request for ordination.
Bonnie: I really need y'all's prayers, I really want you to pray for me. You know, I know the Lord is doing a work in my life, I don't doubt that. And I know that the Lord is with me, I don't doubt that. I never have doubted that. But this path that I'm walking - Jesus knows where I'll come out at.
Pauline: Sister Bonnie, why don't you announce your calling? Maybe you've not announced your calling and that's why you're walking through the path. If you feel that the Lord has called you, announce it and let's get it out.
Bonnie: Well, I believe it was last week, I was woke up and a awful voice spoke out to me and said, "Stir up the gift which lies within you." And I went for about hnlf a day that day and I studied and I studied on this thing, and I thought, Well, Lord, You've given me the gift of healing, the discerning of spirits, and other gifts that God has worked in my life, but it seemed like that wouldn't, it wouldn't witness with me that that was it. And something kept coming to me, "Timothy, Timothy." And I just picked up the Bible and it just turned right open. And I was reading there in the Scripture where Paul was talking to Timothy about the laying on of hands of prophecy by the presbytery. And it seemed like "the presbytery," seemed like that just jumped up there and slapped me right straight in the face and I couldn't get that out of my mind. And I went and looked it up in the dictionary and I got to talking to Pauline, and Palline, when she and I started talking something she said it just witnessed to me, and I think she got the witness, and the Lord moved on me even though I've had a minister's license for four years I had never had hands laid on me and sent forth, and maybe not too many people knew anything about. But the Lord just moved on me to have you to just, it just come to me to have Margaret and Pauline, and I'd like for Ray back yonder, if he would, to come up, and I want you to- y'all to ordain me to preach. Ray, I want you to come up, too. And John, I'd like for John to come up. Yes, there's an awful voice that spoke to me four years ago one night, spoke out one November night I think, said, "Go ye therefore into all the world and tell and preach my gospel." It just roared out at me. And I said there's a lot of men didn't like a woman preacher well, I tell you it ain't a woman preacher, it ain't a man preacher, it's the Holy Ghost when He rises up in you to bring forth, and I said I sure wasn't ashamed of the Lord, what He put on me, and I said anytime I see a woman get up and do something for God, bless her heart, I'm going to back her all the way. I am, I'm going to back her up if she'll stand up and preach truth.