Becoming a Vessel God Can Use [Paperback]

Donna Partow (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1556616635 | ISBN-13: 978-1556616631 | Publication Date: March 1996

What does it take to be a woman who makes a difference in her world? Do you have to be perfect? Do your spices have to be in alphabetical order?

When you think about the kind of "vessel" you are, do words like "chipped," "cracked," "broken," and "dirty" come to mind? Yet God accomplishes extraordinary things through ordinary people who believe God can and will use them imperfections and all. Becoming a Vessel God Can Use is a ten-week journey for small groups or individuals that offers hope, laughter, and transformation to women who long to discover new confidence and significance.

After reading Becoming a Vessel God Can Use, I wish Donna Partow lived next door! Not because she has it all together oh no but because she is refreshingly, gut-wrenchingly honest. She minces no words, cuts straight through the masks, and opens her soul. A rare Christian book.

Becky Freeman

Co-author of Worms in My Tea & Other Mixed Blessings

Most of us ache to be more like Jesus, yet we feel helpless in the face of our human nature. Donna walks us through this process. It isn't easy. It costs us dearly. But it changes our lives eternally.

Sheila Walsh

Author of Honestly

Donna gently reminds us to look to God to fill our every need. She leads us to relax and trust God to complete the work He started in each of us and to believe that He can make us vessels useful to Him.

Norma Smalley

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Author Donna Partow is no stranger to the tugs and pulls of life. Her books are born out of a need to evaluate and organize one's priorities, offering practical advice to her readers. Her books How to Work With the One You Love, and No More Lone Ranger Moms were met with overwhelming success and they demonstrate Donna's personal discovery of the need for a network of others around her to support her in the challenges of life.

Another of Donna's books has been a top-seller for nearly three years. Becoming A Vessel God Can Use, is a ten-week study which explores what God is capable of doing through us if we are willing. Using biblical and contemporary examples, including Donna's personal journey from drug dealer to Christian communicator, this book depicts all too well that we are full of God-given potential, we just need to let God work through us.

Her newest book, Walking in Total God-Confidence, is a second ten-week study for churches or bible groups that employs the same winning formula Becoming a Vessel God Can Use. Founded in scripture and filled with inspirational examples, this book introduces readers to the concept of "God-confidence," the unique assurance that God can do what he wants through whomever He chooses.

Donna Partow is the founding member of the Red Mountain Ranch Mother's Cooperative. She is also the author of the best-selling book, Homemade Business: A Woman's Step-by-Step Guide to Earning Money at Home. Her articles have appeared in Focus on the Family, Parents of Teenagers and Home Office Computing. Donna is a graduate of Rutgers University and works as a freelance writer. She is also a popular speaker for women's groups and retreats.

Donna enjoys reading, walking and homeschooling. She and her husband, Cameron, and daughter, Leah, make their home in Arizona.

size : 5.4 x 8.3

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Bethany House Publishers (March 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556616635
• ISBN-13: 978-1556616631
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,076,658 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm a Christian author and motivational speaker on a mission to empower people to maximize their lives for maximum Kingdom impact.

I'm an obsessive compulsive. My obsession? The Kingdom. It's all about advancing the Kingdom. My consuming passion is motivating the church to get up out of the stinkin' pews and into the world. Honestly, I don't even care what you do. Just leave the building, people! Leave the building!

Just because He can, God has enabled me to write a bunch of bestselling Christian books that have sold almost a million copies on all seven continents. Yep, even made it to Antarctica. With titles like This Isn't the Life I Signed Up For, you can understand why I'm more popular with actual hurting people than the big-shots who run the show in Christiandom.

People ask how I landed in ministry. Here's how it went down. The angels were having a bad week and God knew they needed a good laugh. He spotted me living in a trailer off the New Jersey Turnpike and smiled from ear-to-ear. "Hey, everybody, watch this. I'm going to give this woman a worldwide ministry!" Rumor has it the angels laughed for a month. I'm on the planet for one reason: to demonstrate that God has absolutely no standards. He'll take anybody in. If you are willing to turn your life over to God, no matter what a mess you've made, he will astound a watching world with what he can do.

When people leave my conferences, I don't want them to say, "Wow, what a remarkable woman. I could never be like her." I want them to say, "If I had known the standards for being used in the Kingdom were that low, I would have signed up years ago."

I've done hundreds of radio and TV shows. I've spoken at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virgina twice. I've done three conferences on women's entrepreneurship for Senator John McCain (neat guy, lovely wife, btw).I've shared the platform with lots of Christian celebrities, but what I really love is ministering to the homeless, alcoholics, drug addicts and battered women alongside the Salvation Army and urban ministries around the world. Or sharing the gospel on crowded street corners in South America. I absolutely love, love, love the Middle East and have a ministry called Pieces4Peace which reaches into the largest Muslim city in the world.

Even though I fried my brain on cocaine, apparently enough cells survived to enable me to maintain a 4.0 at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts & Sciences and Wharton Business School. I hold a B.A. in English (with a very practical emphasis on 17th Century British literature) from Rutgers University.

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Life-Changing Book!, November 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Becoming a Vessel God Can Use (Paperback)

This book is one of the best Bible study books I have ever read. It is so practical,witty and inspiring. Our ladies' Bible class has had high attendance because of this book, and we all look forward to coming to class. I highly recommend this book to everyone. It can be done alone or in a group setting. It truly is a very powerful study that will be with you for years to come. You will see things in the Scriptures that you may have never noticed before, and then learn how it applies to your life.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A guide to lift your spirit and bring you closer to God, May 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Becoming a Vessel God Can Use (Paperback)

Finally a book has been written that clearly outlines the process of discovering your potential and who you are in relation to God. This book is insightful and must reading for any on a spiritual quest to find meaning in their lives.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book for daily quiet times, July 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Becoming a Vessel God Can Use (Paperback)

This book really helped me to live a more God-centered life in some really practical ways. A great book for Christian women to use for daily quiet times.