Mercy Lokulutu - As You Wish: Finding True Strength in Surrender to God

It is an honor and joy to introduce you to a spiritual daughter and powerhouse for GodMercy Lokulutu. Her bold passion, audacious faith, and utter obedience to God will inspire you. It will also challenge you in the best way. This book is her life message: to live a life of surrender to God. One of the greatest ways to express our love to God is to yield our lives to Him. It can be high-risk and high-cost, but in the process of surrender we learn more of who God is and who we are truly created to be. Read Mercys book and start this journey today.

STOVALL WEEMS
LEAD PASTOR, CELEBRATION CHURCH

Living an as You wish life, as portrayed by Mercy Lokulutu, will challenge you to draw closer to our Master, Jesus Christ, choose to obey Him, and to embrace the life design He has prepared for you. Mercy truly knows the joys of serving Him and shares from her life beautifully.

JEAN OHLERKING
COFOUNDER AND VICE PRESIDENT,
CHILDRENS CUP

As You Wish is not only Mercys story of surrender and dying to herself but also a call for every Christ follower to experience what Jesus said in Matthew 16:25: If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it (NLT). Through personal stories and life experiences she shares how she came to the defining moment when she chose to say, As You wish, and discovered her greatest fulfillment. Mercys passion for Christ and seeing others experience the as You wish life are woven into each page. Her story will challenge and empower many to let go and experience freedom through surrender.

DARRYL AND KARA BELLAR
LEAD PASTORS, THE JOURNEY CHURCH

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AS YOU WISH by Mercy Lokulutu
Published by Passio
Charisma Media/Charisma House Book Group
600 Rinehart Road
Lake Mary, Florida 32746
www.charismahouse.com

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Unless otherwise marked, Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, International Bible Society. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations marked ESV are from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission.

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Copyright 2013 by Mercy Lokulutu
All rights reserved

Cover design by Lisa Rae Cox
Design Director: Bill Johnson

Visit the authors website at www.mercylokulutu.com.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013911068
International Standard Book Number: 978-1-62136-255-5

E-book ISBN: 978-1-62136-256-2

While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers and Internet addresses at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author assumes any responsibility for errors or for changes that occur after publication.

With utmost love and honor, I dedicate
this book to my beloved mother,
Pauline Makka.

She lived a life worthy of her calling
and faithfully sowed seeds that will
reap eternal and everlasting fruit.

CONTENTS

by Kerri Weems

F IRST AND FOREMOST I want to thank my family for tirelessly working with me on this book. To my beloved husband, Bosulu, who shows me love that knows no bounds, thank you for believing in me even when I didnt believe in myself. To Isaiah and Ava-Pauline, you are my greatest inspiration and give me hope for the future. God blessed me extravagantly, as life with you is beyond my wildest dreams! I am deeply grateful to my father, Fidelis Makka, and my sisters Blessing, Serah, and Faith, who are as much a part of this journey as I am. Thank you all for your incessant encouragement and belief that with God all things are possible. I could not have done this without you.

Part of the beauty of birthing a dream is that God brings midwives and co-laborers to share the pain and magnify the joy of seeing new life emerge. Much appreciation goes to my incredible church family at Celebration in Jacksonville, Florida. This book is as much a part of you as it is of me. Thank you for always believing in me. Despite distance or geography, we will always grow together because we share the same roots. I know the best is yet to come! To my church family at DC Metro Church in Alexandria, Virginia, thank you for embracing me with open arms. Its an honor to serve in Gods house and build alongside all of you. To all who gave me advice, lent a listening ear, and offered generosity of heart, you have helped this dream become a reality, and your reward is in heaven!

To the dream team at Charisma House who provided invaluable assistance in editing and revising and then doing it all over again, I thank you for your wisdom and partnership.

A special tribute goes to Pastors Stovall and Kerri Weems. Words dont suffice to express my thanks, so the best gratitude I can offer is to courageously walk out my God-given destiny just as youve taught me. You will always be a part of my spiritual life in the most special way as my spiritual father and mother. Your willingness to pay the price of surrender inspires me.

Also, to all the great men and women of God who have been mentors for me and invested in my life, you are my heroes and heroines, and yours are the shoulders on which I humbly stand. Thank you for being trailblazers, for boldly paving the way, imparting vision, and challenging me to be all God created me to be. I pray I am able to do the same for those coming after me.

L ET ME START by admitting that I am more than just a little bit biased about Mercy Lokulutu. We are not merely professional acquaintances; we are up-close, personal friends. I love her strength, her humor, and her contagious passion for the things of God. But the thing I love the most about her is her deep commitment to the message of this book. Mercy lived the words as You wish, long before they ever found their way onto the pages of this book. But you will see for yourself that as You wish was not always her first response to the call and will of God.

From the time I first met Mercy, I could sense a special