I remember a time I was working at the church my father pastored. The board had requested I take the administrative assistant position and I accepted. Of course I was over qualified and under paid but the experiences and knowledge I acquired was invaluable. Now when I first got there, people seemed critical but I was a hustler.
Before, I worked for AT&T Corporate as an Associate Manager, I had just received my Master’s of Science in Industrial Engineering and my little son and I were trying to put our life back together. I was on fire. I put together a Women’s Revival, took over the children Sunday school which turned into the children’s ministry.
I helped the Pastor put together the Ordination Program of 5 ministers including the first woman. That woman was my sister. I also planned and implemented my dad’s retirement from the Navy Reserve Chaplain’s Corps as a Captain. But I also was helping my mother who had a massive stroke. This was only the beginning of sorrow. So many very wonderful things happened during that time but so many greivious things happened also. I expected more from the church and the family but found during hardships your friend is the Holy Spirit. That is who understands when frustrations are high and situations are getting out of hand. The Holy Spirit calms the situation and brings clarity on what to do. People will judge you and try to break you. I wrote grants and receive 2 handicapped buses for the church. I kept writing grants. But at some point the church people begin to really disrespect me. They tried to make me forget who I was. But I remembered the Lord. My mother passed away and I returned to school. Thats how God deals with me and my depression. I learn or accomplish asomething new. I earned a second Masters and a Doctorate. I still don’t have the respect of some of those church people and some family members. But I have the respect of the Holy Spirit, of Jesus of my Father God. I have the respect of myself. And I’m holding on to all that i’ve received from the Lord.
Jesus said, ”
Because you have kept the word of My endurance [My command to persevere], I will keep you [safe] from the hour of trial, that which is about to come on the whole [inhabited] world, to test those who live on the earth. I am coming quickly. Hold tight what you have, so that no one will take your crown [by leading you to renounce the faith]. He who overcomes [the world through believing that Jesus is the Son of God], I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God; he will most certainly never be put out of it, and I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which0 descends out of heaven from My God, and My [own] new name. He who
has an ear, let him hear heed what the Spirit says to the churches.’ Hallelujah Father God, Lord and Savior Jesus and Precious Holy Spirit.
Stay Blessed Saints
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