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I can hear the words of my mother to me, The Bible says, that “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold”. KJV, she always read the King James Version. As I reflect on Proverbs 22:1, I am so grateful and full of joy.

On yesterday, I said goodbye to a place that had been a part of my life for the past two years. As I looked down at my watch, I heard the fifteen minute to closing, the ten, five, and we are closed. I sighed with relief, then the reality came to me, well, Trudy this is it. I continued to fold and straighten. As I looked up my manager approached me. His words to me, “I want to thank you for all you’ve done, your attitude has been awesomely off the charts. I still remember the day I saw you shopping, and thanked you for being a customer. I really hate to see you leave. I wish you the best. Please come by and keep in touch. Don’t forget the holidays if you want to earn some extra cash.” I said thank you for the opportunity, and I will keep in touch. My eyes welled up because I could once again hear the words of my mother reading the Bible to me, “Listen to this now, “Proverbs 22:1, “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold”. KJV

The title will likely spark your curiosity to read about the house of worship our beloved Bishop TD Jakes shepherds, however not this time.. Long before The Potter’s House in Dallas, Texas was birthed there was another Potter’s House that the prophet Jeremiah was commanded to “Go down to.” For Jeremiah verses 18:1-6 gives us an account of what God told him to do.

As Jeremiah was obedient unto God, he saw the potter “working” at the wheel. He was not idle. We must work while it is day, for when night cometh no man can work. Don’t allow distractions to come upon you to hinder the work that the Lord has assigned to “YOUR HAND” to complete. The potter was shaping from the clay was “marred” so he formed it in another pot, shaping as it seemed best to him. “Marred”, hmm, A disfiguring mark; a blemish. We all have blemishes, for none of us are perfect, yet we strive for perfection. We have been disfigured by the cares and stresses of this life.

When the Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah, and asked him, “CAN I NOT DO WITH YOU, ISRAEL, AS THIS POTTER DOES?” “Like the clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.

So I say unto you this day, will you allow THE POTTER to mold you, shape you, purge you,  and renew a right spirit within you?

I AM HIS SERVANT,

Trudy Hansberry Anderson

As I was preparing for work this morning I began to reflect back to my junior year of high school. I was so excited about visiting Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I had decided to attend there upon graduation. However, due to a family tragedy, MY plan had to change. I didn’t think twice when my mother sat down and explained what we were facing as a family. So, I didn’t leave the summer of 1988 as I anticipated. I attended the local community college and worked to assist my family- they needed me.

If I had gone to ORU the summer of 1988, it is very likely that I wouldn’t be married to my loving and supportive husband of 22 years, nor would I be the mother of two handsome young men,nor the grandmother of a little boy athlete. I also would not be the leading lady of the congregation that we have served for the past 18 years.

So, I reflect and know that it was HIS Plan… For Jeremiah 29:11 has come to have great revelation and meaning to me as I have matured and come through the “tight places” in my walk with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

As you read this, know that God has a plan for your life, HIS plans are not of evil, they are to prosper YOU and to give YOU an expected end. Your times and seasons are in HIS HANDS.

As I close for now, my mother would often say these words, “Look up and Live.”

I AM HIS SERVANT,

Trudy Hansberry Anderson

As I reflect on last week and the struggles that I faced, made me realize that I cannot rely on my own strength. The Lord was there to provide the “Strength To Go Through”… So today is a new day, look to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to hold you, He is there for us each day. He is the lifter of your head, He is your strong tower, He is your balm wherever you need healing. Let Him be that “Strength To Go Through”. Please meditate on Psalm 42.

Psalm 42   To the Chief Musician. A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem, of the sons of Korah.

As the hart pants and longs for the water brooks, so I pant and long for You, O God.
My inner self thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?

My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, Where is your God?

These things I [earnestly] remember and pour myself out within me: how I went slowly before the throng and led them in procession to the house of God [like a bandmaster before his band, timing the steps to the sound of music and the chant of song], with the voice of shouting and praise, a throng keeping festival.

Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, my Help and my God.

O my God, my life is cast down upon me [and I find the burden more than I can bear]; therefore will I [earnestly] remember You from the land of the Jordan [River] and the [summits of Mount] Hermon, from the little mountain Mizar.

7[Roaring] deep calls to [roaring] deep at the thunder of Your waterspouts; all Your breakers and Your rolling waves have gone over me.

Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

I will say to God my Rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

As with a sword [crushing] in my bones, my enemies taunt and reproach me, while they say continually to me, Where is your God?

why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

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