On Days Like These

On days like these,
the dream seems so big
and the resources so few
and the confidence so null and void.
On days like these,
the Holy Spirit reminds me
that the cattle on a thousand hills
are God's--just as I am.
The Lord is my shepard,
I shall not want...
on days like these.
I pray pass the cirumstances
and rest in the pastures of faith.

© 2005 Stanice Anderson, Inspirational Speaker & Author www.stanice.com

Unexpected Blessings

Introducing, Hazel Ball, the owner of the Gospel News TV (GNTV) network. She interviewed me on the cable TV show that she hosts; and since that time we have become friends and prayer partners. What a blessed woman who God has granted such vision, style, and energy when it comes to furthering the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

It's wonderful when you get an surprise email with unsolicited favor and generosity. It shows me how God is working, on our behalf, even behind the scenes unbeknownst to us--working on his plans and purposes that He alone knows for our lives. I am in awe of Him and how he grants us favor with the people that He places on our paths.

Here's the email:"Stanice, Because you have been such a supporter of GNTV Ministries We are in the process of adding your book and website link to ours. When folks come to GNTV, they will see your book and weblink. You are a GNTV family member. Please share with your friends that they can advertise their businesses on GNTV for $99.00 for 99 weeks.
Much Love,
Hazel Ball
CEO/Executive Producer
GNTV P.O. Box 15629
Alexandria,Va 22309
703.989-8890
info@GNTV.net
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I Would Rather Live!

This morning, a good friend and sister in Christ, Lois, took the time and emailed me this photo along with these few potent words:

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is."

I, in turn, feel led to share it with you and offer to walk with you as Jesus Christ, personally, through the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit, leads you through the "next steps." This is not a coincidence nor an accident that you are right here, right now. You must have been praying and/or somebody's praying for you. I know I have and it's likely that we've never even met. But in the spirit, we have...more than likely I have been where you are right now and I can tell you...through it all and perhaps even because of it all--IT'S GONNA BE ALL RIGHT. If it brought you to this day...to this crossroad--then, IT'S ALL GOOD.

Yes, even inaudible prayers have been seeping up out of your heart now for awhile and I thank God that He leads me even now to let you know that He has heard your prayers and that what he offers you is NOT RELIGIOSITY but RELATIONSHIP. A personal and intimate relationship with the Himself made possible only through His Son, Jesus Christ. John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Billy Graham fanned the fire of spiritual clarity in my heart one day when I heard him say, "Religion is man's way of trying to reach God but Jesus Christ is God's way of trying to reach man."

THIS IS THE DAY OF GOD'S FAVOR.

If you haven’t already, you can pray, right this minute. Why wait for a time that you don't know that you have? I didn’t wait. I was in my self-imposed dungeon of an apartment when I asked Jesus to come into my life and He did! Right where I was!

Pray with me…"Heavenly Father, I come to You in the Name of Jesus. Your Word says, "Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Acts 2:21). I am calling on You. I pray and ask Jesus to come into my heart and be Lord over my life according to Romans 10:9-10 which says, "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." I do that now, Father, I confess that Jesus is Lord, and I believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead.

I am a Christian - a child of Almighty God, I am born again and I am saved! Amen!"

Congratulations, on your brand new beginning! You have just made the absolute, very best decision of your entire life!

And now, I say a pray for YOU.

Father God, I pray now for my new siblings through Christ Jesus. What a joy! Do for them what you've done for me and MORE besides. Reveal the plans You alone know that you have for their lives, plans for prosperity and not disaster. Your plans to give them a future and a hope just as You say in Your Word in the 29th chapter of Jeremiah, verses 11 through 14. Fill them now with your Holy Spirit so that they can do all things through Christ who strengths them. I ask this in Jesus' Name. Amen. So be it!

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. (New International Version)

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. (New International Version)

TODAY, YOU HAVE CHOSEN LIFE! AMEN. SO BE IT!

For more and to email me about your destiny-changing decision for Jesus, click to go a page on my website or email me at stanice@stanice.com

NOTE: If you already have a personal and intimate relationship with God through Jesus Christ, let's continue to grow in that relationship and let's share this spirit-led message with others who have yet to discover the peace and joy we've found in being Jesus lovers--and watch was God does through our obedience to spread the Good News, the Gospel of Jesus Christ--in whatever form.

© 2005 Stanice Anderson, Inspirational Speaker & Author www.stanice.com

Knock, Knock

When the devil comes knocking at your door, simply say...

"Jesus, would you get that for me, please?"

1 Samuel 17:47 (NIV)
"All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give all of you into our hands."

Stained Glass Masquerade

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Casting Crowns"

A young woman at a Bible College in upstate NY first shared this song with me. I shared it during a Feast On THE WORD Gathering and now I'm sharing it with you. Listen and HEAR the message.

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Press On!

Corinthians 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

I just sent most of these next words (I added some specifically for you) to a friend yesterday. So you see, you are not alone in your struggle to press your way. Like my boy, Robert Randolph, sings in his song, Press On, "when whatever whatever--press on." I added the "when whatever whatever" but you feel me. It only means there's a breakthrough in store for you that the lower power would rather you not partake in. If he can get you to quit before you see what the ends gonna be, that would make his day. But God WILL GET THE GLORY TODAY IN THE PRESSING. So start praising God all the way through it! PRESS ON!"

How?: The Armor of God

I love you and God loves you extravagently more!
© 2005 Stanice Anderson, www.stanice.com

Stanice's Article Published

An article I wrote, The Hour I First Believed, is published in the latest issue of the quarterly magazine, Precious Times, which is now on sale at Christian Bookstores, Barnes & Nobles and WalMart. You can also subscribe to the mag on their website.

Tribute to Barbara Noonan

Passed on Nov. 2, 2005

Barbara, my friend, I seize this opportunity to thank you—again—for inspiring me to explore my God-given talents and gifts—including motherhood.

It was you who took the time to coach me into singing at my first talent show. Through your patience and prodding during rehearsals, I was able to go from singing with my back to the audience, to slowly developing the courage to face the audience with my eyes closed, of course, to the night of the show where I was belting out my songs with the confidence of a diva. You, Barbara, showed me how to fly! As if that wasn't enough, you helped me develop a mother's consciousness that I lacked at the start of my recovery journey. Remember that same night at the talent show, I had my son with me, he was only about 9 years old and once I started singing, I took it to the extreme and felt the need to sing back up for everybody and all at the expense of my precious son--it was getting late and all he wanted to do was go home? You took the risk and intervened.

Well, I remember and those moments were so significant to me -- so life changing for both myself and my son that I recanted it in last book, "...Stanice, take that boy home! He's tired and he should be home and in his bed asleep this time of night...I could smell the greasy potato chips that lingered on her breath as she stood almost nose-to-nose with me. As she reared her neck back, her freshly spiraled Jerri curls shook and shone under the bright corridor light. Like bullets, her words shot out of the barrel of her month: 'Look girl, you already sang your last song. Cut! That's a wrap! The show's over for you! Now, take that boy home.'

"Barbara, listen You--"

"No, Stanice you gonna listen to what I have to say and I don't care how much you don't like it. You always talk about wanting to learn how to be a good mother. Well consider this your first lesson! Your child's needs MUST come before your own. Look at him. What are his needs at this moment?"

You were so right, my friend. I submitted to your "tough love" and I thank God that you took the time and loved me enough to help me.

Mike is now 29 and through the years we have developed an incredibly loving and nurturing relationship. And now Mike has a daughter, Michal, my first grandchild. So, together as family of many generations to come--we thank you. Rest easy, Chosen One...you have stored up treasures in Heaven--I am a witness. Amen. So be it!

© 2005 Stanice Anderson www.stanice.com

Through It All--Persevere!

I once read an intriguing definition for “persevere” in a Bible glossary. “Perseverance is the ability to endure hardship and suffering without complaining or becoming angry.”

Shall I take my own inventory of this essential fruit? I had a long history of trying to circumvent hardship and suffering by whatever means necessary. Especially, doing the easier, softer thing. “Hard choices were the wrong choices” was my motto. Choices made, decisions left unmade, habits, lusts, and envy contrary to everything the Word of God lovingly teaches. I also had a nasty habit of crying, moaning, and complaining at any hint of physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering. Now, I must also admit that most of the suffering in my life has been self-inflicted—even since embracing Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.

Where did my inability to persevere get me? So deep into the pits of despair that only a merciful and loving God could have dug me out. Also, always short of the marvelous plans that God intended for my life when I yielded to His will and cast all my hopes, cares, and concerns at the foot of the Cross.

And you know what else I found out about myself? Sometimes, like a drowning swimmer who fights the lifeguard that’s trying to save her, I have to be knocked out by life in order for God to pull me safely to shore.

However, once got the Word of God in me and built a personal intimate relationship with God, I saw the necessity to press my way—to persevere. As I kept my spiritual eyes on Jesus, the Holy Spirit imparted His strength and wisdom which allowed me to make the sometimes hard but right choices that propelled me closer to God’s perfect will for this life that He so graciously saved.

When I want to give up, and that thought enters my mind sometimes, I don’t. There are times when I want to stretch out on the road and cry out, “No more, life is just too hard!” But I’ve found that along the way somewhere God has changed my mind—my perspective—and I refuse to give up five minutes before the miracle happens.

I have found that when I call upon my Savior, I am given the ability that I could never give myself—no matter how many self-help books I read—to persevere. By the power of the Holy Spirit, I am able to go one more step, cast aside all fear, chase away my doubts, stomp down the enemy of my soul, speak life to my circumstances, command that the raging storm to cease and desist, write one more sentence, seize opportunities, let go the past, forgive myself and forgive the same person yet another time for the same thing I forgave him for the last time. I find that like I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

If there is ever a glossary in any of the books I write, under “perseverance” there will be a solitary picture—Jesus Christ—nailed to the cross. He was, is, and forever will be—the definition and the example.

Dear Heavenly Father: We want to be more like Jesus with each passing day. Help us to persevere this day. We know that without your help we will drown in our own pools of self-reliance. In Jesus’ precious Name we pray. Amen. So be it!

James 1:4 Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

© 2005 Stanice Anderson


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