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An E-mail Exchange Between Stanice and an Anonymous Mother... It begins:

Anonymous Mother: Thank you for your book.........as I struggle with a heroin addicted child, I am able to find the better of this heart wrenching part of my life......that all things are possible through God.....that God loves us all..........that we are all given the free will to choose our way.

I also thank you for your chapters on "God Bless The Child" and "Mortal Man" which so aptly explain the inner thoughts and feelings of my husband towards my son. I was convinced that you probably were peeking through my windows when you wrote these chapters but then of course I didn't know you and this was written long before my situation began. I realized we are not alone in our circumstances of life. It give us some feeling of normalcy to know others are experiencing the same......and the only constant through all of this is God........always was, always is, always will be.......and always ready to come to us when we're ready to open our door.

I thank you and will continue to pray for your ministry and I will remember what you have written about your life. Whenever I become frustrated or discouraged with my child's choices, I will remember that God is there, watching and waiting with open arms for my son to come to Him........

Stanice: Thank you!!!! For taking the time to read my book, share your experiences with me by writing this email. God promised long before I finished the manuscript that He would meet each reader within the pages exactly where they were…and you are yet another testimony to God being faithful and keeping His Word!!!!

I read your email to Omie (my friend since childhood and ministry partner that you met in the book) over the phone this morning and we praised God together for your testimony and for your life and for your child. Hopefully, there will come a time, when I can come your town (no matter where it is) to share my testimony and perhaps have a book discussion with whomever the Lord draws to whatever I believe that He will set up through you one day.

I love you, my sister in Christ Jesus and I look forward to meeting you on some God-ordained day. I pray that God continues to bless you and prosper your spirit as He is doing. I pray for your child, that God does for your child what He has done for me. That your child’s steps will turn toward Home to Jesus and that He will restore what the canker worm has eaten. I pray that your ministry to others in similar situation will flourish as your soul continue to flourish in all the God has deposited in you. I’m excited and expecting God to act mightily on your behalf. For Him a good Name. I’m thank You, Lord right now for the miracle you are in the midst of performing even as I write this email…seeking only your face. In Jesus’ Name. Amen. So be it, indeed!

Anonymous Mother: A few weeks ago, I sent you an e-mail entitled "I Love You". Well, the child I referred to in my e-mail overdosed lastnight..............he's alive. I called the Teen Challenge program in ________ and they said they were full.........actually my son called them and they explained they were full......I thought perhaps that my son hit 'rock botto' after overdosing lastnight.......time will tell.....but in the meantime, I pray, Stanice, that the Lord God, Almighty, make an opening for him where there is no opening.........and I know that will happen if it is in my son's heart to get the 'real deal' treatment for his heroin abuse...i.e. that he turn it over to God. What are the chains that bind him from seeking God's help?

As I love my son very much, I cannot continue to live like this anymore........I have two other children, ages 15 & 16 and a husband. Everyone tells me to 'kick him out' ........I don't know what is right or wrong anymore. What does your personal experience tell you about 'a parent no longer wanting the problem in their home'? Does it weaken the bind that perhaps gives him the will to continue to live everyday? Would I be sending him to be sacrificed by the world if I 'kick him out'?

Dear God, I thank you for Stanice and what she has accomplished and overcome.......she gives us all a glimpse of hope that my son can overcome this demon. I pray dear God, that you get in my son's head like you have never done before and provide him a way out of his 'hell' ...an opening where there is none...a determiination where there is just a little right now.....and the ability to see that we really LOVE him and he needs to break the chains that bind him. Amen! Thanks Stanice,

Stanice: AMEN!!! Thank you, Jesus! For sparing his life!!!!! Open up the doors for ______’s son, Lord. Make the help available to him and the willingness on His part to receive and actively seek that help. Plant a hope that out shines all despair and gets him to press his way…just like you did for me Lord, Do for him.

_____, let me say this, my mom – shut the door on me… my dad…years before my mom shut the door on me…and while it seem like THE cruelest thing any parents could ever do… you know what it did for me – It gave me no choice but to CRY OUT TO GOD. No one else was there. I can’t tell you what you need to do…no one can, my sister in Christ – but Christ – as He will lead you through our Counselor—Our Helper—the Holy Spirit. We have to trust, if we know God like we say we know Him we got to show it by letting go and letting Him! Trusting Him like our next breath depends on it—AND IT DOES. As long as there is breath—there is hope! You are doing the right thing…you are seeking God first. Just like His Word instructs you…

Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Pray it out using God’s prescription… Philippians 4:6-7 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Anonymous Mother: Thank you so very much for your very thorough and personal response. Shortly after I sent my e-mail to you, the story of Abraham and his son, Isaac, came to mind ( Genesis 22:1-14 ). How difficult it must have been for Abraham to take Isaac to the mountaintop thinking that his only son would be sacrificed.....letting my son go could result in death from overdose, a killing by a drug'lord', even diseases such as hepatitis or HIV. It's almost as if I'm letting him go to be sacrificed....but like Abraham, I much trust and I believe God is testing my limitations of my commitment to Him. The test is, "Do I really trust God?" and of course, I do.

In your distress you called and I rescued you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Psalm 81:7

Thank you once again for your kindness, Sis...I feel as if I've known you all of my life. May God continue to bless you and your ministry.

Stanice: Not letting go could also result in the same… Perhaps, check out Nar-Anon…
Nar-Anon's Purpose Nar-Anon is a twelve-step program designed to help relatives and friends of addicts recover from the effects of living with an addicted relative or friend.

Nar-Anon's Step One…

We are powerless over the addict and our lives had become unmanageable (trying the manage the behavior and life of the addict—I added this part). When you go to the website check to see where meetings are in your area. Go to a meeting. You’ll get the sense that you are not alone in your struggle. There are also other programs and I have compiled hundreds of links to 12-Step Programs & Other Recovery Related links on my website.

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Gift for the Writer in You - Bonefire! Conference

Daughters of the King Ministries and St. Joseph’s AME Church of Durham, NC Invites you to attend… Bonefire! Women's Conference February 3-4, 2006

Whether God calls you to write or not, you have a God-given vision for your life! When God gives you something, it stays with you morning, noon, and night until you do what He says to do, the way He says to do it. It becomes like fire shut up in your bones. It becomes so hot that you have to write it down. It becomes such a powerful force that you can barely move or think.

Come and hear from experienced authors and teachers who can help you to not only write your vision, but also give you spiritual and practical insight to find your purpose and fulfill your destiny!

The roster of national Christian authors and experienced teachers, reads as a "Who's Who" of the Christian publishing world, such as: Sharon Ewell-Foster; Jacquelin Thomas; Stanice Anderson; Michele Andrea Bowen-Brown; Rebecca Osaigbovo; Victoria Johnson; Marilynn Griffith and Claudia Burney, are confirmed to be at the Bonefire! Women's Conference. Collectively these distinguished authors have published numerous books and have hundreds of powerful testimonies to share with Conference attendees,about discovering God's purpose for their lives. They will share how they were able to articulate their vision through their writing.

Registration is just $69.00! To register, follow the Bonefire! registration link on the website above. Give a registration to a “Sistahfriend” for Christmas and we will send her a special keepsake from Dr. Gail Hayes confirming her registration!

Santa & Reindeer Seriously Singing

Merry Christmas

I Said a Prayer for YOU by Stanice

To those of you who read and support me, including Stanice's Open Mic, Soul Shout, and www.stanice.com, thank you for another year of blessings, encouragment, and prayers for me and my family.

I pray you one of the most joyous Christmas' EVER and a new year that will usher in a tremendously abundant season of God’s blessings, provision, peace and favor in absolutely every area of your life and that of your family. I pray that He launches you out into the deep as you are fishers of men, women, and children, in the manner and with the gifts that He has assigned to you. And that He make that path so clear that you understand and receive the Holy Spirit's enablement and empowerment to walk it out in your daily life. I also pray for you who don't know YET Jesus as Your Lord and Savior. I dare you to pray, "Lord, that woman, Stanice, said that YOU are REAL and that YOU Want to have a relationship with me. If you are real and if you do--show yourself to me and make it soooo plain that it is YOU calling me...that even I will know it, feel it, hear it in my heart so loudly...over all the clutter that vyies for my attention on a daily basis." To us all and for us all, May the Lord Jesus The Christ, Immanuel (God with Us), The King of Kings and Lord of the Universe, grant us the desires of ours hearts as we seek Him first ALWAYS, in His Own Name. Amen. So be it! So it is!

We love you and thank God for you.
Stanice, son--Mike, granddaughter--Michal Zoe, and grand-TWINS due on Valentine Day 2006. Praising God from whom ALL blessing forever flow!

Michal Zoe...My Crown

Proverbs 17:6 Children's children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children

According to God's Word, our grandchildren are our crown. And if that wasn't wonderful enough, we are the pride of our children and they are pride of theirs.

What a blessing and great joy to see ourselves as God sees us. What a freedom to know THE WORD for ourselves.

© 2005 Photographer GrandMa-Ma Stanice
© 2005 Stanice Anderson, Inspirational Speaker & Author www.stanice.com

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
www.GNTV.net

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So let Hazel know that you heard about her right here on SOUL SHOUT!

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