From Bags To Riches

From Bags To Riches

My friend, Yango, who used to call me when he first came home for motivation and prayer, called me this morning and shared this article with me after i shared with him my honest thoughts and misgivings of my own place in life at this time.

His call and prayer for me were predestined! It's time for change. I'm not going out defeated nor poor. Amen? Amen. So be it! So it is.

Question of the Month

Reader-Friend Question:
How do you get a prayer through when you are sitting at a desk and cannot pray outwardly?

Stanice Says...
Inaudibly. God is omnipresent. He is in us, through us, all around us, under us over us, surrounds us, envelopes us so (1) envision myself in the Throne room of God...I ask the Holy Spirit to usher me there ...take a minute...go there in the Spirit and think a prayer...say it in my mind with all my heart, and (2) light barely audible grunts and moans, as part of and along with using my heavenly language which I know prays in the perfect will of God, (3) write out a prayer...close my eyes and just type. (4) Sometimes I sing...thinking the song, actually singing or humming the song... Then there was always the go to the bathroom to the last stall at any place of employment I may be...and down to the garage...must admit this habit came about during my smoking cigarette days...but after I stopped smoking I knew I could walk that garage and talk to God and tell Him all about whatever. I could also mentally and spiritually start my day over again after talking with Him. Bottom line...the beauty and purpose of prayer is to be in His Presence...sometimes it's communicating with Him and always Him communicating with me. I'm just renewed having spent time with him...whether 30 seconds or 1 hour... the results are the same...peace even in the midst of a raging storm.

GOD'S HOLY WORD Says...
Jude 1:20
But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:26
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.

1 Corinthians 14:15
So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.

fyi...I look up scripture references at www.biblegateway.com A wonderful resource.

© 2006, Stanice Anderson, www.stanice.com

He Will Be

He Will Be

Transitions

Transitions are the hardest to bear
From this to that
From one consciousness to another
The inner construction of it all
The drilling doubts
The paved plans
When you have blueprints of your own
Only to discover it is more cost-effective to yield to God’s right-of-way.

Jeremiah 6:16 (NIV)
This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls…

© 2006, Stanice Anderson, www.stanice.com

When I Am Weak...

I'm not as strong a woman as I'd like to think that I am. I am frail sometime, I am weak... but because most of my journey so far has been without the benefit of a loving, kind and good man... I've had to seek God for what I don't possess in the flesh. Still sometimes, I have to put a voice to my fears just to hush them.

2 Corinthians 12:10
That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Charles & Taylor - Mama's Song

Tribute, in Song & Photos, to Coretta Scott King
Charles & Taylor - Mama's Song

Hush, Hush Somebody's Calling My Names?

My dearest, Gloria “Tootie Jo" Brown Frasier, I thought I had to deal with a lot of names and the baggage that's sometimes attached to them.

Check me out (ex-husbands included). Stanice "Stacey" Lucretia Anderson-Grandy-Smith-Jenkins almost -Ghaffar a/k/a Kemba Ali Intersar (which means "Faithful Until the Victory"). What victory? Not a clue. Confusing to you? Confusion was a way of life for me.

One day I made a prayerful decision and boldly declared to the world on the outgoing message on my answering machine, “All I want for Christmas is my birth name back.” By that Christmas I had paid the DC Courts over $150 and gone through the two-month process to become once and for all who I was birthed to be – the semi-unadulterated -- Stanice Lucretia Anderson.

My Dearest Gloria, it feels like a place called home. Finally, I’s free now!

© 2006, Stanice Anderson, Inspirational Speaker, Writer/Book Coach and Author, www.stanice.com

Get Ready, Things Are About To Change In An Instant!

Hello Chosen One,

I am going to have to use a less expensive method of sending out Food for the Spirit. Thus, I am going to use Bravenet Email Services. You will get an email soon, confirming that you want to continue this journey with me. I do hope that you will. Your support and prayers have been such a blessing to me. Please forgive this inconvenience but so it is right now...so it will not always be. I am trusting God for increase not only in my life but in yours.

Prophetic Word

Prayers that you prayed in 2005 that have yet to be answered..you have stood on the promises of God and I believe He is about to reward your diligence, your perseverance, your FAITH. Yes, get ready, things are going to change in an instant.

Jeremiah 29:11-14 (New International Version) 11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. [a] I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile."

In God's Presence
Father God, thank you for your intimate and personal Word to us. Help us keep our eyes on YOU and not on the circumstances that surround us. You say YOU KNOW...that's enough for us today. To know that YOU KNOW. We are trusting YOU and all that YOU KNOW and WHO YOU ARE...the great I AM that I AM. Our Father who would not give us a stone when we ask for water. Holy Spirit empower us to walk with God with every step that makes up our lives. And we we veer off the right road, gently guide us and urge us back on the road. And when we get weary and want to give up and just lay on the side of the road, energize us with the inspiration and enthusiasm--that makes up the very breath of God. We ask this in Jesus' Name. Amen. So be it! So it is!

Never forget, you are blessed beyond measure.

I love you and I thank God for you. He is blessing us, right now! Visit My Website

Moving Forever Forward in Jesus,

Stanice

© 2006, Stanice Anderson, Inspirational Speaker and Author of I Say A Prayer For Me: One Woman’s Life of Faith and Triumph, Walk Worthy Press/ Warner Books, www.stanice.com

The Simple Truth vs. A Million Little Pieces and Oprah

As a memoirist, I must recount the simple truth. Mine is not to spin some tale woven from tattered and fabricated lives.

I must recount the simple truth with myself as the core of the apple eaten in my own Eden and with God as the vine on which it grows.

The simple truth, wrapped in moments I actually lived, and I am to rely on those moments to speak universal truth into your life. Thus, it gives both you and me clarity and purpose.

The simple truth sequestered in my mind until birthed onto pages and allowed to flourish and bear fruit in the light of day.

Truth is THE essence and not a by-product strained from lies.

It is not the Oprahs or the New York Times bestseller lists that we’re to seek, fear, or allow to define us—but God—only God.

It is our responsibility to tell the simple truth and nothing but the truth—so help us, God.

’Tis a sacred trust of which each of us will stand alone and accountable before God—on some preordained day.

As memoirists, we’d do well to etch Galatians 1:10 into our hearts, “Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.” (New International Version)

© 2006, Stanice Anderson, Inspirational Speaker and Author of I Say A Prayer For Me: One Woman’s Life of Faith and Triumph, Walk Worthy Press/ Warner Books, www.stanice.com

Love Letters Straight From The Heart

Dear Son,

My first grandchild, Michal Zoe, is ever changing and still quite the stunning one. I shared some photos with a friend and she wrote me back, “Lord have mercy, she favors YOU. She’s such a cutey.”

Although I don’t quite see it, it was good for GrandMoms to hear. Generations of genes on both sides are there--as with you, as with me. It’s amazing isn’t it? The creative power of God. It’s like He loves us so much, that he wants to perpetuate us here on earth as well as in Heaven. Us, there with Him—eventually—with new immortal bodies that will never wear out AND remnants of us, here.

Dear Moms,

That creative power of God is something else. You should jot that down in a notebook. The way you describe things or see the God in things is a gift.


Dear Father God,

On Wednesday, December 28, 2005, you added the twins! My first grandson—Arin and another granddaughter—Nya.. “Thank You” seems a not-so-creative nor adequate way to express my heart towards you. Please accept my daily surrendered life—instead. So be it! So it is!

© 2005-2004 Stanice Anderson, Mike Tucker, Jr. www.stanice.com