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I’m usually one that MUST post, full, edited, tightened, rewritten, and retightened pieces or I’m not posting. But today I’m feeling it way different. I’m feeling like a for real-for real blog piece. Hey, I might not even do a spell check. I’m taking flight here. I’m flying on a trapeze without a net.
This is my last entry until 2007 so I want to make sure I give you something positive and just some good information and some hope that will float you on to the next piece that God has in store for you. And he does have plans in mind for you—since the beginning of the beginning. Read it for yourself in Jeremiah 29:11:13, “God says, ‘For I alone know the plans I have for you, plans for prosperity and not disaster, plans to give you a future and a hope.’”
I’m holding on to that promise right along with you and I am seeing God move on my behalf. If you’re watching closely…if you’re listening you’ll hear him say, “here, my child, walk this way.” Or “Wait, I got you. I know the desires of your heart. I got your tears right here in a bottle beside me.” Or ‘I know it’s been a long time coming but change is coming…I just want you ready and wise enough to walk tall with the change.”
Some of you, like me…have been digging soooo long it seems. You been praying and praising, writing and sending, talking, and hushing up. You’ve been hoping and disappointed. You’ve been holding on and letting go. You been watching folk all around you move out into the deep and yet you feel tied to the shore waiting for your ropes to be cut. You been soaring and then crashing. You been… you been… bad English and all but can’t stop now…
Perhaps God is saying to some of us right now… ‘you’ve dug long enough now let me bring the oil to you! You just step up on the escalator and let me take you on up to where I birthed you to be even during Genesis times.
I’m writing to someone out there in cyberspace…you were predestined to be right here, right now…on this page reading this outpouring of whatever that I offer up to God feeling that it is flowing with the help of my Helper the Holy Spirit straight to you. I pray that God is meeting you within the words.
The scripture beside the one I shared in an earlier paragraph that is the foundation of my writing and speaking ministry is Revelations 12:11, “We overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.” Thus, here is a testimony that I feel led to share…
If you as a writer, author, author-hopeful—consider setting up a free myspace profile page. The harvest is plentiful and the workers are few but you are one of them…
At my son’s suggestion, I became actively involved in myspace profile that I had set up some months before but had just laid dormant. Within two months of taking his suggestion I had over 5,000 profile views, over 1,000 comments left on my page, networking opportunities that have equated to more book sales, speaking engagements, radio and print media interviews, praying with people, leading folk to Christ, singing opportunities, friendships, connecting with old readers and building a whole new audience of readers, the need to go into the studio to create a CD because of demand. To view and to see the possibilities of utilizing your space there go to my profile at www.myspace.com/isayaprayerforme.
A year ago, I prayed and asked God for a radio show. In faith, I bought some equipment to at least produce a podcast which would be a start—although the equipment stayed in the box. Well, I launched my podcast, Faith-Lift™ with Stanice on myspace profile using the free technology at www.gcast.com and a telephone. In less than two months, there are been over 11,000 downloads. To listen or subscribe free to my podcast go to: http://www.gcast.com/u/staniceanderson/main. And now it is also available on iTunes at http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=206994621
About three weeks ago, feeling led, I sent an email to an owner of an internet radio station, Take12Radio.com. (Recovery Talk and Positive Music 24/7) I followed through in about a week, and he said that he was looking through possible interviewees but had not chosen yet. I let it go and went on to the next thing I felt led by the Spirit to do—finding the equipment the podcasting/radio equipment I bought back in February so I could at least produce a better quality sound podcast product.
I got a call from the radio station owner. He wanted to interview me on my show.
The day before the Take12Radio.com show interview, I had read equipment manual and produced my first radio quality podcast installment and posted it. My interview was at 2:00 pm EST, at the show’s end off-air the owner, Monty-man Meyer, said that the Lord had impressed on his heard to offer me my own radio show. I gave him an excited, YES! And told him of my prayer to the Lord for a show a year or so prior. We both had chill bumps, Holy Ghost was moving and it was soooo clear. He said all I needed was to tell him if I wanted 45-minute show or an hour; a title, theme song, and of pray about the content. It was already done. I took the hour show option. The show is an extension of the brand God had already made possible, Faith-Lift™ with Stanice: The Radio Show; theme song? The song, Just an Illusion, I co-wrote with my ex-husband, and it’s content? Here’s the 60-second promo as recorded on my radio equipment in my dining room make-shift studio in the quiet wee hours of this morning:
Hello
I am Stanice Anderson, host of Faith-Lift with Stanice here on Take12Radio.com.
In recovery for over 20 years. One day at a time. I’m an inspirational speaker, author of I Say A Prayer For Me: One Woman’s Life of Faith and Triumph, published by Walk Worthy Press/Warner Books.
And now I have the privilege of being here with you for one-hour on Thursdays! Transparency, hope, excitement, healing, humor, and life stories are the gifts I bring.
Inspiring, uplifting, and encouraging people through personal testimonies of getting real, prayed-up and empowered to discover and live out God’s plans and purposes is what I do. Infuse that with topic-related music, seal it with a prayer, and you have the recipe for Faith-Lift with Stanice. Thursdays on Take12radio.com
My first show will air on Thursday, December 21, 2006. It’s posted to be available that morning and will run until the next Wednesday evening which a new show is posted to be heard on that Thursday. To listen go to www.Take12Radio.com It doesn’t pay anything, but it doesn’t cost me anything either. Other than time… and for me it’s all about ministering in the Name of Jesus…my writing, the speaking, podcasts, radio shows, and whatever else God has in mind. I just want Him to get as much glory as possible out of my life that He has spared over and over and over and over again.
In the meantime, I move on listening and watching, believing God is ordering my steps to His desired rhythm and places. And grants such favor with people and institutions. You just have to be open to listen and follow His lead and sometime He leads with the children. My son, also suggested that I do a show to help pay the bills. Oh, I wish it wasn’t so but the Lord knows we got to have money to take care of our living expenses and everything…Cesaer looking for his…
So I listened to my son, believing that God is using him to bless me and to get me where I need to be. My first major show outside of speaking engagements is scheduled for Saturday, January 20, 2007. It’s more than a show, it’s a One Woman Experience and I gave it the title that the Lord gave me about two years ago (I just didn’t know what it was for until now) – The result –
Mike Tucker and Moms Present…
Walkin’ On Water When the Ground Ain’t Enuf: A One Woman Experience
Cada Vez Restaurant
1438 U Street NW, Washington, DC (Historic U St. Corridor), Tickets $20 in advance, more at the door (if seats left)
and available online at www.stanice.com and www.myspace.com/isayaprayerforme
I do hope that you are encouraged. Just be on your way…God will take care the rest. Trust him. Don’t go into it looking for money and fame, if that is your due, God will do it…cause I feel like this if God don’t build the plays, the stories, the podcasts, the radio shows, the house even…the builder builds in vain. But with Him in it…my my my. I will tell you this, I ain’t missed no meals, and as I take care of His business, He takes care of mine, my hope is in Him and the best is yet to be. My latter will be better than my former and I got His Word on that and that’s enough for me.
Nope, not going back to spell check or nothing. This is what it is. This is for you, with love and wishes for one of the Most Joyous Christmas you’ve ever experienced. I’m flying on a trapeze of faith and Jesus is my net.
Stanice Anderson
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