Today by Regina Lacy-Askew

by Regina Lacy-Askew

It's all about doing the right thing
and what goodness, joy & peace
2 my soul that I can bring.
It is all about keeping the
focus on myself & not depending on anyone else.
It is about walking the straight & narrow path
and remembering that it's ok to laugh.
It is about fulfilling my destiny
and allowing my Higher Power
(who I choose to call GOD)
to guide me.
It is about keeping a positive frame of mind
and remembering when it comes to others,
to be nice and kind.
It is about staying clean & sober
and rembering it's not over until
GOD said's it's over.
When I get out of my bed and get on my knees to pray.
My main prayer is that the LORD guide my way.
I ask HIM to watch over my 4 kids
and to please keep them safe
and to help me along this journey
as I seek the LORD's face.
I must remember to keep the focus
and allow my HIGHER POWER
to continue to guide me along this
journey of recovery TODAY.

© 2005 Regina Lacy-Askew

I Can Only Imagine

I Can Only Imagine

Testimony: Step Up and Receive by J.M.

by J.M., Virginia
I wanted to take this time to thank you for coming into my life. Also thank you for being a great inspiration to my sister that she gladly shared you with me.

After losing my mother in Jan. I had to deal with the illness of my father. I was at the point where I felt I could not hear God's voice anymore in my life. My sister had just returned from your book signing. She called me with excitement and joy about the book signing and how God had given confirmation to her about things she had been wrestling with in her life.

I at the time was happy but felt sad because I wanted to share in the joy for my life to know when my break through from my heartache would come. My sister through love and grace came home to see our father while he was in the hospital and she allowed me to keep her, as she would say it "My Stanice Book." I felt really happy that she loved me that much she would part with such a treasure.

I took the book and began reading but finding myself not able to read as much as I wanted to because of the "baggage of life." On my 3-11 work shift, I had the time to start my journey on saving my life. I will not do anything physical but I was killing my self spiritually and did not know how to swim in the ocean without drowning. Just as you spoke of the "lifeguard" in your book, you are my lifeguard.

I would like to thank you because of what you have done; there will be a ministry in VA with the guidance of your book. I want to share the enlightenment I received just by reading your book in that we need to reach our women in the world. I am not a feminist but it is time our women step up and receive what God has for their life including me. Again thank you.

As you say after your prayers: So Be It!

© 2005, J.M., Virginia

Change is Possible! by Hassan Amin

by Ph.D. Candidate Hassan Amin

Greetings: I’m a man of God and I come to you seeking to do what God has charged my life with, and I want to introduce my message and myself.

I am a living testimony that no matter how bad the circumstances of life, you can survive when God is the navigator of your ship. I wandered for over 25+ years in the wilderness, without any faith. I survived years as a child of molestation, started using hard drugs at 12 and developed a drug addiction, was disrespectful to my parents, and was a victim of my own self-destruction. I have been institutionalized in Franklin Delano Roosevelt Psychiatric Center, jailed for criminal acts, mental abuse in my marriages, a thief, liar, and have had clinical depression, the verge of many breakdowns, and have overdosed on drugs numerous times. I have physically hurt people because of my wicked ways, and drifted in hopelessness for most of my life. For a great deal of my life I was an enemy to society and a bad child who had forgotten my lord.

Through prayer and supplication, I came to realize God wanted so much more for my life than I had settled for. I have been clean from iniquity for close to 20 years and living a productive life, yet I believe God wants me to tell others of hope, happiness, and the prosperity of living through righteousness. I understand in this mission I have committed myself to I had to take myself out of the equation and give God control. I know there is a need to help others who may be experiencing a similar lifestyle of what I used to indulge in. I asked God to show me the way and to point me in the direction most needed, and through my own road to Damascus, my spiritual awakening has decreed…I must go tell my story. Let others hear my story and witness the success God has initiated in my life.

Having endured the many emotional traumas and difficulties, I’ve learned that one cannot hold onto past hurts and disappointments. Forgiveness greatly determines one’s ability to enjoy the glory of living. Abiding firmly in the belief God does not allow trials and tribulations for no reason, I have accepted my calling to stand on an altar and deliver a simple message, seek to educate, equip and encourage others, that if God can take my once wretched soul and cleanse me of my afflictions so can he for you.

Through my message my charge is to reach to the heart and souls of God’s people and to stand boldly and testify there are alternatives and change is possible if we allow belief to enter our hearts.

© 2005 Hassan Amin For talks and more info, email

Think LIFE by Min. Carol Williams

by Minister Carol Williams, Wash DC

It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord to declare his loving kindness in the morning and his faithfulness by night. The Lord is good and He is good all the time. It is because of who He is that I worship and praise Him. Are there any women who on today just want to take a moment with me and give God glory?

Today, I feel strongly in my spirit that I need to encourage someone. I am not sure who you are but please my sisters be encouraged by the "Special Seed."

I have been sent to encourage someone to "Think Life." Someone reading "The Seed" may be having thoughts of suicide, or may have gotten a bad diagnosis from the doctors and the prognosis isn't good. If you find yourself in any of these two situations this word is for you.

The " Seed" is found in 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.

It is a trick of the enemy to get you to think any thing les than what God says. Well, my sisters do you know what God says? In order for you to know what God says you have to seek knowledge found in God's Word. We already see according to our text in John 10:10 that Jesus came to give you life.

Well, what exactly is life? Life is the quality that distinguishes a vital functional being from a dead body. We need to look at another word used in our title on today. The word think which means to form or to have in mind, to have as an intention, to have as an opinion, to reflect on, to call to mind, to have as an expectation, to center one's thoughts on. What are you thinking? God is thinking life. Jeremiah 29:11- For I know the thoughts I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not evil, to give you an expected end.

Someone reading this "Seed" may be thinking death. You are thinking about taking your own life. My sisters, in the Name of Jesus, I command you to live and not die so that you can declare the works of the Lord. The Lord has not only given you life but He is life. John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live. Live! my sister. Live! my sister. Live! my sister.

Father, I ask you even now to touch the individual struggling with thoughts of suicide. I speak to you even now Satan, in Jesus' Name, and command you to loose my sisters minds and let them go. They will not commit suicide but they will live. I speak life over my sisters. In the name of Jesus. In Jesus name I pray Amen.

I Love You!!

© 2005 Minister Carol Williams, Washington, DC