My Life Experiences: From Having Cancer to Finding out God Is the Answer—A Little Bit of It All

By Evenell Sanders

My Life Experiences presents a collection of poetry written by Evenell Sanders focusing on her life experiences. She lost her father and brother in the same week; a year later she experienced a second divorce, and in 2006 she was diagnosed with lung cancer. During all her trials and tribulations, she found solace in reading her Bible and praying to God. It was then that she began writing the poetry and songs that comprise this collection.

My Life Experiences includes vital information that could help anyone who is interested in finding a more faithful life in God or who needs help discovering themselves.

Let Me Tell You

Let me tell you how good Jesus has been to me.

He picked me up out of the lost and found.

He healed me when I was sick and down.

He turned my life clean around

He blessed me in the nick of time and restored my life with peace of mind.

Let me tell you how good Jesus has been to me.

He made a way out of no way, and He continues to bless me each day.

If you try Him for yourself, you will see.

He will make a believer out of you as He has me.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jun 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9781475995190

Evenell Sanders

Evenell Sanders currently lives in Mississippi.

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Contents

Preface

My Testimony

Let Me Tell You

Lesson Learned

Lord, You Have Given Me

Michael Douglas

Making a Difference

Madonna

Mississippi

My Six Grandchildren: A, K, B, Z, M, K

My Family

Barbara Walters

President Obama

My Purpose Mission

My Book

My Two Brothers

Never Doubt God

Oprah

On TV

Peace of Mind

Pay Your Tithes

Respect

All Things Change

See Some of This World

Robin Roberts

I Am a Songwriter

My Bible

On Thanksgiving Day

Teenage Huffing

Taylor Swift

God Gave Me a New Lease on Life

Things Are Happening

These Days

The Streets

The Storm of the Century

Tyler Perry

When You Are Young

What Would You Do?

We Are Never Satisfied

Usher

When It Is My Time

When God Blesses Me to Be Wealthy

When a Woman Don’t Need a Man

When a Man Wants Out

When You Are Old

When You Are in School

Will Smith

When You Have Your Health and Strength

Your Appearance

Young Ladies

Men

Worrying

Ellen Degeneres

A Man Knows Another Man

A Good Woman

A Good Man

Abortion

A Woman Scorned

A Mother’s Love

Accomplish

Abuse

Afro American Children

Alicia Keys

Nothing Stays the Same

As Time Goes By

Apply It to Your Need

Be Independent

Being a Mother

Selfish

Don’t Let Anyone Bully You

Breaking Up

Beyoncé

Trust

Children

On This Christmas Day

Jesus Christ

Being Depressed

Do Not Steal

Easter

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Don’t Start Anything You Can’t Keep Up

Don’t Leave Your Children in Your Car

Don’t Do Drugs

Don’t Complain

False Teachers

Everyone Has a Gift

Father’s Day

Most Families

Give Me My Flowers

A Real Friend

Former President Bill Clinton

Forgiving Others

Give Your Children a Start

God Answered My Prayer

Giving Back

God Will Supply All Your Needs

Halle Berry

Have Some Style about Yourself

Keeping Trophies

Having Any Kind of Cancer

How Could You

I Thank You, Lord

The People

Jamie Foxx

It Is a Thin Line between Love and Hate

Invest

Jennifer Hudson

Having Faith in God

Lady Gaga

Living in Fear

You Can’t Listen to What People Say

Michael Jackson

Always Have More Than One Plan

When You Are in Love

Children These Days

Children

Diseases

Divorce

Families Competing

Going through Chemo

Haters

House Rules

I Will

Jesus

Make the Time

Ladies

Leave Your Children and Grandchildren an Inheritance

Living with Lung Cancer

Marriages

Money

My Life

Never Underestimate a Woman

Open Your Eyes

Pandora’s Box

Our Master Jesus

My Pastor, Anthony Robinson

Prepare Yourself

Playing Hard to Get

Responsibility

Selfishly Greedy

Takers

The Choice Is up to You

Trying to Keep Up with the Jonses

When a Child Is Molested

When You

When You Break Up with Someone

Be Wise

Women, Don’t Get Involved with a Married Man

Women

You Cannot Make a Man or Woman Want You

Young People

When I Wake Up

To All My Readers

Preface

Those of you who read my book, I can’t tell you what to do through your trials and tribulations.

I surely don’t know all the answers to your bad or good situations.

My book can perhaps help you not to make the same mistakes I’ve made in my life.

At the same time, knowing something about God and all he can do—

if you are willing to let Him come into your life and to have a relationship with Him—can change your life too.

No one knows what goes on behind closed doors; that’s true.

So don’t let anyone tell you how to live your life or what to do.

If you are living in one of these situations that I have been through,

then my book can help you—only you.

This is just my invitational advice

on some of the experiences I’ve been through in my life.

To all my readers, may God bless you as well as help you along the way through any situation you might be having today.

I want you to know God is truly all you need, but you first must repent and be saved, believing in God always.

My Testimony

All I knew and truly believed was that God had something better for me, but I had to let go of everything and move out of my father’s brick home on his estate and step out on faith, trusting God that He would make a way. My friends would say to me, If I was you, I wouldn’t move, but I would tell them that this was something I had to do and that God was not going to let me struggle like this always. I was, and still am, living off of a fixed income that I got once a month. I was barely making ends meet; I did not have any money saved. I even had to sell some of my furniture to pay for my deposit and rent to move into a two-bedroom apartment. I was so tired of constantly starting all over again, moving here and there and getting nowhere. My lung cancer came back a second time, and I really didn’t want to live anymore. I was so tired of struggling with hardship and pain. One day I picked up my Bible and started reading it, and after I got through reading my Bible, I got down on my knees and started praying like I had never prayed before in my life. I cried myself to sleep some nights with my Bible in my arms, holding it tight. I started going to church, Sunday school, and Bible study as well as constantly praying and reading my Bible daily, and in God’s time, two years later God poured me out a blessing that supplied all my needs and some of my wants too. It was a dream come true. All I could do was constantly thank God and cry, but this time I was crying tears of joy. God made it possible for me to move back home on my father’s estate with something that I owned. He even gave me peace of mind and made my enemies my footstool—what a great, wonderful blessing from God that He gave to me after I stepped out of my comfort zone on faith and put all my heart, soul, and trust in Him. God made a way out of no way and made the impossible come true. He gave me a new lease on life, too.

Let Me Tell You

Let me tell you how good Jesus has been to me.

He picked up out of the lost and found.

He healed me when I was sick and down.

He turned my life clean around

He blessed me in the nick of time and restored my life with peace of mind.

Let me tell you how good Jesus has been to me.

He made a