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Friday, August 16, 2024
The Garden Of Your Life
Monday, April 24, 2023
The Seeds of Influence
The Seeds of Influence
Spring
is here, and there is so much to do. I look
out my window and think, look at all the work I have to do!
In the
Spring a lot of things that look like they are dead and gone, start
growing. We see the fruit from seeds
that grow from last year. We are not talking about oranges and grapes but about tulips, peonies, and multiple other perennials. This is
something that happens normally in the spring. As we see the garden grow, we
are seeing more and more of what it’s producing.
Everything we do or don’t do in life is like planting seeds. When we are dead and gone the seeds planted by
our lives will continue to grow.
My dad died when my youngest child was a baby. My dad was a dedicated provider for his family. He worked three jobs to provide for our family when I was a toddler. He liked to rebuild engines and he had a lot of friends. My dad liked to listen to me sing. I loved both my mom and my dad. My dad died suddenly from a massive heart attack. He died at 57 yrs old while chopping wood. He was always working up to the day he died.
My mother and my stepfather died about a year ago. I miss them both and think about them every day,
My
mother was an excellent cook and consistently had meals on the table. She was a good housekeeper and could do any
craft. She was a very gifted manager and
a hard worker. I looked up to her for
all her good qualities. My mother always
used endearing words, like, Sweetheart, Honey, and Baby.
My stepfather was a very hard worker and consistently took care of their property. He took his mother with him to his work and she ran her little crafting/ flee market business up until she was in her 90s. They died at the same time. Their funerals were at the same time. They both worked up until the day they died.
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Just recently, three people died that impacted my life. My Son In-laws mother died. She was only 9 years older than me. She was the other grandmother to my grandchildren. She was a sweet Christian, a beautiful person. She has been an influence on my grandchildren and my daughter. She has planted some good seeds and those seeds will continue to grow in our hearts and the hearts of so many.
This past week two other great people died, Patch the Pirate and also Charles Stanley, both these men, through their ministries, impacted my life and also my family’s life. As a young mother, I started listening to Charles Stanley and also Patch the Pirate. I often sang Patch the Pirate songs as I reminded my children to be good and to have a better attitude. I didn’t really have a stable home life in my youth, my mother left us. My dad had his own life. I quit school after my mother left and no one was there to encourage me otherwise. Eventually, I did take the GED test. When I was a teenager, I sought God even though I didn’t always make good decisions. I attended church and Sunday School consistently. The people of my church picked me up every Wednesday and Sunday for all services.
I made a profession of faith at seven years old and was baptized
with my mother. I made sure of my salvation and I was re-baptized just after turning 15 years old. I was saved in an Independent F Baptist Church. I met my husband and married at 23 years old. We've been married for 36 years.
I did not know how to raise children and looked for that counsel through Charles Stanley’s Radio Ministry. Patch the Pirate and also Focus on The Family’s Odyssey Audio Ministry was the biggest influence in raising our children in a way that would please God. I asked God to help me each day and I still ask God to help me each day. He helped me through good people and their influence.
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You will always be an influence in our lives. We miss you more each day and appreciate you more and more. Your influence will be the flowers that grow in our hearts and lives and the strength that helps us to stand. Love you Forever.
God uses our influence when we think our influence is
done.
Susan Y
Nikitenko
April
24, 2023 ©
Saturday, February 23, 2019
What Kind Of Root Is Growing In Your Heart? LESSON
(Ephesians 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:)
Forgiveness is a choice and sometimes very hard to do. It is something that requires great humility and dying to oneself. It is obedience to God's will.
Christ is within us if we know Christ as Saviour and we have the power to forgive things that are unforgivable. We must not let our hearts become embittered. If we do it hinders our walk with the Lord, our relationship with God suffers. It grieves the Holy Spirit.
There are a lot of injustices in life that make us angry, and justly so. We should be angry at those things. That's why we have law enforcement and laws to protect people. Anger becomes sin when it starts taking control of us. We can not go to bed angry lest it turns into a root of bitterness. When anger changes us and changes our relationships between people and with God, that's when it has taken hold.
I remember when my eldest daughter came home from school angry over something a teacher had done. I told my daughter "you must forgive her, you can not stay angry." She refused to forgive her. I prayed with her, she still refused to forgive her. It was bedtime
and again we talked about forgiveness. I taught her about the verse in the bible that says not to let the sun go down on our wrath. (Ephesians 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:) She still refused. I wouldn't let her go to sleep until she realized how important it was not to go to bed angry. We put a gift together for her teacher and I taught her to show her teacher love and to apologize for sticking her tongue out at her. She finally agreed after hours. I didn't want my daughter to grow up bitter but to fight against the temptation by showing love. We prayed until she was ready to obey. I was so proud of her, it took strength to show love to her teacher.
We are not to go to bed angry about this world, but rather praising the Lord. Our eyes can't be on the wind and the waves, but upon the one that can calm the sea. He is the one we need to keep our eyes upon, not upon the many sorrows of life. He's the one that helps us do the impossible, He's the one who helps us fight the battles of this life.
Becoming bitter will make you old and sick and will hurt your own family. I've had to cry out to God myself to help me forgive some things that have brought grief to my life. Though we know these things, we are tested on them every time hurt or trouble comes along. We must be dependant on God to overcome these obstacles.
The Bible compares a root to bitterness, anger, and resentment. All of these are out shoots of bitterness. If you think about it the root could be almost any sin that can get hold of your life.
Please, let us ask ourselves this question as we talk about "Forgiveness".
Hebrews 12:15
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled
More Soon - Not Quite Done Yet
Other Lessons In This Series:
Staying True To God's Love
Lesson Helps:
The Ten Commandment Scripture Poster
Other Posts About Forgiveness On This Blog
The Power Of Forgiveness - Illustration It's Time To Forgive
We Need To Ask Forgiveness
The Hurt Heart
Short Kids Devotional - Forgiveness
You Were The Because - Teen Lesson
Puppet Show - Lemon Of Bitterness -
Forgiveness Puzzle
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Monday, February 18, 2019
5 Wash Coloring Sheets - Garden - Set 4
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Tuesday, February 12, 2019
5 Artistic Wash Spring Coloring Pages Set 1
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Bee A Repenter - Bee A Follower Of Christ Jesus Memory Work
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Bee A Repenter Coloring Sheet And Poster
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Monday, January 21, 2019
Bee-autiful Garden Of Praise - Things To Think About Notes
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Bee-autiful Garden Rejoice Evermore - Memory Work Papers
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Saturday, January 19, 2019
Believe In God's Forgiveness - Coloring and Poster Page
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Monday, August 6, 2018
Do Ya Wanna Know What I'm Doin?
1 Corinthians 6:20
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Sunday, August 13, 2017
I Wonder What Adam Had to Say
Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:15
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it
I Wonder What Adam Had To Say
Poem Song
Thursday, March 16, 2017
The Sower Mark 4:14 - 20
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Puppy In The Garden
Susan Nikitenko Drawing Painting
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Monday, March 13, 2017
Lamb Spring
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Sunday, March 5, 2017
Psalms 91:11 Garden
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Friday, March 3, 2017
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Mark 10:29
Mark 10:27
And Jesus looking
upon them saith,
With men it is impossible,
but not with God: for with
God all things
are possible.
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Saturday, May 4, 2013
No Weeds Please!
No Weeds
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