Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Sunday, September 22, 2024
Choosing God's Best For Your Life
Friday, August 16, 2024
The Garden Of Your Life
Tiny Clips
Weeds keep your garden from being what it should be. In this garden of life, we compare weeds
to sin. Weeds choke good plants and sometimes kill them and they tend to take over your garden.
Pestilence can also overtake a garden and must be controlled consistently. We need to be vigilant and aware in our own life's garden, As it is written, "The devil is like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour."
Preventing destructive things from happening takes determination and faithfulness, by obeying the instructions God has given us in His Word and seeking his guidance in prayer. God tells us to examine ourselves daily by looking into our own hearts and asking God to show us what we need to repent of in order to maintain a healthy garden. To allow these things to stay and exist in our gardens would be very destructive and unfruitful.
Keeping constant will help it not become a huge chore, If it happens, that an enemy tries to destroy your garden it could be very difficult to get your garden the way it was and it also becomes very discouraging. Do not let weeds overtake your heart and life. Examples would be anger, dissatisfaction, envy, distractions, pride, stubbornness, rebellion, disobedience to authority, and the love of money
( When you are willing to do wrong to get money or things then you love it too much), as it is written in scripture "The love of money is the root of all evil,"
Playing destructive or evil games that hurt or use others to gain control and most likely involve hate or witchcraft are dangerous weeds like poison ivy or hemlock. So is desiring wrong wicked things that God forbids. All these things mentioned will destroy our gardens now and the future of our garden. Possibly your future children will be affected by choices now. That's why God tells us we reap what we sow. Our sins could visit our children's lives if we do not repent. God will show mercy to you and your future when you submit to his will for your life. - Susan Nikitenko
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 ©
2 Corinthians 9:6
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly, and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
Coloring Page
Heart and Flowers Hand Drawn Susan Nikitenko 2023
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Light And Life Word Search
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Monday, February 27, 2017
Anna With Her Uncle
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Anna With Her Uncle
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
Plant His Word
Plant His Word
To
plant His words
Within my heart
Forever
there!
To
place that Life
Within my own
With loving care...
I’ll
say the words
Time and again
Until I know
The
promises, the
Words of truth
That bless me so!
.....One
day I’ll see
His blessed face
Receive His grace,
Those
precious words
Forever true
Still in their place!
Joan
Clifton
Costner
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