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Monday, February 8, 2021

What Has Become Broken About America?


What Has Become Broken About America?

 I believe God’s blessing will remain upon a nation as long as we as a nation, follow the principles of biblical truth.  God does not bless us based upon how beautiful we are, how tall we are, how white we are, or how black we are.  God’s love is no greater towards a people, based upon color.  God, however, does have a chosen people, the children of Israel.  The children of Israel are not white and they are not black.  God does not make judgments about us by looking at our outward appearance.  Scripture says God looks rather at the inward heart.  The inward heart I’m talking about is the very essence of who we are.  God looks at our country and the heart behind what motivates it.  When our country stops looking for wisdom and direction from the Word.  That is called, turning your back on God and going your own way.

God is still not pleased with scripture being used as a way to promote what God’s already said not to do.  Our country has made some wrong turns, our nation is no longer following what God will bless. Then we know that our country has become broken to the protecting hand of God.   If you truly believe there is a God then there will be a fear of God.  God could very well bring judgment to America just as He has in biblical history, with many nations including Israel.  When Israel decided to live outside of the protecting hand of God, many of Israel’s people and children were taken into captivity. Many times after a while, Isreal starting crying out to God realizing their sin. Then God would see their repentance and show them mercy.

If we truly want our country blessed, we will continue to bless Israel.   If we want God to answer the prayers of our country, we will protect the innocent and the shedding of innocent blood.  If we fear God, we will seek his will through prayer and not answer to anyone else until we have acknowledged God. 

If Christians start being persecuted by our government, for standing first for what God wants.  Then we know our country is broken.  Our country has known great blessings from God.  We have no excuse as a nation.  God has showered us with many blessings for hundreds of years.  It is when we lose the blessings we do have; we will understand what blessings we have lost.  Some young people do not recognize what blessings have already been lost.  They only know the now they are living. 

Susan Y Nikitenko, February 8th, 2021

Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

 1Samual   16:7 
But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.


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Sunday, October 4, 2015

Scarecrows - Rebuilding And Restoring

Rebuilding And Restoring


Talk about withering storms.  Poor little fellas, year after year I have put them outside and by the time I bring them in .. . they are literally losing their straw heads.  Not only are they losing heads they are losing straw arms.  Every year I put them away and then pull them out again, they have been faithful but they have been through a lot.   Not only did they need to be rebuilt, but this is the first year I had to include a makeover for each one.  They were just plain faded and needed hair transplants.

If you haven't guessed yet, They are the scarecrows I put out in my gardens every year.  I guess I could have bought new ones.. but no, thrifty I must be.  So I pulled out the glue gun, the wire, extra raffia,  the paint, the buttons, and orange sparkles and started rebuilding.  I was able to get two done so far.

I gave them special care though they will never be perfect,  two of them are standing outside, with sparkly cheeks.  Ready for all kinds of weather and ready to do their job scaring off crows.  All the while making the season a brighter place.

I decided to use these straw-trimmed scarecrows to talk about the storms we go through in life. The times that our faith is tried and our joy lost.

The storms of life, like our problems, or hardship.  Sometimes they can leave us feeling broken and in some cases not just feeling broken, but literally broken mentally and spiritually.  It seems when a person goes through his hardest blows in life, is when friends tend to forsake him, thinking, " You're not as strong as I thought you were."  Then one day, sad to say, their storms blow and they find out they weren't that strong either, none of us have arrived spiritually.  We are always learning about God and about ourselves through both good and bad.

I think of John the Baptist, after a lifelong faithfulness,  finding himself in prison questioning if Jesus was who He said He was.  He was questioning his whole life's work.  Before his beheading, Christ sent messengers to assure him He was the Christ.

 John was martyred for the cause of Christ.  Know for sure, that John met God on that day and was given a crown.  He was instantly whole and joyful in the presence of God in heaven's bright land.  The Bible describes John the Baptist as the greatest man who was born of women.

Luke  7:28a
For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: (KJV)

Now our hardships may not be the kind that John had to go through, because life brings different people, through different problems.  Life always has difficulties that we must wither and we have choices through those difficulties.  The biggest way to overcome this is to believe in God and trust in His grace. Let him rebuild our broken hearts as we trust him through our storm.

God uses people in different places in life.  He has made us, especially for the place He wants us to be. 
The place that God wants us to be, is the place where we can shine the brightest.  Some problems we face are simply because we are out of God's will.  God sometimes will direct us back to where we need to be by presenting us with difficulties. (chastisement)  The Bible teaches us that life WILL have problems ... Job 5:7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Some problems are not because of chastisement but have a purpose far greater than we may ever know.  All the biblical prophets went through problems that God has used to teach us some of life's greatest spiritual lessons. The examples are too many to mention all.  The job comes to mind as one of the greatest examples of undeserved suffering.  If you read to the end you'll find  God restores and rebuilds Job's life.

Sometimes our problems are designed to get us ready for what God has for us next.  God will sometimes strengthen us for greater responsibility.  The problems are there in order to change us for a greater purpose. 

The most important thing to remember through life's storms is to remember Jesus calms the storms,  he rebuilds, he restores.   Praising him and trusting him as Paul and Silas did in the prison house.  God was so moved by the praise that He broke down the prison walls.

Act  16:25
 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

The Bible is full of problems overcome by Christians who remained faithful and joyful in the things of the Lord.  No matter what if we are His children heaven awaits us and everlasting joy is our inheritance.

Father, help us to trust you and stay faithful through life's difficulties.  Put a song in our hearts and praise upon our lips.  Let your presence shine through our lives even through life's tears and sorrows.
Use our lives to touch others in a way that will make a true difference for righteousness' sake and the cause of Christ. I pray this in the name of Christ Jesus, Amen 

I still have several scarecrows to rebuild and I'm planning where to place each one.   Hopefully,
these guys will remind us that life gives us problems, but we have a God who is molding our hearts and lives as we love and trust him.   He has a purpose that we may never know until we set by his side in heavenly places.

Susan Y Nikitenko
Object lesson: Scarecrows
Rebuilding The Broken
Scarecrow Devotional
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Psalms 23:3

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.








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Friday, January 6, 2012

Fixing Problems



 

Fixing Problems

 

By: Susan Y Nikitenko 
January 6th, 2012

After church on Thursday night our truck would not start.   My husband thought it was the battery so our Son in law pulled out the jumper cables to charge the battery.  The effort was of no avail.  They then slugged through a snowdrift to get to the store across the street.  They bought tools to remove it.  Even though they worked hard they still could not remove it. They were using the wrong tools. 

My daughter and I waited in the car, it was very cold outside.  Our Son in law then drove us to K-mart to buy new tools and a new battery .  Then we went back to the church.  Where they worked a long time, but they still couldn't fix the problem.

It takes us about 25 minutes to drive home from our church.  We went home to get more tools, tools they thought would work.  My daughter and I stayed home.  They went back and worked and did not get back until midnight.  The problem still was not fixed.

They weren't using the right tools and they were working on the wrong problem.  The problem they were working on didn't exist.   The truck didn't need a new battery.  It needs a new starter.

Sometimes people go to fixing something and they're using the wrong tools. 

Anger isn't the right tool to use when you're trying to fix a problem in a relationship for example.

Gossip isn't the right tool to use when you're praying for someone in a group setting.

Tricking isn't the right tool because it creates mistrust and confusion.  Confusion is of the devil. 



We need to be sure we are using the right tools- you know, the "righteous tools". When dealing with the problems of life we need to use tools like prayer and hiding Gods Word in our heart, tools like love and a soft answer, tools like wisdom and encouragement, tools like faith and consideration. These are the right tools.
Sometimes we think we're fixing a problem and it's just made things worse.  We end up breaking something,
that would have never been broken. 

Sometimes we think we have everything figured out, but all along we were trying to fix the wrong thing.
What we were working on never needed fixing at all.

Sometimes we just need a new start.  Just like our truck, it needs a new starter. 

When we go to fixing problems, we need to know for sure the problem is real.

When we go to fixing problems, we need to know it's the right problem.

When we go to fixing problems, we need to be using the right tools.

When we go to fixing problems we better know God wants us to do the fixing.

Hopefully we have the right person repairing our truck, or we may have bigger problems.  

The same way in life.

Jesus is the best  fixer upper I know.
Sometimes the best tool, is leaving things in God's hands. 
  His grace goes a long way.



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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Love Rebuilds Again - By: Susan Y Nikitenko



Treasure Box ~ 
Rebuilding The Broken


Love Rebuilds Again 


by: Susan Y Nikitenko
2009

Once a beauty, shiny, new;
A handsome lookin' ride.
Leather seats and fully loaded;
Smelt so good inside.

It's traveled far, has lots of miles;
Been through rain and snow.
It's been through sticky little hands;
And sometimes wouldn't go.

One day, a bashing crash;
Left it mangled, caved.
Brought it to a body shop;
In hopes it would be saved.

The specialist, worked and worked;
Until the job was through,
And now this "62" corvette;
Is sparklin', just like new.

God, He has a body shop.
Christians work for Him.
Our business is rebuilding lives;
Crushed and bashed by sin.

When we view an awful crash;
A brother, caught in sin.
Instead of judging, in our pride;
Love, rebuilds again.

A crash, could be a loss of faith;
Or sin, performed in haste.
A crash, could be, an angry heart;
In grief, some hurt now faced.

When life comes down, in a crash;
And life to them, its end.
That's the time, they need us most;
To be a Christian friend.

I wrote this after reading a sermon called
“ Rebuilding The Broken”





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