YES YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

I believe God must have something great in store for todays blog.  This is my third attempt to write this blog today.  The computer has froze up twice and not saved my blog.  So as my mom always said I told the devil to back off.  Or in the words of my lovely eight year old "Hey Devil Get Out of Here!"

Today I received a very interesting email from a fellow blogger.  She wanted to thank me for pinning her blog on 10 religious Easter Egg ideals.  It seems that my pin on Pinterest generated 1300 people to her blog.  That is awesome because I only have less than 100 followers on Pinterest.

That got me thinking about how one little pin reached so many people.  I have to say it was truly a boost in my confidence and God gave it to me at the exact time I needed it.  See it was not me posting that pin that generated that many people to her blog.  As I told her when I replied back to her email That is how God works. He used me as a vessel to her.

That is what I want to do with my books.  I want them to be a vessel back to God.  Of course I want them to be entertaing to others but want I optimaly want is for others to see Christ in my books. I truly believe that without him we have nothing.

Just one pin reached 1300 people. We can do that when we tell others about Christ.  When we tell someone about him they will tell someone else and the next thing we know 1300 people have heard about him.  We may not be able to track it back to that one person or pin like this lady did with my pin but God is the one who deserves the glory anyway not us. 

So today go out and be that one person.  Tell someone how God changed your world.  If you can think of nothing else to say tell them about John 3:16.

I love this song and the course GOD PUT A MILLIOIN MILLION DOORS IN THIS WORLD FOR OTHERS TO WALK THROUGH ONE OF THOSE DOORS IS YOU  I hope I worded that right. 

Have a blessed day.
Ha Satin I made my blog.  ha!HA! 

Just As I Am

Romans 15:7 - Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God. KJV

We live in a world where acceptance means everything.  This desire to be accepted starts at a very young age.  My son is only eight and I have watched him battle with acceptance at school.  It is sad that we live in a world where who your parents are, how much money you have makes a difference.  His struggle to be accepted by his peers lasted for two years.  Finally this year he has done just that he found a group of  friends and it has bee such a great difference in his attitude toward school.  I want him to learn to accept others no matter how they may be different from us.  We talk a lot about how we need to love others as Christ love us Just as we are.  With God we are free to come to him as we are and he will accept us despite the name brand of our clothes.


Another of my favorite songs.  In fact this song describes me.

Nicole's Blog: STAND STILL

Nicole's Blog: STAND STILL: Some people who know me know I do lack self confidence I am often my own worse enemy.  I can talk myself out of  doing a lot of things in...

STAND STILL

Some people who know me know I do lack self confidence I am often my own worse enemy.  I can talk myself out of  doing a lot of things in life.  Here lately I have let my fear and nerves control me. I listened to that little voice in my head telling me I can not do the things I feel I am being called to do.   I lack so much in the patience department as well  if things don't happen when I want them to it upsets me.  I have been guilty of the patience problem most of my wife.  God has to remind me from time to time that patience and faithfulness often go hand in hand.  He actually revealed that to me again tonight.  I  have been sick for the past few weeks and have been traveling to many doctors looking for the cause of why all of a sudden me a 39 year old female is having numbness tingling through out her body along with severe dizziness.  This symptoms have keep me from my job as an LPN.  I have had multiple test done only to be told yesterday by the neurologist  I was a mystery to him.  Well I may be a mystery to him but not to God. Today I have come to realize that once again I place my faith in the wrong hands.  God knows why I am going through this and I am not alone.   I just to stand still and let God do his thing.

Here's another great song:  Stand Still

Why are we Waiting for Tomorrow

Growing up as a child my mom always had a dream of open a restaurant.  Where we lived was a two lane road heavily traveled by coal trucks.  There was a good distance between the towns that had restaurants.  She and my dad often sit and talked about doing this when he retired.  In my teens that dream changed to buying a RV and traveling the United States. When my dad retired she become sick and he spent his days taking care of her until she passed away a year ago. 

They always put off what they wanted to do until tomorrow.  Their tomorrow never came.  We are like that so much in our lives we find excuses to hold off enough until tomorrow what we should do today.  We let things like fear and doubt cloud our minds.

Growing up in church I always heard the preachers saying your tomorrow may not come, or the end is coming.  It wasn't until I was 23 I truly understood that your end is when you die.  We will not be able to repent our sins when our souls leave our bodies.  We need to accept that God sent his Son to die for our sins.  Believe in the birth, death and resurrection.  I think this Mandisa song says it all.

WELCOME

Hello my name is Nicole Rickman I am 39 years old.  I leave in eastern Ky with  my husband Bill and our eight year old son Luke .  This June we will be our 15th wedding anniversary.  I decided to write this blog to provide inspiration to people.  My husband and I have attended our church Fallsburg FWB for nearly 14 years.  We have been very active with the youth in our church.  We stand firm on out belief that they are they church of tomorrow and we as Christians should never forget that.

I have had a dream for seven years to write a Christian Novel aimed toward Teens and Young Adults.  The Lord has put two series on my heart to wright.  The devil has tried to tell me that I am not a good enough writer to do this.  I prayed to God to show me what he wanted me to do and to help me with my fears of failure.  About six weeks ago I got sick extremely dizzy.  Then on May 5th I was sent to the ER from work.  I had numbness and tingling in my face and left side of my body.  In the weeks to follow I have had blurred vision along with the other symptoms.  At first I was down worried about not being able to work as a nurse I can't work like that.

Now God has showed me to use this time to pursue my dream and write my Christian Book Series.
I am currently working on book one of the Loves Not Easy Series.  Please pray for me as I develop the plot and characters. Mostly pray my book and blog will be inspiration for other.  I will keep you posted and look forward to you comments. I am going to end my blogs with a inspirational Bible Verse.  I will keep my readers in my prayers.  God Bless You.

KJV
Deuteronomy 31:6 - Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee