Month: July 2013

Bible Verse of The Day – 7-5-13

Psalm 51:17 (NKJV) The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart- These, O God, You will not despise.

Did you know that God can’t use us until we are broken before Him? Sounds kind of backwards, doesn’t it?

In the world, we’re taught that we have to be positive, powerful and sure of ourselves. Self esteem takes the lead when it comes to how we’re told we are supposed to be built up, self-sufficient and prepared for any kind of leadership or victory.

In reality, though, God teaches us quite the opposite. God wants us to be broken and contrite before Him. He want us to lay ourselves down at His feet in all of our frailty and failure and let Him pick us up and put the broken pieces of our fragile selves back together.

You see, until we are broken, we can never be made whole by God’s spirit. If we are broken before God, we are humble and admitting that we need His strength. If we are unbroken, we are full of pride and ego, thinking that we don’t need anybody.

How do we become broken before Him? The verse above says that we need to have a contrite heart.

Contrite: feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for a sin or shortcoming

Once we learn to admit our sins and shortcomings, we will become broken. Then God can begin to put us back together the way He wants us to be and then He can begin to use us for His glory, shining His light through us.

It is good to be strong, but our strength needs to come from our Creator and not from within ourselves.

Let Him pick you up and put the broken pieces back together His way.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-3-13

John 1:11-13 (NKJV) 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Jesus came to present Himself to the world, as a living sacrifice, to redeem a sinful humanity from our sins.

The vast majority of His own people (the Jews and those from His hometown) rejected him. But He didn’t come just for those people.

He came for “as many as received Him”! He didn’t limit His sacrifice only to the Jews or the people who knew Him as a boy. He gave of Himself freely for anyone who would receive Him unto themselves.

To these people, He gave the right to become children of God… sons and daughters of the King… the Most High God!! That applies to you and to me!

Have you received Him? Going to church doesn’t make us children of God. Believing that God exists doesn’t make us Children of God, for even the demons believe and they tremble! Singing modern spiritual songs or old hymns doesn’t make us children of God. Although all of these things are good, not a single one of them makes us His child.

We must receive Him by believing that He died for our sins and putting our faith in Him.

So I ask you again, Have you received Him?

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-2-13

(1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 NKJV)  pray without ceasing, {18} in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Not too long ago my Nephew was in a really bad car accident. At the scene of the accident, as they were removing him from the car and putting him into the life support helicopter, he died… stopped breathing. They resuscitated him and then continued to take him to the hospital. He was 15 yrs. old and in really bad shape.

As we arrived at the hospital, we walked into the room and took one look at his body lying lifeless in the bed. He had tubes everywhere… in his mouth, arms, head and other areas.

As I stood there about ready to pass out, I said God, “why am I here? Why did I have to come to see this? Couldn’t I have just prayed at home, and believed that you would heal him, and not have to see this?”

He told me, “you need to see this. Many young teenagers are dying like this all around. It’s not always their fault but the fault of the parents, and you need to know this. Parents are not doing their job; kids have become the victim, because the parents are allowing their children to make adult decisions, when they are still children.”

It wasn’t just about my nephew anymore. It was more than that. It was about what the enemy was trying to do to young people all over the world. We need to know as believers what to pray for, how to pray and when to pray. And we always need to remember to pray.

As each day goes by, if we get caught up in our everyday routine, we can miss out on the things that will make a difference in someone’s life and sometimes it is just a prayer that separates someone between life and death.

Today, my nephew is doing Awesome! Thank you to the many of you who prayed for him at that very crucial time a year and a half ago. Today he lives, he’s in school,  he plays football (which they said he would never do again) and is doing wonderfully!

Praise be to God!! Our prayers were heard!

Let us come together and pray for the teens today all around the world and for the parents to be the parents God has called them to be.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-1-13

Hebrews 10:23 (NKJV) Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

Hold fast. What does this mean… to hold fast?

Yesterday we took a walk on one of the local beaches. As we walked, we could hear the waves breaking to the left side of us and see them rolling in onto the beach.

On our right side, there were sand dunes and houses. Some of these houses had very huge embankments in front of them and covering these embankments were some very, very large boulders that had been used to cover the steep bank that led from the home, down onto the beach.

The people who built the houses put these large rocks there purposely, to prevent the waves from destroying the homes if there is a storm and the waves become huge. The rocks prevent the storm from washing away the sand dunes and demolishing the home.

As the waves beat against these rocks, so do the storms of life beat upon us at times. Things come our way that we might never imagine… sickness, disease, financial disasters and so much more. It’s just a fact of life.

Just as those rocks protect the home from the raging ocean waves, our profession of faith in Jesus, our Rock, keeps us from being destroyed by the raging storms of life.

Just as those rocks take the pounding and never move, so must we hold fast to our faith. This is what faith is about… trusting and believing even when things are not cheery and sunny. It’s easy to believe when things are going smoothly and we don’t have a care in the world.

But when the storms come and the waves beat upon us, will our faith be like those rocks on the shore, never moving even in the worst of storms? Or will our faith falter at the first sign of trouble, washing away with the surge of the storm?

Hold fast to your confession of hope, for He is faithful!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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