Month: September 2023

Bible Verse of The Day – 9-30-23

Isaiah 26:9 (NKJV) 9 With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; For when Your judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

I like how he says he desires the Lord at night.

In the night it is very still. There are not a lot of other things pulling on our thoughts, and we can really focus.

This goes right along with seeking the Lord early in the morning, which is another time of the day when we are “still and peaceful” in our hearts and minds.

If you have ever gotten up before the birds or the other early-rising animals, you will understand how quiet it is.

Some of my most precious times with God have been early in the morning or the middle of the night. I get much revelation at those times.

It is in those hours that we can give Him our full, undivided attention. We can focus and get direction, answers, and be comforted by His Spirit in those areas that are troubling us.

Jesus got up early, before anything else was happening, and He went to a place where He was completely alone. And He prayed.

Mark 1:35 (NKJV) 35 Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.

Desire Him in the night hour when we have unwound from all our activities, and seek Him in the early morning. He will meet us there. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries 
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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-29-23

John 15:18-19 (NKJV) 18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Men and women of God have not been very well liked over the centuries.

That is not something that makes us feel particularly good, but it is a truth we must embrace.

Jesus warned us that if we are His followers, we would be hated by the world.

But look at what else Jesus said.

John 15:9-10 (NKJV) 9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

As the Father loved Him (Jesus), He also loves us.

Jesus instructs that we must abide in His love.

What does that mean?

He goes on to tell us that if we keep His commandments, we are abiding in His love.

What commandment is He referring to?

John 15:12 (NKJV) 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

We must love one another.

The love of God overrides any hatred that the world can dish out. His love is more powerful than any worldly force, and we must remember that.

As we learn to walk in love for one another, God’s love will overflow in us and onto others.

And what is the result of this?

His joy will be full in us!

John 15:11 (NKJV) 11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

Jesus did not speak of the world’s hatred toward us to scare or discourage us.

He wanted us to be warned and fully equipped, ready to handle whatever might come our way.

And these warnings do just that; prepare us and equip us.

Let us move forward, learning to walk in His love, that our joy may be full.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-28-23

Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV) 6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.

Many children struggle in school these days because of the leadership the schools are operating under. The atmosphere in schools is heavy because of things that are allowed to go on.

Years ago, you went to school and learned. It was vastly different than it is today.

When you went to Sunday school, you came home singing, “I’m in the Lord’s Army, Yes sir!”.

Today, many schools (and even some churches) are now advising our children on matters that are better left to the parents, telling them who they are or who they can be.

They are teaching them many things that bring confusion with regard to gender, sexuality, etc.

Some schools are allowing children to create their own unique identity, apart from the name they were given by their parents.

Children are allowed to act out as various kinds of animals, allowing them to believe that they actually are that animal.

Boys can use the girls’ bathroom. Girls can use the boys’ bathroom.

Godly parents, if this is not a sign to rise-up and help our children, if this is not our door to walk through and speak out, letting the truth be heard, then I don’t know what is.

Kids today are being filled with garbage from the enemy, and it is messing them up. They don’t know who to believe; Mom, Dad, Teachers, Guidance Counselors, etc.

If we need to make adjustments, we must be prayerful about it and do whatever the Lord leads us to do to keep our child safe.

Speak up. Pull them out of school if you must, and teach them at home if that’s what it takes. Whatever we need to do, do it now. Don’t wait until it’s too late.

The children today are victims of the enemy’s schemes being carried out in public schools.

They are destroying them right under our noses, whether we realize it or not, in an effort to cripple the next generation.

Yes; little children today, soldiers tomorrow.

Whose army will they march in?

We are praying for them to all be marching in the “Lord’s Army”. Yes sir!

Let us be courageous and bold, willing to take whatever action is necessary to protect them

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries 
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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-27-23

John 14:6 (NKJV) 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

John 14:6 is among my favorite Bible verses.

Years ago, when I used to work in a wallpaper manufacturing plant, I would make a large rectangle out of tape on the front of my locker. That brown tape was a perfect place to write something with a black marker.

So, I used it as a type of “billboard” where I would share a scripture for anyone who cared to read it as they walked by.

John 14:6 was the verse that I had up there for the longest time.

I like it because it states emphatically that Jesus is the ONLY way to the Father. It is forthright in this declaration, with no wavering or room for other possibilities.

I am the Way.

This truth has slowly been chipped away at by false teachings and by the effects of secular society.

Their efforts to negate or change this truth cannot make the truth go away. Nor can they actually change it.

What they can do is change people’s perception of that truth, attempting to weaken it and cause people to doubt its legitimacy.

This is an age-old trick of the enemy that dates all the way back to Eve in the garden of Eden.

The enemy taunted Eve, “Has God indeed said?”, causing her to question what she had been instructed to do by God Himself.

We must be sure not to let that same enemy break our resolve and cause us to doubt what God has said.

Jesus stated plainly that He is the only way to the Father.

Any other claim is false; a deception of the enemy. And we need to treat it as such, exposing it as a lie and then separating ourselves from it.

So, as the world propagates its deceptive lies and tells us that Jesus can’t possibly be the only way, we must remember the truth. And we should hold fast to that truth with certainty, never giving doubt a place in our minds.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-26-23

Isaiah 26:3 (NKJV) 3 You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.

Those minds or thoughts, creative imaginations, plans and ideas that are firmly founded on Jesus Christ, will be in such perfect peace.

We can have ideas of our own and then we can have His plan. The plan that was made just for us. Which will we choose?

Ours or His?

If we chose our plan and trust in our means. That’s what we will have. If we chose to walk with Him and hold on dearly to His ways and make it our way of life that trust is like no other. It is deeply engraved.

When we get in deep with Him, we don’t ever want to go back to the way things were. We may get scared at times, and might think we want to go back, but when we come right down to it, most times, we will continue to push forward in His plan. And be grateful later for doing it the way He says to.

Perfect peace is found when we are where we should be and all we want is to stay on that road with Him. We’re not chasing hype. We’re not chasing things that make us feel good about ourselves. We’re not riding the wave that everyone else is on.

We choose peace, we let it guide us by trusting Him with whatever comes our way.

Philippians 4:7 (NKJV) 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries 
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Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-25-23

Jeremiah 17:14 (NKJV) 14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise.

As a prophet of God, Jeremiah faced many struggles and trials. He was heavily persecuted for his obedience to God’s voice as he shared the words that God gave him to speak.

Because of these heavy persecutions, Jeremiah often expressed his concerns to God regarding his safety and wellbeing.

This resulted in Jeremiah being dubbed “the weeping prophet” by some.

Through all the trials and persecution, though, Jeremiah never wavered in his faith or his trust in God.

His absolute trust was readily expressed in the prayer above, as Jeremiah earnestly asked God to deliver him from those who persecuted and tormented him.

And even during the troubles that befell him because of his prophecies, he never ceased speaking the word of God to those whom God directed him to speak it.

He never shrunk back.

He was a notable example that you and I can look to as we walk through our own times of persecution or trials.

When things are easy for us, trusting God and following Him are effortless. But how will we react when seasons of persecution hit, or we face a difficult trial?

These are the times we need to understand and recognize God’s sovereignty.

It is His sovereignty that should give us hope and show us that our trust in Him is well placed.

Fear not, brothers and sisters in Christ!

Our trust in Him is not misplaced. He will walk us through whatever we face if we allow Him to.

And it is in Him that we will find our strength, our solace, and our joy as we move, one step at a time, toward victory.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-24-23 – Transitions and Seasons

Please click to watch the video now.Greetings in Jesus’ mighty name! 

We hope you are enjoying the blessings of God in your life. 

It’s that time of year in the USA when we are in transition, changing seasons from Summer to Autumn. 

Today’s video also deals with transitions and seasons; those that take place in our personal lives. 

In today’s video we discuss facing different kinds of changes on various levels. 

We hope you’ll tune in for a watch. 

Please click here to watch the video now. 

We love you all. 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443  

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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-23-23

Psalm 89:8 (NKJV) 8 O Lord God of hosts, Who is mighty like You, O Lord? Your faithfulness also surrounds You.

Have we ever felt that, even as a believer, we have no control over most things?

We think we have it all together. But if certain things were to fall through right now, we may not handle it too well.

And we would be left crying out for help just like everyone else.

We are not alone if we feel like that at times. It shows us that we are human.

Some people will say, “just have faith and it will work out”.

There is truth in that. However, there are steps that we may be required to take. Even in that it takes time to work it out.

And during that time, however long it takes, we will go through a lot of emotions; some ups and some downs. And there may be moments of just wanting to give up.

The most important thing to remember isn’t the lack of control we have over most things, but that we have the MIGHTY One, our Lord, to bring us through whatever we face.

His faithfulness surrounds us! Amen.

Jeremiah 1:19 (NKJV) 19 They will fight against you, But they shall not prevail against you. For I am with you,” says the Lord, “to deliver you.”

Be encouraged today. Our deliverer is at hand.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries 
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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-22-23

Jeremiah 1:9-10 (NKJV) 9 Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. 10 See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, To root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant.”

If you spend any decent amount of time reading the Old Testament, the sovereignty of God becomes more visible and irrefutable.

God uses man to carry out many of His plans, but it is God himself who lays those plans and orchestrates them.

He puts people and things in their proper places to make His plans possible, even when that means defying human logic, defying human understanding, and even defying the natural laws of science, physics, etc.

He is God. There is no one like Him.

The book of Jeremiah is full of examples of God’s sovereignty.

The choosing of Jeremiah as His prophet is just one of them.

God chose Jeremiah (Jeremiah 1:1 – 5).

Jeremiah resisted, stating that he was too young (Jeremiah 1:6).

And God replied:

Jeremiah 1:7-8 (NKJV) 7 But the Lord said to me: “Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’ For you shall go to all to whom I send you, And whatever I command you, you shall speak. 8 Do not be afraid of their faces, For I am with you to deliver you,” says the Lord.

God then touched the mouth of Jeremiah, commissioning him and setting him up to speak His word to nations and kings.

God has not changed. He is still in the business of building, planting, rooting out and pulling down, raising up kings and removing kings, all to carry out His plans in the earth.

Trust Him with everything. He is faithful and able to do what He says He will do.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-21-23

Genesis 2:7 (NKJV) 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 being.

The Biblical account of the creation of man is so beautiful!

When I read of how God made man, how He was so precise in what He did and how He did it, It leaves me in awe.

It all started with God forming man and then breathing into man’s nostrils the breath of life.

That breath of God brought man to life!

We didn’t evolve or come from apes. We came on day 6 of creation.

We were formed by Him. We were fearfully and wonderfully made in the beginning, when all things were created.

Psalm 139:14 (NKJV) 14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.

Don’t let people twist or distort what happened during those six days of creation.

Don’t let them plant doubt in your mind and cause questions to arise.

Know what the word of God says, and believe it. Hold onto it when people try to bring in their own theories or question what God says.

It’s very simple; God created the heavens, the earth, and every living creature, in six days. Human life began on day six, when Adam took his first God-given breath. Amen.

Thank you, Lord!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries 
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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-20-23

Isaiah 26:3 (NKJV) 3 You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.

Peace is sometimes hard to find. We look for it in things or people we trust.

We frequently fail to find it.

Why?

Because we are looking to things in the natural world to satisfy our minds; our human understanding.

Perfect peace is even harder to find if we are looking to those same natural sources.

There is one true Source for perfect peace; the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6).

As we watch the world turn upside down it can be difficult to rest our minds.

We see the turmoil and it causes our minds to take off on wild journeys, wondering about all the “what ifs”, considering the endless possibilities for gloom and disaster.

And as long as we leave God out of the equation, that list of possibilities will be truly unlimited.

But we need to be clear about something. God does not work based on the “what if” principle.

He is the God of absolutes.

And it is in Him that we find perfect peace; the peace quells our anxieties, calms our fears, and brings rest to our minds. It is His peace that surpasses all understanding.

Philippians 4:6-7 (NKJV) 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

People of God, it is not for us to trust in the institutions of the world. It is not for us to find solace in the things of the natural world. It is not for us to look to people or things to bring us peace during times of trouble.

Let us trust in Him, staying our minds on Him, where we will find perfect peace.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Hampstead, NC 28443

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