Bible Verse of The Day – 12-10-25

Romans 12:1 (LSB) 1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice—living, holy, and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

It is only when we wholly surrender to God, allowing Him to cleanse us and change our heart, that we can fend off the wiles of the enemy and refuse to sin instead of falling to it repeatedly.

You see, it is our own ungodly desires that cause us to fall.

There is no one we can blame. We must bear responsibility for our failures.

Yes, some are weaker than others in these things. But there is no sin too big for the blood of Christ to deliver us from.

The things that we leave unsurrendered within us will haunt us and cause us to fall repeatedly until we wholly surrender to God in every aspect of our lives.

James 4:7 (NKJV) 7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Complete surrender to God is the key. We cannot submit partially to God and expect Him to cleanse us completely.

He does not forego our own will. He works with what we give Him.

If we want our whole self to be cleansed and free from the burden of the perpetual sin, we must surrender our whole self to Him and give Him permission to rid us of the sinful desires in our heart.

We cannot love sin and expect to defeat it. And it is in surrendering our hearts to Him that we begin to hate the sin that besieges us and learn to love Him instead. That love for Him leads us to repentance and wanting ourselves clean before Him in every aspect of our lives.

Remember, Christ paid the highest possible price for us. He gave His life. There is nothing more that He could have done.

We owe it to Him to honor His sacrifice for us by presenting ourselves as a living sacrifice, which is our reasonable service and act of worship.

Let’s wrap this up tomorrow where we will tie this all together in conclusion.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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