Author: Pastor Curt

Bible Verse of The Day – 12-6-22

Mark 16:15 (NKJV) 15 He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

I believe that Christians have something to say and that we need to say it.

When God gives us the opportune time, when the door opens, we need to open our mouths and say what the word of God has put in our hearts.

His word is always alive and breathing in us. It’s a “Rhema word” when spoken in its moment, hour or season, and will bring much healing, deliverance, wisdom and strength. Praise God!

What happened to this “preaching” the gospel? Where does it stand today?

Are we, the church, afraid?

Are we worried that people are going to look at us funny when they hear the words we have to say?

Do we fear losing friends when we share the truth?

Does this cause us to second guess ourselves?

Are we nervous, so we hold back “the gospel” that can bring truth and set people free?

We are in a world full of people who are living lives of gross profanity, fornication, and adultery. They bought the “lie” and think it’s OK! They don’t know Jesus, God or the Holy Spirit.

We’ve been called to preach truth. We are supposed to give these beautiful gifts to them; the truth that will set them free!

Has this verse been watered down in us?

Have we been taught to be so careful of people’s feelings that we walk on pins and needles, and that even the word and the preaching of it has become old school?

Sisters and brothers in Christ, God’s word says, “Preach it to all creation”, leaving no one out. Let us be diligent to do so.

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 12-5-22

1 Kings 19:3 (NKJV) 3 And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

Elijah was a great man of God; a powerful prophet who knew God’s strength and faithfulness.

He accomplished many great things as God’s prophet of that era.

Knowing this, it would seem that Elijah was without fear.

But that’s not true.

Elijah was a human, just like you and me. But after a mighty victory against 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah, he became scared. And his fear drove him to run into the wilderness and hide beneath a tree, fearing for his life.

You see, Elijah very quickly forgot what God had just done through him. He forgot that God was his source of strength. And he forgot about God’s faithfulness.

He let his enemy (Jezebel) get into his head, and he started operating by his emotions, instead of by the spirit.

And fear kicked in, causing him to run.

After he escaped into the wilderness, he begged God to take his life. He had gone from a mighty, conquering warrior of God to a fearful, tearful man, hiding from a woman who had threatened him with harm and death.

There, as he wallowed in fear and self-pity, he collapsed and fell asleep.

But an angel of God came and woke him, urging him to arise and eat, and giving him instructions to leave and go to a mountain where he would meet God.

God did meet him there. And He showed Himself to Elijah in a very powerful way.

He had a chat with Elijah to correct what was going on in his mind. And then He sent Elijah on another mission.

So, what can you and I learn from this? What can we apply from Elijah’s situation to our own lives?

We need to always remember God’s sovereignty. We need to always remember God’s provision. And we need to always remember God’s mercy.

You see, God never abandoned Elijah. It was Elijah’s emotions that got the best of him and caused him to become fearful.

God never punished Elijah for the fear he displayed or for the pity party he engaged in. Instead, God spoke with him, helped him get understanding, and then sent him on another mission.

And while He visited with Elijah, God showed Himself to him as He passed by the mountain.

God showed Elijah mercy and compassion. And in that mercy and compassion, Elijah drew strength from God and went on to complete all that God had for him to do.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 12-4-22 – The Right Things

Please click to watch the video now.Greetings in the precious, holy name of Jesus Christ. 

We have another new video for you today. 

In this video, The Right Things, we teach about the way that things we have previously been taught can impact our walk with God, along with the importance of making sure that we give God’s word precedence over our old ways. 

This is so important in our walk with God. We hope you’ll take a few minutes to watch it. 

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We love you all and want God’s absolute best for your lives! 

Sincerely, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 12-3-22

Matthew 11:28-29 (NKJV) 28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Freeing up our lives for Him, and staying free, is a job in itself.

How many are like me? You care so much that you fill yourself with the problems of others by taking them on like they are our own.

Oh, praise God, I’m talking to some people out there today, and I’m right there with you.

I know how you feel because I myself am going through this very thing.

How do we live this life of helping others, but not overdo it?

We may ask, “why would something so good hurt us or even be a concern?”.

It’s the heaviness of it that wears us down and takes our energy, time and, most importantly, all our focus.

This is my fight. It’s a struggle.

I cried out to Him, and He is teaching me where I am off; where I need to make adjustments, and how to get free from my own self and the guilt I carry at times because I feel like I can’t do enough.

Understanding comes when we go to Him with it, and we let Him counsel us.

He says, “come to Me!”.

The balance is in leaving my cares and concerns with Him. And then my part is to rest my soul by trusting that He’s got it!

We can keep ourselves on a wrong and busy road by forgetting to take these steps.

Lord God, help us to free ourselves up for You, and take up Your yoke, that we may find rest. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 12-2-22

Job 42:10 (NKJV) 10 And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Job had been through quite an ordeal.

He had lost his family, his possessions and his health. And to top it off, his wife and friends were giving him very bad advice.

Job had spent a fair amount of time speaking words about God that were not favorable. He demanded an audience with God so he could question God on some things that were bothering him.

Some of those things included questioning God about the way He handles injustice, and the evil that he had seen play out over his years.

Ultimately, God had come to Job and corrected Job’s incorrect assumptions and ideas. And Job repented.

God also scolded Job’s friends for their foolish words and horrible advice for Job.

Here is a key thing we can learn from what transpired.

God told Job’s friend, Eliphaz, that he and his other friends had aroused God’s wrath against them because they had spoken incorrectly about Him. And then He told them to make a very specific sacrifice and let Job pray for them, “lest I deal with you according to your folly”.

Eliphaz and his friends obeyed God, as did Job, who then prayed for his friends and saved them from God’s wrath.

Because of Job’s repentant heart, and his obedience to God, God restored what Job had lost, and increased it.

And while some may focus on the fact that Job’s possessions were doubled, that’s not truly what’s important.

What is important is that Job repented and obeyed God. And it was this that caused God to restore Job’s losses.

Finally, it’s interesting to note that the words used in the original text actually said that God “turned the captivity of Job”, meaning that God released Job from the captivity of his situation. And then He restored his fortunes.

The key takeaway from all of this?

Stay humble. Repent. Trust in God’s sovereignty.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 12-1-22

Acts 2:39 (NKJV) 39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

The promise of the Holy Spirit is a gift for every believer in every generation, in every era, no matter where they are.

All who are afar off includes all believers; as many as give their life to Jesus Christ. All been given the opportunity to receive this promise.

Who wouldn’t want to be led by the Spirit of God every day, making choices that guide us and help us to live a life full of pleasing God our Father?

When the Holy Spirit leads us and empowers us to do the things each day that need to be done, it will bring God-centered and God-empowered changes into the hardest places/situations.

We are not saying that everything will go perfectly and we will live a life with no problems.

But, in the problems we may face throughout this life, we will have the upper hand; His hand going before and behind us.

He will give us direction and the strength to keep going, allowing us to come out the other end with victory!

This life is for every believer. Don’t leave our promised Gift, our Helper, in the dark.

Receive His teachings and let Him have a place in our lives today.

John 14:26 (NKJV) 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-30-22

Genesis 7:6 (NKJV) 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth.

While I have been reading through Genesis recently, God has been showing me some new things.

While going through the account of the flood, some little tidbits have come to my attention that I wanted to share with you.

The account of the flood is loaded with details that are easy to miss. Here are some of them.

Noah was 600 years old at the onset of the flood.

Using calculations based on when Noah’s sons were born, along with some other references in Genesis, it appears that the building of the ark took somewhere between 50 and 70 years.

God warned Noah of the coming flood and instructed him to build a boat to very exact specifications. And Noah, being a righteous man, did what God told him to do.

But doing so took a very long time!

Noah had to have incredible faith in God to tackle this project, knowing that the existence of humanity hung in the balance, and it all rested on his shoulders.

Genesis 7:24 (NKJV) 24 And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.

The earth was covered with water for 150 days.

So, although the inundation of the earth with water went on for 40 days and nights (about 1 and a half months), the water stayed there for 5 months!

It’s impossible to imagine what this must have been like for Noah and his family, being in a ship for the first time, dealing with the fears that must have accompanied this event, and having to tend to the massive numbers of animals that were on the ship with them.

Their journey lasted 1 year.

It was just shy of 1 year later when the earth had dried up and Noah exited the ark with his family.

Floods began: In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month (Genesis 7:11).

The earth had dried up: And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried (Genesis 8:14).

Some of the things that God has us do won’t be easy. And they may take a while to play out to completion.

This requires our faith and trust in Him to be strong, not wavering or short-lived, and not fading or faltering when things get hard.

We need to stay close to Him, constantly in His word, and always seeking Him for His will and His path for our lives.

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-29-22

1 Corinthians 14:5 (NKJV) 5 I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification.

Paul is speaking to the Corinthians. He is explaining how important it is to 1.) Speak in tongues and 2.) Prophesy.

These two spiritual gifts are very important and should be functioning in our lives as believers.

However, in a public setting, Paul emphasize that prophecy is preferred over tongues if tongues in a public setting cannot be interpreted at the time of speaking them.

And here’s the reason why.

When speaking in tongues, we are speaking to God in the spirit. We speak mysteries in the spirit. No man can understand what we are saying without it being interpreted.

1 Corinthians 14:2 (NKJV) 2 For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

Tongues in a public setting depends on the companion gift of interpretation if it is to be interpreted/understood. Praying in tongues is mostly used for personal and private self-edification and praise to God.

Prophecy, on the other hand, is intended to bring edification, exhortation and comfort to men in a large setting and even on a personal level.

We must pursue love and desire both spiritual gifts to be functioning in our lives on a regular basis, in the church, and on a personal level, with love as our primary pursuit.

1 Corinthians 14:1 (NKJV) 1 Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

Praise be to God. Let us move in the gifts of the Spirit!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-28-22

Matthew 27:46 (NKJV) 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

It’s hard to comprehend that Jesus would have to utter the words, “My God, why have You forsaken Me?”. But He did.

Why?

Because the sins that He had taken upon Himself, the sins of the world, your sins and my sins, made it impossible for God the Father to look upon Him.

In this moment, Jesus was able to completely identify with and relate to sinners, and the separation from God that they experience.

Despite the fact that He had walked the earth in human form for over 30 years, had felt temptation, sorrow, hunger, compassion, rejection by man, and many other human emotions and experiences, He had never felt rejected by God. This was something new to Him.

But it happened. And it shook Him to the core as He hung on the cross, about to die for the sins of the world.

Some may ask why. Why did Jesus have to go through this moment of rejection after all that he had done? Why did He have to feel this terrible emotional distress after being brutally beaten and nailed to a cross?

It’s because God is holy. He cannot look upon sin. Sin repels God. And God rejects sin. It is impossible for God to be in the presence of sin.

Since Jesus was required to take our sin upon Himself in order to offer us redemption, it was necessary for God to turn away. The unfathomable darkness of this sin was more than our minds can comprehend.

It’s hard for our minds to wrap around Jesus being rejected by the Father. But it helps us to better understand the incredible depth of the evil that Jesus had to defeat. And it helps us be more grateful for our salvation, knowing that this is what he had to bear for us.

Thank you, Jesus, for your sacrifice. Thank you for bearing my sins and removing the veil between God and me. Thank you for shedding your blood, so that I might be forgiven and redeemed. And thank you, Father, for your mercy. Thank you for sending Jesus to offer redemption to humanity, so we might be able to stand in your presence and spend eternity with you.

Amen

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-27-22 – Choices

Please click to watch the video now.Greetings in the mighty, wonderful name of Jesus! 

We trust that you are walking in the mercy of our wonderful God. 

We have a new video for you today. It’s called, “Choices”. 

In this new video we teach about the importance of the choices we make every minute of every day, and how they affect the path that we walk. 

We hope you’ll take a few minutes to check it out. 

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We pray for God’s power and His peace in your lives. 

We love you. 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
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401-439-3780 

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-26-22

Romans 8:8 (NKJV) 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

Many times, living the life of a believer, we need to tell our flesh, “No”!

The flesh will often make us think everything is wrong, nothing is going right.

We have to remind it of the good things. The things that we have been blessed with! The things which we have, but for some reason we have overlooked, moving on to the one thing we may think we are missing out on.

It can drive us to the point where we feel depressed and without.

The flesh will quickly forget the things that God has blessed us with. It likes to immediately move on to the next thing.

It doesn’t like to stay in one place for too long. As soon as it gets what it wants in one area of our life, it will move on to the next desire it craves.

It wants at all times, moving from one agenda to the next to be fed constantly.

The flesh can be very needy, demanding and selfish. It wants what it wants always. And it wants it NOW!

How do we fix it? How do we slow it down? How do we keep it in its place?

We tell it, “no”, by making it submit to the word of God and what He says.

WE stop it from crying and looking at the things it doesn’t have, and we open its eyes, teaching it to be content with what it does have.

We have to be firm with our flesh and not let it get the best of us. The flesh should never drive us. We need to stay in control of it.

If we are feeling this depression set in at times, we need to shut that flesh down and let the Spirit of God take over.

We cannot please Him when we let the flesh drive us.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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