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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-16-23

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Nehemiah 4:14 (NLT) 14 Then as I looked over the situation, I called together the nobles and the rest of the people and said to them, “Don’t be afraid of the enemy! Remember the Lord, who is great and glorious, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes!”

As I have studied more in depth over the last couple of years, Nehemiah has become someone that I have a lot of respect for.

Why?

Because he was a truth warrior.

He knew how to discern, and he knew how to stand and speak for truth and righteousness.

As a cupbearer to King Artaxerxes, Nehemiah had gained the king’s respect for his dedication and faithfulness.

When Nehemiah became aware of a dire situation regarding many of his fellow Jews, he knew he had to act and help them.

He approached the king and obtained permission to take leave from his duties as the king’s cupbearer so he could go and help the Jews who were returning to Judah from exile to rebuild their homeland.

Many of the people in the land opposed them. But Nehemiah was not to be deterred. He stood strongly and boldly, continuing to work feverishly and diligently to rebuild the walls around Jerusalem.

And in the verse above, he encouraged his fellow Jews to do the same.

Do not be afraid of the enemy!

And we speak these same words to you today.

Do not be afraid of the enemy! Remember Who it is that fights for us!

Stand and fight for your wives and husbands, your brothers and sisters, your sons & daughters, and your homes!

Remember the Lord, who is glorious. Take heart in His faithfulness. Draw your strength and courage from Him!

As David said to the Philistines before he slayed the giant, so we also speak to our enemy;

1 Samuel 17:47 (NKJV) 47 Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.”

So, when the enemy taunts you, telling you that you will lose, stand firm and know that the battle is not ours, but belongs to God our redeemer!

Amen

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-15-23

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Romans 11:33 (NKJV) 33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

God is so deep that it is impossible for us to fully discover or understand all of Him.

Paul says it best; the depths of His riches are His wisdom and knowledge. According to Paul, being rich isn’t about money. It is in having God’s wisdom and knowledge.

How do we obtain this? Through studying His word and learning His ways.

In doing this, we gain wisdom to know what He says about certain things.

He gives us knowledge on how to handle very hard situations and His overall stance on the things that we face daily.

Getting His wisdom and knowledge on things brings an understanding to us in ways we would never have thought of on our own.

I pray to God that we all move in His wisdom and knowledge, that we seek after Him, and study to get His word so deeply into our hearts.

You see, the Holy Spirit can not remind us of the things that the Word of God says if we don’t get that word in us.

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.

Many people will sit for hours and read a fiction book, and not think anything of it. But will people consider reading their Bible?

The Bible is the most beautiful love story ever told. A book that has been around for thousands of years.  A book that is filled with real life lessons to learn. A book filled with God’s wisdom and knowledge, right at our fingertips.

Every page has precious nuggets that will help us tremendously if we would apply them.

What are we waiting for? Go after His wisdom and knowledge!

Proverbs 4:7 (NKJV) 7 Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-14-23

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Nehemiah 9:6 (NJKV) 6 You alone are the Lord; You have made heaven, The heaven of heavens, with all their host, The earth and everything on it, The seas and all that is in them, And You preserve them all. The host of heaven worships You.

Sometimes we need a reminder of who God is; His majesty, His wonder and His sovereignty.

It can be easy sometimes to look past things and forget that everything we see is a miracle, created by our heavenly Father.

He alone is the Lord.

Nothing that we see was made by anyone other than Him.

And get this; what He created, He preserves!

He created it all in a way that keeps it. It stays in its place and it continues to do what it is supposed to do.

The ocean tides come in and go out like clockwork.

The earth rotates perfectly, at the same speed, day after day.

The seasons change. They never stop.

The moon goes from full to new, and it keeps doing it again and again.

Flowers bloom and die, only to bloom again. And the process goes on.

The sun lights the sky and gives warmth. And it never fails to do so.

God did it all. He is faithful.

Let us remember this at all times. Amen!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-13-23

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Matthew 5:13-14 (NKJV) 13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. 14 “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

Fellow believers, do you want to know our call?

It’s very simple; to be the salt and light of the world.

Our call is to influence and penetrate a secular society for the good; to reach the lost.

We must stay close to God by feeding our spirit with His word daily. This helps us to keep our flavor and our spark, and keep our brightness strong.

There is no time for us to let down our guard. We must remember that this journey here on earth is only for a season. And it doesn’t last nearly as long as we think it will.

That is the amount of time we are here on this earth. Our rest comes when we go to our heavenly home. Until then, we work. We press in, and we push forward.

Let us get up each day with a song of praise in our heart and a determined will to do good, and to light up this earth with our “God-given influence of love” and leave an impression wherever we step foot!

God is our light. He lives within us. We can’t be afraid to speak up, to pray for others, to encourage one another and to glorify Him through our actions!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-12-23

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Deuteronomy 6:5 (NKJV) 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

I love my wife. I love her with all my heart.

I also love bass fishing, and I enjoy bike riding.

My love for Bass fishing and bike riding obviously isn’t nearly as strong as my love for Pastor Ellie. Not even close!

But none of these can begin to compare to my love for God.

And this is what God has commanded us to do; to put Him, and our love for Him, before everyone and everything else.

This isn’t something that just happens.

Just as we learn to love our spouse, we must learn to love God.

We don’t learn this overnight. We don’t learn accidentally. And we don’t always learn easily.

It takes time, and it takes effort on our part. It takes persistent, diligent, relentless effort.

No effort equals a bare-minimum relationship with God. A minimal relationship equals frail, feeble love.

Our love for God needs to be strong!

Loving God is something that we must decide in our hearts is our top priority. It’s when we do this that we see things change in our heart.

And when our heart changes, the rest of our life follows suit.

Before we know it, we are beginning to build our lives around God and our love for Him, instead of constantly battling just to find a few spare minutes to try to read His word.

The change comes a little at a time as we continue to relentlessly pursue Him and put Him first.

We encourage everyone reading this to give God your all. Pour yourself into your walk with Him.

Put Him first in everything. Give Him your whole heart.

Watch your love for Him grow and flourish.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-11-23 – A Different Place

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Please click to watch the video now.Greetings in the wonderful name of our savior, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. 

Have you ever been through changes in your life that left you in shock, feeling like your life has been turned upside down? Maybe you’re even facing something like this right now. 

If this applies to your life, today’s video is for you. 

In our new video, A Different Place, we teach about allowing God to walk us through changes in our lives, instead of trying to handle everything on our own. 

Change, especially big change, can be difficult, but sometimes we make it worse than it has to be. 

We hope you’ll give the video a watch so you can hear about making it less painful. 

Please click here to watch the video now.

We love you all, and we hope you are walking in God’s goodness every day. 

Sincerely, 

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 – 6-10-23

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Jeremiah 17:9 (NKJV) 9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?

Most of us have heard the saying, ”follow your heart”.

But according to this verse, if we don’t let God change our heart, mind and spirit, we are in deep trouble.

We definitely should not be following our heart unless it has been changed by the power of God.

It’s only when He changes our heart, transforms our mind and gives us a new spirit that we can begin to make sound decisions.

Ezekiel 36:26 (NKJV) 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Once the heart of stone is removed, and He gives us that heart of flesh, we still need the renewed mind and the guidance of the Holy Spirit to help us make sound decisions.

The three working together, our new heart, transformed mind, and new spirit, will bring victory to our everyday life right here on earth!

We will glorify God with power, love and a sound mind!

2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV) 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Our heart will now be guided in such a way that people will notice a complete change in our lifestyle.

Romans 12:2 (NKJV) 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

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 – 6-9-23

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Psalm 16:11 (NKJV) 11 You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

There is nothing that compares to being in God’s presence.

His presence brings joy, peace, hope and a sense of security that words can’t begin to describe.

The presence of God causes grown men and women to weep uncontrollably.

The presence of God causes His people to fall on their faces in repentance.

The presence of God brings healing to those who have been told they can’t be healed.

The presence of God makes whole those who believed they were irreparably broken.

The presence of God restores those who were thought to be unrestorable.

The presence of God fills a place with His incredible glory; a glory so heavy that it transcends human words.

His presence is something that so few truly ever encounter or experience.

But it is imperative that we do whatever is necessary to get in His presence, for it is there that He speaks to us in ways that we can’t even imagine.

Getting in His presence can be difficult for many.

Our lives are too busy. We think it’s not important. We don’t understand it. We don’t believe it can happen.

We may not even believe that His presence is something real.

But it is. And He is beckoning us to come to Him, right here and right now.

Will we shut out the noise? Will we turn off all the things that distract us and prevent us from entering His presence? Will we cast aside our unbelief? Will we deny ourselves and put Him first?

He is waiting right outside the door. Will we let Him in?

Revelation 3:20 (NKJV) 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

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 – 6-8-23

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Zephaniah 3:17 (NKJV) 17 The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”

Let’s focus on where this verse says, “He will quiet you with His love”.

There have been many times that God has done this for me, quieted me with His love, especially when I needed Him the most.

He was there, quietly reminding me Who I belong to. He knew my emotions; my pain, my sorrow. He knew what I needed at that time.

When God touches us in this way, these are the most beautiful and fulfilling moments in our lives.

When He quiets us with His love, it will last through the entire trial we are going through. It will stick with us. It’s like He deposits in us exactly what we need to carry us through.

His love has a way of keeping us and holding us tightly. It gives us strength to continue on. It gives us determination to reach the other side of our situation, and even go beyond what we ever thought we could do.

Your thoughts may be taking you in every direction today. Your emotions may be all over the place, wearing you down. Your situation may be too heavy for you.

He is willing to quiet you with His love, right now, right where you are.

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 – 6-7-23

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James 2:18 (NKJV) 18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

Following God, and obeying His leading, is easier for some than for others.

Some people do their best to follow God but find it difficult to keep doing so when the rubber meets the road and God asks them to do something difficult or uncomfortable.

Others seem to have less difficulty, seemingly zipping down the path of life and never batting an eye, even when God places something before them to do that’s difficult.

The difference between the two people lies in how much they really trust God.

Both say they trust God and have faith in Him, but their actions speak much louder than their words.

If we say we trust Him, but we run away when facing difficulties or when He asks us to do something hard, then our trust isn’t what we might think or say it is.

The test of a believer is when God puts His finger on something in our lives and asks us to obey Him.

When life is going well for us, we usually have no trouble obeying Him and doing what He asks. But when we’re being pinched, and things are tough, we may start to hesitate and make excuses to try to avoid stepping out and obeying.

Now, let’s get real and talk about something that’s extremely sensitive, and very telling when God puts His finger on it and asks us to obey Him; money.

Money is something so few believers want God to put His finger on and ask them to part with.

But the believer who has strong faith, and who truly trusts God with everything, will obey Him and do whatever God asks them to do with the money and material things He has blessed them with. And they will trust God to continue to provide for them in whatever way He sees fit.

Why?

Because they know and understand that everything they have is His, not theirs.

It all belongs to Him!

We are stewards. Nothing more, nothing less.

Steward: a person who manages another’s personal or financial affairs or possessions. administrator, manager, agent

What we have been given possession of is only for a season. There just might come a time when God asks us to open our hands and pour out what He has entrusted us with.

And that day will tell us a lot about ourselves.

That day will eventually come for each and every one of us.

What will we do? Will we clench our fists tightly, determined to hold on to what God wants us to surrender, or will we open our hands and say, “here it is, Father. Do with it as you will”.

Which one are we?

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 – 6-6-23

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Proverbs 31:10 (NKJV) 10 Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies.

A wife of valor is a wife of excellence. She is excellent in all aspects.

Is she a perfect wife?

No. No one is perfect, but Jesus Christ.

However, what we are looking at is a woman who honors and fears the Lord. it is she that will be praised!

Proverbs 31:30 (NKJV) 30 Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.

Her heart will long for God and to please Him first and foremost.

She will have a strong desire to obey Him, praise Him and honor Him with her whole being!

Because she fears God, the reflection of her heart will cause her husband to safely trust her, knowing that she belonged to Him first.

Proverbs 31:11 (NKJV) 11 The heart of her husband safely trusts her; So he will have no lack of gain.

Not only will her husband trust her, but her children will look upon their mother and call her blessed, as her heart will feel the responsibility to raise and nurture them according to the word of God.

Is it easy for her, and does everything feel joyous and happy at all times?

No. Not all the time. Some days it will feel very hard to continue forward. But she will keep pressing in and not give up.

It is a full-time position that requires her to give 100% every minute, as she carefully follows the promptings of the Holy Spirit as He guides her in all her ways to do all things that bring glory to her Lord and Savior.

Proverbs 31:28 (NKJV) 28 Her children rise up and call her blessed; Her husband also, and he praises her…

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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