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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-27-22

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Mark 6:32 (NKJV) 32 So they departed to a deserted place in the boat by themselves.

Rest and quiet time are needed more than we realize.

The past few months for us have been crazy. We have been out straight physically and mentally.

During all of this, we have tried to reply to those that have written to check on us. But we might have missed someone along the way.

If we did, please accept our sincerest apologies. And thank you for checking in on us. We sincerely appreciate it.

We are beginning to see some light at the end of the tunnel, and we are finally getting some good rest.

Knowing that it’s OK to rest has helped us to not feel guilty if we have needed to take a break.

You all have been so good to us, with your encouraging words, prayers and financial support. We are truly grateful for how God has provided for us through it all.

We want to say thank you, and also remind you to rest and break free at times as well.

Make this year the beginning of taking a rest from time to time, instead of pushing ourselves to the point of breaking. We need to remind ourselves to take a break to heal and rest from our hard work.

Break, depart, and get to a deserted place. It’s OK. It’s necessary!

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 – 1-26-22

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Galatians 5:9 (NKJV) 9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

These 7 words are very powerful, and they can apply to so many aspects of our lives.

Today we’ll be looking at them through the lens of God’s word, as believers, followers of Christ.

What is leaven? Leaven in this verse refers to yeast, as used in the making of bread.

Yeast is used to make bread rise. In beverages, it is used to cause fermentation in that drink.

Leaven permeates whatever it is used in.

Such is the case with sin, which is what leaven represents in the verse above. Paul was writing to warn the Galatians that even a little sin would permeate their walk with God and destroy it if left unchecked.

The Galatians had responded to the gospel of Christ enthusiastically, receiving it in faith, propelling them to grow as believers, walking out God’s word in their lives.

But outsiders who claimed to know Christ in His fulness had begun to teach the Galatians a false doctrine.

And that doctrine was eating away at their faith walk, causing them to stumble and abandon the truth.

Sin does the very same thing. Most times it sneaks in a little, tiny piece at a time. It is subtle; seemingly harmless. But its bite is lethal, slowly leading us to death if we don’t acknowledge it and deal with it.

Let’s root out the leaven (sin, ungodly influences or false teachings), before it’s too late and the whole lump (our walk with God) is permeated by it, killing it slowly.

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 – 1-25-22

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Galatians 3:26-28 (NKJV) 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

We are all sons of God through our faith in Christ. This is so awesome! Just the phrase, “sons of God”, makes my heart leap.

And none of us are any more a son than another.

We are His sons and we are loved and cared for by Him all the same. His love towards you is the same as His love towards me.

What a wonderful thing to be called; His sons!

He doesn’t look at us any other way. He does not have any favorites. WE are all His “favorite”!

It does not matter where we have been or come from. It doesn’t matter about the things we have done before. We have given ourselves to Him. It is all forgotten as we repent and put our faith in HIs Son, Jesus Christ.

We have put on Christ.

We have much to rejoice about today! Together we stand as one in Christ Jesus. 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 – 1-24-22

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John 17:15-17 (NKJV) 15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

Jesus came to us from another world.

Not another planet, but another world; the heavens, where He was with His Father since the beginning.

John 1:1-3 (NKJV) 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

Because Jesus was not of this world, as He stated in verse 16, at the beginning of this devotional, we are also not of this world if we belong to Him.

As believers, we inherit the heavenly characteristics of Jesus’ lineage.

This does not make us equal to Him. It does, however, mean that we share in part of His mission and His purpose in life; to share the love and light of God with a lost and dying world.

As part of that heavenly assignment, it’s important to realize that we are not of this world. We do not belong to this world, its ways or those who live out those ways.

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.

We are to live and walk differently. We do not live or walk by the flesh, but by the Spirit of God. It is this that sets us apart from the world. And as we mature in Christ, we will begin to live differently, wanting to please God and glorify Him in our daily lives.

We are not here to despise those who walk according to the flesh, or to look down on them, but to shine God’s light for them to see. It is this light that is meant to draw them to God, as it shines through us in our everyday lives.

Let us work diligently each day to grow and mature in Christ, endeavoring to let God’s light shine more brightly to those around us, that we may show that we are truly not of this world but of the world that is unseen.

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 – 1-23-22 – When, God, When?

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

Have you ever had to wait on God for something? 

We all have. And it’s not usually our favorite part of our walk with God. 

In today’s video, “When, God, When?”, we teach about the importance of waiting on God, and how learning to wait on Him properly helps Him move on our behalf. 

We hope you enjoy it and that it brings some understanding to this aspect of walking with God. 

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Enjoy your 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 – 1-22-22

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Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV) 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

We are in unknown territory. We don’t know what to expect. Phew… it’s challenging. It is causing us to trust God in a whole new way.

As you may know, we recently moved. And it was a big move!

Most of our old routines are gone. We are starting from scratch, you could say.

Even where I would pray in the morning has changed.

Everything we were so used to is gone. Nothing is in its usual place, if you know what we mean.

It’s not anything that any one person can help with. It hits everyone differently. But one thing we have in common is that change is change!

If it is change that God has brought, we either go with it or we stop moving forward.

God will bring change to us in different ways at different times. Some changes aren’t that hard and we enjoy them. We welcome then with open arms.

Some are changes that will cause us to feel like we cannot do it. Those changes will make us or break us. We will either go the full distances or faint on the way.

But, on this journey I have learned not to faint or be ashamed if you feel you can’t do it on your own, because those are the moments we make a very difficult choice; a choice to let go of what we know and lean on Him.

He will give us things at times that are impossible for us in our human strength to do or to bear.

But He does not want us to do it on our own. In fact, we can’t do it on our own.

What are you doing today that requires you to have God’s strength, wisdom, and joy to fulfill His plan in your life?

Don’t get down on yourself because you don’t have what it takes. Reach out for His hand. He planned it, He has the answers.

Isaiah 40:28 (NKJV) 28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

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 – 1-21-22

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Isaiah 46:8-10 (NKJV) 8 “Remember this, and show yourselves men; Recall to mind, O you transgressors. 9 Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,’

God’s sovereignty is above all else. There is nothing and nobody like Him, anywhere.

He rules and reigns over the earth and the galaxies that are even too far away to be seen by our eyes.

These verses were issued as a reminder of who God is.

In verse 10, the phrase, “show yourselves men”, literally means, “be men, take courage”.

This says a lot to us, reminiscent of the words in Joshua 1:9, where God said to “be strong and of good courage”.

God is speaking to us as we walk through this current season of incredible evil that we’re witnessing.

He is reminding us that we have nothing to fear. He is God. There is none like Him. He declares the end from the beginning, even those things that are not yet done.

His counsel will stand, and He will do all He has determined to do.

Tyranny will not win. Evil will not prevail, regardless of what we’re seeing with our natural eyes.

There is no one who can touch our God. His word stands true even in the midst of chaos, darkness and whatever else the enemy and his allies try to put together and throw at us.

The rest is up to us.

Will we trust Him in the face of adversity? Will we stand firm in our faith, not backing down when that same faith is tested, even under extreme duress?

This is not the season to run, nor to hide.

God is God. Trust Him.

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 – 1-20-22

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Micah 6:8 (NKJV) 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?

First, let’s look at what it means to have mercy on someone.

It means to continue to show compassion or forgiveness toward someone when it is within that one’s power to punish or harm them.

In other words, don’t do to them what others would normally do or expect us to do.

Instead, we choose to do the opposite. We choose to give them a way out from their error or mess-up. We choose to forgive them immediately and move on.

How many times does someone do something to us, and we want to lash out at them, thinking we have the right to do so?

Will we take some time and pray about it before we do to them what we think we should do?

Sometimes giving it a little time will help us make good choices in the way we handle certain situations.

Remember, give it some time and let mercy work. Love mercy!

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 – 1-19-22

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Isaiah 52:11 (NKJV) 11 Depart! Depart! Go out from there, Touch no unclean thing; Go out from the midst of her, Be clean, You who bear the vessels of the Lord.

These words were originally spoken to the Israelites who had been exiled from their homeland.

As they prepared to enter back into the land where they had been exiled from, they were warned to get out, not to touch the unclean things of the land where they had been dwelling, and not to carry anything unholy back to their homeland.

The fact that these words were originally spoken through an Old Testament prophet to the people of Israel does not negate their relevance to us today.

As believers, it’s important that we heed the Holy Spirit if He warns us of things or places that are dangerous to us.

Sometimes He will caution us to beware. Other times, He will tell us very directly to “get out”.

Getting out can refer to many things; a place or situation that causes us to be tempted, a job, a relationship, or even a place where we live.

No matter which category it happens to fall into, we need to be diligent to pay attention and follow God’s leading.

This won’t always be easy.

Sometimes it will be downright difficult. Sometimes it may even require that we be figuratively dragged, kicking and screaming, from the place or the situation that endangers us.

No matter the situation, our willingness to obey is critical to our spiritual wellbeing and our long-term relationship with our Father.

So, if you feel like you’re being told to “get out and touch no unclean thing”, be sure to listen and obey!

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 – 1-18-22

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Matthew 7:1 (NKJV) 7 “Judge not, that you be not judged.

The one thing we can learn not to do is judge others. How do we tell ourselves not to judge, and then follow through with it?

There is a way, and that is to remember and keep at the forefront of our minds that we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

All of us have done things. And some of us continue to do things that are disturbing or sinful.

Some sins may seem bigger than others to us in our minds. But in God’s eyes, sin is sin.

Knowing and always remembering who we are and why we need salvation will keep us from judging or being so hard on  others.

Sometimes we need to know about a person’s situation, so we know where they are coming from. This may sometimes change our perspective, and help keep us from judging them incorrectly.

Let’s be careful that we are not judging and talking about others just because they may be a little different than what we would expect them to be.

We all have our sins and we all need to be forgiven for some things most days.

Bless and pray for our brothers and sisters, and even those that are difficult to be around. They need Him too. Amen.

James 5:16 (NKJV) 16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

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 – 1-17-22

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Proverbs 9:10 (NKJV) 10 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Over my lifetime as a believer, I have come to understand the fear of the Lord more and more.

The fear of the Lord is not what most people, especially the unlearned or the unbeliever, think.

It is not a case of walking around in constant fear of being obliterated by God for committing a sin or falling short of His expectations.

It is, however, a deep reverence and an understanding of who He is, knowing that He is worthy of our utmost praise and honor.

With that said, God has gone to great lengths to make Himself easily approachable and accessible to us, His children, by removing every barrier.

When Jesus breathed His last breath, the veil of the temple was torn in two, removing the one object that prevented us from accessing the most holy place (the holy of holies), where God’s presence dwelt in the days of the Old Testament when the people lived under the Mosaic Law (The Law).

The rendering of that veil (tearing from top to bottom), does not negate the fact that God is still sovereign and holy. He is still to be revered to the highest degree.

You see, it’s that “fear of God” (absolute reverence) that causes us to walk straight (upright and holy), wanting to please Him with everything that we do.

We don’t do it because we live under constant fear of retribution or condemnation for our failures, but because we understand who He is and what He desires from us.

And that “knowledge of the Holy One” causes us to love Him more, driving us to want to please Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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