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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-24-20

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Deuteronomy 1:42 (NKJV) 42 “And the Lord said to me, ‘Tell them, “Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; lest you be defeated before your enemies.” ’

This is something we all need to watch out for. If God is not with us, then we are on our own. It’s as easy as that.

And if we think He’s kidding, just watch and see.

How many have had experiences where we thought we were doing what God had shown us and then, bam! It falls apart.

We know. We’ve been there.

God can teach us some very good lessons from these types of things if we let Him. On the other hand, We can get angry and bitter if we don’t let God teach us.

We know that it can sometimes be hard to tell which path to choose. And many times we may think we are stepping out in faith.

But God does not fool around with things He wants us to do. He will usually make it very clear. It’s usually our flesh and our desires that complicate things.

Proverbs 16:9 (NKJV) 9 A man’s heart plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps.

We need to make sure that before we begin anything, we ask Him for His steps by praying and listening. He will guide us in whether to move forward or put the brakes on.

The results of the steps we take will show whether He was in it or not and whether those steps were the right ones.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-23-20

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Nehemiah 2:12 (NKJV) 12 Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem; nor was there any animal with me, except the one on which I rode.

Nehemiah had a heart for God and His people.

He was devastated when he learned of the condition of Jerusalem, the holy city. Its walls had been destroyed and its gates had been burned. And the Jews there were in great distress.

Nehemiah had it in his heart to do something about this tragedy. But being a lowly cupbearer for King Artaxerxes, he wasn’t sure what he could do.

So, he approached the king and asked permission to leave and go to Jerusalem and gather men to help him rebuild the wall and repair the gates.

Nehemiah found favor with the king and was granted permission to go. So, he gathered men to take with him and then he left.

As he gathered men and the necessary materials, some others rose up in opposition to him. They didn’t want the walls of the city rebuilt, so they schemed and devised a plan to stop what he was going to do.

Nehemiah, however, used wisdom.

After being in Jerusalem 3 days, he arose in the night and took men with him to survey the damage to the wall.

You see, Nehemiah knew he was being opposed. He knew that riding out in the daylight to inspect the wall would only draw attention and may put him and the others at risk. So, he went at night, in secret.

God will do this for us. He will give us wisdom as to how He wants us to do things. He will warn us of danger. And He will show us how to circumvent that danger, laying to waste the plans of the enemy.

We just need to be careful to listen and obey His voice. We have to have the ability to hear Him and the will to obey Him, despite what it may cost us or how odd His instructions might seem to our minds sometimes.

And just as Nehemiah and his men overcame their opposers and completed the rebuilding of the wall, so will we accomplish whatever God places before us, provided we trust Him and obey!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-22-20

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Psalm 94:19 (NKJV) 19 In the multitude of my anxieties within me, Your comforts delight my soul.

Our grandson is a thinker. He is only 13, but yet he thinks about things that most adults don’t even think about.

Because of this thinking, sometimes he doesn’t sleep well. This is especially true if there is change.

I said to him one day, “God does not like for us to worry. Because when we worry, it makes a statement and shows our fear”.

As I continued, I said, “it’s OK to be afraid and notice that we are afraid. But when we feel the fear of the unknown, or even the known, we don’t freeze, but we take the next step”.

This “next step” we take is huge!

We say, “Dear God, I’m scared. Help me know that everything will be alright as long as You are near. Take this fear and give me Your peace. Help me. In Jesus’ name. Amen.”

If anxiety hits us, it is not to stay long. When we notice it, we need to get rid of it quickly. It will eat us up and leave us exhausted if it lingers.

God will bring us comfort and peace in the midst of change, in the midst of a storm or in a trial.

In the midst of decision making, He will comfort our soul.

Don’t stress. God is faithful to take care of us.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-21-20

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Matthew 5:6 (NKJV) 6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.

Have you ever been really, really hungry? I’m talking about being so hungry that all you can think of is getting some food… something to eat that will satisfy that hunger and fill you up.

We can probably all nod in agreement that we have experienced this.

In the verse above, Jesus spoke to the crowd and talked about those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. He said that they will be filled.

A hunger for God and His righteousness in our lives is what keeps us pursuing Him, seeking Him and reaching out for Him. It keeps us feasting on His food (His word). It’s the only thing that will truly satisfy us and satiate that hunger.

You see, our pursuit of God can’t be casual if we want it to be life-changing or truly satisfying.

We have to be willing to give it 100%, and we have to have the right motives in our quest.

This hunger is what separates the wheat from the chaff, so to speak. It’s what causes us to continually push forward and leave all else behind as we move closer and closer to God and devote more and more time and energy to this pursuit.

Once we start to develop this hunger, nothing else will satisfy us. We will begin pushing everything else aside to make sure that we get what we need; time spent with God and in His word. Nothing else will do.

This hunger can’t be manufactured. It can’t be created artificially or synthetically. It comes only from a true desire to know Him in His fullness.

And take a look at what Jesus said about it in another verse:

John 6:35 (NKJV) 35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

It is only Him who brings true satisfaction, Who can quench that thirst and fill that hunger.

Accept no substitutes. Don’t stay hungry or thirsty. Pursue Him, and Him only.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-20-20

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Joshua 1:9 (NKJV) 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

At the beginning of the book of Joshua, in the very first chapter, God says to Joshua, “be strong and of good courage”. Not once, not twice but three times. Now, that right there would scare me. Why would God say that?

I am the type of person who would rather not know or hear about what’s ahead of me. I do better on the spot. You know; ignorance is bliss. That’s me!

Let me just know as I go. If I know too much up front, my head goes nuts trying to figure out how to avoid what I may face. Is anyone with me?

You see, when you move with God, some of His instructions are just what they are. You can’t avoid them, go around them or try to figure everything out. You just have to do it the way He is leading.

Sometimes He will give us a phrase. Or maybe only one single Word. And it will carry us the whole way through the journey.

Moses had died, and now God was speaking to Joshua, instructing him to lead the people. The first lesson as a leader that Joshua had to learn was to “be strong and of good courage”.

I believe this is something we all have to learn up front. God can’t use us to lead if we cry over spilled milk. We can’t be so sensitive that every little thing upsets us.

It’s time that we, as God’s children, step up to the plate and show others what it’s like to be strong and of good courage. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-19-20

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Mark 7:9 (NKJV) 9 He said to them, “All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

Traditions can be very powerful in many ways.

Many families are steeped in tradition. They carry out certain acts year after year because that’s what they have been shown to do. They may not even know why. They just know that it’s always been that way.

This may not be bad or good. But it shows how prone to tradition human beings are.

The same can be said for the church; the bride of Christ.

She does things in a certain way, time, after time, after time, and most times not even stopping to think about, wonder or question why. She just does it because that’s the way it’s always been done.

Jesus had a few things to say about this.

The scribes and pharisees asked Jesus why His disciples didn’t follow the tradition of washing their hands before eating. This wasn’t viewed as a sanitary issue. They knew very little about germs and bacteria back then.

The scribes and pharisees were more concerned with the fact that the disciples weren’t keeping tradition itself.

When Jesus addressed the scribes and pharisees, He was quick to turn things around and point right back at them, exposing their hearts, and the lack of discipline on their end.

He rebuked them for being the hypocrites that they were, telling them plainly that they rejected (set aside, denied, abandoned) the commandment of God in favor of their man-made traditions.

And let’s be clear; it wasn’t so much the tradition itself that Jesus reprimanded them for. It was the condition of their hearts. They did what they did simply because they had been told to do so, and they had been doing it for centuries without ever questioning it.

And where do we, the bride of Christ, stand today with our traditions? Do we do what we do simply because it’s what we have been shown or told to do, or maybe because we have seen others do it?

Do we say certain things that we have heard others say, without stopping to question the validity of it, or the scriptural accuracy of it?

These are all things that are super important; Things we should all ponder and seek God about.

For if we say or do things simply out of rote or habit, where is the true love of God or the obedience to Him in any of it?

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-18-20

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Please click to watch the video now.Greetings! 

We hope that you are walking closely with God and learning to trust Him more each day. 

The video for today is a bit different than some of our most recent videos. 

Today’s video, The Deadly Trio, talks about three things that affect every one of us in one way or another. And the way they affect us is never good for us. 

We hope you’ll take a few minutes and give it a watch, and that it will help you recognize where these three things might be hiding in our own lives. 

Please click here to watch the video now. 

Be mightily blessed in Him. 

Sincerely, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-17-20

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Proverbs 27:1 (NKJV) 1 Do not boast about tomorrow, For you do not know what a day may bring forth.

Planning, scheduling and setting goals throughout our day is good. It helps us work more efficiently and makes sure we’re doing what needs to be done.

It’s only right that we do this if we want to be diligent with our time.

But, to go on and on about what we know and don’t know about tomorrow, a month from now or even a year from now is just a bunch of hot air.

We don’t know, and we should not boast or brag about it.

Some people can tell us stories about things they are facing, or maybe what they have walked through, that they never knew was going to happen. That’s what we are talking about.

Unexpected things happen.

People who live confidently, thinking they’ve got everything figured out, can be in for a rude awakening when things don’t go as planned.

We want to prepare you beforehand so that you don’t fall into despair or go off the deep end when the unexpected comes along.

None of us are promised a tomorrow. If we get a tomorrow, we need to be thankful and live it out as if it was our last day.

God did not make us to have everything planned out on our own. He made us to appreciate one day at a time. He made us a people that would walk with Him, lean and trust Him every day that we live and breathe.

But we think we have to try and fix things ourselves. We have to make things work the way we want them to and get it done in our time, not wanting to wait on Someone else.

Let’s face it, children of God. When Covid-19 came rolling in and changed everything, were we prepared for that?

No. We had no clue it was coming. And it changed how we did things with the snap of a finger.

So, we need to be sure that we don’t boast or brag about tomorrow, because only God knows what’s to come tomorrow. It’s safe to say we all can boast in Someone and that Someone is Him!!

1 Corinthians 1:31 (NIV) 31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of the Day – 10-16-20

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1 Kings 8:22-23 (NKJV) 22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven; 23 and he said: “Lord God of Israel, there is no God in heaven above or on earth below like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

These two verses were a small part of a lengthy prayer spoken by Solomon before the people of Israel. Solomon spoke this prayer after the ark of God had been transported and moved into the temple that he had built for God.

Today we want to focus on the last of the two verses, and more specifically, the last part of that verse; “Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts”.

As Solomon spoke before the people, he reminded them that God is faithful, as he reflected on God setting His people free from slavery in Egypt.

He then went on to address God Himself, stating that “there is no God in heaven above or on earth below like You”.

And then he qualified that statement with this: You keep your covenant and mercy with Your servants.

But he stated that God kept His covenant and mercy with a specific group or type of servant. Who were they? They were those servants “who walk before You with all their hearts”.

Now, this is not to insinuate that God always ends or nullifies His covenant, or removes His mercy, if people are unfaithful to Him. There are examples in His word where He did exactly that if He saw it was warranted.

But the emphasis here is that Solomon wanted people to understand that people whose hearts were wholly dedicated to God would receive God’s blessings in their fullness, not just in part.

This is the message we so frequently try to convey to the body of Christ. It is what we want so badly for all believers to understand.

To be clear, it isn’t even about the blessings. It’s more about that incredible walk with God that He wants us to have, so that we experience Him in His fullness and in a way that is truly life-changing.

So, we urge you today to walk before God with all your heart.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-15-20

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Deuteronomy 28:2 (NKJV) 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God…

When we obey the voice of the Lord God, His protection and blessings will be with us.

Obedience will activate the blessings of the Lord upon our lives.

Now, the blessings may not always be what we think they will be. But they will be what God knows is good for us and what we need at that time. Trusting Him with this is a sign of spiritual maturity.

Take, for instance, the Manna in the wilderness for the Israelites (Exodus 16:4). They were blessed, whether they realized it or not. The Manna kept them nourished and fed. God knew it would.

But they, on the other hand, complained and wanted meat.

God did eventually give them quail. But come on! The manna would have been more than sufficient for them.

Exodus 16:11-12 (NKJV) 11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 12 “I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. And you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’ ”

Who’s complaining that what God gives them is not enough?

Are we going to be satisfied with what God knows is good for us, or will we be like the Israelites and want more and more?

Let us learn to desire and want what God knows is good for us and be OK with it. Focus on obeying. Everything else will come supernaturally, by the hand of God. And it will be exactly what we need at any given time. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-14-20

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1 Corinthians 2:14 (NKJV) 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

There is a wealth of information in this verse, especially when it comes to understanding our relationship with God. So, we will take yet another look at it today, to glean as much as we can from it.

It’s important that we understand the fact that the natural man (our intellect) can’t receive (hear, comprehend, understand) the things of the Spirit of God.

Why?

Because they are spiritually discerned.

This means that without the Spirit of God being able to communicate with our spirit, there is no possible way for us to hear from God or understand the things of God.

If we were to try to understand the things of the Spirit of God solely with our intellect, and no knowledge of His word, they would seem foolish to us.

If we add some knowledge of His word, it may help us at least know that God is real, but we will still lack true understanding.

When we allow our spirit to hear from His Spirit, then we begin to get understanding that helps us put all of the pieces together, so to speak.

We start to see and understand things that were previously difficult for us to grasp. We start to hear God speak to us like we never have before. And we start to be able to walk with Him in ways that are absolutely life-changing.

Our spiritual ears begin to hear things that we never knew were there. Our spiritual eyes begin to see clearly, where they used to be dull and dark. And our own spirit begins to discern things of the spiritual realm that we didn’t even know existed.

The Bible tells us that we are comprised of a body, soul and spirit.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 (NKJV) 23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It’s the spirit in us that God intended to be used for communing with Him and for Him to be able to communicate with us, all via our spirit, not our intellect. It’s our spirit that allows us to function as a mature believer.

So, until we realize this very important foundational truth, we will never truly be able to mature as a believer or fully develop our walk with God.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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