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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-3-20

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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.

Spiritual activity in the atmosphere has increased markedly over the last several years. It is more alive than ever.

We no longer live in a world where common sense and carnal understanding can sustain us.

Yes, we can get by living that way. But it will be increasingly difficult to do so as the things of the spirit continue to increase in intensity.

It’s critical that we, as believers, learn to perceive and discern the things of the spirit accurately.

This isn’t something to be taken lightly. Nor is it something that is optional if we wish to be used by God, or to understand the things of God. Sharp discernment is a necessity.

So, how do we do this? How do we get understanding that gives us this discernment?

We learn to listen to the Spirit of God and let Him lead us in everything that we do.

Daily life can seem ho hum, benign and habitual to most of us, especially if we simply live in the natural.

But God wants us to live beyond the natural, above what we see and feel. He desires for us to let Him develop our spirit in a way that allows it to commune with His spirit.

That is the key to having a deeper understanding and a sharper ability to discern the things of the spirit.

And here’s how we develop that muscle in each and every one of us; we spend time in His word. We spend time conversing with Him. We learn of Him, and we draw near to Him.

Over time, as we do this, with the goal of growing our relationship with Him, our spiritual understanding and our discernment will also improve.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-2-20

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John 15:12 (NKJV) 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Where did we ever get the idea that we can just do the things we want, when we want and how we want? That idea comes from our flesh and its desires.

As I ponder on my life and the things that have brought me hardship, I realize it was mostly when I did just that; lived by my flesh. How about you?

The way we do things should change when we become a believer. When we begin to put Christ before our own wants and needs, our motives will change. And as we continue to grow, we are more determined to do the things God wants us to do.

You say, “I don’t know what God wants for me yet. I haven’t figured it out. I’m waiting for a sign or answer of some type from Him”.

Well, today, my friend, is your day for your answer to come alive and for a seed to be planted in you.

Are you ready to know what God wants for us all? We are going to take a look at what He says in His word.

Galatians 5:13 (NKJV) 13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

What is our call? To walk in such liberty. The word liberty means to be in a state of being free; Free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views. Freedom is the power or scope to act as one pleases.

In the scriptures, God’s freedom and liberty for our lives is to owe no man anything, but to love.

Romans 13:8 (NKJV) 8 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Do not be in debt to anything or anyone. Not only did Jesus set us free from our sin and give us eternal life, His salvation, but He has given us liberty here on earth to walk and to choose to serve one another. What brings such freedom? Choosing servant-hood with love.

We have been called to walk in total freedom, to never return to bondage again. Liberty in Christ is being set free from our flesh and serving Him, through following His example in demonstrating such a love for one another.

Galatians 5:1 (NKJV) 1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Stand fast and stay free, by serving God first and foremost with everything we have, and walk in the liberty of Christ, by which we have been called to love one another. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-1-20

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Philippians 1:6 (NKJV) 6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

As believers, we are a work in progress.

Each one of us is in a different place in our walk with God. Where we are depends on many different things; our spiritual age, our spiritual maturity, our commitment to our walk with God, our willingness to change and grow, etc.

Sometimes there are outside factors that can impact us, but more often than not, where we are depends largely on what we do or don’t do.

Thankfully, though, even if we’re not the most faithful or diligent in our relationship with God, He never wavers and is never at fault for our shortcomings.

Even better, take a look once more at what the scripture above says; “He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ”.

That means that He sticks with us for the duration, never leaving us, even until the day of Jesus Christ, when He returns for His people.

His grace is like the special glue that fills in the gaps that we create, giving us every opportunity to keep pursuing Him and building our relationship with Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-31-20 – Confess With Your Mouth

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

Many years ago, we were taught that it is wrong and dangerous to speak any words that are negative. Doing so could lead to undesired things happening in our lives. 

We eventually learned that this wasn’t scriptural, and we made adjustments to correct it, based on the leading of the Holy Spirit. 

In today’s video, Confess With Your Mouth, we discuss this and use examples from scripture to show the truth about this topic. 

We hope you will take a few minutes to watch and listen. 

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Enjoy your day. 

Sincerely, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-30-20

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Matthew 22:37-39 (NKJV) 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Loving God is the key to follow and obeying His commandments. It is the very thing that will help us put our self aside and be able to love Him and our neighbor as He has asked us to.

If we don’t have such a love for God first, it’s impossible to love the way He has commanded us. It’s funny, loving God can move us toward living for Him, but yet we fight it.

We may ask, “why do we fight it?”

We fight usually because we care about ourselves and how we feel more than anything else. And how we feel is usually based on if we are happy about who we’ve become, how much we have and our appearance. Those are 3 big issues and can keep us from loving God and others the way we should.

We feel like if we are not happy with who we are, how can we truly love anyone? In this scripture, is there anything where it says, we have to love ourselves? No, it says to love God with basically everything and what is left is use toward loving our neighbor. Nothing is mention about having to love our self.

What God is showing us is the importance of our walk in this life with Him, is that our love should be directed and poured out for Him and others.

We don’t have to worry about loving ourselves, because His love for us is more than enough. All we need to know, to understand and believe is the love which He has for us and then share it. Amen.

1 John 4:16 (NKJV) 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

You my friend are loved more than you know.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-29-20

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Ephesians 1:3-4 (NKJV) 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

Without Christ, we are dirty, lost, poor, blind and without hope. We are separated from God, and we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

But let’s take a look at what happens to us when we become children of God.

Ephesians 1:3 says we are blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ!

We are blessed with what? Every spiritual blessing! We are blessed with whatever we need to thrive as a child of God.

So, what are these spiritual blessings?

Salvation, forgiveness, hope, love, joy, direct access to the Father, peace that surpasses understanding, and a list of other blessings too numerous to name are all ours as His children.

The moment we say “yes” to Him and put our faith in Him, these things all become ours, no questions asked.

And do you know what else happens? He removes the blame from us, making us holy in His sight!

Along with receiving forgiveness, we also get the blame removed from us, as our past sin is erased and we are made a holy, new creation in Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV) 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

So, if we are struggling today with guilt and shame for our past sins, it’s time to put that behind us and give it to God.

He has already removed it from us. He has made us holy and blameless. It’s up to us to be willing to lay it down and let it go. We don’t need to drag it around with us any longer.

You are holy, and you are blameless, in the name of Jesus.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-28-20

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1 John 4:9 (NKJV) 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

Living through Him comes when we allow Jesus to change us and the way we look at things in life.

We live through Him by having our minds and hearts transformed.

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.

People may think that when Jesus changes us, our life comes to a complete stop. We can’t have fun. We have to be serious; we can’t have a sense of humor, etc.

There is no laughter. We have to be dressed just so and carry ourselves a certain way.

Basically, we think we have to walk around looking like there is no joy in life as a child of God.

But let me say, all that I have experienced in life through Christ has been most excellent in every way.

He brings such peace!

He brings a joy and love that we can’t experience without Him! He is satisfying to every inch of our being and in every area of our life.

He brings healing and restoration in those areas where we were once hurt, abused, scarred and left empty.

When we live though Him, we become more confident and stable, meaning we have purpose and direction.

Thank you, God, for your love for us, and for sending your only begotten son, that we may live through Him! It truly is the most awesome thing anyone could have done for us.

We love you, Papa!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-27-20

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Romans 2:11 (NKJV) 11 For there is no partiality with God.

Have you ever known another believer whom you initially admired for a certain skill or talent, but when you got to know them better, they drove you crazy?

Maybe their personality just doesn’t meld with yours. Maybe they’re loud and outgoing, whereas you’re quiet and withdrawn.

Maybe they’re perky and bubbly, but you’re soft-spoken and reserved.

Or maybe they’re methodical and timid, but you’re adventurous and love doing things on the spur of the moment!

We can all relate to this kind of scenario in one way or another. It has happened to all of us.

But here’s the thing that we need to remember; God made each and every one of us unique, and He loves every one of us the same, regardless of our quirks and idiosyncrasies!

And He will use each of us as He sees fit.

Sometimes we may not necessarily like the way a person does things. But that doesn’t mean that God shouldn’t use them. After all, He has His purposes and He shows no partiality toward anyone.

The best thing we can do is to let God be God, let Him choose a person He wants to use, and just enjoy the way He uses them for the gifts and talents He has blessed them with.

Amen

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-26-20

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Hebrews 11:11 (NKJV) 11 By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.

Sarah believed what God told her about having a son, even after she was past child-bearing age. She judged Him faithful of His promise to her and Sarah received her promised child.

Genesis 21:3 (NKJV) 3 And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him—whom Sarah bore to him—Isaac.

What is God promising us today?

Did He tell us or give us vision for something that is way beyond what we can do, or can even imagine to be done with our limited resources or our situation?

What is His promise to us? Do we judge Him faithful? Do we trust that He can and He will do it?

Some say, “well maybe. But I’m not quite sure yet if He will do that for me. I just need a little glimpse of something to reassure me.”

No. That’s not trust. Where there is doubt, we are without. That’s just my own phrase.

I have seen God show up too many times in my life to doubt Him. He has changed the way I think and look at things. I don’t let my eyes, and what I see in the natural, be the final word in what will happen. No.

2 Corinthians 5:7 (NKJV) 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

God has a way of turning things around at any moment. He is amazing!

If we walk by sight, that is all we will see, exactly what is in front of us. That’s fine if that’s what we want.

But for me, I have always wanted to see what God will do in the moments that life says, “this is it for you, the end of the road.”

If we walk by faith, those little statements only cause us to rise up and get God’s word on the matter. We go after Him, seeking what it is that He has to say. If He says otherwise, we trust His word over anyone or anything else.

We judge Him faithful to keep and fulfill His promise, and we see the impossible happen right before our eyes.

Amen!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-25-20

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Galatians 4:28 (NKJV) 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

As followers of Christ, we are children of promise.

We are heirs of the promises made to Abraham.

Why? Because we are spiritual heirs of Abraham.

Abraham had a special relationship with God. He believed God and had faith in Him in a time period long before Moses had come along.

Abraham exhibited that inward faith through his outward actions, by obeying God when he was told to do something or holding fast when God made him a promise.

Abraham trusted God!

It was that faith and trust that led him to receive Isaac, his son of promise, at the age of 100 years, through his wife, Sarah, who was also well beyond child-bearing years and who had been barren her entire life.

Because Abraham believed and trusted God, it was credited to him as righteousness. And this happened long before righteousness by faith was even understood by man.

Eventually, through Moses, The Law came along.

Man made the mistaken assumption that following The Law made them righteous. The Law, though, was actually written to show man their sinful state, and push them toward God in a way that would bring repentance, not haughty self-righteousness by way of pride for following the law religiously.

Thankfully, Jesus fulfilled The Law, bringing us back around to righteousness through faith.

So, as we walk out this life as believers, know that, as Abraham, we don’t live by what we see. We live by what God tells us, shows us and promises us.

It’s not always an easy walk. But as we do it, our faith and trust in God grows, drawing us closer and closer to Him.

Genesis 15:5-6 (NKJV) 5 Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-24-20 – The Importance of Discernment

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

Discernment is a mighty weapon in the world we live in. 

The season we are currently in is very active, spiritually speaking. So it’s very important for us to know what’s happening in the world that we can’t see with our natural eyes. 

Today’s video, The Importance of Discernment, teaches on this topic and helps bring some clarity to why it’s so important. 

We hope you’ll watch it and that it will help you understand this important topic better. 

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Enjoy your day. 

Sincerely, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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401-315-0902

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