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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-24-20

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1 John 3:22 (NKJV) 22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.

We all ask God for things.

Sometimes we ask Him for wisdom. Sometimes we ask for help with a specific situation. Sometimes we ask Him for finances to pay for something we need.

The thing is that we don’t always get what we ask for. Why is that?

This short verse above tells us exactly why!

“We receive from Him because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight”.

Our walk with God is all about relationship. It is a Father/son or Father/daughter relationship.

It is not a King on a throne looking down at us, dictating to us what we should do to be good subjects.

It is a Father in heaven, loving us and wanting us to love Him back. As with any relationship, we want to please the one we love.

With God, He wants us to do the things that are pleasing in His sight. His word tells us what those things are; put Him first in everything, love others, do to others what we want done to us, live righteously, etc.

Now, this isn’t a dictatorship. God doesn’t watch our every move, waiting for us to fail so He can hold it over us or punish us when we do.

He simply wants us to love Him so much that we want to do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

It’s then that we will begin to see the verse above played out in our lives. And we will begin to see the things we ask Him for coming to pass. Because our hearts will be one with His, and our requests will be in line with His heart!

1 John 5:14-15 (NKJV) 14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-23-20

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Philippians 4:19 (NKJV) 19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

This is a promise. Receive it!

God is good and He will meet our need. A lot of times we just need to be where the answer is. We can’t stop doing what we know to do just because we don’t feel like doing it, or because we are tired of the battle.

Keep going. You never know where your answer is going to come from.

I remember one morning before church we had run out of peanut butter, and that’s what we would put on our English muffin.

It was not a real big deal; things could have been worse. But it stood out hugely that morning because we were growing weary and tired from everything else that had been hitting us. This was just one more thing.

We all got ready and went to church. Not long after we got there, a lady came up to us and said, “I know this is odd, but I felt like I needed to bring you a jar of peanut butter”.

We all laughed as she handed it to us. But you know, that jar of peanut butter meant so much to us. Because only God knew. And it showed us that He even cares about the little things that mean something to us.

That’s right, peanut butter! And may I add, it was the right brand!!

We went home that day with a smile, and our hearts were lifted. Can I just say, “God knows”.

What are your needs today? What are you going through?

Don’t miss the opportunity to receive what He has for you. Being in the right place matters greatly in receiving your answer.

Get to that place you need to be, whether in our heart or a physical place, or both. And be busy doing what we need to be doing. God will deliver! Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-22-20

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2 Corinthians 9:6 (NKJV) 6 But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

God loves when we give.

Not only does He love when we give, but He loves when we give bountifully and with a right attitude (cheerfully), not grudgingly or with a bad attitude.

This takes on new meaning when we begin to look at the Greek text and the various translations that are available.

The word to look at here is “bountifully”.

The Greek word used in the original texts is the same Greek word where the English word “eulogy” is derived from. When we think of a eulogy, we tend to relate that to a funeral. But in reality, it means “blessing”.

When a eulogy is spoken at a funeral, it is a blessing to those who hear it, as well as a verbal blessing over the person who has passed.

So, in reality, what Paul was saying is that if we sow (give) bountifully (to bless others), we will also reap (get) bountifully (a blessing returned to us).

It’s important to remember that we don’t give to get. We give because we want others to be blessed. We give because God has told us to do so.

But God established this principle thousands of years ago; if we give, we get. It’s very simple in its most basic form.

It’s when man tries to twist it or pervert it that it begins to get complicated and out of line with what God intended.

What God is telling us overall is that what we receive will be proportionate with what we give, and the attitude with which we give it.

Let’s give bountifully, as Jesus Himself told us to do!

Luke 6:38 (NKJV) 38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-21-20

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Luke 1:46-47 (NKJV) 46 And Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord, 47 And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.

How wonderful is our Lord and Savior, let us rejoice today in His goodness! He is with us, watching over us and providing for all that we need.

Holidays can be very hard for some people. Maybe they’ve lost a loved one, or maybe they lost their job.

Maybe they are going through a family crisis, or change of some sort has hit hard. This can be very depressing, causing us to not even want to celebrate.

So many times we will turn to something to ease that pain in our hearts.

This is for someone reading this today. Don’t turn to anything other than the One that can comfort, heal and take away the pain without causing us any other harm. He will bring stability with our emotions, and peace that surpasses all understanding.

Don’t let this season bring you down, leaving you depressed. Rejoice in God our Savior. He is right there with us.

Dear God in Heaven,

I come to You and ask for Your help. I’m hurting. My sorrow is overwhelming. This pain is real and I need something to help me get through. Please give me Your peace today, I ask in Jesus’ name.

In return, I will trust that You’ve got my back and I don’t need to worry one bit.

Thank YOU, my God, My Lord and Savior! Amen.

Philippians 4:7 (NKJV) 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-20-20

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1 Peter 1:13 (NKJV) 13 Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Peter tells us to “gird up the loins of your mind”.

Take note of what he tells us to gird up the loins of; our minds.

Let’s break this down a bit and see what it really means to us.

What does it mean to “gird up our loins”?

In the days that this was written, men wore gowns and robes. The problem with these was that if someone needed to move quickly, or have the ability to be agile, their clothing would impede them in, making it extremely difficult to move quickly or freely.

As a means of overcoming this obstacle, they would use a belt or band to pull in, or gather, all of the excess, loose material and hold it in place. This would give them the ability to do whatever it was that they needed to do, without fear of being tripped up by their garments.

But here Peter is telling us to gird up the loins of our minds. There is some symbolism here that we need to look at.

First, our minds are not tangible, so how can we “gird them”?

Metaphorically, we are to gather up the loose ends, or the wanderings of our minds that might cause us to stumble in our walk with God. We need to push aside the ways of the world and its influences, focusing instead on God’s grace and what He has for us.

Second, “loins” is a figure of speech used to indicate the area of our anatomy that reproduces offspring; the part of us that conceives and gives birth.

So, in light of this, the loins of our minds would be the part that conceives, or gives birth to, ideas, schemes, plans, etc.

We need to make sure we allow the Holy Spirit to protect the loins of our minds, so as not to allow it to give birth to corruption, lust, hatred, malice and other kinds of evil thinking.

1 Peter 2:1-3 (NKJV) 1 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

So, let’s be sure to gird up the loins of our minds, being diligent in our walk with God, to live in a way that brings honor and glory to Him in everything we say and do.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-19-20 – The Famine Factor – Part 2

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Please click to watch the video now.Greetings in the awesome name of our Savior, Jesus Christ! 

We hope you have had a great week. 

In this week’s video, The Famine Factor – Part 2, we continue our discussion on letting God teach us how to face seasons of famine in our lives. 

We’ve had some very good feedback from people who watched part 1, so we hope you will give this one a watch too. 

Please click here to watch the video now. 

Let God teach you how to become the head and not the tail! 

Sincerely in Christ, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-18-20

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Luke 24:45 (NKJV) 45 And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.

Jesus opened the understanding of the disciples because there were some things they didn’t get.

Don’t ever try to make something out of the scriptures if we don’t get exactly what they are saying. Let God open our understanding so that we too can comprehend what He is saying to us through them.

His word is His word. Be careful to listen, to follow, and very careful not add to it.

Deuteronomy 12:32 (NKJV) 32 “Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.

Never should we add to scripture or take away from it. That will get us in trouble, and it won’t help anyone by doing such a thing.

It’s like the blind leading the blind.

This happens when people try to tickle the ears of the listeners, or they water down what the gospel is really saying.

This is not good, and we must watch out for such teachers, pastors, priests, etc.

The word of God is there to bring correction and help us to grow. It will not coddle us, and sometimes it will make us feel very uncomfortable.

That’s OK. We need to be uncomfortable sometimes. That is what gets us moving.

The word of God is for inspiration, correction and for instruction in righteousness. Let God open our understanding that we may comprehend it all.

2 Timothy 3:16 (NKJV) 16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness…

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-17-20

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1 Peter 1:8-9 (NKJV) 8 … Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.

The end of your faith – the salvation of your souls.

This is the summation of everything we do here on earth, as we walk with God and live according to how He calls us to live.

We each walk with Him individually, uniquely, according to who He made us and what He asks us to do.

Sometimes we take baby steps. Other times we take giant steps.

Sometimes the places where our feet land are plainly visible before we ever step ahead. Other times, we step forward with very little visible evidence that our feet will land on something that’s solid, safe and stable.

But we step, nonetheless.

Why? Because we know that this walk is not just about the here and now, but about the eternal goal; the salvation of our souls.

It is this, our eternal salvation, that keeps us going, keeps us running the race, even when our own physical strength is long gone and we are relying purely on the power of God, by His Spirit, to complete the race.

Not only do we get to walk this earthly walk with God by our side, but we do so with the full expectation of spending eternity with Him.

Remember the end of our faith; the eternal salvation of our souls.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-16-20

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Luke 11:33 (NKJV) 33 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a secret place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light.

Are we afraid to shine? Do we keep our mouths quiet when we should speak out?

I know how you feel. I have a very hard time with speaking up, or with standing out in any way at all.

Most times for me it is the fear of rejection that stops me. Other times it is the fear of being wrong in what I’m saying, and looking silly because of it.

I was raised in a big family. I fell somewhere closer to the younger ones. I listened and learned a lot. It was kind of a neat place to be. As my siblings would say, I had it easy compared to them.

I learned to watch my siblings and to know the do’s and don’ts. I knew what to expect. I had a head start on things.

But, one thing I learned is that if I was quiet during certain situations, the attention would not be drawn to me. And I would miss out on punishments that were dealt out to the rest of my siblings. Quietness had its advantages as a child.

And so it is sometimes now. And as an adult, I will be still.

But there have been times when it has also hurt me by not speaking up. Sometimes it even hurts others, by me not sharing things that I knew I should have shared. Don’t be afraid to speak when we have something we need to say. Don’t keep it hidden. Speak up. Let out that light that is in you.

Sometimes people are happy to hear what we have to say. It will actually help them. But I will add, sometimes they are not happy at that moment, but maybe later they will find out that what was said or done was for a good reason. And in time it will bring healing and maturity into the situation, even if they don’t agree.

Keeping the things of God hidden in us is not helping anyone. Let it be put on a lamp-stand and shared with others.

If I could say one thing, it would be this; don’t feel like we have to be still all the time. There is a time to speak and bring light into situations. His light lives in us; His wisdom, and understanding.

Speak it and let it do its work in the right timing.

Ecclesiastes 3:7 (NKJV) 7 A time to tear, And a time to sew; A time to keep silence, And a time to speak…

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-15-20

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1 Peter 1:3 (NKJV) 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…

In the verse above, let’s focus today on one little phrase; “begotten us again”.

When I read this verse, those three words stood out to me more than anything else.

According to the abundant mercy of God, He has begotten us again!

What does that mean?

Well, in order to be “begotten again”, it means that we had to have been “begotten” once before. What does “begotten” mean? It means that we were born.

But then we had to have died. Otherwise, we could never be begotten again.

We were born once, in the natural, when our mother gave birth to us. But we were born dead (spiritually), because of sin. And we lived our life separated from God, the One who created us.

But then, by His abundant mercy, He breathed life into us again!

And He gave us a living hope. He did this through Jesus, whom He raised from the dead.

But take note of the word begotten in the actual context of the verse above. It’s a verb.

And the context that it was used in shows us that God took action by “begetting us again”!

He was purposeful and He pursued us. Why? Because He wanted us back. He wanted us alive again, so we could know Him, walk with Him and, ultimately, spend eternity with Him, not separated from Him.

That’s a really big deal!

Thank you, God, for caring enough about us that you would pursue us and give us the opportunity to be begotten again, by your abundant mercy.

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-14-20

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1 Samuel 15:23 (NKJV) 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.”

Rebellion and stubbornness usually work together. If we are not willing to listen to God and change what we are doing, we are rebelling and being stubborn about making the necessary changes.

King Saul was not listening to God’s commandments. He turned his back. Exactly what we do when we are not listening. We turn our back on God.

1 Samuel 15:10-11 (NKJV) 10 Now the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying, 11 “I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the Lord all night.

God regretted choosing Saul as king. So sad. This is where stubbornness will get us.

We hope and pray today we are not being like Saul, doing whatever we want, instead of obeying Gods voice and promptings.

It could be in the simplest way. It could be in raising our children, maybe we are letting them watch or wear certain things that can taint them.

Or maybe in our career, we need to take steps or stop participating in certain activities.

It could be that in our ministry we are not following His direction, thinking it’s OK to do the same ole same ole when He is trying to make changes and get us to do it differently.

It could be in our relationship with our spouse. Maybe we are not respecting them, talking down to them or mocking them, setting a terrible example for our children, grandchildren, etc.

Let us examine ourselves today and make sure we are listening, and that God is not disappointed in the way we are doing things.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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