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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-23-18

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Proverbs 18:21 (NKJV) 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.

This is wonderful to know. Time and time again I have to remind myself to have the right attitude.

One recent day I was waiting in line to park my car. The person in the car ahead of me was taking forever. They were talking away with the parking attendant. Then when they got around to paying, it didn’t stop there. They continued to sit there and talk more.

I waited and waited. I could feel my blood pressure rising. I thought of many unholy things I could do. Can you relate?

As I sat there, I decided that when it was my turn to drive through, I would not say a word. I was afraid I would say something out of anger and wish I had just kept my mouth shut.

My turn came and he scanned my parking pass. And on my way through, the gentleman said in a nice calm voice, “have a nice day”. My lips were sealed, just as I had planned.

I immediately felt the conviction, but quickly tried to justify my actions.

As the day went by, I kept being reminded of what took place earlier that morning.

Finally, I said, “Lord what is it?”. He reminded me of what I did. I said, “Lord, the reason I didn’t open my mouth and say anything was because I didn’t want to say anything that I would regret. So, I just didn’t say anything at all”.

He didn’t say much, but I knew He wasn’t buying my excuse.

As time went by that day, I finally admitted that I was in the wrong. As much as I wanted to think I did the right thing, I really didn’t handle myself like an ambassador of Christ.

I said to the Lord, “I’m sorry, and on my way out, I will do my best to make up for the wrong that I did”.

As I left the parking lot, the same people were still in the booth and I was able to make things right.

The tongue is powerful when it speaks, and even when it doesn’t speak. Make sure that the fruit that comes from it isn’t rotten, but good tasting! Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-22-18 – The Whirlpool Effect

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Please click to watch the videoGreetings in the name of Jesus. 

Whirlpools are very powerful. In today’s video we talk about something we like to call “The Whirlpool Effect. 

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The whirlpool effect can have terrible impacts on our lives if we let it. But it doesn’t have to be that way or stay that way. God gives us the power to break free from it if we ask Him to help us. 

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We all experience the whirlpool effect at some point, relating to different aspects of our lives. So we hope you’ll take just a few minutes to watch this newest video and let it help you get free of your own personal whirlpool. 

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Sincerely in Christ, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-21-18

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Psalm 9:10 (NKJV) 10 And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.

Knowing that we have Someone to turn to is very comforting.

We have Someone to listen to us, Someone to hold us and carry us through this life when things can sometimes get complicated. We are truly blessed with having Him by our side at all times!

He is our Lord, our Savior, our Christ.

When life gets hard, know that it’s OK to cry. It’s OK to have a moment of time when we can just throw ourselves in Papa’s arms and ask Him to carry us through. We reach a point where we just say, ”I’ll do what you say. Just lead me”.

When these times come upon us we can run away from God, or we can run to Him. We can be discouraged and depressed, or we can get excited knowing that we have Someone to help us!

Don’t give up when faced with trials. This is our time to rise above whatever it is that we face, with God’s help!!

It’s our moment in life to watch Him shine as we rest fully in Him.

Psalm 18:1 (NKJV) 18 I will love You, O Lord, my strength.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-20-18

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Hebrews 13:5 (NKJV) 5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Covetousness; displaying behavior that indicates a desire to own or have possession of something that belongs to someone else. Greed. Jealousy. Envy.

Covetousness is usually an outward display of a lack of satisfaction with our own life. We want more than we have. This happens when we fail to be thankful for what we do have and long, instead, for those things that we don’t have.

Coveting can be a very destructive behavior. It can destroy our relationships with others. It can cause us to be angry. It can blind us to the things that we have been blessed with, as we pursue those things that we so desperately want to possess.

God very clearly warned us about coveting what others have.

Exodus 20:17 (NKJV) 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

But, for some reason many of us continue to covet and lust after the things that we see others with.

Regardless of what it is that we covet, this usually comes down to one thing; a lack of thankfulness for what God has already blessed us with. When we fail to recognize what we have, we will always want more.

It’s important that we learn to be content, no matter what our situation looks like.

Philippians 4:11 (NKJV) 11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content:

Until we learn to be content with what we have, God simply cannot bless us with more. This might hurt our feelings a bit, but it’s a Biblical truth that we must learn to embrace as we grow and mature as believers.

Once we understand this and embrace it, it will help to stop us from chasing after so many material things that we can’t afford, which puts us in debt and creates more problems down the road.

All in all, we need to learn to put God first in everything. In turn, this will teach us to be thankful and content and help move us forward, leaving behind our covetous desires, replacing it with a satisfaction that only comes from trusting God.

For He himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you”.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-19-18

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Psalm 27:14 (NKJV) 14 Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!

Waiting on God is probably one of the hardest things we will have to learn to do. We say we have faith, but when it comes time for God to do something for us, we get impatient and our faith can start to falter.

This happens to almost everyone, so if it has happened to you, or is happening now, don’t be ashamed. The human flesh is weak, even when our spirit wants to be strong.

Jesus spoke of this, in the garden of Gethsemane, when he found His disciples sleeping instead of praying.

Matthew 26:41 (NKJV) 41 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Learning to wait patiently on God is something that takes time and practice to become better at. And, in all honesty, it also requires a great deal of faith. So, if our faith is weak, our ability to wait patiently on God will also be weak.

This doesn’t mean that we set out on some fantastic journey to grow our faith. Pursuing faith for the sake of having faith can get us into trouble. Instead, we need to pursue God and strengthen our relationship with Him. In turn, our faith will grow because it will be rooted in Him, not in some notion that pursuing faith will fix all of our problems.

One last thing I’d like to mention before we wrap this up. Learning to wait on God means that we are in a situation where we need something from Him. And, many times, the need will be great and may seem urgent to us. This makes waiting that much harder.

But as we grow in Him, we will learn to hear the words He speaks to us, follow them faithfully, and trust Him as we do this, all the while waiting on Him for the outcome that He knows is best for us in each situation.

Wait on Him. Trust Him while we’re waiting. And enjoy the journey.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-18-18

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Psalm 33:16 (NKJV) 16 No king is saved by the multitude of an army; A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

We can put our trust in many things, but they will not be what saves us from our troubles.

How many of us have put our trust in our jobs to bring us a life of comfort, a life of stability and material blessings?

How is that working for us? Are we getting the things that we long so badly for? Is it bringing us comfort? Will our current position at work even last?

We don’t know for sure. But, we still trust that it will. We have nothing to prove that it will last even until tomorrow. But we live like it will last forever.

This is the wrong way for us to be thinking. This kind of thinking is why men do not look to or lean on God as much as we ought to.

We are deceived in thinking we have it all wrapped up, all under control. We think we know what we are doing, but at any given moment things can change, and where are we left?

Some people will be mad at God when this happens. Some will keep trying on their own to get ahead. And some will just give up on life. And that is exactly what the devil wants. He deceives us in our thinking and then leaves us to drown in our own sorrow, worry and fear.

We want to share with you today the way God has called us all to think.

He doesn’t want us to put our trust in anyone or anything else but Him. If we give Him our lives, He will help us get the stability that we all long for; a life where we can enjoy each day. Even if trials come, we know that God has our back.

You see, life should not be as hard as we tend to make it.

Yes, we will have trials. But if our trust is in knowing that God will help us through everything, and we follow His steps, we will find ourselves rejoicing in the good things that He will open our eyes to see even at times when we can’t see past our problems.

Rejoicing? In hard times? Yes! With God, even through the hardest of times, we will find joy!

How do we get to this place of living this way? One step, one experience at a time.

Let’s start today by trusting Him with this day. Get up out of bed and look in the mirror. Speak to ourselves and say, “Today, we are going to listen to the Holy Spirit. When He speaks, we say, “yes”.

Then we do whatever it may be that he asks us to do, to the best of our ability. It could be just little promptings here and there throughout the day, to not do something that we normally do.

It could be someone who needs something and they ask us to help. It could be to take a different route to work, school or even to drop off the kids. It could simply be Him telling us to be still and quiet today, not say as much. Or maybe to take a rest.

He may or may not show us right away why He is asking us to do certain things. But that’s OK.

We need to trust that He has a good reason for why He says what He says to do.

He will teach us how to hear Him and to obey, even in the littlest things. Wait and trust Him for His way and promptings.

Psalm 33:20-21(NKJV) 20 Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help and our shield. 21 For our heart shall rejoice in Him, Because we have trusted in His holy name.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-17-18

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James 1:22 (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Knowing God’s word is a good thing to do. But doing God’s word is even better!

Many of us like to think that we know God’s word very well. Some can even quote chapter and verse for hundreds of different scriptures. And this is very good.

But God wants us to go beyond just knowing His word. He wants us to walk it out in our lives. If we fail to walk it out, it is just knowledge that does no one any good.

In fact, James said that if we hear the word but don’t put it into action, we are deceiving ourselves!

James also told us that if we have faith, we need to put action behind it and do something with it.

James 2:20 (NKJV) 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?

So, if God has told us to love others, then we need to be doing so. If He has told us to give of our finances, we need to be doing so. If He has told us to pray for others, we need to do so. If He has told us that we need to be His ambassadors, by living out His word in our lives, then we need to do so!

It’s time to put action behind His word and show the world who God is by more than just telling others. We need to live it out right before their eyes.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-16-18

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Jeremiah 23:24 (NKJV) 24 Can anyone hide himself in secret places, So I shall not see him?” says the Lord; “Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the Lord.

No one can hide themselves from God. There is no such thing as a “secret place”.  We may be doing things that are not pleasing to God and we might think “well, He can’t see me”. Just because He may be out of our mind at times, doesn’t mean we are out of His sight.

Be careful today with those things we do in that so-called secret place. God sees it. Repent and make things right with Him.

Some people right at this very moment might be wondering why God is not changing things for them in their situation. God doesn’t just change them for us. He shows us where we are going wrong, and what changes we need to make, and He leaves it up to us to do our part. Then, He carries out His part as we do ours.

Maybe the changes that need to be made are happening in our secret place, where we think we are all alone and no one can see us when we are there.

God is everywhere. It’s time to make some changes if we want our life to move forward into the things He has for us.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-15-18 – When God Doesn’t Fit

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Please click to watch the video.Greetings! 

We hope you are enjoying your day. 

Have you ever thought about Jesus, and how the religious leaders of His time didn’t accept Him because He didn’t fit their expectations? 

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Sometimes we do the very same thing with God. We don’t hear what He says, or we reject what he says because it doesn’t fit our expectations. We may not be knowingly rejecting Him, but we are rejecting Him nonetheless. 

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We have had this happen in our own lives at various times. But God is always faithful to show us where we’re missing the mark, if we are faithful to keep listening for Him. 

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Sincerely in Christ, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-14-18

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Proverbs 14:34 (NKJV) 34 Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach to any people.

Have you ever noticed that nations who promote and practice Godly values prosper, no matter what comes against them?

And, contrarily, nations laden with sin will always be in poverty, weak and feeble.

This is a Biblical principal that God set in place thousands of years ago, at the dawn of creation here on earth.

The people of Israel are a good example of this. As we look back through God’s word, we can see the various times when Israel fell when they strayed away from God and worshiped idols and false gods.

But when they turned their hearts back to God, He would prosper them and bring protection to them.

It doesn’t matter what nation we live in, it’s important that God’s people stay humble before God and pray for the citizens and the leadership, that they honor God in everything they do.

God has promised that if we do this, He will heal our land and prosper it.

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV) 14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-13-18

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Genesis 2:2 (NKJV) 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

Resting is hard for some people, but it is a necessity.

Different personalities may find it hard to take a break and not work. For example, people that are goal-driven usually find it hard.

People that may be greedy usually don’t like to rest because they are afraid they might lose out on something if they rest.

People that are very active and like to be moving all the time don’t like the thought of sitting still.

But rest is required if we want to be productive and stay balanced in our lives.

Having a rested mind and body will help us to get much more done than if we are tired and stressed.

I’ll admit that when I’m tired I make mistakes. I cannot be running on empty and produce good quality anything. Balanced REST will produce the best! Amen.

A simple little reminder today; be sure to get some rest.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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