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Bible Verse of The Day – 4-4-18

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Ephesians 5:28-29 (NKJV) 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.

Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. This is a powerful statement that, if we could just get it, would transform our marriages.

In marriage, we need to make sure we are meeting the needs of our spouse. It’s important that we don’t put them after everything else. Doing so is a recipe for a failed marriage.

We nourish our own bodies with food. We take care of them with exercise and other means of doing our best to stay healthy. This is done because we care about our own bodies. We care about ourselves.

So it should be with our wives. We need to nurture them, cherish them, love them and put them first, above other things. They need to come before our hobbies, our sports and our work.

It’s easy to take them for granted and push them to second or third place. We sometimes make the mistake of thinking that because they will always be there that we can put them off “until later”.

But it’s important that we don’t fall into that trap. Because doing so can break down the relationship and cause them to feel neglected, possibly even causing them to look elsewhere for the attention and affection that we fail to give them.

Love your wife. Put her first. Treat her as God intends us to. And watch the love between you grow and flourish!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 4-3-18

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Ephesians 5:22-27 (NKJV) 22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

As the body is under Christ, so is the wife under the husband. So it’s important that wives submit to their husbands out of respect and love, recognizing them as the protector and leader of the home.

Likewise, husbands love your wives selflessly, as Christ loved the church. Love them in a way that emulates Christ, being willing to lay your life down for her.

The loving example and strong leadership of the husband demonstrates the love that God has for us. And as the husband lives out and shares the word of God in the home, he creates an environment whereby his wife will also be washed by the water of God’s word, giving her the opportunity to be made clean and sanctified.

These verses show how marriage is truly symbolic of Christ and us, His bride.

More to come…

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 4-2-18

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Ephesians 5:17-21 (NKJV) 17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another in the fear of God.

We will continue today with our breakdown of Ephesians chapter 5. We hope you are enjoying it and getting some new insights from these recent devotionals!

Therefore, do not be unwise. Don’t live thoughtlessly. Use discernment when making decisions. Consider all scenarios and possibilities, and count the cost.

Most of all, seek and carry out what God would want you to do.

Don’t drink wine (or other alcoholic beverages) excessively, to drunkenness. It will eventually destroy you and will also affect those around you negatively. Instead, be filled with the Holy spirit.

Speak words of encouragement and hope to one another. Let God’s word lift you up and bring joy to your hearts.

Sing praises to God in your hearts and be sure to always give thanks to God for all things, in the name of Jesus.

Submit to each other out of reverence for our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – Beating The System – 4-1-18

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Greetings in the name of Jesus, 

We hope you’re celebrating the resurrection of our precious savior, Jesus Christ! 

We just published our newest video, called Beating The System. And while it has nothing to do with the resurrection of Jesus, it has everything to do with our walk with Him. 

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Many people, including believers, come up with all kinds of creative ways to beat the system; sidestep laws, pay less taxes, ignore certain parts of God’s word, etc. 

In the video for today, we talk about this, and what kind of impact it has on our lives as believers. 

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God has some very specific things to say about the things we do and how we live. So, we hope you’ll take a few minutes and watch it. 

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Sincerely in Christ, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-31-18

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Ephesians 5:15-16 (NKJV) 15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 

It’s important that we live cautiously, giving careful consideration to the choices that we make. 

Verse 15, above, tells us that doing otherwise is unwise and foolish. 

Each choice that we make will impact our lives in one way or another. So we need to choose wisely. 

We are told further that we are to “redeem the time”, to make the most of every opportunity that God gives us. 

The days are evil. The times we live in are a product of the corrupt world that we live in and the depraved condition of the human heart, as many live their lives in an endless pursuit of pleasures of all sorts. 

It’s critical that we live by the Spirit, not by our flesh or our intellect. 

Romans 8:13 (NKJV) 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 

Then and only then can we make wise, godly choices and overcome evil in our lives. 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-30-18

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Ephesians 5:13-14 (NKJV) 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”

Nothing can stay hidden forever. Sooner or later, all things are exposed to light. Light will always cause hidden things to be seen.

As humans, we walk in darkness until God shines His light on us and we allow it to expose who we are; sinners in need of a Savior.

Sometimes we may try to hide, to avoid letting God’s light shine on us because we’re afraid and ashamed of what will be seen.

God’s light exposes evil in whoever it shines on. It’s not so much that He shines His light for the sole purpose of exposing evil. He shines it to remove darkness from our lives. What we do with what is exposed is up to us.

As God’s light touches us, it has the power to be life-changing. It wakes us from our slumber, our dead spiritual condition, and breathes life into our spirit, making us brand new!

This is the greatest miracle of all, that He calls to us, “Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead”!

And as we listen and heed His call, Jesus gives us light, and gives us life anew. Amen

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-29-18

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Ephesians 5:11-12 (NKJV) 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

As followers of Christ, it’s imperative that we steer clear of the works of darkness.

It’s not just about our reputation being on the line. It’s also about our life reflecting who God is.

Most importantly, though, it’s about our own walk with Jesus. The works of darkness can pull us off course if we’re not able to recognize them and avoid them. These works impact us, whether we realize it or not.

If we are in the presence of the works of darkness, there are spiritual implications in every aspect of that presence. Darkness has one goal; to snuff out the light and lure people away from the Light.

Rather than having fellowship with the works of darkness, God has instructed us, instead, to expose those works for what they are.

This doesn’t necessarily mean that we expose people. It means that we expose the works. It means that we stand strong against it. And it means that we use the authority that we have as believers and rebuke the unfruitful works of darkness, in the name of Jesus.

What’s more, we are not to even speak of these things.

Why? Because it is shameful to do so. Speaking of these kinds of things bears no fruit. It only brings glory to them, causing them to be brought into the spotlight.

And if we’re not careful, we will find ourselves sharing gossip, under the guise of concern, which the Bible clearly warns us about.

Avoid the works of darkness. Expose them, rebuke them and walk in God’s light. Amen

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-28-18

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Ephesians 5:8-10 (NKJV) 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.

As the apostle Paul continued writing to the Ephesian Christians, he encouraged them to be light to a dark world. He reminded them that they were once darkness, but that God had set them free through Jesus.

Many times, we also need to be reminded of this.

There are two ways that we tend to look back on our past, before we were rescued from our sinful selves by the blood of Jesus and God’s grace.

First, we may look back in shame and guilt.

We can have a tendency to carry our past with us, letting it weigh us down and drag us backwards, away from God. We can get so caught up in the things that we did, and where God has brought us from, that we fail to see who God has made us into and where we are now.

But we need to remember that He has made us brand new in Christ. And when He forgives us of our sins, they are gone forever, removed far from us.

Psalm 103:12 (NKJV) 12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Second, we can forget where we came from, and the condition that we were once in.

When this happens, we can sometimes become self-righteous and judgmental of others, completely forgetting that it is only by God’s grace that we have been saved.

We begin looking down our noses at others when we see them committing sins, completely disregarding the fact that we were once in those very same shoes, and we are not saved by our own works or our own righteousness.

Ephesians 2:8-9 (NKJV) 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

It’s extremely important that we walk as children of light, displaying the fruits of the Spirit (righteousness and truth), learn what is acceptable to God and live this out in our lives.

1 John 1:7 (NKJV) 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-27-18

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Ephesians 5:3-7 (NKJV) 3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.

Sexual immorality, impurities, greed. Let them not even be named among you.

This is some heavy-hitting stuff. The apostle Paul was very blunt with the Ephesians about this. And oh, how we could use some straightforward talk about these things today!

It’s important that we recognize and understand that Paul wasn’t speaking to the world, unsaved people. He was speaking to the Ephesian Christians! And if it was good for them to hear, it is surely good for us to hear.

Paul then went on to address some other things, such as obscene stories (filthiness), foolish talk and coarse jokes. He bluntly said that these are not fitting for followers of Christ to engage in.

Instead, we should use our mouths to give thanks to God, for His mercy, grace, forgiveness, love and so much more.

You see, it’s important that we understand that no sexually immoral person, no impure person and no greedy person (idolater) will inherit the kingdom of God.

Harsh words? No. Just true words being shared out of love and concern for the body of Christ.

Many times, we try to sidestep these difficult topics because we don’t like what God’s word says. Or we are afraid of hurting someone’s feelings, so we choose to say nothing.

But choosing to say nothing isn’t what we should do. Paul spoke out because he loved the Ephesian Christians! And this is why we share these very tough words today, because we love you and want God’s best for you!

If there are those who would speak empty words to you, to soothe your conscience, pay no attention to them, for they will lead you into God’s wrath.

The ways of the world have crept into the body of Christ and we have begun to embrace some terrible things as being acceptable.

It’s important that we hear the truth, even when it hurts, even when it makes us angry. We can’t correct the error in our lives if we are never told that it’s error. And as long as nobody says anything, we will just coast along, doing what we choose to do.

But we are all accountable to God. We are all responsible for the choices we make as His children.

Let each of us heed His words and His instruction, as well as His warning against these kinds of behavior. Let us seek Him and His forgiveness for our wayward actions and lack of accountability.

God, I seek you and ask for your forgiveness today for the things I have said and done. I have fallen into some terrible behavior and habits. I am truly sorry. Please forgive me and help me to be strong and resist the temptation when it comes. Help me to change my ways and make them pleasing to you. Thank you for loving me and forgiving me. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-26-18

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Ephesians 5:1-2 (NKJV) 1 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

These two verses are the sum of who we should be as children of God.

Though it is impossible to be 100% like God, He has told us to be imitators of Him in the way we act.

Jesus showed the world a kind of love that no one had ever seen. He put much time and effort into showing God’s love for people by walking it out in person. His love wasn’t fake or simulated. It was genuine.

And it was so pure that most could not understand or comprehend it. It was beyond their ability to make sense of it with human intellect.

Jesus loved to the point of giving His life for us. He spared no expense at proving this love. And when everything was said and done, He commanded us to love one another, even as He had loved us.

John 13:34 (NKJV) 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

So who are we to disagree or argue with God? How do we justify not loving others when Jesus himself has commanded us to do so?

We would find ourselves hard pressed to find a suitable excuse or justify our lack of love if we were to stand before Jesus and answer for that lack of love.

We all know that some people are harder to love than others. And some days it’s harder to love anyone than on other days.

But, with the Holy Spirit guiding us, and us obeying Him, our excuses drop like specks of dust in comparison to the love Jesus showed us all.

Church, let’s work hard to love the way God has told us to. It might be hard in the beginning, but as we let Him lead us, and we follow that leading, we will find it getting easier and easier.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – When Our Hearts Become Hard – 3-25-18

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Greetings fellow believers, 

Our hearts are like gardens where God plants and sows. And if we want God to be able to plant and sow there, they need to be kept plowed and ready to receive the seeds He is sowing into them. 

Sometimes things can happen in our lives that causes our hearts to begin to harden. We just published a new video on this topic, so we hope you’ll take a few minutes and watch it. 

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Trials and tough times can cause us to become hard. When our prayers don’t get answered, we can become hard. And there are so many other things that can cause us to become hard. 

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We hope today’s video will help reveal the dangers of letting our hearts harden toward God and toward others around us. 

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Enjoy the rest of your day. 

Sincerely, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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