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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-4-17

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Isaiah 55:9 (NKJV) 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts. 

Many times, as we walk through things in life, things proceed in a direction that we didn’t anticipate. And many times, we get results that we weren’t expecting. This can be pleasing or it can be disappointing, depending on how we look at it. 

Sometimes when we approach God and ask Him for help, the situation we were facing may take what we perceive to be an odd turn, in a direction that feels unfamiliar and uncomfortable to us. 

But that’s OK! 

God sees and knows way more than we usually give Him credit for. He knows what it will take to fix a problem. He knows how to solve things in ways that are beyond our thinking or comprehension. 

He is God. His ways are higher than ours. And His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. So, He can do things that we can’t. He can put things in place that we can’t. He can set things in order that we can’t. 

And, best of all, the results He gets will always be much better than the results we could get. 

We won’t always understand why He does things the way He does them, especially at first. But, when we get through a trial or see a problem solved, it makes it much easier to understand it all. 

And as we look back, we will be thankful that we let Him handle it, and we didn’t try to fix it on our own. 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bradford, RI 02808 

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-3-17

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Psalm 23:3 (NKJV) 3 He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.

Some of us today need restoration. We need a change of heart. Our desires are all messed up, twisted and perverted.

We have been led down a path of destruction from an early age. We learned how to live a life of rebellion and lawlessness. We learned how to get away with things that we shouldn’t be doing, and It doesn’t bother us to do something wrong.

We think we are invisible; no one can see us, we will never get caught and nothing can happen to us.

We keep repeating our actions, even when we say, “this is the last time I’m going to do this”. We have come to realize that we don’t have the willpower within us to stop it. So we just give in and we give up trying.

Up to this point, it has defeated us over and over again. We know that time is running out. It has caused havoc, sadness and depression in our lives. And we feel at times that we are worthless.

God has sent His Son to restore our soul; and lead us down the right path. Our life isn’t worthless. It means a lot to the most High God. He loves us even in the state we are in right now.

Would you pray a prayer of restoration?

Dear God,

I come to You in the name of Your Precious Son, Jesus Christ, who has laid His life down for Me.

I am truly sorry for all that I have done and I want to be restored. My heart aches and I don’t know how to change things. I don’t have what it takes to fix these things and stop the pain that I feel day and night.

Would You forgive me Lord, and lead me down the path of righteousness? I ask You today with everything in me.

Restore me, Lord, and lead me down that path You have for me.

Thank you. Amen

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-2-17

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Psalm 24:10 (NKJV) 10 Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory.

I am reminded today of my King of glory. My heart is full with thankfulness and I am overwhelmed with all that He has done throughout this year.

Prayer is a powerful tool that our King has granted to us. If we knew how much prayer does, we would spend more time doing it. We would be less aggravated, frustrated and doubtful.

We would be trying to make more time to sit with Him and lay everything before Him, rather than spending more and more time trying to fix things that we have no control over.

Oh, the things that get accomplished through prayer.

Our King of glory, Our Lord of hosts, is there. He is listening for our voice. He is waiting on us to come to Him and spill it out. He has already seen, evaluated and figured out the plan. He has the answers for us. We just have to go and talk to Him, get the answer and move forward.

Make the time to spend with Him. Some of us need to take a vacation and get away. A retreat where it is just us and God.

Some of us just need to get in a quiet spot, shut off the phone, laptop, TV, music and just stay quiet for a bit.

And some of us just need to start taking a step. We have the answer we were seeking. Now we just need to do it.

Wherever we are at in our walk, the King of glory is with us. Praise be to Him!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-1-17

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2 Corinthians 12:9 (NKJV) 9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 

Our lives tell a story. Each hour, day, week, month and year are the words, sentences, paragraphs and chapters. 

Those pages are filled with everything we do, both the good and the bad. 

Most of us tend to look only at the bad, whether in our own lives or in the lives of others. For some reason, we just tend to focus on the bad more than anything else. And this can really cause us to have a negative outlook on things. 

In our own lives, it can cause us to think that maybe, just maybe, we have done things that God can’t forgive. We look back on our lives, and the choices we’ve made, and we think there is no possible way that we can overcome those things and have favor with God. 

But let me tell you something today. God’s grace is sufficient. 

We look at our life through human eyes. And we see pages filled with sin, bad choices and rebellion. But God’s grace changes that. 

Through God’s grace, those pages are full of spaces where there was once sin. But now those spaces are pure white. His grace does that for us. 

The key here is a repentant heart. When we mess up, we just need to go to Him, sincerely repent and ask Him to forgive our shortcomings. And He does. 

We hear that word, repent, a lot. But what does it mean? 

Repent: to turn from sin and dedicate oneself to the amendment of one’s life. 

Notices that it says “turn from sin”. It doesn’t just say “be sorry for sin”. Nope! It says that we turn from it and we amend our life. We change it up. 

God’s grace makes this all possible. Because without His grace, repentance would be useless. 

So, remember this; when we see pages full of darkness, sin and ugly stuff, God’s grace comes along like a big eraser and turns that blackness into light. 

Repent. Amend our lives. And let God’s grace re-write our story. 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-31-17

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Psalm 37:23 (NKJV) 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, And He delights in his way.

In the middle of a trying season in our lives, we sat down to pray. We really had no direction at this particular time. We cried out to the ONE that we knew was our only hope. And we trusted He would show us the answer.

Sometimes not knowing what to do may seem better to us, rather than getting God’s answer. This is especially true if the answer is something we have never done before or bigger than what we think we can do. Maybe this is why sometimes we don’t ask God? Because we’re afraid of His answer.

When God gave us His answer, we looked at our situation and realized it was something that was impossible to do at that time. Despite the situation we were in, we did say yes to Him.

And we agreed, that however He chose to do it, we were OK with it. We would wait on the timing and the steps.

As we waited, we continued to do what we knew we could do and God made the rest happen.

In the areas where we could not see how to do it or how it could possibly happen, He did it.

We look back now and think, “boy, are we glad we didn’t let our “not knowing” cause us to be stuck where we were”.

In the situation you’re facing today, ask God for direction. Ask Him for the answer. He will hear your prayer and direct your steps.

Psalm 4:1 (NKJV) 1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved me in my distress; Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-30-17

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Jeremiah 17:9-10 (NKJV) 9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it? 10 I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings. 

Have you ever wondered why some people do the things they do? 

Have you ever wondered why you do the things you do? 

As followers of Christ, we should always want to do what pleases God. Our desires should be to live righteously and follow in the footsteps of Jesus himself. 

Sometimes we get it right. Other times we fail miserably. We wonder why. And we ask how this can happen when we want so badly to do the right thing. 

It’s a heart thing. 

You see, without being renewed by God’s spirit, our hearts are deceitful and wicked. Oh, they may make us think they want to do right. But when push comes to shove, if our heart isn’t sanctified and led by the Holy Spirit, it will make the wrong choice almost every time. 

We need God to cleanse our heart. There is no way around it. This is why David cried out to God after he had sinned with another man’s wife. 

Psalm 51:10 (NKJV) 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. 

David recognized the wickedness in his heart and repented before God. 

So, let’s do as David did and ask God today, right now, to cleanse our hearts and remove the wickedness from them. 

Let’s ask Him to lead us by His spirit. 

He is faithful to do what we ask Him to do. Amen. 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – Let God Be God (Part 2) – 10-29-17

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Greetings in the name of our savior, Jesus Christ. 

Last week we began a teaching series that shows us why we need to let God be God in our lives. And why His ways are so much better than ours. 

This week, we have published the second part of this series. 

Please click here to watch the video now. 

In today’s video, we dig a little deeper and discuss why things don’t always happen in the time frame we want it to, and what to do while we’re waiting on God. 

Please click here to watch the video now. 

We also discuss the fact that while we’re waiting on God, we can sometimes begin to feel desperate, and how to handle that feeling. 

Please click here to watch the video now. 

We hope this video will bring you a new level of understanding and a new appreciation for the things that God does for us. 

Be blessed in Him! 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-28-17

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Psalm 37:4 (NKJV) 4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

Finding ourselves in love with God, and Who He is, is one of the most wonderful things that could happen to us here on this earth.

Some try to find happiness in material things. Some try to find happiness in a certain lifestyle. Some try to find happiness through being married and having a family. Some may even go after a certain crowd of friends. Some think they will be happy with a certain title.

It’s sad but true, that some have spent their life chasing after happiness and never really found it.

If we would take all that trying and put it toward going after our first love, we will find sound, grounded, pure happiness. And through it all, God will bless us with the desires of our hearts.

1 John 4:19 (NKJV) 19 We love Him because He first loved us.

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Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-27-17

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Ephesians 5:31 (NKJV) 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

This verse expresses the importance of a man leaving his father and mother and joining together with his wife. And the TWO shall become one.

It doesn’t say anything about having the father and mother be a part of the marriage. It doesn’t say anything about the father and mother having a say regarding the marriage if the two who are getting married are adults. It doesn’t say it’s OK for parents to say how the couple should do things, etc. They should not be able to come between the husband and the wife at all.

Some men have never truly left their father and mother. They may have moved out of their home, but they are still attached. And what their parents say has more meaning to them than what their own wife says.

As a matter of fact, their wives really don’t have a say at all when it comes to certain discussions. And that is very sad.

This is not the way it should be, and that marriage will suffer and struggle because of it.

If your marriage is falling apart, and this is one of the reasons, it’s time to cut the apron strings, so to speak, and listen to your spouse, and hope that it is not too late to repair the damage that has been done.

God wants husbands and wives to be together as one. There is no room for anyone to come between them. Not parents, not children, not friends, not anyone.

It is OK for Father and Mother to be able to give good advice when asked. But, it is not good for parents to force it on the marriage or try and come between them in any way.

Husband, join together with your wife in everything. Become one with her. Love her. Give her the affection she needs. And wives, you do the same too, for your husband.

1 Corinthians 7:3 (NKJV) 3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

May God bless your marriage today!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-26-17

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Psalm 37:23 (NKJV) 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, And He delights in his way.

The steps we take each day are important. Are they God-ordered steps? Are we feeling like we are in forward motion? Are we happy with the steps we take?

Each day we take steps, and those steps use up precious time.

The older we get, the more we notice how quickly time goes by. How and what we spend our time on each day is important. We can waste time on a lot of things that are meaningless.

That’s right; time goes by whether we are doing meaningless things or meaningful things. We can never get that time back.

Some of the things that are very time-sucking in this day and age are the internet, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.

There are many other things that can draw us in, like gossip, drama, books, watching movies and looking at magazines that are not good for our spiritual well-being. We will suffer from the impartation they leave in our minds.

Being aware of where we are spending our time and energy is going to help us to know where we need to make adjustments and changes. It’s important to keep ourselves accountable with the things we are doing and saying each day.

Will we take our precious time that we have been given and use it wisely, spending it on the God-ordered steps, so that He may delight in us?

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-25-17

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Matthew 5:44-45 (NKJV) 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I know what you’re thinking; how in this world do we love our enemies?

This is a big thing and most times we just skim over it, because deep down we all know it’s impossible for man to love his enemy.

So let’s take a look at what an enemy is. An enemy is someone that is antagonistic to another; one seeking to injure, overthrow, or confound an opponent.

You mean to tell me I have to love those who want to antagonize me, injure me or overthrow me, and that’s only one part of this verse?

How do we do this with the right heart and not just go through the motions? How do we keep our heart from not wanting to do the same things back to them that they’ve done to us?

We are human, with feelings, and those feelings sometimes scream really loud to do the opposite of what these verses are saying. How do we win over what our own feelings, mind, heart and our attitude are saying? It’s so hard, and seems impossible.

Matthew 19:26 (NKJV)26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

The first thing we need to do is get out of our heads. We can’t do this with intellect. We have to get into the Word of God. God’s word has a way of softening the hardest of hearts.

When hurtful things come our way, it can cause our heart to get hard quickly and our minds start to race. There is no room for God when our heart has been hardened and we are operating solely on intellect.

The second thing to do is to try to avoid spending a lot of time with negative people.

We should surround ourselves with people who can find the good things even in hard times. That doesn’t mean finding people who don’t face reality. But people that see things for what they are and choose to give it to God. They spend more time praying, listening and worshiping Him than they do trying to be in control of the situation.

Third, we shouldn’t speak whatever we feel like speaking or saying in that moment of anger, persecution or when we’re being accused. Learn to hold the tongue and wait on God to bring understanding so that when we do speak, if needed, it is well worth saying and good seeds are planted.

Without God it is impossible to live out these verses. But, with Him, we can learn to walk in them and live them out daily. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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