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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-17-17

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Hebrews 13:8 (NKJV) 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

We live in a world that seems to have gone crazy in recent years.

Chaos is rampant around the globe. Economies are failing. Governments are crumbling.

Persecution against followers of Christ is running rampant. Some are even paying the ultimate price for their faith as terrorists and extremists seek to destroy anyone who doesn’t bow to their false gods.

Even on a more personal level, many people are experiencing things in their lives that are trying to crush their faith or bring them to their knees. It might not necessarily be related to mass persecution, but these things can definitely cause us to lose our faith if we take our eyes off of God even for a few seconds.

But amidst all the chaos and confusion, there is Someone who remains steadfast and solid. And that Someone is our Savior, Jesus Christ.

He has always been, still is and will always be the Rock that our faith is built upon. He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

And as long as our faith is in Him, not in people or organizations, we will be assured of our eternal destiny, no matter what things around us look like.

Matthew 7:24-25 (NKJV) 24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

Build your house on the Rock. He will never, ever fail us.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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A Few Clarifications About Our Mobile App

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Greetings!

We hope you are being blessed by God and living in the victory that Jesus offers us 🙂

We have had some questions recently about our new app, so we wanted to take a few minutes to answer those questions and clarify a few things about it.

First, if you have downloaded our new app and are using it daily, thank you! We hope you are enjoying it.

Second, here are some answers to the most commonly asked questions we’ve gotten so far.

1 – Why does the app ask for permission to access my contacts on my phone?

Answer: Our new app has a sharing feature built into it. This feature allows users of the app to be able to share the app and its contents with other smartphone users, Facebook users and Twitter users. It’s a great way to let other people know about the app.

The app can be shared via text messages, email messages, Facebook posts and Twitter posts.

In order to be able to do this, it has to be able to access the contacts on your phone. It uses those contacts only when you want to share something from the app with someone else. And even then, it only accesses the person or people you wish to share the app with!

Here’s what it will not do: It will not download all of your contacts. It will not send all of your contacts to someone else. Not us, not Apple or Google and not the developer of the app. It will not secretly send messages to any of your contacts.

Again, it asks for permission to access your contacts only so you can share it with other people.

2 – Why does it ask for permission to notify me?

Answer: Our app works based on what’s called “Push Notifications”. This means that when we send a new message, the app will pop up a notification to alert you to the new message. Tapping on that notification will immediately open the new message within the app.

If you turn off push notifications or disable them, the “Devotions” section of our app will not function properly. It will basically disable that section. So if you wish to be able to read each day’s devotional message when it arrives, please be sure “Push Notifications” are enabled!

3 – Does the app cost anything to download?

Answer: No. Our app is 100% free. It costs nothing to download and it costs nothing to use. In fact, we don’t even have advertisements in our app. We want the focus of our app to be only your walk with God. So we opted not to place ads within the app.

Also, we have had a few iPhone users tell us that the Apple store asked for a password when the user attempted to install our app and then asked them to confirm that they wanted to “buy” the app.

This happens only if you have a password set on your Apple device for purchases from the Apple App store. If you do not require a password for app store downloads, you will not be prompted for a password, or to confirm that you wish to “buy” the app.

If you do have a password setup for app store downloads and it asks you to confirm your purchase, please just enter your password and confirm the purchase. You will be charged $0.00 for the app. As we mentioned, it is 100% free to everyone on both Android and Apple platforms.

We hope this will clear things up for anyone who has run into these scenarios and answer any questions you might have had.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to reply to this email or contact us through our app.

Sincerely in Christ,

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 – 3-16-17

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John 4:34 (NKJV) 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

It was so very important to Jesus to do the will of His Father. It was everything to Him. It was like what food is to us. It keeps us alive! It keeps us nourished! it keeps us strong and it keeps us going every day!

So what are we to do? First and foremost, we have to sincerely want to know God’s purpose for our own lives. And how do we do that? By getting to know God personally and intimately.

When we reach this point in our walk with God, He will begin to unfold His purpose and calling for our life. Whether we follow it or not it is completely up to us. He gives us the freedom to choose.

But if we choose our own path, we may always wonder in the back of our minds, “what if I had done it His way? Where would I be today?”.

If we are feeling God calling us down a certain road, pray that He will help us make the right choice and take the right steps.

He is faithful to stand with us even in those things we don’t have a clue how to do.

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 – 3-15-17

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John 6:26-27 (NKJV) 26 Jesus answered them and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. 27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

Many people pursued Jesus when He was here on earth because they knew He would give them something. In these verses, He had given them food to eat. Others pursued Him because they had seen Him perform signs and wonders.

Why do we pursue Jesus?

Is it because we want a miracle? Is it because we want material things? Is it because we want blessings of some kind?

Or do we pursue Him because we want to know Him, and build a lifelong, lasting relationship with Him that changes who we are and why we live?

Now, let’s not get confused and think that it’s wrong to want to see miracles. Let’s not think that it’s wrong to ask things of God. He wants us to ask.

Matthew 7:7 (NKJV) 7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

But when the asking becomes our primary or our only focus, then we need to make some adjustments.

We need to put the relationship first, and the requests second. And when we get that right, then many other things in our lives will come into order.

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 – 3-14-17

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Matthew 5:16 (NKJV) 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

When the need for help calls, do we hear it? Are we willing to give up whatever we have going on to reach out? Or does it have to be convenient for us? Does it have to fit in our schedule, time frame or plan?

It’s easy to help when it’s convenient. But, when it’s not convenient and we have to put our things aside, this is when it can be very challenging.

This is when we will have to hold ourselves, our thoughts, our words, our judgments from rising up and being negative about the situation or the person(s) involved.

We have been called to help those who are sick.

Mark 2:17 (NKJV) 17 When Jesus heard it, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

Those that fall down again and again. Those that mess up over and over. Those are the sick. They need someone to stand with them at times. Someone to help shine the light on that dark place within them, that they can’t seem to fight on their own. We can’t give up on them.

There may also be times when God will ask us to pull back in certain situations for whatever reasons, and for however long.

In those moments, we must obey Him, even if we don’t understand it and it looks like we need to help. Sometimes staying out of a situation for a little while can be the help that person or situation needed.

Listen for God’s timing in helping. Stand strong and don’t judge it one way or the other.

Thank God for the opportunity to be a light in a dark place or situation.

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 – 3-13-17

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John 5:7-9 (NKJV) 7 The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” 9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked…

This particular lame man had been laying next to a pool of water where people were being healed regularly. An angel would come down and stir the water, and the first person into the water after it was stirred was healed.

This man had been lame for 38 years and longed to be able to be healed and walk again. But he had nobody to help him into the water when it was stirred.

When Jesus asked him if he wanted to be healed, he explained his predicament to Him and expressed his disappointment.

But the problem with his thinking is that he only expected God to heal him in one way; the way that he had seen others be healed. His mind was closed to other options until Jesus suggested otherwise and healed him there on the spot.

There’s an important lesson in this for all of us. We need to know and understand that God does what He knows is best. And it won’t always be the way we expect it or the way we’re used to seeing it done.

This holds true in our personal lives, in the body of Christ as a whole and in the local church bodies. So many of the things we do as part of our walk with God are done because we’ve done them that way before. Or maybe we’ve seen someone else do it that way. It’s part of being creatures of habit.

But God wants to break that. He wants us to have a fresh, vibrant relationship with Him that’s alive! He doesn’t want us to depend solely on our pre-existing knowledge or on our past experiences in order to commune with Him and see Him move in our lives.

Just as the lame man in the verses above learned that God moves in more than one way, let us also learn this and apply it in our own lives on a daily basis.

Rise, take up your bed and walk!

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 – Overcoming Condemnation in Your Life – 3-12-17

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Have you ever felt condemned? It’s like a weight that attaches itself to you and won’t let go. We recorded a new video today on this topic, and we’d love to have you watch it!

Please click here to watch the video now.

Condemnation is a major tool of the enemy. He uses it to try to destroy our faith. But as believers, followers of Christ, we should never feel condemned. God’s word says so!

Please click here to watch the video now.

We hope this video will open your spiritual eyes and reveal the truth when it comes to condemnation vs. Conviction.

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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 – 3-11-17

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Ephesians 4:20-23 (NLT) 20 But that isn’t what you learned about Christ. 21 Since you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from him, 22 throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. 23 Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.

Let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.

That one short sentence is the sum of what we need to do in order to live a life that’s fulfilling, and pleasing to God.

Sometimes our old ways, the way we did things before we met Jesus, will pull on us and try to bring us backwards. Back then, we lived in darkness. We thought lies were truth. We had no understanding of who God really was and what the death and resurrection of Jesus meant for us.

But today, if we are followers of Christ, it’s important that we only look back to our old selves as a reminder of where He has taken us from and then where He has brought us to. Our thoughts and desires shouldn’t still be looking back, longing for the past.

Jesus has given Himself for us, paying the ultimate price to offer us freedom from sin and death. He wants us to live and walk in that freedom each and every day. And the freedom that He gives us is better than anything the world, or our past, can offer us.

Let’s be careful that we don’t overlook this incredible gift and get caught up in our past ways.

All it takes is letting the Spirit of God renew our thoughts and our attitudes.

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 – 3-10-17

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Proverbs 4:25 (NKJV) 25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, And your eyelids look right before you.

We have to work at staying focused. It seems that the enemy fights the most at trying to get us off track.

Why? Because if we know the direction we need to go and we stay on course, we will reach our destination. And we will have completed the race that we are called to run.

Winning any race that is put before us requires us to have accurate directions, and the timing is crucial. So staying focused is a BIG part of winning!!

Has God asked us to do something specific? Have we felt like no matter what we try, we can’t seem to get it done? Are there distractions that seem to come and take us off course?

Learning to shut off the distractions is probably one of the hardest things to do in this walk with Christ. Because every day, without a doubt, the enemy will fight us and try to bring up new and better ways to pull on us. Those things will tug at our hearts and minds and whatever else might work. If he can keep us distracted, guess what. He did his job and succeeded at causing us to lose.

Focus. Pull it together by simply saying no to the distractions, even if they seem like nice ones. If they are interfering with the plan that God has for us, they are considered a distraction.

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 – 3-9-17

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John 4:13 (NKJV) 13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again…”

As with most anything that Jesus said, there was always more than meets the eye if we study His words.

The same is true with his statement above; Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again.

Jesus was referring to water coming from a specific well. Or, in a more general sense, water from any well. That water will quench our natural thirst, for a little while. But we will become thirsty again soon.

We can also draw a parallel when it comes to material things. There are many, many things we reach for and grab hold of, hoping they will satisfy us. But in the end, they leave us feeling empty, and still longing for fulfillment.

It’s time that we take the words of Jesus seriously and long for the water that only He can give. He wants us to be fulfilled and satisfied. In fact, He longs for it more badly than we long for it.

And He is always reaching out to us, hoping we will grab hold of His hand and never let go. Because in the end, when everything is said and done, only He can truly satisfy us and remove those longings that we so desperately try to fill with stuff.

Revelation 3:20 (NKJV) 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

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 – 3-8-17

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Joshua 1:9 (NKJV) 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Titles don’t make us a good leader. We can have every title we want in front of our name, but that’s all it is; a title. A word in front of our name.

What makes us a great leader is the strength, courage and the truth we choose to walk in. What makes us a strong leader is having God-given wisdom, and the understanding to help ourselves, and others, get out of problems or situations and into a place of winning!

If we can’t help ourselves, how will we ever be able to help others?

The first thing we need to do is learn how to help get ourselves out of situations that are trying to pull on us and bring us down. We have to learn firsthand the steps to take to get out of problems and keep steady on the road we belong on.

Have we ever noticed that when we help someone, it is usually because we have been there and done that? We learned what it took to get us out of whatever it may have been, and move forward.

To get us past the problem, the hurdle or bump in the road, a true leader will lead, not by the title that was given to them, but by strength, courage and wisdom on the inside!

I have seen leaders with NO title at all, but boy could they lead.

Stop looking for a title and find the solution. Find the answer to turn things around and get moving forward. We are leaders in Christ.

God has commanded us all to be STRONG and COURAGEOUS! To not fear or be dismayed. He is with us wherever we go. Amen!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-315-0902

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