Author: Pastor Curt

Bible Verse of The Day – 10-25-13

Romans 12:2 (NKJV) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Today I was asking God about some things. One of those things was how Christians, believers, followers of Christ, can keep themselves from sin after they have been saved.

It’s easy to say that we want to stop sinning. And it’s easy to say that we won’t commit a particular sin anymore. But when push comes to shove, it can be a difficult thing to turn away from temptation, especially if it’s something that we have struggled with in the past.

When I asked Him about this, I heard very loudly and clearly, “by the renewing of your mind”. It is by the renewing of your mind that you defeat these temptations and gain victory over them!

You see, we can have a relationship with our Creator and we can study His word. But until we let Him renew our mind, we are still thinking the same old thoughts!

Renew: to make (something) new, fresh, or strong again

There is nothing in this world that can renew our minds. We can follow all kinds of self-help methodologies, but when it’s all said and done, we still have the same mind with the same thought processes.

But when we let God renew our mind, it is made new and fresh! It isn’t prone to think the same thoughts any longer. It is absolutely, genuinely new.

So if you’re struggling with how to overcome something that keeps attacking your mind, stop trying to handle it on your own and let God fix it for you. His thoughts are far above ours.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-24-13

(Mark 10:45 NKJV)  “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

This Man, the Son of the most High God, Jesus Christ, came to this earth to serve. All that He did was for each one of us personally. Serving and giving of His life for us was done out of the compassion that He had for us. The love that He walked in was “perfect love“.

When we love like He loves, we won’t look at others as we used to. Our love will be for all humanity, not just those in our church, those in our family, those with the same nationality, or same denomination, etc.

It will be easy to help someone even if they mistreat us, hurt us or slander us. Our enemies won’t even seem like an enemy to us but, instead, as an opportunity to be able to pray and watch God move in their lives.

Jesus Christ gave His life as a ransom for all. We are to follow His example and let His love shine through us today, to all man kind.

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 – 10-23-13

Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV) There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

Sometimes, no matter how hard we try, we just can’t understand why God does things the way He does them!

This can be true in happy things and in not-so-happy things.

Here’s the deal. God is so far above us in His ways that our heads just can’t wrap around a large percentage of what He does! But that’s OK, because we are not God. He is.

Now, one thing we need to understand is that we can still walk out what God wants of us. We just need to move by faith and learn to operate by the spirit, not by our flesh or our natural understanding.

This takes some work and lots of practice! Once we begin to get spiritual understanding, we won’t waste our time trying to make sense of what God does or what He asks us to do. We will just accept it, do it and move forward.

Does this sound like blind faith? Well, I guess some people might call it that. But if you have spiritual eyes and ears, and sharp discernment, there’s nothing blind about it at all.

Revelation 2:29 (NKJV) “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

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 – 10-22-13

Hebrews 11:6 (NKJV) But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

So many times we hear this scripture quoted when someone is teaching about the fact that we have to have faith in order to please God. Today, though, let’s take a look at the last few words of this verse: “those who diligently seek Him”.

We can have faith. We can know that He is God. We can understand that He created everything we see.

But who does He reward? Those who diligently seek Him!

You see, we can have all of those other attributes. We can have a good knowledge of so many Biblical things. But if we don’t diligently seek God, yearning to know Him more intimately on a daily basis, we cannot please Him and we will not be rewarded.

God wants our all. He wants our heart… 100% of it. So if we truly want to be who He wants us to be, we need to do everything we can to build our relationship with Him.

This doesn’t mean we need to be more religious, spend more time in church, quote more scriptures or invite more people to Bible study. This means that we need to “press into Him” and seek Him with our whole heart.

Then we will know Him better and then we will be pleasing Him and then we will be rewarded!

Push all distractions aside and seek Him. It’s worth every bit of effort that it takes.

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 – 10-21-13

(Mark 10:21 NKJV)  Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me.”

One thing that stood out to me in this verse was the very fact that Jesus LOVED him. Then He gave him the answer to his problem. He told the man the one thing he lacked, and what would help him.

I know it’s hard sometimes to hear the answer that Christ has for us. That’s why we don’t always want to run to Him, or be around those that we know are going to give us the right answer, the God answer!

Instead, we will go out of our way to find someone that will agree with us and make us feel better about what we are doing, saying, or acting like, etc. You know… the answer that will allow us to keep doing what WE want to be doing.

Jesus tells this man what he needs to do; He told Him what He needed to hear. Why? Because He loved him! He left it at that, for him to make the right choice.

Today, if Jesus is speaking to you, get the answer He has for you and run with it. It may not be what we want to hear, but know that the One that gives it loves us.

He’s not out to hurt us, take away our fun, our dreams or our goals. He just simply knows what’s best.

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 – 10-19-13

Psalm 16:8 (NKJV) I have set the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.

Have we set God before us? Is he at our right hand?

Do you know that if we put God first, we cannot be moved?

If we have God as our first priority, there is nothing that can shake us and nothing that can move us from where we are supposed to be.

God rules and reigns over all things and if we abide in Him, there is no trial, no temptation and no storm that can move us or pull us down.

Put God first in your life, today, right now! He will give you shelter from the storms and solutions to your problems.

He is God and He is good.

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 – 10-18-13

Isaiah 40:31 (NKJV) But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles,they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

Are we waiting on the Lord today for some things to change in our situation? Are we waiting for Him to restore our marriage? Are we waiting for Him to help save our backsliding friend or family member, or maybe we are waiting for a financial breakthrough, a new job, or for someone to treat us right, etc.?

As long as we are waiting on the Lord for His answer or for His change, and we remain open to how and when He wants to do it, WE shall WIN! Amen

Today, if you are waiting on the Lord… you will be Strong. You will mount up with wings as eagles, you will RUN and not be weary, You will WALK and not faint!

Go forward in Christ today, do what He tells you to do and be STRONG with renewed strength.

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 – 10-17-13

Exodus 20:3 (NKJV) “You shall have no other gods before Me.

No other gods… idols. Things that we put before God or hold up to the same level as God with worship or reverence.

This is a topic that we like to touch on every once in a while, just to give us all a reminder as to where our worship and affections should be directed.

There are so very many things that can pull on us and try to grab our attention and affections, even to the point of trying to take the place of God!

Now most of these things will never appear to be like God. Instead, they are things that we get caught up in that end up climbing our list of priorities higher and higher until they have consumed us.

This can apply to things we do, things we buy or even people we love or idolize. And it can even apply to people related to our faith or our walk with God. How about pastors, worship leaders, famous Christian musicians or actors/actresses? Do we hold any of them up higher than we should?

And let’s not forget about biblical figures. People in the Bible were flesh and bone, just like you and I, but there are people and even entire denominations who hold some of these people up to the point of reverencing them or even praying to them.

We need to remember that they were frail humans just like us. They made mistakes, just like us. They committed sins and crimes, just like us. They were men and women used by God, but they were just human beings, just like us!

God alone deserves our worship and praise and it is to Him alone that we should be praying and giving reverence! If we are being taught anything contrary to this, we need to compare it to God’s word and see how it lines up.

I know this might come across as a scolding or something written in anger, but it is truly not. Written words can sometimes be hard to decipher when it comes to the actual tone intended by the writer.

But know that these words are written in love and as a gentle nudge for all of us to check where we stand and who our worship is being directed to.

Be strong and bold in your faith!

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 – 10-16-13

Psalm 100:5 (NKJV) For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations.

Sometimes we hear others say this and sometimes we may even think it; “why would God allow bad things to happen?”

He is able to stop certain things from happening. So why doesn’t He?

Just to ease our minds today and put some things to rest, this verse tells us who God is. He is GOOD! We couldn’t have asked for a better GOD! He is everything we need; He loves us and is good to us.

Today, put those questions away. We may not understand why things happen the way they do at times, but understand that the Lord is GOOD and He is NOT to be blamed for bad things happening!

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 – 10-15-13

1 Timothy 2:5 (NKJV) For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus…

Have you ever been in or seen a situation where two people, or two groups of people, couldn’t seem to get along or reach an agreement on an important matter? Communication has broken down to the point where they just can’t seem to relate to each other.

Sadly, this happens a lot. And when it gets to the point where there is an impasse and the two parties can’t do anything further to solve their differences, a person known as a mediator is brought in to help them solve their differences and bridge the gap in their communication breakdown.

God has done the same thing for us. As human beings, our sin causes a divide between Him and us. It’s a gap that we can never bridge or cross on our own.

Because we have nothing in ourselves that can help us overcome this divided condition, God created a way for us.

Jesus, the Christ, the Messiah, the Chosen One, left His place in heaven, took human form and walked the earth for 33 years and then died a brutal death to build a bridge between us and the Father.

On the 3rd day after His death, He rose again and walked among men for a short time before ascending back to heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father.

Jesus’ death was a sacrifice to pay the price for our sins. His resurrection broke the curse of death over our lives.

Jesus was the mediator between God and man. His ultimate sacrifice (death) is the bridge that gives us direct access to God, the Father.

If you are far away from God, go to Him today. The bridge has been built. We just need to cross it.

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 – 10-14-13

Proverbs 16:7 (NKJV) When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

There are many things that we can use to judge our walk with God. Some of them may be more difficult to discern than others.

But there is one thing for sure. If we are in constant turmoil with everyone around us, we might need to check our walk with our Father and see where we’re going wrong.

Jesus is the Prince of Peace, so if we’re following Him and His ways, peace should be a big part of our lives.

Does peace reign in your life?

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-315-0902

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