Category: Being Who God Made You

Bible Verse of The Day – 8-19-13

(Zechariah 2:8 NKJV)  For thus says the LORD of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.

Have you ever been around your friends, family or those closest to you, but you are not really happy because when you are around them you can’t be yourself?

When you are around them, do you feel like you have to conform to the way they want you to do things and be the person they want you to be? If you don’t, do you know you are going to have to listen to them correct you and tell you what you are doing wrong?  When you try to be yourself do you feel uncomfortable because you know they are watching every move you make and judging you for it?

What a hard place to be. If we continue to allow this behavior to control us, then we really aren’t being ourselves. We are being who everyone else wants us to be.

God wants us to be us. He wants us to be REAL! Even if we might not like what we see in ourselves or how we act at times. To Him, we are the apple of HIS eye.

If we are always acting like someone else, we will never see the true person that we are and we will never get help in the areas of our lives where we need it most.

If we continue on this road we will be unhappy all the time. We won’t change if we never see who we really are. Instead, we just hide it. This is not happiness; it’s not what living is about.

Today, know that we are the apple of God’s eye, He loves us and wants to help in all areas of our life, but we have to be real with ourselves for Him to be able to reach us.

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 – 6-28-13

(Jeremiah 1:5 NKJV)  “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”

Our Identity is important to God. This verse confirms to me that He knew Jeremiah before he was even born. He made Jeremiah the person that he was to be while he was still in the womb. Praise be to God! He loved Jeremiah the way He formed him in the womb.

Each person is their own individual. There are NO two people alike on this earth.

This doesn’t mean, though, that we shouldn’t change some things about ourselves, because when God’s word is working in us, we will change!

Each one of us has unique talents, gifts, and traits about ourselves that no one else has. This is a good thing and it makes life exciting!

When we are being taught by someone, for example, a Minister, Pastor, Priest, Teacher, etc. we take what we learn and apply the teachings to ourselves, individually. It adds to our person. But that doesn’t mean we have to be like that person who is teaching us, or do things the way that person does them.

We allow God to fix us, clean us out, and tweak us through His word, while still holding on to the person that we are, our identity, that thing that makes us unique.

We cannot throw out our identity to become someone else. We have to be the person God made us to be today and be thankful!!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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