Category: Distractions

Bible Verse of The Day – 11-13-22 – Worried and Distracted

Please click to watch the video now.Greetings in the name of Jesus! 

We have a great lesson today in our newest video, Worried and Distracted. 

In this new video, we teach about the importance of not being worried and distracted, which can cause many different problems in our walk with God. 

This is something that we all need to pay attention to, and our teaching today is based on words that came directly from the lips of Jesus Himself. 

We do hope you’ll take a few minutes to watch it. 

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We love you all! 

Sincerely, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
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Hampstead, NC 28443 

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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-25-21

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

Today we are going to talk about focusing.

This is the season to keep focused. There will be things pulling on us at times and they will try to pull us off track and get us distracted, doing other things that are not necessarily what we need to be doing right now.

Distractions come in many ways and at different times.

The enemy loves to use this to slow us down. But we are not going to let him do this.

It’s time we say, “no more distractions!”, and focus on what God wants us to be doing.

Put that right foot in front of the other and move forward. Every time we stay focused, we get ahead and we advance God’s Kingdom.

This is going to take listening, discerning and walking away from things that we may enjoy doing at times, just to keep on target and stay focused.

Get ready to say no, to silence the phone, to get weird looks and attitudes from others. Because when we stand strong and we’re focused, there will be some darts thrown our way.

Focus.

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 – 2-29-20

Deuteronomy 6:5 (NKJV) 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

It takes strength and discipline to say no to things that try to pull on our hearts at times, like answering our cell phones or texting in the middle of prayer time, church or while reading our Bible!

How many know what I’m talking about? You know, when we let them interrupt us and say, “Oh, God will understand”.

Don’t let the cell phone interfere with our God time.

If we let our phone get in the way of these things, we will begin to feel a distance between us and God. The distance caused by interference will grow until there is nothing left.

Our time with God will be lost and our passion slowly starts to diminish. Why? Because He is taking a back seat.

Last summer I was noticing that I was beginning to struggle with distractions. I had a hard time focusing.

I thought, “what is this?”. I asked God to help me stay close to Him. I felt like something was trying to put distance between us.

He showed me that my phone was becoming a distraction. My phone went everywhere with me, and because of that I had this constant distraction and lack of focus.

You see, loving God is not just a feeling we have; it is keeping Him in a “first-place position” in everything we do. In other words, nothing comes between us, and if it does, we do something about it. He is our all!

Cell Phones aren’t bad in and of themselves. They can be very helpful if used properly. But if we don’t keep them in their place, they can be a huge distraction, preventing us from focusing on the things we need to be doing.

Put the cell phone in its rightful place. Show God how much we love Him by keeping Him first, and giving Him our utmost attention. The other things can wait, not Him. 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 – 10-13-19 – Disconnected

Please click to watch the video now.Greetings in the name of Jesus! 

Have you ever stopped to consider the importance of the time that Jesus spent in the wilderness, away from others? 

In our new video, Disconnected, we talk about the importance of pulling away from all of the things that pull on us and vie for our time. It’s not always easy to do, but it’s essential in so many ways. 

We hope the video will speak to you. 

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Remember to disconnect. Our walk with God depends on it. 

Enjoy your day! 

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 – 1-30-19

Proverbs 16:3 (NKJV) 3 Commit your works to the Lord, And your thoughts will be established.

Being committed and staying focused isn’t always easy, especially if our plate is full and we have others that tend to pull on us.

What do we do to keep a peaceful mind and stay committed? There are 3 things.

The first thing to do is ask God to help us to stay focused so that we can get the things done that need to get done in that day.

Second, rebuke the enemy, in the name of Jesus, forbidding his schemes to set us back from operating against us.

The third thing we can do is to make sure that when things come up and people start to pull on us or ask us to do various things for them, that we are prayerfully discerning as to whether it is what God wants for us to get involved with at that time.

Staying committed and focused on the things that God wants us to get done in a day will bring us peace. But there will be some days it will be quite a fight trying to keep it all going smoothly.

Don’t give up, even if we get started on the wrong foot. Keep working at it.

If we stay focused, we will get the things done that need to be done. And there may even be some time for ourselves to do other things that we may enjoy, without feeling guilty about it.

We can honestly say that being committed and focused is very rewarding!

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 – 12-15-15

Luke 10:38-42 (NKJV) 38 Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. 39 And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard His word. 40 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.”

Martha welcomed Jesus into her home. But while He was there, she was busy serving and became worried and troubled. However, her sister Mary sat at His feet and listened to Him.

Even though on the surface it looked like Martha was doing what was good, it was referred to as a distraction. Because, at this particular time, she should have been taking a break from her serving to sit with Jesus and listen.

Can we get distracted in our serving? Yes. We can get off track if we are not careful in balancing our time.

This happens quite frequently. And this is why so many people get burned out and give up. We need to stay balanced in our serving.

How do we do this? We choose to give God first place, even before our serving. Jesus’ response to Martha was that Mary was doing what was needed.

Luke 10: 41-42 (NKJV) 41 And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. 42 But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

This is how we get rid of worrying and troubles, by spending time in prayer and listening.

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 – 5-16-15

Psalm 143:10 (NKJV) 10 Teach me to do Your will, For You are my God; Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

Don’t let hype or pressure move us from where God wants us to be or from what He wants us to be doing.

There will always be things that may sound good and look good to us. There will be things that will tug on our hearts, but it’s not always going to be God’s will for us.

Getting involved at the wrong time and doing the wrong thing leads to one thing; distraction. Distractions come and even though they may not seem like a big deal, they are.

Distractions take us away from the things that God has for us to do. They cause time to go by, and we can never get that time back.

We cannot let our emotions get caught up in the hype of the moment. There is no hype with God.

Take time to seek God before getting pulled into something that is not His will for us.

Every day counts with Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-315-0902

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