Category: Hope in Christ

Bible Verse of The Day – 6-21-23

John 16:33 (NKJV) 33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

Life is never perfect; not for any of us.

Some of us deal with some very hard things in our lives, and we don’t always find a solution for them.

Some of these things last a long time… years and years. For some, these things might even last for a majority of their lives.

People often question this and ask why these things happen. Why do some people suffer so much in their lives?

There are no perfect, happy-ever-after type answers for the questions that get asked when these kinds of situations are encountered.

Sometimes life is just hard, with situations that are hard to understand, and even harder to endure.

Sometimes these things happen as consequences for choices we have made. Other times, they happen by no fault of our own. They just happen.

But take note that Jesus told us in the verse above that trials and tribulations would come. None of us is exempt.

Does that mean we can’t ask God for help or wisdom about our situation? Absolutely not.

The best thing we can do if we are in these kinds of situations is understand that God is our rock and our fortress in everything that we face.

He is our source of peace and of hope.

He is our solace (comfort, consolation, cheer, support).

His joy is our strength.

We should be seeking Him every day, not just to ask Him how to get out of our situation, but also to ask Him what we can learn from it.

How can we bring glory to Him in the midst of the storm we are traveling through?

Let us grow while facing trials. Let us look to Him for His comfort and strength. And let us find our joy in Him, even as we push through times of great difficulty.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-1-23

Romans 15:13 (NKJV) 13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Our walk with God is a walk of hope, rooted in and built upon the faith we have in Him.

This scripture says a lot when it comes to our walk and what we should expect.

Because of the hope He gives us, we will also experience joy and peace.

When do we experience this joy and peace? When we believe!

Our faith and trust in God are the catalyst that brings joy and peace.

These are not simply emotions that we feel based on how our life is going for us.

True joy and peace are byproducts of our faith and our trust in God that become more strongly developed on a level that’s parallel to our growth as a believer.

And take note of that last line of the verse above; “that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit”.

You see, that line gives proof that these are not just emotions, but an outcome that takes place because of our growing trust in God.

This is not a deep spiritual mystery. It is a simple reality that doesn’t require a degree in theology, an extensive understanding of the word of God or decades of studying the Hebrew or Greek languages.

It takes only a genuine desire and a willingness to make a sincere effort to know and trust God more every day.

In this we will not only find Him, but we will also find that joy and peace that can only come by way of God’s Spirit through a deeper walk with our Savior.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-15-22 – The Light

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

We hope you are walking more closely to God than you were last week or last month. 

The very first chapter of the book of John is fascinating to read and study; especially the first 15 verses or so. This one section provides enough meat to feast on for days. 

So, in today’s video, The Light, we dig into the very first section of John 1, and we break it down in a way that we’ve never done in any of our past videos. 

In light of the amount of depth in this video, we’d highly recommend that you take a few minutes to watch it. 

Please click here to watch it now. 

And remember; no matter what we’re seeing happen around us, God is our hope. 

We love you all! 

Sincerely in Christ, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443 

401-439-3780 

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Bible Verse of The Day – 8-18-17

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NKJV) 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 

Jesus walked the earth, sinless. He knew no sin. 

This is something that’s hard for our minds to comprehend. We have a hard time wrapping our heads around the fact that a man, a human being, could live for 33 years and not sin. Not even once. 

But it is what was required of Him. It was necessary. It was His purpose to come to earth and live a sinless life. 

Why? 

Because we needed redemption. We needed someone to build a bridge between us and a holy God, whom we had been separated from by our own transgressions. We needed someone who could blot out our own sins and make us righteous, in spite of ourselves. 

Jesus was that One. He came and lived. And He died, for you and for me, to redeem us. 

His lack of sin proves our need for Him. Without Him we would be hopeless and lost, forever condemned. 

But with Him, we have hope! 

Titus summed it very well in these verses: 

Titus 2:11-14 (NKJV) 11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, 13 looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. 

We have hope, in Him. 

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 – 8-26-15

Romans 12:10-12 (NKJV) 10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; 11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer;

There’s a lot of good stuff in these verses that could be taught on, but today we’re going to focus on one thing; hope. Faith & hope work hand in hand.

Hebrews 11:1 (NKJV) 11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Everything we do related to our walk with God is based on hope. So what is hope?

Hope: To cherish a desire with anticipation. To desire with the expectation of obtainment. To expect with confidence. Trust

Our walk of faith is built upon hope. And it is this hope that helps to keep us going each day.

We trust God, therefore we put hope in the promises that He has made in His word. There are things in His word that we have never seen, or seen proof of, but we place our trust in Him, with hope.

When God answers a prayer or we see Him perform a miracle, we no longer hope for that thing. It was fulfilled.

Once something is seen and obtained, it is no longer hoped for. It is now a reality. But we continue holding onto hope for other promises of God.

The enemy will, many times, work on our minds, to try to get us to let go of hope. He will try to crush us emotionally in order to get us to give up. But if we hold fast to our confession of faith in God, our hope will not be crushed, but affirmed and made stronger.

Hebrews 10:23 (NKJV) 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

So we urge you today to hold on to hope. Never let go, for if we lose hope, we have nothing.

God is faithful to sustain us and bring victory to our lives, if we hold fast to our hope and don’t waver, and if we allow Him to move in the way that He sees fit to move, not putting Him in a box and trying to tell Him how to do His job 🙂

Hold on to hope!

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 – 6-12-15

Proverbs 13:12 (NKJV) 12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

Hope deferred; that thing that you have been waiting for and praying for, for so long.

You set your heart on something and begin to seek after it. Time goes by. You wait. You pray. You wait some more.

Sometimes we can grow impatient and our hope begins to wane and fade. Our heart begins to feel sick because we have hoped and waited for so long.

Before we know it, we begin to sink into despair and wonder if our prayer was even heard.

Has this ever happened to you? We can honestly say that it has with us.

Sometimes when praying for something, we get so focused on that something that we lose sight of everything else, and that thing can become an obsession if we’re not careful.

And if we allow it to, that obsession can pull us away from God if we take our eyes off of Him and put them on the thing we’re praying for. And desperate situations can be even more stressful, if we’re waiting on a breakthrough.

But we should never give up hope and let our situation or our pursuit of something bring us to the point where we are straddling the fence and about to walk away from God if we don’t get our answer.

Our answer will come if we don’t give up. It won’t always come when we think it should, or how we think it should. But we can’t give up on God and walk away.

If we give up on God, we have lost more than just a prayer that seems to be unanswered. If we give up on God, we have lost everything.

So for those who are straddling the fence, you’re standing on that line and getting ready to cross it and walk away, don’t do it!

Stick it out and lean on God with everything in you. Press into Him and pull on Him.

And when the desire, the thing you’ve been praying for, comes to fulfillment, it will be like a tree of life.

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 – 5-11-15

Hebrews 10:23 (NKJV) 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

He who promised is faithful.

Sometimes, while we’re going through trials, the light at the end of the tunnel can seem so far away. So far, in fact, that we can’t even see it.

And while we’re in the darkness, it can cause us to lose hope. And before we know it, we’re doubting God and questioning Him.

One thing we want to share with you today is this; We will never fully comprehend God and we will never fully understand why we go through the things we go through. We can’t. It’s just not possible.

But, as we go through various trials and tribulations, we need to hold fast to our hope, because if we lose our hope, we have nothing left.

It is our hope that pulls us through these hard times, keeping us looking toward that day when the darkness ends and this trial is over. And our hope comes from the One who gives us what we need to make it through those trials.

So keep going. Keep your eyes on the Giver of life. He holds our future, no matter what today might look like.

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 – 2-19-13

(Zechariah 9:12 NKJV)  Return to the stronghold, You prisoners of hope. Even today I declare That I will restore double to you.

Did you know that you and I are prisoners of hope?

Think about it. Everything we desire depends on having hope.

Our faith in God is built on hope… hope in His word, hope in His eternal life and hope in His salvation for us.

Without hope we have absolutely nothing to hold onto.

So we hold onto hope, because in it lays the very foundation of our faith.

(Heb 10:23 NKJV)  Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

So no matter what you’re facing, hold onto your hope. No matter how hard the waves beat against you, hold onto your hope. And no matter how dark it seems to get, hold onto your hope.

He is our hope and He who has promised is faithful.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-3-12

(Heb 10:23 NKJV)  Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

God has given us hope through His son, Jesus Christ.

There are many, many things that will try to take our hope and destroy it. Every day we face new tests, temptations and trials that can change the path we’re on, if we let them.

As believers, it’s critical that we HOLD FAST to our hope! If we lose hope, we have nothing left to hold on to.

Let us be very plain and clear today about this; the enemy will go to great lengths to destroy our hope. There will be days and seasons where we will feel like we just can’t win… we can’t get ahead, but we must persevere.

Victory will come, but it might not always come when we want it or the way we think it should happen.

God, who has given us this hope, is faithful.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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