Category: Knowing God

Bible Verse of The Day – 1-6-23

Exodus 32:1 (NKJV) 1 Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

As I was browsing through Exodus recently, I read this verse and I saw something that I had never seen before.

Most times when this verse is discussed, the message will focus on the fact that the Israelites abandoned Moses due to their impatience, and then demanded that Aaron make them a new god to lead them.

But this time, I saw something very different.

The Israelites did not abandon Moses. They abandoned God.

Why?

Because they plainly had no idea who God was. The verse above makes that abundantly clear.

This generation of Israelites had grown up in Egypt, a nation that worshipped idols and numerous false gods. The idea of one sovereign God was something foreign to them.

Moses knew God intimately because God had spoken directly to him, meeting with him face to face. And, in return, Moses had made the effort and taken the time to listen and obey.

The others only saw God as a means to an end; freedom from slavery and a solution to their current situation.

How about us?

Do we treat God the same way as the Israelites of that time, as a means to an end?

Are we looking only for rewards (blessings) and a solution to our situations?

Or have we taken the time to truly seek Him and learn of Him, so we can know Him intimately?

Moses was known as the greatest prophet of the Old Testament. That would not have happened simply because he spoke the words of God to the people of Israel.

It happened because he obeyed God. No, he didn’t do it perfectly. He dropped the ball a few times, and it cost him dearly. But his heart was to do the right thing. And God used him mightily because of it.

Can we say the same for ourselves? Do we honor God with our actions, not just with our words?

Do we seek Him diligently and with our whole heart, as His word tells us to do?

There are only two who know the answers to those questions. Us and God.

How we handle those answers is entirely up to us.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-14-19

1 John 2:3 (NKJV) 3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.

Have you ever questioned whether you really know God or not?

Most of us do this from time to time for various reasons. It can be good to check ourselves and make sure we’re on the right path, so to speak.

But sometimes we might wrestle with this in the sense that we think we have no sure way to know. While that might seem true, there actually is a way to know!

The verse above tells us that we will know that we know Him if we keep His commandments.

And in verse 5, we are reassured that if we keep His word then we are “in Him”.

1 John 2:5 (NKJV) 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.

The thing to remember is that none of us will be perfect in our pursuit of Him.

We may make some poor choices from time to time that make us feel terrible. These things may cause us to question our sincerity in our relationship with Him.

While this might be frustrating for us, it also might be good for us to see where we really are. After all, we can’t make corrections if we don’t see where our heart truly lies.

On the positive side, the fact that we would even be bothered by doing the wrong thing tells us that our heart wants to do right.

Most times it’s just a matter of figuring out where it is that we keep slipping and falling, and then making adjustments that help us stop doing that thing over and over again.

God’s word tells us that He is faithful to help us resist temptation if we truly want to do the right thing.

He also tells us that if we seek Him with all our heart, we will find Him.

So, let’s be faithful and diligent to seek Him, listen for His voice and then do what he shows us to do.

Amen!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-19-17

John 15:4 (NKJV) 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

Many of us desire to serve God and fulfill His call on our life. But many also have no idea how to do this.

We wonder how to know what God wants us to do. We struggle with figuring it out and feel helpless when we don’t see anything that we would consider significant happening in our lives.

Many times, we watch others and see how God is using them. And we long for that in our own lives.

The truth is that it isn’t as complicated as we usually think it is. God has laid it all out for us in His word. But because it isn’t bright, shiny and exciting we tend to miss it.

In the verse above, Jesus tells us to abide in Him. He then goes on to tell us why; a branch cannot bear fruit if it doesn’t abide in the Vine.

And there we have it, “hidden” right in plain sight!

If we want to fulfill His call on our lives and be used by Him, we have to abide in Him. Unless we abide in Him, we are told plainly that we cannot bear fruit.

The enemy, and even some people, might have us believe that being used by God is complicated and impossible unless we have some special kind of anointing. We can’t be any further from the truth than that.

Simply put, the way to be used by God and live out His call on our lives is to abide in Him; to spend time with Him, get to know Him, learn who He wants us to be and then walk it out.

We can’t let the enemy, or anyone else, deceive us into thinking that being used by God requires some kind of extremely complicated steps. Sometimes the things God has us do can be difficult, but knowing Him isn’t!

Abide in Him. Bear fruit and live out His call on your life. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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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 – 12-14-12

(Genesis 32:24-28 NKJV)  Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day. {25} Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. {26} And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.” But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!” {27} So He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob.” {28} And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

Jacob wrestled with the angel of God. He spent his energy to prevail. He did not rely on someone else to do it for him!

Because of Jacob’s persistence, the angel blessed him. Had Jacob given up, he would never have received God’s blessing. He would have limped away with nothing more than what he had before, except a displaced hip socket.

We need to be more like Jacob and so many others in God’s word who struggled, wrestled and persisted until they heard from God!

It’s not always about getting what we want. More often, it’s about pressing into God and waiting on Him, not making any moves until we hear from Him.

We can’t rely on others to do this for us. We can ask others to help us learn, but when push comes to shove, we bear the responsibility of building our relationship with God.

Press into Him. Pull on Him. Wait on Him. Do whatever it takes to know Him better and walk more closely with Him.

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 – 8-2-12

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

Love the Lord your God with all your heart. This is the foundation to living a life that honors God in every possible way.

After yesterday’s Bible Verse of The Day about “casual Christians”, we had some people write to us and ask how to go beyond being lukewarm, or what it means not to be a casual Christian.

The best way to explain it is this: “Being so in love with God that every aspect of your life exemplifies Christ and brings honor to His name.”

It’s not something that we do just by following rules or a set of laws. As we grow closer to God, our lives are transformed a little at a time, and before we know it, so much about us changes; the things we say, the way we treat others, the entertainment that we take in… it all changes. Why? Because we love God and want to please Him.

So how do we get so close to God that this happens? We make a conscious effort to know Him. We can’t just know about Him. We have to know Him. We get to know Him by spending time in His word, learning everything that we can about who He wants us to be and how He wants to interact in our lives. And we learn to listen for His voice and obey it!

It all boils down to the condition of our heart. As we allow God to change our heart, we will become closer to Him. A hard heart will always keep God at a distance. A heart that has been touched and softened by God will want to be as close as possible to Him.

We challenge you to let God change your heart and draw you close to Him!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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