Category: Loving God

Bible Verse of The Day – 7-24-13

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

It is not hard to love God, for He loves us so much. What’s hard is showing Him how much we love Him.

If we can learn to follow His commandments throughout our daily lives, this will show Him how much we truly love Him.

Following God’s word will cause us to look different in the eyes of others. We will stand out at times. Sometimes people will get upset with us, even though we never did a thing to them. Other times, loving God will cause us to take a stand in certain situations, causing us to walk alone. We can’t let this distract us.

If we want to be popular among people and be well-liked, then this walk will be a struggle. Loving God with all our heart and soul will make it uncomfortable for certain people to be around us at times; close friends, family members, co-workers, etc.

Remember… we are not alone when we take a stand and love God with all our hearts. We are alone if we love people and what they think of us more than we love God.

(John 14:15 NKJV)  “If you love Me, keep My commandments.

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 – 3-14-13

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

We want to take a few minutes today to encourage you in your walk with God.

Life isn’t easy. We all have battles to fight and trials to work through, but there is one thing that can make it easier to keep going, even when the going seems so very hard.

It’s our love for God. Our love for God is the most important thing we can hold on to, whether we’re going through hard times or we’re celebrating victory.

Pastor Ellie and I truly love God with all our hearts and everything within us. We have grown to love Him more as each day and each year goes by.

This doesn’t always mean that we understand everything that He does, but it means that no matter what comes our way, we trust Him and we accept even those things that we don’t understand.

Our prayer for you is that your love for God grows stronger every day that you live and breathe. Your walk with God is the single most important thing in your life. Nurture it and give it every bit of effort that it deserves.

Draw near to Him and He will draw near to you.

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 – 1-2-13

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

As we’ve now passed into a new year, 2013, there will be millions upon millions of people who have made “resolutions” for the new year, to do this or that. Most New Year’s resolutions aren’t worth the effort it takes to make them, even though some of them are well-intentioned.

The problem is that these resolutions really carry no weight. This is simply because the resolution is made only in a person’s mind. It is not a vow or contract with anyone who gives the person any accountability. And within a few days or a few weeks, most of these resolutions have fallen by the wayside.

But there is something that each and every one of us should vow to do this year. This is not a resolution, but a vow that we should make, in our hearts, toward God himself.

We should vow to love God more than last year. Each day that we wake up and have breath in our bodies we should make more effort to know God, honor, revere and love Him.

This is not something to take lightly. This is the very substance of who He wants us to be and how He wants us to live each day of our lives.

So as we now move into this year of 2013, determine within yourself and then speak it to God so He will hold you accountable, to love Him more than you ever have.

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 – 5-25-12

(James 1:1 NKJV)  James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings.

This is what the book of James starts off with. I read this and thought, wow…”a bondservant of God”? And then I thought… “hmm, what is a bondservant?”

This is what the Webster dictionary gives for a definition for bondservant: one bound to service without wages; also : slave.

James was a slave to Christ!! This caused me to stop and ponder on my walk with Christ and where I’m at. How much of me do I give to God? How much of my time do I give to Him? Am I be willing to be a bondservant for Christ?

It makes you realize how serious James was about His walk with the Lord. It makes you see how strong his love was for the Lord. A slave does everything their master tells them to do.

Where are we at in our walk with Christ? Are we willing to be a bond servant for Him today?

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 – 5-23-12

(Philemon 1:4 NKJV)  I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers…

We want to take a few minutes to encourage everyone who might read this.

We get a lot of emails, and even letters by regular mail, thanking us for what we do. So many of you have written to tell us how God’s word has encouraged you just when you needed it most.

Well, let us tell each and every one of you that there have been just as many times when you have encouraged us. We can’t even count the times that we have been going through a tough time or we were waiting to hear from God and then one of you would send us an email or a letter, encouraging us or sharing a testimony with us.

Your words of encouragement, emails, letters and words of love have lifted us up, put smiles on our faces and tears of joy in our eyes. We are truly blessed to have a group of people like yourselves and we thank God for all of you.

As we have told many of you in personal emails, we take what we do very seriously and we thank God for the opportunity to serve each and every one of you.

Keep your faith strong and be sure to kick the devil at least once each day. He deserves it!

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 – 5-5-12

(Psa 69:34 NKJV)  Let heaven and earth praise Him, The seas and everything that moves in them.

Do we ever take a day and just spend it to ponder on the goodness of God?

Nowadays it’s almost impossible to do such a thing. It is so busy. Running here and there …trying to get things done. We have television, cell phones and computers to distract us. Do we ever have a moment to ourselves, let alone time for God?

Today is a good day to start saying no! No to TV, no to the cell phone and no to the computer, etc. Not today… I have an appointment at such and such a time with the Almighty God!! He deserves our time and our praises!

Take time today…He’s waiting.

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 – 4-3-12

(Mat 15:18-19 NKJV)  “But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. {19} “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

In its original context, this verse goes on to explain that eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man or make him unclean.

Jesus used this example to teach us that what’s in our hearts is what defiles us, not whether we have washed our hands or not.

He also used it to teach us that what’s inside of us will eventually make its way out of our mouths.

Have you ever caught yourself saying something that was contrary to what you know God would want you to say? Maybe you used some language that you know in your heart was not pleasing to God. Or maybe you lashed out at someone in anger, and then regretted it later on.

We all make these mistakes at times. The important thing is that we learn from them.

First, we need to learn self control. But more importantly, we need to understand that this is showing us who we really are inside; what’s hiding there in the darkest recesses of our heart.

This isn’t something that we should beat ourselves up about, but something that we need to go to God with and ask Him to take those things out of our heart and replace them with His love, grace, mercy and compassion.

God is the best surgeon there is when it comes to fixing hearts!

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 – 3-9-12

(1 John 3:23 NKJV) And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.

The love of God is what saves us. He loved us so much He sent His Son to die for us, that through Jesus Christ’s blood we are free and we can be forgiven of our sins and get closer to God and have a relationship with Him.

Sin is what tries to come between us and God from day one.

If we want change in our lives and in our situation we have to take a good look at what it is that causes us to keep falling back into the same old sinful things.

Let us get rid of the things that are coming between us and God today. The closer we come to God the easier it will be to love others and obey His Word.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Your Daily Bible Verse – 2-14-12

(Rev 3:15-16 NKJV)  “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. {16} “So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

When Jesus spoke these words, He was referring to the church at Laodicea. These words are still relevant for us today, however.

Being lukewarm or a “middle-of-the-road” believer is a very dangerous place to be. Jesus wants our all or nothing at all.

This isn’t a message that many want to hear, but it needs to be shared and taught. Being lukewarm is the easy way to follow Christ, or so it would seem. But the cost of being lukewarm is much higher than giving Him everything!

If we choose to live a lukewarm or mediocre life with Christ, we risk having Him spit us out.

Where are we today? Are we giving Jesus our all, or does He only get a little piece of us, when it’s convenient for us?

For our own sake, we need to give this some very serious consideration and then take action if we find ourselves lacking in our walk with Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Your Daily Bible Verse – 1-26-12

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

Do we really understand this? Do we do it?

Look at what this says. Love God with ALL of your heart, soul and strength! Not part of it, but all of it.

The world today makes it easy to give God less than all of our love. There are so many distractions, so many things that compete for our time and attention and so much chatter and noise in the atmosphere.

Personally, I have been feeling a push to begin simplifying my life and we are working toward doing that, a little at a time here in our home and our everyday lives.

God is worthy of ALL of our love. Let’s give it to Him willingly!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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