Category: Putting God First

Bible Verse of The Day – 6-17-14

(Luke 16:13 NKJV)  “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

Even though work may take a lot of our time during the days, we can’t let it rule us. We need to remain balanced. We need to take time for God, family, church, and rest!

Life is more than how much money we have, how big our home is, what kind of car we drive and how much we travel.

God made life to be simple, but yet exciting, fun and enjoyable! We can not serve money and serve Him. We have to pick and choose who and what we want to serve.

We can tell what we serve by watching and seeing how much time we give to it, physically or mentally. We are not talking about a normal day’s work, but all the thinking and working that goes into it after hours.

Are we always thinking about how much more we can make? Does it take up all of our time, thinking and planning? Are all of our thoughts constantly on the one thing, money?

Or do we spend time even when we are at work, acknowledging God and how He would have us handle certain situations, making sure that when we do something, people will see Him and know that we are Christians?

If we choose God, and put Him first, He takes care of the rest!

(Matthew 6:33 NKJV)  “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

If we choose mammon, God’s word tells us how hard it is.

(Matthew 19:24 NKJV)  “And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

Who do we choose today? If we choose God, we need to give Him our time, money, efforts, thoughts and love!! 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 – 4-3-14

Psalm 50:15 (NKJV) Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.

God wants to be at the center of everything in our lives. In fact, He wants us to make Him the center of everything in our lives.

God knows that we will all encounter trouble at various times in our lives. During those times He wants us to call upon Him. He wants to deliver us! Why? So we will glorify Him!

You see, if we make God the center of our lives, we will be less likely to land in quite so much trouble as we do, but we are human. We make mistakes. We make poor choices sometimes. And other times, stuff just happens that we had no choice about.

But God says to call upon Him in our day of trouble and He will deliver us! That’s a promise.

We may not know how or when He will deliver us. And many times, the deliverance comes in ways that we would never have imagined, but He does deliver us!

So we need to stop sweating the “how and when”, and let Him do what needs to be done in us and in our situations, and watch in awe as He works it all out for our good.

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 – 11-22-13

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

Love the Lord your God with all your heart.

This is something that we touch on every now and then. We want to make sure that every single one of us keeps this fresh in our heart and mind.

If we could just get this one right, so many other things would come so much more easily for us all.

If we loved God with all our heart, we would be inclined to want to please Him more. We would want to spend more time communing with Him in prayer and worship.

If we loved God with all our heart, we would make better choices and sin wouldn’t be as big of a problem in our lives. We would make better judgments when it comes to choosing right or wrong.

Some of us have gone astray and left God far behind.

But do you want to know the good news in all of this?

It’s never too late to start!

Let’s ask God to search our hearts and show us where we can improve and where we need to do things differently. If we give Him permission, He will be faithful to show us what we need to know.

Love Him with all your heart.

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 – 10-19-13

Psalm 16:8 (NKJV) I have set the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.

Have we set God before us? Is he at our right hand?

Do you know that if we put God first, we cannot be moved?

If we have God as our first priority, there is nothing that can shake us and nothing that can move us from where we are supposed to be.

God rules and reigns over all things and if we abide in Him, there is no trial, no temptation and no storm that can move us or pull us down.

Put God first in your life, today, right now! He will give you shelter from the storms and solutions to your problems.

He is God and He is good.

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 – 8-31-13

(John 8:29 NKJV)  “And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”

Jesus is our example; He did the very things that pleased His Father.

If we take what He tells us to do and we listen to the words He spoke, and we watch the way He was in all situations, and we put those things into action in our own lives, we too will please our Father.

God loves us… there is no doubt about that. He gave His Son for us. He wants a good life for us. He wants us to know how much He loves us. He wants us to know that He is there for us and loves to help us in all of our situations.

If we are struggling today with knowing how to please God, we just need to follow in Jesus’ footsteps.

You know that saying, “what would Jesus do”? It’s something we may want to ask ourselves when making decisions or addressing certain situations, whether at work, at home, in school… even in the church.

It’s like taking a test with the answer sheet right beside us. Jesus is the answer to pleasing our Father. Look unto 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 – 8-5-13

(Proverbs 3:9-10 NKJV)  Honor the LORD with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of all your increase; {10} So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine.

Giving God our first fruits is one way of showing Him honor. It also will cause us to prosper!

Many think that they have to be prospering first before they start giving the first fruits to God. This is the wrong way of thinking and it will keep us always working so hard and never getting ahead, because this in not what prospers us.

There is no trust or faith in thinking we have to wait until we become prosperous and get things in order before we can give God the first fruits.

Today, surrender our ways on how to prosper and let God’s Word teach us and show us His way! He is a faithful God and He means what He says. He will show you, as you take a step of faith, how important it is to honor Him first!

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 – 5-31-13

(Romans 14:7-8 NKJV)  For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. {8} For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

We are not our own. We do not own our lives, nor are we the masters of them!

If you have put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ and have become a child of God, your life is not your own. Your life now belongs to Him.

There is a lot more to this than many people realize. This means that we are now accountable to Him in everything that we do; every choice we make, every plan we devise, everything.

Once we understand this, it should greatly impact our lives and change the way we do things. Before we make a decision about something, especially something major in our lives, we need to seek God and get His feedback on it.

Sometimes this is as simple as opening up the Word and seeing what it says about our situation or circumstance.

Other times it might be something pretty simple and we just “have a knowing” about what we need to, without getting too deep or too involved in seeking an answer.

Other times, we might need to take longer and we may even need to fast and pray to get God’s answer for us.

No matter what the situation, God is faithful and we need to be sure to listen for His input.

So as you go through your day today, be sure to remember who’s you are!

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 – 5-15-13

(John 3:30 NKJV)  “He must increase, but I must decrease.

This single verse is the key to a thriving relationship with our Creator.

We can’t have a strong relationship with God until we learn to put Him first! It isn’t necessarily an easy thing to do, especially at first, but it’s something that we have to learn how to do and then walk it out.

Once we get understanding of this concept and begin putting it into practice, it will begin to come more naturally to us and before we know it, we will put God before everything else in our life.

We will wake in the morning and the first thing we will do is wonder what God will do in our lives today. We will spend our waking hours with God at the forefront of our minds, instead of somewhere there in the background.

Instead of always wondering what God is going to do for us, we will start to ask Him what we can do for Him! And as we grow in Him, we will learn to listen for the answers from Him.

Our lives will truly begin to be transformed as we start to put Him first and ourselves after Him.

Many of our struggles with sin will disappear when we put Him first. Many of our struggles with a bad attitude will disappear when we put Him first. Our struggles with unforgiveness and bitterness will disappear when we put him first. And the list goes on!

So start learning to let Him increase so you can decrease and watch how He transforms your life for the better.

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 – 4-19-13

(Psalm 5:3 NKJV)  My voice You shall hear in the morning, O LORD; In the morning I will direct it to You, And I will look up.

Who does your voice get lifted up to in the morning? What do you first think of when you wake up?

We all have very busy lives. It’s easy to wake up and let our minds begin to race with the activities of the day ahead of us.

It’s even easier for this to happen if we happen to be in a stressful time or season of our life.

But we need to consciously remind ourselves to put God first, even in our waking hour, giving Him time and room to speak to us. If we don’t do this, we’re starting our day without Him and without acknowledging Him.

It’s not that we do this intentionally, but it sneaks up on us over time and before we know it, we reach a point where we’re many hours into our day before we even think of God.

So let’s start right now. Let’s determine within our hearts to make sure we put God first each and every morning when we wake up, giving Him time and space to speak to us before we jump into our busy schedules.

If we will do this, we will see a huge difference in how our attitude and how our day goes for us.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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