Category: Waiting on God

Bible Verse of The Day – 11-12-15

Psalm 40:1 (NKJV) 40 I waited patiently for the Lord; And He inclined to me, And heard my cry.

We’ll admit that we have been through a thing or two the last several years. We’ve been through some pretty dark times. It’s just part of life, and nobody is immune. Nobody.

We’ve had days when we literally laid on the floor and cried.

We cried out to God. We cried because of our circumstances. We cried because we felt lost and alone. And we cried because we wanted to make right choices that were pleasing to God.

And we waited…

We waited for answers. We waited for a breakthrough. We waited for someone to come along and help us out of the situation we were in. We waited for money to fall out of the sky and make it all better. And we waited on God.

And God heard us.

God heard us every time we cried out. He heard our cries and He listened. And He answered us. In His time, not ours. And this was the thing that we had to understand. That God answered us, in His timing, but not in ours.

And He answered us the way He knew was right, not in the way we wanted or the way we thought He should.

But the important thing to note is that He did answer us. And He did rescue us. He did bring a breakthrough. In His timing.

So don’t feel abandoned. Don’t feel neglected. Don’t feel like you’re without hope.

God does hear you, and He will answer. In His timing and with His answer.

And His answers are always what’s best for us.

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 – 10-15-15

Psalm 27:14 (NKJV) 14 Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!

Things change and this requires us to change with them at times. The thing that drives us crazy is when something changes and we don’t always know what changes to make on our end.

Not long ago, we were faced with a complete change in our situation. We were like, “OK God, you have our attention, what do we do?”

Everything was different. We tried to keep on doing what we were used to doing, hoping things would go back to the way they were. But it was not helping or working. So, we began to just pull back, pray, listen and watch.

It wasn’t long before God began to give us direction. We had to make some serious changes. Big changes from what we were used to doing and the way we were used to doing them.

I’ll admit, new stuff stresses me out. I like repetition and routine. I like knowing what I need to do and just doing it.

I had to learn that when change comes, I can’t lose heart. I can’t throw in the towel and think that everything we were doing before was pointless and a complete waste of time.

There are steps in life, and these steps will take us from one place to another.

God will help us find the right steps to take as we wait on Him. And while we are waiting, He will teach us to be of good courage.

That means no grumbling, whining, being frustrated, or acting out in anger. Simply wait on Him with a right attitude. He will strengthen our hearts.

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 – 9-28-15

Isaiah 40:31 (NKJV) 31 But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

Sometimes we need to just pull back, sit tight and do nothing. I know this sounds easy, right? But waiting is not easy. We are still doing something.

Sometimes it is the hardest “nothing” to do, especially if we have determination to want to fix things. Waiting can drive us crazy.

But it takes discipline and obedience to wait.

There will be times that God will say “WAIT! I’ve got it and I want to do it for you”.

One day I sat in my garage. I was having a hot flash, and was trying to cool off. We were getting ready to sell our home and move. It wasn’t what we wanted to do, but we thought it was the logical thing to do.

We were willing and ready. We had sold most all of our furniture. Everything had been set in motion. We prayed, we cried, we talked about this very thing several times to make sure it was what we needed to do. The steps were taken and the decision had been made.

As I sat there cooling off, I heard God’s voice out of nowhere. I wasn’t thinking about much at this time. I heard these words, “Won’t you let me help you? I want to do this for you”.

My response to this was, “but we’ve already made arrangements. The house is on the market and we are locked into an agreement. The place where we will be moving to soon, we’ve also signed an agreement with those people.” All He said was, “they will understand. Talk to them.”

I went back into the house, knowing I had to talk to my husband about what I had just heard. I thought “he is going to think I’m nuts”. We had been over and over this. I mean, selling the house and moving was the logical thing to do.

So I quietly shared my conversation that I had out in the garage, telling him all about it. He calmly said to me, “OK, let’s call the realtors first thing tomorrow”.

Years later, we are still here. All we can say is, it was God!

For us it was our home, but for you it may be something else. God wants to help us all. There will be times when we need to take action and do the logical thing. But then there will be times where we just need to wait and trust Him.

Will we wait on 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 – 7-27-15

Isaiah 40:31 (NKJV) 31 But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

Waiting can be a hard thing to do. Nobody really likes waiting for anything, especially if we don’t know exactly how long the wait will be.

We like to know what’s going to happen, and when it’s going to happen. And, let’s face it, God doesn’t necessarily time things the way we’d like them to be timed.

But as we learn to wait on Him, things happen. We change.

We learn patience and we get to see ourselves in a new light. Sometimes that light isn’t very positive when we see who we really are and how we behave when things don’t go the way we think they should.

As we wait on God, we need to learn to listen and hear His voice. It’s imperative that we do this, since there will usually be things He will tell us or teach us while we wait. If we spend all of our waiting time griping, we’ll never hear or learn anything.

Conversely, if we spend all of our waiting time trying to figure everything out in our heads, with our own limited knowledge and understanding, we may make a move based on what we think is right, and completely miss what God had for us.

And, if we wait patiently and then we follow the path that God sets before us, only when He tells us to move, our strength will be renewed and we will not have wasted all of our time and effort making something happen ourselves that wasn’t meant to happen.

Wait on 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 – 3-14-15

James 1:2-4 (NKJV) 2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

None of us likes to wait. Especially when it comes to waiting for God to move on our behalf.

And this is because when we’re waiting on God, we’re usually in the midst of a trial of some kind.

When everything is going well, we just cruise along, calm, cool and collected, with a smile on our face and our best traits out there for everyone to see.

But pressure situations have a tendency to show us what we’re really made of. When we’re squeezed, whatever’s inside will eventually come out. And sometimes that stuff isn’t pretty.

It’s then that we also get to see ourselves; the true us that we try so hard not to show anyone because it might tarnish our squeaky-clean reputation.

But as much as we hate trials and tough times, those are the times when God can shape us and mold us if we let Him. Having our backs against the wall forces us to do two things. First, we recognize how weak we are without Him. Secondly, it causes us to choose between trusting our own intellect or trusting God.

Let’s just say it’s where the rubber meets the road.

And it’s there in those very tough spots that God gets to show us His power and might, as He works in our lives, opening doors that man can never close and closing doors that man can never open.

So if we’re in a tough spot right now, it’s time to make a choice. Will we trust ourselves and hope that we can figure out a way out of the mess we’re in based on our own understanding? Or will we finally surrender and let God take the lead, and follow the steps He has for us?

Only we can choose.

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 – 3-6-15

Genesis 6:13-14 (NKJV) 13 And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.

Make yourself an ark.

What a colossal assignment!

God told Noah that He was going to flood the earth and that Noah was to build an ark to save a few humans and a large group of animals. The destiny of these few people and all of those animals was in Noah’s hands.

God gave Noah very specific instructions about how the ark should be constructed, with regard to size, materials, etc. The only problem is that Noah had never seen anything like that before in his life. Yet this was his assignment.

As Noah obeyed God and set about this enormous task, he had to move ahead based solely on what he had been told. He had no working models to copy, no predecessors to ask for help and no experience as a shipbuilder.

But, being faithful and diligent, he moved ahead, one day at a time, until the ark was finished.

Noah is a great example for us all. Too many times we are given a task or a job to do, and we want it to be completed and come to fruition very quickly.

We need to let God stretch our faith and teach us how to trust Him, no matter what things look like on the surface, in the natural.

As we do this, He will strengthen us and give us rest when we’re weary, supplying us with exactly what we need to complete the job.

Isaiah 40:31 (NKJV) 31 But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

So if we are waiting on God, have been given a task or a job that seems impossible, or just plain don’t understand exactly what’s happening in our lives, trust Him and wait on Him. He will come through.

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 – 2-28-15

Psalm 27:14 (NKJV) 14 Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!

We are going to be disappointed at times in life. We are going to feel angry, and we are going to have moments when we really want things to go our way, but yet it looks like they are going in a totally different direction.

We have all experienced those times when things don’t go the way we expected or the way they we planned.

The best way to handle it is to stay calm. We can’t react out of our emotions and what we see. Let God unfold it all the way.

Sometimes we are just seeing bits and pieces; we are not seeing the whole picture and we don’t know the whole plan.

Be patient and wait on God. Trust Him to work it out. It will be beautiful!! Amen
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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 – 2-5-15

2 Peter 3:8-9 (NKJV) 8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise…

How many of us have waited for God to deliver us from a situation that we thought was never going to end? Or how about situations that we had no idea were going to happen to us, but when they did, it seemed like we were walking through the fires of hell itself?

We all go through trials and tough times. And every single one of us, when these things are happening, wishes that they would end quickly. Sometimes we may even question God and wonder why He doesn’t swoop down and rescue us from our trials.

But here’s the thing. God doesn’t think the way we think. We think with finite, limited minds. God thinks with infinite wisdom and understanding. He knows the solutions to our problems before we even know we have a problem.

The problem isn’t with God and His unwillingness to help us. The problem is with us not hearing Him properly or following His leading. Sometimes… most times, we just plain miss it. God is always there with an answer or solution, but it usually takes us time to get to the point where we will hear what He says and then do it.

God always comes through. Always. It’s just not always the way we think He should come through, or in the timing that we think is correct.

So have patience, and most importantly, let’s listen for the voice of God and obey it. Once we do this, it will be surprising how fast things can turn around for us.

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 – 12-16-14

Psalm 25:5 (NKJV) 5 Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; on You I wait all the day.

Waiting on God.

It was a few nights ago when we got a phone call from a parent. Their child woke up crying because of a dream they’d had.

The child shared the dream with their parents in great detail, talking about things that 6 year old kids don’t have much understanding about.

The dream this little 6 year old child had was actually God’s way of speaking to the parents, giving them direction, and bringing clarity to a situation they were facing. The parents knew right away what steps they needed to take.

To hear the dream that this little child had, and for this child to remember the dream and then repeat it to them in detail was definitely God!

He is faithful to lead us all. There is no doubt that He will guide us if we ask Him to.

Our job is to seek Him, to listen and to wait.

Don’t be afraid or worried about the timing of it all, or how it will all play out. He’s never late and He usually doesn’t do things the way we would think.

Stay open to whatever it may be. 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 – 9-13-14

Philippians 4:11-12 (NKJV) 11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: 12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

We all have wants, desires, goals and dreams. We may have career goals… a special field of work where we want to be making our living. Or maybe we want a spouse, someone to spend our life with. There are so many thing we can want or desire.

And these things can all be good. There’s nothing wrong with having these dreams and desires.

Sometimes, though, we can tend to get ahead of ourselves and ahead of God with some of our dreams and goals. We know where we want to be and we want to be there right now.

But there are different seasons in our lives and we need to be careful to move within the season where God has us at this moment in time, not too soon or too late. If we get ahead of God or fall behind Him we can miss out on the blessings and the lessons He has for us right here, right now.

So if your career isn’t quite where you want it to be right now, seek God. Ask Him if you’re where you need to be. Maybe that next step up the ladder is just around the corner but He wants us to learn to be satisfied and content where He has us right now before He lets us move on.

Maybe our future wife or husband is waiting for us too, but there are things that God is working out before we get to be with them.

Be content in all things. Trust God. Then and only then will He allow us to move on to the next season!

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 – 7-28-14

(Psalm 20:6-7 NKJV)  Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven With the saving strength of His right hand. {7} Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the LORD our God.

Prayer should be the way of life for every believer. It is the most important time of our day, every day. We go to God for anything and everything, not just when we are in trouble. Not just when someone we know is in trouble. We go to God for anything at all, talk to Him and listen for Him.

When trouble comes our way, we don’t run to our family, friends or anyone else first; we go to God. We wait on Him for His answer; He will show us how to get out of the trouble we are in. Then we simply trust Him to lead us and we take the steps He shows us to take.

We don’t take things into our own hands, and try to fix it or figure it out without Him. We wait on Him.

(Isaiah 40:31 NKJV)  But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-315-0902

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