Tag: Bible verse about surrendering to God

Bible Verse of The Day – 8-5-19

Luke 22:41-42 (NKJV) 41 And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and prayed, 42 saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.”

Jesus set the ultimate example here for us to follow.

No, not just in the fact He laid down His life.

Even though that is the most critical part of the big picture, the fact that He submitted to the Father and set His own will aside is what led Him to follow through and give His life for us.

Had he chosen to follow His own will, as He stated Himself when He asked if it would be possible to take “this cup” from Him, there would have been no crucifixion.

Regardless of what His flesh felt, Jesus did the Father’s will and died in your place and my place on that cross.

That is the example we all need to look at and follow each day, to the best of our ability, led by the Holy Spirit.

Our flesh is weak, but strong at the same time.

It is weak when it comes to surrendering to God. But it is strong when it comes to wanting its own way. It is a paradoxical tug of war constantly going on within us.

But, if we can grasp the fact that Jesus was 100% human then we can also begin to see and understand that we, too, need to learn how to submit our will to God, deferring to Him when we make our choices.

Sometimes this can be much easier than we might think. Other times it can be a very difficult thing, as it was for Jesus in the verses above, as our flesh rises up and does battle with our spirit.

As we grow in our relationship with God, though, it becomes much easier. And when those extremely difficult crossroads come along, we will be much more inclined to choose God’s will over ours.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 12-28-18

Psalm 55:16 (NKJV) 16 As for me, I will call upon God, And the Lord shall save me.

God is willing to help us be all that we can be. We just have to be willing to give Him the fleshly desires that end up hurting us.

There are things in life that will give us a false sense of comfort and make us feel good for a short time. And there will be times we will desire them more than anything else, even if they are bad for us. We will put them before our family, our friends, our health and even before our love and commitment toward the Lord.

This is a scary place to be.

I know someone that is struggling today with this very sad and seemingly hopeless situation. He has lost everything, and he sits in prison waiting to be judged for actions he took while under the influence of something that he desired more than anything else.

Where is the comfort in that now?

Christ will help us put these destructive desires behind us today, if we are willing to open our hearts, cry out to Him, and then let Him lead us to freedom.

Psalm 6:4 (NKJV) 4  Return, O Lord, deliver me! Oh, save me for Your mercies’ sake!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-30-18

Matthew 10:39 (NKJV) 39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

Our lives are not our own. Yes, we can make decisions and choices as to what we want to do each day. We can go here or go there. We can make plans and pursue certain things. But those are just “surface” things.

If we really look at our lives, they were given to us by the One who created us. Our lives are God-given, not the making of any human being.

God has given them to us. And in return, He wants us to give them back, so to speak. No, He’s not asking us to sacrifice our lives literally, dying for Him as a way of thanking Him.

Yes, there may be times when our faith could possibly literally cost us our life, but that’s not what Jesus is referring to here. He is talking about surrendering ourselves to Him on a daily basis, letting Him have eminence over our lives in a way that benefits the kingdom of God.

Repentance, loving others, forgiving those who hurt us, sowing our finances into God’s kingdom, helping those in need of help, showing mercy to those around us and so many other things are all part of laying our lives down and surrendering to Him.

Jesus also mentioned “taking up our cross”.

Luke 9:23 (NKJV) 23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

We “take up our cross” by surrendering to Him. Our cross isn’t a specific thing, like an ailment or affliction, like some might say. An affliction is just that, an affliction. Afflictions are not God’s way of compelling us into surrendering to Him.

Taking up our cross involves all of the things mentioned above regarding serving others and serving God, by making ourselves available to Him, to be used in whatever way He needs us to be used.

Children of God, it’s time for us to lay our lives down, to surrender them to Him in a way that we have never done before.

And as we do this, as we lose our lives for Him, only then will we truly find them.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-12-14

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

Pastor Ellie and I were talking today. I was sharing with her about some things that I had seen had been done by some Christians that were really not godly at all, but rather hateful.

This particular group of believers had made some very derogatory statements about a nation and its people.

She asked me “how can they be Christians and still think like that?”. I pondered on it for a moment and I heard God say “because there is still a part of them that they have not surrendered to Me yet”.

And so it is with so many of us. We follow Christ and we live our lives as believers… Christians. But there are still little pieces of our lives that we haven’t given over to God and allowed Him to touch or change.

Think about some of the things that we see some Christians continue to do for years after they become followers of Christ and are washed in His blood.

Racism, sexual immorality, drunkenness, thievery, dishonesty and the list can go on. You see, if we are still engaging in these things habitually, on a regular basis, it’s only because we have refused to let God change that part of us.

So we challenge you today to let God check you. Let Him peek into the deepest, darkest recesses of your heart and show you what’s there.

And then let Him touch you there and begin to root that evil thing out of you once and for all.

There’s not a single one of us who doesn’t have something that we have held onto, and today’s a good day to let it go, in the name of Jesus.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-315-0902

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