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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-2-17

Matthew 5:16 (NKJV) 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

What makes our light shine before men? When we do good works.

That’s right, when we step out and do something good for someone. It doesn’t have to be something big, something expensive, something great. Just something good, kind, and done with the right intentions.

What are right intentions? Doing something good and not looking for or expecting anything at all in return.

It can be a very small deed, but with the right intentions it will cause it to stand out and shine big.

The more good things we do with the right intentions, the more our light will shine, and the more God will be glorified in it. Amen.

As we walk out our door today, listen, watch and pray for an opportunity to do a good work, that the light in us will be able to shine brightly, giving God all the Glory!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-28-17

Matthew 6:3-4 (NKJV) 3 But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.

Doing something nice for someone, something out of the ordinary, always makes us automatically want to share it with others. It makes a good topic for conversation and it just gives us a good feeling. But there is something that we will need to be watchful for when we share.

For instance, are we sharing so we feel better about ourselves? Or to gloat about what we did? Are we sharing to try to get people to like us, look up to us or even accept us?

Any of these reasons can get us off track and away from the purpose behind doing what we are doing.

God may occasionally use our story, our testimony and charitable deeds to help others in their situation. Sometimes it is a wonderful and humbling time, even for us to reflect on as we share them and are reminded of His goodness.

The importance of waiting for Him to show us if and when He wants us to share them will help us share when it is most effective, and it touches people deeply.

Keeping our experiences and our good deeds secretly between us, the person we may have helped, and God is hard to do and takes discipline. But it is very rewarding.

Remember the next time we go about doing something good… don’t be so quick to tell everyone. Hold onto it. Don’t seek the praise and rewards from man.

Instead, thank God for the opportunity and share our excitement with Him, and He will reward us openly.

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 – 9-22-17

1 Peter 4:10 (NKJV) 10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

What a fulfilling feeling when we can take the gifts God has blessed us with and use them to help and love on others.

Don’t be shy and hide it. Don’t tuck it away. Walk in it and let it shine! Let the God-given gift work in you and come out.

Some people don’t really know what their gift is.

If that’s you, let’s take a moment and look at the things we do; the areas we are strong in and happy when we are doing them. For instance, with me, I love to help people and see them through their problems. I love to see people happy and smiling. I am always concerned about others. They grip my heart when they share their stories.

What is my gift? It would be helping others; the gift of helps.

For Pastor Curt, he loves to share his knowledge with others. It might be related to computers or some other kind of technology. It might be related to bass fishing when he’s taking others out on the water to catch fish. Or, more obviously, it might be related to God’s word and His plans for people. So, what is his gift? It would be the gift of teaching.

What are you passionate about? What is the one thing you do, that when you are doing it, makes you feel strong, happy, and confident?

That is your gifted area. It’s not hard to figure out or see the areas we are gifted in once we know what to look for or how to spot them. We just have to take the time to look.

Don’t hide it. Walk in it. Let God show you where you can let it shine.

God wants us to minister to one another with our gifts. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 8-15-17

John 12:32 (NKJV) 32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.”

Jesus has a way of drawing people to Him. He knows the moment we need Him and He waits for us to come. He’s not pushy, He’s not forceful. He is not manipulative or intimidating. He simply has a way about Him that gently draws us.

He is our example when ministering to others. We can see in His word how kindhearted He is. And He wants us to see, by His example, how we are to treat others.

When we go to Him in prayer and we confess our sins, He is quick to forgive us. And if we pay close attention to Him, and do what he tells us to, He is quick to help us out.

This is how we should be with others that come to us and share their situation with us. We can’t just look at them and say things or have thoughts like “Well, you’ve done this to yourself, so live with it”.

Just as Jesus is so forgiving, patient, kindhearted and loving with us, He wants us to express the same to others.

We are the little lights that walk this earth. Let us shine brightly and point the way to Jesus!

Matthew 5:16 (NKJV) 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

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 – 7-24-17

1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NKJV) 11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

As members of the body of Christ, we all have different needs during different seasons of our lives. Sometimes we feel like we can fly. Other times, depending on what we may be going through at that time, we might feel like we can barely walk.

But this is one of the reasons why we function as a body, so we can help and support each other when we need it.

It’s critical that we remember others and learn to reach out and help when we see a need. Sometimes a helping hand or an encouraging word can make a huge difference in someone’s life. Sometimes it can even mean the difference between hope and desperation for someone.

Helping others isn’t always easy. Nobody ever said it would be. But we need to always try to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes so we learn to recognize needs when they arise and understand the importance of being that helping hand for that person.

The biggest way to learn to help others is to remember how it feels when we are in need and someone helps us.

So, pray for each other. Comfort each other. And do whatever we can when a need arises.

It can change the life of a person in need when they see God’s light shine through 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 – 5-23-17

Philippians 2:3-4 (NKJV) 3 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. 4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

Sometimes when we are asked to do something that maybe we didn’t plan on doing, or that we have never done before, it can cause us to get a little aggravated, frustrated and uncomfortable. Sometimes it can even mess up our whole day and throw us for a loop, so to speak.

Learning how to respond to these types of situations can help us a great deal.

We are not always prepared for that question. “Would you help me with this?” Or “can you do this for me today?”.

How about the desperate last-minute-Joe, “can you pick me up? I don’t have any way to get to such and such a place and I have to be there now”?

These types of questions are usually put out there along with a feeling of urgency or pressure. This makes us feel very uncomfortable and we don’t know how to say no because we feel bad or we are caught off guard. But instead, we say yes and then we start to gripe about it.

When things like this come our way, remember, it’s OK to be uncomfortable or put out of our way at times to help someone. But we also need to have boundaries. Especially if it continues to interfere with our responsibilities.

Stepping out of our little comfort zone is good for us all. Being thrown off our schedule at times, because we have to do something for someone else, is good for us all.

But having a nice balance will help us to act in a mature and reasonable manner. Whether they like it or not, keep it balanced.

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 – When We Think You’re Done – 5-21-17

Greetings in the name of Jesus!

Have you ever been in a situation where you’ve helped someone through a situation, and you feel like you’ve gone above and beyond the call? You think you’re done with it, but God is saying otherwise!

We just recorded a new video on this topic, called “When We Think We’re Done”.

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Most times when we help others, we have one idea about it, but God has other ideas. So it’s up to us to choose whether we follow God’s leading or do what we think is right.

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We think you’ll find what we share quite interesting, especially in light of the fact that it’s based on our own experiences with these very same situations.

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Enjoy the rest of your day and be blessed in all you do.

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 – 4-28-17

John 10:18 (NKJV) 18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”

In this verse, Jesus is speaking about the fact that He will be laying down His life. He specifically says He will do it willingly. He also said that no one can take it from Him. He did what he did of His own accord.

As followers of Christ, we have His example to follow in our day to day lives.

We won’t usually be required to lay our lives down in the literal sense, whereby we cease to exist. But we should be willing to lay our lives down for others in many other ways.

God has blessed each and every one of us in many, many ways. We all have skills, talents and abilities that he has given us. We need to make sure that we are using those skills, abilities and talents to be a blessing to others around us.

All of us know someone who could use our help or assistance in some way. Maybe it’s something small. Maybe it’s something major. Either way, we are accountable to our Father and we need to make sure we’re handling our blessings properly.

Many reading this have been blessed financially. If that’s the case, those finances should also be used to help others, as God leads and directs. Many times it’s easy to spend our money on things that we don’t really need. Because we are barraged with advertisements and social media, we feel like we’re missing out on things if we don’t run out and buy them.

But, as with our skills and talents, we need to be willing to obey God’s voice and use the finances He has blessed us with to bless others who might be in need. It’s always easy to think that “someone else will do it”. But we need to remember that we are that someone else.

And as we follow Jesus and grow in our walk with Him, we should find it easier and easier to lay our lives down for others.

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 – 3-21-17

Philippians 2:3 (NKJV) 3 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

Having the right intentions when doing things for others is the key in being a blessing and shining God’s light. Our motives have to be for the right reasons.

If we help someone out, do it because we really want to, not because we want to get something out of it. We shouldn’t do it because we feel pressured into it, but because we honestly and truly want to help them, with no strings attached.

Be careful when helping others that we don’t get stuck constantly being the one to pull them out of their troubles. God may use us for a season and then pull us away.

This isn’t to be mean or hurtful in any way. But seasons come and go, and sometimes the season for helping one person or situation may end so that the season for another may begin.

Having the right heart and discernment in what we do stems from knowing God, and getting close to 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 – 3-14-17

Matthew 5:16 (NKJV) 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

When the need for help calls, do we hear it? Are we willing to give up whatever we have going on to reach out? Or does it have to be convenient for us? Does it have to fit in our schedule, time frame or plan?

It’s easy to help when it’s convenient. But, when it’s not convenient and we have to put our things aside, this is when it can be very challenging.

This is when we will have to hold ourselves, our thoughts, our words, our judgments from rising up and being negative about the situation or the person(s) involved.

We have been called to help those who are sick.

Mark 2:17 (NKJV) 17 When Jesus heard it, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

Those that fall down again and again. Those that mess up over and over. Those are the sick. They need someone to stand with them at times. Someone to help shine the light on that dark place within them, that they can’t seem to fight on their own. We can’t give up on them.

There may also be times when God will ask us to pull back in certain situations for whatever reasons, and for however long.

In those moments, we must obey Him, even if we don’t understand it and it looks like we need to help. Sometimes staying out of a situation for a little while can be the help that person or situation needed.

Listen for God’s timing in helping. Stand strong and don’t judge it one way or the other.

Thank God for the opportunity to be a light in a dark place or situation.

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 – The Hands and Feet of God – 2-12-17

God has told us that we are to be His hands and feet. We just published a new video on this topic.

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Have you ever needed help with something and felt like nobody was there to help you? We’ve probably all had this happen at one time or another.

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Jesus taught us about this using the story of the good Samaritan. And this is still relevant today!

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Enjoy the rest of your day and be blessed in all you do.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
PO Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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