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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-4-26

Ecclesiastes 12:13 (NLT) 13 That’s the whole story. Here now is my final conclusion: Fear God and obey his commands, for this is everyone’s duty.

This verse is a perfect summary of what our relationship with God should be; loving God enough to reverently fear Him and obey Him—doing what He says is right.

While most of us tend to complicate our walk with God, the foundation of it all comes down to the statement made in the verse above.

Yes, each of us is unique. And our relationship with Him will be unique because of that. But the foundation it is built on should be what the Word of God tells us, and that never changes.

So, knowing this, how do we go about it?

It really isn’t complicated.

Jesus said it perfectly when confronted by the Pharisees. They asked Him, “what is the most important commandment?”.

He readily answered with this: You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.

And that is it, spoken very succinctly by Jesus Himself, God with us.

So what will we do with our lives? What is important to us? What really matters to us in our day-to-day priorities?

Those are pretty sobering questions if we ponder them seriously.

Only we can answer that. Only we can make the choices that govern our lives.

And in the end, let us be found guilty of only one thing: running the race in a way that we may obtain the prize, finding our joy not in who we are, but in the One we pursue.

1 Corinthians 9:24 (NKJV) 24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.

Amen 🙏🏻

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-20-26

Matthew 22:37 (NKJV) 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

Of all the commands, this is the most important; to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind.

There is nothing above it. And this should be our priority every day that we live; putting God above all else.

As we were recently traveling, God dropped some questions into my spirit.

Let’s discuss them so we can learn and grow.

What is our walk with God built on?

It’s important for us to understand what the foundation is that’s supporting our relationship with God.

Is it built on routine or ritual?

Many times, our relationship with Him can fall into nothing more than a series of routines, habits, and rituals. We repeat the same behaviors daily, never stopping to ask ourselves why we’re doing what we do.

This leads to a dead relationship that is built only on rote, mechanical actions that involve only reflexive behavior, not our heart. There is no fruit in it.

Is our relationship built on what we’ve seen others do (mimicry)? Is it based only on what we have heard others tell us it should be?

If we’re not careful, we may tend to imitate what we have seen in the lives of other believers, mimicking their behavior. This often happens because we don’t spend the necessary time growing our own relationship. So, we simply imitate what we see in others.

Do we just fly by the seat of our pants, doing what we think is right?

If we fail to spend time in God’s word, learning of Him and maturing as a believer, we can wander aimlessly, having no firm footing and no direction. We lack understanding and wisdom that would be gained if we would only open His word and feed on it.

Our relationship with God is what we make it. It will grow to the extent that we want it to.

We must put forth the effort. We will see growth when we put in the work.

And in the end, it comes down to one factor; our heart.

Do we love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, putting Him above all else, even when that means laying down our old habits, routines, and rituals?

Only we can answer that question.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-9-26

Mark 7:5 (LSB) 5 And the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?”

As Jesus become more well-known, and the religious leaders of His day became more zealous in their efforts to discredit Him, they presented Him with many questions that they thought would cause Him to stumble in His answers and expose Himself as a false prophet or teacher.

The question above was one of the questions that they used to accuse Jesus of not properly educating His disciples.

What they failed to discern and prepare for was the ability of Jesus to know their hearts, and the fitting responses He so quickly fired back at them.

In this case, Jesus didn’t address the lack of hand-washing on the part of His disciples.

Instead, He scorched the religious leaders with their insistence on putting the useless traditions of man before the commandments of God.

Mark 7:6 (LSB) 6 And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far away from Me.

Jesus immediately rebuked them with the words of Isaiah, proclaiming their hypocrisy. For they honored God with their lips despite their hearts being far from Him.

And a short time later He explained to the crowd exactly what He meant.

Mark 7:14-15 (LSB) 14 And after He called the crowd to Him again, He began saying to them, “Listen to Me, all of you, and understand: 15 there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.

His point in this was that what defiles us (causes us to be dirty) is what comes out of our hearts, not what goes into our mouths.

But the larger emphasis was on the hypocrisy of the religious leaders’ failure to love God’s commandments and laws as much as they loved their traditions.

Interpreting this into New Testament lingo means loving God wholeheartedly, and putting Him FIRST, before our habits, traditions, routines, and rituals.

This is what God asks and expects of us. Let us gain understanding in this and apply it to our lives daily 🙏

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-16-25

Psalm 102:25-27 (LSB) 25 Of old You founded the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands. 26 Even they will perish, but You will remain; And all of them will wear out like a garment; Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed. 27 But You are the same, And Your years will not come to an end.

Our lives are temporary.

The earth is temporary.

The heavens are temporary.

Everything we pursue and chase after while we are here is temporary.

What is not temporary?

God.

God is eternal. He always has been, He is now, and He will be forevermore.

Understanding this changes our perspective. It rearranges our priorities.

It shows us where our energy and efforts should be directed. And it is not on the things of this world.

So many times, we lose sight of the fact that our life is but a moment; a mere flicker that is momentary.

Does all of this seem morbid?

It isn’t. It is factual. And it should grab our attention. It should jar us awake us if we are serious about our walk with God; our eternity.

Where our time, attention, and money are spent shows us where our heart is. It reveals our heart, and shows us our priorities.

Let us love God more. Let us learn of Him and seek Him daily, drawing closer to Him with each day that passes.

This is not cliche’. It is truth that we must understand and embrace.

We love you all.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-9-25

1 Samuel 15:22 (LSB 22 And Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.

Happy Wednesday!

Today we’d like to continue with a topic that we discussed on Monday; obeying God.

As we also mentioned on Monday, everything about our lives flows from the heart; our thoughts, our speech, and our actions.

So, whether we obey God or not also stems from the condition of our heart.

A hard, angry, or bitter heart is unlikely to conform to God’s will, and more apt to follow our own will. Things such as anger and similar emotions almost always lead to rebellion.

Pride will also cause us to rebel, preferring ourselves over others.

And a higher opinion of view of ourselves will also cause us to put others lower on our list of priorities than we place ourselves.

This is why it is so important that we humble ourselves before God.

Humility will make us more pliable in God’s hands, causing us to conform to what He wants, instead of what we want.

And as we remain humble, the Holy Spirit will begin to transform us, so that our desires heed to God’s will, and we begin to honor His desires instead of our own.

We transition from selfish to selfless.

This is typically a gradual progression that can take years to happen. Realistically, it is a lifelong process that has seasons of growth spurts as we walk through various trials and situations that cause us to put our roots down deeper in Him.

And what is at the root of our obedience? What causes us to begin putting ourselves second, and Him first?

Our love for God.

Our love for Him grows as we mature and purposely make the effort to learn of Him.

And when that love is in full bloom, the only thing that will fill our heart and make it feel complete is more time spent with Him, studying His word, communing with Him, and drawing ever nearer to Him.

Jeremiah 29:13 (NKJV) 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-16-25

Micah 6:8 (NKJV) 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?

Have you ever noticed that we humans tend to overcomplicate things?

We do it in many aspects of our lives. And we often do it in our walk with God.

Sometimes we need to pay attention to the simple things. The things that are right in front of us but somehow overlooked.

Here are some examples.

Loving God.

Do we get so caught up in the hows and whys that we lose sight of the actual act of loving Him?

Do we put more emphasis on our theology and our doctrine than on our relationship with Him?

Loving others.

Have we allowed our “status” as a child of God to cloud our vision and cause us to look at others as being less than we are?

Do we speak the name of Jesus, but forget how Jesus walked here on earth, healing the sick and lifting the brokenhearted, sharing God’s love with them?

Doing the right thing.

Have we forgotten that we are ambassadors for Christ, called to walk out the call of God on our lives with our actions and our behavior?

Keeping our word.

The Bible says in Mathew 5:37 that we must let our yes be yes, and our no be no. We need to be true to our word, doing the righteous thing when faced with difficult choices.

Make no mistake. It is important for us to learn the deeper things; the mysteries of God.

But in the process of doing that, let us also remember the simpler things!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-18-24

2 Kings 22:11 (NKJV) 11 Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, that he tore his clothes.

Our sincerity in our walk with God is more important than we know.

And if we look at it closely, we will understand that it revolves around what is in our heart.

In the verse above, king Josiah had realized that the nation of Judah had neglected God and their relationship with Him.

They had abandoned Him.

It happened by no fault of their own. The generations preceding them had slowly left God behind, trading Him for idols and false gods.

But when Josiah discovered the truth about their situation, he immediately tore his clothing as was the Jewish custom when something terrible had happened.

More importantly, though, he took steps to rectify the situation and get the people of Judah back on track.

So it should be for us.

Our walk with God should be the highest priority in our life. Everything else must come after.

And when we see that we have lapsed somewhere, fixing it must be what we focus on.

As with Josiah, the state of our heart must be one that is soft and pliable; moldable by God.

Life, and the things we encounter, can cause our hearts to become hard and callous. A heart in this condition does not easily respond to God’s promptings or the conviction of the Holy Spirit.

The best remedy for this is for us to recognize our condition and to lay ourselves repentantly at the feet of Jesus, asking Him to teach us His ways.

And He will willingly do that for each of us, no questions asked.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-6-24

1 Samuel 16:18 (LSB) 18 Then one of the young men answered and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is a skillful musician, a mighty man of valor, a warrior, one who is understanding in speech, and man of fine form; and Yahweh is with him.”

The life of David would be perfect for a case study of someone used by God for his qualities, and despite his faults.

He is an example of someone who loved God, working diligently to do what was right and honorable in His eyes.

The verse above listed David’s attributes; skillful musician, a man of valor, a warrior, sensible, physically attractive.

And finally, it was said that God’s presence was with him.

As I have recently been working my way through 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel again, I have been paying close attention specifically to David and the things he did.

He was truly a man after God’s heart. An honorable man who, despite being a warrior, also displayed God’s mercy and compassion toward Saul, who had tried to kill him numerous times.

On multiple occasions, David had opportunities to easily kill Saul. But he refused to do so, knowing that Saul was anointed by God as Israel’s king.

Seeing this really impacted me and got me thinking. It caused me to examine myself and ask if I would have been able to do the same had I been in David’s shoes at those moments.

And it caused me to ask God to continue to do a work in my heart and life, transforming me more each day as I surrender myself to Him, that I might be as David was; a man after God’s own heart.

May we all have a heart like David’s, wanting to please God and bring glory and honor to His name in all we do, even despite ourselves.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-2-24

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.

This is the greatest commandment of all.

It should get our full attention.

And it should be where we put our greatest efforts.

All else comes after this. For if we get this right, many other things will fall into place in our lives.

With that said, we need to look at some of the ways this is overlooked and improperly prioritized.

Humanity has a sin problem. We wrestle with lust, fornication, drunkenness, pride, thievery, etc.

We fight loneliness, anger, bitterness, and we hold grudges. We struggle with forgiving others.

And then one day someone tells us that God is the solution to these things. And they are correct. He is.

But if we pursue a relationship with God solely to ask Him to fix our problems, we are in it for the wrong reasons. We have a mistaken perspective.

Our pursuit of God should be for who He is, seeking forgiveness and the redemption of our sinful selves, not just for Him to fix our problems.

When we pursue Him with mistaken motives, our relationship with Him is doomed to failure before it even starts.

Why?

Because if we go to Him looking only for solutions to our problems, and those solutions fail to come, or come more slowly than we hoped for, many will walk away claiming that “it didn’t work” for them.

But when we seek Him for who He is, learning to love Him more than life itself, He will help us overcome our sin in ways that defies human understanding and logic.

And our lives will be transformed because He is moving and working in us as we draw near to Him and seek Him with our whole heart.

It all comes down to having the right motives and the proper perspective. And as our love for Him grows, and we learn to fully surrender to Him, He will begin to set us free from the things that had held us captive for so long.

Jeremiah 29:13 (NKJV) 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-28-24

Mark 12:30 (NKJV) 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

If we love God with all of our heart we will truly prosper in this life.

Loving God with all our heart will cause us to live righteously. And that, my friend, is what a “Christian Walk” is all about. Our walk with Christ is an example to others.

As I ponder today on the beautiful verse above, I realize that loving the Lord God with all our heart is a place we will grow into if we truly go after Him with every ounce of our being!

In doing so, we must want to invest our life in Him. We must let go of some things that stand tall in our hearts, and He must be the tallest, towering above everything else.

Why does this have to be?

Why can’t we have other things that we love and cherish? We absolutely can have those things that we love and cherish if they remain in their proper place.

If we have things in our life that we put before God, they are the things we must focus on putting in their proper place.

It takes time to realize this, and time for the adjustment, but we must start somewhere.

Now, the result of making these very hard adjustments is that we will begin to see our life change. A little at a time we will begin to make God-led, righteous choices.

Why?

Because we reach a point where what matters to Him means more than what matters to us.

And because we want what He wants, we will ask Him more and more for His answers, and He will show us great and mighty things as we rely on Him! Amen.

Jeremiah 33:3 (NKJV) 3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries 
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Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 4-8-24

Isaiah 55:9 (NKJV) 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

I love my God with my whole heart.

The love that I have for Him transcends what can be expressed with human thoughts or mere words.

Why do I love Him this way?

There are far too many reasons. But let me try to put some of them on paper so He will receive the glory and honor due Him.

He is a God of mercy. He forgave me and adopted me as His child when I deserved punishment for my sins.

He is a God of compassion. He drew me to Himself to offer me His redemption through Christ while I was still a vile sinner.

He is the God who heals me. He delivered and healed me from asthma, setting me completely free after battling the “incurable” disease for over 30 years.

He is the God who provides for my every need. He has kept me and sustained me through many seasons of famine, even during times when I had almost nothing left and was about to lose even those things.

And He is a God who never gives up on me. He embraced me when I was lost and wandering, having no understanding of my sinful condition, and He made me a new creation in Christ.

His creation is rich in breathtaking beauty.

His ways blow my mind. They are more than anyone can comprehend.

His sovereignty is more powerful than anyone can conceive, working and moving in ways that are a mystery to even the most intelligent minds.

This is not about me. I am not special.

God will do all these things for you. All it takes is a humble heart and a willingness to surrender to Him.

Will you do that today? He is waiting.

Jeremiah 29:13 (NKJV) 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Hampstead, NC 28443

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