Tag: Bible verses about surrendering to God

Bible Verse of The Day – 2-7-18

Isaiah 64:8 (NKJV) 8 But now, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.

Surrendering it all to God is the most powerful position to be in.

When we can say, “God, you can have me and everything I own”, we are setting ourselves up for His great and mighty work to be done, in us and through us. But we are also getting ready for a deeper and more meaningful relationship with Him than we have ever experienced.

Getting to this point requires us to take steps ahead of time that will help us to see that we truly need to surrender everything. And the only way to get there is to start at the beginning.

  • We need to give God the room He needs in our daily routine. That means we can plan out our day, but we need to listen and stay alert to God’s promptings. Sometimes God will warn us about specific things. He may see danger for us, and through His promptings He will cause us to think twice about heading in that direction. Listen to those little promptings, so we don’t have to change our plans over and over again.

I’ve done this many times, and I’ve learned from my errors. It’s better to go to Him first and ask about certain occasions, rather than having to change things up after we’ve made plans and spent money, etc., to carry it out.

  • We need to spend personal one-on-one time with Him. And yes, we have to do this even when we have a busy day. God should be the first One we talk to every day. He will start us off on the right track.
  • We need to pick up our Bible and read it. His word will change us. That is a promise. Even if we don’t understand it word for word, it’s OK. The Holy Spirit will help us and bring understanding. He’s Amazing!

When we begin to let God into our daily routine, we will see the importance of surrendering to Him. And our hearts won’t regret it or fight it, but we will welcome our Potter even more.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 8-16-17

Psalm 51:17 (NKJV) 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart – These, O God, You will not despise. 

Brokenness. That word alone conjures up images of someone who is hurting and in pain. That person has probably endured intense suffering and heartbreak of some kind. 

Nobody likes being broken. It hurts. It crushes our spirit. 

But being broken is where we need to be before God can truly work in our lives. 

This doesn’t mean that we have to go through tragedy to be broken. But it does mean that we have to reach a place where we bow before God and lay ourselves at His feet, in surrender. 

Isaiah 66:2 (NKJV) 2 For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist,” Says the Lord. “But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word. 

Reverence for God is a huge part of being broken before Him. When we have reached a place of beginning to understand His awesomeness, and we develop a holy fear of Him, then, and only then, will we truly understand being broken before Him. 

Many times we will tell God to break us. We pray for Him to break our will and humble us, bringing us into complete submission to Him. But this is a false notion. God does not desire to break us. He desires for us to come to Him in our brokenness. 

Asking God to break us is akin to giving Him permission to cause trials and calamity to come raining down upon us in order to drive us to the ground and have no other place to turn, except to Him. 

This is a dangerous prayer, to say the least. Listen to these words of Jesus on this topic. 

Matthew 21:44 (NKJV) 44 And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.” 

Those are words of powerful truth on this topic. 

So it’s critically important that we understand this and let God adjust our thinking on this subject. Once we get this, it changes the way we see things, perceive things and do things. 

We will no longer pray and ask God to break us. Instead, we will pray and tell God how much we love Him, honor Him and need Him. And as we do this, we will find ourselves kneeling or laying at His feet, in total surrender, broken before Him. 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-10-17

Deuteronomy 10:21 (NKJV) 21 He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.

Going through times and seasons that are out of our control should be a normal thing for those that are leaning on God. But no matter how much we want to make it a normal part of our lives, our flesh loves to have that control over things. We are in a constant battle with wanting to have control.

We think having control over things will bring peace. But, peace will actually come when we let God have control.

God is teaching those who will give all control over to Him how to walk in such a peace.

This doesn’t happen overnight. It takes some time to learn. But each time we give a situation, circumstance, or a problem over to Him, and just let Him unfold it, we will get better and quicker at going to Him with everything.

His faithfulness is greater than anything else. We just need to allow ourselves to see it by letting Him help.

Psalm 46:1 (NKJV) 46 God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 4-12-17

John 8:36 (NKJV) 36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

Salvation, healing and restoration take place on the inside of us when Jesus comes into our lives, when we believe God’s word to be true.

People say “well I don’t see or feel any change. Sometimes I still do the same old things I did before I was a Believer, a Christian or child of God”.

When we believe God’s Word, and all that He says about His Son, Jesus Christ, and we repent and put our faith in Him as our Savior, things begin to change on the inside of us. Whether we feel or see the change or not, we are being changed.

Some things are going to take us longer than other things. However, it has begun!

The most important thing to remember is that we will change depending on what we surrender to Him and depending on what we allow Him to work on in us.

If there are things that we feel we are still in bondage to, we need to ask God why. Maybe we are holding on to a small, but yet significant piece of something.

As we let go of those things and surrender them to Him, we will see change taking place in us, a little at a time.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-28-17

Matthew 19:21 (NKJV) 21 Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

This verse has been used literally millions of times to teach people about the importance of not letting material possessions or worldly wealth come between us and our relationship with God. And rightly so.

But God showed me today that there is also a symbolic side to this verse that many of us may never have noticed. A double meaning that will show us even more about this.

When Jesus told the rich young ruler to sell all he had, he was also referring to selling himself out, surrendering himself completely to God.

Because we can sell all of our worldly goods, all of our material possessions, and still not enter the kingdom of God.

You might ask “how can that be?”.

You see, we can surrender our possessions and still never fully surrender ourselves. We can give those things away, but hold a grudge in our heart about it.

So if our heart isn’t right, and we give all of our material goods away, but we still don’t surrender our hearts, we have lost everything. We have no worldly goods, and we still don’t have a strong walk with God.

2 Corinthians 9:7 (NKJV) 7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

So let’s be sure that we follow both parts of this verse; the literal part and the symbolic part!

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 – 6-8-15

Philippians 3:7(NKJV) 7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.

We may think at times, when things are being stripped away from us, that we have failed; we have taken a loss.

But we can reassure you that the loss we may be experiencing, might very well be for our gain!

Surrendering our lives to Christ, will cause us to have to let go of some things that may get in the way of our journey with Him. Some of those things, we may have worked long and hard for. It’s not necessarily that we are losing them because of anything we have done. It’s just that God knows what is right for us.

Although these things may feel like a loss, believe God when He tells us that as we follow Him, He will make us the HEAD and not the TAIL. That we are above only and not beneath!

Deuteronomy 28:13(NKJV) 13 And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them.

Don’t be afraid, disappointed or sad, when we see things being stripped away. Nothing in this life is more fulfilling than walking close to God. It is in Him we will find happiness, JOY and everlasting LIFE!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-315-0902

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