Tag: knowing God

Bible Verse of The Day – 3-6-14

Matthew 6:33 (NKJV) But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Put God First.

We often receive emails from people asking us how to know what God’s purpose is for their life. We also get emails asking us how to become closer to God.

Have you ever wondered about this in your own life?

The answer to this is actually in the two questions above.

You see, the key to knowing God’s purpose for your life is to draw closer to God. So as we spend time pondering on how to become closer to God, we’re also delaying finding our purpose in life.

So how do we know our purpose in life? Here’s the key.

We stop worrying about what our purpose is. We spend time drawing near to God and pressing in to Him, growing our relationship with Him.

As we do this, we become more in tune with His spirit and learn to hear His voice more clearly and as we build our relationship with Him, we also become more obedient. And this happens without us even thinking specifically about what our purpose is!

So today, if we are children of God, instead of worrying about “trying to find our purpose” in life, let’s just press in to Him and learn to love Him, being thankful and obedient.

In doing this, we will begin to walk out His calling and purpose for our lives without having to “work at it” so hard and spend so much time trying to figure out what it is that we’re “supposed to be doing”.

As we do this, we will develop a huge sense of peace in our lives that we’ve never known before and we will know that we are on the path God has set before 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 – 10-22-13

Hebrews 11:6 (NKJV) But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

So many times we hear this scripture quoted when someone is teaching about the fact that we have to have faith in order to please God. Today, though, let’s take a look at the last few words of this verse: “those who diligently seek Him”.

We can have faith. We can know that He is God. We can understand that He created everything we see.

But who does He reward? Those who diligently seek Him!

You see, we can have all of those other attributes. We can have a good knowledge of so many Biblical things. But if we don’t diligently seek God, yearning to know Him more intimately on a daily basis, we cannot please Him and we will not be rewarded.

God wants our all. He wants our heart… 100% of it. So if we truly want to be who He wants us to be, we need to do everything we can to build our relationship with Him.

This doesn’t mean we need to be more religious, spend more time in church, quote more scriptures or invite more people to Bible study. This means that we need to “press into Him” and seek Him with our whole heart.

Then we will know Him better and then we will be pleasing Him and then we will be rewarded!

Push all distractions aside and seek Him. It’s worth every bit of effort that it takes.

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 – 12-14-12

(Genesis 32:24-28 NKJV)  Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day. {25} Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. {26} And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.” But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!” {27} So He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob.” {28} And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

Jacob wrestled with the angel of God. He spent his energy to prevail. He did not rely on someone else to do it for him!

Because of Jacob’s persistence, the angel blessed him. Had Jacob given up, he would never have received God’s blessing. He would have limped away with nothing more than what he had before, except a displaced hip socket.

We need to be more like Jacob and so many others in God’s word who struggled, wrestled and persisted until they heard from God!

It’s not always about getting what we want. More often, it’s about pressing into God and waiting on Him, not making any moves until we hear from Him.

We can’t rely on others to do this for us. We can ask others to help us learn, but when push comes to shove, we bear the responsibility of building our relationship with God.

Press into Him. Pull on Him. Wait on Him. Do whatever it takes to know Him better and walk more closely with Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Bible Verse of The Day – 8-2-12

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

Love the Lord your God with all your heart. This is the foundation to living a life that honors God in every possible way.

After yesterday’s Bible Verse of The Day about “casual Christians”, we had some people write to us and ask how to go beyond being lukewarm, or what it means not to be a casual Christian.

The best way to explain it is this: “Being so in love with God that every aspect of your life exemplifies Christ and brings honor to His name.”

It’s not something that we do just by following rules or a set of laws. As we grow closer to God, our lives are transformed a little at a time, and before we know it, so much about us changes; the things we say, the way we treat others, the entertainment that we take in… it all changes. Why? Because we love God and want to please Him.

So how do we get so close to God that this happens? We make a conscious effort to know Him. We can’t just know about Him. We have to know Him. We get to know Him by spending time in His word, learning everything that we can about who He wants us to be and how He wants to interact in our lives. And we learn to listen for His voice and obey it!

It all boils down to the condition of our heart. As we allow God to change our heart, we will become closer to Him. A hard heart will always keep God at a distance. A heart that has been touched and softened by God will want to be as close as possible to Him.

We challenge you to let God change your heart and draw you close to Him!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-4-12

(Mat 5:8 NKJV)  Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.

How do we get pure in our hearts?  By receiving, believing and following Christ, and then repenting and turning from our ways of doing things and following His commandments.

Jesus’ blood cleanses us as we receive Him as our Lord and Savior. Do you know the song, “What can wash me white as SNOW, Nothing but the BLOOD of Jesus!!”?  That song says it all, it’s the blood of Jesus that has given us the freedom to go to God and have a relationship with Him. Thank God for Jesus and His blood that was so pure, so clean, and so perfect.

Reading God’s Word will allow us to get to know Him, the person that He is, the things He loves, the things He hates, and so forth.

As we allow God to cleanse us, and we work to keep the junk out on a daily basis, we will see more and more of God in our lives. (James 4:8) God wants to draw near to us…we just have to want to draw near to Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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