Tag: resting in God

Bible Verse of The Day – 9-15-14

Matthew 11:28 (NKJV) 28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Friday I spent the day at the courthouse, trying to help someone I care deeply about. This person made a mistake and acted out on their emotions. There was a part of them that truly thought they were doing the right thing, but they went about it in the wrong way.

How many times do we try to do something with good intentions in our hearts and it backfires on us? I spent all day, going from one courtroom to the other. I came home that day feeling awful, disappointed to some degree, and helpless for that person.

I went to bed early that night, but before falling asleep I thanked God, because in spite of how I felt, I knew God was in the midst of it all.

Did it turn out the way I was hoping for? Nope. We don’t always know how things are going to turn out, but as we pray and trust God, He does what is best for the situation and we have to leave it at that and let God’s plan unfold.

If you are feeling disappointed today, things might not have turned out the way you thought they would, and you are trying to figure out what happened and why, take a few minutes and spend some time, just you and God.

Talk it out with Him. He will hold your hand, help you through and bring understanding.

Rest in Him today, in spite of how your circumstances look.

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 – 7-16-14

Matthew 11:28-29 (NKJV) 28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Are you heavy laden? Are you burdened with the cares of the world and the things that come against you, relentlessly pounding against you like waves in a storm?

Sometimes we can feel so helpless and powerless to do anything about the battles that we face each day.

But God isn’t powerless. He sent His Son to give us rest. Jesus came so that we could lay our burdens down and find rest in Him.

The battles that we fight here on earth can suck the life from us. They can leave us feeling like we’re finished and can’t move ahead one more inch.

But it’s not over. We’re not finished and we’re not defeated.

Reach out and take hold of Jesus and rest in Him. Draw your strength from Him. Don’t worry right now about what you’re to do next. Just rest and let Him breathe new life into you.

We can never win battles when we are weary. It’s only after we find rest and get our strength again that we can see clearly and move forward.

But for today, rest.

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 – 5-3-14

(Matthew 11:28 NKJV)  “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Sometimes we just need to stop! Stop worrying, stop working so hard, stop trying to make things happen that we have no control over, just stop and rest.

We need to rest, not in our parents, not in our best friend, not in our spouse, and not in our pastor. We need to rest in God.

How do we find rest in God? We tell Him what it is that has us all in an uproar, thank Him for helping us through it and praise HIM… for we know He’s got it!!

Amen.

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 – 4-1-14

(Matthew 11:28 NKJV)  “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Rest is a good thing!

We all need to walk in this rest. We’re not just talking about laying down and taking a nap, although that is good too! But, resting from our thoughts, our planning, our trying to resolve it all by putting the pieces together.

Rest comes when we stay calm and say, “OK, God, I see this mountain in front of me and I’m just going to take one step at a time and let You guide me”.

Rest comes when we trust God. When we stay calm in a time when we would normally flip out.

Thinking hard or stressing over something will wear us out and drain us emotionally. What good are we then?

Just the other day we got so much rain that it caused a shifting underground and we had mud come into our sump pump, in our basement. It clogged the pump, leaving us with a flood in our basement and mud everywhere.

Now the first thing that wanted to take place in our minds was to flip out, and then be fearful about what to do. And the next thing, anxiety likes to add its little spin.

But, that is not resting or trusting in God. That is letting our emotions take over.

Surprisingly, we both stayed very calm and focused on what we needed to do to resolve the problem. By the end of the day, we were physically exhausted, but emotionally we were strong and very focused.

We managed to get all the water out and the pump working again. We slept really well that night.

We rested in God as we moved forward and resolved the problem.

Rest in Him today. He will help us resolve whatever we are going through!!

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 – 2-28-14

Matthew 11:29 (NKJV) Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Are you tired? Is life and all of its battles wearing you out? Are you longing for rest?

Jesus is calling you today.

We can try with all of our might to escape or fix the things that are wearing us down. But most times all we do is tire ourselves out even more.

If you want true rest, give your cares and burdens to Him. Let Him take them from you and hold you in His arms and show you true rest and true peace.

It’s time to lay down the yoke and burdens of this world and take on the yoke of Jesus.

There is no peace in this world like the peace He gives us.

So today, stop struggling and go to Him. Lay it all down.

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 – 4-8-13

(Isaiah 45:22 NKJV)  “Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

As we begin our new week let us look to Him. He will guide us and give us Peace on our journey.

Last week was just one of those weeks for us. It was coming from every direction! Smack, bang, boom! Oh and while your trying to get up, BAM, here’s another one!!

My husband and I were tired when Saturday came. He hooked up with a buddy and went fishing. I was just going to stay in and lay low. It seemed like it all hit me at once… it was more than I could handle.

So here I was, all alone…or so I thought. I was just letting it all out on my living room floor, crying like a child. There may have been no people around me and I thought no one could hear me, but I knew God was right beside me. Deep within me I felt His Peace and the words that came to me were,”it’s alright.”

These two words calmed me right down, and in moments I began to feel better. I felt a relief as I looked to Him. He took it all and the heaviness was gone. I got up and began to sing and went about my business. I had a great day!

He was there for me; He saved me in my time of need.

There is NO other like Him. Amen!!

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 – 1-10-13

(Philippians 4:4 NKJV)  Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!

We have two words for everyone today. The first is “Rejoice”!

No matter what we are facing, we need to learn to rejoice. When you feel like the whole world is against you, Rejoice! Be thankful for your blessings… the little things. Don’t get caught up in the negative, but thanks God for the good things.

The Israelites spent 40 years making a 12-day journey. Why? Because they grumbled and complained, instead of rejoicing.

(Philippians 4:6-7 NKJV)  Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; {7} and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

And as you rejoice, “be anxious for nothing”. Bring your requests to God and be thankful! Make your requests known and then rest in Him, knowing that His peace can overcome any kind of turmoil that tries to overtake you.

God’s peace can’t be understood or comprehended by our minds. But it will carry us through the storms and bring us safely to the other side where we can celebrate our victory in Christ.

Rejoice and rest in 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 – 11-13-12

(Matthew 6:34 NKJV)  “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Each night, as we go out for our evening walk, we get to this one hill. Both of us like to jog up this hill. We love the way it gets our heart beating and we feel like we conquered it.

It is a huge hill and about half way up sometimes if I lift up my head and look towards the top. I find my breathing and my mind start to panic, almost causing me to quit at times.

I am often reminded that what works best for me is to keep my head down and only focus on what is in front of me, not looking to see how far from the top I am. So I’ll force my head down and literally watch my feet taking one step at a time causing my breathing and my mind to focus again. Before I know it, I am at the top of that hill!!

It’s like this with God. He gives us desires and visions within our hearts and we need to remember that these things don’t always come to pass immediately. It takes time, one step at a time.

In this day we live in ,everything seems so fast-paced. If we want this or that they make it so easy to get things quickly. We have to be careful we don’t get stuck in this mindset when it comes to God and His plan for us.

When God shows us the things He would like to do with us or for us we can be prayerful and focus on how He would like us to reach the goal on a daily basis. If we look too far ahead it can cause us to panic, stress, or doubt that it can even be done.

So take one day at a time because that is enough.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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