Tag: spiritual discernment

Bible Verse of The Day – 8-8-14

Proverbs 2:3-5 (NKJV) 3 Yes, if you cry out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding, 4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures; 5 Then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

Discernment. It’s something every believer needs to have to live a godly life, but also something that so few of us really understand the importance of.

Probably the most common question people ask when it comes to discernment is “how do I get better discernment?”.

The answer is simple, but not necessarily easy. But here it is in a nutshell.

Spend time with God and in His word.

There you have it. We need to spend time in God’s word each and every day.

This doesn’t mean that we have to spend 2 or 3 hours studying every day, learning Greek and Hebrew and understanding every single thing there is to understand in His word. But we need to spend at least some time in it each day, even if it’s just 10-15 minutes, taking it in and letting it become a part of who we are.

As we do this, we will naturally spend more time communicating with God because we will hear Him more clearly. And we will get a clearer understanding of who He is and who He wants us to be.

And in this, we will develop razor-sharp discernment. Why? Because we will no longer be guessing about things. We will know what’s right for us in God’s eyes.

So take the time and make the effort, and reap the benefits of having sharper discernment.

It’s right there for us. We just have to want it badly enough to reach out and grab hold of it.

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 – 10-23-13

Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV) There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

Sometimes, no matter how hard we try, we just can’t understand why God does things the way He does them!

This can be true in happy things and in not-so-happy things.

Here’s the deal. God is so far above us in His ways that our heads just can’t wrap around a large percentage of what He does! But that’s OK, because we are not God. He is.

Now, one thing we need to understand is that we can still walk out what God wants of us. We just need to move by faith and learn to operate by the spirit, not by our flesh or our natural understanding.

This takes some work and lots of practice! Once we begin to get spiritual understanding, we won’t waste our time trying to make sense of what God does or what He asks us to do. We will just accept it, do it and move forward.

Does this sound like blind faith? Well, I guess some people might call it that. But if you have spiritual eyes and ears, and sharp discernment, there’s nothing blind about it at all.

Revelation 2:29 (NKJV) “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

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 – 7-23-13

Matthew 18:18 (NKJV) “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

As believers… followers of Christ, we have been given spiritual authority here on earth.

We have the ability to bind (to arrest) and the ability to loose (to set free). This is not a small matter or something to be taken lightly.

Sadly, the vast majority of the church, Christ’s body, knows little or nothing about this. Many people have been convinced that spiritual gifts no longer exist, therefore anything related to deliverance from demonic spirits or anything remotely related to the moving of the Holy Spirit in our lives is non-existent.

But Jesus told us that what we loose on earth will be loosed in heaven (meaning, in the spiritual realm) and what we bind on earth will be bound in heaven. And we need to take this seriously!

So as we go through each day, if we let God sharpen our discernment, He will show us where demonic influences are in operation, and we will be able to bind those spirits and loose God’s freedom, His Joy, His peace, etc.

Church, we seriously need to get this. In the times we’re living in, it is not optional. It’s a necessity!

So ask God to open your eyes to these things and give you razor-sharp discernment to know when to bind and when to loose something or someone. He is faithful to give us what we need.

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 – 6-25-13

1 Kings 19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand on the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: 12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

So often we want to hear God’s voice. We wait and we listen. Or at least we think we listen.

But as many times as we want to hear God, how many times are we actually listening for the true voice of God and not what we think is God’s voice?

Probably every single one of us has wished at one time or another that God would speak to us in a booming voice, loud and clear, with instructions for our situation, or an answer to a question that we have. If only it was that easy!

But God wants us to learn to hear Him. He wants us to sharpen our discernment and train our ears to hear His voice.

It takes discipline and work to develop “ears to hear”, but the return is worth the effort.

And don’t make the mistake of thinking that anyone anywhere “has it all figured out”. Nobody does. Even mature believers with great spiritual ears still “miss it” once in a while.

But remember that God is a “rewarder of those who diligently seek Him”, so don’t give up.

Keep pressing in and learning to hear Him. He’s speaking gently.

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 – 4-12-13

(Revelation 3:11 NKJV)  “Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown”.

Hold fast to what you have.

We have been given much. We have life in Christ. We have forgiveness from our sins and we have been given the promise of eternal life.

The world and the evil forces around us will do anything to take our crown. Evil forces are on the move in more ways than we realize and their goal is to strip us of all we have been given.

They want to take our freedom.

It’s up to us to protect it. How do we do this?

We grow in God. We draw close to Him and we cling to every word He speaks to us, knowing that He is our source of life. We let Him sharpen our discernment and teach us how to be alert.

The world is changing quickly. Religious freedoms are being stripped away with each day that passes by. As believers we can’t sit idly by and let the enemy of our soul trample over us.

Church, we need to be sharp and diligent. We need to watch for wolves in sheep’s clothing, for they are all around us.

This is not to scare you, but it is a warning for us all! Hold fast to your crown and cling to the source of life. In the name of Jesus!

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 – 1-29-13

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

Jesus Christ died and rose again to set us free. That includes you and me.

He died to set us free from sin, from death and from demonic bondages.

He died to set us free from mental illness, physical illness and poverty.

There is nothing too powerful for Christ to set us free from.

Sadly, there are many things that we will never be set free from because we don’t recognize them as being bad, demonic or evil. The world has so diluted our thinking that we will fail to see something, even when God’s word speaks plainly about it.

The spirit of God is always at work, speaking to us and teaching us. But we need to be listening and exercising our discernment. We need to tune out the noise and chatter of the enemy as he slowly, subtly wears on our spiritual eyes and ears.

It happens ever so slowly, as our culture bombards us with one little thing after another until, before we know it, we begin to think just like everyone else, seeing wrong as right and evil as good.

We urge you today to ask God for razor-sharp discernment in absolutely everything that comes your way. We, the bride of Christ, need to be ever-so-diligent and discerning in this world we live in.

Ask and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be opened to you.

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 – 5-3-12

(John 4:24 NKJV)  “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

God is Spirit. He is not flesh and bone. He does not operate under fleshly principles and He is not limited to doing things in a way that our minds can comprehend or make sense of.

If we keep this in mind and truly grasp the fact that He is not bound by or limited by our understanding, we will also begin to realize that our relationship with Him is not based on intellect.

There is a large part of the bride of Christ that is so caught up in studying and trying to fully comprehend His word and His ways, that they miss God when it comes to spiritual things.

We are definitely told to study the scripture and know what it says, but we are not to limit our understanding of God or our relationship with God to what we can comprehend or understand.

God is way too big for us to ever fully understand, and it is here that we are to rely on faith and take Him at His word, even if we don’t always fully understand it.

Let God open your spiritual eyes and see Him in His truth, and don’t fret if you can’t always understand everything with your natural mind.

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 – 4-7-12

(Acts 16:16-18 NKJV)  Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. {17} This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” {18} And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour.

Have you ever heard of a religious spirit? Whether you have or not, please pay close attention to these words.

Religious spirits come to us to deceive us. They look, sound and act like the real thing (the Holy Spirit), but they are not of God. They will speak words that are true in order to convince us that they are from God, but they are evil in their purpose.

In the scriptures above, this woman was inhabited by a religious spirit… a demon. This demon spoke words that were true. He proclaimed that the words Paul was speaking were true and that Paul taught the way to salvation.

Was this true? Absolutely. But why did it annoy Paul to the point where he cast it out of the girl? Because he discerned that this was not the spirit of God, but a spirit of divination and he knew that it had to leave if he told it to do so.

Many of us come into contact with religious spirits on a regular basis but never realize it. They speak to us from various sources. Many of them are even in the church!

This is not meant to freak anyone out or make you paranoid, but it’s high time for the body of Christ to get razor-sharp discernment and understand the realities of the spiritual world.

Much of what we see each day is the result of something spiritual, whether it’s God’s spirit or a demonic spirit. It’s up to us to distinguish between the two.

If a religious spirit was to come before us right now, would we be able to discern it correctly? Just some food for thought!

We wish each and every one of you a very happy resurrection day!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Your Daily Bible Verse – 2-24-12

(Prov 4:7 NKJV)  Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.

God seems to be making a push lately, encouraging us to drink in His wisdom and His understanding!

It can never be emphasized enough as to how important it is for us to know God and His word.

In addition to learning what His word says about life and how we should live, we also need to learn to discern His spirit and His voice.

Some people may confuse memorizing scripture with knowing His word, but there is a vast difference. Memorizing scripture is commendable, but when it comes to knowing His word, we also need to know how to apply it to our everyday lives and the situations that we encounter.

Then and only then will we begin to truly understand what He’s telling us through His word.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Your Daily Bible Verse – 2-22-12

(Hosea 4:6 NKJV)  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…

Ignorance is bliss. Isn’t that what the world will tell us?

This is a lie straight from hell and will cause people to die in their ignorance.

Spiritual ignorance is very dangerous. Not understanding the things that God wants us to know and understand can destroy our destiny and lead to the destruction of our very soul.

I know this may sound dismal, but there is good news! God has given us everything we need to prevent us from being spiritually ignorant.

He has given us His word and He has given us His spirit to guide us and give us direction.

His word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. We are not left in darkness! We need to dig into His word and ABSORB it into our beings. If we will do this, we will never be ignorant to the schemes of the enemy.

Be wise and be vigilant!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Your Daily Bible Verse – 2-20-12

(Heb 5:14 NKJV)  But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

As followers of Christ, we are part of a spiritual realm that so few people know so little about.

There is a world of activity that goes on behind the scenes and the only way we are aware of it is through the discernment that God gives us through His spirit.

As believers, we need to let God sharpen our discernment and teach us what to be aware of in the invisible world around us. Getting this understanding can make a huge difference in the direction of our lives, as we learn to discern and confront the powers of darkness.

This is not optional if we want to be effective as part of God’s army. We are here on this earth for a purpose and if we don’t let God train us and raise us up in the way He needs us to be, we will fall short of His goals for us.

Ask God today to give you sharper discernment and to begin to reveal the spiritual realm to you in a new light.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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