Tag: Spiritual Warfare

Bible Verse of The Day – 5-26-14

Ephesians 6:12 (NKJV) For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Are you a believer, a follower of Jesus Christ? Have you been washed by His blood? Have you put your faith in Him and the sacrifice He made for us on the cross?

If you answered “yes” to these questions, I want to tell you something. Some of you may already know this, but some of you may be surprised.

We are in a war.

I’m not talking about a war of guns or bombs. This is not a war of knives, spears, chains or any other kind of “natural” war. We are in a spiritual war.

Every single minute of every day there is a war being fought. We don’t see it in the natural. But it’s happening nonetheless. The spiritual world is one of constant battles. They are being waged and fought on so many fronts across the entire world.

And we are a part of that war, whether we realize it or not. Satan and his demons fight for our souls. They fight to tear down everything that God has done to secure our eternal future. They fight to destroy us, both physically and spiritually.

As followers of Christ, we are also soldiers. Or at least we should be. We have been enlisted to do battle with the enemy and keep him in check while we’re here on this earth.

So we need to take this war seriously. We need to understand it and we need to know what part we play in it and what God wants of us. We need to be good soldiers!

2 Timothy 2:4 (NKJV) No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.

So ask God today what role He wants you to play in this war. What does He want you to do each day? Who can you pray for? Who can you encourage? What powers of darkness does He want you to rebuke and bind?

There are so many things we need to be busy doing as a soldier for Christ in God’s army.

We can’t take this lightly. It’s serious warfare.

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 – 7-24-12

(John 14:12 NKJV)  “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.

I know we have touched on this subject recently, but I want to hit it again because it’s so very critical to the life of the church.

Jesus spoke these words. He proclaimed very plainly, using no symbolism whatsoever, that we, His followers and believers, would do greater works than He did. He went on to say, a few verses later, that the Father would be sending the Holy Spirit, the helper, who would abide with us forever.

Jesus never, ever told us that we would do miracles for a short time and then that power would run out when the last apostle died. He never intended for His church to be duped into believing that healing and deliverance were only for specific people to perform during a specific era.

In the verse above He plainly stated that “he who believes in Me” will do greater works then He did.

We are meant to live a life that displays the power of God through the Holy Spirit. We need the power of the Holy Spirit. Anything less is just knowledge and intellectualism. Intellect can never fight spiritual battles, cast out demons or heal a sick body.

I implore you today to believe God’s word in its full power, not just part of it! It’s essential for us to take God at His word and live a life of power and spiritual understanding if we are to be effective in this world.

Seek God and ask Him to give you understanding so you can walk in the power He intended for us to have.

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 – 7-13-12

(1 Sam 17:49-51 NKJV)  Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. {50} So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. But there was no sword in the hand of David. {51} Therefore David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

I want everyone to take note of something in the verses above.

David prevailed over Goliath when he hit him in the forehead with a stone. Goliath fell, face down, dead. But David didn’t stop there. Despite not having a sword of his own, he ran and took the sword of Goliath and stuck him, cutting his head off.

David finished the job. He could have walked away, leaving Goliath there on the ground. But he needed to make a statement to the enemy by cutting off the head of their champion.

We also need to make a statement to the enemy. As Christians, many of us have become weak in our battles and don’t make good use of our weapons, leaving the enemy alive at times when we need to finish him off.

God has given us weapons to fight with, so we need to learn to use them and WIN our battles, defeating the enemy soundly, not partially.

I want to encourage everyone today to rise up in battle and fight. Fight for your children, fight for your spouse, fight for your friends and fight for your spiritual leaders. Stand up and swing your sword and cut off the head of the enemy!!

We can do this. We just need to know that we can and then take action!

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 – 5-31-12

(Eph 6:12 NKJV)  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

We do not wrestle against flesh and blood.

This is a tough thing to grasp sometimes, especially when people are openly coming against us and attacking us. It’s often hard to separate the person from the spirit behind the attack.

People do have a free will and many times they do like to be miserable and vindictive. But we need to know and understand that despite the fact that they might initiate the things that they do to hurt others, there are very often demonic spirits that rise up to escalate what they do and turn it into ferocious attacks on us.

It’s up to us to remember this and to know how to stand against these attacks, rebuking the evil spirits in the name of Jesus. When we’re in the midst of being attacked, it’s easy to focus our anger at the person that we see. But we need to go beyond that and aim our counter-attack at the spirit behind the offense.

We know this isn’t flashy or exciting teaching, but once we understand this fully and get it ingrained into us, it will make it much easier to deal with vindictive people and help us to forgive them more easily.

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 – 4-20-12

(Psa 119:109 NKJV)  My life is continually in my hand, Yet I do not forget Your law.

God gives us the freedom to live and do as we please. He does not try to control us in any way.

Here He is the Creator of the Universe, yet He still gives us free will to do as we want. Now, He wants us to do the right thing of course. He wants us to obey His Word. But He still gives us time and freedom to make our own choices. This can help us to understand the difference between man-made religion and a real relationship with Christ.

Because God gives us a free will to make our own decision without pressure, guilt trips or being tormented, we as God’s children also need to do the same when we are dealing with people. We shouldn’t try to get people to do things or people should not try to get us to do things by force or manipulation. Giving guidance and instruction is good…but giving guidance and instruction and forcing someone into something is NOT good.

If you feel like you are being controlled by emotions, or feeling guilted into doing things you don’t want to be doing, then this is not of God. This is of man and not by God’s Spirit. This is by a man-made, religious spirit, which is a spirit that tries to take on the same look as God. It can even quote scripture, but it does not let you do things willingly or freely; it forces you into doing things through, guilt and fear and condemnation.

God wants us to want to do the right thing. He wants us to want to obey Him willingly, not be forced to obey Him. If we do it because we want to change, with all sincerity and love for God, our hearts will be changed and our walk with Him will be REAL!!

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 – 2-3-12

(Eph 6:12 NKJV)  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

As we go through life and face many trials and struggles, it’s critical for us to understand that much of the negative stuff that happens in our lives is not due to simple human behavior but is directly related, instead, to spiritual battles taking place behind the scenes.

Although we live in a natural world, where much of what we do is based on our five senses (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting), there is a whole world that we never physically see, that plays a huge part in what goes on around us, and even in our own lives.

There is a constant battle that is going on behind the scenes, in the spiritual realm. It’s what was here before the earth. It is made up of angels and demons. The carnal person will know and understand nothing of this realm, but children of God need to know and understand this.

Now let me speak bluntly for a moment. There is much that we struggle with as humans that we try to explain away as purely physical. But much of this is purely spiritual. Many incidents, situations and circumstances in our lives and the lives of those around us are a direct result of spiritual attacks. God’s word is clear about this, as in the scripture above.

As children of God, we need to develop a sharp sense for spiritual warfare and a sharp discernment, to recognize these attacks, in order to be able to combat them effectively. God has sufficiently equipped us to do battle and have victory.

We just need to do the training and hone our skills, in order to be effective warriors.

More to come on this in the coming days… stay tuned.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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