Tag: Strengthening Your Relationship With God

Bible Verse of The Day – 12-13-14

Psalm 73:28 (NKJV) 28 But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all Your works.

We have people ask us frequently how they can know God’s purpose for their life, how they can hear God’s voice, how they can have sharper discernment and many other questions that are similar.

Our response is always the same; Draw near to God.

You see, we can pray and ask God for sharper discernment, a closer walk with Him, stronger faith, to hear His voice more easily, and much more. But if we fail to draw near to God and grow our relationship with Him, we’ll never, ever be able to hear Him better or have better discernment.

Achieving any of the things mentioned above requires that we have a strong relationship with our Creator. It’s just like any other relationship; we get out what we put in.

Drawing near to Him takes effort and needs to be done on purpose. It doesn’t happen accidentally or just by wishing it would happen. It’s just like anything else that’s worth achieving or obtaining. It takes work!

You can’t get sharper discernment by having someone lay hands on you and pray for you to have it. You can’t draw closer to God by calling a prayer line and asking them to pray for you. You can’t find God’s purpose for your life by taking 5 easy steps. And you can’t grow your faith simply by saying that you want your faith to grow.

Purpose in your heart that you want a closer walk with God. Make it your desire to know Him better. Push aside every distraction and focus on Him. And do you know what will happen when we do that?

We will get closer to Him. Our faith will grow. Our discernment will become sharper. We will hear His voice more easily. And with all of this, we will begin walking on the path that God has set in place for us.

We can all have a powerful walk with God. We just have to want it badly enough to go after 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 – 9-19-14

Revelation 1:8 (NKJV) 8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

God is all-encompassing. He is the beginning, the middle and the end. He is everything from start to finish and everything that happens in between. 

We don’t have to think of God as being someone that we can only go to when things are going badly or something terrible has happened. In fact, that’s not how He wants our relationship with Him to be at all. 

God wants us to lean on Him and go to Him in everything  we do, whether we are in the valley or on the mountaintop! 

You see, He doesn’t want our relationship with Him to be casual. He wants it to be full and vibrant and alive. 

Nothing can be alive if we don’t nurture it. So we need to be sure that we’re nurturing our relationship with our Creator, just as we expect to have to do with anything else that we want to thrive! 

Revelation 22:13 (NKJV) 13 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” 

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 – 9-16-14

Colossians 2:6-7 (NKJV) 6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

To many people, Christianity is just something that’s done in passing, as a way of showing some kind of faith or belief in God, but with little or no commitment to “walking it out”. In other words, it’s not really who they are, but just something they do when it’s convenient.

This is not faith at all and, in fact, these people are likely not really even Christians at all. Now I know that may sound judgmental, but lets take a look at what God’s word says, above.

Paul, in the verses above, is instructing the Colossian believers to walk in Him, not just follow some casual kind of belief system. Further, he instructs them to be rooted in Him and established in the faith!

This is definitely more than a casual Sunday morning relationship here.

We often have people write to us, asking us questions about how to draw closer to God or how to hear God’s voice, or even how to know what God’s call or purpose is for them in their life.

And we are always careful to instruct them the same way; Press in to God, spend time in His word and learn of Him. Get to know Him. Doing this will give us a better understanding of who He is and who He wants us to be.

Once we have that understanding, everything else becomes much more clear and easy to understand.

So if you feel like your walk with God is casual, or if you’re struggling to find God’s purpose for your life, root yourself in Him, build yourself up in Him and establish yourself in the faith. If we will take the time and make the effort to do this, so many other things in our lives will eventually fall into place.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-315-0902

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