Tag: surrendering our lives to God

Bible Verse of The Day – 9-12-14

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

Pastor Ellie and I were talking today. I was sharing with her about some things that I had seen had been done by some Christians that were really not godly at all, but rather hateful.

This particular group of believers had made some very derogatory statements about a nation and its people.

She asked me “how can they be Christians and still think like that?”. I pondered on it for a moment and I heard God say “because there is still a part of them that they have not surrendered to Me yet”.

And so it is with so many of us. We follow Christ and we live our lives as believers… Christians. But there are still little pieces of our lives that we haven’t given over to God and allowed Him to touch or change.

Think about some of the things that we see some Christians continue to do for years after they become followers of Christ and are washed in His blood.

Racism, sexual immorality, drunkenness, thievery, dishonesty and the list can go on. You see, if we are still engaging in these things habitually, on a regular basis, it’s only because we have refused to let God change that part of us.

So we challenge you today to let God check you. Let Him peek into the deepest, darkest recesses of your heart and show you what’s there.

And then let Him touch you there and begin to root that evil thing out of you once and for all.

There’s not a single one of us who doesn’t have something that we have held onto, and today’s a good day to let it go, in the name of Jesus.

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 – 8-23-13

Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NKJV) He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.

He made everything beautiful in its time. In its time.

Notice that the scripture doesn’t say that He makes everything beautiful in our time? Oh how we wish sometimes that it was the opposite. But I’m sure we would all get ourselves in massive trouble if everything went the way we want it, when we want it.

So many times we hear people talk and teach about how God will make us wait until He’s good and ready to do something, or give us something.

But in reality, it’s not so much about making us wait, as it is waiting until everything is in its place.

Timing is everything.

God has set an order to everything and it’s not up to us to try to change that order or alter something to make things happen the way we want them to happen.

And when push comes to shove, the timing that God has set in place for everything is so much better than ours.

So if you’re waiting for something today, whether it’s a breakthrough or anything else, remember that He makes everything beautiful… in its time.

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 – 8-1-12

(1 Cor 6:20 NKJV)  For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Jesus paid the ultimate price for our sins. He bought us with His very own blood and His life.

As I was out for a walk in the evening, God impressed upon my heart to share a message with you today about casual Christianity. There are hundreds of thousands… possibly even millions of “casual Christians” across the globe.

These would be the people who have made a confession of faith at some point in their life, accepting Christ as their savior. But for one reason or another, they have never gone beyond a casual relationship with Him, keeping Him at arm’s length.

I want to speak to you today if you are a casual Christian. This is not to condemn anyone in any way whatsoever. But it is to urge you to move beyond where you are at right now and give Jesus your WHOLE being. He is worthy of our entire life. After all, He bought it with His own life!

If there is something stopping you from surrendering, give it to God and let Him have it. Try to understand how much God paid for you and that He wants 100% of you. He deserves to have 100% of you.

Give yourself over to Him. Let Him sit on the throne of your heart. There is nothing in your life that’s too big for Him to handle.

You will never know true peace until He is your everything.

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 – 6-22-12

(Mat 6:19-21 NKJV)  “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; {20} “but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. {21} “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Where are our hearts? What do we treasure?

The answers to these two questions can tell us a lot about ourselves and where we are at in our walk with God.

What makes us happy and puts a smile on our faces will be dictated by what we value the most. Is it a shiny new car, a big house with lots of extra rooms, a new wardrobe, a new job or a raise on our current job?

Or is it seeing someone receive a breakthrough in their life, helping someone through a tough time, giving someone money when they’re in a tough financial situation or helping someone to have strength when they feel like they just can’t take another thing happening to them?

Don’t get me wrong. It’s not terrible to enjoy stuff. Believe me… I enjoy stuff too. But we need to make sure that God and His desires for us come before that stuff. We need to take pleasure in the things that give God pleasure.

When we press into God and begin to get His heart, then we will start to see the things that make us happy begin to change.

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

401-377-5400

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-29-12

(Mat 26:39 NKJV)  He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”

Jesus prayed this prayer while in a place called Gethsemane.

As He was about to face the brutal beatings and then, ultimately, death on the cross for the sins of all humans, Jesus was under tremendous stress. He literally told the Father that if there was any other way for the sins of man to be taken away, please let it be so.

But He went on to say “Not my will, but yours”.

Each and every one of us has our own Gethsemane. We may not literally be in a garden, or facing death for the sins of the world. But we will all have, or have already had a turning point in our lives where we will surrender to God’s will for our lives, or we will turn and walk away.

Has God asked you to surrender yourself to Him? He asks all of us to surrender to Him at some point. It’s what being a follower of Christ is really all about. God wants 100% of us, not just a small piece.

If you’ve surrendered your life to God already, you know what a blessing it can be. No, it’s not always easy, but knowing that you’re sold out to God and walking the path He has set before you is an awesome experience that is life-changing.

If you’ve not yet had your own Gethsemane experience, it will come. God asks every single one of us to surrender to Him at some point.

Make sure you’re prepared and that you follow in the steps of Jesus and say to God, “not my will but yours”.

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 – 5-25-12

(James 1:1 NKJV)  James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings.

This is what the book of James starts off with. I read this and thought, wow…”a bondservant of God”? And then I thought… “hmm, what is a bondservant?”

This is what the Webster dictionary gives for a definition for bondservant: one bound to service without wages; also : slave.

James was a slave to Christ!! This caused me to stop and ponder on my walk with Christ and where I’m at. How much of me do I give to God? How much of my time do I give to Him? Am I be willing to be a bondservant for Christ?

It makes you realize how serious James was about His walk with the Lord. It makes you see how strong his love was for the Lord. A slave does everything their master tells them to do.

Where are we at in our walk with Christ? Are we willing to be a bond servant for Him today?

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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