Month: October 2011

(Gen 26:13 NKJV)  The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous;

I want to make a declaration to you today. I want you to know that God does not want you to live in poverty.

God never destined you to be lacking or scraping by each day, each week or each month. God has made a way for you and I to prosper. We just need to claim it and believe for it.

I know that might sound too easy or far fetched, but there is a lot of truth in those words. So many of us have our minds stuck in the way we have always done things. God wants to do new things for us, but we have a hard time grasping it.

There is nothing wrong with prospering. The devil would have you believe that prosperity is evil and poverty is godly. This is a lie. Poverty never helped anyone accomplish a single thing, except to become stressed and hopeless. Show me the people who are doing the most to help others and it will be the people who have the financial means to reach out and help.

We are not all destined to be millionaires, but not a single one of us is destined, according to God, to live our lives out in poverty either.

I challenge you today to change the way you think about abundant finances and about your own situation. Your situation can be changed if you let God take you out of the box that the enemy has put you in.

So rise up, get the mind of God and then give Him the glory!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
401-377-5400

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(Heb 13:15 NKJV)  Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.

In these modern times there seems to have developed certain ways of doing things that are now accepted as “normal” in the church.

During the past 10 – 15 years we have adopted a specific way of entering into worship that involves “praising” God to music. This has become the norm in tens of thousands of services each week.

I’d like to state that though there is nothing wrong with using music to worship God, it doesn’t have to be that way to please God. Let me explain.

I love music. I listen to it constantly. But I think that modern Christians have reached a mistaken conclusion that music and a specific way of doing things is necessary for entering into worship.

This is misleading thinking, at best. We can worship God and praise Him perfectly fine with or without music. Music is good, but if we get to the point where we rely on it to be able to worship God, we’re off track.

In the scripture quoted above, we are told that we are to continually offer the sacrifice of praise… the fruit of our lips.

The fruit of our lips is the praise that He desires. Not fancy musical arrangements or orchestrations. We are to praise Him with our words; our words of adoration and thanksgiving.

Again, let me stress that music isn’t bad or unacceptable at all, but if we’re relying on it to the point where we don’t know how to praise God without it, we need to make some adjustments.

God deserves our very best, so let’s be sure we’re giving it to Him!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
401-377-5400

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(Heb 4:12 NKJV)  For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

It’s so important that we read the Word of God daily. It’s what brings life and power into our daily walk. We can say “well, I’m working hard to make a living and by the time I get home, make dinner, exercise and clean up, I’m too tired.” We can say, “I have to spend time with my kids, help them with homework, take them to their sports, make sure they get their chores done and when I’m done, it’s so late”, etc. We can make all kinds of excuses as to why we don’t have time, but when it comes right down to it, we need God and all that He has for us.

His Word will cause us to mature, to grow up, and to get closer to Him. It will cause us to be sharp and we will be able discern things more quickly and we won’t waste a lot of time getting caught up in things or people that pull our time away from Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
401-377-5400

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(Heb 12:7 NKJV)  If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

Sometimes we have to endure things that aren’t so pleasant. The first thing that comes to our minds is to think of a way out of our trouble. We always seem to want the easy way out.

Sometimes, though, the easy way isn’t the best way. So many times there are things for us to learn and if we take the easy way out we can’t learn what God wants us to learn.

Please never make the mistake of thinking that God puts bad things on us. Wickedness and evil come from the enemy of our souls, not from the Creator of our souls.

But when bad things do come our way, God can use them to bring correction and maturity in our lives… if we let Him.

If you’re going through something unpleasant right now, be sure to seek God and ask Him what there is for you to learn.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
401-377-5400

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