Month: January 2012

Your Daily Bible Verse – 1-31-12

(Gal 6:14 NKJV)  But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Boasting in ourselves or our accomplishments is never a good thing. This can lead to pride and pride can lead to destruction.

But we can boast in our God and the things that He has done in our lives through Jesus!

We absolutely love sharing testimonies with people about what God has done in our lives. Sometimes we have to force ourselves to stop talking about Him and His goodness! Otherwise, we’ll just keep talking!

But today, it’s your turn. We want to hear from you, our faithful readers, about how God has used the daily Bible verses to help you. We want to know about how God has healed you, delivered you, saved you, drawn you closer to Him, restored your marriage, or anything else He has done through the Words that have been shared with you each day.

And don’t get us wrong, this is not for our glory, but for His. It’s good to share what God has done and we love to hear it too. So, if you can, please take a few minutes and send us a note, to share about how God has been at work in your life, though the Bible verses.

Thank you so much. We appreciate each and every one of you!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Your Daily Bible Verse – 1-30-12

Galatians 5:19-21 NKJV

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Jealousy is a terrible thing.

Do you notice what jealousy is grouped with, here in this scripture above? Murder, hatred, fits of rage, envy, adultery, etc. These are some pretty serious things. There isn’t one of us that wouldn’t consider murder to be one of the worst things anyone can do. But jealousy is grouped right in there with murder!

Jealousy affects most of us at one time or another, in some way. It can come from within us, aimed toward someone else, or it can come against us from another person who is jealous of us.

If it’s within us, we can choose to fix it and get right with God or we can get caught up in it and let it destroy us. If we aren’t careful, it can become an obsession that will ruin our lives and make us miserable. Jealousy will cost us a lot, including friendships.

People can also be jealous of us. We will know who our friends really are when God blesses us with something and we get to see how people react to our blessings. Jealous people can be some of the meanest people around.

How do we react when a jealous person attacks us? And they will attack us. Do we get angry and lash out at them, looking for revenge and vindication? Or do we follow the verse below?

Romans 12:21 NKJV: Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

God says to love them. We need to be careful not to let ourselves become victims of jealousy, from either side.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Your Daily Bible Verse – 1-28-12

(1 John 4:1 NKJV) Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

God warns us to not be so easily persuaded; we need to test the spirits. Bad spirits are so sneaky and conniving that they almost look like the real thing. If we don’t know the Word of God we can be fooled. If we don’t know the difference between the spirits, even if we do know what the Word says, we can be deceived. The key is to test them. If we don’t, we can actually line up with them and think we are doing the right thing, but all along God is nowhere in it.

Look at how satan used scripture to try to trick Jesus into following him. (Mat 4:5-7 NKJV)  Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, {6} and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’ and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.'” 7} Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the LORD your God.'”

Jesus knew what spirit was operating here and He did NOT listen to it. We can see from this that these spirits will not stop at anything. It’s up to us to know God’s word and what He says. It’s up to us to ask God for His discerning of these spirits that try to trick us.

Pray for God to help us test the spirit. Some things may look good on the outside, but not so good on the inside.
Be blessed!!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Your Daily Bible Verse – 1-27-12

(1 John 4:10-11 NKJV)  In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. {11} Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

We ought to love one another. It sounds so simple and easy to do. But it can be a hard thing to love people sometimes.

This verse is referring specifically to loving fellow believers. We have something in common with all believers; that is the love of Christ and the forgiveness we have been granted by God, through Jesus Christ.

But sometimes our flesh comes out and we rub each other the wrong way. Sometimes we stick our noses where they don’t belong and say things that hurt each other.

All of this shows how frail we are as humans. We set aside the love of God and allow ourselves to insult each other, fight against each other and even hate each other.

It’s time for us to lay down the bitterness and the strife. I will be the first to admit that it’s not an easy thing to do, but God has told us to do so. Start right now, where you are, and ask God to perfect this work in you.

We can do it in His strength.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Your Daily Bible Verse – 1-26-12

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

Do we really understand this? Do we do it?

Look at what this says. Love God with ALL of your heart, soul and strength! Not part of it, but all of it.

The world today makes it easy to give God less than all of our love. There are so many distractions, so many things that compete for our time and attention and so much chatter and noise in the atmosphere.

Personally, I have been feeling a push to begin simplifying my life and we are working toward doing that, a little at a time here in our home and our everyday lives.

God is worthy of ALL of our love. Let’s give it to Him willingly!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Your Daily Bible Verse – 1-25-12

(Prov 3:13-14 NKJV) Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains understanding; {14} For her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, And her gain than fine gold.

If at any time we are not sure what to do and feeling confused about the situation we are in or the decision we have to make, remember that God wants us to get His wisdom and understanding; don’t make a decision based on uncertainties. Get God on it.

Wait on Him. Oh how faithful HE is!!

When we get God’s wisdom and understanding, there is NO guessing, and there is no wondering. There is simply a KNOWING that comes. Even if we don’t know the whole thing, just a little piece is Good enough!!

BE HAPPY!!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Your Daily Bible Verse – 1-24-12

(Acts 3:1-7 NKJV)  Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. {2} And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple; {3} who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms. {4} And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, “Look at us.” {5} So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. {6} Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” {7} And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.

Today was a particularly hard day for me. There were a couple of things that came my way this morning that tried to ruin my day and set me on a bad course.

God had prepared me for this, though, so I had to lean on Him and pull on Him to keep from spending the day hanging my head and letting the enemy get the best of me.

Have you ever had one of those days? I thought so!

But because we have God on our side, He tells us to RISE UP and walk. We have no excuse for lying down and letting ourselves be depressed or miserable.

We can choose to lie down and lick our wounds or we can grab God’s hand and let Him pick us up and strengthen us. Which will you choose?

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Your Daily Bible Verse – 1-23-12

(Psa 27:6 NKJV)  And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me; Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.

It’s Monday and the beginning of a new week. Let us claim our Victory this week at the beginning of the week. Let’s start off this Monday by singing praises to our Lord first and foremost. The way to start a new week is to do first things first. Give God the glory ahead of time, sing praises to Him, and give sacrifices of JOY.

If we are struggling today, we need to SING! If we are hurting today, we need to SING! If we are depressed today we need to SING and if we are sick and not feeling good today, we need to SING!!

This shows God that we trust HIM! Show Him that we know, that we know, that we know OUR Victory is here! God is so GOOD!

SING!!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Your Daily Bible Verse – 1-21-12

(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.

I wanted to bring these verses to everyone’s attention to make a point.

Many times when people go to a fortune teller, they come away astounded and impressed that this person could tell them things about their past. They do this in two ways.

1 – They make guesses based on events that are common to most people.

2 – They are aligned with familiar spirits, which feed them information about your life.

Familiar spirits speak things that are true, but their source is demonic and evil. After speaking these things about your past, they have your full attention and they will typically tell you things about your future and these things will usually be dire and negative.

So many times this will result in great oppression in a person’s life because they have now allowed themselves to be under the influence of a demonic spirit without knowing that this is what’s taking place.

In the scripture above, Paul became annoyed with this young woman, even though the words she spoke were true. He saw through what was going on and cast the demon out of her.

Just because words that are spoken are true, doesn’t mean they come from the Source of Truth. Be very careful and cautious as to whom you allow to speak into your life. The consequences can be very serious.

Seek His peace and trust fully in Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Your Daily Bible Verse – 1-20-12

(Lev 19:31 NKJV)  ‘Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

Fortune tellers, palm readers, tarot card readers; they all have one thing in common, and it’s not their so-called ability to tell the future or tell you about your past. They all operate under spiritual influence that isn’t from God.

As followers of Christ, we should never allow ourselves to fall into the trap of these people… not even “for fun”. The things they speak are straight from hell and the spirits they operate under can cause a world of problems when believers submit themselves to their words and their influence.

Their advice typically leads to oppression and confusion. They may appear to be spiritual, and they probably are spiritual, but the spirit they operate under isn’t God’s spirit. Being spiritual doesn’t necessarily mean being godly.

If you have consulted one of these people in the past, I encourage you right now to repent and ask God to forgive you. Then, you need to renounce the words that they spoke over you, in the name of Jesus.

This is not intended to come across harshly, so if it does seem that way, please understand that it is out of concern that these words are spoken! We care for each and every one of you and we want the very best for you. So sometimes we will speak things that need to be heard, even though they might not be popular.

Flee from evil and hold tight to your freedom in Christ.

You are loved.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Your Daily Bible Verse – 1-19-12

(Heb 13:6 NKJV)  So we may boldly say: “The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

God is our helper at all times, through thick and thin. If we need help, He is there! If we don’t need help… He will still be there, waiting for when we do!

We may think at times that God is not listening, He doesn’t want to help us, He doesn’t realize what we have been through or what we are going through right now. Sometimes we may feel like He has left us.

Don’t believe it for one second, He will not leave us or forsake us, no matter what. In those quiet times when we don’t hear anything from Him, we just need to wait. Wait patiently until the door opens. We will know when it does.

Think about this; we have Christ, the Messiah, His Spirit living in us. This Man is the Son of the Almighty God, The God that created this world! He has the Power to do all things, the way He wants to and He is on our side!

There is NOTHING to be afraid about. (John 14:26 NKJV)  “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

Man can’t touch us if we walk in the power of the Holy Spirit and let God lead us. If we stop being afraid of every little thing and trust God, He will lead us into VICTORY!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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