Month: April 2014

Bible Verse of The Day

(John 14:15 NKJV)  “If you love Me, keep My commandments.

Jesus is very simple and to the point, isn’t He? That’s what I love about Him. He doesn’t complicate these things.

Why would He? So we can’t understand what He is trying to tell us? No…He tells it like it is.

There is nothing complicated about this verse. Jesus is saying to follow Him in all that He tells us to do. We shouldn’t just say it, or preach it. Anyone can do that.

We need to take the things He teaches us in His word, the Holy Bible, and walk it out… be a follower of Christ. This will show Him that we really do love Him and we are not just saying it because that’s how they do it in church.

Let’s be careful that we don’t get stuck in a rut, just mimicking what other Christians say or what we’ve been taught to say. Let’s make sure what we say and do is REAL, straight from our own hearts.

(3 John 1:4 NKJV)  I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

Walking in truth is knowing who it is that we love, and we can tell this by watching our actions. Our actions and thoughts will show us the truth about who and what we really love.

Keep His commandments today.

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 – 4-3-14

Psalm 50:15 (NKJV) Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.

God wants to be at the center of everything in our lives. In fact, He wants us to make Him the center of everything in our lives.

God knows that we will all encounter trouble at various times in our lives. During those times He wants us to call upon Him. He wants to deliver us! Why? So we will glorify Him!

You see, if we make God the center of our lives, we will be less likely to land in quite so much trouble as we do, but we are human. We make mistakes. We make poor choices sometimes. And other times, stuff just happens that we had no choice about.

But God says to call upon Him in our day of trouble and He will deliver us! That’s a promise.

We may not know how or when He will deliver us. And many times, the deliverance comes in ways that we would never have imagined, but He does deliver us!

So we need to stop sweating the “how and when”, and let Him do what needs to be done in us and in our situations, and watch in awe as He works it all out for our good.

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 – 4-2-14

John 1:1 (NKJV) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

This might be a confusing verse to some, especially for those who are new to the family of God.

You might look at this and say “what’s all this stuff about the Word?”.

Let me take a minute to explain.

“The Word” is one of the names given to Jesus Christ in scripture. Jesus had many different “names” throughout the Bible, running from the Old testament (in prophecies), all the way through the end of the New Testament.

We hear Him called the Son of man, the Son of God, the Lamb of God, the Lamb who was slain, the Bright and Morning Star, and a host of others.

Jesus was also referred to as The Word, or the Word of God.

Revelation 19:13 (NKJV) He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.

What’s so awesome about the verse above, in John 1:1, is that this verse shows us that Jesus was there in the beginning, right along with God the Father, at the creation of all that we see!

Jesus was a participant in the creation, not just an observer!

So if anyone ever tries to tell you that Jesus was simply created by God or that He was less than “God with us”, just remember that He was there in the beginning and all things were made through Him!

John 1:3 (NKJV) All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

Rest today, knowing that our Savior was there in the beginning.

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 – 4-1-14

(Matthew 11:28 NKJV)  “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Rest is a good thing!

We all need to walk in this rest. We’re not just talking about laying down and taking a nap, although that is good too! But, resting from our thoughts, our planning, our trying to resolve it all by putting the pieces together.

Rest comes when we stay calm and say, “OK, God, I see this mountain in front of me and I’m just going to take one step at a time and let You guide me”.

Rest comes when we trust God. When we stay calm in a time when we would normally flip out.

Thinking hard or stressing over something will wear us out and drain us emotionally. What good are we then?

Just the other day we got so much rain that it caused a shifting underground and we had mud come into our sump pump, in our basement. It clogged the pump, leaving us with a flood in our basement and mud everywhere.

Now the first thing that wanted to take place in our minds was to flip out, and then be fearful about what to do. And the next thing, anxiety likes to add its little spin.

But, that is not resting or trusting in God. That is letting our emotions take over.

Surprisingly, we both stayed very calm and focused on what we needed to do to resolve the problem. By the end of the day, we were physically exhausted, but emotionally we were strong and very focused.

We managed to get all the water out and the pump working again. We slept really well that night.

We rested in God as we moved forward and resolved the problem.

Rest in Him today. He will help us resolve whatever we are going through!!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-315-0902

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