Month: November 2016

Bible Verse of The Day – 11-30-16

1 Peter 3: 13-14 (NKJV) 13 And who is he who will harm you if you become followers of what is good? 14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.”

As we draw closer to Christ and we take His Word seriously we will begin to change. Our hearts will desire to do good and will work hard to discern and choose the right thing to do in every situation.

It doesn’t mean that we will be perfect, because everything we do is in part; Part flesh and part spirit. So there will be times when we may be having a hard day and we will act from the flesh. Those are the moments we usually know pretty quickly that what we just did we wish we could undo or take back.

Even though we can’t take it back, because it was already done and played out, we can own up to what we did and ask God to forgive us for it.

There may still be repercussions because of it, but at least we got it straightened out with God. And if we ask Him, He will help us with the rest as well.

Doing the right thing is important. Even if we fail at times, we can still turn things around by taking the right actions and trying to get it right.

Good is the way to go no matter what kind of day we are having or what situation we are in.

We are still blessed!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-29-16

1 Chronicles 16:8 (NKJV) 8 Oh, give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples!

One of the most important things to know about Christ is that He loves us. He loves us no matter who we are, where we came from or what we have done.

He simply loves us just as we are.

Now, that in itself may just blow our minds, wondering how anyone could love like that. All the rotten things I’ve said and done in my life. How could anyone even want to be my friend or be close to me?

It’s a hard thing to try to understand and accept this great love. And many people will walk away and turn from Him, thinking that it can’t be true.

That’s why we are sharing this today. This love is great! This love is real! This LOVE comes from our Heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, His Son. It is a love like no other.

Can we thank the Lord today for loving us? Oh, how good He is!

Lord, we love YOU and we praise You! We lift up our voices to YOU, for great is our LORD! Amen.

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 – 11-28-16

Ezekiel 36:26 (NKJV) 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Sometimes believers, followers of Christ, will begin to fall or pull away from God gradually, a little at a time. And sometimes they might not realize how far they have gotten from Him until they are very far away.

But here is a good test to let us know where we’re really at. Our heart. What condition is our heart in?

As we let distance grow between us and God, our heart will slowly, gradually grow hard. And the longer we let that distance stay there, the harder our heart will get. And the harder it can become for us to come back around to God.

But God gives us grace to see our condition and he offers His mercy to draw us back to Him without fear or condemnation.

God isn’t waiting for us to come back to Him so He can point His finger at us and scold us and tell us about how bad we are. He wants us to come back so He can heal our heart and replace our hardened heart of stone with a heart of flesh.

So if you’ve drifted away from God, He is waiting on you, calling you back to Him. And He’s offering you His grace and mercy, and the opportunity for Him to give you a new heart that will long to know Him and love Him once again.

Don’t wait another day. Run to Him right this minute. And surrender yourself to Him once and for all.

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 – The Key to Unlocking God’s Blessings in Your Life – 11-27-16

We all want God’s blessings.

But not everyone understands what it takes to unlock those blessings in our lives. So we have recorded a new message today to share with you exactly what it takes to live in God’s blessings every single day.

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We want everyone to experience the blessings of God. His blessings are like nothing that this world has to offer.

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So be sure to give this new message a listen and then apply it to your life.

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Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
PO Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-26-16

Genesis 2:24 (NKJV) 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

This is how God ordained marriage to be between a man and a woman; To leave his father and mother and become one with his wife, knowing that God will be their Helper, their Stability and their ROCK.

Marriage is a time of learning and growing together. It’s a time where God takes two people who may be totally opposite from each other, and He teaches them how to come together and make it work, as they learn to love each other more and more through it all.

Instead of getting upset about our spouse not acting, thinking or doing things the way we are used to doing them, we can learn what makes them tick and that our ways of doing things are not the only way.

God will help us embrace and love the differences in our spouse, if we let Him. Learning that those differences can bring balance to us is good, and will help us grow and mature as husband and wife.

Couples should never feel afraid to express themselves to each other. They should not fear rejection. They should not fear criticism or being laughed at in a negative way by their spouse.

A lot of things that couples are separating over can be fixed. They can be worked out and trust and love CAN be built back up. We have to want to work at it and take the necessary steps through God’s omniscient (all-knowing) guidance.

We may have to push back some old ways of thinking. We may have to humble ourselves and let go of things that really eat away at us at times. We may even have to say things that we never thought we would hear ourselves saying, like; it’s OK, I’m sorry, I forgive you or, will you forgive me.

God will help us restore our marriage and we will be able to truly walk in oneness if He is made to be the center of our marriage.

There is NO perfect couple, relationship or marriage. But, with God’s help there is such a thing as a restored, healed and God-renewed marriage!

If your marriage is suffering today, this is a new season for you and your spouse. It’s time to let God step in and renovate your hearts and thinking toward each other.

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 – 11-25-16

Psalm 23:1 (NKJV) 1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

If God is our shepherd, we will never be in want of anything.

You see, as a child of God, it’s important that we let God show us the difference between wants and needs. In today’s modern society, we have been taught that many of the things that we want are actually needs.

But God wants to retrain us and teach us the difference between wanting and needing. And as we let Him do this, we will soon start understanding that the only thing we truly want is Him.

Our satisfaction is found in Him. And, yes, sometimes material things can seem to make us happy. But that happiness is usually very short-lived. It doesn’t matter if it’s a new car, a new home, a new TV or any other kind of possession. They’re all great when they’re new to us, but that novelty will soon wear off and leave us wanting something else new and shiny.

But with God, He never gets old to us. As we grow our relationship with Him, our love for Him also grows. And that love will satisfy us like nothing else can.

As mature believers we will learn to live out Psalm 23:1 each and every day. And we shall not be in want of anything.

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 – 11-24-16

Psalm 95:1-2 (NKJV) 95 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.

Giving thanks to God is an awesome way to show Him that we are grateful. Have you ever done something nice for someone and, not that we are looking for a thank you, but it felt good to hear it? It kind of gives you that nice warm feeling on the inside that we did something good for someone and they liked it.

When someone says thank you, two simple little words, it shows us a lot of things. It shows that the person liked what we did for them. It shows us that they appreciated it and it shows that they took notice of what we did. All of which is very comforting to the person that gave.

We have plenty to thank God for and, yes, He loves to hear us say it. It never gets old to Him. Shout out to Him today a big ole “Thank you Lord”, for He is worthy! Amen.

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 – 11-23-16

Mark 12:30 (NKJV) 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.

We are going to talk about renewing of the mind; something we work on day in and day out.

This may seem like a constant battle. Why? Because the mind has been allowed to do things a certain way for so long. It’s been working on its own with no one and nothing standing in its way. It has been free to do whatever it wants, however it wants and whenever it wants.

When we begin to renew it, we now introduce it to accountability. Not to just anyone, but to the Holy Spirit!

We may think, “oh, this is great,”! But when we begin to walk in this, we will soon discover some new things about our mind; How much it really loves its freedom with NO accountability.

It’s normal to feel anger, fear and inadequacy at times. Because the mind on its own likes to think it has everything under control and everything figured out. But then it begins to realize it does not have any control at all. It is a false sense of security and comfort. And that false sense of security is deceptive.

James 4:14 (NKJV) 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

When we love God with all our mind, letting Him renew it, we will begin to understand that the God of this universe, our Creator, wants to help us in ways we could never imagine. In this alone our trust in Him becomes our life line, bringing peace to our renewed minds.

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 – 11-22-16

John 1:12-13 (NKJV) 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Have you ever stopped to consider what it really means to be a child of God?

This scripture tells us that those who choose to receive Him, they are given the right to become His children. That’s a pretty powerful statement!

A right is something that nobody can take away from us. Not even the enemy can steal this from us.

And why can’t it be stolen from us? Because it’s not of natural descent. It’s purely spiritual. And it comes directly from God himself.

Things of this earth and of this world can be stolen. They can be taken away. But if something is a God-given right, it is ours. No questions asked. There is no doubt and no question about it.

So as you ponder on whether you’re really a child of God, remember that if you have received Him and believed in Him, you are His child. It is your right. A right given to us directly by God.

There is nothing more powerful than that. So kick your doubts to the curb and lift your eyes to Him. And give Him thanks 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 – 11-21-16

Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV) 25 There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

As people, we all have our own ideas as to how things should be done. Some of our ideas are based on what we’ve seen others do. Some of them are based on what has worked for us in the past.

But sometimes our ways just don’t work the way we think they should or the way we want them to. Sometimes they may look like they’re working. But if we were to compare our ways to God’s ways, we would see that His ways are much, much better!

Our ways, many times, can lead to death. Maybe not always actual physical death, but death in other ways, such as emotional trauma or spiritual perversion. Whereas God’s ways lead to life.

God sees things from a perspective that we can’t see most times. Because He is omniscient (all-knowing), there is no risk with God. He knows our own thoughts before we even think them and our words before we speak them!

Psalm 139:2-4 (NKJV) 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. 3 You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.

So if we are ever in doubt as to which way to choose, choose God’s way. His way leads to life.

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 – God Created You to be Free – 11-20-16

Did you know that God created us to be free? That’s right!

God did not create us to live as prisoners to our situations or our circumstances. And He didn’t create us to live in bondage to our feelings or our emotions or any kind of trials that we might be going through.

So we have just created a new message that we felt really strongly prompted by God to create.

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Trials and hard times can suck the life and joy out of us, if we let them. But God will always provide wisdom and strategies for us to break free from those things that are trying to hold us down.

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So give this message a listen and then ask God to help you break free once and for all!

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Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
PO Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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