Category: God’s Faithfulness

Bible Verse of The Day – 6-30-21

Zechariah 4:6 (NKJV) 6 So he answered and said to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts.

An angel of God had come to Zechariah with a vision that was meant to comfort a remnant of the people of Israel, who were in exile.

They longed to be able to return to their homeland, Israel.

Their heart’s desire was to rebuild the temple of God and wait upon the return of the Messiah, bringing the fulfillment of God’s promises to His people.

They were up against circumstances that looked impossible by human logic and human understanding.

But, as the angel spoke to Zechariah, he assured him that God had a plan, and that it would be fulfilled.

The catch, though, was that these plans would not be carried out by traditional power or might, but by the Spirit of God Himself.

This is very fitting for us today.

We are witnessing so many events on a global level that are 100% evil in their origins, displaying corruption on a scale not seen before by most of us.

And it makes us wonder what will happen next. How will this evil be overcome and brought to its knees? How will justice prevail in such times as these, where depravity is the norm for so many?

I don’t have the exact answer, nor the timing of it. But know this; God is on His throne, and none of this is too big for Him.

None of this has caught Him by surprise. Evil will be crushed, in one way or another.

And while I may not have an exact answer as to how it will play out, I know beyond a doubt that it will not be by human might nor power, but 100% by the hand of God, by His Spirit.

In that, I rest. In that, I hold confidence. And in that, I have the peace of God that surpasses all understanding.

Philippians 4:6-7 (NKJV) 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-24-21

Romans 12:9 (NKJV) 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.

I love how Paul tells us how it’s done; 3 very important things to pay attention to.

Love without hypocrisy. In others words, make sure that when we love, we mean it. No faking it in this walk.

Some people are good at faking their love. We wouldn’t even know they were faking it if God didn’t show us. That’s why we need Him.

One day, in a vision, God showed me a person that I cared about deeply. They were stabbing me in the back with a knife, laughing all the while.

I was like, “no way, God. It can’t be. They love me!”.

Well, it turned out to be true, and it happened.

When God shows us things like that, pay attention. Don’t be like me, arguing back, saying, “no way, can’t be”. God’s not going to make things up.

To abhor evil means that we hate it or despise it.

Don’t give into bad talk or filthy gestures. Don’t even entertain those thoughts for one second.

Don’t give into anything that we know is bad. It’s bad and we don’t need to be a part of it or have anything to do with it. Walk away.

For those of us stuck in a situation where we don’t know what to do, we need to seek God on how to get out of it. He will give us wisdom as to the best way to handle it.

Find the good, and don’t think that just because we may have done wrong throughout our life that bad will have a grip on us. No. Turn from it and get with God.

He will help us to change our path. He will help us turn our lives and our situation around. He is our Father. What Father would not help their child?

God is good…cling to Him.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (NKJV) 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Rejoice.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 4-29-21

Psalm 30:12 (NKJV) 12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

God is good! We sing praises and thank Him forever and ever. Amen.

We wanted to take today and say two words to you all as well, you most fearfully and wonderfully made people that God has divinely connected us with.

Psalm 139:14 (NKJV) 14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.

Thank YOU!

Thank you all for being so kind and uplifting to us during this season of losing my (Pastor Ellie’s) dad.

Your prayers, emails, cards of encouragement and your financial support have truly brought healing to our hearts, strength to our bones and peace to our minds.

God is moving through you all and we are grateful and honored to see it and be a part of what He is doing all around this world.

Through His Spirit, we stand together in unity and in love. We are family.

With God, the word loss is not in our vocabulary. But, instead, LIFE is forever and evermore!!

We rejoice with you all today. Through Christ we win!

Thank you so very much for your heartfelt condolences. You mean the world to us. To God be the Glory!

We Love You…

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-2-21

Isaiah 43:2 (NKJV) 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you.

What a friend we have in Jesus!

He will pass with us through the waters. What waters are we walking through today? Are they murky and full of weeds, causing us to not be able to see the bottom?

Is it a stormy rough water, splashing over the top and filling the boat? Is it causing us to be tossed back and forth?

He says here in Isaiah, “I will be with you”!

Has the heat been turned up and things are getting hard to deal with? Is our situation getting worse? Are our finances drained, or our marriage on the verge of total loss?

How about our walk with God? Is the pressure of things causing us to doubt Him?

He says, if we walk through the fire, we shall not be burned. When we come out not even be scorched.

Why?

Because God will be with us.

He is our comfort. Cry out to Him for help today and He will carry us through in ways we never thought possible.

We are coming out of this together!!

Dear God,

Please help me. I don’t know how to cross over the murky waters or walk through the burning fire. I need YOU, Your direction and Your protection today.

Thank you. In Jesus’ name I ask. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-17-21

2 Peter 1:5 (NKJV) 5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,

Greetings!

Yesterday we started off with 2 Peter 1:10

We began breaking it down so we could get a better understanding of exactly what this verse means to us as believers.

When we left off yesterday, we had just touched on verse 4 and discussed what that verse means for us, as children of God.

Now, let’s move on to subsequent verses.

As we finished verse 4, we discovered that God has given us His divine nature, and He has given us an escape from the depravity that is in the world.

Verse 5, above, tells us that because of what was shown to us in verses 3 and 4, we should be diligent, adding to our faith, virtue and knowledge.

Verses 6 and 7 then go on to tell us to also add self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness and finally, love.

Verse 8 tells us that if these things are ours (if they are present in our walk), and if they abound (if they are plentiful in our lives), we will neither be barren (literally translated as useless) nor unfruitful in our knowledge of (our walk with) Jesus Christ.

So, the summation of this, which is found in verse 10 (where we originally started yesterday), is that if we are truly walking with God, through faith in Jesus Christ, these attributes should be present and active in our lives on a regular basis.

If they are, it will be evidence of our faith. Additionally, it will also help to prevent us from stumbling (falling away).

If they are not, verse 9 tells us that we are shortsighted (even to the point of blindness), and that we have forgotten that we have been cleansed from our old (past) sins.

Lastly, verse 11 states that if we make our calling and election sure (following the patterns of verses 3-8), ” an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”.

Now that’s encouraging!

We hope you have enjoyed this breakdown of 2 Peter 1:3-11 and found it to be revealing and uplifting.

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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-15-21

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NKJV) 16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

God is incredible in His wisdom and unlimited understanding. His omnipotence is beyond comprehension.

We can face so many different things in our lifetime. But God tells us that these things are simply light and momentary afflictions. He also tells us not to lose heart.

We have learned to trust God by the things He has brought us through.

We are here today because He has kept us standing when I thought we would no longer be able to stand.

He has brought us through the fire, so to speak, showing us many great and mighty things in the process.

It’s because of this that we can stand and proclaim His goodness and His faithfulness, even in the darkest of times.

And when confronted by anyone who may say that they’re not sure if they believe or not, I am always quick to say, “There’s no way I can’t believe. I have seen way too much”.

Yes, sometimes when we’re each going through our personal trials, they may seem as though they will kill us.

But it’s during these times that we can see God move the strongest on our behalf. We see our faith grow. And if we let Him, He will teach us to trust Him more than we would ever believe possible.

Every trial is different. Every situation is different.

And God moves differently in every situation. He is not a cookie-cutter God. He is not fenced in by our ideas and our finite understanding.

I write today to urge you to trust Him wholly. And don’t lose heart in your hour of testing, temptation or trial.

Don’t give up.

In fact, press in even more closely to Him when facing these kinds of times.

And as you do this, He will give you eyes to see and ears to hear.

He will show you great mysteries that will give you a deeper understanding and a deeper walk with Him.

We urge you today to seek Him. Seek Him on a level at which you have never sought Him before. Press in to Him. Draw near to Him. Call to Him.

Trust Him. And don’t lose heart.

He wants to show us so much. We just have to ask Him for it.

Jeremiah 33:3 (NKJV) 3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

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 – 12-31-20

1 Samuel 17:37 (NKJV) 37 Moreover David said, “The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.”

What is very important to notice here is that David did not see any difference in the size or fierceness of the enemy he faced. He knew that the Lord would deliver him, no matter what, whether it was the paw of a lion, the paw of a bear, or a huge giant.

They all looked the same in his eyes. They were going down, with the Lord on His side!

What paw or giant do we face today? A financial crisis, a marriage crisis, a rebellious child, an addiction to lust or drugs, etc.? Do we face health problems, or are we maybe dealing with bullies?

The Lord will deliver us from the thing that stands in front of us as we put our trust in Him and we don’t back down.

David saw what God could do, and He knew there wasn’t anything that He couldn’t deliver him from.

Remember the things God has delivered us from, and don’t think He won’t do it again.

He doesn’t just deliver us once and tell us we’ve reached our quota. No. God is faithful whenever we call His name.

Psalm 34:17 (NKJV) 17 The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 12-16-20

2 Chronicles 24:18-20 (NKJV) 18 Therefore they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served wooden images and idols; and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of their trespass. 19 Yet He sent prophets to them, to bring them back to the Lord; and they testified against them, but they would not listen. 20 Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the Lord, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the Lord, He also has forsaken you.’ ”

There is an amazing, important lesson for all of us to learn from these verses.

Judah and Israel had abandoned God in favor of idols; false gods. Because of this, wrath had come upon both nations.

God did His part to try to steer the people back to Him, but they failed to heed His promptings and warnings. And because they had forsaken Him, He forsook them. He left them to their own devices.

If we look closely at this, there are many small details that make this much more meaningful than if we just breeze through it.

In verse 19, the word says that He sent prophets to them, to bring them back to the Lord. But they would not listen.

Verse 20 tells us that the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah. “Came upon him” literally means “clothed him”. The Spirit of God literally clothed the man of God and equipped him to speak to them with God’s authority.

But do you know what they did? Not only did they reject him, they stoned him to death.

This is heartbreaking. God is always faithful to give us time to repent. He is merciful… for a season. And then His mercy gets pulled back.

And so it was in this situation. After a period of time, God sent a small army from Syria to defeat them, even though their own army was large and powerful. Why? Because “they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers”.

God will seldom let His people go very long without confronting their sin. He doesn’t do this to punish us, but to remind us and nudge us to get back on track.

Most times He will give us many chances to make the necessary corrections. Then, if we fail to heed His promptings, He will bring correction to us Himself, in whatever way He sees fit.

Because of this, it’s important that we pay attention to the promptings of the Holy Spirit when he convicts us of our sin.

God wants the very best for us, so He will let us know when we’re getting off track or dabbling in things that are harmful or that dishonor Him.

All we need to do is pay attention and follow instructions. Doing so will help keep our relationship with Him strong, as well as preventing us from having to be dealt with on God’s terms, as the Israelites had happen to them so many times.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-11-20

Psalm 138:8 (NKJV) 8 The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

God will fulfill His purpose in us if we continue in Him on a daily basis.

Through prayer and His word, He will guide our path, show us what steps to take, and reveal the timing of it all.

That’s not saying we will not face things in this walk with Him. We will still have to deal with everyday situations, family struggles, financial problems, changes in our own situation and dealing with personalities in people that conflict with us.

God will help us to do all this, He will guide us through whatever we face at different times.

Some things may take a little longer to come through, while other things we may see results right away.

The work of His hand is on the life of a believer as we trust Him fully and obey His leading.

Hold dear the things He has personally spoken to us about.

Receive and believe what God has shown us through prayer and His word. He is faithful!

We are truly blessed with His most excellent Spirit within us.

God loves us more than we could ever imagine!

Let Him take our concerns and work them out according to His ways, as we continue to seek Him. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-1-20

Philippians 1:6 (NKJV) 6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

As believers, we are a work in progress.

Each one of us is in a different place in our walk with God. Where we are depends on many different things; our spiritual age, our spiritual maturity, our commitment to our walk with God, our willingness to change and grow, etc.

Sometimes there are outside factors that can impact us, but more often than not, where we are depends largely on what we do or don’t do.

Thankfully, though, even if we’re not the most faithful or diligent in our relationship with God, He never wavers and is never at fault for our shortcomings.

Even better, take a look once more at what the scripture above says; “He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ”.

That means that He sticks with us for the duration, never leaving us, even until the day of Jesus Christ, when He returns for His people.

His grace is like the special glue that fills in the gaps that we create, giving us every opportunity to keep pursuing Him and building our relationship with Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – The Coronavirus – What is God Doing?

Greetings!  

We trust that you are safe and healthy in the midst of the current global situation. 

Yesterday we did something a little different. We streamed a live video on Facebook regarding the current global situation with the Coronavirus. 

We felt that God had shared some insights with us on this and we wanted to share them with everyone, and streaming it live was the quickest, easiest way to accomplish that. 

We also recorded the video as it was streaming, and today we uploaded it to our YouTube channel, so people outside of Facebook can also watch it. 

Part of this video was Pastor Ellie sharing a prophetic word that she received back in 2012! 

We hope you’ll take some time and watch this, and that it will bring some understanding, some peace and some hope for you. 

Please click here to watch the video now, or scroll down to watch it below.

Feel free to let us know if you have any questions or comments at all. 

Sincerely, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
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