Category: Making The Most of Our Lives

Bible Verse of The Day – 2-29-24

Ecclesiastes 1:14 (NKJV) 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

What is it that we are trying to accomplish each day? What or whom are we chasing after?

Lately I have been taking a good look at my life to see if I am spending my time here on this earth wisely.

Think about it, we only have so many years here. And they go by quickly; more quickly than most of us realize.

Am I doing what God has called me to do, or am I just mimicking the way we think we are supposed to do things according to this world?

Boy, wouldn’t the devil love to get all God’s children grasping for the wind?

Jesus didn’t have a place to lay His head. He didn’t have a place He called home. He was always busy doing His Father’s will.

Now, we understand Jesus was God’s Son, and He was perfect. His mission was clear.

But even though He was God in the flesh, He had emotions, feelings, desires and needs. He was a man, just like we are. He got tired.

Matthew 8:20 (NKJV) 20 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”

There was nowhere for Him to lay His head. He kept focused on His purpose and didn’t worry about comfort and material things.

That is the word I keep hearing over and over. Keep focused!

Wake up each day and know what we are going to do for the day. Have a plan and stick to it. Don’t stray from it unless the Holy Spirit leads us in another direction.

2 Timothy 4:2 (NKJV) 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

Life here is temporary. This place is not home. It’s our mission field.

And our time here goes by quickly. So, let us be busy each day spreading the good news and being ready, in season and out of season.

If we do this, we will not miss out on anything worthwhile, for the rest is all vanity.

Let us not be grasping for the wind. Follow God’s purpose, not the worlds way of living!

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 12-14-21

Matthew 25:23 (NKJV) 23 His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

The closer I get to Him, the more I realize how fragile our lives are as human beings. How delicate we truly are and how easily things can change in a matter of a heartbeat, or even in just one breath.

The life we live here is not forever. We are just here for a time.

In that time, what we do matters. It will truly make a difference if we are doing what God has planned for us.

It is crucial in so many ways to know that we are walking in His plan and doing what we are supposed to be doing.

This is not some deep spiritual message. It is a reminder. We are not here to just be here.

There is purpose, reason and a plan for us all. No one is excluded.

There is work to be done and there is a mission for us all. We work together as one body in Him, to reach the nations.

The one thing I’ve learned is that I need to see His back; not His face, not His glory, not even His miracles.

But if I could ask only ONE thing of Him it would be, “God, let me see Your back, that I may know I’m following YOU. And in doing so I’ll be right where I need to be, faithfully in Your will!

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 – 6-12-20

James 4:13-14 (NKJV) 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 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.

Have you ever seen a shooting star?

I spend a lot of time on the water during the summer months, and I have gotten to see some incredibly beautiful shooting stars.

No matter how incredibly bright some of them are, they are literally only visible for a split second or two; here and gone almost instantly.

This is a great representation of our lives here on earth. We are here and gone before we even realize it.

Yes, 70 years is a lot longer than the life of a meteor. There’s no doubt about it.

But if we look at our lives compared to the grand scheme of things, those 70 or so years can seem pretty insignificant. And as such, we are no more than a shooting star flashing across the sky for a split second, and then we are gone.

Over my lifetime, there have been a few shooting stars that I have seen that have stood out. They are still very vivid in my memory.

Why? Because they were brighter or more brilliant than others. They left an indelible impression in my mind.

Our goal in our life as a believer should be to leave a lasting impression on the hearts and minds of those around us, shining God’s light to them in the things we do and the things we say, just like those shooting stars that we remember for a lifetime.

Maybe it will be words of encouragement or words of hope. Maybe it will be words of correction, spoken in love. Maybe it will simply be a listening ear that we give to someone who needs to talk.

Maybe it will be time that we took to help someone in need. Maybe it will be something that we gave to someone who was lacking.

Whatever it might be, let it be something that we do or say with the love of God in our hearts. Let our motives be pure. And let God be at the forefront of it all, giving Him the glory for it.

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 – 8-2-18

Isaiah 50:7 (NKJV) 7 “For the Lord God will help Me; Therefore I will not be disgraced; Therefore I have set My face like a flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed.

We can never be sure what each new day will bring.

We get emails every day from people all around the world. My Bible Verse of The Day is far-reaching, praise be to God!

We are still in awe over the places, homes, businesses, ministries, etc. that it reaches. We love to watch God move in the countless lives of those who receive our emails. We are very honored to be able to serve in whatever way that we can.

Today we received a different kind of email. This one was from a woman that we know in a nearby city. We know her because about 7 years ago, she had booked a guided fishing trip for her husband with Pastor Curt. Every year since then he would look forward to that annual trip to catch some bass.

But the email we received today was that he would not be booking another trip because he had passed away on July 10. Instead, she was asking for help with selling her husband’s boat.

She told us that one of the last things he wanted to do before he passed away was to get out on the water again with Pastor Curt. Sadly, he wasn’t able to do so.

You see, we just don’t know from day to day what we will hear or be faced with. No one does. And, as we have said many times before, we never know when our last day will be.

But one thing for sure that we can hold onto is that the Lord God will help us in whatever we may be facing.

It’s important that we set our face like a flint and press into Him. He is our answer, no matter what we face. Set it on Him and move forward. 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 – 12-17-16

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.

Just a little reminder to hug someone who we know needs it. Maybe they are struggling and have nowhere to turn. Be patient, be kind, be loving. We just don’t know what tomorrow will bring.

If we have a disagreement with someone, make it right. Don’t stay bitter toward them. Don’t hold anger… let it go. And tell them, no matter what differences you may have, that you still care about them.

Today is here and now and in this day we can love with God’s love. We can be the one to reach out and go the extra mile just as Christ did for each one of us.

Matthew 5:41 (NKJV) 41 And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

Don’t let little things, or even things that seem so big at the moment, keep us from doing what we need to do today. Push the feelings aside and plow through. We do not know if either one of us will have a tomorrow.

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 – 4-16-15

Psalm 39:5 (NKJV) 5 Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor.

We are, at the very best, vapor.

It doesn’t matter what we attain, what we accomplish or how much we accumulate while we’re alive here on earth. In the end, we are all the same.

We can be a homeless person on the street or the CEO of a billion dollar global corporation, living in a multi-million dollar mansion. It doesn’t matter. Because when we breathe our last breath, our life has been no more than a vapor.

We may live to be a hundred years old. And we may be looked upon as being alive for many decades, but in the eyes of God, our age is nothing.

Life goes by so fast. I always tell people who have a newborn baby that they had better not blink, because if they do, their child will be an adult and moving out of the house to get married.

Many people chuckle when I say that to them, but years later, they tell me how true it is, as they see their children growing up so quickly.

We need to cherish each day that we’re given. Each day is a gift from God, not ours to dawdle away or waste.

We need to love those around us and spend time with them while we can. We never know when we will see someone for the last time.

Let’s live life with purpose, not letting it slip through our fingers. This may sound cliché, but it’s a truth that only we can embrace and bring to reality in our own lives. Nobody can do it for us.

So love God and those He has placed in your life. It doesn’t get any better than that.

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 – 9-26-14

James 4:13-14 (NKJV) Do Not Boast About Tomorrow 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 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.

This has been a different kind of week for us. There have been a lot of unexpected things happening. Not just with us, but also with people we know.

We attended a funeral for the brother of one of my high school friends. This man died very unexpectedly, at the young age of just 49. He suffered two strokes and a blood clot at the base of his brain in just a matter of a few days. What started out as any other normal week for him and his family ended with him dying.

Another person that I know through Facebook, a Christian musician, recently lost her dad, also unexpectedly, as he died in his sleep at a fairly young age.

Both of these events have brought sudden and drastic change to the lives of the people who lost their loved ones.

So we want to remind everyone today about how fragile life is. Not a single one of us is promised a tomorrow. None of us is even promised a next breath or a next heartbeat.

We don’t decide the number of our days.

So at the risk of sounding cliché, we want to remind everyone reading this not to take life lightly and to cherish those around you. We don’t know how long they or we are here for and our lives can be changed in an instant when someone we love leaves us.

Love life and love those in your life. Love them like there is no tomorrow. Don’t take them for granted for even one second. It’s far too often that we lose someone we love and only then do we realize what we’ve lost and how much we regret not spending more time with them or not showing them how much we really love them.

So today’s message is just a simple reminder to love, and love bigly. We have been given love, so let’s love those around us while we can.

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 – 7-25-13

James 4:13-14 (NKJV) 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 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.

This is a topic that we touch on fairly frequently.

It’s so very important that each and every one of us, regardless of our age, has a good understanding of this truth.

Not a single one of us is promised a tomorrow. It’s imperative that we live our lives as though today is our last day. This is not morbid or odd. It’s just good sense.

We need to love those around us with all that is in us. We need to look at each and every day with a passion that so many of us lack.

We need to love God with all our hearts, shining His light wherever we go.

And at the top of our list of priorities should be this: make amends with those who we are at odds with, if at all possible. There are some who will choose not to reconcile with you. But we need to be sure we have made an honest effort to lay all differences aside and repair those broken relationships.

Remember… our lives are but a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

Let’s make the most out of ours!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-315-0902

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