Category: Marriage

Bible Verse of The Day – 4-12-12

(Eph 5:33 NKJV)  Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Love and respect are the key words in this verse to keeping a good marriage.

Marriage is a beautiful thing that God has blessed us with. There is nothing like spending your life with someone that you love and respect. Growing together, learning each others likes and dislikes, spending time helping each other and learning from each other; these are all wonderful things as we look at them with the right heart.

Don’t ever go into a marriage thinking you are going to change that person that you want to marry. We can’t change anyone if they don’t see the need or the want to change.

Men; go into a marriage knowing that you are going to love that person no matter what.

Women; you go into that marriage with respect toward your man.

There are times I’m sure, in any marriage, when you will have your ups and downs, but you WORK it out. Marriage takes work on both ends.

Keep it balanced. If one person is doing all the work trying to hold things together and the other is not doing his/her part the marriage will be unbalanced and problems will come. Stay balanced; work together as a husband and wife should, loving and respecting…you will have a wonderful time together.

Marriage is a blessing!!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-12-12

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

God has blessed us as humans, with a beautiful thing called marriage.

The bond shared between a husband and wife is intended to be sacred. It is ordained of God and meant to last a lifetime.

Unfortunately, we as humans have figured out ways to make a mess of it and drag marriages through the mud. We’ve seen this on the part of men and women.

Recently I have been asking God a lot of questions about why marriages fail and why people end up cheating on their spouses. He’s been giving me a lot of revelation as to why this goes on and it’s been eye-opening for me.

Just about every failed marriage is due to selfishness on the part of one or both of the people involved. At some point, we become selfish and start forgetting who we have been blessed with as a spouse, and we begin to look elsewhere for attention and satisfaction.

There is obviously much deeper stuff related to this, but this is the core of what happens.

Fortunately, God has provided us with every possible means of avoiding this trap. He can teach us how to make our marriages last a lifetime, even in these days of adultery, fornication and billions of failed marriages. We don’t have to fit the mold that this world has tried to force us into!!

Today, I am so happy to share my life with Pastor Ellie, the woman that God has blessed me with. We are celebrating 29 years of marriage today!

God has done this and He has shown us that a marriage doesn’t have to be doomed to destruction. It can be happy and strong, even in the face of adversity and hard times.

We give God all the glory for our relationship. He is the one that has taught us to make it work and make it happy!

We pray for each and every one of you who reads this, that you will be blessed with a strong, happy marriage. And for those of you who have been through a divorce, or are going through a divorce, that God will strengthen you and give you what you need to live victoriously, in spite of your circumstances.

If you’re still unmarried and seeking a spouse, wait on God to provide the one He has for you! Waiting isn’t easy, but when God provides for us, it’s worth the wait!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Your Daily Bible Verse – 11-24-11

(Eph 5:31 NKJV)  “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

Marriage is not something to be taken lightly. Marriage is a vow, made between a man and a woman, promising to spend the rest of their lives together.

The vast majority of people who get married nowadays go into their marriage relationship with a “let’s try it and see” attitude. They believe they can try marriage out, like taking a car for a test drive.

This is a very sad thing to see, as people spend years of their lives giving their marriage only half of the effort it deserves and then giving up and walking away when it doesn’t turn out like the fairy tales in the books and movies.

Marriage is the most significant commitment that any of us will make, second only to our commitment to God himself. We need to take it seriously because it’s a serious thing.

Men and women need to work at their marriage equally. It needs to be a joint effort. There isn’t a greater burden or responsibility on the man or the woman. Both are responsible for making it work.

If you’re in a marriage that is having trouble, we urge you to make every effort to work it out. It takes two people to make a marriage work. This can’t be emphasized enough.

Both people need to respect each other and honor each other. This is not optional!

We have gotten a lot of emails the past couple of days with many, many questions and prayer requests. We will be replying to them during the next few days. If you have a question or prayer request regarding your marriage, please feel free to reply to this email
and we will be honored to try to help you.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
401-377-5400

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Your Daily Bible Verse – 11-23-11

(Eph 5:22 NKJV)  Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Yesterday we touched base on a tiny little piece of how husbands should treat their wives. Today we’d like to take a look at a piece of how wives should handle their end of things.

Wives are instructed in this verse to submit to the husbands. This is a hard thing for some people to swallow and a lot of that arises from the fact that this verse has been used by ill-intentioned men to abuse their wives under the guise of “being the heads of their homes”.

This is very sad, because it has caused many women to live in fear of their husbands. This is a topic where much time could be spent, but for today we’d like to talk a little more about the submission part of being a wife, from a Biblical perspective, not from man’s warped ideas.

God’s word instructs women to submit to their husbands in a healthy, holy way, where the wife loves and respects her husband and gets love and respect in return.

God has placed the man as the head of the household for purposes of protection and security. In a proper, balanced relationship there will never be manipulation or control on the part of the husband or the wife. And the husband will be, in a symbolic way, the savior of the household. He should provide for and protect his home and his family.

This should never be taken to extremes or abused.

Women should respect their husbands and honor them, remembering that men have feelings and a need for love and compassion. Each man is different and may need different amounts of attention, based on his personality, but men should never be seen as rocks that have no emotional needs.

Ultimately, in a properly balanced relationship, the wife will have no problems submitting to and respecting her husband.

Regardless of how well or how poorly a husband handles his end of things, wives should never taunt, antagonize or provoke their husbands with their words or their actions. This includes flirting with other men, dressing provocatively around other men, etc. These types of behavior are wrong, whether the marriage is going well or not.

The subject of marriage and the building of a healthy marriage relationship is one that can be discussed at length and from so many different angles and points of view. It’s a topic that can get very heated because there are so many unbalanced relationships out there.

So we want to encourage the wives to be at their best, honoring God in your marriage, just as we encourage the men to love and respect their wives, honoring God.

Please feel free to contact us if you have questions, prayer needs or anything else related to marriage. We are more than happy to help.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
401-377-5400

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