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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-25-25

Posted on February 25, 2025
Overcoming Sin in Our Lives
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Isaiah 40:29 (NKJV) 29 He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength.

It is usually easy to spot the weaknesses of others just by watching them, or hearing them speak at times.

Doing this, it doesn’t usually take long to see where others may be weak.

But what about our own weaknesses? Do we see them?

Is there a weakness in us that causes us to do the wrong thing every time?

Do we see it? Or have we just accepted it as part of who we are?

We try to justify it by saying, “that’s just the way I do things. ” And we keep right on walking in that weakness.

But God wants to give us power in those areas. And where we have no might, He wants to increase our strength, that we may be able to overcome that weakness with His help.

Today, if we are struggling with weakness in some areas of our life, we must acknowledge it for what it is; weakness.

We cannot just sit back and let it ruin us. We can’t let it take us down that path of feeling like we will never get free from it, or that we will never be strong in that area.

He gives power to the weak. He increases our strength. Can we do it on our own? No! We need His help.

Dear God in Heaven,

I’m feeling weak in many areas. I feel at times like I want to conquer it, but when I try I fall back again and again. Today I want Your help. I need your strength and might to help me overcome the areas where I’m weak. Please, give me strength to do the right things in the areas where I’m weak. Your word says that Your strength is made perfect in weakness. May Your power rest upon me.

2 Corinthians 12:9 (NKJV) 9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

I pray in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-29-23

James 4:7-8 (NKJV) 7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

I recently watched a short video of a woman who was talking about people who struggle for long periods of time with specific sins.

In her video, she compared this with crucifixions. Her analogy described the long, torturous death of crucifixion with the long struggle of breaking free from a specific sin that has been hard to shake.

As part of her analogy, she used the example of someone who is married but struggles for a long time to stop desiring others after they are married.

While I understand her analogy, I disagree with it vehemently.

Here’s why.

Long struggles with a specific sin are almost always the result of us not completely submitting to God.

I know. Some who are reading this are disagreeing with me right now.

They are saying, “but you don’t know how hard it can be sometimes to shake certain things”.

And here is my response to that.

We wrestle with sin at length because we do not wholly submit to God. Not submitting to God makes it hard for us to resist the sin.

The word of God is plain and clear; Submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from us.

This may seem oversimplified. But it is not.

It is 100% true, accurate and effective counsel.

Sin that plagues us for long periods of time can only do so if we fail to take ALL steps necessary to defeat it.

Some may think that this is alluding to many steps; a long, painful process of breaking free and claiming victory.

But it’s not.

The road to get there can be very long and painful for many. But this is not due to God’s weakness or lack of sovereignty.

It is due to our own weakness and our own unwillingness to RESIST the devil.

Resisting the devil doesn’t require a specific program. It does not require someone to lay hands on us and pray for us. It does not require us to confess our sin to someone else for moral support.

Those things may help. But until we passionately decide within ourselves that we are done with that sin, and we commit fully to defeating it, it will continue to hound us and plague us.

Two words are the key; submit, resist.

We need to humbly submit ourselves to God, our Creator and Redeemer, admitting that we can’t do it on our own.

And we need to ask and allow God to help us resist the devil when he comes to lure us into another snare.

It is only when we do this that we will end the struggle that swallows so many of us up as we try again and again to overcome long term sin.

Submit. Resist. Defeat Sin.