Category: Trusting God

Bible Verse of The Day – 3-20-20

Isaiah 9:6 (NKJV) 6 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

This is a well-known verse that we often see and hear quoted around Christmas time. And while it’s understandable that it would be used as such, there is much more going on here!

As of the day and moment that this is being written, much of the world is in a state of panic. Coronavirus is making its way around the globe. The media is causing fear and trepidation in the hearts of millions as they focus on this sickness and put fear into the hearts of men and women.

And while there is cause for concern, it’s important that we not let the hype and the fear take hold of our hearts.

Why?

Because we live under the hand of the Prince of Peace, the Everlasting Father, Mighty God.

You see, a Godless society has nowhere to run. They have no one to go to for peace, solace or answers to their questions and fears. It is for this reason that we see the panic on an increasing frequency and level over the last decade, as God has been pushed aside and largely eliminated from so many societies.

As followers of Christ, children of the Most High God, we don’t have to fall into the hysteria or panic. On the contrary, we should be peaceful and of sound mind during these times.

It doesn’t mean that we don’t see the seriousness of a situation. It simply means that we know the One who gives a peace that surpasses all understanding, even when the world looks like it’s falling apart.

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.

Trust Him. Cling to Him. Press in to Him. Draw near to Him.

And while the world around us gets whipped into a frenzy by Godless people who have no spiritual understanding, and no sense of who He is, we look to Him for everything that we need, trusting that He will guide our each and every step.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-17-20

Exodus 23:25 (NKJV) 25 “So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.

I think sometimes we underestimate our God. That’s why we wait at times until things get really bad before we ask for help. That’s why we wait until we are backed up against a wall and have no other answers or way out.

We wait until we finally realize we can’t figure it out ourselves. We give up on trying to do it our way.

This shows God what we think about it, how we see Him. And honestly, it’s hurtful.

I have learned over the years that my stupidity and ignorance has been painful for my Father to watch. God has feelings. That is why He came in the flesh. He felt for us and had compassion for us!

Will we look to Him for who He is? Will we let Him be God in our lives and save us from the awful tragedies that sometimes hit us? Or will we keep trying to do it on our own as long as we have breath in us.

Don’t forget where that breath came from.

Genesis 2:7 (NKJV) 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Someone is hurting today, struggling with letting it all go. Someone is struggling with letting Him bring healing, strength, and resting in His righteous hand.

It’s your call. Won’t you let Him help you with your trial today?

Isaiah 41:10 (NKJV) 10 Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’

Our prayers are with you. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-5-20

Psalm 50:15 (NKJV) 15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”

Do you have trouble?

We all do from time to time. Each of our troubles is different. But we all know the One who holds the solution to our trouble!

Notice that God didn’t say to become frantic, get stressed out and try our hardest to figure out the solution to our troubles by ourselves?

But isn’t it interesting that that’s exactly what most of us do, at least initially?

When trouble hits, we immediately go into panic mode and wonder how this thing will play out, and how bad the outcome will be.

But God doesn’t want us to react this way to troubles. Instead, He wants us to call on Him, to go to Him with these troubles. And then He wants us to give them to Him.

That’s right, just give them to Him. And then let Him show us how to fix them.

And if we do that, what does He say He will do?

He says He will deliver us!

Doesn’t that sound so much better than becoming frantic and fretting and stressing for days or weeks on end?

We think so too! And it’s something that God has taught us to do over the last several years. And wow, does it make a huge difference!

We didn’t learn this overnight. God didn’t just change us instantly and make it happen with the snap of His fingers.

It took time. And it took us learning to trust God for absolutely everything we need.

It may not have always been easy, but it was worth whatever struggles we might have gone through to learn it.

We encourage you to do the same; Cry out to Him, take your troubles to Him, and give them to Him.

And then trust Him with it all, one day, one moment at a time.

Your life will never be the same again. We promise.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-19-19

Job 37:5-6 (NKJV) 5 God thunders marvelously with His voice; He does great things which we cannot comprehend. 6 For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth’; Likewise to the gentle rain and the heavy rain of His strength.

Do we realize Who has our front, our back, our sides and our whole being? Why do we get so scared at times?

When something doesn’t go the way we think it should, what is the first thing we usually do? We get fearful.

The second thing we do is we panic. And the third thing we do is we exhaust ourselves with these reactions.

Can we all agree that God has us in His hands? God already knew what we were going to face. He already knew what we were up against and how we would react. He is reminding us today that He does great things which we cannot comprehend.

When He speaks, it shall be done! It’s in His voice, His words.

Let Him speak into our situation today. Let His voice declare His plan. And let us follow His leading, so all shall be well. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-9-19

Isaiah 26:4 (NKJV) 4 Trust in the Lord forever, For in Yah, the Lord, is everlasting strength.

There is such strength that comes with trusting the Lord.

And we need it if we want to walk in the things He has for us. We can’t walk in such strength without Him. Our own strength will not be enough.

We need His strength to say no at times. We need it to walk away from the things we need to walk away from at times. We need His strength to keep our tongue and our thoughts in order and aligned with Him. And we need it to keep our hearts focused on Him.

We cannot think of doing things the same way we have been doing them, and be able to walk the path God has for us. We need to let go of the old way and trust Him.

In that trust there will rise up a strength in us that will cause us to want and desire God-given action for the tasks He sets before us.

Walk in it and move forward. Don’t look back like Lot’s wife did. She was done when she looked back.

Genesis 19:26 (NKJV) 26 But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Looking back is no good. It will destroy the future that God has for us.

Trusting in the Lord will bring everlasting strength, keeping us heading in forward motion down a road God has for us. 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 – 9-8-19 – Getting Ahead of God

Please click to watch the video now.Greetings brothers and sisters in Christ! 

God is a God of promises, and He keeps every single one of them. 

We tend to be a people of doubt and impatience, struggling to wait on God’s timing for those promises to come to pass. 

This leads to us getting ahead of God, trying to “help Him” make those promises happen. 

This is also the topic of today’s video, Getting Ahead of God. 

We use some Biblical examples of this which are pretty enlightening, so we hope you’ll take a few minutes to watch it. 

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We hope you enjoy it and that it speaks to you. 

Sincerely, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-7-19

Romans 14:8 (NKJV) 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

It’s hard to get to a point in our walk where we feel content enough to say we are completely the Lord’s. We may be able to say we are working to get there, but to be completely there is another story.

We may pray, “God, use me”. And then He may want to do something with us or through us, and if we are not comfortable in doing it, we may shy away from it.

It’s not easy doing some of the things that may be asked of us to do. And some of the things may not be comfortable or anything like what we are used to doing.

As a matter of fact, most times it is something we have probably never attempted to do before.

Isn’t it funny that God would ask us to do something we are not familiar with. But He knows that if we don’t know how, we won’t lean on our own understanding, which causes us to reach out and lean on Him.

Some people have stepped out, leaning on God, but as time passed they got comfortable in what they were doing. And now they lean on what they have learned.

We have to always be listening and ready for God. We never know when He may want to add a little flavor to our life, so to speak.

Learn to live for Him so when He says, “change it up”, or “time to move on”, we are ready. Then we won’t ponder on it for too long and talk ourselves out of it.

Genesis 12:1 (NKJV) 1 Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you.

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 – 9-5-19

Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV) 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

When God comes into our hearts it may take time for us to realize that we are going to need to let some things go if we want to go deeper with Him.

Sometimes its people; people that may mean a great deal to us. It doesn’t necessarily mean we can’t see them at all. It may just mean we can’t spend as much time with them.

Many years ago, I was going through a season in my life, and in this season God asked me to pull away from some people I was very close to. I knew it meant change for me, because a great deal of my time was spent with them.

We had a routine, or specific days where we would do things together. It was so hard for me, but I humbly pulled back. And it brought me to tears at times because of their absence. But as time passed, it got easier and I could see why I had to do that.

It helped me to focus on other things and see God in a way I hadn’t known Him otherwise. Sometimes people can obscure our vision.

It’s part of our journey with Him. Our hearts will be at peace, but it doesn’t mean it won’t hurt from the things we need to do away with or let go of at times.

We will have to make choices that we may not fully understand at first. But as we follow and obey, later on we will see the importance of why He had us do certain things in a certain way.

Our journey with Him is learning to trust in Him in a whole new dimension.

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 – 8-19-19

Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV) 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

These verses have become my “words to live by”. Every day it becomes clearer and clearer to me what this really means.

It’s all part of the faith walk, that path that God puts you on that takes you somewhere you’ve never been and to a destination you have no idea about. You will only know that you have reached your destination when God says, “you’re there”.

Without the Holy Spirit, this walk will mess with your head. It will have you questioning yourself and the choices you make. It will have you asking yourself if what you chose was God or your emotions.

But then God speaks and tells you that it’s all OK. You’re not off. You’re not crazy, and you’re not weird. You’re on the right track.

As God has shown me this more and more, I have begun to notice it in action in the lives of people in the Bible.

Joseph, who became the “father” of Jesus, probably wrestled with this as Mary told him that she was pregnant, but still a virgin. And then again when God gave him a dream and told Him to flee to Egypt to protect his newborn Son from Herod.

Abraham, the “father of many nations”, dealt with this when he was told by God to leave and go “to a place I will show you”.

Genesis 12:1 (NKJV) 12 Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you.

Think about that. He had to leave his country, his family and his father’s house. But he did so not even knowing where he was supposed to end up.

And then he was promised a son when he was 100 years old. Now that’s a mind bender right there.

But Abraham obeyed, and God was faithful to keep His promises.

There’s something we need to be clear about; God didn’t stop doing these kinds of things when the people in the Bible died. He still does them today in the lives of people like you and me.

We just have to be alert and discerning to hear Him and then follow His leading.

Yes, it’s odd at first. Yes, it’s scary sometimes. And yes, people might think you’re crazy if you tell them about it.

But that doesn’t make it any less real. And it doesn’t make God any less faithful.

He still does these things! He still shows us and tells us things that require His spirit for us to get understanding and then make the right moves.

God still speaks. Are we listening?

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 – 5-9-19

James 4:10 (NKJV) 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

As I leaned over the hospital bed to hold my brother, I heard these words whispered in my ear, ”I’m so close to death right now”.

All I could say was, “I know”.

I held him in my arms, knowing that the alcoholism was either going to take him soon or there would come a miracle that would save his life. I reached a point in my heart where I said,” let it be, Lord. Let it be.”

A miracle came, and he is alive almost 3 years later.

At an earlier time, I was also at the hospital. This time I was with my dad, as he laid in the bed getting ready for heart surgery, at 80 years of age.

I thought, “my God, help me hold it together for my Mom and the rest of the family”. My knees were weak and I myself needed someone to lean on. God held me up and kept me strong.

Being an older man, it was a risky surgery. I didn’t know if he would come out alive or not. Only time would tell. Once again, I found myself saying within my heart, “let it be, Lord. Let it be”.

He came through that surgery. They gave him a short time to heal from it, and then came another surgery to repair a clogged carotid artery. A short time later, he had a third surgery to remove cancer. It was hitting all at once.

And he would say, “I’m weak as a kitten”. Again, my heart cried out, “Lord, let it be. Let it be.”

A miracle came. My Dad is alive today, at 84 years of age.

Yet another time, I was laying on my livingroom floor, bawling like a baby.

Our own situation at that time was so heavy on my heart. I didn’t know what to do or to think.

I looked to the left of me, and kneeling beside me was an image like Jesus. He had a gentle smile and I clearly heard, “It’s going to be alright. Everything is going to be alright”.

That was it. There was nothing telling me how it was going to be alright. No direction as to what to do. Nothing. That was it in a nutshell.

But that was my answer and I believed God. I held onto that word with my life. And today, more than 5 years later, I can say everything is ALRIGHT!

It was another miracle right before my eyes.

God is willing to do His part and move on our behalf. Are we willing to humble our hearts and reach that point where we can honestly say,” let it be, Lord. Let it be!”?

Let Him do what He knows is best, and be alright with His decision for us or for someone else that is in the battle of life or death, loss or gain, etc.

Let it be, 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 – 4-7-19 – Comfort and Familiarity

Greetings in the name of Jesus! 

God is always on the move for His children, providing for us, teaching us and leading us. 

We have another new video for you today, Comfort and Familiarity. 

In this new video we talk about how comfort and familiarity can impact our lives and the decisions we make regarding life events. 

We hope you’ll take a few minutes to watch this short video and ponder on what God says about these things. 

Please click here to watch the video now. 

We love you all and pray for you constantly. 

Sincerely in Christ, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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