Bible Verse of The Day – 11-7-23

John 13:12 (NKJV) 12 So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?

I find it interesting that Jesus asked this question, “do you know what I have done to you?”.

It’s always important to know why Jesus did what He did.

He never said or did something without a reason.

Even today in our personal lives, everything He does for us has a meaning to it. We should know why, and if we don’t know, we need to find out.

After washing their feet, Jesus wanted to know if the disciples knew what He had just done to them.

Why?

Because if they truly knew what He had done, it would be because they had a deep understanding.

They would see beyond the simple act of foot washing and understand the true meaning behind it, and they would walk it out in their own lives.

If we went to a class and were taught all day long, but we didn’t understand what we were being taught, what good would it do us?

It wouldn’t do us any good!

We would have knowledge but no understanding to use it properly and make a difference with it.

Not knowing why we do what we do is pointless.

Jesus was setting an example for them.

He, being their teacher, was serving them by washing their feet. His example was to teach them humility and servanthood, two things all believers need to walk in.

We need to keep this position in our hearts no matter who we are or become.

John 13:15 (NKJV) 15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.

Washing someone’s feet is a humbling task to perform, and also very humbling to receive if we have the right heart.

It’s in this state of humility we must remain in all that we do.

Jesus doesn’t expect us to go around literally washing feet all day. It’s about the state of our heart, where we must remain humble as we do the work of God.

We should not expect others to serve us. We need to take that role and be the servant we have been shown and called to be.

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries 
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Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-6-23

Colossians 2:6-7 (NKJV) 6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

Many believers struggle to grow in their faith in God and their walk with Him.

Most times this happens due to misplaced emphasis in their efforts.

Let me explain.

It is critical for us to understand that God’s word is the foundation of everything that we need when it comes to growing as a believer.

If we spend our time studying and getting understanding of God’s word, led by the Holy Spirit, we can’t go wrong.

If, however, we spend some time in God’s word, some time reading “Christian books”, some time reading philosophical books, we will be receiving a mixture of information and impartations that can lead us down a rocky road in our faith walk.

Now, this is not to say that we cannot read books written by Christian authors. But it should be emphasized that we need to be balanced and careful in what we consume as part of our learning.

Some books can give us information that may not be Biblically accurate. And if we are not well versed in scripture, or we fail to take the time to research what we read in these books to confirm its validity, we can be led down paths that are not giving us deeper understanding of truth, but giving us opinions or philosophical tidbits that could be based on false information that we should not trust.

This can cause us to move away from God, instead of closer to Him, or create an unscriptural mixture in our understanding, without us realizing that it is even happening.

So, how do we prevent that from happening to us?

We “walk in Him” as stated in the verses above. We keep our focus on Him, not Him plus something, plus something else.

We use God’s word to build us up in Him, “establishing us” in the faith. We spend time in His word, absorbing it, gaining understanding of things that we never knew or understood before.

Then, we let that new knowledge and understanding shape and strengthen our walk with our Savior and Redeemer.

Finally, we use God’s word as a guide by which everything we see, hear, or read is verified as true or false.

This simple way of approaching our walk with God will help us grow greatly while fending off possible false teachings, thereby keeping us on the path that helps us grow and mature safely.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-5-23 – Understanding Righteous Judgment

Please click to watch the video now.Greetings in the precious name of Jesus. 

God is faithful in all things, and He is the same yesterday, today and forever! 

We have a new video for you today, Understanding Righteous Judgment. 

In this new video, we discuss what it means to judge someone righteously, and what Jesus meant when He told us not to judge others unless we want to be judged. 

Keep pressing into God and draw near to Him in all things. 

Please click here to watch the video now. 

We love you all. 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443  

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-4-23

Psalm 44:21 (NKJV) 21 Would not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.

We never know what goes on behind closed doors. We never know what people are going through inside.

Even within our own hearts, we may be hurting or struggling and have never told a sole what burdens we carry.

It may have weighed us down for years.

Are we tired of carrying this weight?

It’s time to let out the secrets. It’s time to get free from being in prison to ourselves and our unspoken burdens.

It’s OK to share what we have endured; God already knows.

If we remain in this hidden state, the burden of the secret will just grow heavier each day and each year that goes by. And it can eat us up from the inside, out.

God sees it all and He can help us get free.

What goes on behind your closed door? How do you feel when no one else can see you?

When you lay in bed at night, what taunts you?

Matthew 11:28 (NKJV) 28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Let the truth be told; no more secrets.

Live a life free of the things that taunt you, and rest easy.

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries 
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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-3-23

Psalm 139:13-14 (NKJV) 13 For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.

If you have been with us for any length of time, you have probably noticed that we write frequently about the human body and the miracle that it is.

God has created our bodies in an intricate and complex way.

Every little piece and each unique part play specific roles in our existence, our bodily functions, and our overall health.

Here is a case in point.

Yesterday I laid down for a short nap. The morning had been extremely busy, so I decided to rest a bit.

After sleeping for a brief time, as I woke, my eyes happened to focus on our wood coffee table.

I have never paid much attention to this before, but as my eyes began to focus after waking up, the grain of the wood caught my attention. The intricate beauty of it overwhelmed my senses.

It was incredibly beautiful.

And then it hit me that this was only possible because of God’s miraculous creation of the human eye.

He created our eyes in such a way that we can see colors, depths, textures, and much more, all in a split second.

It is incredibly hard to put what I felt at that moment into words that can fully convey it.

Suffice it to say that the incredible sovereignty of God hit me hard.

His works are beyond anything we can fully comprehend. And yet, we live each day inside of these miraculous bodies while barely giving it a thought.

Let us see and recognize Him, giving Him all honor and glory, and behold His wonders for the miracles that they are. Amen

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-2-23

Proverbs 17:22 (NKJV) 22 A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.

Being around merry people is a good thing. It’s like medicine!

We all need to have good people around us; people who can make us laugh. People that are uplifting to be around. People who are encouraging and full of life.

It’s so important we get our dose of merriness!

Being around negative people and “downers” can cause us to take on their same attitude if we are not careful.

It’s not funny how easily we can start acting like those that we hang with and listen to a lot.

People that are hurt may tend to be negative. They will usually be bitter. They will not want to discuss fun and exciting things. They usually prefer to hear bad drama.

So, we need to limit our time with them.

Broken people don’t want to see anything good. They are lost in their sorrow, and they have the “poor me” attitude.

They may also have the “I have the right to act like this attitude”.

If we can’t positively impact them, then we may want to try to avoid spending a lot of time with people that are never happy.

We should obviously try to share the love of God with them and try to lift them up. But there will be some who, no matter what others say or do for them, will find something to cry about.

Try to spend time with those who are happy, cheerful, and encouraging to be around, and get a dose of good medicine!

It will rub off on you, especially if you may be going through a hard time or in need of encouragement.

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 – 11-1-23

Malachi 3:6 (NKJV) 6 “For I am the Lord, I do not change;

Please join me today as I share a little story with you.

This story should help you see God in a way that you may not have seen Him before. And I believe that God will use it to help grow your faith and trust in Him.

As many of you may already know, we launched our new podcasts a few weeks ago.

While preparing everything for that, there was a considerable amount of research that had to be done to find a suitable platform upon which the podcasts could be published.

My hope was that we could find a Christian company that would host them, and hopefully do it for a reduced charge for other Christians.

As I was deep into my research, I found one such Christian platform that offered this exact service.

Better yet, their services were free to other Christians.

Great, right? Well, I thought so too. But then I dug deeper.

Before signing up for their service, there was a lengthy agreement that needed to be read and signed. This agreement shared their statement of faith, and that statement contained a small piece stating all users of their platform must also agree with their statement of faith.

As I read through it from top to bottom, I was in full agreement with what it said, until I reached a section near the end that made me stop in my tracks.

It said this:

“Our platform is not open to the dissemination of such distinctive Charismatic and Pentecostalist views as tongues, healing… etc.”

I stopped right there and knew this was not a platform we would be welcome on.

Why? Because we believe the entirety of God’s word.

You see, God does not change.

He has miraculously healed people down through the centuries, and His healing powers are still alive and well today.

I am living, walking, talking proof of this. Nobody will ever silence me about it.

God healed me and delivered me from asthma at the age of 37. His healing power is real. Amen.

It was disconcerting and disheartening to see that followers of Christ would deny the power of God, and then deny the opportunity for other believers to propagate the truth of who God is via their platform.

But I know this is reality.

Some are not comfortable with things they may not understand. So, instead of gaining understanding, the thing they fail to understand is simply pushed aside, labeled as no longer active or valid in God’s kingdom.

This is akin to saying that the Holy Spirit was only here and active for a season, and then He vacated the premises to go into hiding somewhere while we wait for the return of Jesus.

In light of the fact that the Holy Spirit was here and active in the creation of everything, He was active throughout the centuries leading up to the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and visibly active during the early days of the church, why would He not still be active today?

That line of thought is not at all consistent with who God is; our Rock and Redeemer by Whom all things came into being. The Great I AM. Yahweh. Elohim.

He does not change. It is not in His nature to do so.

Let us take Him at His word in its entirety, including those things that we may not fully understand.

As we do this, we will see Him move more powerfully in our lives and give us deeper understanding through the faith that we allow Him to plant in us, and then water, and grow.

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 – 10-31-23

Genesis 11:4 (NKJV) 4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

Come let us build ourselves a city.

Many societies have reached a point where everything is about us and ourselves.

People do not even consider God any longer. There are very few people who will even talk about God and the good things He has done.

But they will talk up a storm about me, myself and I. Just give them the microphone.

What were the people in this verse trying to do?

They wanted to build a big city with a tall tower.

To do what? To reach the heavens!

Why? Because they wanted a “name” for themselves.

God shut their plan down by giving them a language barrier.

He confused their language so they could not understand one another’s speech.

He scattered them abroad over the face of the earth, and they ceased building the city.

When we get full of ourselves, focusing only on what we can do, it causes two problems; pride and self-rule.

This incident is very likely why there are so many languages on the earth. It was pride that caused it.

We need to understand that God wants us to rely on Him, to lean on Him, and to hold fast to Him in all that we do. We need to get our wisdom from Him, and our support from Him.

He wants us to seek after Him and His kingdom.

The world loves big names and important titles. God loves humility, meekness, and a heart after Him.

1 Samuel 13:14 (NKJV) 14 But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”

Who did the Lord seek for Himself? A man after His own heart.

Where is our heart today? Are we seeking a name for ourselves?

God is happy with our name as it is, whether it has a title attached to it or not.

He wants our heart to be after Him! 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 – 10-30-23

1 Corinthians 9:24 (NKJV) 24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.

Athletes in training must be extremely disciplined if they expect to compete seriously.

Their discipline must be consistent if they hope to reach peak condition for their respective undertaking. Anything less than 100% effort on their part will hamper their efforts to win, causing them to bring on their own defeat.

For many who are professional athletes, this is a decades long endeavor. They can never back down, never relax their standards.

It takes serious dedication to maintain this type of mindset.

And so it should be with us regarding our walk with God.

It is important that we keep our eye on the prize, learning to shut out all the noise and distractions that come our way each day.

Many things will vie for our attention. We can easily fall prey to these things if we don’t stay on top of our game.

And if an athlete can do this, if they can stay disciplined for an earthly prize, how much more should we give our absolute best effort for a prize that is eternal?

1 Corinthians 9:25 (NKJV) 25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.

We want to remind you today to keep your eye on the prize that is before you!

This life is not always easy. In fact, it can be downright difficult at times.

But God has told us that in Christ we can do all things.

He has gone before us. He has shown us by example. And He has sent us a Helper, the Holy Spirit, to walk us through each step that we need to take.

So, keep your eye on the prize! Fix your eyes upon Jesus and don’t look to the left or the right.

Push through those difficult times, knowing that the end game is not about a gold, silver or bronze trophy, but an eternal crown of life.

We can’t do it alone. But in Him we can do whatever God has placed before us to do.

Philippians 4:13 (NKJV) 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

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 – 10-29-23 – You Want the Answer

Please click to watch the video now.Greetings in the name of Jesus! 

We trust that you are growing in your walk with God each day. 

We have a new video today that will help you grow even more! 

“You Want the Answer” is the name of the video. And in this new video we teach about what it takes to get our prayers answered. 

This covers one of the most frequently asked questions in the body of Christ, “how do I get my prayers answered?”. 

We hope you will take a few minutes to watch it. 

Please click here to watch the video now.

Enjoy the rest of your day and stay close to God. 

Sincerely, 

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 – 10-28-23

Galatians 3:28 (NKJV) 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Paul is teaching us here that in Christ there is no favoritism regarding race, rank, or sex. We are all sons and daughters of God through our faith in Christ Jesus.

God will make His home in those who truly love Him.

It doesn’t matter our background or who we were before our hearts surrendered to Him.

Jesus says, if anyone loves me, he will keep My word and My Father will love him and make our home with him.

Who is this “him” Jesus speaks of? Those who love the Lord, Jesus Christ and keep His word.

John 14:23 (NKJV) 23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

Keeping His word is an absolute!

This means we have to pay attention to His word, the Bible, and what He says in it.

Following Him in obeying what He tells us to do is an outward expression of our hearts. Keeping His word active in our daily actions is what matters to Him.

Is it hard at times to stay true to His word? To be honest, yes.

We may feel like giving up at times. We might feel like we are missing out on things others are doing and having fun with.

We may feel like we work so hard to stay diligent and faithful in doing His word, but people ignore us and sometimes don’t want us around.

Those are just a few examples of what we can feel at times.

But, let me say this; there will be more days of seeing the results from us pushing through, staying steadfast and not giving up than there will be days of the negative kind.

Having the Creator, our Lord and Savior, and the Holy Spirit make their home in us will undoubtedly come with a cost.

The cost is loving Him more than anything or anyone, and fully surrendering to Him.

Who does He come to?

To those who love Him and keep His word.

It doesn’t matter what we have done in the past, if we surrender to Him, He will make His home in us.

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries 
49 N Lamplighters Walk 
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401-439-3780

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