Bible Verse of The Day – 6-9-12

(John 15:14 NKJV)  “You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

Jesus calls us His friends.

One day I was in my office praying and this song was playing, Friends are Friends Forever, by Michael W. Smith. All of a sudden I thought “where are my friends”?

I went down a list of people that I’ve had in my life at one time or another and most of them are gone, living their lives, and I hardly ever hear from them anymore. I started having a little pity party for myself, saying “Oh, I’m so lonely, God. I don’t have anyone…all my so-called friends are gone”.

It wasn’t long before God brought to my memory that I have Him, a friend forever, and that I have a wonderful husband who is my best friend as well. I have my daughters and son in laws, my grandchildren and so many more other people in my life that God has blessed me with!

I may be speaking to some lonely people out there today, but don’t ever think that you are alone. If you have Christ, you will never be alone as you follow Him…He will be a good friend to you!!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-8-12

(John 14:6 NKJV)  Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

There is but one way to God the Father. His name is Jesus.

He is the messiah, the redeemer, the savior. His blood was shed to take away our sins.

There is no other being, person, prophet or entity who can say this; not Mohammed, not Buddha, not Confucius, not anyone.

This might not be politically correct, but it is absolute truth. Jesus is Lord of all.

If you are a believer and follower of Christ, there is no room for dabbling with other religions or forms of spirituality. We need to be solid in our faith, not divided.

Our trust needs to be in the Creator, not in the psychic, the astrologer, the spirit medium or anyone else who claims to have knowledge of spiritual matters.

Make a vow in your heart today to honor the One and the Only true God, and then let the things in your life that are not of Him fall away.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-7-12

(2 Cor 5:21 NKJV)  For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Have you ever thought of yourself of “the righteousness of God”?

I’m sure that most of the time, we feel like anything but the righteousness of God. We each do so many things throughout the course of a single day that leave us feeling far from being righteous.

In and of ourselves we are very far from righteousness. We are, in the truest sense, filthy with sin. We have all fallen so short of God’s glory and His desires for us.

But don’t despair because He has made a way to fix that!!

Jesus took our place on the cross, dying in our place, as a sacrifice for our sins. His death and resurrection paid the price, IN FULL. We are spotless before God if we’re under the blood of Jesus.

You see, if we have accepted the sacrifice that Jesus made for us on a personal level, believing that He died for our sins, we are no longer filthy in the eyes of God. We are His righteousness!!

We have been washed clean and we stand spotless before Him. Yes, we can fall down and get dirty. But because of the blood of Jesus, that dirt washes right off.

We want you to know today, right this very minute, that there is nothing that you have done that is too big for God to handle or forgive you for. We have been made the righteousness of God in Christ.

Rest in God’s peace, knowing that He created a way for us to be spotless before Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-6-12

(1 John 4:7-8 NKJV)  Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. {8} He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

Loving has got to be one of the most effective ways of sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If we don’t have anything else but love, then we have more than enough to go where ever Christ wants us to go.

It is the LOVE for one another that will break that hard heart; that cold stone, that angry behavior that tries to take over and cause us to walk a road of loneliness and terror.

If you know someone like this, don’t let the love of God lay dormant in you. Start sharing it with the one that is most likely not going to let you; that is the one that needs it the most.

How do we share the love of God? We first have to know the love of God and what He offers to us. If we don’t know His love personally we can’t very well share Him. We have to first experience His love for us on a personal level.

Once we’ve experienced it on a personal level in our own lives, then we can share it with others in an honest, sincere way that will help change people’s lives.

No more hard hearts for God’s people! We need soft, tender, gentle, caring and loving hearts to share God’s message with the world.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-4-12

(Mat 5:8 NKJV)  Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.

How do we get pure in our hearts?  By receiving, believing and following Christ, and then repenting and turning from our ways of doing things and following His commandments.

Jesus’ blood cleanses us as we receive Him as our Lord and Savior. Do you know the song, “What can wash me white as SNOW, Nothing but the BLOOD of Jesus!!”?  That song says it all, it’s the blood of Jesus that has given us the freedom to go to God and have a relationship with Him. Thank God for Jesus and His blood that was so pure, so clean, and so perfect.

Reading God’s Word will allow us to get to know Him, the person that He is, the things He loves, the things He hates, and so forth.

As we allow God to cleanse us, and we work to keep the junk out on a daily basis, we will see more and more of God in our lives. (James 4:8) God wants to draw near to us…we just have to want to draw near to Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-4-12

(2 Sam 22:31 NKJV)  As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.

Do we ever second guess God?

Sometimes it’s easy to look at what’s going on around us and start to doubt Him. Lots of times we start trying to take control of a situation when we see that it’s not going the way we think it should.

But God’s ways are perfect. He can’t fail us. We can miss Him, but He will never fail us. He can’t. It’s not possible.

Any time we’re in a mess, we can always count on it being our own fault or maybe someone else’s fault, but we can never point the finger at God.

We need to let God be our shield. Do we trust Him enough to do that?

The best thing we can do in our lives is wait on God, trust Him and let Him be God.

He does a lot better job with it than we can ever think of doing!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-2-12

(John 3:30 NKJV)  “He must increase, but I must decrease.

John the Baptist spoke these words, referring to Jesus.

John had spent his time preparing people for the arrival of the Messiah. Now that Jesus was on the scene, John knew that it was time for him to fade into the background and let Jesus be known to all.

This should be the same in our lives. As we draw closer to Jesus, we should decrease and He should increase.

As He molds us and shapes us, we should become more and more like Him. God’s word tells us that when we become born again, we are a new creation; the old has passed away.

If the old has truly passed away and we are a new creation, then this should show in our lives.

We should decrease, so He can increase. We’ll be better off for it.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-1-12

(Heb 11:8 NKJV)  By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

Do you ever feel like you need to take a step, but you’re afraid because you don’t know what is going to happen when you do and you’ll never know what would have happened if you don’t?

So you just don’t move at all. In some cases it’s good to just wait. But, there are cases where you will have to take steps and move forward without knowing what lies ahead, especially if God is leading you to do so. He is not always going to spell it out for us… if He did where would faith come in?

Don’t be afraid to step out and go and do things you’ve never done before if God is leading you. Just make sure it’s God leading you and not your own will kicking in.

Some ways to tell if it’s God is that it does not bring confusion. No matter how hard it may be or scary it may seem, there will be a peace; a God-given peace.

Whatever God has you do will not hurt your marriage or your children. If you’re making a decision, both people in a marriage should be in agreement. God will not ask you to do something if it hurts your spouse or your family in any way. Family is important to Him.

Be careful, be sure it’s God and then trust Him to see you through!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-31-12

(Eph 6:12 NKJV)  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

We do not wrestle against flesh and blood.

This is a tough thing to grasp sometimes, especially when people are openly coming against us and attacking us. It’s often hard to separate the person from the spirit behind the attack.

People do have a free will and many times they do like to be miserable and vindictive. But we need to know and understand that despite the fact that they might initiate the things that they do to hurt others, there are very often demonic spirits that rise up to escalate what they do and turn it into ferocious attacks on us.

It’s up to us to remember this and to know how to stand against these attacks, rebuking the evil spirits in the name of Jesus. When we’re in the midst of being attacked, it’s easy to focus our anger at the person that we see. But we need to go beyond that and aim our counter-attack at the spirit behind the offense.

We know this isn’t flashy or exciting teaching, but once we understand this fully and get it ingrained into us, it will make it much easier to deal with vindictive people and help us to forgive them more easily.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-30-12

John 8:36 NKJV)  “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

The Israelites had been set free from slavery. Moses brought them out of Egypt to take them on a journey to go to a new land; the land which God had promised them.

It happened by way of miracles that God performed through Moses to get them out from under the hand of Pharaoh. God performed miracles time after time to get Pharaoh to let His people go!

When the people of Israel were released, they were happy and excited at first. But, as time went on. they found things to complain and murmur about. Even the miracles that God did for them weren’t not good enough anymore. In their discontent, they actually wanted to go back to Egypt, the land that God set them free from!

Are we feeling the same way today? Has God set us free from our Egypt? It could have been our friends or family that hurt us or took advantage of us, jobs that caused us stress, debt, addictions, our lack of knowledge in certain areas, etc. Are we longing to go back because maybe the new things aren’t as easy and the grass isn’t as GREEN as we thought it would be?

When Jesus sets us free He promises that WE are free indeed! We can’t let our flesh cause us to go back, no matter how hard it may fight us. We need to stay strong, letting God lead us to the promised land which He has for us.

You will see it is all worth it!!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-29-12

(Mat 26:39 NKJV)  He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”

Jesus prayed this prayer while in a place called Gethsemane.

As He was about to face the brutal beatings and then, ultimately, death on the cross for the sins of all humans, Jesus was under tremendous stress. He literally told the Father that if there was any other way for the sins of man to be taken away, please let it be so.

But He went on to say “Not my will, but yours”.

Each and every one of us has our own Gethsemane. We may not literally be in a garden, or facing death for the sins of the world. But we will all have, or have already had a turning point in our lives where we will surrender to God’s will for our lives, or we will turn and walk away.

Has God asked you to surrender yourself to Him? He asks all of us to surrender to Him at some point. It’s what being a follower of Christ is really all about. God wants 100% of us, not just a small piece.

If you’ve surrendered your life to God already, you know what a blessing it can be. No, it’s not always easy, but knowing that you’re sold out to God and walking the path He has set before you is an awesome experience that is life-changing.

If you’ve not yet had your own Gethsemane experience, it will come. God asks every single one of us to surrender to Him at some point.

Make sure you’re prepared and that you follow in the steps of Jesus and say to God, “not my will but yours”.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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