Bible Verse of The Day – 5-7-23 – These Three Things

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

Walking with God is an incredible way to live. Amen! 

We have a new video for you today about walking with God. This video is called, “These Three Things”. 

In this new video, we teach about three things that can cause us to stumble in our walk with God. 

We hope you give it a watch! 

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Stay close to Him and let nothing draw you away. 

We love you! 

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 – 5-6-23

Exodus 31:17 (NKJV) 17 It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’ ”

Have you ever noticed that when we are rested, we are more tolerant, more understanding, more patient, more kind and more willing to be helpful to others?

But when we are tired, we are easily agitated, annoyed, aggravated, and more likely to be sensitive.

My daughter is funny at times, she will ask me, “Mom, are you tired today?”.

When she says that, I immediately know what she is trying to get across to me.

In a kind way, she’s letting me know I’m grouchy. LOL.

It’s a sincere attempt to let me know I need to take a nap and get refreshed.

Fatigue or tiredness can be a Christian’s enemy. It can quickly impede the flow of the Holy Spirit and the strength that He offers to us.

When we are tired, we will say or do things we wouldn’t normally say or do if we were well rested.

It’s important that we notice when we need to walk away, pull back, take a vacation or even just find a quiet place to lay our head and rest for a bit.

Believers are not exempt from resting. We need to be refreshed, just as our Lord took the time to stop Himself.

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 – 5-5-23

1 Chronicles 9:1 (NKJV) 1 So all Israel was recorded by genealogies, and indeed, they were inscribed in the book of the kings of Israel. But Judah was carried away captive to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

“But Judah was carried away captive to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness”.

This is a powerful statement pointing to the willingness of God to chasten His people.

God has standards that He wants His people to subscribe and adhere to.

These are not just Old Testament standards. They apply to us today as well.

God’s mercy is real. He forgives as we repent.

But unrepentant hearts are prime candidates for His chastening.

Some nations of the world are being chastened by God right now, this very minute, for their sins and their unrepentant hearts.

It’s important for us to understand that His chastening isn’t intended for the ungodly.

It is His people, the bride of Christ, who need to repent and seek forgiveness for straying and letting our hearts become lukewarm and weak in our faith.

God has given us a lengthy season of mercy; a time to allow us to see our shortcomings.

During that time, He has held back His hand. His chastening has been delayed as He gave us sufficient time to correct our paths.

But now we are seeing things play out that are clearly intended to show us the price we must pay for failing Him.

Yes, God chastens those He loves. He punishes us when it is necessary.

Hebrews 12:6 (NKJV) 6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.”

It is imperative that we allow God to soften our hearts so we can recognize our sins. Then we need to acknowledge our sins, taking the proper steps to correct them and repent.

As we do that, God’s hand of chastening will be lifted, and His mercy will cover us once again.

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV) 14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

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 – 5-4-23

Psalm 108:13 (NKJV) 13 Through God we will do valiantly, For it is He who shall tread down our enemies.

To be valiant means to be brave and bold. To walk courageously, a valiant soldier. It means to be mighty and powerful.

Through God we are mighty men and women of valor!

How do we as believers walk in such bravery and boldness?

We stay close to God and walk with Him, listening and watching.

We keep our hearts soft by humbly letting Him show us how to accomplish things, even when the way He shows us might be different than what we may have thought of.

Oh boy! This is not what the world will teach us. It’s quite opposite. But it is how we win and walk in the blessings of the Lord.

Being brave, bold and courageous means not worrying about what others think or say about us. It’s living and breathing obedience while fighting off the temptations that come against us.

It’s not always as easy as it sounds. Obeying is probably the hardest thing to do even when everything in us wants to do the right thing.

Paul says it best.

Romans 7:15 (NKJV) 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

It happens to us all at times. Keep pressing in and grow stronger.

Learn from our errors and mistakes and He will tread down our enemy!

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 – 5-3-23

Daniel 3:24-25 (NKJV) 24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.” 25 “Look!” he answered, “I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.”

It feels like this is truly a season of “walking in the fire” for many of us in the body of Christ.

Trials and hard situations abound on a global scale during this season we are in. And sometimes that can make it seem like we’re constantly “up against a wall” that we can’t break through or climb over.

But it’s important for every one of us to remember this; those fires that can feel like they’re destroying us will purify us, and as we walk through them, we are not alone.

Our faithful Savior, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, is walking through the fire with us.

No, He is not spraying the fire with water to cool it down. Instead, He is equipping us and accompanying us so we can walk through that fire and come out the other side without even a hint of the smell of smoke on us.

This does not mean that the fire won’t affect us. It more than likely will, in one way or another. And it may even leave scars in some way.

But the effects will not kill us. They will make us stronger with a resolve that we didn’t have before the flames tried to swallow us up.

This is not being said to hype anyone up emotionally. It is not being said to minimize or make light of what anyone is going through right now.

But we need to understand that these trials we face have the power to make us stronger if we let them do their work.

Romans 5:3-4 (NKJV) 3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope.

No, none of us likes trials. None of us asks for tribulations. But they must come. Jesus told us this (John 16:33).

So, let us lean on God and look to Him to strengthen us as we face them, following His leading as He walks us through them.

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 – 5-2-23

Revelation 16:15 (NKJV) 15 “Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.”

“Coming as a thief” simply means He will come suddenly and unexpectedly.

Be ready and be watchful!

The key to being ready and watchful is found in making the time for the impartation of His word daily, and keeping prayer time a priority.

Don’t look at these as, “well, maybe later I’ll sit and read if I get certain things done”.

No, it won’t happen if we have that attitude!

Go in with the attitude, “I will sit and read. I will take time and pray today”. If we do this, nothing can stop us from doing it.

The importance of staying in His word cannot be emphasized enough. It will keep us in a constant state of watchfulness, and our hearts will always be ready for Him.

It’s not easy in the times we live in to stay focused on both of these. But it is an absolute necessity.

Now, If we struggle with having time for these, then we have too much on our plates. We need to start eliminating some things or maybe even some demanding people.

What we mean by this is that sometimes certain people can take up a good amount of our time and the space in our minds and thoughts.

We need to minimize the time we spend around them or talking with them, and give more time to the things that are going to help us stay on top of our walk with God.

The Lord will come suddenly. He states this plainly.

In order to be ready, we must be in His word and have our undivided prayer time with no distractions; just us and Him.

We may not know exactly when He is coming, but one thing we know for sure is, He is coming!

Let us be ready at all times.

Matthew 24:42 (NKJV) 42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.

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 – 5-1-23

Romans 15:13 (NKJV) 13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Our walk with God is a walk of hope, rooted in and built upon the faith we have in Him.

This scripture says a lot when it comes to our walk and what we should expect.

Because of the hope He gives us, we will also experience joy and peace.

When do we experience this joy and peace? When we believe!

Our faith and trust in God are the catalyst that brings joy and peace.

These are not simply emotions that we feel based on how our life is going for us.

True joy and peace are byproducts of our faith and our trust in God that become more strongly developed on a level that’s parallel to our growth as a believer.

And take note of that last line of the verse above; “that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit”.

You see, that line gives proof that these are not just emotions, but an outcome that takes place because of our growing trust in God.

This is not a deep spiritual mystery. It is a simple reality that doesn’t require a degree in theology, an extensive understanding of the word of God or decades of studying the Hebrew or Greek languages.

It takes only a genuine desire and a willingness to make a sincere effort to know and trust God more every day.

In this we will not only find Him, but we will also find that joy and peace that can only come by way of God’s Spirit through a deeper walk with our Savior.

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 – 4-30-23 – God of Great Hope

Greetings in the name of Jesus! 

We serve an incredible God. And He wants us to have hope! 

We have a new video today that addresses this topic. 

In this video we teach about the importance of letting the Holy Spirit lead us through times of darkness, so we don’t lose our hope and our joy. 

The video is called, “God of Great Hope”, and we think you’ll enjoy it. 

Please click here to watch the video now.

We love you all! 

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 – 4-29-23

Genesis 22:2 (NKJV) 2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love – Isaac – and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”

Our most important goal in this world should be to please God.

Whatever He asks of us, as long as we know it’s Him, we need to find it in ourselves to take the first step and say, “I will do it”.

How many of us are ready, willing and open to make many sacrifices to do His will?

A lot of people will not let go of the things that they need to let go of in order to reach this point.

As a couple, Pastor Curt and I are in agreement when it comes to putting God first!

And we are both aware of the fact we can’t have our say in some matters regarding God’s plan. We just have to agree with what He is asking of us.

We definitely cannot have any emotional attachments, or it will only make it that much harder when we have to let them go.

This is a heart condition. And it takes time, sometimes years, to reach this place.

But, as God changes us a little here and a little there, we will reach a point to where we will give up just about anything to please and obey Him.

Abraham would never have been willing to sacrifice his only son if his heart had been attached to anything more than it was to God.

God knows where each one of us are at in this process. If He is asking us to do something and it’s very hard to let go, remember that He wouldn’t ask it of us if He thought it would hurt us in any way.

He has nothing but good intentions for each one of us.

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 – 4-28-23

2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (NKJV) 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

God has given us every weapon we need to win the battles we face.

We must understand those weapons. And, just as important, we must understand our enemy!

We see the people who carry out the orders of the demons who have been given authority over specific regions (principalities). We don’t, however, see the spirits behind the actions of those people.

We get caught up in the people we can see.

We need, instead, to be focused on the spirits (demons) behind their actions.

This is where the battle really lies. This is where the war is won or lost.

It’s critical that we allow the Holy Spirit to show us the unseen.

This doesn’t mean that we will visibly see the spirits in action.

It simply means that we will see what’s behind the actions of the people who are carrying out the evil strategies of the principalities who have been given authority over those regions.

But when we allow the Holy Spirit to give us eyes to see and ears to hear, our perspective will change drastically.

We will no longer be like shadow boxers fighting the air. Instead, we will better understand what our target is, and we will be able to pray very specific prayers to help us defeat them.

So, in all our battles, we need to be sure to understand this one thing; we do not fight against flesh and blood.

Once we fully understand that, everything about our prayers and our perception will change.

Ephesians 6:12 (NKJV) 12 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.

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 – 4-27-23

John 8:11 (NKJV) 11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”

While in prayer this morning, I had a vision.

A man was on a surgical table. He was under anesthesia. He was out cold. But yet he suddenly sat up on the table and yelled, “stop!”.

Even though he was under the influence of the anesthesia, he pushed through the effects of it and yelled out.

The anesthesia in this vision is symbolic of sin; the sins that we can fall under the influence of at times.

This shows us that even if we have fallen prey to sin, and it has us under its influence, we must do whatever is necessary to fight it.

You see, no matter how far into sin we are, our conscience or our will can override it and choose to stop.

The man on the operating table was out, but he woke up enough to yell, “stop”. We too must wake up and take action.

We have to be aware of our sin, and we have to be the ones to stop it. No one else can do it for us. It  takes resistance and strength to stop it. And God will help us with both.

Who’s in trouble today? How deep are we under the influence of our sin? No matter the depth, resist it. Sit up and stop it.

Go, and sin no more. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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