Tag: Bible verses about God’s sovereignty

Bible Verse of The Day – 6-19-24

Genesis 50:20 (NKJV) 20 But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

As we have seen in the previous two days, the course of Joseph’s life took some unexpected turns that made it seem like he would never escape his status as a slave or a prisoner.

But God had other plans. And they were beginning to become visible in Joseph’s life.

While in prison, Joseph displayed leadership skills that caused him to be put in charge of the entire prison population.

And his ability to interpret dreams eventually led him to Pharaoh’s palace, where he was tasked with interpreting dreams that Pharaoh was troubled by.

Joseph’s interpretation of these dreams, and his recommendations to Pharaoh, caused him to find favor, and he was made 2nd in command in Egypt, overseer of the entire country.

Because of God’s plans for Joseph, he had suddenly gone from a prisoner to the second most powerful man in Egypt.

Joseph’s path to this lofty position was a difficult one. He endured much hardship along the way. And these hardships could have led him to doubt God or be angry with Him.

But Joseph kept his heart right, honoring God in all he did. And because of this, he saved millions of lives when famine struck the land. And his life of so many difficulties became a life of royalty and luxury.

How about your life, or my life?

Do we face difficult seasons, times of hardship or distress?

And when we do, how do we handle them?

Do we become angry with God and question Him as to why we must suffer such things?

Or do we step back, take a breath, and ask God how He wants us to handle this, and what steps does He want us to take?

It is unlikely that any of us will ever face difficulties like what Joseph faced. And it is even more unlikely that our difficulties will thrust us into positions of power or royalty.

But we can say with certainty that our trials can teach us much, and they will prepare us for greater things.

The big question is, what will we do with them?

Join us again tomorrow as we look at one more example of God using adversity to push His people toward His path for our lives.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!

To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please Click Here and then enter your email address in the box near the upper left corner of the page. 

Please consider making a Donation.

Get our mobile app here: 

Android: http://goo.gl/oQ6qa7 

Apple: http://apple.co/2lZdgYy

Tagged with: , ,

Bible Verse of The Day – 6-18-24

Genesis 39:21 (NKJV) 21 But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

When we finished yesterday’s devotional, we were discussing Joseph’s life as a slave to an Egyptian officer of Pharoah.

The scripture we referenced stated that the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man.

As we mentioned yesterday, if we looked at things only through the natural eye, we could never view Joseph’s life as successful while he was living life as a slave.

The verse above again states that the Lord was with Joseph.

Unlike yesterday’s scripture, this verse states that God showed him mercy.

Joseph had undergone another radical change in his life that changed his circumstances drastically.

While managing his master’s household, he had been falsely accused of rape by the master’s wife.

Potiphar, Joseph’s owner, immediately had Joseph thrown into prison for his alleged offense.

Take note that the verse above makes no reference to Joseph’s success, but instead speaks directly of God’s mercy on Joseph.

Joseph had now gone from a slave to a prisoner, yet he had committed no crime.

Naysayers may look at Joseph’s life and proclaim, “how can anyone call God merciful when Joseph has been handed such a poor run of events?”

But wait. The end is better than the beginning!

You see, God was carrying out a divine plan in Joseph’s life that was still difficult to see or understand.

As Joseph walked through each season, he was careful to glorify God in his actions, doing everything as though God was his master. And that behavior earned him favor with those he belonged to or worked for.

Potiphar put him in charge of his entire household.

The prison master put him in charge of all the prisoners.

And it gets increasingly better in the final chapter, which we will examine tomorrow.

We hope you will join us!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!

To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please Click Here and then enter your email address in the box near the upper left corner of the page. 

Please consider making a Donation.

Get our mobile app here: 

Android: http://goo.gl/oQ6qa7 

Apple: http://apple.co/2lZdgYy

Tagged with: , ,

Bible Verse of The Day – 6-17-24

Genesis 39:2 2 (NKJV) The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man.

Those words can be deceiving if we fail to understand the whole story.

Not that Joseph wasn’t successful; he was. But understanding the context in which these words were spoken is critical if we are to grasp the depth of the statement.

If we look up the word “successful” we would see that some synonyms for this word would be victorious, triumphant, fortunate.

Knowing that, if we look at the big picture of Joseph’s life, we would be unlikely to consider him triumphant or victorious.

He was betrayed by his brothers, who tossed him into a pit and sold him to a slave trader.

Those same brothers told their father that he was dead, killed by a wild animal.

He was then taken to a foreign land where he was subsequently sold by the slave traders to Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh.

Joseph had gone from being the highly favored son of Jacob, to being sold as a slave by his brothers who despised him. Then transported to a foreign land, where he was now working for an Egyptian master.

He was a slave, plain and simple.

If we were to look at Joseph’s situation at this point in his life, would we really consider him to be successful?

In the natural sense, there was no success to be found.

In the natural sense, his life would have been seen as miserable.

And in the natural sense, Joseph had suffered blows that gave him good reason to live out his years with hatred and bitterness in his heart toward his brothers, and toward the God who had allowed this to happen to him.

But what did Joseph do? How did he handle this seemingly tragic turn of events?

Please join us tomorrow as we look deeper into Joseph’s life and see what we can learn from it.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!

To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please Click Here and then enter your email address in the box near the upper left corner of the page. 

Please consider making a Donation.

Get our mobile app here: 

Android: http://goo.gl/oQ6qa7 

Apple: http://apple.co/2lZdgYy

Tagged with: , ,

Bible Verse of the Day – 6-9-24 – And The Lord Was With Joseph

Please click to watch the video now.Greetings in the wonderful name of our Savior, Jesus Christ! 

We serve an amazing God who loves us in a way that we will never fully comprehend. 

In that amazing love, He does things that are for our benefit, but we may not understand at the time they happen. 

In today’s new video, And The Lord Was With Joseph, we teach about the ways God will use the situations and circumstances of our lives to build us and grow us into who He wants us to be.

We think there is something for everyone in this video, so we hope you enjoy it and it speaks to you. 

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

If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!

To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please Click Here and then enter your email address in the box near the upper left corner of the page. 

Please consider making a Donation.

Get our mobile app here: 

Android: http://goo.gl/oQ6qa7 

Apple: http://apple.co/2lZdgYy

Tagged with: , , ,

Bible Verse of The Day – 6-2-24 – My Redeemer Lives

Please click to watch the video now.Greetings! 

We have something to tell everyone today. My Redeemer Lives! 

Not only is this true, but it is also the name of our latest video. 

In this new video, we teach from Job 19:25, discussing the words of Job as he proclaimed amid his trials that he knew his Redeemer lived. 

This video is encouraging, and we hope it will bring some light into your day as you watch it. 

Please click here to watch the video now.

We love you all very much! 

Enjoy your day. 

Sincerely, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443  

401-439-3780

If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!

To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please Click Here and then enter your email address in the box near the upper left corner of the page. 

Please consider making a Donation.

Get our mobile app here: 

Android: http://goo.gl/oQ6qa7 

Apple: http://apple.co/2lZdgYy

Tagged with: ,

Bible Verse of The Day – 5-29-24

Job 19:25 (NKJV) 25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth;

Life can sometimes be difficult.

It can deal us some very harsh blows for which we have no explanation or understanding.

This may often cause us to question God, or to become angry that we are on the receiving end of such things.

But as we mature in our walk with God, we will find ourselves questioning Him less, and trusting Him more.

On a personal level, I have experienced this myself.

I have walked through seasons of extreme famine and financial hardship.

I watched my mother battle cancer and then die at the age of just 46 after being eaten away by the disease that claimed her life.

I have experienced betrayal at the hands of someone that I had taken under my wing and helped through some very tough situations.

And I have learned that this is just how life goes. We all deal with things such as this, and no one is exempt.

But as I have looked back on these things, I have been able to see God’s hand in each of them.

I have witnessed Him draw a wayward person back to Him within hours of them dying.

I have seen His hand of provision during times of dire need.

I have learned how to forgive when everything in my flesh wanted quite the opposite.

And I have seen His sovereignty as I have re-traced the steps of my years, seeing Him put puzzle pieces together in ways that man could never accomplish, to bring me to the exact place that I am in right now.

So, in all of this, I have learned, as Job did, that even during my worst calamity, my Redeemer lives.

He sets up kings, and He removes kings. He gives, and He takes away.

He walks me through my darkest hour, and He brings peace in the middle of the greatest storms.

And in that, despite facing great storms from time to time, I find my peace and my solace.

May you find yours in Him also.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!

To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please Click Here and then enter your email address in the box near the upper left corner of the page. 

Please consider making a Donation.

Get our mobile app here: 

Android: http://goo.gl/oQ6qa7 

Apple: http://apple.co/2lZdgYy

Tagged with: , , , , , , , , ,

Bible Verse of The Day – 5-15-24

Job 19:25 (NKJV) 25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth;

As Job lamented his condition, he expounded on a lengthy list of people who appeared to have abandoned him, stating that his close friends abhorred him.

Even young children despised him.

And as Job continued, he expressed further frustration that (in his opinion) God had “kindled His wrath” against him.

But if we read further, nestled deep in the middle of all of Job’s mournful words, we will find a gem that speaks truth that sustained him throughout his entire ordeal.

“I know that my redeemer lives.”

You see, despite the terrible things that had happened to him, Job still fully understood God’s sovereignty.

He refused to forsake the One who breathed life into his being, despite demanding “an audience” with Him to allow him to air his complaints and questions.

Job understood that God held his life in His hands. And as he further contemplated his situation, he began to understand that he was not without fault.

And in this he began to openly repent and show remorse for his attitude and the words he had spoken in frustration.

Job is an ideal example for each of us to follow.

No, he was not perfect in his response to calamity. He spoke words that he later regretted. He accused God of things that were untrue.

But he never abandoned his faith, openly repenting before God and his friends in the end.

Let us follow Job’s example, learning to trust God even as we walk through dark seasons that go beyond our understanding, holding fast to our faith in Him in all things.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!

To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please Click Here and then enter your email address in the box near the upper left corner of the page. 

Please consider making a Donation.

Get our mobile app here: 

Android: http://goo.gl/oQ6qa7 

Apple: http://apple.co/2lZdgYy

Tagged with: , , , , , , ,

Bible Verse of The Day – 4-8-24

Isaiah 55:9 (NKJV) 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

I love my God with my whole heart.

The love that I have for Him transcends what can be expressed with human thoughts or mere words.

Why do I love Him this way?

There are far too many reasons. But let me try to put some of them on paper so He will receive the glory and honor due Him.

He is a God of mercy. He forgave me and adopted me as His child when I deserved punishment for my sins.

He is a God of compassion. He drew me to Himself to offer me His redemption through Christ while I was still a vile sinner.

He is the God who heals me. He delivered and healed me from asthma, setting me completely free after battling the “incurable” disease for over 30 years.

He is the God who provides for my every need. He has kept me and sustained me through many seasons of famine, even during times when I had almost nothing left and was about to lose even those things.

And He is a God who never gives up on me. He embraced me when I was lost and wandering, having no understanding of my sinful condition, and He made me a new creation in Christ.

His creation is rich in breathtaking beauty.

His ways blow my mind. They are more than anyone can comprehend.

His sovereignty is more powerful than anyone can conceive, working and moving in ways that are a mystery to even the most intelligent minds.

This is not about me. I am not special.

God will do all these things for you. All it takes is a humble heart and a willingness to surrender to Him.

Will you do that today? He is waiting.

Jeremiah 29:13 (NKJV) 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!

To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please Click Here and then enter your email address in the box near the upper left corner of the page. 

Please consider making a Donation.

Get our mobile app here: 

Android: http://goo.gl/oQ6qa7 

Apple: http://apple.co/2lZdgYy

Tagged with: , , , , , ,

Bible Verse of The Day – 3-8-24

John 1:1-5 (NKJV) 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

Now that you have read those verses, take a minute, go back, and read them again.

But this time, take your time. Read them slowly, as though you have never seen them before.

Take the time needed to allow each word to penetrate. Allow God to speak to you through those words.

Try to process what they mean in their fullness.

If we were to read those words and try to understand them solely by our own intellect, they would mean nothing to us.

They would likely sound senseless.

Why is that?

Because they were inspired and written under the power of the Holy Spirit. They are words spoken by God Himself, to a human writer.

The depth of God’s word is sometimes beyond our comprehension. This can often cause us to skim right over it, completely missing the immense truth staring us in the face.

But this is where our reliance on God’s Spirit really starts to become obvious to us.

As we spend time in His word, we begin to see how dependent we truly are on Him to teach us and help us grow as His children.

Knowing this, it is critical for us to immerse ourselves in His word in a way that allows Him to use that word to transform us, changing the way we think and understand.

Doing this will surely challenge us intellectually, causing us to begin to rely more heavily on Him, and less on our human understanding.

And the change that He orchestrates in us will blow us away when we look back over time and see who we have become compared to who we once were.

Only by the power of God can this happen.

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!

To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please Click Here and then enter your email address in the box near the upper left corner of the page. 

Please consider making a Donation.

Get our mobile app here: 

Android: http://goo.gl/oQ6qa7 

Apple: http://apple.co/2lZdgYy

Tagged with: ,

Bible Verse of The Day – 3-6-24

Exodus 3:14 (NKJV) 14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

The sovereignty and majesty of God is truly beyond human comprehension.

Imagine the audacity of God when Moses asked Him who he should tell the Israelites had sent him to them, and God simply said, “I AM WHO I AM. Tell them I AM has sent me to you”.

But God has every right to be this audacious.

Why?

Because HE IS.

He WAS before everything else.

He spoke everything that is seen and unseen into existence

Imagine that for a moment. God spoke, and everything obeyed His voice, coming immediately into order.

The laws of physics were created by God.

Science does not disprove God.

On the contrary, science belongs to God, for He set all the absolutes in place that science relies on, even though many scientists deny His existence. God owns science.

Were it not for God, science would not exist. For science relies on what God established and put in order.

Day and night are because God spoke.

Moon phases and tides are because God spoke.

Seasons come and go faithfully each year because God spoke.

And the earth and other planets follow their orbit around the sun because God spoke and said it was so.

God spoke and chaos surrendered to order.

Let us not forget Who we serve, Who saved us, and Who holds everything we see in His hands, raising up kings and removing kings.

Psalm 24:8 (NKJV) 8 Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle.

It is God, the Lord Almighty.

Amen

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!

To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please Click Here and then enter your email address in the box near the upper left corner of the page. 

Please consider making a Donation.

Get our mobile app here: 

Android: http://goo.gl/oQ6qa7 

Apple: http://apple.co/2lZdgYy

Tagged with: ,

Bible Verse of The Day – 11-17-23

Psalm 33:8-10 (NKJV) 8 Let all the earth fear the Lord; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. 9 For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast. 10 The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.

Over the last few years, God has been teaching me a lot about the importance of recognizing and understanding His sovereignty.

His sovereignty plays a significant role in more aspects of our lives than most of us realize and understand.

God is right in the middle of world events, even though we may not recognize that fact.

People and puzzle pieces are being shuffled, moved, and organized as His plans are carried out right before our eyes.

We may not always like what we see. We might be unhappy with the results of certain developments. And some of the outcomes may even make it seem like evil has the upper hand.

But rest assured that none of it escapes God’s notice or His control.

We need to remember that God’s plans and His ways are higher than ours in every way.

What looks terrible to us may very well serve a specific purpose in His long-term sight.

As we begin to see and understand God’s sovereignty, we will begin to trust Him more, and fret less about the things we see.

This doesn’t mean that we should think that we are nothing more than unwitting actors in a movie that we were involuntarily cast in.

It means that we serve the one God who keeps His promises and is carrying out what he told us in His word He would carry out.

We still need to be seeking God, listening for His leading, praying that His will be done in the earth, just as Jesus taught us to do.

We have spiritual battles to win, demons to fend off, and darkness to drive out, where and when God instructs us to do so.

And it is only by His Spirit that we can do this, as we draw near to Him, trust Him, and let Him lead our every step.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!

To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please Click Here and then enter your email address in the box near the upper left corner of the page. 

Please consider making a Donation.

Get our mobile app here: 

Android: http://goo.gl/oQ6qa7 

Apple: http://apple.co/2lZdgYy

Tagged with: ,