Tag: Bible verses about loving God first and foremost

Bible Verse of The Day – 9-27-22

John 14:15 (NKJV) 15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments.

Our love for Him will show through our obedience and our devotion to Him.

This is something that takes time to learn. But as we walk it out, we will get stronger and better at it.

The first thing to do is get in His word and read it.

Get to know who our God is and what He expects. Don’t just wait for the ministers to teach us. Get in it and read it.

The Holy Spirit will touch our hearts and guide us as we put forth the effort.

Who is God?

Go after Him. Learn His heart and what makes Him tick. Then we can show Him our love by following His way.

His commandments are written throughout His word. And in every situation we face, He has the answer.

He has it, and we will know for sure what that answer is if we stay close to Him.

How do we show our love to Him?

We know Him intimately enough to respond to any given situation in the proper way; the way that He guides us.

Love Him and keep His words close, dear to us, and written in our hearts. Let the Holy Spirit help us stay focused and on track.

Our obedience toward His word shows Him how much we love Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 8-29-22

Psalm 18:1 (NLT) 1 I love you, Lord; you are my strength.

This short, simple verse sums up so much while using so few words.

Sometimes we use so many words to try to express our thoughts and feelings. And there are times when that is necessary.

But sometimes we just need to be direct and say what we mean as succinctly as possible. And this verse is a perfect example of that.

I love you, Lord.

Those words say it all.

There will be times where we might feel the need to expound on that sentiment and pour our heart out to Him. And that’s good to do from time to time.

But simplicity can also be a good thing.

So, never be afraid to simply say, whether in your heart or out loud, I love you, Lord.

He is worthy of hearing this from us. He does, after all, love us beyond what words can express. This is evident in the mercy and the grace that He shows toward us.

Tell Him today that you love Him. It’s good for us to share our hearts with Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 12-24-21

Isaiah 26:8 (NLT) 8 Lord, we show our trust in you by obeying your laws; our heart’s desire is to glorify your name.

This verse sums up what our relationship with God should be based on; obeying Him because we trust Him, not simply because we have been told to do so, or because it’s a routine or habit.

And in doing that, we will glorify His name in everything that we do.

This is the goal we should work toward as we learn of Him and grow closer to Him.

Sometimes we tend to over-complicate our walk with God. We overthink it. We add things to it that don’t benefit that relationship or make it stronger.

And most of those things are based on human intellect or human concepts. Others are based on tradition or something we saw someone else do.

The best thing we can do is to keep it simple and build that walk based solely on Biblical principles.

If we do that, our walk with Him will be the strongest it could ever be. And because of that, we will also be the strongest we could ever be.

Keep it simple and real.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

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Bible Verse of The Day – 12-15-21

Psalm 18:1-2 (NLT) 1 I love you, Lord; you are my strength. 2 The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety.

It’s not a secret that God called David a man after His own heart. And there is a very good reason for that; because it was true.

David never abandoned God or traded Him in for “other gods”.

Despite his shortcomings as a human being, David loved God deeply throughout his lifetime. That love for God never faltered.

One of the things I find interesting about verse 1 in the scriptures above is that the Hebrew word used for love isn’t the word that’s typically used in most other areas of the Bible.

Most times, the word used for love in the original Hebrew transcripts indicates the concept or idea of covenant.

The word that David used here, however, is a rare form of a word that expresses intimacy. In fact, it actually expresses tender intimacy.

David’s love for God was so intense that he used an uncommon word that more accurately expressed his true passion for his love for God.

This should be the goal of every believer; to love God so intensely that our love can’t be described using normal, everyday words.

If you’re not there right now, don’t feel bad. Don’t get down on yourself. But take the steps to do whatever it takes to make It happen.

Remember, we get out what we put in when it comes to our relationship with God.

So, if loving God intensely is our goal and our desire, let’s take the steps to make it happen.

We will never, ever be sorry.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-29-21

1 Kings 14:7-8 (NKJV) 7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you ruler over My people Israel, 8 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you; and yet you have not been as My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes;

There are many, many instances of us being told in God’s word how important it is to follow God’s laws, decrees and commands.

Let’s talk about that.

In its barest form, it would appear that God is simply asking us to strictly follow a set of rules and laws.

But if we look at the heart of this, it goes much deeper.

In reality, God is urging us (appealing to us) to give Him our hearts.

You see, God isn’t really concerned with a set of laws. Laws don’t change hearts or make us righteous. They just give us guidelines.

Simply following a set of guidelines will only create rituals and traditions. That is not what God wants.

If we look at the latter part of the verse above, God tells Jeroboam that David followed Him with all his heart.

That is what God wants; our whole heart.

Because David followed God with his whole heart, God honored him down through the generations.

There are powerful lessons for us to learn from this.

So, despite our faults & failures, let’s be sure to keep this at the forefront of everything we do; to follow God with all our heart.

And as we do this, God will also honor us, and our lives will be blessed because of it.

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 – 5-25-21

2 Kings 10:28-31 (NKJV) 28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal from Israel. 29 However Jehu did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin, that is, from the golden calves that were at Bethel and Dan. 30 And the Lord said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in doing what is right in My sight, and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.” 31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart; for he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, who had made Israel sin.

You see, Jehu did a lot of good things as King. He destroyed Baal. That was huge!

And because of that, God gave his sons the throne for four (4) generations.

However, what Jehu did was not enough for God. He wanted Jehu’s whole heart.

You see, Jehu did what was right in God’s sight. But zeal with an undevoted heart is not equal to having a heart after God.

God wants us all to Himself.

Maybe we are saying “,well, I have dedicated my life to Him already, but I’m not as close to Him as I would like. And I feel Him tugging on me to come closer, to spend more time, and let go of even more things. But can I and will I do this? I don’t know if I have it in me.”

It can be hard for our minds to grasp that God, Who is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient, wants us closer.

We know we are sinners, saved only by grace. We are always messing up one way or another, constantly trying to just get through each day.

Why would He want all of us, with our faults and shortcomings, when He can have everything else?

If all of creation worships Him, why does He want all of me-too?

Well, the answer is given clearly in His word. He simply does! He wants all of you and all of me to love Him more than anything. Exodus 34:13 (NKJV) He is a jealous God.

Would we commit our whole heart to Him today and live out each day for Him the best we can?

That’s really all He asks, to keep trying and to win this race that is before us, loving Him with our whole heart.

Hebrews 12:1 (NKJV) 1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us…

Jehu, with all his zeal, got the throne for his sons for four (4) generations. But, wouldn’t we rather hear God say, “well done good and faithful servant.; you loved Me to the end with all of your heart.”?

Deuteronomy 6:5 (NKJV) 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

What will it be?

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 – 5-3-21

Matthew 15:8-9 (NKJV) 8 ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. 9 And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”

Lip service, in any form, is a terrible thing.

Our mouth says one thing, but our heart and our actions do another.

It should be our desire to draw so close to God that we never have to worry about lip service in our walk with Him.

Our heart will know when we are serving God only with our words. Because, in reality, this is not serving God at all. It is merely going through the motions.

Let us push aside all distractions, all idols and all selfish ambition in our effort to know Him more intimately.

We need not depend on our heart to lead us in this. Instead, we need to look directly to Him, leaning solely on His precious Spirit for guidance, discernment and understanding.

We cannot count on our intellect. We can have volumes of knowledge, and yet still not know God.

We cannot rely on others. Yes, others can give us guidance. But this walk with God is ours to carry out and navigate, as we do so “with fear and trembling”.

Philippians 2:12 (NKJV) 12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

This is not meant to be scary or solemn. It is a heartfelt exhortation, written in love, to encourage you to give God 100% of who you are. We are, after all, His creations.

It is Him who breathed life into our lungs and gave our heart the beat that keeps us breathing.

Let us not serve Him only with our lips, but with every fiber of our being, making Him our number one priority until the moment that we take our very last breath.

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 – 5-30-20

Matthew 22:37-39 (NKJV) 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Loving God is the key to follow and obeying His commandments. It is the very thing that will help us put our self aside and be able to love Him and our neighbor as He has asked us to.

If we don’t have such a love for God first, it’s impossible to love the way He has commanded us. It’s funny, loving God can move us toward living for Him, but yet we fight it.

We may ask, “why do we fight it?”

We fight usually because we care about ourselves and how we feel more than anything else. And how we feel is usually based on if we are happy about who we’ve become, how much we have and our appearance. Those are 3 big issues and can keep us from loving God and others the way we should.

We feel like if we are not happy with who we are, how can we truly love anyone? In this scripture, is there anything where it says, we have to love ourselves? No, it says to love God with basically everything and what is left is use toward loving our neighbor. Nothing is mention about having to love our self.

What God is showing us is the importance of our walk in this life with Him, is that our love should be directed and poured out for Him and others.

We don’t have to worry about loving ourselves, because His love for us is more than enough. All we need to know, to understand and believe is the love which He has for us and then share it. Amen.

1 John 4:16 (NKJV) 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

You my friend are loved more than you know.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-18-20

Deuteronomy 6:5 (NKJV) 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

That’s a lot of LOVE!

How many know that this doesn’t happen overnight? In fact, It doesn’t happen in a week or a month. It doesn’t even happen in a year. It takes time to learn such a love.

That’s right.

You see, when we give our life to Christ, we do it in faith. And from that day forward, we begin to take steps in developing such a love. It takes time.

So, we shouldn’t think there is something wrong with us if for some reason we are not there yet. We just need to keep moving towards it.

How?

By obeying. By listening and following. By saying, “no”, at times to things we may enjoy doing. By allowing ourselves to be corrected and chastened at times by the Holy Spirit.

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

These are steps toward receiving the life God has for us and developing the love for Him that he desires us to have.

Once we begin walking in this love, we will never want to go back to the way we once were.

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 – 9-1-19 – Where is God?

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

Where is God? 

That’s the question we ask and discuss in today’s video. 

In this video, we talk about where God is in our lives, in our list of priorities, so to speak. We discuss how our love for God impacts everything about our lives each and every day. 

We hope you will take a few minutes and give it a watch. 

Please click here to watch the video now. 

Be blessed in Him. 

Sincerely, 

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 – 3-5-19

Matthew 22:37-39 (NKJV) 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Dear God, help us to love You in such a way, with everything in us. And once we have learned that, help us to do the next thing and love our neighbor as our self. In Jesus’ name we ask. Amen

To love God with all our heart, soul and mind, and then love our neighbor as our self, can we all agree that change has to happen? His Spirit has to be alive in us. And we have to be disciplined to say no to our fleshly desires.

The flesh can be very strong-willed, even in a believer. It has its way of wanting to do what it wants.

If we are tired and unhealthy, we are not up for the battle. We will be more apt to give into it, even when we know it’s wrong.

The flesh will begin to change when we stay close to God, through prayer and reading His word. It will also help if we are well-rested and keeping ourselves physically healthy. These few things will all contribute to being alert and strong in our spirit man.

If we can be consistent in these things, it will make a huge difference in keeping our hearts close and in love with God.

When our heart changes, our mind and soul will follow suit and we will walk in this love on a regular basis.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-315-0902

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