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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-30-21

Hebrews 13:6 (NKJV) 6 So we may boldly say: “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

I love God with all my heart. And I don’t say that lightly.

Every day that goes by proves to me more and more that He is our one true source of hope.

No matter what I see happening, whether on a personal level or on a global scale, God is my Helper. And because He is my helper, I will not fear the things that I see.

Life can be scary for those who are apart from God. And I will admit that even with God, it can be pretty challenging sometimes, causing us to shrink back on occasion as unexpected things confront us.

But God never shrinks back. And because He dwells within us, we shouldn’t shrink back either.

Sometimes that’s easier said than done, but there is a reality in that statement that we, as believers, need to embrace boldly in our lives.

That still might not always make it easy for us, but it should give us courage to stand when we need to stand, fight when we need to fight and look not to our own intellect for answers, but to the Spirit of God, whom Jesus called our Helper.

And, as we are told in Romans, if God is for us, who can be against us?

Romans 8:31 (NKJV) 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

So, when we face the hard things, we need to stand strong in our faith, and look to Jesus, the author and finisher of that faith (Hebrews 12:2).

Trust Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-5-21

Psalm 37:5 (NKJV) 5 Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass.

Welcome to the final devotional in our mini-series covering Psalm 37:3-5. We hope it’s been informative for you so far.

Today, let’s take a look at verse 5.

Commit your way to the Lord; This is a big deal, and it runs a bit deeper than it might seem when we initially read those words.

On the surface, it appears to be saying that we need to dedicate everything about our lives to God, putting Him first in everything.

And while this is 100% true, there is more to it than that.

In order to understand this in its fullness, we need to know that the word, commit, literally means “to roll it over on”.

This means that when it comes to “our way”, the manner in which we conduct our lives and walk with Him, we “roll it over” onto Him.

We trust Him with it 100%, knowing that He is faithful to pick it up and walk with us through all that we do, all that we face, leading and guiding us every step of the way.

What an incredible picture of trust we see in this!

Now, what does the next line say?

Trust also in Him.

So, as we can see, trust is being established as the foundation for all of this. Without trust, nothing will happen.

It’s the strengthening of our relationship with God that helps build that trust. So be sure to set aside time each day to dig into His word and learn of Him.

And what does the last part say will happen if we trust in Him?

He shall bring it to pass.

What shall He bring to pass?

Two things; the desires of our heart will be given to us. And He will bring to pass the committing of our ways to Him, resulting in a rock-solid relationship that the devil and the world won’t be able to touch.

Trust in Him. Do good. Dwell in the land. Feed on His faithfulness. Delight yourself in Him. Commit your ways to Him.

He will give you the desires of your heart. Amen.

We hope you’ve enjoyed this teaching series.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-4-21

Psalm 37:4 (NKJV) 4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

Yesterday we discussed Psalm 37, verse 3. Today, let’s take a look at verse 4 and see what we can glean from it.

This is actually the verse I had planned on writing about when I sat down to write today. But when I saw the sum of these verses together, I thought it would be better to talk about all of them and break them down.

So, here in verse 4 we have a truth that we need to look at very carefully because it’s a message that we often hear, but only in part. Let me explain.

We frequently hear about God giving us the desires of our hearts, but we seldom hear it in its proper context and in its fullness, as intended by the writer of this Psalm.

Let’s face it. Having God give us the desires of our hearts sounds pretty enticing, doesn’t it? Who wouldn’t want that?

Well then, let’s look at what that really means in the context that it was actually written in.

The key to this is the qualifier in the first half of that verse; Delight yourself in the Lord.

You see, first of all, we need to make sure we’re delighting ourselves in the Lord, not in the world or in selfish desires.

We need to be putting Him first in all we do, with no self-serving motives or selfish ambitions. That’s the key right there.

As we grow in our walk with Him, we will begin to understand what He wants for our lives. Our desires will begin to change. We will begin to desire things that align with His will.

Truth and righteousness will become more prevalent in our lives. Worldly pleasures and desires will begin to fade into the background. His desires will become our desires.

It’s then that He will begin to give us the desires of our heart, because those desires are in line with the kingdom of God and His truth.

Do we want God to give us the desires of our heart? Then all we need to do is make His desires ours, and watch Him keep His promises, as He gives us those desires.

Join us again tomorrow as we wrap this up with verse 5.

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-3-21

Psalm 37:3-5 (NKJV) 3 Trust in the Lord, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. 4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass.

These 3 short verses offer us an abundance of counsel and insight if we look at them closely enough.

Together, they give us a picture of a solid relationship with God, based on trust and godly desires. If we stick to these principles, we can never go wrong.

Let’s walk through each of them over the next few days so we can paint a picture of what they look like in our lives.

Verse 3.

Trust in the Lord; This one is pretty self-explanatory.

But learning to trust Him isn’t always as easy as we’d like to think. It takes time and effort to build a relationship with Him that results in greater levels of trust. Once we’ve built that relationship, the trusting part gets easier and easier.

Do Good; live righteously. Make wise, godly choices. Use God’s word as a guide to show us what He desires for us when it comes to the way we live our lives. Allow the Holy Spirit to order our steps each day, even minute by minute.

Dwell in the land; This one isn’t necessarily literally referring to dwelling in a physical land that God has chosen for us. But, instead, look at it symbolically and spiritually. God has “placed us” in His land by way of the blood of Christ. His land is a land of truth, trust and righteousness, where we look to Him for everything we need, knowing that He is faithful to supply those needs for us as we walk with Him daily.

Feed on His faithfulness; This goes hand in hand with the previous one, dwelling in the land. As we dwell in His land, we will be satisfied with His provision, as he leads us, cares for us and nurtures us.

Join us again tomorrow as we walk through verse 4!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 4-19-21

Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV) 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

As each day goes by, I live by this scripture more and more.

We are living in a time where we absolutely need to trust God 100%. There’s no other way for us to move ahead and be who He wants us to be if we’re not trusting Him in absolutely everything.

I wrestle constantly with what we’re seeing. I watch evil in plain sight. It is blatant. It is in your face. It makes no effort to hide.

But no matter what we see, I know that God’s providence will play out and that His plans are better than my plans or your plans.

I will admit that I would love nothing more than to wake up one morning and see that He has swept His hand across the globe and taken care of everything that we see happening.

But that is not my choice to make. It is His. And His ways are much higher than ours.

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.

He sees everything; the big picture. We see only in part.

So, I will lean on His understanding, not mine. I will walk by His plans, not mine. And when I’m having one of those moments where I feel like I can’t take seeing one more evil plot carried out in plain sight, I will surrender it to Him and trust Him even more.

In the meantime, I will continue to stand on His word, His truth and freedom in Jesus Christ.

I invite you to stand with me and watch as God carries out His perfect plan.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-8-21

Psalm 37:5 (NKJV) 5 Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass.

Over the last 10 years I have learned a lot about trusting God no matter what a situation looks like.

Just like you, we have walked through some pretty tough situations over the years.

For us, it began around 2012. The period between 2012 and 2016 was gut-wrenching.

That 4-5 year period made us feel like our guts were being ripped out.

In reality, though, it was our pride and many other things that were being ripped out. We just didn’t know it at the time.

Hindsight is always interesting, to be sure.

During those times of extreme duress, we learned who we were and where our trust really was.

Yes, we trusted God. But we learned that we didn’t trust Him nearly as much as we thought we did. And He was in the process of showing us what it really meant to trust Him with everything about our lives.

As we learned this, things started falling back into place.

Then along came 2020. And the rug got pulled from under the feet of the entire world.

This time, though, we leaned on God from the outset and He carried us through, as He does so very well.

What’s really interesting is that the 37th Psalm was written by David, as he questioned God about why it seemed that corrupt, evil people most often went without punishment for their sins and their crimes.

Ultimately, David came to understand that God is sovereign, and that He works things out in His way and His timing.

And so, as I have watched the incredible, very visible rise of evil during 2020 and now into 2021, I know that it is in God’s hands.

In 2021, God is once again teaching me more and more about trusting Him, especially when things don’t look the way I would like them to.

I am to pray, to fast when He asks me to, and to do battle in the spiritual realm, all the while trusting Him and His ways. In this, I know that evil will be repaid, and justice will be done when and how He sees fit.

It’s not always easy to surrender my thinking, my opinions and my feelings to His providence, but I know it’s the only way that I can learn to truly trust Him in all things.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-21-21 – Then and Now

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

We hope you are faring well in these unprecedented times. 

Speaking of unprecedented times, our new video, Then and Now, discusses how these times are affecting our walk with God. 

Please join us as we teach on the various aspects of how changing times and changing seasons can impact us. 

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We love you all. 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-17-21

2 Peter 1:5 (NKJV) 5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,

Greetings!

Yesterday we started off with 2 Peter 1:10

We began breaking it down so we could get a better understanding of exactly what this verse means to us as believers.

When we left off yesterday, we had just touched on verse 4 and discussed what that verse means for us, as children of God.

Now, let’s move on to subsequent verses.

As we finished verse 4, we discovered that God has given us His divine nature, and He has given us an escape from the depravity that is in the world.

Verse 5, above, tells us that because of what was shown to us in verses 3 and 4, we should be diligent, adding to our faith, virtue and knowledge.

Verses 6 and 7 then go on to tell us to also add self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness and finally, love.

Verse 8 tells us that if these things are ours (if they are present in our walk), and if they abound (if they are plentiful in our lives), we will neither be barren (literally translated as useless) nor unfruitful in our knowledge of (our walk with) Jesus Christ.

So, the summation of this, which is found in verse 10 (where we originally started yesterday), is that if we are truly walking with God, through faith in Jesus Christ, these attributes should be present and active in our lives on a regular basis.

If they are, it will be evidence of our faith. Additionally, it will also help to prevent us from stumbling (falling away).

If they are not, verse 9 tells us that we are shortsighted (even to the point of blindness), and that we have forgotten that we have been cleansed from our old (past) sins.

Lastly, verse 11 states that if we make our calling and election sure (following the patterns of verses 3-8), ” an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”.

Now that’s encouraging!

We hope you have enjoyed this breakdown of 2 Peter 1:3-11 and found it to be revealing and uplifting.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-15-21

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NKJV) 16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

God is incredible in His wisdom and unlimited understanding. His omnipotence is beyond comprehension.

We can face so many different things in our lifetime. But God tells us that these things are simply light and momentary afflictions. He also tells us not to lose heart.

We have learned to trust God by the things He has brought us through.

We are here today because He has kept us standing when I thought we would no longer be able to stand.

He has brought us through the fire, so to speak, showing us many great and mighty things in the process.

It’s because of this that we can stand and proclaim His goodness and His faithfulness, even in the darkest of times.

And when confronted by anyone who may say that they’re not sure if they believe or not, I am always quick to say, “There’s no way I can’t believe. I have seen way too much”.

Yes, sometimes when we’re each going through our personal trials, they may seem as though they will kill us.

But it’s during these times that we can see God move the strongest on our behalf. We see our faith grow. And if we let Him, He will teach us to trust Him more than we would ever believe possible.

Every trial is different. Every situation is different.

And God moves differently in every situation. He is not a cookie-cutter God. He is not fenced in by our ideas and our finite understanding.

I write today to urge you to trust Him wholly. And don’t lose heart in your hour of testing, temptation or trial.

Don’t give up.

In fact, press in even more closely to Him when facing these kinds of times.

And as you do this, He will give you eyes to see and ears to hear.

He will show you great mysteries that will give you a deeper understanding and a deeper walk with Him.

We urge you today to seek Him. Seek Him on a level at which you have never sought Him before. Press in to Him. Draw near to Him. Call to Him.

Trust Him. And don’t lose heart.

He wants to show us so much. We just have to ask Him for it.

Jeremiah 33:3 (NKJV) 3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-14-21 – I Will Trust

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

Have you ever noticed our tendency to trust God more when things are going the way we like it to go? 

Let’s face it. It’s easier to trust in someone when you like what’s happening. 

In today’s video, I Will Trust, we teach on this aspect of our walk with God and explain why we need to be sure to trust God no matter how things look. 

This video is short and concise, so we hope you’ll take a few minutes to watch it. 

Please click here to watch it now. 

We love you! 

Sincerely, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of the Day – 2-1-21

Jeremiah 33:3 (NKJV) 3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

I live in New England, where the winters are cold and snow falls from time to time.

I have lived here all my life. I was born here and have never lived anywhere else. So, you’d think that I would love the winters.

But I don’t.

Over the years, I have grown to despise the cold and snow. I very much prefer warmth over cold. I prefer to be able to go outside to walk, go fishing, spend time at the range practicing my shooting skills and enjoying the outdoors in general.

We have considered moving south, where it is warm all year. But we have never felt the release by God to do that. So, we stay put for now.

Today, as I write this, it is cold and snowing.

I find this oddly symbolic. Let me explain.

On this day, there is a very dark presence in the spiritual atmosphere.

That presence is strong. It is foreboding. It taunts.

It is the culmination of decades of activity by some very dark players, both in the natural, and in the spiritual realm.

This presence causes many to fall into despair and question the very foundations of their faith.

Now, let me get back to snow, and why I mentioned it earlier.

Even though I don’t like snow much, I see the snow that’s falling today as being very symbolic.

Snow is pure and it is white. It gives the colorless winter landscapes here in New England a fresh new look, covering up all of the gray, brown, dead-looking trees.

It’s like a sign of life and purity in the midst of a season of death.

You see, God has a way of speaking to us that we might miss if we’re not careful and vigilant to see it or hear it.

He is saying, “I’ve got this. This is not the end. It is the beginning. Follow me as I lead. Keep your eyes on Me. I will show you great and mighty things.”

We need to trust Him in all things, even when what we see with our eyes might not look the way we think it should.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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