Tag: building a strong relationship with God

Bible Verse of The Day – 10-8-14

Philippians 3:10 (NKJV) 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection…

That I may know Him.

What an awesome way to live life, endeavoring to know Him more deeply, more closely, more intimately.

Because when everything is said and done and our life is over, this is all that will matter, whether we knew Him or not.

If we know Him, our heart’s desire should be to know Him as fully and completely as possible. He is our source of life and everything that is good in life.

And if we know Him well, so many other things in our lives will reflect that, so that when we have lived our life and we are gone, we will have left a legacy of so much more than just being a nice person.

We will have left “little pieces of Jesus” all along the way. And when people remember us or think of us, they will also think of God.

And don’t take this as only a “when you’re gone” message. This applies to us each and every day, even while we’re still here. As we walk through this life, people should see us and see God in us.

And if people think of us or happen to have a conversation about us, let’s give them something good to think about or talk about!

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 – 9-27-14

Jeremiah 29:12 (NKJV) 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

One of the questions we get asked a lot is “how do we grow our relationship with God. How do we get closer to Him?”.

The way we get close to God is by spending time with Him, through prayer.

How do we get closer to our children, our spouse, our friends or any relationship we want to have?

We spend time with them. We talk and we share things with each other. That’s the same way we grow our relationship with God.

I was talking the other day to a couple of kids ages 6 & 7. We got on the subject of prayer. I asked them if they’ve been talking to God lately? To my surprise they said, yes and one of the little boys began to elaborate.

He said “I talk to God when my Mommy, Daddy, and sister aren’t in the room”. I said “that’s great!”. I asked him, does God talk back to you? He said, “sometimes”.

I asked him “what do you talk about?”. He said “you know, boy stuff, like building things and stuff like that (he loves Legos).

It encouraged me to hear him talk like this, because he was very matter of fact about it. He says, “I don’t pray. I just talk like I’m talking to you”.

And that is what prayer is all about; two-way communication. We can all talk to God about anything that we want. And it doesn’t necessarily have to be done in any particular way.

Just talk to Him. He will listen. It’s when we don’t talk to Him or we stop talking to Him that we begin to have trouble with our relationship.

We have to keep the communication going. What happens in any relationship when there is no communication or very little? It grows apart.

If you want to grow your relationship with God, spend some time and talk with Him.

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 – 9-19-14

Revelation 1:8 (NKJV) 8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

God is all-encompassing. He is the beginning, the middle and the end. He is everything from start to finish and everything that happens in between. 

We don’t have to think of God as being someone that we can only go to when things are going badly or something terrible has happened. In fact, that’s not how He wants our relationship with Him to be at all. 

God wants us to lean on Him and go to Him in everything  we do, whether we are in the valley or on the mountaintop! 

You see, He doesn’t want our relationship with Him to be casual. He wants it to be full and vibrant and alive. 

Nothing can be alive if we don’t nurture it. So we need to be sure that we’re nurturing our relationship with our Creator, just as we expect to have to do with anything else that we want to thrive! 

Revelation 22:13 (NKJV) 13 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie  

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

401-315-0902 

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