Tag: freedom in Christ

Bible Verse of The Day – 12-9-14

John 8:31-32 (NKJV) 31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Truth is a funny thing.

It can hurt so bad sometimes when we hear it or see it. But it’s that very same truth that can also make us free.

So it is with Jesus. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Only when we meet Jesus and embrace His truth are we ever given the opportunity to experience true freedom.

No, He doesn’t magically make all of our problems disappear. And we don’t instantly get wealthy or suddenly have perfect health.

But He does offer us instant freedom from our sin and offer us eternal life with Him.

This is the ultimate in freedom. It doesn’t matter how this world tries to hold us down or keep us in some kind of bondage in the natural realm.

If we have Jesus, we have freedom. And it can’t get any better than that.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-4-14

John 8:36 (NKJV) 36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

Jesus came to set us free. Apart from Him, there is no true freedom.

If we are followers of Christ, we should be free. Period.

If we are not free, it is usually because we have allowed ourselves to become entangled in things. That list of “things” could cover a very wide range.

It could be things that we become addicted to. It could be things that consume our time. Or it could be things that cause us to worry constantly. And the list could go on.

If we are worried constantly, it’s usually because we have not given it over to God. We are trying to handle it ourselves. Sometimes it’s because we haven’t used wisdom when making choices and we’ve gotten ourselves in over our heads in one way or another.

Being free isn’t always easy. It means we have to shake off those things that bind us and hold us captive. And in this world we live in, that can be very difficult at times.

And please don’t mistake this message as us saying that we ourselves are perfect in this. We are definitely not! But we have learned a lot over the last few years in this area. And God has shown us where we could have done things differently. It was very humbling and educational, to say the least.

But we do know this; that God wants us to be free. And in most cases, we are the ones who choose whether we will be free or not.

So I ask you today, “are you free?”. If not, let God show you where you’re in bondage and how to get out of it. Sometimes His answers will surprise you. In all of our earthly wisdom, we do our best to figure things out, but when God gets His hands on things, they can take on a whole different direction than we would ever imagine.

So let the words of Jesus, below, speak to your heart and begin to deliver you from your captivity today.

Luke 4:18 (NKJV) 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed;

We proclaim this over you in the name of Jesus.

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 – 8-2-14

(Proverbs 29:25 NKJV)  The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in the LORD shall be safe.

The definition of safe is: not able or likely to be hurt or harmed in any way: not in danger, not able or likely to be lost, taken away, or given away.

We can all agree that we like to be SAFE! In order to be completely safe we must put our trust in the Lord alone and not fear what man may say or try to do to us.

Being fearful of man brings a snare.

What’s a snare? It’s a position or situation from which it is difficult to escape.

None of us want to be in this type of position. To avoid it, we must trust in the Lord, even if at times we can’t fully understand Him.

Trust in Him and what His word says and eventually He will bring understanding.

There is safety for all those that trust Him!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-23-14

(John 8:32 NKJV)  “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Who wants to be free today? Or do we like being in bondage?

It’s really sad to say but sometimes we really do like our bondage. It’s like we have gotten so used to it that it has become a way of life for us. We have learned to live with bondage; it may be all we know and we’ve had it for so many years,  we’ve claimed it to be ours.

Another reason we may like our bondage is because we get special treatment or because it gives us an excuse to act the way we do sometimes. You know, like throwing tantrums because things don’t go the way we think they should go.

How many times do we have a tantrum because we didn’t get what we wanted? It can be a silent tantrum, a loud tantrum, a stubborn tantrum. It doesn’t matter. They’re all the same, and it’s simply acting out because we didn’t get what we wanted. That is bondage and we need to let Jesus address it, for He is Truth!

You may ask what this has to do with the truth. If we want the truth we need to reach out for Jesus today and ask Him to come into our lives and show us the way out of our bondage, for He is the way out. He is the answer.

(John 14:6 NKJV)  Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 

He will set us free as we call on Him and listen to what He guides us in doing.

Get free today from little things, and big things. Let Christ open a whole new way of living for each one of us today!

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 – 4-8-14

(John 8:36 NKJV)  “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

I had a dream last night.

People were being held captive on a boat. The boat and all the people on it were found.

When the boat pulled up to port and they were all walking off it, oh they were so happy! But, I noticed that they were walking funny. They were taking little baby steps.

So I said to the man next to me, “why do they walk like that”? He replied to me, “Because they were in shackles for so long they don’t know how to walk any different.”

You see, the longer we stay in chains the harder it is to break free!

How many of us today has God set free, but yet we still walk as if we have our shackles on? Are we worrying or fearful about what people may think or say about us?

How many of us today can say “God, you have set me free, let’s walk together with a big stride and cover the ground you have for me?”.

We have been set free! There are no more shackles on us. We don’t have to remain as we were. Change needs to come and we need to stop walking like we are still in captivity. Amen!

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 – 1-13-14

(James 5:16 NKJV)  Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

This weekend I visited a medium security prison to visit a brother. We talked, shared and laughed.

It was time for me to leave and we hugged goodbye. As the prisoner walked away, I watched as my heart sank. I was free to walk out and to leave that place, while he waited in line to enter back in to his cell. He was a prisoner.

It made me realize that without Christ we are prisoners; prisoners to sin. There is no freedom without Christ. There is a jail cell with our name on it if we don’t choose Him.

My heart goes out to those people today; those that don’t know Christ as their Lord and Savior, for they are prisoners.

How can we reach them? How can they be set free and healed?

We can start by praying. Pray for those we know who need Jesus and His Salvation.

Prayer avails MUCH!!

Amen.

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 – 8-10-13

Ephesians 2 (NKJV) And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins…

We were all dead in our sins. Every single one of us. And sadly, very few of us even knew we were dead.

It is our sin that separates us from God. It is the great canyon that stands between us and the Father. This canyon is so vast that the human eye cannot see across it.

There is no bridge that can be built across this canyon, except for one. That one bridge cannot be built by human hands or human engineering. It is a bridge created in the spirit realm. That bridge is created across the shoulders of Immanuel, God with us, Jesus Christ.

It is held together with the large nails that were driven into His wrists and feet. And it is painted in His blood, the precious blood that washes our sins away.

And yet, even though we were dead, we have been made alive! Amen!!

Jesus paid the price for our sin… our terrible sin, and offers us redemption through His brutal death and beautiful resurrection.

This, the ultimate sacrifice, is the one thing that can make us alive and put our sin so far from us that it cannot be found or seen again.

Thank Him today for this incredible bridge that was built in a way that no man and no demon can destroy it.

Thank Him and give Him glory and honor.

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 – 7-12-12

(Deu 6:12 NKJV)  “then beware, lest you forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Sometimes I wonder, if I could start all over again at the age of 48, if I would change things in my life.

Honestly, I think there are some things I would love to do differently, knowing what I know now, but there are some things I never want to forget or change and wish I could remember every little detail. It is hard to remember every little thing, for over time it fades with life and all its activities.

There are things I never want to do over again, especially those things that hurt deeply and were painful to face. But those were the things that brought me to my knees; those were the times that drew me closer to God, closer then ever before.

I  never want to forget how He lifted me up, how He held me in His arms, how He comforted me, and how He turned the situation around. I hold dear to me His touch, His voice, and His faithfulness!!

God has truly taken me from the land of Egypt at times and from the bondage I was once in and brought me into His precious freedom!

Never forget the FREEDOM we can only find in HIM!!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-30-12

John 8:36 NKJV)  “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

The Israelites had been set free from slavery. Moses brought them out of Egypt to take them on a journey to go to a new land; the land which God had promised them.

It happened by way of miracles that God performed through Moses to get them out from under the hand of Pharaoh. God performed miracles time after time to get Pharaoh to let His people go!

When the people of Israel were released, they were happy and excited at first. But, as time went on. they found things to complain and murmur about. Even the miracles that God did for them weren’t not good enough anymore. In their discontent, they actually wanted to go back to Egypt, the land that God set them free from!

Are we feeling the same way today? Has God set us free from our Egypt? It could have been our friends or family that hurt us or took advantage of us, jobs that caused us stress, debt, addictions, our lack of knowledge in certain areas, etc. Are we longing to go back because maybe the new things aren’t as easy and the grass isn’t as GREEN as we thought it would be?

When Jesus sets us free He promises that WE are free indeed! We can’t let our flesh cause us to go back, no matter how hard it may fight us. We need to stay strong, letting God lead us to the promised land which He has for us.

You will see it is all worth it!!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-26-12

(Rom 6:22 NIV)  But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

Jesus died to set us free… nothing more and nothing less.

He died to set us free from sin. Sin can ensnare us and cause spiritual death. Sin separates us from God and causes a great division between us and Him.

With sin, there will come consequences. Sometimes these consequences can be small and other times they can be far-reaching, affecting us and those around us for years to come.

This is the very reason we need to make our choices wisely and carefully in everything we do.

Jesus gives us freedom to choose right from wrong. Let’s choose very carefully and make wise choices and enjoy the freedom that He died to give us!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-377-5400

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