Tag: What the Bible says about living by faith

Bible Verse of The Day – 4-26-24

Hebrews 11:30 (NKJV) 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days.

Picture this; you are in the military, and you are told to conquer your enemy by silently marching around their walls for six days, and then yelling loudly on the seventh day.

Sounds far-fetched, right?

But that is exactly what God told the Israelites to do when they opposed Jericho.

This endeavor did not require extreme military might or precision for victory to come.

What did it require?

It required faith on the part of those who were instructed to do the marching.

And so it is with our own lives. We all face our own Jericho or our own Goliath.

Regardless of what it is, the odds seem stacked against us as our opponent looms large in our faces.

We can be opposed on personal levels in many ways and to varying degrees.

Some days, our faith is strong, and we feel like we can conquer anything we face.

Other days, we may feel weak and impotent, unable to swat and kill a small mosquito.

But this does not negate who God is and the faith that He has placed within each of us.

And faith is what it takes to please Him. Faith is required to walk the walk He has tasked us with walking.

So, we say to you today, hold onto hope, even when hope seems hard to find.

Press into God even when He seems terribly far away and silent.

Know that you are not here to simply exist and then quietly disappear. You have a purpose. And that purpose is to honor, serve and worship the God who created you.

So, let us do just that. Let us put him and keep Him in His rightful place in our lives, walking in the faith that He has sown into us.

Hebrews 11:6 (NKJV) 6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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Bible Verse of The Day – 12-8-23

Romans 1:16-17 (NKJV) 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”

The just shall live by faith.

What does that mean, exactly?

First, what is the word, “just”, referring to?

Just is typically used to indicate someone is justified. Justification comes by way of the blood of Christ.

We are redeemed and justified, made clean and whole by the blood of Christ.

To be justified implies that we can stand before God, unashamed, knowing that the blood of Christ has washed us.

Therefore, we are justified in standing before God without fear of retribution because of our washed condition. Our sins have been removed by our faith in Christ and His shed blood.

So, if we have put our faith in Christ, we are just (justified).

And how shall we, the just, live?

By faith.

Our lives are not to be conducted by fleshly, intellectual means.

We are to live and walk by faith.

We do not rely on earthly ways or earthly understanding.

We do not walk in the ways of the world.

We live, breathe, and understand by the leading of the Holy Spirit.

This way of life can take some getting used to. It flies in the face of conventional thinking. But then so does just about everything else that God does.

So, let us not wrestle with God as He guides us and orders our steps.

We may not always understand everything right away. But if we give Him preference, and we trust His leading, we will find ourselves walking a path that’s very different than the path of the world.

And we will grow to love this way of life as we see Him moving in our lives on a regular basis.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries 
49 N Lamplighters Walk 
Hampstead, NC 28443 

401-439-3780 

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Bible Verse of The Day – 12-29-21

2 Corinthians 5:7 (NKJV) 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Walking by faith is easy to envision and easy to talk about, until we actually have to do it.

But when the rubber meets the road, some things aren’t quite what we may have pictured in our minds.

Most of you are aware that God picked us up and moved us to a new land, 750 miles from where we had lived all our lives.

Our roots in New England were deep, having been there for decades. Everything was intimately familiar to us. And I mean everything!

As we made the move to our new homeland, we were excited, expectant and maybe even a little scared.

We were not scared because we lacked faith. We were not scared of the unknown. But we were scared because we didn’t know how we would react to such a change.

The place God moved us to was not a place we chose. He chose it for us. And because it was His choice for us, we didn’t know what to expect.

As we made the 12 1/2 hour drive to our new location, everything went flawlessly. The drive was peaceful and uneventful, as we had prayed and asked God for.

But a few days later, as we moved into our new home and began to work toward settling in, we must admit that there were moments when we felt like the rug had been pulled from under us as we tried to find something familiar to grab hold of.

Everything felt like a whirlwind as we tried to find a firm foothold in the natural. Nothing was familiar. Even trying to find everyday things in the house was confusing and even frustrating.

But God is faithful, even in these types of situations. And as I literally asked Him to give me something even a little familiar to grab hold of, He reassured me that everything would be fine. And it was.

Now, just a day later, I have total peace. Not because everything suddenly fell into place. But because I recognized my fragility as a human and surrendered it to Him.

This is where the power comes in the lives of believers; not in being spiritual superheroes, but in being completely surrendered to Him and being able to recognize our weaknesses and in bowing before Him where we lay them at His feet.

Go to Him. Lay those things that we wrestle with at His feet. And surrender them to Him.

He will walk us through those moments (or seasons) of fear, apprehension and frailty. And He will replace all of those things that trouble us with His peace as we do so.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-25-20

Galatians 4:28 (NKJV) 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

As followers of Christ, we are children of promise.

We are heirs of the promises made to Abraham.

Why? Because we are spiritual heirs of Abraham.

Abraham had a special relationship with God. He believed God and had faith in Him in a time period long before Moses had come along.

Abraham exhibited that inward faith through his outward actions, by obeying God when he was told to do something or holding fast when God made him a promise.

Abraham trusted God!

It was that faith and trust that led him to receive Isaac, his son of promise, at the age of 100 years, through his wife, Sarah, who was also well beyond child-bearing years and who had been barren her entire life.

Because Abraham believed and trusted God, it was credited to him as righteousness. And this happened long before righteousness by faith was even understood by man.

Eventually, through Moses, The Law came along.

Man made the mistaken assumption that following The Law made them righteous. The Law, though, was actually written to show man their sinful state, and push them toward God in a way that would bring repentance, not haughty self-righteousness by way of pride for following the law religiously.

Thankfully, Jesus fulfilled The Law, bringing us back around to righteousness through faith.

So, as we walk out this life as believers, know that, as Abraham, we don’t live by what we see. We live by what God tells us, shows us and promises us.

It’s not always an easy walk. But as we do it, our faith and trust in God grows, drawing us closer and closer to Him.

Genesis 15:5-6 (NKJV) 5 Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants 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 – 7-30-16

Psalm 46:10 (NKJV) 10 Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!

Be still.

Those are probably two of the hardest words we will ever be told by God to carry out.

Being still when we’re going through trials requires that we trust God 100%. It takes a lot of faith to sit still when things are crumbling around us. But being still is what God says to do.

He wants us to be still so we don’t get frantic and rely solely on our intellect or our logical mind to try to fix everything. Instead, He wants us to have faith and trust Him to help us.

And He wants us to listen for His voice, through the Holy Spirit, so He can tell us what to do.

Most times, our minds are so busy trying to come up with solutions to our problems that we can’t hear Him when he does speak to us. This is why He tells us to be still.

It’s easy, when everything is going well, for us to say that we trust God. But when things get difficult, and the rubber meets the road, that’s when we get tested. That’s when “walking in faith” can be the most difficult.

But it’s then, during those trying times, that we need our faith even more.

Living and walking by faith takes time and practice to adjust to. It doesn’t just happen overnight because we want it to. But as we begin to trust God and be still in little things, we will find it easier and easier to do in bigger things.

So start today. Trust Him and be still. Know that He is God!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-315-0902

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