Tag: What the Bible says about love

Bible Verse of The Day – 12-5-23

1 Corinthians 13:2 (NKJV) 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Why we do what we do is key to God.

It really doesn’t matter how special or great we are at what we do. If it is not being done with the right motive, if love is not the foundation of what is motivating such gifts, there is no weight behind it.

We need to be serious about allowing God to lead us in such gifts, understanding, knowledge, and even in our faith.

Love is what will keep these gifts alive and in their proper place. And it will keep us accountable.

Make sure what we are doing is out of sincere love, nothing more and nothing less.

If it’s not, stop it and take some time to let God help us get our heart aligned with His purpose for why we do what we do.

Sometimes it’s just as easy as that; give God the floor to guide us.

Love must be the reason behind it all.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-6-21

1 Corinthians 13:13 (NKJV) 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

God, out of love, sent His Son Jesus Christ to save the world from our sin.

Love is not doing what everyone wants us to do. Love is not obeying the crowd instead of obeying the word of God. Love is not being gentle to someone when we need to be firm.

Love is doing what is right, no matter the cost, in the time and place it needs to be done.

Love sacrifices much.

Why is love the greatest? Because love is the righteous attitude to have in any given circumstance.

The Bible says that without love, whatever we are and whatever we have is nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:2-3 (NKJV) 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

Jesus took on the incredible burden of the cross out of love. What will we do? Are we even open to walk in such love? Because this love is not an emotion or a feeling, we need to choose whether we will walk in it or not. We have to choose to love.

Everything we do or touch, we have to choose the way we will do it.

If we choose love, we will do it from an obedient heart of righteousness that comes from Christ alone.

His Spirit, our Helper, the Holy Spirit that lives in us, will lead us in this love that comes from the cross if we let Him.

The greatest of these is Love.

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Seven Seas Ministries
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Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-24-21 – The Greatest of These

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

Love. It’s a simple 4-letter word that is critical to our walk as a child of God. 

Most of us pay too little attention to what love means in a Biblical context. 

In today’s video, The Greatest of These, we teach on the importance of paying close attention to what the Bible says about love. 

This video is short and precise. But it’s loaded with great Biblical insights that we all need to put into practice in our daily lives. 

We hope you’ll take a few minutes to give it a watch. 

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Enjoy your day! 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-26-20

1 Corinthians 13:13 (NKJV) 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Love is the greatest and most powerful thing we can spend time getting good at.

Loving someone who is good to us is oh so easy. But loving someone we don’t even know or like is so hard.

We cannot do it on our own. We need God’s compassion and strength to stick with it and be steadfast in loving one another.

Oh sure, we can walk away from people that make us feel uncomfortable or drive us crazy. But is that really what God wants?

Trying to love someone that is completely opposite of us can be very difficult. But we can always find a way to work it out.

As a matter a fact, we can actually learn a lot by loving someone that is opposite from us.

In our own marriage, we are very opposite in many ways. But we love each other deeply.

So, no matter how opposite we are, when we are apart from each other even for a short time, we very much look forward to being together again. We miss each other even if we are just out and about doing separate things.

How does this happen when we are so opposite? How can we even stand being around each other with such different ways of doing things?

It’s love! Love that goes beyond just emotions and feelings.

It holds us together like glue and causes us to keep pressing forward, understanding that there is more to learn in life than what we already know.

Love teaches us that there are always other ways of handling things or doing things.

Love isn’t just a feeling. It is an action we all need to take if we want a better marriage, a better friendship, a better workplace setting and a better world to live in.

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Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-26-19

1 Corinthians 14:1 (NKJV) 1 Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

These gifts cannot do justice without having a heart of love to flow through. It must be pure, having the right motive and with the right intentions.

If we can get love moving in us and then begin to walk in such gifts, God will be glorified and lifted up!

People will look to Him. People will see Him moving, and lives will be changed!

Go after love. Let God change our hard and bitter hearts.

Let Him strip away those things that linger in the background, tormenting us and keeping us in bondage.

Are we unhappy and miserable today? Are we hurting deep down inside? Have we lost the joy of living? God will help us to find that love, peace and joy that we lost through the different situations we have walked through in our lives.

Let Him mend our hearts. Pursue His love, get on the right track and then get His gifts flowing from that beautifully-healed heart.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-14-19

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NKJV) 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Loving someone the way God wants us to love requires us to first learn from Him what love really is.

What is His love like?

His love requires suffering at times. Yes, that means we may go through some hard times, even to the point of wanting to give up. And that suffering may not even be for us, but for someone else.

His love does not envy. In other words, if someone gets something that we have been wanting, His love will cause us to be sincerely happy for them. We won’t have to fake our happiness, but will truly mean it.

His love will not march around in an attention-seeking way; Look at me, I’m great, I have a doctorate in medical science, or I have a big ministry with a lot of people attending. I have a lot of money or property. Look how popular I am.

There is no rude behavior that comes from His love. It’s not OK to talk down to a waitress or waiter. It’s not alright to mistreat workers on the job, even if we are the supervisor.

His love cares more about others than it does for itself. His love can be overwhelming for our minds and hearts to comprehend. But if we work at chipping away the hardness that has built up in our hearts over time, we will find ourselves changing and walking in His Love more and more.

Take it one step at a time.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-18-19

1 Corinthians 14:1 (NKJV) 1 Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

How do we pursue love? Just like anything we want in life, we go after the One who holds the goods.

In this case it’s Jesus. He is our example of the greatest love ever to exist.

When we put our faith in Him as our Lord and Savior, and we open up our hearts to Him, that seed of His love gets planted in our hearts. And just like any other seed, if we don’t care for it and water it, it won’t grow.

This kind of love only grows with proper watering through the word of God. His truth, His discipline, and His teachings will cause this seed to flourish and produce beautiful fruit.

As we learn who He is and how He responded to certain situations, we take what we have learned and then follow in His foot steps. As we do this, we begin to build that same love in us.

We learn how to act out of righteousness, instead of reacting out of our own understanding and our flesh.

How does this love get stronger? We take what He teaches us and we put it into action.

How does it become part of our everyday walk? We live it, we breathe it and walk it out. Not from our heads, but straight from our hearts.

Walking in this Love will grip the hearts of people around us. It is the difference that people will notice in us, showing that we have changed and we belong to God.

John 13:35 (NKJV) 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-15-18

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NKJV) 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love endures all things. 

Endure: suffer (something painful or difficult) patiently. Persevere, tolerate, brave, bear, withstand, abide, persist,

Love perseveres through every circumstance, regardless of the severity of it.

Love is not short-lived. It stands strong when natural strength is all but gone.

This kind of love can’t be bought. It can’t be created by human will. It flows directly from God, to His children.

It is this kind of love that endures, hopes and believes. It is this kind of love that will cause us to set ourselves aside and stand when frail, human love collapses on the floor, weak from life’s battles.

The love that God imparts into us by His spirit will steadily transform us from frail, finicky, fickle people, who care only about ourselves, into mighty warriors of God’s kingdom who learn to lay ourselves aside and face the many things that life throws at us, refusing to be defeated.

Love never fails.

1 Corinthians 13:13 (NKJV) 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

We hope you’ve enjoyed this series on love, and that it will give everyone a better understanding of the power of the love that God wants to impart into us all.

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Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-14-18

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NKJV) 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love believes all things, hopes all things 

Love never loses faith even, when faith seems impossible to find.

Love holds onto hope, even when things seem hopeless.

Love will look beyond the logical and the visible and see what’s invisible and what requires faith to see it.

Love tells us to get up and keep going, even when we have fallen for what seems like the hundredth time.

Love will encourage us even when it seems like we are surrounded by darkness and despair.

Love will keep going, beckoning us to take another step forward when we feel like we can’t even move a single muscle.

Love goes beyond hoping for what can’t be seen, and it hopes, instead, for what can’t even be imagined!

Let God teach us how to have this kind of hope in Him.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-13-18

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NKJV) 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love bears all things.

Love will teach us how to endure whatever comes our way, without giving up. It will teach us how to stick by someone through the most difficult times and seasons.

Love will also teach us how to hold fast to God, even when the enemy is inundating us with accusations, trying everything he knows to convince us that God is a liar, in order to get us to walk away from our faith.

Love will cause us to protect those close to us, even if it means making a huge sacrifice to do it.

This kind of love goes beyond the mushy, romantic emotions fed to us by TV and movies. It is life-changing and will cause us to become someone that we never knew we could be, because God will use it to shape us and mold us, from the inside, out.

Love of this kind will not be based on something we feel from time to time. Instead, it will last a lifetime. And it will stay with us until we take our last breath.

Once we let God teach us how to love like this, we will never, ever be the same again.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-12-18

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NKJV) 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love rejoices in the truth. 

Just as love does not rejoice in iniquity, it does rejoice in the truth.

Whereas iniquity is based on lies and deceit, truth is none of those. Truth brings freedom and light into all situations.

As we embrace truth, our lives will be transformed. Embracing truth requires that lies be rejected. This alone will push darkness out of our lives to e very large degree.

Love doesn’t just like truth, but it rejoices in truth! Why is this so? Because love is rooted in God, and God is truth in its purest form.

Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and the life”.

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

So as we walk out God’s love and allow the truth to permeate us, we make it harder and harder for lies and darkness to have any place in us.

3 John 3 (NKJV) 3 For I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in the truth.

Rejoice in the truth and watch darkness flee.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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