Tag: What the Bible says about loving God

Bible Verse of The Day – 9-29-21

1 Kings 14:7-8 (NKJV) 7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you ruler over My people Israel, 8 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you; and yet you have not been as My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes;

There are many, many instances of us being told in God’s word how important it is to follow God’s laws, decrees and commands.

Let’s talk about that.

In its barest form, it would appear that God is simply asking us to strictly follow a set of rules and laws.

But if we look at the heart of this, it goes much deeper.

In reality, God is urging us (appealing to us) to give Him our hearts.

You see, God isn’t really concerned with a set of laws. Laws don’t change hearts or make us righteous. They just give us guidelines.

Simply following a set of guidelines will only create rituals and traditions. That is not what God wants.

If we look at the latter part of the verse above, God tells Jeroboam that David followed Him with all his heart.

That is what God wants; our whole heart.

Because David followed God with his whole heart, God honored him down through the generations.

There are powerful lessons for us to learn from this.

So, despite our faults & failures, let’s be sure to keep this at the forefront of everything we do; to follow God with all our heart.

And as we do this, God will also honor us, and our lives will be blessed because of it.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-24-21

John 14:23 (NKJV) 23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

We all long for God to love us.

Some of us try so hard to earn HIs love. Some wrestle with thinking we are never good enough for His love, and we feel like we are constantly failing Him.

I have learned over the years, though, that God is God!

His thoughts, His ways and His heart are much more than we could ever comprehend.

Do you know He loved us first? That’s right; first.

We didn’t do a single thing to make Him love us.

1 John 4:19 (NKJV) 19 We love Him because He first loved us.

Because of His love for us and what He did to save us, we love Him.

But we didn’t have to do anything for Him to love us.

He loved us right from the beginning; every one of us. Red, yellow, black and white, we are precious in His sight! Amen.

But if we want to show our love for Him, what does He say we will do? We will keep His word.

That simply means that, if we have put our faith and trust in Him, we live out His word in our daily lives. We walk it out for others to see.

What does He promise us if we do this? He will make His home in us!

Wow.

What else could we ever want?

God living in us each day.

That right there is more than this world could ever measure up to.

Why would we even care to obtain anything else? Why would we have idols in our hearts or put things before Him?

His love has always been there for us. Now we must tear down anything that stands in the way of us loving Him back.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-25-21

2 Kings 10:28-31 (NKJV) 28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal from Israel. 29 However Jehu did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin, that is, from the golden calves that were at Bethel and Dan. 30 And the Lord said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in doing what is right in My sight, and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.” 31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart; for he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, who had made Israel sin.

You see, Jehu did a lot of good things as King. He destroyed Baal. That was huge!

And because of that, God gave his sons the throne for four (4) generations.

However, what Jehu did was not enough for God. He wanted Jehu’s whole heart.

You see, Jehu did what was right in God’s sight. But zeal with an undevoted heart is not equal to having a heart after God.

God wants us all to Himself.

Maybe we are saying “,well, I have dedicated my life to Him already, but I’m not as close to Him as I would like. And I feel Him tugging on me to come closer, to spend more time, and let go of even more things. But can I and will I do this? I don’t know if I have it in me.”

It can be hard for our minds to grasp that God, Who is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient, wants us closer.

We know we are sinners, saved only by grace. We are always messing up one way or another, constantly trying to just get through each day.

Why would He want all of us, with our faults and shortcomings, when He can have everything else?

If all of creation worships Him, why does He want all of me-too?

Well, the answer is given clearly in His word. He simply does! He wants all of you and all of me to love Him more than anything. Exodus 34:13 (NKJV) He is a jealous God.

Would we commit our whole heart to Him today and live out each day for Him the best we can?

That’s really all He asks, to keep trying and to win this race that is before us, loving Him with our whole heart.

Hebrews 12:1 (NKJV) 1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us…

Jehu, with all his zeal, got the throne for his sons for four (4) generations. But, wouldn’t we rather hear God say, “well done good and faithful servant.; you loved Me to the end with all of your heart.”?

Deuteronomy 6:5 (NKJV) 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

What will it be?

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-3-21

Matthew 15:8-9 (NKJV) 8 ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. 9 And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”

Lip service, in any form, is a terrible thing.

Our mouth says one thing, but our heart and our actions do another.

It should be our desire to draw so close to God that we never have to worry about lip service in our walk with Him.

Our heart will know when we are serving God only with our words. Because, in reality, this is not serving God at all. It is merely going through the motions.

Let us push aside all distractions, all idols and all selfish ambition in our effort to know Him more intimately.

We need not depend on our heart to lead us in this. Instead, we need to look directly to Him, leaning solely on His precious Spirit for guidance, discernment and understanding.

We cannot count on our intellect. We can have volumes of knowledge, and yet still not know God.

We cannot rely on others. Yes, others can give us guidance. But this walk with God is ours to carry out and navigate, as we do so “with fear and trembling”.

Philippians 2:12 (NKJV) 12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

This is not meant to be scary or solemn. It is a heartfelt exhortation, written in love, to encourage you to give God 100% of who you are. We are, after all, His creations.

It is Him who breathed life into our lungs and gave our heart the beat that keeps us breathing.

Let us not serve Him only with our lips, but with every fiber of our being, making Him our number one priority until the moment that we take our very last breath.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-29-20 – With All Your Heart

Please click to watch the video nowGreetings in the name of Jesus! 

With all your heart is a phrase that is critical to our walk with God. It’s also the title of our newest video. 

In today’s video, we teach on the importance of understanding the concept of that phrase and what it means for us as believers. 

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

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Enjoy the rest of your day! 

Sincerely in Christ, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 8-18-20

Matthew 22:37 (NKJV) 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

The more we love God, the more we will step out and do things with Him. The more we will give up for Him. The more we will obey Him.

That love will move us in ways we never thought we would move; to do things we never had the strength to do before and take on tasks that we would never dream of doing.

That love will call and we will answer, not by asking ourselves if we can do it, how we can do it, or when do we do it. But knowing that if it is what God has put before us, we will walk it out with Him accordingly, in the right timing, in the right way and with His wisdom, might and power upon us.

Love is a funny thing. It gives us strength and courage to step up to the plate when no one else will, putting our self aside and just focusing on getting the job done.

Everything we do will be more meaningful when loving God is our focus.

Joshua 23:11 (NKJV) 11 Therefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the Lord your God.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-30-20

Matthew 22:37-39 (NKJV) 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Loving God is the key to follow and obeying His commandments. It is the very thing that will help us put our self aside and be able to love Him and our neighbor as He has asked us to.

If we don’t have such a love for God first, it’s impossible to love the way He has commanded us. It’s funny, loving God can move us toward living for Him, but yet we fight it.

We may ask, “why do we fight it?”

We fight usually because we care about ourselves and how we feel more than anything else. And how we feel is usually based on if we are happy about who we’ve become, how much we have and our appearance. Those are 3 big issues and can keep us from loving God and others the way we should.

We feel like if we are not happy with who we are, how can we truly love anyone? In this scripture, is there anything where it says, we have to love ourselves? No, it says to love God with basically everything and what is left is use toward loving our neighbor. Nothing is mention about having to love our self.

What God is showing us is the importance of our walk in this life with Him, is that our love should be directed and poured out for Him and others.

We don’t have to worry about loving ourselves, because His love for us is more than enough. All we need to know, to understand and believe is the love which He has for us and then share it. Amen.

1 John 4:16 (NKJV) 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

You my friend are loved more than you know.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-14-20

Proverbs 8:21 (NKJV) 21 That I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth, That I may fill their treasuries.

What does it mean to love Him?

Jesus was the perfect example of love. Everything He did was because He loved His Father and He loved us, all the way to the cross. What He did for us was love-driven.

Every healing, every deliverance, every bit of provision was done in love. His motives were pure and for the right reasons.

That’s what it means for us to love. Our motives should not be for bettering ourselves or for our own gain, but to be happy for those around us to have their needs met. Jesus brought so much good to this earth.

Why? Because of love.

His Father sent Him. Why? Because of love.

Why should we love Him? Because He first loved us.

1 John 4:19 (NKJV) 19 We love Him because He first loved us.

We don’t love to gain anything for ourselves. He has already blessed us with Him. But, because we do love Him, He will continue to bless our lives.

In the name of Jesus, love Him!  Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-18-20

Deuteronomy 6:5 (NKJV) 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

That’s a lot of LOVE!

How many know that this doesn’t happen overnight? In fact, It doesn’t happen in a week or a month. It doesn’t even happen in a year. It takes time to learn such a love.

That’s right.

You see, when we give our life to Christ, we do it in faith. And from that day forward, we begin to take steps in developing such a love. It takes time.

So, we shouldn’t think there is something wrong with us if for some reason we are not there yet. We just need to keep moving towards it.

How?

By obeying. By listening and following. By saying, “no”, at times to things we may enjoy doing. By allowing ourselves to be corrected and chastened at times by the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 12:6 (NKJV) 6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.”

These are steps toward receiving the life God has for us and developing the love for Him that he desires us to have.

Once we begin walking in this love, we will never want to go back to the way we once were.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-1-19

1 John 4:19 (NKJV) 19 We love Him because He first loved us.

Different people love God for different reasons.

Some love Him because He has rescued them from something terrible, like maybe drug or alcohol addictions.

Some love Him because they live a beautiful life and are blessed with wonderful family and friends.

Some may love Him because He healed their body from a terrible sickness or disease.

Others may love Him because they have been blessed with great material wealth, and they see God as the provider of that wealth.

Still other people may love Him because He saved them from their sin, offering them eternal life through Jesus Christ.

While these are all good and acceptable reason to love God, in the end it all boils down to loving Him for one reason alone; because He loved us first.

You see, without Him loving us first, none of these other things matter. And without Him loving us first, none of these other things would be possible.

So, today, let’s make sure we understand and acknowledge God’s love for us, and see the true value of that love. For without that love, not a single one of us would have a single thing that’s worth anything.

We love Him because He first loved us! Amen!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of the Day – 9-1-19 – Where is God?

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

Where is God? 

That’s the question we ask and discuss in today’s video. 

In this video, we talk about where God is in our lives, in our list of priorities, so to speak. We discuss how our love for God impacts everything about our lives each and every day. 

We hope you will take a few minutes and give it a watch. 

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Be blessed in Him. 

Sincerely, 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
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