Tag: What the Bible says about prayer

Bible Verse of The Day – 2-24-17

Matthew 6:13 (NKJV) 13 And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

As Jesus wrapped up this last part of His discourse on how to pray, He hit on the delicate, yet very relevant subject of temptation and evil. And then He finished by giving God glory and honor. Let’s take a look.

God, I know you are not the tempter. I know that all good things come from you, and you alone.

Give me the strength to turn and walk away from temptation when it tries to entice me. Open my eyes so that I might see temptation for what it is; a snare waiting to capture me and hurt or kill me.

And deliver me, Father, from the enemy of my soul, the evil one who wishes to destroy me and separate me from you forever with sin and darkness. Help me to withstand his schemes and have victory over them.

For your kingdom is above all kingdoms. And you rule and reign over everything, seen and unseen. All power and glory belong to you forever and ever. Amen!

So, there you have it. The model for prayer, set forth by Jesus Himself!

We hope you have enjoyed this short series and that it has helped shed some light on some things that maybe you didn’t previously know, or maybe get you to think about some things you had never really thought about before.

Now, go and pray in power!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-23-17

Matthew 6:12 (NKJV) 12 And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors.

Forgiveness is a big deal, both being directed to us, and being given by us. And, once again, Jesus peeled away all the mystery about forgiveness and laid it bare, in His usual simplicity. Let’s take a look.

Father, forgive me for what I have done. Forgive me for things I have said against others. Forgive me for things that I have done against you and against those around me.

There is so much I need to be forgiven for, but I understand that forgiveness for my sins and trespasses is dependent upon me forgiving those who have done wrong to me. So help me to forgive others, as you forgive.

I know that I sometimes struggle in this area, so help me and give me strength to make it right. Thank you Father.

Join us again tomorrow the final piece.

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 – 2-22-17

Matthew 6:11 (NKJV) 11 Give us this day our daily bread.

This single verse is a huge part of our walk with God and will show us where we stand when it comes to trusting Him. Really trusting Him!

Notice that Jesus spoke only about today. Not tomorrow. Not next week or next month! So here it is, broken down. Notice how much our trust is tested in this one very short verse.

Father, give us what we need for today. Supply our needs. You know what they are. You know them all.

Provide for our bodily needs in the food we eat. Give us sustenance.

We’re not concerned with or worried about tomorrow. We are looking only at today. Nothing more and nothing less.

And we know that today is all You want us to be concerned with, because we trust that You have tomorrow in Your hands. And You have told us not to worry about tomorrow.

So we thank You for supplying our needs and taking care of us. You are everything we need!

Tune in again tomorrow for the next segment…

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 – 2-21-17

Matthew 6:10 (NKJV) 10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.

As we continue to take a look at this lesson Jesus taught, let’s break this down and see what He was really telling us to do and say.

Father, let your kingdom come to the earth.

Let us pray and bring your presence to earth by our words and our actions. Let us be beacons of light in this dark world. Teach us to love those around us like only you can love.

There is so much hurt and pain and you are the great physician Who can heal each and every one of the hurting hearts.

So we ask and declare today, Lord, that whatever we loose and whatever we bind in heaven be done also here on earth.

To be continued…

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-20-17

Matthew 6:9 (NKJV) 9 In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.

As Jesus began this discourse, he taught us how to pray.

His goal was not to teach us what to pray. His goal was not to teach us to recite this word for word. And His goal was not to give us a recitation that would act as the go-to verses that we would learn to repeat each day when we wish to talk or communicate with our Father.

Jesus gave us a model that we are to use, teaching us all of the various aspects of addressing our Father in heaven.

So let’s take a look at this particular piece of the model and see what Jesus was saying.

God in heaven. Abba, Father, our mighty Creator and Giver of life, You are holy.

God, you are above everything we see, everything that you created. You are pure and holy. You are everything I need in life. You are my source and my inspiration. I long to worship you and lift you high for the world to see.

Your name is above all names! Your name is powerful and limitless. And I bow before you, surrendering to you with all that I am.

We hope this helps bring understanding and a new perspective to what we commonly call “The Lord’s Prayer”.

More to come…

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 – 9-10-16

Matthew 7:9 (NKJV) 9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

How many of us have asked God for something at some point in our lives? Everyone has. Right?

But how many of us were disappointed when we got something other than what we asked for? If we’re honest, most of us will admit to being disappointed.

But here’s the thing. If we ask for something that God knows won’t be good for us, would He be a good father if He just went ahead and gave it to us anyway?

You see, sometimes when we ask, God does answer with something different than what we asked for because He doesn’t want us to get hurt.

If our own child asked us for something that we knew would harm them, would we just give it to them for the sake of making them happy? We’d better not!

If we ask for bread, and we’re hoping for rye bread, God just might give us pumpernickel bread because He knows there’s something about rye bread that will harm us.

So if we’re praying and we get something less than or different than what we prayed for, we need to thank Him for it! And we need to be grateful that He takes our well-being into consideration.

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 – 5-3-16

Psalm 4:1 (NKJV) 4 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved me in my distress; Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

Prayer is powerful. It’s there, in prayer, that God relieves us of our distress!

When we run into a situation, the first thing it can cause is distress. Whether it is for us or someone else. Things could be going along really great. But if something wrong shows up, bam… how quickly stress can come on us and cause chaos.

Prayer is the best place to go with it. Instead of sharing it with others, take it to God. That is where we will find true relief.

Sometimes we wait, we ponder on it, and we try to figure it all out on our own. If we can’t figure it out, we share it with others, hoping to get some kind of relief and answers. FINALLY, after all that, we are so tired that we give up and say, “Ok, I guess I have to get prayer.”

Go, get with God first. If we can learn to immediately go to God, our relief will come quicker and it is an opportunity to show God that our faith is in HIM alone!!

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
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-9-16

1 Thessalonians 5:17 (NKJV) 17 pray without ceasing,

We don’t have to have a certain place where we go to pray. We can pray right where we are at.

Sometimes all it is is listening; Being quiet long enough to let His Spirit speak, no matter where we are. We can do that anywhere, any place, at any time.

We may be somewhere out and about and He may put someone or something on our hearts right then and there. We don’t have to wait until we get home to pray or until we go to church on Sunday or Wednesday, etc.

We may be standing in line at the grocery store when God decides to speak to our heart about a situation. Right then and there we can pray, silently to ourselves, lifting it up and being in agreement with Him.

We may be awakened sometimes at night when God wants us to pray for something specific. It’s important we don’t just blow it off. Pray for what He shows us and then we can go back to sleep. It’s as simple as that.

Prayer isn’t complicated. We just need to pray as the Holy Spirit leads us, as we continue in our daily things.

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 – 12-31-15

James 5:16 (NKJV) 16 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.

Prayer is the tool that God has given to each one of His children to help us in our situations; to help bring people out of trials, to help people get healed, to help people find Him. It’s through prayer that God will reach down from His throne and help us.

We can invest our time in all sorts of things; work, kids, family, church, etc., but the most important investment we can make is in time spent at the feet of Jesus Christ.

Through Salvation He has made a way for us to come and pray to the Father. There, laying down our concerns and our troubles, we can cry out for others and to get God’s answers.

It takes one person with a strong desire, to unite with God and see His change for whatever situation we find ourselves in.

Praying is up to us to do. It’s up to us to take hold of and invest our time in prayer. It’s more powerful than we could ever know. But if we don’t see it in this light, if we don’t see the importance and the power that it carries through Christ Jesus, we will just leave situations and circumstances on the table and watch them fall into the hands of the enemy.

We have a powerful tool that sits within us. What good will it do if we just leave it dormant?

Mark 1:8 (NKJV) 8 I indeed baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

He has given us a way to be accurate in our prayers. Understanding and knowledge lives within us, through His spirit. He gave us what it takes to go to battle, by the power of the Holy Spirit. We need to ask the Lord to baptize us in the Holy Spirit and to lead us in our prayers.

If you are the only man or woman in your country that prays, you can begin to turn that place around. If you are the only man or woman on your job that prays, you can turn that place around. If you are the only man or woman in your home that prays, you can turn that home around. And if you are the only man or woman in your church that prays, say it with us, I can turn that place around!

As we let the Holy Spirit guide us in our prayers, we will make a difference right where we are at today!! Invest our time each day in prayer God will turn things around.

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-20-15

Luke 6:12 (NKJV) 12 Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

Taking the time we need to pray things through is so important when making decisions. There have been times when we have messed up on our choices because we moved too quickly and didn’t take the proper amount of time to seek God first, for the answers.

When having to make decisions, and things around us get louder and busier, we need to find a place or time when it is quiet. Jesus prayed through the night and then chose His apostles.

Luke 6:13 (NKJV) 13 And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles:

In prayer is where it all begins.

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 – 10-7-15

Isaiah 26:4 (NKJV) 4 Trust in the Lord forever, For in YAH, the Lord, is everlasting strength.

Spending time in prayer is the most powerful thing we can do for our marriage or someone else’s marriage, for our family or someone else’s family, for the church and for the world as a whole.

Strength, healing, deliverance, and VICTORY come through prayer, through trusting in our Lord.

If we want to see change and get answers, it will take us putting time aside, writing down the things God has shown us that need changing and pray them through, trusting HIM for the answer and the victory in each battle.

We want to see change. God will bring change.

He is STRONG. Trust in HIM!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-315-0902

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