Tag: What the Bible says about trusting God

Bible Verse of The Day – 6-17-16

Psalm 20:7 (NKJV) 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.

The Lord God will help us through things that we would otherwise never make it through. He is Faithful to pick us up and brush us off, and step by step show us how to get on track and start over.

We can try to do it on our own. He won’t stop us or force us. We can put our trust in all kinds of different things, but there is no ONE like the Lord our God.

1 Samuel 2:2 (NKJV) 2 “No one is holy like the Lord, For there is none besides You, Nor is there any rock like our God.

He is our rock!

Those other things that try to take His place will bring GREAT disappointment to us.

It is in the Lord our God that we will put our trust and walk in His victory!! Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-27-16

John 15:16 (NKJV) 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

If we allow God to have control over our lives… He will!

He will appoint us and we will bear fruit. He will open doors for us to walk through, even if we don’t know how to do it. He will show us and our fruit will remain!

Many years ago, there was a job listing in the local newspaper for office work. I had no experience in this field. I had very little typing experience, no communication skills, and only basic computer skills. But I knew I needed to go after this job.

The first thing they asked me was “can you type?”. I had been practicing with a computer typing tutorial recently, so I said yes, thinking that I would get better, the more I did it.

Well, immediately after asking me this, they sat me down and gave me a typing test.

As I sat down to take the test, my hands were shaking. I was so nervous.

I prayed, “God, I’m here where I feel you wanted me to come, now I need your help”. I took the test and when I was done, she looked at me and said “good enough”, and hired me on the spot. It was a position in a big beautiful office, for someone who had very little when it came to office skills.

I started out as the secretary and it wasn’t long before I was reconciling huge financial accounts.

My work skills grew quickly and I fit in nicely. My boss would say to me at times, “you puzzle me. There are many things you don’t have any experience in, but yet you can do this job fine”.

When God appoints us to do a job, He will give us the knowhow if we rest in Him.

Philippians 4:13 (NKJV) 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Don’t you dare give up! If you are in a place where you know you belong but you’re not sure how to do the job fully, ask anything of Him and He will help.  

Hang in there. Keep your chin up and your eyes on Him, and you will bear FRUIT and your fruit will remain! 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 – 5-7-16

1 Peter 5:6-7 (NKJV) 6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, 7 casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

Learning how to cast our cares on Him can sometimes be a bit difficult. We’re so used to doing everything ourselves, that handing it off to God requires retraining our minds a bit.

But it’s truly important that we learn how to do this, to cast our cares upon Him, if we are to learn to walk and live by faith.

There will be days when doing this is a breeze. Then there will be days when it seems like we just can’t let go of our troubles and our worries and give them to Him.

But we’re here to tell you today that casting our cares on God is the best way, no matter how hard it might seem to be.

It’s the way that shows our faith and teaches us to trust Him with everything about our lives. And it’s also the way to lower our stress levels, as we learn to let God handle those things that we thought we had to carry ourselves.

Trials come. It’s part of life here on earth. They can be painful. There’s no doubt about it. And sometimes it might seem like they will never end.

But they will end. They will cease and we will have victory. And while we’re going through those trials, that’s the time when we learn to cast our cares upon Him and let Him carry those things that weigh us down.

Take a step today and do this. Do what God has told us to do. He knows what’s best for us.

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 – 3-8-16

Philippians 4:19 (NKJV) 19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Did we ever notice how hard it is for us to just let God supply all our needs? It is a hard thing to sit back and let God provide for us. It’s hard for our minds and hearts to accept, at times, that God really wants to help us.

Why is it so hard? Why do we fight God on this? Why can’t we just let Him help?

For some reason, man thinks He has to do it himself. And it is only when we get to a point where we have no way out and we have exhausted all our “KNOWHOW”, that we finally say, “OK God. I need Your help”.

There are some people that never even get to that point, because they simply refuse to admit that they need help. They would rather be mad at the world and miserable to everyone around them, than to give in and let GOD fix it.

Notice that in the beginning of Genesis, God shows us how man struggled with His provision. Take a look at Adam and Eve. They were well provided for. God had it all set for them. All they had to do was obey Him, listen and live. Everything was provided at their fingertips! But there was a weakness, and in their weakness they were tempted, and they fell.

Right from the beginning of time, we have struggled with obeying and accepting God’s provision. We wanted more. We wanted to do it on our own, with nobody telling us anything.

The question is, will we admit it? Will we learn it’s not just Adam and Eve, but all of us who struggle with this in our own personal daily lives?

If we want all that God has for us, we need to face the truth, that at times God is not holding us back or keeping things from us. But we hold back God by not obeying Him and receiving His provision in His way and His timing. How? By trying to do it all on our own.

Let God supply all our needs as we surrender unto Him 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 – 2-19-16

Proverbs 3:5 (NKJV) 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;

This verse has become the words that Pastor Ellie and I have learned to live by.

This walk of faith is challenging. Some days it seems like nothing can go wrong. Other days it seems like everything goes wrong. Not that everything actually does go wrong. But it can seem that way if we look at it incorrectly.

That’s not to say that God isn’t faithful or that His promises aren’t true. It’s more to say that sometimes our heads get in the way. And when our heads get in the way, our hearts can’t see what God is doing.

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

Learning to walk by faith and not by sight is a never-ending learning process. Some days we run like Gazelles! Other days we trip and fall. We scrape our knees and look to our Daddy to pick us up and brush the dirt off.

There are times when we see so clearly. And then there are days when there is a lot of fog to cut through.

But, here’s the truth in all of this.

God is on the throne. His promises are true! And when we face things in life that we don’t understand, it’s OK!

The important thing is that we look to Him for our answers. And when those answers come, we need to take Him at His word, even if it doesn’t make sense to our mind and our intellect.

We teach on this frequently. Why? Because it’s a profound truth that every single one of us needs to learn. We not only need to learn it, but we need to live by it!

So when things come along that you don’t understand, or if something doesn’t work out quite the way you had hoped it would, don’t fret. Don’t give up. And don’t turn away from God.

On the contrary. Run toward 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 – 2-10-16

John 4:16-18 (NKJV) 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”

This woman spoke the truth when Jesus spoke to her. The closer we get to Jesus, the more His light shines on those areas within us that may need some attention.

We can’t pretend that everything is alright when deep down we have some things that need to be brought out into the light.

We may have been hurt in the past when we tried to share things with people, but don’t let the hurt we have received from people stop us from sharing the things we need to share with God. The way people treat us at times is different than the way God will respond when we open up and share the truth with Him.

He did not send His Son to condemn us, but to save us. And that is the very heart of God; to SAVE us from our sin!

Open up today and share those things with Him that may be hidden and painful. He will bring healing and strength, and He will uphold us. Amen.

Isaiah 41:10 (NKJV) 10 Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’

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 – 12-22-15

Isaiah 54:17 (NKJV) 17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me,”Says the Lord.

Those who serve the Lord, this is ours to hold onto. This is ours to remember when things come against us and try to knock us back or take us out. This is ours to remember when people say things against us or try to make us look bad.

We don’t have to say anything at times. Just know that God is on our side, and stand firm trusting Him. He will deliver us.

It may not always happen as quickly as we would like it to. But it will come, and things will be done according to the way He wants it to be done, no matter what others may say.

Hold on tightly to His word and stand our ground. God is faithful!

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 – 10-16-15

2 Samuel 7:22 (NKJV) 22 Therefore You are great, O Lord God. For there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

There is NO other God and NONE like Him. He is our Lord God. Our Heavenly Father, Almighty God, Jehovah Jireh, El Shaddai, Prince of Peace and Mighty King! Amen.

God loves us all so much and wants a relationship with each one of us. He wants us to come to Him and embrace Him. He wants us to feel safe with Him, to share things that we are feeling and going through. He wants to help us every day. He wants to save us from our sin.

John 3:17 (NKJV) 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

His Son, Jesus Christ, is here for us today.

It doesn’t matter what we are dealing with or what we have done. He is there waiting for us.

All we need to do is call out to Him and ask Him to come into our life. We just need to ask forgiveness for the things we’ve done wrong and then trust, believe and receive Him as our Lord and Savior.

Psalm 116:2 (NKJV) 2 Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.

Talk to Him each day. He is listening. His ear is inclined to our voice!

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 – 8-11-15

Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV) 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

Trust.

It’s a word that brings different things to mind for each of us. We each have had our own experiences with trust; some good, some not so good.

For most (if not all) of us, our ability to trust has been tainted, stained by our not-so-good experiences where our trust has been broken by people.

Once trust is broken, it’s a hard thing to repair. And when it’s been repaired, it might not ever be the same as it was before it was betrayed.

But there is One who we can always trust. He will never leave us or forsake us. He will never betray us.

We may not always understand why some things happen, or why things happen the way they do. But as we learn to trust Him, we will be less concerned with those things and more concerned with how we can draw even closer to Him and understand Him, and His ways, better.

Learning to trust God explicitly takes time, and it takes effort. It doesn’t happen overnight. It doesn’t happen just because we want it to.

It happens when we deliberately seek Him, pursue Him and determine in our hearts that He is who He says He is. End of story.

So let’s keep pursuing Him and seeking Him diligently. For He is a rewarder of those who do so.

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 – 3-6-15

Genesis 6:13-14 (NKJV) 13 And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.

Make yourself an ark.

What a colossal assignment!

God told Noah that He was going to flood the earth and that Noah was to build an ark to save a few humans and a large group of animals. The destiny of these few people and all of those animals was in Noah’s hands.

God gave Noah very specific instructions about how the ark should be constructed, with regard to size, materials, etc. The only problem is that Noah had never seen anything like that before in his life. Yet this was his assignment.

As Noah obeyed God and set about this enormous task, he had to move ahead based solely on what he had been told. He had no working models to copy, no predecessors to ask for help and no experience as a shipbuilder.

But, being faithful and diligent, he moved ahead, one day at a time, until the ark was finished.

Noah is a great example for us all. Too many times we are given a task or a job to do, and we want it to be completed and come to fruition very quickly.

We need to let God stretch our faith and teach us how to trust Him, no matter what things look like on the surface, in the natural.

As we do this, He will strengthen us and give us rest when we’re weary, supplying us with exactly what we need to complete the job.

Isaiah 40:31 (NKJV) 31 But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

So if we are waiting on God, have been given a task or a job that seems impossible, or just plain don’t understand exactly what’s happening in our lives, trust Him and wait on Him. He will come through.

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 – 2-16-15

Hebrews 13:8 (NKJV) 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Nowadays it’s hard to find anything that’s stable for very long.

The economy is a mess worldwide. Jobs no longer offer stability. Relationships always seem to be on the rocks, falling apart under the stress and pressures of life.

But we don’t have to fear this instability, no matter what the world throws at us.

If our faith and trust is in Christ, we have a solid foundation under us. Our lives are not subject to the ups and downs of what life throws at us.

Yes, the storms will come. And, yes, we may get knocked around a bit in those storms, and sometimes we may even be wounded and have scars to show for it. But if we are anchored in Christ, we will prevail and we will be victorious in our lives!

Matthew 7:24-25 (NKJV) 24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

It’s all about our faith and where it lies. Is our trust in the things and the institutions of this world, or are we anchored in Jesus Christ?

Only we can answer this question. And only we can make this choice. Choose Christ.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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

401-315-0902

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