My Bible Verse of The Day - 2-16-25
Cranial Christians?
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie discuss the fact that we frequently fall into the trap of pushing the Spirit of God aside and relying on our thinking processes and our natural understanding, when we should be going to God for answers to our questions and solutions for our situations.
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My Bible Verse of The Day - 2-15-25
2 Timothy 4:2 (NKJV) 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
Just the other day while I was out and about, I began to witness to someone out of nowhere.
I was simply talking to them, and out it came. The truth!
You know, it’s sometimes hard for Christians to speak because of the backlash we have taken at times for doing so.
But don’t ever stop speaking it. Don’t be ashamed, and don’t pull back. We must let the Holy Spirit guide our words, in the right place, at the right time.
A young lady asked me to judge her.
My reaction was to laugh. I said, “I can’t judge you. My judgement is not righteous. Only God can judge us, and He will one day.”
What she really meant was, “what is your opinion about this situation?” And began to explain it to me.
She asked me some personal questions and I gave her my honest answer, but with no judgement.
One thing led to another, and I found myself witnessing to her right there on the spot.
Even though there were many other people around us in the same place, it was just the two of us. It was surreal, like there was a wall around us. Nothing could get in or distract us from what needed to be said in that moment.
Oh, praise be to God! He opens and closes doors. Be ready to walk through the open ones! Seeds were sown.
You just never know where you will be when the Holy Spirit comes upon you to speak the truth.
Be ready in season and out of season. Don’t shy away when you are asked the questions. Convince, rebuke, exhort with long-suffering and teaching. Amen.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443
401-439-3780
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My Bible Verse of The Day - 2-14-25
John 1:51 (LS 51 And He said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
Over the years, if we spend time reading and studying God’s word, we will begin connecting dots and seeing things that are related.
This is often true when we read the words of Jesus. He frequently quoted Old Testament verses or referenced things that were spoken by Old Testament prophets or patriarchs.
These things can sometimes be revelatory for us when we see them, helping us to gain a better understanding of Jesus and who He really is.
In the verse above, Jesus had just met Nathaniel for the first time.
And as Jesus proclaimed some things about Nathaniel that caught his attention, Nathaniel was amazed.
Nathaniel told Jesus, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God.”
But Jesus said something interesting at this point, saying, “I say to you, you will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
While this may not seem revelatory on the surface, the words He spoke were a reference to something written in the Old Testament.
Jacob had a dream in which a ladder stood on the earth. The angels of God were ascending and descending on it. The top of the ladder reached heaven, where God stood above it.
In the dream, God promised Jacob that He would give him the land upon which he was laying and multiply his descendants.
Jesus was inferring that as Nathaniel followed Him and walked the path God had set before him, he and the other disciples would also experience supernatural understanding to confirm to them who Jesus was.
Sometimes the most subtle, inconspicuous things in the word of God can teach us deep spiritual lessons if we are careful and diligent to see them and seek out their meaning.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443
401-439-3780
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My Bible Verse of The Day - 2-13-25
John 1:9 (NKJV) 9 That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.
We may be living out our day-to-day life right now, never giving a thought to the fact that our life is finite.
But the day will come when we take our last breath. And in that moment, our spirit will either live on with Jesus, the true Light, or live on in hell, eternally separated from God.
There are only two places to go after this earthly life has ended.
This is fully dependent on the choice we make; we follow Christ or continue to live a life in darkness. It’s up to each individual.
John 8:12 (NKJV) 12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”
Anyone without Christ is walking in darkness.
If we don’t want to walk in darkness any longer, we must put our faith in Jesus Christ and follow Him, allowing Him to teach us His ways.
As we follow Him and obey His word, we can be sure we will have the Light of life living and moving through us each day, and eternal life after we pass from this life!
Amen.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443
401-439-3780
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My Bible Verse of The Day - 2-12-25
John 9:6-7 (LS 6 When He had said this, He spat on the ground, made clay of the saliva, and rubbed the clay on his eyes, 7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went away and washed, and came back seeing.
When a person has lost their sight, or perhaps they have been born blind, they seek help to gain or regain their eyesight.
The man in the verses above was seen by Jesus and His disciples as they walked by. The Bible says he was blind from birth.
Jesus knew it was meant for Him to heal the blind man and give him his sight.
Jesus could have simply spoken a word or laid His hands on the man’s eyes to heal them.
But He chose to do something different than the expected norm.
Jesus spat on the ground, mixed his saliva with dirt, making mud. He then rubbed that mud on the blind man’s eyes.
Then, He instructed the blind man to go to the pool of Siloam and wash away the mud.
The man obeyed. And when he had washed, he was no longer blind. He had been healed!
No matter how we look at this, spitting in dirt and rubbing mud on the man’s eyes is not conventional, nor an expected way to heal someone.
But this is how Jesus chose to do it. The reasons He did so are irrelevant.
And this is how God moves; in the way He sees fit.
We may never know the reasons He chooses to move in these specific ways, but that is not for us to know or understand.
God may move a specific way for one situation. And then He may choose to move in a completely different way for a situation that appears to be very similar.
We should never box God in and demand or expect Him to do things the same way repeatedly.
On one occasion, He told Moses to strike a rock. And water gushed out. On another occasion, He instructed Moses to speak to the rock. Similar situations with different instructions.
It may not always be healing that we need. But regardless of the need, it pays to do as God shows us to do.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443
401-439-3780
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