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Intro

Friday, April 10 2026
from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship

Good morning to all the saints.


Only 266 days to the year 2027

Scripture Of The Day

But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations. Psalms 102:12.

Read The Bible In a Year

1 Samuel 15-16; Luke 10:25-42.

Thoughts For The Day

It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.

You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.

Ignorant people are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

Motivation For The Day

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' 

So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.

On This Day

1710 - The Copyright Act comes into effect in Britain allowing authors to hold exclusive rights to their work for up to 50 years after their death.
1815 - Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies experiences a cataclysmic eruption, one of the most powerful in history, killing around 71,000 people and causing a global volcanic winter.
1849 - Walter Hunt of New York patents the Safety Pin. It takes him just 3 hours to make and later sells the patent for several hundred pounds to pay off his debts.
1912 - RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton for her maiden (and final) voyage.
1924 - The first book of crosswords is published in New York
1960 - The US Senate passes the Civil Rights Bill.
1963 - US submarine Thresher sinks in the Atlantic - killing all 129 crew on board.
1972 - 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars.
2012 - Apple Inc claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest company by market capitalization in the world.
2019 - First-ever photo of a black hole announced, taken by The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration in 2017 in galaxy M87, 6.5 billion times the mass of earth, 55 million light-years away.

Personal Story Of The Day

Nothing, Has No Value

Most people like to get something for nothing. The less it costs, the better. The opposite is true as well. At times people try to pay for what costs them nothing. If it was free to begin with, it may seem priced just right to be a gift. Consider the newlyweds who were impressed with the expense of the gift they received from friends who also were recently married. 

Newlyweds typically do not have that much to spend on gifts for others! It was indeed a nice gift. Then in the box they found a second gift card. Call it recycling, if you like, but the gift the friends had given was a gift they had received themselves. The couple enjoyed the gift and the humour of the situation and later found times when they also gave gifts that cost them little or nothing. 

Giving something that costs us nothing may be a wise use of our resources, until we try to pass it off as a sacrifice given to God. We may think we retrieved the first gift card out of the box, but God knows. He knows the stinginess of our hearts and how in pride we sometimes try to make ourselves look generous. David would have none of this type of giving. "I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing" (2SAM 24:24). 

God wants us to acknowledge our dependence on Him and our worship of Him in our giving. It won't happen if all we do is give what costs us nothing. 

At times we need to evaluate our giving. Today, these verses remind us to think through again how we acknowledge God in our finances and in our time.

Jokes Of The Day

A faith healer ran into his old friend, Max and asked him how things were going.

"Not so good, was the pained reply. "My brother is very sick."

"Your brother isn't sick," contradicted the faith healer, "he only thinks he's sick. Remember that, he only thinks he's sick."

Two months later they met again and the faith healer asked Max:

"How's your brother now?"

"Worse, groaned Max, "he thinks he's dead."

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During a recent publicity outing, Hillary Clinton took some time off to visit a fortune teller of some local repute. In a dark and hazy room, peering into a crystal ball, the mystic delivered grave news. "There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just be blunt: Prepare yourself to be a widow. Your husband will die a violent and horrible death this year."

Visibly shaken, Hillary stared at the woman's lined face, then at the single flickering candle, then down at her hands. She took a few deep breaths to compose herself. She simply had to know. She met the fortuneteller's gaze, steadied her voice, and asked her question.

"Will I be acquitted?"

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Three boys were bragging about their fathers. The first one said, "My father runs so fast he can fire an arrow, start running, and get there before the arrow!"

The second one said, "That's nothing! My father can shoot a gun, start running, and get there before the bullet!"

The third boy just smiled. "That's nothing. My father is a public servant. He gets off work at 5 and is home before 4!"

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Riddle Of The Day

You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows. What is it?

Answer to Yesterday's Riddle
What can bring back the dead; make us cry, make us laugh, make us young; born in an instant yet lasts a life time?
Memories.

Devotional Thoughts Of The Day

God Is Always In Control.

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness. Job 36:16. References from Job 36:1-7; 36:22-37:26.

When it first began in 1982, no one anticipated the popularity of The Weather Channel in America. The idea of an entire cable station devoted to the weather was a bit risky. But today, it's not that uncommon to hear people confess that they enjoy watching The Weather Channel, even beyond the local forecast. Perhaps people are fascinated by the weather because, despite modern technology, it remains somewhat unpredictable and mysterious. Forecasters can still be surprised by tornadoes or a hurricanes path. 

This is a good reminder that God retains final control of His creation. This is the point that Elihu makes in the conclusion of his speech. At last, we find some softening in his words, although his presumptuous claim that God has spoken directly to him implies that God hasn't spoken to Job or the other three. We find increased sensitivity toward Job as Elihu acknowledges that the afflicted need not necessarily be sinful (v6). Thus Elihu also introduces a whole new idea by stating that God does not just give affliction as punishment, but that he invites the afflicted and heals them. For the first time, the idea is presented that God is compassionate and brings people into a new understanding of the world through suffering that heals. 

Although Elihu may have started off a bit arrogant in the first part of his speech (see yesterday's notes), he certainly ends it on a glorious note. The second part of today's verses focuses on the sheer wonder of who God is (v22-26). To illustrate God's wonder, Elihu offers a marvellous description of a mighty thunderstorm, in which the deafening sounds of thunder appear as God's voice. At such a display, Elihu can only marvel. The point of this weather lesson is to show that God is in complete control. The series of questions that follow show that Job is not! 


More Than You Need

And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left. Ruth 2:14.

In 1949, Mr. Jack Wurm was broke and out of a job. One day as he walked along a San Francisco beach, he came across a bottle with a piece of paper in it. The note was the last will and testament of Daisy Singer Alexander, heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune. It read, "To avoid confusion, I leave my entire estate to the lucky person who finds this bottle and to my attorney, Barry Cohen. Share and share alike." In one fell swoop, Mr. Wurm was transformed from a penniless kitchen hand to the possessor of over $6 million dollars in cash and Singer stock. This story is probably a hoax; but it inspired many people to keep on going... because suddenly good fortune can fall upon anyone. 

Ruth experienced the same. As a destitute widow, she hoped to glean enough barley to provide a few morsels of food for herself and Naomi. Suddenly, because of the kindness of Boaz, she had enough to eat and even some to take home to her mother in law. She moved from bare necessities to an abundance she could never have dreamed of. When we encounter Jesus Christ, the same is true for us. We come to him with nothing to offer. Isaiah says that "all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags" (Isa 64:6). We are morally broken and spiritually bankrupt. However, in a moment of time, as we open our hearts to repent and be baptised, we receive the anointing of the Spirit... we are forever changed. 

We are washed clean, and we are filled to overflowing with the eternal riches of Christ. We are changed from spiritual paupers to co-heirs with Christ. Don't count your wealth in terms of dollars and cents. As a child of the King, you have more than enough to be forever satisfied.

Facts Of The Day

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Closing Thought

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.

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