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Intro
Wednesday, August 12 2026from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship
Hello for today
Only 142 days to the year 2027
Scripture Of The Day
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?Mark 8:36
Read The Bible In a Year
Psalms 84-86 ; Romans 12Thoughts For The Day
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Motivation For The Day
The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.On This Day
1851 - The Hundred Guinea Cup is offered to the winner of a yacht race around the Isle of Wight. It was won by the US schooner 'America', and the trophy becomes known as the America's Cup.1908 - The first Model T Ford car, known as the Tin Lizzie, comes off the production line - replacing the model A.
1944 - World War II: PLUTO, the pipeline under the ocean, goes into operation beneath the English Channel transfering fuel from England to Allied forces in France.
1953 - Soviets test bomb --Less than one year after the United States tested its first hydrogen bomb, the Soviets detonate a 400-kiloton device in Kazakhstan. The explosive power was 30 times that of the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and the mushroom cloud produced by it stretched five miles into the sky. Known as the Layer Cake, the bomb was fueled by layers of uranium and lithium deuteride, a hydrogen isotope. The Soviet bomb was smaller and more portable than the American hydrogen bomb, so its development once again upped the ante in the dangerous nuclear arms race between the Cold War superpowers.
1960 - Launch of the Echo communications satellite from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
1972 - The final American troops leave Vietnam.
1999 - Total eclipse of the Sun.
Personal Story Of The Day
A Season Of Growth
As Christians, we too are like plants. We should put down our roots, break up through the earth, spread out our branches, and burst into blossom. Such a thriving condition, however, isn't always evident in our lives. It's so easy to become bored and listless in the bland routine of our daily activities. Often we just hang on and merely exist without moving steadily toward maturity and fruitfulness.
At such times we are at a spiritual standstill and must pray for Jesus, the "Sun of Righteousness" (Malachi 4:2) to warm our hearts anew with His love and purpose. We must send our roots deep into the Word of God by meditating on it day and night (Psalm 1:2). Then we will be like a fruitful tree planted by rivers of living water, and our branches will extend outward in an ever-increasing influence and witness. They will be filled with blossoms that reflect the beauty of righteous living.
If we've become dormant, let's get growing!
Jokes Of The Day
There was a priest that loved to stream fish. One year there was a problem every time he had a chance to go fishing the weather was bad or it was on Sunday, when he had to work. All year he was unable to go. Finally it was the last week before the streams closed. The weather was bad all week until Sunday, when the weather was perfect. The priest could not resist, he called a fellow priest claiming to be very sick and asked if he could take over his sermon.The fly-fishing priest drove over 200 miles, not wishing to see anyone he knew. An angel seeing the priest playing hooky went to God and said "You're not going to let him get away with this are you?". God agreed he should do something. The first cast the priest made was perfect. The fly floated past a log and a huge mouth gulped the fly down. For 45 minutes the priest ran up and down the stream fighting the mighty fish. At the end he held a 50" world record rainbow trout. Confused the angel asked God, "What are you doing?". God replied "Think about it, who's he going to tell?"
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A man was leaving church one day. The Pastor was standing at the door (as he always is) to shake hands with members of the congregation. He grasped the man by the hand and pulled him aside. The Pastor said to him, 'You need to join the Army of the Lord!'
The man replied, 'I'm already in the Army of the Lord, Pastor.'
Pastor questioned, 'How come I don't see you except at Christmas and Easter?'
He whispered back, 'Shhhhhhhhh. I'm in the secret service.'
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A man goes into a pet shop and tells the owner that he wants to buy a pet that can do everything. The owner says, "How about a dog?" The man replies, "Come on, a dog can't do everything."
The owner says "How about a cat?" The man replies, "No way! A cat certainly can't do everything. I want a pet that can do everything!"
The owner thinks for a minute. Then says, "I've got it! A centipede!" The man says, "Centipede? I can't imagine a centipede doing everything but, ok ... I'll try a centipede."
He gets the centipede home and says to the centipede, "Clean the kitchen."
Thirty minutes later, he walks into the kitchen and it's immaculate. All the dishes and silverware have been washed, dried, and put away. The countertops cleaned. The appliances sparkling. The floor waxed. He's absolutely amazed.
He says to the centipede, "Go clean the living room." Twenty minutes later, he walks into the living room. The carpet has been vacuumed. The furniture cleaned and dusted. The pillows on the sofa plumped. The plants are watered. The man thinks to himself, "This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. This is a pet that can really do everything."
He says to the centipede, "Run down to the corner and get me a newspaper." The centipede walks out the door. Ten minutes later, no centipede. Twenty minutes later, no centipede. Thirty minutes later, no centipede.
The man is wondering what's going on. The centipede should have been back by now. Forty-five minutes later, still no centipede. The man can't imagine what could have happened. Did the centipede run away? Did it get run over by a car? Where was the centipede?
He goes to the front door, opens it, and there's the centipede sitting right outside the door. The man says, "Hey! I sent you 45 minutes ago to run down to the corner and just get me a newspaper. What's the story?"
The centipede says, "I'm goin'! I'm goin'! I'm puttin' on my shoes!"
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Riddle Of The Day
How much dirt is there in a hole exactly one foot deep and one foot across?Answer to Yesterdays Riddle
Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
Devotional Thoughts Of The Day
...the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, ...bless the lads; Genesis 48:15-16. References from Genesis 48.
Fathers' legacies can make such a difference! What legacy did Jacob leave to his sons? First, he passed on God's covenant promises. Specifically, he adopted as his own, Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, and blessed them. Although he was the oldest, Reuben had lost his birthright (see Gen. 35:22; 1 Chron. 5:1-2). Joseph was Rachel's firstborn, and we see this adoption as Jacob giving him the birthright, a double portion of the inheritance.
Second, Jacob also passed on a legacy of thankfulness and trust. He praised God's goodness in allowing him to see Joseph and his family (v11). He called the Lord, the God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, (v15). In this intimate picture, we sense how far Jacob's heart has changed from that of the young trickster who cooked the famous lentils.
He believed God would fulfil His promises, for He made Joseph swear to bury him back in Canaan. He exhorted his family to walk in faith and to trust in God's sovereign plan. Nothing that happened in the lives of Jacob and Joseph was random.
Somewhat to their own surprise, they had lived lives filled with purpose... not by their own efforts or abilities, but because God ordered their steps. That's our God, too, always working for the good of those who love Him (Rom 8:28).
Coping With Disappointments
He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: 2 Samuel 7:12-13.
Two paraplegics were in the news at about the same time. Kenneth Wright, 24, was a high school sports star and later an avid wrestler. A broken neck sustained in a wrestling match in 1979 left him paralyzed from the chest down. The former athlete begged his two friends to take him in his wheelchair to the bush where they left him alone with a shotgun. After they left, he committed suicide.
The second paraplegic was stabbed and also left paralyzed from his chest down. But he made news when he successfully completed a parachute jump. He lives alone, cooks his meals, washes his clothes and cleans his house. He has written three books, and he did the photography for the first book on the history of wheelchair sports. Two men with major disappointments: one chose to view life positively, the other didn't.
David also had a major disappointment. He had his heart set on building a house for the Lord. But God said no. David could not, but his son Solomon would. David chose to respond to that disappointment by focusing on the positive. He thanked and praised God for the good things He was going to do in his life and that of his family (2Sam 7:18-29).
Disappointments always give us a choice. We can concentrate on what's wrong, or we can find the silver lining. One way leads to despair, the other to fulfilment. Are you focusing on the negative? Look instead at the way God is blessing you in spite of that disappointment. See His hand of good in everything that happens to you... even if it's different from what you planned.
Facts Of The Day
- In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).
- People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second.
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Closing Thought
Be what you want the world to be.Comic
