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Intro
Wednesday, October 7 2026from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship
Make a coffee and enjoy the post
Only 86 days to the year 2027
Scripture Of The Day
Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.Psalms 37:4
Read The Bible In a Year
Isaiah 28-29 ; Philippians 3Thoughts For The Day
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.Don't part with your church fellowship. When it is gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness. Not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."
Motivation For The Day
"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress definitely requires change. Knowledge is essential to change, for learing creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them."On This Day
1799 - The ship's bell is salvaged from the wreck of the 'Lutine' which sank off the coast of Holland. It is later presented to shipping insurers Lloyds of London. The Lutine Bell, has been rung ever since to mark a marine disaster.1871 - In the United States, at least 250 are killed in the Great Chicago Fire thought to have started in a barn when a cow upset a lantern. The fire burns for almost 5 days.
1919 - Founding of the Dutch airline KLM - the oldest existing airline.
1940 - During World War II, German troops occupy Romania.
1959 - Russian spacecraft 'Lunik III' takes the first pictures of the far side of the moon.
1985 - Achille Lauro hijacking-Four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists hijack an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, off the coast of Egypt. Calling themselves the Palestine Liberation Front, the gunmen demanded the release of 50 Palestinian militants imprisoned in Israel. Lacking support from mainstream Palestinian groups, the hijackers surrendered to Egyptian authorities on October 9 in exchange for a pledge of safe passage to an undisclosed destination. However, when an Egyptian jet tried to fly the hijackers to freedom on October 10, U.S. Navy fighters intercepted the plane and forced it to land at a U.S. Navy base in Sicily early the next morning. U.S. and Italian troops surrounded the plane, and the terrorists were taken into Italian custody. The sole casualty of the hostage crisis was an elderly Jewish-American, Leon Klinghoffer, who was shot to death and thrown overboard with his wheelchair. An Italian court later convicted the four terrorists and sentenced them to prison terms ranging up to 30 years.
1986 - The publication of the first edition of a new British daily newspaper, 'The Independent'.
Personal Story Of The Day
How Are You?One of the traps of asking an older person how they are going... is that they answer you with a list of things that you wish you never asked for. You learn to open the conversation with a different approach.
Peter is one of the most enthusiastic brothers I know, even though he has suffered with the pain of arthritis and couple of birth defects for many years. When people greet him and inquire, "How are you today?" he cheerfully answers, "Just fine!" Those who know of his pain sometimes question his sincerity. "How can you say you're fine when you're in so much pain?" Peter's standard response is: "How I feel has very little to do with how I am. You see, the part of me that hurts is just a shell, not the real me, and the real me is just fine!"
What Peter calls a shell, Paul called a tent ('tabernacle' 2Corinthians 5:1). And the "real me" that Peter refers to, the apostle called the inward man (4:16). Although Peter's earthly tent is painful and perishing, he realizes that it is after all just a temporary housing for the inward man. One day he will exchange it for his permanent home awaiting him in the Lord. That is his confidence. But until then, the inward Peter is conscious of being renewed daily.
How are you today? Is your tent drooping? Remember, if the mind of Christ is your mind, a perfect body awaits you one day. But until then, no matter what's on the outside, on the inside we can say, "I'm just fine!"
What Peter calls a shell, Paul called a tent ('tabernacle' 2Corinthians 5:1). And the "real me" that Peter refers to, the apostle called the inward man (4:16). Although Peter's earthly tent is painful and perishing, he realizes that it is after all just a temporary housing for the inward man. One day he will exchange it for his permanent home awaiting him in the Lord. That is his confidence. But until then, the inward Peter is conscious of being renewed daily.
How are you today? Is your tent drooping? Remember, if the mind of Christ is your mind, a perfect body awaits you one day. But until then, no matter what's on the outside, on the inside we can say, "I'm just fine!"
Jokes Of The Day
There were three blokes talking in the pub. Two of them are talking about the amount of control they have over their wives, while the third bloke remained quiet.After a while one of the first two turns to the third and says, 'Well, what about you? What sort of control do you have over your wife?'
The third fellow says, 'I'll tell you. Just the other night my wife came to me on her hands and knees.'
The first two blokes were amazed. 'What happened then?' they asked.
'She said, 'GET OUT FROM UNDER THE BED AND FIGHT LIKE A MAN!'.'
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A minister and a bus driver reached the Pearly Gates together and were assigned their quarters. The minister got a dilapidated shack in a farm meadow; the bus driver, a home in an elegant neighborhood. The pastor went to St. Peter and said: "While on earth I preached to thousands of people and tried hard to follow all the commandments. What an exemplary life the bus driver must have led!" St. Peter responded: "during your sermons, most everybody slept, but when the bus driver worked, everybody prayed."
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It was about a month ago when a Dutchman in Amsterdam felt that he needed to confess, so went to his priest.
"Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. During World War II, I hid a Jewish man in my attic."
"Well," answered the priest, "that's not a sin."
"But I made him agree to pay me 20 dollars for every week he stayed."
"I admit that wasn't good, but you did it for a good cause."
"Oh thank you Father; that eases my mind. Um, I have one more question..."
"What is that, my son?"
"Do I have to tell him the war is over?"
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Riddle Of The Day
A very pretty thing am I, fluttering in the pale-blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I?Answer to Yesterdays Riddle
What is in the middle of nowhere?
if you had been paying attention you would work it out quickly: the letter 'h'
Devotional Thoughts Of The Day
It's All Going To BurnLuke recorded John the Baptist's fiery message of repentance delivered to a crowd that included Jewish religious leaders, tax collectors, and soldiers. He told the Jews that being a child of Abraham was less important than having an honest spirit. 'For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. The axe is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire' (Luke 3:9).
To avoid such judgment, John told the crowd that it was their responsibility to share with the less fortunate. Tax collectors were not told to quit their jobs, but to carry out their duties with scrupulous fairness and honesty. Bullying soldiers were commanded to stop the practice of confiscating other's goods and then lying to protect their bad actions.
James also spoke very powerfully of the ultimate worthlessness of material possessions, particularly at the end of this age when the West would lose their economic strength. He expanded what he was already aware of... Jesus prophesied the destruction of their fortune, teaching against storing up wealth here on earth where thieves steal and moths destroy.
James also spoke very powerfully of the ultimate worthlessness of material possessions, particularly at the end of this age when the West would lose their economic strength. He expanded what he was already aware of... Jesus prophesied the destruction of their fortune, teaching against storing up wealth here on earth where thieves steal and moths destroy.
These Jews had amassed their fortunes by exploiting their workers. But even in the face of this oppression, he comforted the poor with the fact that their suffering had not gone unnoticed.
Even now, God knows the plight of the people... with many in the third world being ripped off by greedy corporations, while they accumulate great wealth themselves. Many of these poor people are spirit filled... the result of the great outpouring moving around the world. Sadly, the inhabitants of the Western cultures are going to soon pay the price for those who were empowered to exercise unlimited greed.
With the governments and press protecting the wealthy at the expense of the poor, we have sealed our fate... God will not allow his national blessings to be abused continually. 'The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields (those who create the profit) are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty' (James 5:4).
The Breastplate of Righteousness
[Stand therefore,] having put on the breastplate of righteousness. Ephesians 6:14.
The Roman soldier's breastplate was placed under the belt and proceeded from the waist, over the torso and chest and around the shoulders. It was often decorated and indicated rank and regiment. But in every instance, the breastplate served the same important purpose to protect against attack by sword, spear or arrow.
The soldiers were always prepared for attacks and ambushes. They were divided into legions, cohorts and centurias. A legion contained 6,000 men while a centuria had 80. These 80 men were arranged in a square and had awesome strength in battle. They always stuck together and never fought alone or spontaneously. They merely obeyed commands.
Their armour was examined continuously. The breastplates were formed to fit the body and were not nearly as awkward as those appearing later in the Middle Ages. Because the breastplates were not impenetrable, the soldiers needed to be ever alert, despite their protection. The breastplate protected the vital organs, such as the heart, lungs and bowels.
The breastplate of righteousness likewise protects the vital organs of our spiritual life, particularly the heart. Through faith from the heart, we become righteous in the power of the Holy Spirit. Without this breastplate, without knowing that we are righteous in Christ, we can easily become slaves to the law and to the accusations of the accuser and the critic.
The breastplate of righteousness likewise protects the vital organs of our spiritual life, particularly the heart. Through faith from the heart, we become righteous in the power of the Holy Spirit. Without this breastplate, without knowing that we are righteous in Christ, we can easily become slaves to the law and to the accusations of the accuser and the critic.
Condemnation can badly affect Christians who, in heeding their sensitive conscience, are honest and loving to the point of being gullible. Many people accept the accusations that the accuser charges against them and withdraw in self-reproach and self-contempt. The breastplate of righteousness protects us against all this.
Always remember who God says you are, the breastplate stops criticism and doubt and fear from fatally affecting you.
Facts Of The Day
- A midden is a pile of trash left over from the kitchen or dinner table.
- The only living parts of a tree are its thin layer beneath the bark called the cambium, its leaves, and the tips of its roots and branches.
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Closing Thought
Lord, let me never be too busy to support or uphold your people.Comic
