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Intro

Friday, December 5 2025
from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship

We can all know love, for the love of our Father is placed in our hearts.


Only 27 days to the year 2026

Scripture Of The Day

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Matthew 6:21

Read The Bible In a Year

Daniel 1-2 ; 1 John 4

Thoughts For The Day

"Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be whatever you choose"

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Life's can be more amusing than we thought.

Motivation For The Day

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.

On This Day

1697 - First Sunday service is held in the new St Paul's Cathedral built in London.
1792 - In Revolutionary France, the start of the trial of King Louis XVI.
1863 - The rules of Association Football are published.
1934 - Reports from Russia of the executions of 66 people found guilty of plotting against the Government of Joseph Stalin.
1945 - The so-called Bermuda Triangle in the Atlantic Ocean claims more victims as five US Navy bombers from Fort Lauderdale in Florida disappear while flying over the area. No trace is ever found of any of the planes or the pilots.
1962 - United States and Soviet Union agree to co-operate in peaceful uses of outer space.
1977 - Five Arab nations break diplomatic links with Egypt - hostile to President Anwar Sadat's peace initiative with Israel.

Personal Story Of The Day

Prepare The Ground

When most of us pray, we probably ask the Lord to bless us. It's a common and understandable prayer. But my question is: "Have you prepared yourself for a blessing?" Throughout the Bible, people were blessed of God as they stepped out in faith and obedience. I love the story of Elisha and the prophet's wife (II Kings 4:1-7). Her husband had died and now the creditors were threatening to take her two children as slaves.

 So, Elisha tells the woman to gather as many pots, pans, jars, vases, dutch ovens, kettles, tupperware containers, and urns as possible from her neighbours. Once she has collected as many as possible, she is to go into her house, shut her door, and start pouring out the little oil she already has. As she poured the oil, it continued to fill each and every last container in the house. Then Elisha said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest." 

There are a number of ways that widow could have blocked God's blessings: 
1. She could have said, "I've never seen this done before, so it probably won't work."
2. She could have refused, and looked for help from someone else. 
3. She could have blamed Elisha for all her problems, as a victim personality would do. 
4. She could have obeyed only half heartedly, and received only enough to pay her immediate debts. 
Instead, she PREPARED herself for God's blessing. 

Just as Naaman had to dip in the Jordan River seven times to receive his healing. Just as John the Baptist had to announce the way for the Messiah. Just as the ground must be broken before there is a harvest - we must be prepared to receive God's blessings." Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." (Eph. 3:20,21).

Jokes Of The Day

An usher went up to a man with his hat on in church and asked him to remove it. "Thank goodness," said the man. "I thought that would do it. I've attended this church for months, and you are the first person who has spoken to me."

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Letters to god from children...

Dear God,

"Who draws the lines around the countries?" - Nate

"Thank you for my baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy." - Joyce

"If we come back as something, please don't let me be Jennifer, because I don't like her." - Denise

"I think about you sometimes, even when I'm praying." - Elliott

"If you watch me in church Sunday, I'll show you my new shoes." - Mickey

"Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don't you just keep the ones you have now" - Jane

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1. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
3. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
4. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
5. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was fined for littering.
6. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
7. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
8. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
9. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'
10. I wondered why the frisbee kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
11. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change yet.'
12. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
13. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
14. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
15. A backward poet writes inverse.
16. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

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Riddle Of The Day

What is the only 6-letter word in the English language that gives you 12 when you take away 1?

Answer to Yesterdays Riddle
We are little airy Creatures, All of diff'rent Voice and Features, One of us in Glass is set, One of us you'll find in Jet, T'other you may see in Tin, And the fourth a Box within, If the fifth you shou'd pursue, It can never fly from you. --Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Vowels

Devotional Thoughts Of The Day

There Is A Right Time

A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed. Ecclesiastes 8:...1. References from Ecclesiastes 8.

Eliot Ness, the well known lawman who brought Al Capone to justice, never enjoyed financial success. Even as his crime fighting career continued after such a remarkable achievement, he and his family had to settle for common means. How humbling it must have been to see the criminals he chased enjoy riches beyond his wildest dreams. He died before his one chance to financially succeed, the publication of his book, The Untouchables. 

King Solomon, through all his exposure to foreign rulers, must have seen many cases of wicked, powerful men enjoying prolonged reign over their kingdoms. And with an 'under the sun' mentality, it's hard to see the value of living righteously when wicked men are rewarded with prosperity. Today's verses observe that justice isn't always carried out when we might think necessary (v11, 12). But the beginning and the ending of today's verses offer an insightful look into wisdom. Verses 1 and 17 both point to the fact that even a wise man can't explain everything about life... but his wisdom still allows him a positive outlook! 

Even if he disagrees with the king, a wise man can still act appropriately with respect and obedience (v26). But not even the king has ultimate power (v8). Death is the great equalizer that brings an end to a wicked man's glory days (v10). Even if the wickedness continues for years, life will be far more enjoyable for the man who does good (v11-13). But 'under the sun' thinking strikes again. The undeniable fact remains that sometimes the good suffer while the wicked revel in pleasure (v14). So for the fifth time in Ecclesiastes, were told that nothing is better than to eat, drink, and be merry (v15). 

It's almost as if to say, enjoy it now, because I can't make sense of life beyond that... no one can comprehend life (v17). That's a lesson in humility for anyone who claims to have an answer for everything... life isn't always so easy to understand. Some mysteries go beyond our capacity for reason. Expanding our horizons beyond this life allows us to see the bright light of Christ's work in our lives and our world. Have you ever been under the authority of someone with whom you disagreed? If not a king, perhaps a boss or even a church leader? 

Verses 2-6 are quite valuable for anyone in such a situation. When a person in authority has the power to make decisions with or without your approval, it's best to seek the proper time and procedure for any action you might take instead of making a rash, emotional decision. Ask God to show you the appropriate course of action with a prayer for wisdom today.
  


Famished Land 

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman thatneedeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2Timothy 2:15.
 
When we think of a famine, we think about not enough food to eat, or food supplies cut off. Famines have been present throughout our history. People have literally starved to death! You might remember the bible story of the famine in Canaan. Abraham, the faithful, escaped to Egypt. He lost his faith in God, and encouraged Sari to pose as his sister, instead of his wife. He gave her to Pharoah so that his life would be saved... forget God... forget the ONE that had promised him that he would be a 'father of many nations', affording him many blessings, materially and spiritually.

 If God's chosen servant can momentarily lose his faith, how much easier is it for someone with little faith to be overcome? There is a 'famine of the WORD' in our land. Most people probably have one or more Bibles in their houses. Some are displayed; some are not. But how many of those Bibles have the telltale marks of being used? How many have pages that are torn and marked, from a long use? How many have backs coming off, because they have been subjected to hands that will flip pages, eyes that will read, and minds that will ask God to enlighten them to their meanings? 

Many people never open the Bible... they have it for show. Many 'believe' in the Bible, yet they never open it to find out what it has that 'they believe'. They never study the message beyond that Sunday meetings. Today, more than any other, we need to get out those Bibles and put them to use. We need to study the Word, to find out what God is saying to us today. What does He have for you, as an individual, that you yet have to discover?

 In times of trials, He has the answers. In times of tragedy, His Word has healing. His WORD should be our guide for each facet of life, be it personal, professional, or spiritual.


Facts Of The Day

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Closing Thought

The picture of health requires a happy frame of mind.

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