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Intro
Tuesday, May 5 2026from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship
Good morning, Isn't today wonderful?
Only 241 days to the year 2027
Scripture Of The Day
Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Proverbs 20:1.Read The Bible In a Year
1 Kings 19-20; Luke 23:1-25.Thoughts For The Day
One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true.The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Motivation For The Day
Goals are dreams with deadlines.On This Day
1494 - On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica and lands at Discovery Bay.
1760 - First public hanging takes place at Tyburn in London. Earl Ferrers is executed after being convicted of murdering his valet.1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the island of St Helena.
1930 - British aviator Amy Johnson takes off from Croydon Airport in southern England aboard her Gypsy Moth plane 'Jason' at the start of her historic flight to become the first woman to fly solo to Australia - arriving on May 24th.
1961 - Astronaut Alan Shephard becomes the first American in space aboard Freedom 7 - his spacecraft launched 23 days after Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first man to orbit the earth.
1967 - The 'Flower Power' anthem 'San Francisco', recorded by Scott Mackenzie, first enters the American charts.
1988 - The first live television broadcast is made from the summit of Mount Everest by Japanese TV.
1994 - In the South African General Election, the African National Congress Party (ANC) headed by Nelson Mandela, gets almost 63 per cent of the popular vote.
2015 - Scientists announce the discovery of the oldest & most distant galaxy known to man, EGS-zs8-1.
2021 - Evidence of Africa's earliest burial, a three-year-old boy, 78,000 years ago, in a cave in Kenya published.
2024 - Huge floods in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state reportedly kill 100 people with 100 still missing, some areas record 300 millimeters (11.8 inches) of rain.
Personal Story Of The Day
What God WantsSome Christians are quick to declare that a public disaster (such as a terrorist attack, an earthquake, or a flood) is the result of divine judgment. In reality, a complex array of factors lie behind most disasters. In Luke 13, Jesus was asked about some people who were cruelly murdered, and about 18 people who died when a tower collapsed on them.
The people asking the questions were wondering if those who died were worse sinners than others. "I tell you, no," said Jesus, "but unless you repent you will all likewise perish" (v3,5).
Instead of reading divine judgment into tragedies, we should see them as a call to identify the failure of the human race and the 'end day' times we live in. This is especially true for unbelievers, but it is also true for Christians. Acts of terrorism, for example, challenge us to learn about the arrogances or injustices that in part motivate people to commit such horrible atrocities.
People who kill others for the sake of their beliefs are totally wrong... it is fully evil, but this teaches us to know the depths of despair and ignorance that many suffer, because they don't know, or don't want to know the true salvation message.
God wants us to bring hope and life, not death and destruction. This end time we live in can only be repaired by the return of Jesus Christ... it seems the large part of the world's population will perish at this time. We can pray earnestly for the eyes of the people to be opened to the Gospel, even the hate filled people who commit such acts. Calamities in themselves are never good, but they can fulfil God's purposes when they serve as a wake up call to believers, and when they bring unbelievers to repentance and salvation.
Let's not ask, "Who's to blame?" but "Lord, what can I learn from this... how can I use this?
Jokes Of The Day
As the Father laid on the couch watching cable TV, his son, all dressed for Church entered the room. "Dad?" he said, "I have a question.""What's that boy?" replied the father, never even removing his eyes from the screen.
"When am I going to be old enough not to go to Church either?"
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A father was reading Bible stories to his young son. He read, "The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city, but his wife looked back and was turned to salt."
His son asked, "What happened to the flea?"
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A magician on a cruise liner had a parrot, who'd seen all the magician's tricks a jillion times,long ago having figured out the magic behind the magician's disappearing acts.The parrot got bored, his owner growing stale and not developing any new tricks that the parrot couldn't figure out.
One night in the middle of the magician's performance, the ship hit an iceberg and sank.
Everyone drowned except the magician and the parrot. The magician managed to swim to a piece of
wreckage and climb aboard, immediately collapsing from exhaustion.
Soon afterward, the parrot flew to the magician, perched on the edge of the makeshift raft
and stared at the magician. And stared. And stared.
For a whole day the magician was unconscious, and all this time the parrot didn't take his eyes off him. Eventually the magician started to stir. Looking up, he saw the parrot,
still eyeing him intently, not even blinking.
Another hour goes by, and finally the parrot squawks,
"Awright, I give up. What did you do with the ship?
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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 Yesterday's 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.
Vowels.
Devotional Thoughts Of The Day
Faithful to God
Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. - James 4:4. References from James 4:4-6; Hosea 4:1-3.
The story of Hosea and Gomer perplexes many readers of Scripture. God instructs the prophet Hosea to marry a woman he knows will be unfaithful... she not only commits adultery, she also becomes a prostitute that Hosea must buy back from those making a profit from her (see Hos 13:14).
God does explain the reason behind His mysterious command to Hosea: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD (Hos 1:2).
Hosea 4 details the charge of adultery that the Lord brings against His people. Their sin includes unfaithfulness, a lack of love, cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery (v12). God's concern for His people on these issues hasn't changed through the centuries; we will see that James rebukes his readers for many of these same sins, and we can be sure God still cares about these issues in our lives today.
Throughout his letter, James has been drawing on themes that recurred in the Old Testament prophets, specifically justice and care for the poor (typified by the fatherless and the widow).
In our verse today, James alludes to another theme frequently found in the Old Testament. The Prophets frequently refer to God's relationship with Israel in terms of marriage, so it's not surprising that Israel's sin is referred to in terms of adultery. When Israel acted in ways that were inconsistent with their relationship with God, they acted adulterously.
James is making the same point. Conflict in the church arises from unwise living and following our own desires. This is the same thing as living like the world... which is to say, its spiritual adultery and cheating on God (v4).
Now we can understand why James uses such a strong tone here! James highlights another contrast here between pride and humility (v6). Pride, pursuing our own way, puts us in opposition to God. Humility, however, positions us to receive blessings of grace from God (3:13). And this is the relationship God desires to have with us.
Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. Daniel 10:12.
When the messenger from God arrived to speak with Daniel, he assured the prophet that God had responded to his prayers because Daniel had set his heart to understand and to humble himself before his God. Daniel's spirit of humility made him a powerful force with God. As Proverbs reminds us, "Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly." (Prov 3:34; James 4:6; 1 Pet. 5:5).
A vital key to effective prayer is a humble spirit. Prayer moves the hand of God, but it must be humble prayer. We cannot enter God's presence with a list of demands or a detailed plan that we only want Him to bless. Instead, we must go with open hearts and open hands ready to receive whatever He knows is best for us. We must bow humbly before Him, willing to place ourselves at His disposal to meet His will, whatever that may be. That's the type of attitude that gets God's attention and response.
Consider your attitude in prayer. If you go with a grocery list to be filled or a sense that God somehow owes you an answer, you'll likely come away empty handed. But if you come to Him recognizing that you do so only by His grace (covenant promises), unworthy to stand before His throne, and yet privileged to come through Christ, then you are ready to pray. Attitude is everything... remember, Faith can be an attitude as well.
Facts Of The Day
The whites of eggs and the deadly venom of rattlesnakes contain the same chemical constituents, in the same proportion.
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Closing Thought
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