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Intro
Saturday, October 24 2026from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship
Mow the lawn, wash the car, weed the garden, wake your husband up...
Only 69 days to the year 2027
Scripture Of The Day
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen.Matthew 28:20
Read The Bible In a Year
Jeremiah 3-5 ; 1 Timothy 4Thoughts For The Day
God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
"There are some remedies worse than the disease."
Motivation For The Day
Share your time willingly with others and do not seclude yourself from those that need your help.On This Day
1648 - The signing of the Treaty of Westphalia which ends the 'Thirty Years' War.'1857 - The founding of the world's first official football club, Sheffield Football Club, in Yorkshire, England by a group of former students from Cambridge University.
1901 - To help raise money to pay her mortgage, Mrs Ann Edson Taylor goes over Niagra Falls in a padded barrel - and survives.
1922 - In Italy, at the Fascist Congress in Naples, leader Benito Mussolini demands a place in the Italian Government.
1945 - The United Nations Charter comes into force.
1976 - British Formula One driver James Hunt becomes the World Motor Racing Champion.
1989 - US television preacher Jim Bakker is given a 45 year jail sentence and final $500,000 for swindling his followers out of a millions of dollars.
Personal Story Of The Day
Put Your Heart Into ItA businessman whose unethical practices were widely known once told Mark Twain of the pilgrimage he hoped to make some day. Before I die, he said, I will climb Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud at the top. Twain was not impressed. 'I have a better idea' he retorted. 'You could stay at home in Boston and keep them'. Religious observances like fasting can have great value. But they were never meant to serve as a substitute for genuine repentance.
In Joel's day, God's people engaged in religious rituals like fasting and tearing their garments. The problem with these efforts was that they were not performed with a repentant heart (Joel 2:12). As far as God was concerned, the outward form of such rituals was not nearly as important as the attitude of the heart. He challenged them saying, 'Rend your hearts and not your garments' (v13).
He also reminded them of the description of His compassion that He gave to Moses after Israel had sinned with the golden calf (Ex 34:67). This description underscored the folly of their mechanical approach to worship. True repentance is not a matter of mandatory observance of certain rituals, but is grounded in a God given relationship. Those who turn to God in repentance do not base their appeal for forgiveness on their own performance, but upon Gods character.
In verse 13 the prophet gives them five reasons for rending their hearts: Gods grace, compassion, patience, love, and mercy. Based upon this, the prophet called upon the priests to declare a sacred assembly in the hope that sincere repentance would result in restoration. This was to be a universal expression of grief over sin. Although public and formal, it was also to be sincere (v12).
Our great hope is that despite our sin, God will graciously restore us when we turn to Him in repentance (v13). We cannot manipulate God through religious rituals... but we can humbly respond to His invitation to draw near Him. We are to approach God with the confidence that He sees what is done in secret and knows all that we truly need.
Our great hope is that despite our sin, God will graciously restore us when we turn to Him in repentance (v13). We cannot manipulate God through religious rituals... but we can humbly respond to His invitation to draw near Him. We are to approach God with the confidence that He sees what is done in secret and knows all that we truly need.
As you approach God in prayer today, ask yourself whether you are merely going through the motions. Has your devotional life become too mechanical? Perhaps it is time to make a change. Whatever you choose to do, be sure that you engage your heart first.
Jokes Of The Day
An explosion killed a navy boilerman and he wound up in hell. Being used to stroking fires and extremely hot temperatures, he found hell actually quite comfortable. When satan went to check out the new arrival, he found him sitting in his room smiling. "You like this?", satan asked."Yes, sir", said the sailor, "this feels like a spring day to me."
Not wanting the new guy to be too comfortable, satan turned up the heat a lot. When he went back to see how his new arrival was doing, the sailor was still happy. He hadn't even broken a sweat.
"I like this kind of weather", he told satan. Satan decided to try something different. Rather than turn up the heat, he turned it off. He made the sailor's room form icicles. When he checked on the guy, the room was icy and he was shivering, but he had a grin from ear to ear.
"Why are you so happy?", satan demanded. "It's freezing in here!" "I'm from Queensland," said the sailor. "and this must mean the Broncos have won the NRL final!"
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Two doctors and an medical insurance officer died and lined up at the pearly gates for admission to heaven. St. Peter asked them to identify themselves. One doctor stepped forward and said: "I was a pediatric spine surgeon and helped kids overcome their deformities."
St. Peter said, "You can enter."
The second doctor said "I was a psychiatrist. I helped people rehabilitate themselves."
St. Peter also invited him in.
The third applicant stepped forward and said, "I was a medical insurance officer and insured people got the health care they were entitled to."
St. Peter said, "You can come in too." But as the medical insurance officer walked by, St. Peter added, "You can stay three days. After that, you can go to hell."
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There was a knock at the door. It was a small boy, about six years old. Something of his had found its way into my garage, he said, and he wanted it back.
Upon opening the garage door, I noticed two additions: a baseball and a broken window sporting a baseball-sized hole. "How do you suppose this ball got in here?" I asked the boy.
Taking one look at the ball, one look at the window, and one look at me, the boy exclaimed, "Wow! I must have thrown it right through that hole!"
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Riddle Of The Day
What goes up and down the stairs without moving?Answer to Yesterdays Riddle
What can you catch but not throw?
A Cold
Devotional Thoughts Of The Day
The Victory of GoodnessBut the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, temperance (self-control). Galatians 5:22-23.
In every popular story the good guy wins. Everyone has a deep, inner desire that the side of good will win. Goodness rates high on any scale. Even when love, which is God's essence, is misused, goodness remains. Love can easily be perverted into disguised lust and selfish pleasure. Goodness, on the other hand, remains pure. Even though people do not really know what goodness is, from where it comes and to where it leads, they still value it highly.
No one, apart from someone really perverse, wants to be evil. We love, seek and long for goodness. Goodness is precious and honourable. Goodness is fair and lifts people higher. Goodness is totally opposite that which is low and dirty. For many, goodness is something only the fairy-tale knights possess, something irrelevant in today's corrupt world. Sometimes good or trusting people are considered somewhat dense. But it is really the opposite.
Cynical scheming and coldness are foolishness. Goodness is connected to eternal wisdom and reaps where no one else harvests. It focuses on that which is lovely and gives hope to others. Like heartwood, goodness is a quality that is incorruptible, upright and sound to the core. It is generous and considerate. It always makes room for yet another. The poor, the crushed and those who are considered different feel welcome and at home in an atmosphere of goodness.
The needy receive help and the stressed find peace. Goodness sees beyond old grudges and does not bring up past offences. Therefore, goodness is always victorious over evil. In a dark and selfish world, it shines like a bright light, proclaiming hope, because God who is good, exists.
The Truth Will Keep You Free
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure (true), then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. James 3:17.
Lying seems to be a way of life for many people. Several years ago a survey found that 91 percent of those queried, lie routinely about matters they consider trivial; 36 percent lie about important matters; 86 percent lie regularly to their parents; 75 percent lie to their friends; 73 percent lie to their siblings; 69 percent lie to their spouses.
Speaking the truth should be one of the outstanding characteristics of a true Christian. According to Colossians 3:9, a believer should not lie, since he has "put off the old man with his deeds." Whenever we are deceitful, we are following Satan's example, "for he is a liar and the father of it" (John 8:44).
Lies are based on the false assumption that we can hide a wrong and protect ourselves from the truth by simply denying the facts. But lying merely compounds a problem. Honest confession, on the other hand, is the quickest way to forgiveness, and it puts us back under the wise counsel and care of God.
Facts Of The Day
- A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
- A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
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Closing Thought
I am thankful for the person who sings off key during choruses for it means I can hear !Comic
