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Intro
Thursday, August 6 2026from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship
G'day to one and all
Only 148 days to the year 2027
Scripture Of The Day
But thou, O LORD, [art] a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.Psalms 3:3
Read The Bible In a Year
Psalms 70-71 ; Romans 8:22-39Thoughts For The Day
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good."Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself."
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
Motivation For The Day
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.On This Day
1825 - Bolivia is proclaimed an independant republic after more than 300 years of Spanish rule.1889 - Opening of the Savoy Hotel in London.
1926 - 19 year old American Gertrude Ederle from New York becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel - in 14 hours 34 minutes.
1945 - World War II: United States drop the world's first Atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima from the B29 bomber Enola Gay. The bomb reduces an area of five square miles to ashes and leaves more than 100,000 people dead.
1949 - In Britain, acid bath murderer John Haigh is executed.
1962 - A quick snack is made for the Earl of Sandwich - creating a new form of food which is later named after him.
1988 - Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova dances with the Russian Kirov Ballet in London - 18 years after her defection to the West.
Personal Story Of The Day
God's Provision
Bread has come to be regarded as something less than what it was in Bible times. We don't usually think of it as a symbol of life's necessities. In Jesus' day, however, bread represented nourishment in all its many forms. This helps us understand why the Lord told Israel to put bread in the Holy Place of the tabernacle... His "house of symbols." There, in that first room, 12 loaves were to be displayed on a golden table "before the Lord" (Leviticus 24:6).
Those loaves reminded Israel that God always provides for His own when they come to Him on His terms. The bread reflected God's promise to provide for all who hunger and thirst for righteousness (Matthew 5:6; 6:31-34). For the Christian, bread may represent the Bible, Jesus, fellowship, or any of the provisions God has made for our spiritual needs. He cares for us and He's ready to feed us, but His offer is not unconditional.
He promised to provide daily "bread" for those who in obedience have separated themselves to live and to eat from the hand of God. The Lord cares for all who willingly and humbly receive their physical and spiritual food from Him.
Jokes Of The Day
A young man called his mother and announced excitedly that he had just met the woman of his dreams. "Now what should I do?"His mother has an idea.
"Why don't you send her flowers, and on the card invite her to your apartment for a home cooked meal?"
He thought this was a great strategy, and a week later the woman came to dinner.
His mother called the next day to see how things had gone.
" I was humiliated," he groaned. "She insisted on washing the dishes."
" What's wrong with that?" asked his mother.
" We hadn't started eating yet
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A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling, to do the unnecessary.
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A brunette and a blonde are walking along in a park. The brunette says suddenly, "Awww, look at the dead birdie." The blonde stops, looks up, and says, "Where?"
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Riddle Of The Day
What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?Answer to Yesterdays Riddle
What has arms but can't hug?
A chair
Devotional Thoughts Of The Day
Purposes Are Being Established
In 1998, a pair of Levi's jeans manufactured in the 1880s was found in Nevada and auctioned on eBay. Said to be the oldest pair still in existence, the jeans fetched a handsome price of $46,532, paid by the Levi Strauss company itself. 'This is an important piece of our company's history', said the chairman. 'It's great that they will now be preserved in our archives.'
If there are archives in heaven, surely Joseph's coat of many colours will be among the clothing artifacts on display. The NIV translates the phrase as 'a richly ornamented robe', and the NAS as 'a varicoloured tunic', but the meaning in the original Hebrew language is uncertain. What's certain is that the garment signalled Joseph's status as Jacob's favourite son, the firstborn to his beloved wife Rachel. He didn't help matters by reporting on his brothers to his father or by telling everyone about his dreams, in which he was exalted above them all.
Presumably these dreams were from God, since they came true; but notice that Joseph didn't mention God, and even Jacob was a bit shocked at their content. Still, he kept the matter in mind, remembering his own dream at Bethel (v11). Joseph's brothers, naturally, hated him. They saw him as a spy, felt belittled by his dreams, and resented the favouritism.
Given an opportunity, they plotted to kill him, but thanks to Reuben they merely sold him into slavery. Ironically, they used his robe as a prop for their story that Joseph had been killed by wild animals. Their deception was successful, and Jacob mourned deeply for his lost son.
The stage is now set for the final patriarchal narrative in the book of Genesis. We've covered the accounts of Creation, the Flood, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and now we'll travel with Joseph to Egypt, the starting point for Israel's nationhood. From a human perspective, so far it looks like a story of jealousy and revenge, but as today's verse makes clear, God had a plan. He sent Joseph on ahead to prepare the way. Joseph may or may not have sensed it, but he was right in the centre of God's purposes for his life.
When We Get It Right
Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him. - Genesis 35:14. References Genesis 35:1-15.
An older and wiser Jacob admitted that God had taken care of him throughout his life (v3). He came full circle back to Bethel. Then he had dreamed of a stairway to heaven and first heard God promise to be his God. Now God renewed the covenant and confirmed his new name of Israel. Jacob purified himself and his family, burying and renouncing idols and building an altar to worship God alone.
The content of the covenant had not changed in all these years. The Lord promised to make Jacob's descendants into a great nation and to give them the land of Canaan. These promises had been given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as a young man. In addition, God had promised to bring Jacob back to this land, and now He had done it! Jacob responded in much the same way as he had years ago. He set up a stone pillar to commemorate the occasion, consecrated it by anointing it with oil, and poured out a drink offering in worship to the Lord.
A drink offering... this is the first one specifically mentioned in Scripture... signified complete, whole-hearted commitment (v14; Phil. 2:17). What a turnaround! After a life characterised by deceit, struggle, and selfishness, Jacob surrendered everything to God. His life story is evidence that God's choosing of us doesn't depend on our own worthiness, as well as the fact that He keeps His promises and has a sovereign plan both for individual lives and for every person in all of history.
Facts Of The Day
- In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
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Closing Thought
Be thankful the kids ARE home, laying about watching TV, they could be on the streets !Comic
