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Intro

Saturday, October 18 2025
from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship

Hope you have a great day in the Lord.


Only 75 days to the year 2026

Scripture Of The Day

And blessed is [he], whosoever shall not be offended in me.
Luke 7:23

Read The Bible In a Year

Isaiah 53-55 ; 2 Thessalonians 1

Thoughts For The Day

Wherever the Gospel is preached, no matter how crudely, there are bound to be results.

We can endure life's wrongs because we know God will make things right.

Evangelism is nothing more than one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.

Motivation For The Day

TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE “My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”

On This Day

1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
1561 - Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts
1767 - Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed
1954 - Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio
1968 - American athlete Bob Beaman sets a new world long jump record of more than 29 feet during the Olympic Games in Mexico.
1969 - Jefferson Airplane member Paul Kantner is charged with possession of marijuana in Hawaii.
1989 - With the end of Communist rule, Hungary is proclaimed a free republic.

Personal Story Of The Day


Paying Someone Else's Debts.

As a young boy I watched my dad write cheques and wished that I could do it. What I didn't realize was that there had to be money in an account to back them up. 

The apostle Paul never wrote a cheques, but he did have an account good enough to pay an unusual debt if necessary. He referred to this in his letter to Philemon, a wealthy Christian whose slave Onesimus had run away and may have stolen some money from his master. 

In the providence of God, Onesimus met Paul in Rome and became a true follower of Christ. They agreed that it was right for him to return to his master. Paul wrote a letter to Philemon (the letter that bears his name), asking him to receive Onesimus as a brother, and assuring him that he himself would pay any debt Onesimus owed. 

That's a picture of what happens in salvation. As sinners, we owed an enormous debt, but Jesus took care of it for us. Because of His sinless life, He has a limitless resource of righteousness. And by dying in our place, He paid the penalty for our sin. Now we can draw on this payment by faith.  If we put our trust in Christ, he can act as our Saviour... his spirit now dwells in us, we have a language of spiritual purity, our sins are put to His account and we are free for all eternity. Praise God!

Jokes Of The Day

There was a priest that loved to stream fish. One year there was a problem every time he had a chance to go fishing the weather was bad or it was on Sunday, when he had to work. All year he was unable to go. Finally it was the last week before the streams closed. The weather was bad all week until Sunday, when the weather was perfect. The priest could not resist, he called a fellow priest claiming to be very sick and asked if he could take over his sermon.

The fly-fishing priest drove over 200 miles, not wishing to see anyone he knew. An angel seeing the priest playing hooky went to God and said "You're not going to let him get away with this are you?". God agreed he should do something. The first cast the priest made was perfect. The fly floated past a log and a huge mouth gulped the fly down. For 45 minutes the priest ran up and down the stream fighting the mighty fish. At the end he held a 50" world record rainbow trout. Confused the angel asked God, "What are you doing?". God replied "Think about it, who's he going to tell?"

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A man was leaving church one day. The Pastor was standing at the door (as he always is) to shake hands with members of the congregation. He grasped the man by the hand and pulled him aside. The Pastor said to him, 'You need to join the Army of the Lord!'

The man replied, 'I'm already in the Army of the Lord, Pastor.'

Pastor questioned, 'How come I don't see you except at Christmas and Easter?'

He whispered back, 'Shhhhhhhhh. I'm in the secret service.'
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"Modern music hasn't been around too long and hopefully won't be."
- Victor Borge

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Riddle Of The Day

Every morning the farmer had eggs for breakfast. He owned no chickens and he never got eggs from anyone else's chickens. Where did he get the eggs?

Answer to Yesterdays Riddle
How is 2 plus 2 equal 5 and your left hand alike?
neither are right

Devotional Thoughts Of The Day

Poverty Is Not A New Problem

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD Proverbs 19:17. References from Deuteronomy 24:1-22. 

God's concern for the poor is a consistent theme in the Scriptures. Far from romanticising the plight of the poor as some of God's people have occasionally done, God's Word acknowledges that the poor are often taken advantage of and need society's protection. The Law of Moses included many regulations that protected the rights of the poor and offered them a kind of social safety net. 

The regulations found in Deuteronomy 24 reflect this priority, as well as a general concern for others who were vulnerable in Hebrew society: women, orphans, and foreigners. Why should we care about the weak? First, we should care because God cares about them. He has an abiding interest in those that society has overlooked.This was reflected in Christ's ministry when He accepted as His disciples some of those that Jewish society despised. 

Second, we should care about the weak because we were once weak (1 Cor 1:26). It is true that such a concern contributes to a more humane society, but that is not primarily why we as Christians show an interest. Our concern is an expression of the gratitude we feel for God's grace shown to us. It is an expression of our longing to have a heart that reflects God's own heart. We recognize that the same God who sent His Son to die for our sins is also the one who secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy (Ps 140:12). 

Seeing the church's obligation to the poor is not a new concept; it is part of the church's spiritual DNA (Acts 9:36; Gal.2:10). It is easy to be so overwhelmed by the magnitude of the problems caused by poverty that we fail to do anything about it. Individually, we may not be able to change the social structures and injustices that cause poverty. In fact, it is unlikely that we will. Jesus said that we would always have the poor among us (John 12:8). This does not mean, however, that what we do is insignificant.



En -thusiasm

People with a passion for anything are contagious. One of my favourite TV programs used to be The Crocodile Hunter. When the host, Steve, talks about ferocious animals, reptiles and insects, he not only has the knowledge, but is just so excited to tell you how powerful or deadly this animal really is. He makes you "care" about the habitat of the king cobra, or how "difficult" it is to get a crocodile to do anything but bite you. His enthusiasm, Australian accent, and in-your-face daredevil antics keep you spellbound throughout the whole program.

Did you know that we get our word "enthuse", "en" and "thuse" from Greek, which means "in God"? When the ancients did something with enthusiasm, they were said to be doing it "in God."

But there are a number of things that can take the wind out of our sails...

1. An unclear purpose.
2. An unused talent.
3. An unbalanced schedule.
4. An unconfessed sin.
5. An unresolved conflict.
6. An unsupported lifestyle.
7. An undernourished spirit.

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength, and love your neighbour as yourself. There's no greater commandment than these" (Mark 12:30-31).

God motivates when we step out in faith... not the other way around.

Facts Of The Day

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Closing Thought

Who cares for me above all others? take the time to find out

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