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Intro

Sunday, August 23 2026
from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship

Hello once again...


Only 131 days to the year 2027

Scripture Of The Day

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Ephesians 1:17

Read The Bible In a Year

Psalms 113-115 ; 1 Corinthians 6

Thoughts For The Day

"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."

"The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition."

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.

Motivation For The Day

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

On This Day

1821 - Treaty of Aquala declares Mexico independent of Spain.
1839 - British forces capture the south-east Asia port of Hong Kong.
1938 - England Test cricketer Len Hutton scores what is then a new world record test score of 364 against Australia at the Oval.
1940 - World War II: Start of the Blitz - the night-time bombing of English towns and cities by German bombers.
1942 - World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
1962 - John Lennon, founder-member of The Beatles, marries his childhood sweetheart Cynthia Powell.
1999 - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder begins work in Berlin - the first time Germany has been governed from its traditional capital since the end of World War II.

Personal Story Of The Day

The Preserver Of Life

Some years ago, an article appeared in National Geographic magazine that told of a young man from Hanover, Pennsylvania, who was badly burned in a boiler explosion. To save his life, physicians covered him with 6,000 square centimetres of donor skin as well as sheets of skin cultured from a stamp-sized piece of his own unburned skin. A journalist later asked him, "Do you ever think about the donor who saved you?" The young man replied, "To be alive because of someone else is too big, too much, so I don't think about it."

Job, on the other hand, not only thought about the One who would save him, he longed for Him. As he looked at his life, he realized his need for a redeemer. In spite of his best efforts, his life fell far short of the perfection that God revealed. Yet he rejoiced in the fact that the One who would pay the price for his sins was alive... not only alive, but would someday actually stand upon the earth. It was on this great event that Job placed all his hopes. 

For those of us who live on this side of Christ's birth, we know that our Redeemer came, lived among us and died on the cross for our sins. We also like Job, build our lives and hopes on the same event. Even though it took place centuries ago, the death and resurrection of Jesus and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is the hub around which everything else revolves. 

Because of the anointing of the Spirit, we have the evidence (speaking in tongues) and assurance that we are free from the penalty of sin. The price has been paid, God's justice has been satisfied, and we are restored to a full relationship with the Father.

Jokes Of The Day

A blonde and a brunette are skydiving.
The brunette jumps out the plane and pulls the cord -- nothing happens.
She pulls the emergency cord and still nothing.
The blonde finally jumps out of the plane and yells "Oh! So you wanna race, huh?"
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Two blondes were driving along a road by a wheat field when they saw a blonde in the middle of the field rowing a row boat.
The driver blonde turned to her friend and said "You know - it's blondes like that that give us a bad name!"
To this, the other blonde replies "I know it, and if I knew how to swim, I'd go out there and drown her."
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Psychiatrist: I have treated you for six months and now you are cured. You will no longer have delusions of grandeur and imagine that you're Napoleon.

Patient: That's wonderful. I can hardly wait to go home and tell Josephine the good news.

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Riddle Of The Day

What always happens at the end of a dry spell?

Answer to Yesterdays Riddle
If you see a bird sitting on a twig, how could you get the twig without disturbing the bird?
Wait until the bird flys away

Devotional Thoughts Of The Day

A Lesson In Patience

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Psalm 27:14 References from Mark 5:35-43. 

A medical centre in Edmonton, Canada, recently launched a pilot program to recruit and train volunteers who will serve as greeters in the emergency waiting area. The greeters' mission is to provide comfort and to support patients and family members who must often wait hours before being seen by one of the medical staff. This initiative was prompted by a survey that showed that customer satisfaction was especially low by those people who had to use the medical centre's emergency facilities. Nobody likes to wait, even under the best of circumstances. 

Waiting with a loved one who needs medical treatment is even more stressful. Imagine what it must have been like for Jairus as he waited for Jesus to help his daughter. According to the biblical text, she was already at the point of death when this synagogue ruler came to Jesus and pleaded for His help. Jairus was a person of authority in the synagogue, serving as chairman or president of its board of elders, and he was used to being treated with great respect. One dimension of Jairus's role as president of the synagogue was to discipline its members. 

It must have been especially difficult for him to wait while Jesus dealt with a woman in the crowd whose condition would have made her an outcast in his own assembly. While Jesus spoke to the woman who had just been healed, messengers arrived to tell Jairus that his daughter had in fact died. They seem to convey their news with a bluntness that's hard to explain. 

Perhaps they were frustrated because they had warned Jairus against seeking help from Jesus. They assumed that Jairus was now needlessly troubling Him, since his daughter was already dead. The mourners at the house show a similar callousness, moving from weeping to laughter in a matter of minutes. Their attitude could indicate that at least some of them were professional mourners, hired for the occasion by the family. Or possibly they understood Jesus' statement to mean that He would raise the girl from the dead... and they did not believe Him.


Moving Past the Past 


And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. Genesis 41:51-52. 

"Deal with it!" is a phrase often heard today. Sometimes it is accompanied with the encouragement to "get over it." These phrases can be like a form of shock counselling. When hit over the head with a blunt piece of advice, hopefully a person realizes, that it is time to "move on." 

When Manasseh was born to Joseph and his wife, Joseph chose a name that meant "forget" because God had made Joseph to forget all his trouble (41:51). His brother's name, Ephraim, meant "twice fruitful" to remind Joseph that God had made him fruitful in the land of his suffering (v52). Joseph definitely grew up in a dysfunctional family. There was enough wrong done to him to last several generations. He was sold into slavery, falsely accused of attempted seduction, imprisoned and even forgotten by those he helped... more than enough to warrant a lifetime crippled by the past. 

Yet, as we have recently seen, the past did not dominate and control Joseph. Instead, he kept his focus on God. By God's mercy and with God's help, he put the past behind him and rejoiced in the blessings of the present. By God's power and with His help, so can you. Perhaps there is pain in your past. Leave it there. Don't let the past control your present. By God's grace you can be the person He wants you to be... not one in bondage to previous experiences.

Facts Of The Day

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Closing Thought

Lord, help me maintain my wonder of great and noble things.

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