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Intro
Monday, March 23 2026from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship
God's grace to every one of you
Only 284 days to the year 2027
Scripture Of The Day
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. John 13:34.Read The Bible In a Year
Joshua 13-15; Luke 1:57-80.Thoughts For The Day
Take a lesson from the weather: It pays no attention to criticism.It takes greater skills to listen than it does to speak.
Never confuse movement with action.
Motivation For The Day
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.On This Day
1743 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.
1856 - 18-year-old English chemist William Perkin accidentally produces the first synthetic aniline dye ‘mauveine’ (purple) during his Easter holiday.
1903 - he Wright brothers 1st file a patent for a flying machine, which is granted 3 years later.
1923 - In Britain, the BBC begins broadcasting SOS messages for people who are away from home and need to be contacted urgently.
1933 - Germany’s Reichstag passes the Enabling Act granting dictatorial powers1923 - In Britain, the BBC begins broadcasting SOS messages for people who are away from home and need to be contacted urgently.
1945 - British and American forces cross the Rhine during World War II.
1956 - Pakistan becomes a republic.
1966 - The first official meeting for 400 years takes place between the Catholic and Anglican churches when Pope Paul VI and Dr Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury meet in Rome.
1998 - Titanic wins 11 Academy Awards
2019 - Kazakhstan’s capital is renamed Nur-Sultan.
2021 - Cargo ship Ever Given gets stuck in the Suez Canal, Egypt, a 400m megaship it completely blocks the shipping canal.
Personal Story Of The Day
The Great Are Unknown.Much of our attention and praise is directed toward highly visible and successful people. But occasionally we read about an ordinary, obscure person being honoured for many years of faithful service. It may be a carer, a cafeteria worker, a handyman, or a simple worker who has served others in a dependable and unselfish way.
That kind of reliability often goes unnoticed, but it's a powerful picture of how we are to live.
Although consistency may not be part of most people's thinking, days add up to a life of great significance to God. Paul wrote, "It is required in stewards that one be found faithful" (1Corinthians 4:2). If we live faithfully for Christ and his Gospel, God has promised to openly recognise and reward us at His appointed time. When the Lord comes, He "will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one's praise will come from God" (v5).
When we long for success, God says, "I will reward you." When we ache for recognition, God says, "I see you." When we are ready to quit, God says, "I will help you." Whether our service is public or private, our responsibility is the same... to be faithful. Remember, all great people start off as simple and unknown; just like you!
Jokes Of The Day
A man really loved a woman, but he was just too shy to propose to her. Now he was up in his years and neither of them had ever been married. Of course, they dated about once a week for the past six years, but he was so timid he just never got around to suggesting marriage much less living together.But one day, he became determined to ask her the question. So he calls her on the phone, "June."
"Yes, this is June."
"Will you marry me?"
"Of course I will! Who's this?"
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A blonde walks into a bank in New York City and asks for the loan officer. She says she is going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5000.
The bank officers says the bank will need some kind of security for such a loan, so the blonde hands over the keys to a new Rolls Royce, parked on the street, in front of the bank.
Everything checks out, and the bank agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan. An employee drives the Rolls into the bank's underground garage and parks it there.
Two weeks later, the blonde returns and repays the $5000, and the interest, which is $15.41.
The loan officer says, "We are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multimillionaire. What puzzles us is why would you bother to borrow $5000?"
The blonde replied, "Where else in New York City can I park my car for 2 weeks for $15.00?"
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An older couple had a son, who was still living with his parents. The parents were a little worried, as the son was still unable to decide about his career path... so they decided to do a small test.
They took a ten-dollar bill, a Bible, and a bottle of whiskey, and put them on the front hall table. Then they hid, hoping he would think they weren't at home.
The father told the mother, "If he takes the money he will be a businessman, if he takes the Bible he will be a priest - but if he takes the bottle of whiskey, I'm afraid our son will be a drunkard."
So the parents took their place in the nearby closet and waited nervously. Peeping through the keyhole they saw their son arrive home. He saw the note they had left, saying they'd be home later. Then, he took the 10-dollar bill, looked at it against the light, and slid it in his pocket.
After that, he took the Bible, flicked through it, and took it also.
Finally, he grabbed the bottle, opened it, and took an appreciative whiff to be assured of the quality. Then he left for his room, carrying all the three items.
The father slapped his forehead, and said: "Darn, it's even worse than I ever imagined..."
"What do you mean?" his wife inquired.
"Our son is going to be a politician!" replied the concerned father.
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Riddle Of The Day
When is a yellow dog most likely to enter a house?Answer to Yesterday's Riddle
What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?
A coat of paint.
Devotional Thoughts Of The Day
Great Misunderstanding.
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God. Ecclesiastes 5:2. References from Job 11:1-20.
The Austrian author Robert Musil once wrote, Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system. This may not be true of all philosophers, but in the case of Zophar, the final of Jobs friends to speak, it's rather appropriate. Zophar is the most critical in his approach.
He tries to lock Job into the same system as his friends, namely that suffering comes from sin, so the solution must be repentance.
We have now seen this three times: from Eliphaz (5:17), from Bildad (8:20), and from Zophar (11:14). In the first part of his speech (v26), Zophar dismisses Job's words as idle chatter. He can't hear Job's anguished cries in the context of despair, but rather focuses only on Job's bold outbursts and questions.
He accuses Job of being self-righteous and mistakenly charges Job with claiming to be flawless and pure before God. Yet neither of these claims can be found in Job's earlier speeches.
Zophar prays that God would rebuke Job. At the end of Job, this is exactly what happens, but Zophar and his two companions are also roundly rebuked as well! Zophar rightly claims that humans can't presume to know God's ways (v 7-12). But he also implies that humans shouldn't even question God's ways (v10). As we have noted earlier, Job has doubted and challenged God, but he has not mocked Him as Zophar claims.
Additionally, Zophar harshly says that a witless (or ungodly) man could never have the wisdom to know God's ways.
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. Ruth 1:1.
Desperation can drive us to many extremes. Comedian Woody Allen characterised our times when he said, "We stand at a crossroads. Down one road is despondency and despair, and down the other is total annihilation. Let us pray that we choose the right road." This kind of desperation sometimes even plagues God's people and causes them to make poor choices.
Elimelech was facing desperate times, and he needed to make some difficult choices. He was struggling to feed his family. A wife and two growing boys needed nourishment, but a famine gripped the land. Famines were often God's way of bringing His people to the point of submission. They were not simply to punish Israel, but to get them to turn from their sins. Yet without clear guidance from God, Elimelech chose to run away.
Instead of facing the Lord's judgment on the land and trusting God to provide, he moved his family to a pagan land and raised his children in a society that did not know the God of Israel.
He even broke God's law by allowing his sons to marry pagan wives (Deut 7:3-4). It is very tempting to look for the easy way out of our problems. But any choice that takes us away from God is, in the long run, the wrong way. Elimelech's choice ultimately brought death to himself and his two sons. No matter how desperate the situation, it is always better to face what God has allowed and trust Him, than it is to run from our circumstances and go it alone.
If you are experiencing difficult times, make your choices based on clear direction from God.
Don't allow a feeling of desperation to steer you in the wrong direction.
Facts Of The Day
You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206.
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Closing Thought
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