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Intro
Wednesday, December 31 2025from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship
Good morning, grab a cuppa and enjoy the read.
Only 1 day to the year 2026
Scripture Of The Day
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, [and] into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, [and] bless his name. Psalms 110:4.Read The Bible In a Year
Malachi; Revelation 22.Thoughts For The Day
Sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down will be the ones to help you get back up.Heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
Those who encourage others appeal to love... those who judge others appeal to fear.
Motivation For The Day
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.On This Day
1494 - French forces of King Charles VIII enter Rome.1695 - A Window Tax is introduced into Britain - which leads to many of them being bricked up!
1703 - Genroku earthquake off the coast of Japan near Edo (modern-day Tokyo) kills thousands and triggers a large tsunami that kills thousands more.
1744 - English astronomer James Bradley announces the discovery of Earth's nutation, or wobble.
1865 - The capital of New Zealand is moved from Auckland to Wellington.
1879 - American inventor Thomas Edison gives the first demonstration of his electric incandescent light at Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1901 - Tomas Estrada Palma is elected President of Cuba.
1927 - End of the use of the lance by the British army.
1938 - Dr R.N.Harger's 'drunkometer' is officially used to breathalise drivers by the Indianapolis Police department in the USA.
1865 - The capital of New Zealand is moved from Auckland to Wellington.
1879 - American inventor Thomas Edison gives the first demonstration of his electric incandescent light at Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1901 - Tomas Estrada Palma is elected President of Cuba.
1927 - End of the use of the lance by the British army.
1938 - Dr R.N.Harger's 'drunkometer' is officially used to breathalise drivers by the Indianapolis Police department in the USA.
1999 - Control of the Panama Canal reverts to Panama.
2017 - Ban on ivory trade in China comes into effect.
Personal Story Of The Day
Getting A Better View
Faith involves looking for more than the obvious. If we let our senses dictate our lives alone, we are miserable indeed, and will never see above ourselves. Sometimes I feel like the times of my early childhood when my father took me to see the Moomba parade in Melbourne. I couldn't see at all. I tried my best to look around a sea of legs and wide bodies, but with no luck.
I heard the music and laughter, and the ooo's and ahhh's at the brightly decorated floats, but couldn't see a thing. The parade wasn't any fun at all... I couldn't see a thing. But my dad saw my predicament and waited for me to look up at him. And dad hoisted me onto his big shoulders where I could finally see above the crowd and enjoy the whole parade. And my little heart was filled with all the excitement of the day.
In order to see more, we must learn to look through God's eyes. God specialises in the Big Picture. He knows the "beginning from the end." He has fitted every child of God with a set of custom made Holy Spirit glasses, uniquely designed for our place in the parade; custom made by the Word of God.
Then "God hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:" (Eph 2:6). So, if you're not enjoying the "parade", ask the Lord to "lift you up" to "see" all the wonders of His creation and all the opportunities to serve the church... his parade for this world.
Jokes Of The Day
An angry wife was complaining about her husband spending all his free time in a bar, so one night he took her along with him. "What'll you have?" he asked."Oh, I don't know. The same as you I suppose," she replied. So, the husband ordered a couple of Jack Daniel's and threw his down in one shot.
His wife watched him, then took a sip from her glass and immediately spat it out. "Yuck, that's TERRIBLE!" she spluttered. "I don't know how you can drink this stuff!"
"Well, there you go," cried the husband. "And you think I'm out enjoying myself every night!"
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A husband, proving to his wife that women talk more than men, showed her a study which indicated that men use on the average only 15,000 words a day, where as women use 30,000 words a day.
She thought about this for awhile and then told her husband that women use twice as many words as men because they have to repeat everything they say.
He said, "What?"
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Two actors that haven't seen each other in several weeks run in to each other on the street.
1st Actor: Haven't seen you in a while, how's everything going?
2nd Actor: Pretty good. Two weeks ago I got a call from a lawyer in Florida. It seems I had an aunt that I never knew about that died and left me $2,000,000.
#1: That's great!
#2: Yeah. And then last week I hit the lottery and won $7,000,000.
#1: That's wonderful!
#2: Yeah, but this week, nothing!
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Riddle Of The Day
What gets whiter the dirtier it gets?Answer to Yesterday's Riddle
What three things go up and down, but never move?
Answer: Stairs, temperature, and the stock market.
Devotional Thoughts Of The Day
In Its Right Place
The church has always valued moral purity... however, there are some confusing questions relating to acceptable behaviour between a husband and wife. Intimacy in particular, even within the confines of marriage, has been an uncomfortable subject.
As early as the second century, some Christian leaders reacted against growing worldliness in the church by urging believers to practice extreme forms of 'morality'. They even urged married believers to abstain from sex altogether... or at least not to enjoy it too much. This point of view was reflected in the desert fathers of the second century, who chose to live a solitary and ascetic lifestyle.
They told the married believers who came to them for spiritual counsel, to live like celibate monks. Augustine taught that sexual intercourse, even in marriage, should not be enjoyed for its own sake. He believed that it was only for the propagation of mankind. This stands in sharp contrast with today's sex obsessed culture. Many people spend more time over a meal than they do meeting a stranger and becoming intimate.
Both views... the aversion of some in the early church to sex within the confines of marriage, and modern society's casual approach to sex... are equally unhealthy and unbiblical.
The Song of Solomon does not portray sexual pleasures in marriage as a necessary evil that must be suppressed or endured. Instead, the bride and groom are encouraged to enjoy themselves until they are satisfied (v1). Procreation is certainly one of the obvious purposes of sex within marriage while fertility is active. The first command to the human race recorded in Scripture was the command to be 'fruitful and multiply' (Gen 1:22).
However, as we see in the Song of Solomon, enjoying sex in marriage is also important. Every day we face a constant barrage of sexual images from immodestly clothed people, television programs, magazines and the internet.
Passion, however, is not the problem. Society's problem is not that it enjoys sex too much. The problem is that our culture has removed the boundaries God set in place for sexual expression. His rules are not intended to spoil our joy, but to protect us from the consequences of unbridled passion.Those who choose to satisfy their urges by having sex outside the confines of the marriage relationship are destined to disappointment, emptiness and unintended consequences.
How Committed Are You?
'Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass'. Psalms 37:5.
When we make a commitment to someone, we are expected to follow through. How many times have you found yourself having to break a commitment to someone, either because of a problem, something coming up unexpected, or you just didn't feel like fulfilling it? Are you honest, when you make a commitment? Do you look 'down the road' far enough to see if it's feasible to make the commitment in the first place?
Did you 'count the cost' [Luke 14:28] beforehand? Did you stop to think that you might not be able to stay committed to this person or this action? When we commit ourselves to God, we should count the cost. One of the costs is found in giving up the sins and lusts that humans have. Within ourselves, it's hard to not commit sin or have lusts of the eyes or flesh. But, the power that is within us, can keep our sins to a minimum.
The Holy Spirit can help us have victory over the smallest or largest sin that might come our way. The Holy Spirit can help us surpass the obstacles that get in our way of our commitment to a life with God. The enemy may come at us, but, ask the Holy Spirit to keep you from all evil, and to sustain you every day.
Facts Of The Day
Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
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