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Intro

Wednesday, September 30 2026
from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship

Read your Bible today?


Only 93 days to the year 2027

Scripture Of The Day

Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
John 3:5

Read The Bible In a Year

Isaiah 9-10 ; Ephesians 3

Thoughts For The Day

There are teachers, and then there are educators...

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Motivation For The Day

Answered prayers can only result from ongoing commitment... pray and receive.

On This Day

1791 - In Vienna, the first performance of 'The Magic Flute' written by Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
1840 - In London, the foundation stone for Nelson's Column is laid in Trafalgar Square.
1928 - Official announcement of the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming.
1929 - Scottish engineer John Baird starts TV transmissions from BBC studios in London.
1936 - Pinewood Film Studios opens near Iver, in Buckinghamshire, to provide Britian with a film studio to compete with America's Hollywood Studios in California.
1938 - On his return from meeting German leader Adolf Hitler at Munich, the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tells a crowd at Heston Airport in Middlesex: 'I believe it is peace in our time' and waves the agreement he has signed with Hitler. Britain and Germany are at war less than 12 months later.
1997 - Celebrated British 'showbiz couple' - actor/director Kenneth Branagh and actress Emma Thompson announce they are splitting up.

Personal Story Of The Day

Seeing Things For The First Time
 
In 1991, two operations restored Shirl Jenning's, sight after 40 years of blindness. His family and friends reacted with absolute euphoria, but the next day Shirl's fiancé recorded in her diary that he was "trying to adjust to being sighted. Not able to trust vision yet... Like [a] baby just learning to see, everything new, exciting, scary, unsure of what seeing means." 

Although Shirl knew people and objects through his other senses, he could not recognize them by sight. People expected him to be fully adjusted immediately, but he was trying to figure out what everything was.

Isn't it much the same for us when we receive the infilling of the Holy Spirit? After Paul was blinded on the road to Damascus, the restoration of his physical sight became a powerful metaphor for the new spiritual sight he received from the Lord Jesus Christ after he was filled with the Spirit (Acts 9:3-17). 

We don't know much about Paul's 3 years in Arabia following his conversion (Galatians 1:15-18), except that it must have been a period of profound relearning about life and God. He had the full knowledge of the law and history of God's dealing with Israel, but he now had to relearn how all these fitted in with the spiritual reality he was now living in.

It takes time to grow in our relationship with Christ and the church, and to see with the new spiritual eyes He has given us. So let's be patient with each other, and especially with every new Christian God adds to the church. You will never exhaust the things you can see and learn from your new eyes. Those who walk in the Lord, will be forever seeing new things.

Jokes Of The Day

A faith healer ran into his old friend, Max and asked him how things were going.

"Not so good, was the pained reply. "My brother is very sick."

"Your brother isn't sick," contradicted the faith healer, "he only thinks he's sick. Remember that, he only thinks he's sick."

Two months later they met again and the faith healer asked Max:

"How's your brother now?"

"Worse, groaned Max, "he thinks he's dead."
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They have all sorts of new services today. Now they've got dial-a-prayer service for atheists.

You call a number and nobody answers.

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A magician on a cruise liner had a parrot, who'd seen all the magician's tricks a jillion times,long ago having figured out the magic behind the magician's disappearing acts.The parrot got bored, his owner growing stale and not developing any new tricks that the parrot couldn't figure out.

One night in the middle of the magician's performance, the ship hit an iceberg and sank.
Everyone drowned except the magician and the parrot. The magician managed to swim to a piece of
wreckage and climb aboard, immediately collapsing from exhaustion.

Soon afterward, the parrot flew to the magician, perched on the edge of the makeshift raft
and stared at the magician. And stared. And stared.

For a whole day the magician was unconscious, and all this time the parrot didn't take his eyes off him. Eventually the magician started to stir. Looking up, he saw the parrot,
still eyeing him intently, not even blinking.

Another hour goes by, and finally the parrot squawks,
"Awright, I give up. What did you do with the ship?
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Riddle Of The Day

What is the difference between a school boy studying and a farmer watching his cattle?


Answer to Yesterdays Riddle
What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your name

Devotional Thoughts Of The Day

Contentment With Godliness Is Greater Gain

The opening verses of Numbers 25 describe a scene of immorality, idolatry and judgment. When the entire story is known, the scene is even sadder than it appears. Earlier, Balak had sought to hire Balaam to curse Israel. When initially rebuffed, Balak upped the ante and made the offer too good to refuse.

He tried, but Balaam could not curse those whom God had determined to bless. But Balaam still wanted the gold. If he could not get it by cursing, he would try to get it by counselling. He counseled Balak to entice Israel to immorality and idolatry (Num 31:16). Then they would bring God's judgment on themselves. By so doing, Balaam accomplished the task for which he was hired. 

Balaam's "epitaph" in the New Testament is that he "loved the wages of wickedness" (2 Pet 2:15). He went for the gold and is remembered for it. In Jude v11 there is another New Testament reference to Balaam. Jude writes of those who "have rushed for profit into Balaam's error." The error of Balaam continues today. A person may not be hired to curse another, but the willingness to put personal gain over others remains. 

The world places its emphasis on 'getting'. The Christian's worldview should emphasize 'giving'. Do not follow the way of Balaam. How important are material things to you? Don't let possessions distort your values. Some things are not worth the cost... a lesson Balaam did not learn. 


Dry Creek?

The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook. And it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. 1 Kings 17:6-7. 

John Brenz, a friend of Martin Luther, was hated by Emperor Charles V. He often tried to kill Brenz and on one occasion sent a troop of cavalrymen to arrest him. Hearing about the plot, Brenz took a loaf of bread and went to a nearby town, where he hid in a hayloft. He was there for 14 days. Obviously one loaf of bread was not enough for two weeks. But each day a hen came into the loft and laid an egg without cackling. 

On the 15th day the hen did not show up. It seemed like the one lifeline he had clung to had been severed. As he was wondering what he would do without food, John heard the people in the streets below say, "The cavalrymen are gone at last!" 

Elijah also experienced what appeared to be the loss of an essential lifeline. God had sent him out into the wilderness and provided food through the ministry of ravens and water from a small creek. But then a difficult situation became worse. As the drought continued, the brook dried up. At first glance, it might seem that God no longer cared about what happened to His prophet. Instead, God chose to provide in a different way and graciously directed him to the home of a widow in the city of Zarephath (v9). 

Perhaps you feel that your creek also has dried up. The friend who has been your source of refreshment in a spiritual desert has moved away. The person who has been your lifeline at work has taken a new job. Whatever the case, trust God to provide through another source. It maybe far different from what met your need before, but remember, God will not fail you. 

When a door closes, God always opens another. You are never left alone and helpless.

Facts Of The Day

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Closing Thought

Be thankful the kids ARE home, laying about watching TV, they could be on the streets !

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