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Intro
Tuesday, February 24 2026from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship
Is God part of your Life or parted from your life?
Only 311 days to the year 2027
Scripture Of The Day
Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. Psalms 70:4.Read The Bible In a Year
Numbers 7-8; Mark 4:21-41.Thoughts For The Day
If you raise children with critisism they mearn to be critical.God wants us to bite off more than we can chew. Remember David's faithful acceptance of the Giant's challenge? He chose to see what God had said about the nation rather than fear for his mortal life.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Motivation For The Day
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress definitely requires change. Knowledge is essential to change, for learing creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.On This Day
1530 - Charles V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor and King of Italy by Pope Clement VII at Bologna.1887 - Paris and Brussels become the first two cities to be linked by telephone.
1905 - Official opening of the Simplon Tunnel linking Switzerland and Italy.
1923 - Steam locomotive 'The Flying Scotsman' begins hauling scheduled services between London and Scotland.
1945 - World War II: US troops liberate the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese occupation.
1968 - Discovery of the first pulsar (CP 1919) is announced by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.
2014 - A 4.4 billion-year-old crystal is discovered as the oldest known fragment of Earth's crust.
Personal Story Of The Day
All EarsIt is about 9 in the evening. My wife and I are sitting in our lounge room. I'm studying a few notes. Suddenly she says, "Darling, I want to talk with you for a few minutes." She begins to talk... then she abruptly asks, "Are you listening?" I'm tempted to reply, "Of course I am. I'm only 2 feet away from you." But actually my mind is still on what I'm reading.
I need to close the book and give my full attention to what she is saying. She deserves that from me.
Job too was frustrated because his friends weren't paying attention to what he was saying to them. He sensed that while he was talking, they were planning their next response.
They were focusing on trying to convince him that his suffering was punishment for sin in his life. They were not listening to the real cry of Job's heart. Many of us are poor listeners too. Teenagers can be frustrated because their parents always have a quick answer, when actually they just want someone to listen to their struggles and accept them.
One teen said, "Sometimes I would just like to talk until I know what I want to say." Deep relationships are built on acceptance, understanding, and being a good listener.
Jokes Of The Day
Honorable Secretary of AgricultureWashington, D.C.
Dear Sir;
My friend, Ed Peterson, over at Wells Iowa, received a check for $1,000 from the government for not raising hogs. So, I want to go into the "not raising hogs" business next year.
What I want to know is, in your opinion, what is the best kind of farm not to raise hogs on, and what is the best breed of hogs not to raise? I want to be sure that I approach this endeavor in keeping with all governmental policies. I would prefer not to raise razorbacks, but if that is not a good breed not to raise, then I will just as gladly not raise Yorkshires or Durocs.
As I see it, the hardest part of this program will be in keeping an accurate inventory of how many hogs I haven't raised.
My friend, Peterson, is very joyful about the future of the business. He has been raising hogs for twenty years or so, and the best he ever made on them was $422 in 1968, until this year when he got your check for $1000 for not raising hogs.
If I get $1000 for not raising 50 hogs, will I get $2000 for not raising 100 hogs? I plan to operate on a small scale at first, holding myself down to about 4000 hogs not raised, which will mean about $80,000 the first year. Then I can afford an airplane.
Now another thing, these hogs I will not raise will not eat 100,000 bushels of corn. I understand that you also pay farmers for not raising corn and wheat. Will I qualify for payments for not raising wheat and corn not to feed the 4000 hogs I am not going to raise?
Also, I am considering the "not milking cows" business, so send me any information you have on that too.
In view of these circumstances, you understand that I will be totally unemployed and plan to file for unemployment and food stamps.
Be assured you will have my vote in the coming election.
Patriotically Yours,
PS: Would you please notify me when you plan to distribute more free cheese.
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How agri-corporations around the world would treat their cows.
NORTH AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead.
FRENCH: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
JAPANESE: You have two cows. You redesign them to 1/10 the size of ordinary cows, producing 20 times the milk. You then create clever cow cartoons called Cowkimon and market them worldwide.
GERMAN: You have two cows, re-engineered so they'll live for 100 years, eat once a month and milk themselves.
BRITISH: You have two cows. Both are mad.
RUSSIAN: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42. You count them again and learn you have 12. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
SWISS: You have 5,000 cows. None belongs to you. You charge others for storing them.
HINDU: You have two cows. You worship them.
CHINESE: You have two cows and 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity and arrest the newsman who questions the numbers.
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Young Son: Is it true, Dad, I heard that in some parts of Africa a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her?
Dad: That happens in every country, son.
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Riddle Of The Day
An old fashioned bike wheel has 21 spokes. How many spaces are between the spokes - 20, 21, or 22?Answer to Yesterday's Riddle
What animal keeps the best time?
A watchdog.
Devotional Thoughts Of The Day
Making Your free time work.
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. Ecclesiastes 2:11. References from Ecclesiastes 2:1-11.
Epicurus was a Greek philosopher born in 341 b.c. Pleasure was the keyword in his thinking. He defined philosophy as the art of making life happy and said the purpose of life was personal happiness. He did advocate the pursuit of virtue and reasoned that good behaviour brought people the highest pleasures.
Despite the noble goal of virtue, epicureanism now means a refined and calculating selfishness, seeking not power or fame, but the pleasures of sense, particularly of the palate, and those in company rather than solitude.
The author of Ecclesiastes could have taught Epicurus a thing or two about pleasure and free time. We've been examining biblical principles concerning beauty and creativity, but in the area of free time we need to scrutinise pleasure as well. We have already learned that God is the creator of all true pleasure, and that pleasure is one of his great gifts... now we must ask how sin affects this truth.
Ecclesiastes tells the story of the search for meaning and purpose in life. In today's verse, we read an account of experimentation: 'I withheld not my heart from any joy' (v10). There's a description of various forms... partying with his friends, delightful projects such as parks and orchards, and accumulating possessions.
The latter included pleasures such as music and sexual intimacy. In short, he enjoyed all the delights of the heart of man (v8)... the pleasures of intimacy, wealth, nature, and achievement. But it wasn't enough. Inspected under the light of wisdom, these pursuits proved all was vanity and vexation (without lasting joy) of spirit (v11). As all experiences sought for self-centred reasons... these pleasures failed to satisfy.
They were inadequate to meet life's deepest needs and like all addictions, need to be repeated in shorter times and greater doses to get the same result... they are an addiction that can never be satisfied.
Addressing controversial issues
3. GRAVEN IMAGES
Contributed by a friend... I was raised a as a Catholic with all of its superstitions. When we went to Mass, I would be intrigued by all of the statues and the stained-glass windows, pictured with the Apostles, The Last Supper, etc. I grew up seeing Jesus in either one or two lights baby Jesus or our Lord on the cross, because this is how He was always portrayed. I didn't know of Jesus' second coming or of a relationship available to me with Him personally, it was always via a human conduit, the priest.
Solution. In the Bible, in Exodus 20:2, the Lord states as the second great commandment of the Ten Commandments, 'You shall not make to yourself any graven image of anything in heaven or on earth'. No crosses, no statues, no carvings, no paintings, no rosary beads, because God knew the heart of man. In verse 5 the Lord commands not to bow down to any idol. Those who go to Mass are instructed that it is a sin not to bow down, or to cross ourselves at the statues of Mary and Jesus.
This is one of the Ten Commandments restated in the Levitical Laws: Lev 26:1 'You shall make for yourselves no idols nor shall you erect a graven image, pillar or obelisk, nor shall you place any figured stone in your land to which or on which to bow down for I am the Lord God.' The Lord then goes on to great detail in Leviticus Ch. 26, of the blessings of obeying the Lord's Commandments and the cursings of not obeying His Commandments.
The Lord knows the heart of man and how easily he is distracted from the true worship and relationship that should be maintained with his Creator.
A fine example is when the Lord gave Israel a healing process that had a need to be introduced because of Israel's continual rebellion. The Lord was forced to bring a form of chastisement as displayed in Numbers 21:5-9. The Lord then brought about a healing process. Moses made a serpent of brass and set it upon a pole to protect and heal Israel.
Later in 2 Kings 18:4, Israel had set up this serpent as an idol and burned incense to it until it had to be destroyed. God knew of man's unwillingness to love and serve Him effectively. Even when man appears to serve and worship the Lord, most of the time, it is his way of doing it, not the Lord's. It can be merely for show or pretence.
God has given us good and clear instruction. To obey is better than sacrifice. We worship the Father, Son and Holy Ghost by what is God-made, not by what is man made. In our service to God, anything that is not God's way is merely an idol of our own making... an artificial semblance that has no effect or power!
Facts Of The Day
Space has no temperature, and is known as a "temperature sink," meaning it drains heat out of things.
The Japanese word for chef, itamae, literally means "in front of the cutting board."
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Closing Thought
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