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Intro
Wednesday, April 30 2025from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship
When was trhe last time you called a friend?
Only 246 days to the year 2026
Scripture Of The Day
O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. Psalms 25:20.Read The Bible In a Year
1 Kings 8-9; Luke 21:1-19.Thoughts For The Day
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.Another great evil which can inflict men is to endow them with great talents and no ambition.
If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
Motivation For The Day
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.On This Day
1492 - Spain announces it will expel all Jews.1808 - 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri.
1888 - Moradabad hailstorm: hail stones allegedly as big as oranges kill 246 people and some 1600 sheep and cattle in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh.
1897 - English physicist and head of the Cavendish laboratory J. J. Thomson announces his discovery of the electron in a lecture to the Royal Institution.
1945 - German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker beneath the Chancellery building in Berlin. His mistress, Eva Braun, whom he'd married the day before, dies alongside him after taking a cyanide pill.
1948 - The Landrover is introduced at the Amsterdam Motor Show.
1967 - Ostankino Tower, the then highest free-standing structure in the world at 540m is finished in Moscow, Russia.
1975 - Official end to the Vietnam War when the South Vietnamese Government surrenders to North Vietnam. Fighting had continued despite the signing of a peace treaty in 1973.
1980 - Armed terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London taking 20 hostages and threatening to blow up the building.
1945 - German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker beneath the Chancellery building in Berlin. His mistress, Eva Braun, whom he'd married the day before, dies alongside him after taking a cyanide pill.
1948 - The Landrover is introduced at the Amsterdam Motor Show.
1967 - Ostankino Tower, the then highest free-standing structure in the world at 540m is finished in Moscow, Russia.
1975 - Official end to the Vietnam War when the South Vietnamese Government surrenders to North Vietnam. Fighting had continued despite the signing of a peace treaty in 1973.
1980 - Armed terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London taking 20 hostages and threatening to blow up the building.
1988 - The then largest banana split ever, at 4.5 miles long, is made along Market Street in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.
2020 - US President Donald Trump claims COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, while the Office of the Director of National Intelligence saying the virus is not manmade.
2022 - Jacky Hunt-Broersma sets world record for running 104 consecutive marathons in 104 days, after surviving cancer and with a prosthetic leg.
Personal Story Of The Day
An Offer Too Good To Be Accepted
Have you ever been scammed by spam? Spam is a computer term that refers to junk mail on the Internet. It's a common problem for people who use electronic communication from their personal devices. Sometimes it's harmless, but sometimes it's not.
You open your e-mail, and you get a note saying someone wants to help you. Your credit card is invalid, the message says, and your number has to be re-entered to reactivate your account. So, you type it in and hit "send" thinking you're doing the right thing. Later you get a bill for a bunch of items you didn't buy. You've just been scammed by spam!
What appeared to be helpful is no help at all. You trust the message, do what it says, and you end up losing.
We can also be scammed spiritually. It happens when supposed teachers of the Bible distort the gospel and proclaim a false message that they call the truth (salvation by works, for example). But often it's "a different gospel" (Galatians 1:6).
How can you avoid such a scam? By knowing from the Bible what the true gospel is. Eternal salvation is available only by grace, through trusting in Jesus Christ and His death on the cross for our sins (Galatians 2:16; Ephesians 2:8-9). Those who do this are baptised in water and in the Spirit... speaking in tongues. Don't be fooled. Any other message is a scam!
Jokes Of The Day
The controller working a busy pattern told the 727 on downwind to make a 360. The pilot of the 727 complained, "Do you know it costs us two thousand dollars to make a 360 in this airplane?" Without missing a beat the controller replied, "Roger, give me four thousand dollars worth."~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PSA was following United, taxiing out for departure. PSA called the tower and said "Tower, this is United 586. We've got a little problem, so go ahead and let PSA go first." The tower promptly cleared PSA for takeoff before United had a chance to object to the impersonation.
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A DC-10 had an exceedingly long landing rollout after landing with his approach speed just a little to high... San Jose Tower: "American 751 Heavy, turn right at the end if able. If not able, take the Guadalupe exit off of Highway 101 back to the airport.
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Tower: "Eastern 702, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on 124.7" Eastern 702: "Tower, Eastern 702 switching to Departure... by the way, as we lifted off we saw some kind of dead animal on the far end of the runway." Tower: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on 124.7... did you copy the report from Eastern?" Continental 635: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff... and yes, we copied Eastern and we've already notified our caterers."
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I recently took my 5 kids to the Naval Air Museum in Pensacola Florida (a great museum and free admission). They have one room that is full of real cockpits for the kids to sit in. I lifted my 4 yr old daughter into one cockpit that had side by side seating for the pilot and co-pilot. When my daughter got in she said "Good - this one's two player!"
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Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
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"Middle age is when a woman's hair begins to turn from gray to brown."
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Soon after our last child left home for college, my husband was resting next to me on the couch with his head in my lap. I carefully removed his glasses. "You know, honey," I said sweetly, "Without your glasses, you look like the same handsome young man I married."
"Honey," he replied with a grin, "Without my glasses, you still look pretty good too!"
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Riddle Of The Day
Because cigars cannot be entirely smoked, a hobo who collects cigar butts can make a cigar to smoke out of every 5 butts that he finds. Today, he has collected 25 cigar butts. How many cigars will he be able to smoke?Answer to Yesterday's Riddle
Why cant you take a photo of an indian woman using hair curlers?
You can't take a picture with hair curlers you need a camera!
Devotional Thoughts Of The Day
Agreeing On Earth... Explained.
Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. Matthew 18:19. References from Matthew 21:12-22; Mark 11:12-26.
Jesus wanted us to understand the true value of heavenly purposes. His overturning of the tables of natural merchandise and cleansing the temple of selfish worldliness, set the scene for the future life of those who would be filled with spirit (a house of prayer and giving,). God's temple has purpose and where God is, there is prosperity.
However, God's purposes are not the same as our own... we need to learn them and practice them.
Thus, when two spirit-filled people come together in their personal development or life issues... when they seek to do things God's way, God is with them and will bless them. The verses are not a permission to be sinful or to fill the temple with worldly pursuits, but to keep its true purposes working effectively.
We come together to find solutions, because we are living a new life in Christ. Not only does God bless this approach, he actually encourages it as a way of life. When we have the support of heaven... how can we fail?
This is why Jesus gave us such a great example of the benefits of simple obedience.
Power to Acquire Wealth
And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. Deuteronomy 8:17-18.
When God blessed Abraham, Isaac and Jacob He increased their herds and gave them wealth. When God blessed the children of Israel, He did the same. He never told them He was pleased with their poverty. On the contrary, He refers to poverty as a curse.
'You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for the locust shall consume it. You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil; for your olives shall drop off. You shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you'. (Deuteronomy 28:38-40, 48).
The Hebrew mindset, as well as the reformed Christian mindset, maintains that God blesses us in every area of life, including the area of material wealth. The Lord is not warning against an abundance of material possessions; on the contrary, He encourages the people of Israel to build beautiful houses and dwell in them (Deuteronomy 8:12). What the Lord warns against is arrogance and a life independent of Him.
The Lord warns the children of Israel of forgetting that it was He who established their wealth and that this is a part of the covenant (verse 18). God is particular about upholding His part of the covenant. And He desires that the people of Israel, also, uphold their part so He can continue to bless them. How do they uphold their part? 'By loving the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength'. (Deuteronomy 6:5).
When we whole-heartedly love the Lord, there is nothing left over for mammon. Whole-hearted devotion to the Lord ensures we never forget from where the blessings have come. When we love the Lord with all our heart we remain humble despite the abundant blessings and we do not look down upon anyone. We become trustworthy stewards with open hands and willing hearts. Whole-hearted dedication to God enables us to become vehicles for His blessings, which flow out in all directions.
The Hebrew mindset, as well as the reformed Christian mindset, maintains that God blesses us in every area of life, including the area of material wealth. The Lord is not warning against an abundance of material possessions; on the contrary, He encourages the people of Israel to build beautiful houses and dwell in them (Deuteronomy 8:12). What the Lord warns against is arrogance and a life independent of Him.
The Lord warns the children of Israel of forgetting that it was He who established their wealth and that this is a part of the covenant (verse 18). God is particular about upholding His part of the covenant. And He desires that the people of Israel, also, uphold their part so He can continue to bless them. How do they uphold their part? 'By loving the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength'. (Deuteronomy 6:5).
When we whole-heartedly love the Lord, there is nothing left over for mammon. Whole-hearted devotion to the Lord ensures we never forget from where the blessings have come. When we love the Lord with all our heart we remain humble despite the abundant blessings and we do not look down upon anyone. We become trustworthy stewards with open hands and willing hearts. Whole-hearted dedication to God enables us to become vehicles for His blessings, which flow out in all directions.
Facts Of The Day
The average housefly lives for about one month.
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