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Intro
Sunday, September 20 2026from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship
Another beautiful day to enjoy
Only 103 days to the year 2027
Scripture Of The Day
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. Psalms 16:1.Read The Bible In a Year
Ecclesiastes 4-6; 2 Corinthians 12.Thoughts For The Day
Always do right. This will surprise some people and astonish the rest.The older you get, the better you realize you were.
Integrity is doing the right thing even when you could 'get away' with doing something else.
Motivation For The Day
Make new friends but keep the old, One is silver the other gold.On This Day
1519 - Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sets off on the first successful circumnavigation of the globe (Magellan is killed en route)
1854 - Crimean War: The Battle of Alma, fought between the British and the Russians.
1854 - Crimean War: The Battle of Alma, fought between the British and the Russians.
1873 - Panic sweeps the New York Stock Exchange due to a railroad bond default and bank failure, leading New York to shut banks for 10 days because of a bank scandal.
1904 - Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II.
1906 - An Imperial Edict in China orders the end of the use of opium within 10 years.1951 - 1st North Pole jet crossing
1984 - A terrorist suicide bomber drives a lorry full of explosives into the US Embassy in Beirut killling 40 people.
1989 - In South Africa, F.W. De Klerk is sworn in as President.
1990 - Both Germanys ratify reunification.
1990 - Saddam Hussein demands US networks broadcast his message.
2023 - Earliest known evidence of humans building with wood discovered near Kalambo Falls, Zambia, nearly half a million years old (previous known example 9,000 years old).
Personal Story Of The Day
Murphy's Laws are observations about life that seem to have the weight of experience behind them. You've probably heard this one: "If anything can go wrong, it will." Here's another one: "You can't do just one thing; everything has its consequences."
My own experience seems to confirm many of Murphy's Laws, but it's that second one that I would hang on the wall as a motto. Wrong choices have their consequences. For example, if a man or woman chooses to live for pleasure, that will affect their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren (Exodus 20:4-5). If you walk away from God, you may discover that your children have taken that trip with you. Later, even if you return to Him, they may not.
But there is also good news. Devotion to the Lord has its consequences too. Men and women who live in faith before God can have a strong influence on their children and their children's children. If they live a long life, they can witness the effect their faith has had on several generations. What satisfaction it brings to older people to see their posterity living for Christ!
So Murphy and the Bible agree on this point: "You can't do just one thing; everything has its consequences."
My own experience seems to confirm many of Murphy's Laws, but it's that second one that I would hang on the wall as a motto. Wrong choices have their consequences. For example, if a man or woman chooses to live for pleasure, that will affect their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren (Exodus 20:4-5). If you walk away from God, you may discover that your children have taken that trip with you. Later, even if you return to Him, they may not.
But there is also good news. Devotion to the Lord has its consequences too. Men and women who live in faith before God can have a strong influence on their children and their children's children. If they live a long life, they can witness the effect their faith has had on several generations. What satisfaction it brings to older people to see their posterity living for Christ!
So Murphy and the Bible agree on this point: "You can't do just one thing; everything has its consequences."
Jokes Of The Day
If it's true that girls are inclined to marry men like their fathers, it is understandable why so many mothers cry so much at weddings.************************************
Q: How do you confuse a blonde?
A: You don't they're born that way!
Q: Why did the blonde stare at a frozen orange juice can for 2 hours?
A: Because it said "concentrate"!
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One day, a teacher, a garbage collector and a lawyer wound up together at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter informed them that in order to get into Heaven, they would each have to answer one question. St. Peter addressed the teacher and asked, "What was the name of the ship that crashed into an iceberg? They just made a movie about it." The teacher answered quickly, "That would be the Titanic." St. Peter let him through the gate. St. Peter turned to the garbage man and decided to make the question a little harder, "How many people died on the ship?" Fortunately for him, the trash man had just seen the movie and answered, "About 1,500." "That's right! You may enter." St. Peter then turned to the lawyer. "Name them."
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Riddle Of The Day
What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be consumed?Answer to Yesterday's Riddle
What is bought by the yard (metre) and worn by the foot?
Carpet.
Devotional Thoughts Of The Day
Learning The Hard Way
And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done: Joshua 7:20. References from Joshua 7:10-26.
'If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality helps you go on in spite of it all'. With that statement, Martin Luther King Jr. describes for us the problem with Joshua's response to the loss at Ai. He apparently lost hope... but God had called him to finish a task, and He didn't give up on him.
God's response to Joshua isn't the kind of scripture that gets framed and hung on our walls, but it was exactly what Joshua needed to be told. Many times we need such a stern reprimand to break us out of a rut. Notice especially God's rhetorical question to Joshua, 'What are you doing down on your face?'
Once again, God doesn't make Joshua guess at what He wants him to do. He spells out the plan, step by step, for how Joshua should deal with Israel's sin.
Perhaps if Joshua had shown the foresight to meditate with God before going into battle with Ai, the loss could have been avoided. The people of Israel again were called to consecrate themselves in preparation for God's presence among them.
Only this time, it wasn't in preparation for an encouraging miracle. They instead awaited God's judgment of their sin, a frightening but necessary step for His people. So in front of the whole nation, the tribe of Judah was isolated, then the clan of the Zerahites, the family of Zimri, and finally Achan. The process must have been humiliating for every person who had to step forward from the ranks. Especially Achan. But then, Achan confessed.
At this point in the story, many of us would be tempted to say, Okay, he confessed. It's all right... just never do it again. But that wasn't how God wanted this sin treated.
He had sacrificed thirty six lives for a Babylonian robe, some silver, and even less gold. Achan and his family were punished most severely. All of his family and all of his possessions, even the stolen plunder, was gathered together, stoned, and burned.
If Israel couldn't learn to obey God by witnessing His powerful works of grace, they would also witness His acts of judgment.
Nothing Is Hidden
Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. Jeremiah 16:16-17.
A man went to steal some melons from his neighbor's field. As a safeguard, he took his little boy with him to keep a lookout. Before beginning the heist, the man looked all around. Not seeing anyone, he was just about to fill his boot when his son cried out, "Daddy, there's one way you haven't looked yet!" The father, supposing that someone was coming, asked his son which way he meant. The young lad answered, "You haven't looked up!" Conscience stricken, the father took his boy by the hand and hurried home without the produce he had planned to take.
The people of Jeremiah's day were equally sure that they could commit their evil deeds without anyone knowing. But God warned them through His prophet that none of their iniquities were hidden from Him. Whichever way they might turn, whatever wickedness they might enact, God's eye was on them. Even if they sought to hide under the waters, on the mountains or in a hole in the ground, God knew where to find them.
Escape from His watchful gaze was impossible. Technology today has increased astoundingly. Plastic surgeons can alter a person's appearance, and counterfeiters can provide fake identification. But God can't be eluded. His watchful eye can see through any disguise.
The one who has deceived those around him has yet to reckon with the One above him. Others may be baffled, but God knows and sees it all. If you feel a victim of deception, rest assured that God has not been taken in. He has seen every deceitful deed and will eventually bring the guilty party to account.
No hiding place is so secure that God's eye cannot see; no guilty party so clever that God will not bring him to justice.
Facts Of The Day
Jack Broughton was one of the most revered boxing figures in England. He was buried at Westminster Abbey, the burial place of British nobility, although Broughton was not a member of English royalty.
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