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Intro
Wednesday, March 18 2026from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship
Mow the lawn, wash the car, weed the garden, wake your husband up...
Only 289 days to the year 2027
Scripture Of The Day
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. Mark 16:15.Read The Bible In a Year
Deuteronomy 32-34; Mark 15:26-47.Thoughts For The Day
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time.No matter what God gives you to do today, remember, He's preparing you for tomorrow. No matter how tough this day is for you to deal with, it's a part of God's training plan. It carries within it a precious lesson He wants you to learn about Him, about His power, about His love for you, about His gentle, yet powerful, hand on your life. Even in the worst of circumstances, savour them. Seek God's hand in them. Look at what He's doing with you and for you today. And know that He is preparing you to serve Him better tomorrow.
To me, integrity is when you do what you know is the correct, moral thing to do even though others may choose to do otherwise.
Motivation For The Day
The Old Testament Law required specific actions on the part of God¹s people to help the less fortunate, the new covenant of faith requires much more of believers--sacrificial giving, helping others not out of obligation, but out of the abundance of God¹s grace and love, He gives to those who are faithful to Him. God, the Giver of all good gifts, provides abundantly for those who give and help others. "And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work" (2Cor 9:8).On This Day
1874 - Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States, granting the US exclusive trading rights.
1915 - French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed.
1931 - 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick).
1949 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is set up between the United States, Britain and seven other Western European countries to jointly agree defence and security issues.1962 - French-Algerian truce On March 18, 1962, France and Algeria sign a truce to end the Algerian War, signaling the end of 130 years of colonial French rule.
1965 - The Russians complete the first space walk with Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov going outside his spacecraft Voskhod 2.
1967 - Oil tanker Torrey Cannon runs aground on rocks near Land's End, England spilling 120,000 gallons of crude oil into the English Channel.
1990 - East Germany's first election since the Nazi takeover in 1933 ends in victory for the three-party conservative alliance.
1992 - The South Africans back a mandate for ending the apartheid.
2011 - MESSENGER spacecraft enters Mercury's orbit.
2018 - First fatal accident involving an Uber self-driving car hitting a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona.
2025 - NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore finally return to Earth from the International Space Station after nine months, instead of one week, aboard a SpaceX capsule.
Personal Story Of The Day
When Purposes Are RestoredTo read about the life of Jesus is to read of a life filled with activity. His public ministry began with His baptism. Followed by 40 days of solitude in the wilderness. After that, He had a very busy time. Two interesting observations can be made about the pace of Jesus' ministry.
One is that He never hurried anywhere. Jesus was never in a rush. His purpose was so clear that other things were not allowed to push him into rushing.
The other is that He consistently found the time and the quiet to pray.
A healthy prayer life needs those two things: time and quiet. How can you have a healthy prayer life without taking time to pray? You can't. Some praying we do "on the run." It may be that we pray while driving or while working around the house. Still, we need quality prayer time, undistracted by any other activities. The other need is for quiet. Finding a time and place where you are undistracted is vital to a healthy prayer life.
For some, those times and places are easy to find. For others, it is a challenge.
Jesus set the example. He took time and found a quiet place to pray. Jesus knew that his prayer was not just for himself... his prayers for the lives of others required absolute commitment, thus the need to focus in an undistracted manner, were essential. Do you consider the future of others as you pray?
Would you stop what you were doing and go and peacefully find time to pray for the unsaved? After all that is your God-given role on the earth! That was what every prayer of Jesus alluded to!
Jokes Of The Day
A little boy opened the big and old family Bible with fascination, and looked at the old pages as he turned them. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible, and he picked it up and looked at it closely. It was an old leaf from a tree that had been pressed between the pages. 'Momma, look what I found,' the boy called out. 'What have you got there, dear?' his mother asked. With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered: 'I think it's Adam's suit!'Six-year-old Angie and her four-year-old brother Joel were sitting together in church. Joel giggled, sang, and talked out loud. Finally, his big sister had enough. 'You're not supposed to talk out loud in church.' 'Why? Who's going to stop me?' Joel asked. Angie pointed to the back of the church and said, 'See those two men standing by the door? They're hushers.'
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"My only regret in life is that I wasn't born someone else."
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A fundamentalist Christian couple felt it important to own an equally fundamentally Christian pet. So, they went shopping.
At a kennel specializing in this particular need, the Jesus Saves Breeders, they found a dog they liked quite a lot. When they asked the dog to fetch the Bible, he did it in a flash. When they instructed him to look up Psalm 23, he complied equally fast, using his paws with dexterity. They were impressed, purchased the animal, and went home, all the while praising the Lord for delivering this animal to them.
That night they had friends over. They were so proud of their new fundamentalist dog and his major skills, they called the dog and showed off a little.
The friends were impressed, and asked whether the dog was able to do any of the usual dog tricks, as well. This stopped the couple cold, as they hadn't thought about "normal" tricks.
Well, they said, "Let's try this out."
Once more they called the dog, and they clearly pronounced the command, "Heel!"
Quick as a wink, the dog jumped up, put his paw on the man's forehead, closed his eyes in concentration, and bowed his head.
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Riddle Of The Day
Every morning the farmer had eggs for breakfast. He owned no chickens and he never got eggs from anyone else's chickens. Where did he get the eggs?Answer to Yesterday's Riddle
How is 2 plus 2 equal 5 and your left hand alike?
Neither are right.
Devotional Thoughts Of The Day
There Is A Solution.
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? Psalm 42:3 References from Job 3:1-26.
In his book, Epitome, the Roman historian Cassius Dio recorded that one of Emperor Hadrian's enemies uttered the following curse just before his execution by order of the emperor:... 'As for Hadrian, this is my only prayer, that he may long for death but be unable to die'. With all that Job had experienced, he might have felt that he had somehow received this dreadful curse.
At least he believed that if he'd never been born, he would be experiencing the peace that now eluded him (v13). (In verses 13 and 14, we find a vague reference to the afterlife.)
It's important to note that although Job curses the day of his birth, he never curses God, as Satan predicted he would. Job's speech makes it clear that he tells it like it is. These may not be the words we would expect of a believer, but they're an honest reflection of Job's heart at that moment of time. Instead of worrying about the right kind of prayer, Job pours out his heart before the Lord without caring if his words were pious or theologically positive!
Like the psalmist who wrote today's key verse, the depth of Job's confidence before the Lord is found in his freedom to lay bare his wounded soul, without fear.
Today's verses also begin a series of speeches that alternate between Job and his three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. As well see, Job's speeches offer true wisdom about suffering, whereas his friends offer conventional wisdom that sounds good, but actually reflects some very common, yet faulty views of God.
Blessing In Quietness
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. 1 Kings 19:11-12.
Years ago, when people had ice boxes instead of refrigerators, a man working in an ice plant lost a valuable watch in the sawdust in which the ice was stored. His fellow workmen searched with him, but were unable to find it. They left the plant for lunch and returned to find a young boy with the watch. When they inquired how he found it, the boy replied, "I just lay down in the sawdust and heard it ticking."
With all the noisy machinery turned off and a person predisposed to listen, the watch wasn't hard to find at all. As Elijah stood on Mount Horeb, he was treated to a spectacular display of God's power.
A great wind reduced mighty boulders to pebbles. An earthquake shook the ground. Then the mountain was bathed in fire. Each of these was a manifestation of God's power, but they were not God. It was not until all the noise had stopped that Elijah found God Himself... in a still, small voice.
Today it's hard to get away from the noise. The endless drum of the city, the noise of the factory, the cry of children, the blare of the television, the demands of social media... all contribute to a very loud and ongoing distraction. In the midst of these things, intimate communion with God is nearly impossible. That's why it's essential that we seek a quiet retreat where we can hear God's still, small voice.
Find a place today where you can shut out the influence of the world. Ask God to calm your mind and remove the distractions that so often fills it. Tune your heart to listen for His voice and discover His intimacy. Intimacy with God comes in whispers, not shouts.
Facts Of The Day
Evaporation of perspiration on humid days slows, and requires the assistance of manmade inventions, such as fans and air conditioners, to carry away the moist air, so our perspiration evaporates, and so our internal thermostat returns to it's normal setting of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37c). Apparently, our cooling centre is not self-sufficient!
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