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Intro
Wednesday, February 4 2026from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship
Good morning all...
Only 331 days to the year 2027
Scripture Of The Day
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6.Read The Bible In a Year
Exodus 34-35; Matthew 22:23-46.Thoughts For The Day
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Motivation For The Day
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; sometimes the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.On This Day
1555 - Reformer and bible translator John Roger is the first protestant martyr under Mary I, when he is burnt at the stake at Smithfield, London.
1783 - Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 in Calabria, Italy.
1797 - Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 41,000.
1861 - American secessionist states meet in Alabama to form the Confederate States of America.1904 - Start of the Russian-Japanese War with Japanese forces laying seige to Port Arthur.
1938 - Adolf Hitler assumes command of German Army.
1945 - World War II: the opening of the Yalta Conference between Allied leaders Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin in the Crimea.
1962 - Two Swiss climbers conquer the north face of the Matterhorn.
1974 - American heiress Patty Hearst, grand-daughter of US newspaper tycoon William Heart, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1976 - 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras.
1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
2021 - First successful face and double hand transplant announced performed on 22 year-old Joe DiMeo in New York.
2025 - Zara Lachlan becomes the first woman and youngest person to slow row from Europe to South America over 97 days (3,600 nautical-miles).
Personal Story Of The Day
Thoughts Of Salvation
In Old Testament times, idolatry was easy to recognise... dancing around the golden calves, bowing before the Baals. Even when the apostle Paul wrote to the church in first century Corinth, pagan idolatry was openly practiced.
He warned them to avoid any association with it (1 Corinthians 10:14). Idolatry is still a danger to the people of God, though it isn't always so open or obvious. Idols are usually more subtle and hard to detect, for they dwell in the hidden places of our heart.
If we want to know our idols, we need to consider our dominant thoughts... what we think about most of the time may be an idol of human desire that opposes spiritual good. Our last thought before we sleep, our first thought when we awake, our thoughts throughout the day, are spent on the items and issues we treasure and trust.
Any possession or person we put our hope in to bring us fulfilment, any goal or aspiration that becomes more important to us than God... these are the "gods" that attract our allegiance and subtly control our lives.
The good thing for us is that God empowers us through the Spirit to have better control of our thoughts and the actions that come from them. Our minds wander from one stimulation to the next, often resulting in our choices and actions. If we learn to shape our thinking more towards spiritual objectives, then we simply become more spiritual in our lifestyles.
In opposition to this, is the need to meet all our natural responsibilities, which often take up time and energy that competes with our spiritual interests. That is ok, because God knows this and has built a salvation plan around all these competing forces.
Only God can satisfy the deepest needs of our heart and make us truly alive. That's why we would be wise to heed the loving counsel of the apostle Paul: "My beloved, flee from idolatry."
Jokes Of The Day
A grandmother took her five-year-old grandson to the ballet. The boy had never seen a ballet before and watched the ballerinas prance around on their toes. After the show was over, the grandmother asked the youngster if he had any questions. "Yeah, Granny," said the boy," wouldn't it be easier if they just hired taller dancer?"************************************
Steven Spielberg was discussing his new project - an action docudrama about famous composers starring top movie stars. Sylvester Stallone, Steven Seagall, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger were all present. Spielberg strongly desired the box office 'oomph' of these superstars, so he was prepared to allow them to select whatever composers they would portray, as long as they were very famous.
"Well," started Stallone, "I've always admired Mozart. I would love to play him."
"Chopin has always been my favourite, and my image would improve if people saw me playing the piano" said Willis. "I'll play him."
"I've always been partial to Strauss and his waltzes," said Seagall. "I'd like to play him."
Spielberg was very pleased with these choices. "Sounds splendid." Then, looking at Schwarzenegger, he asked, "Who do you want to be, Arnold?"
So Arnold says, "I'll be Bach."
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Little Johnny
Little Johnny watched, fascinated, as his mother gently rubbed cold cream on her face. "Why are you rubbing cold cream on your face, Mommy?" he asked.
"To make myself beautiful," said his mother.
A few minutes later, she began removing the cream with a tissue.
"What's the matter?" asked Little Johnny. "Giving up?"
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Riddle Of The Day
My teeth are sharp, I'm ready to feed, I come out at night, To fulfil my need, There are movies about me, I can be seen on T.V., I can hunt by myself,And my prey almost always flees. What am I?
Answer to Yesterday's Riddle
I have been around for hundreds of years, I can have a varying number of hands, There are many versions of me, I do the same thing day after day, People would miss me if I were gone, What am I?
A clock.
Devotional Thoughts Of The Day
My Goodness.
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 2 Corinthians 1:3. References from Luke 6:27-36.
When Jesus spoke of loving your enemies, could He possibly have meant forgiving and praying for the murderer of your child, or mother or wife, etc? This sounds impossible... and it almost always is, without the power of the Holy Spirit. But because the Spirit bears fruit in us, Jesus could indeed expect such a supernatural response of kindness and goodness.
This is the fruit of the Spirit we are considering today.
Our society associates kindness and goodness with sweet little old ladies (I am discovering that many are not all that sweet) and children who play nicely with others. While good behaviour and graciousness are certainly admirable traits, the fruit of the Spirit goes well beyond courtesy. Jesus is talking about exercising kindness and goodness to people who hate you, curse you, mistreat you (v27-28).
As anyone who has experienced a transgression from someone else knows, we naturally want to respond to others in the same way that they've treated us.
What gives Jesus the right to ask us to behave differently?
Because that is exactly what he continues to offer us!
We Need To Be Ready!
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. Psalms 82:5.
Do you know a procrastinator, one who continually puts off things that should be done? They always think there will be another day, another time, in which they can do things. The thought that the day may never come, doesn't enter their mind.
In this day and hour, it pays to do what is needed, when it is needed. Our next breath could be our last. So, it pays to be prepared for anything.
That includes knowing where we will spend eternity. Are we praying and reading and involving ourselves in the work of the Lord?... are we ready to meet the Lord today? Or are we procrastinating on tidying something up, or putting off God's calling to grow and develop?
Today is the day and now is the hour to keep right with God. Don't let the sun go down today without knowing, for sure, where you will spend eternity.
Facts Of The Day
The largest pig on record was a Poland-China hog named Big Bill, who weighed 2,552 lbs (1157kg).
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