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Intro

Friday, May 29 2026
from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship

Happiness and blessings to all...

Only 217 days to the year 2027

Scripture Of The Day

For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.
3 John 1:3

Read The Bible In a Year

2 Chronicles 7-9 ; John 11:1-29

Thoughts For The Day

The fact is, that to do anything worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

Motivation For The Day

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

On This Day

1500 - Portuguese explorer Bartalomeu Diaz drowns during a voyage.
1790 - Rhode Island becomes the 13th state of the Union.
1848 - Wisconsin becomes the 30th state of the Union.
1950 - In Britain, BBC radio broadcasts the first episode of the Archers.
1953 - New Zealand climber Sir Edmund Hillary and his sherpa Tenzing Norgay, become the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayas. The news breaks in Britain on Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Day, June 2nd.
1982 - In the first Papal visit to Britain since 1531, Pope Paul II prays alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Church of England, at Canterbury Cathedral.
1999 - US space shuttle Discovery becomes the first spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station still under construction in space.

Personal Story Of The Day

Kind Words Change Lives

A man who was grieving the death of his father said, "I am crying not only for my father, but for me. His death means that I'll never hear the words I always wanted to hear from him: that he was proud of me, proud of the family I've raised and the life I've lived." Instead of repeating his father's mistake, the man later gave his own son the words of encouragement he himself had never heard, saying he was proud of him and the life he had made.

Too often, tension between fathers and children are left unresolved. Old wounds remain unhealed. We are unwilling to forgive the angry words and hurts from the past. But for the sake of ourselves and our families, we need to do what we can to dismantle the walls of separation between us. How can we begin? The Bible's command for all our relationships is: 'Love as brothers, be tender-hearted, be courteous, not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing'... 'Turn away from evil and do good'... seek peace and pursue it.' (1 Peter 3:8-9,11).

Let's determine by God's grace to break the cycle of anger and give our children what they long to hear from us... words of blessing and love. You are never too old.

Jokes Of The Day

An angry wife was complaining about her husband spending all his free time in a bar, so one night he took her along with him. "What'll you have?" he asked.

"Oh, I don't know. The same as you I suppose," she replied. So, the husband ordered a couple of Jack Daniel's and threw his down in one shot.

His wife watched him, then took a sip from her glass and immediately spat it out. "Yuck, that's TERRIBLE!" she spluttered. "I don't know how you can drink this stuff!"

"Well, there you go," cried the husband. "And you think I'm out enjoying myself every night!"
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A husband, proving to his wife that women talk more than men, showed her a study which indicated that men use on the average only 15,000 words a day, where as women use 30,000 words a day.

She thought about this for awhile and then told her husband that women use twice as many words as men because they have to repeat everything they say.

He said, "What?"
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There was a knock at the door. It was a small boy, about six years old. Something of his had found its way into my garage, he said, and he wanted it back.

Upon opening the garage door, I noticed two additions: a baseball and a broken window sporting a baseball-sized hole. "How do you suppose this ball got in here?" I asked the boy.

Taking one look at the ball, one look at the window, and one look at me, the boy exclaimed, "Wow! I must have thrown it right through that hole!"
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Riddle Of The Day

What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?

Answer to Yesterdays Riddle
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
A towel

Devotional Thoughts Of The Day

God Supports Prayer

Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. Psalm 25:5. References from Psalm 25.

Are you too busy to pray? Well, then, hire someone to do it for you! Believe it or not, prayers for hire is a growing business in the Philippines. If people want something... for example, to pass a uni or medical exam they pay a prayer lady to ask God for it while they continue working or studying. No doubt God is appalled when He hears these prayers for pay. One reason is because at the heart of true prayer is a personal relationship between God and His people.

We've mentioned the relational aspect of prayer several times already this month, and we will give it special attention in today's psalm. David opened his prayer with a simple but profound statement about the relationship between himself (as the king) and God (as the King). God is the righteous protector of His people who would bring their enemies to shame. He is worthy of the wholehearted trust David placed in Him. A series of petitions and praises made in the context of this relationship follow, many of which focus on David's desire to know God better.

He prayed that God would teach and guide him in the way of truth and obedience, the only way that he could have any genuine hope. He also prayed that God would remember him... meaning, as we've seen before, that God would remain loving and faithful to him.

Only God's mercy and love could cover and cleanse his sins. The psalmist was confident that God had revealed that he will answer such requests. He affirmed that God instructs sinners and forgives wrong doing. He loves people who are humble, repentant, and obedient and who revere Him. Best of all, The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.

In this relationship, God Himself has taken the initiative and shared His secrets, as friends do (v14; John 15:14).

A Man of Sorrows

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Isaiah 53:3-4.

Ted Turner, founder of Cable News Network, spoke in Orlando, Florida,a few years back and told a very moving story. Turner mentioned that he was raised in a God-fearing family and had a sister who was ill. Her illness progressed; she became critical. He prayed desperately for the Lord to spare her life and make her well. But she died. Then Turner told the audience that from that point on he knew, even as a kid, there was no God. What kind of loving God would have allowed his sister to suffer and die? Since that experience, he said, he has depended upon himself, not on an unfeeling, phantom being that does not exist. It's sad that Turner's perspective on God became skewed.

Isaiah gives us a much different insight. The prophet does not say that God removes our sorrows; instead He sent someone to bear them with us... the Lord Jesus. He is acquainted with our griefs because He experiences them along with us. For reasons beyond our comprehension, God chose to link His happiness to ours. When we hurt, He hurts. What a great blessing this is! The writer of Hebrews says, "For we do not have a High Priest who cannot be touched (sympathize) with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need" (Heb 4:15-16). How can you be sure you will find mercy and grace? Because God experiences your pain right along with you. He understands how you feel. So come boldly, not with the expectations that God will always remove your pain, but with the assurance that He will bear it with you. We can offer the same comfort to others... that's what those that walk in the spirit offer others all the time.

Facts Of The Day

The humps on a camel's back are actually huge heaps of fat and flesh that can weigh as much as 80 pounds in a healthy camel. These humps help camels survive for weeks without food and water. When water and food become scarce on the deserts where camels roam, the fatty humps serve as stored food and are used for nourishment. As the camel's body metabolizes or uses up the humps' stored fat, the hump becomes smaller and flabbier. So the longer the camel goes without eating, the smaller its hump gets. The size of a camel's hump helps determine a camel's health, food sources, and overall well-being. These humps, or reserves of fat, are the reason why camels can go for days without water and food. While humans are supposed to drink 8 glasses of water a day, camels can go without water for up to 2 weeks!

Yes, centipede really does mean "100-footed," and yes, some centipedes actually do have 100 feet, but no, not all do. In fact, some centipedes have more than 100 feet, and some have as few as 30. Perhaps, mathematicians , not scientists, should have done the calculations, and should have named this member of the species "Myriapoda," Latin for many footed. Yes, the millepede also belongs to this ancient species, but does it really have 1,000 feet, as it's name implies? Doubtful.

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Closing Thought

Lord, give me direction and purpose so I can organize my life on a long term basis.