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Wednesday, November 19 2025
from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship

Hi there ....


Only 43 days to the year 2026

Scripture Of The Day

In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
Psalms 31:1

Read The Bible In a Year

Ezekiel 11-13 ; James 1

Thoughts For The Day

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

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

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

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

On This Day

1493 - On his second voyage to the New World, explorer Christopher Columbus discovers the caribbean island of Puerto Rico.
1850 - Alfred Tennyson is appointed Poet Laureate.
1889 - Table tennis is invented by engineer James Gibb and his family when hitting champagne corks across the table with the lids of cigar boxes.
1949 - Prince Rainer is sworn in as the 30th ruling Prince of Monaco.
1969 - Brazilian footballer Pele scores 1000th goal in his 909th professional football match.
1990 - Nato and Warsaw Pact members officially end the 'Cold War' by signing a weapons limitation treaty in Paris.
1995 - 16 people are killed in a bomb attack on the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Personal Story Of The Day

There Is A First Priority

When people face trials, they often turn to prayer only as a last resort. I knew a man who was fighting a tough battle with cancer. As people observed the gradual effect on his body and lifestyle, one person said, "Well, they've tried everything else. I guess it's time to begin praying." 

Another man was going through an extremely difficult time at work. It was a crisis of major proportions that had ominous implications for him and for the future of his company. He just couldn't resolve it. Finally he said, "I've tried everything I know to get through this situation and nothing has worked. It's time to start praying." 

In both of these instances, prayer was seen as a last ditch effort to resolve the problem. Only after all other options were eliminated did the person decide to pray. It was a desperate "grasping at straws." 

Instead of prayer being a last resort, it should be one of the first things we do. The Lord answers prayer, and He wants us to come to Him continually with all of our needs (1 Thessalonians 5:17). The Bible tells us to "be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer... let your requests be made known to God" (Philippians 4:6). 

So don't wait. It's always time to pray.

Jokes Of The Day

I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage area. So I went to
the lost luggage office and told the woman there that my bags never
showed up. She smiled and told me not to worry because she was a
trained professional and I was in good hands. "Now," she asked me,
"has your plane arrived yet? ".
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Bob stood over his tee sot for what seemed an eternity. He waggled, looked up, looked down, waggled again, but didn't start his backswing. Finally his exasperated partner asked, "what the hell is taking so long?" "My wife is up there watching me from the clubhouse," Bob explained. "I want to make a perfect shot." "Good lord!" his companion exlaimed. "You don't have a snowball's chance in hell of hitting her from here."
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A store that sells husbands has just opened in New York City, where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates. You may visit the store ONLY ONCE !

You may choose any man from a particular floor, or you may choose to go up a floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the
Building! So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband . .

On the first floor the sign on the door reads:

Floor 1 - These men have jobs and love the Lord.

The second floor sign reads:

Floor 2 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, and love kids.

The third floor sign reads:

Floor 3 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, and are extremely good looking.

"Wow," she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.

She goes to the fourth floor and sign reads:

Floor 4 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, are drop- dead good looking and help with the housework.

"Oh, mercy me!" she exclaims, "I can hardly stand it!"
Still, she goes to the fifth floor and sign reads:

Floor 5 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, are drop- dead gorgeous, help with the housework, and have a strong romantic streak.

She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 6 - You are visitor 4,363,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please.
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Riddle Of The Day

What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?

Answer to Yesterdays Riddle
I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold. They are the smallest you could imagine. Sooner or later everybody needs my help, yet many people are afraid to let me help them. Who am I?
I am a Dentist.

Devotional Thoughts Of The Day

Circular Problems And Realities

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Ecclesiastes 3:1. References from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. 

As we read through the seasons, it's impossible to miss the emotional likeness running throughout it. The first half of verse 2 sums up man's existence in stark fashion, and the verses that follow categorize our lives in similarly simple, powerful terms. We gain life, and then we lose it. We give life, and we take it away (v2, 3). Our lives alternate between order and disorder (v3, 5, 8). Our emotional expressions run full circle (v4, 5, 7, 8). 

Ecclesiastes is very realistic in its observations about the true nature of life. The Teacher hasn't left anything out of the human experience here, at least nothing from the strictly human perspective. 

Notice what's not in this list. A time to worship. A time to pray. A time to follow God. They can't be included on this list because there is no appointed time for them to be omitted. Our interaction with God shouldn't be so seasonal. But without any interaction with God, it's hard to read this passage optimistically. Every activity under heaven, if limited to this list, leaves us wanting, because every good thing seems to be cancelled out with bad. The net result, then, is there is no lasting meaning... all things are vanity, or a waste of time. 

If we were the authors of our existence, we might choose to eliminate half of this list. How great would life be if there were no time to die, to weep, to mourn, or to hate?

Hang on, that time is just around the corner.


True Answers Come From God

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. Isaiah 55:8. 

How many times are we SURE that we have the answer, then find that our answer was wrong? The enemy comes to assure us that we couldn't be wrong... there's no way! But still, when the answer comes, what we had thought to be truth was definitely wrong.

In our spiritual lives, at times, we think we have the answer all worked out. In fact, if everyone would be absolutely honest, we would admit that often we try to figure out the answer for the Lord. We tell Him we know what should or should not be done. But the scripture clearly says that 'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways". [Isaiah 55:8] But, true to human form, we still think we can tell God the answer, and give Him direction. If we would learn to depend on God more, and ask him for direction in every facet of our lives... even the little things, we would find that we could know the answers without guesswork.

Facts Of The Day

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Closing Thought

Lord, open my eyes to something I lack... close my eyes to something I fear.

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