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Intro

Friday, June 5 2026
from the Brisbane Revival Fellowship

Start living now... pray to be used, look for opportunity.

Only 210 days to the year 2027

Scripture Of The Day

Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. Psalms 70:4.

Read The Bible In a Year

2 Chronicles 23-24; John 15.

Thoughts For The Day

No matter the consequences, those who are honest with themselves get farther in life.

Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Motivation For The Day

If you make a mistake, immediately fix it to the best of your ability.

On This Day

1900 - Boer War: British troops capture and occupy Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal.
1906 - A third German Naval Bill provides for further increases in the building of battleships as the arms race with other European powers continues.

1944 - After receiving favorable weather reports, General Eisenhower decides to proceed with the D-Day invasion on June 6.
1944 - World War II: A cafe in the French town of Benouville is the first place to be liberated from German occupation when British paratroopers seize control of a vital canal bridge in advance of the main Allied D-Day landings in Normandy the following morning on June 6th.

1967 - Six-Day War begins between Israel and the neighboring Arab states of Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
1968 - American Senator Bobby Kennedy, brother of former US President John F Kennedy who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in 1963, is shot dead
1975 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat re-opens the Suez Canal to all but Israeli shipping - it had been closed for 8 years since the Six Day War of June 1967.
1975 - Britain holds its first modern referendum - which endorses continued membership of the European Common Market.

2012 - Conservative political nonprofit organization Turning Point USA is founded by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery to advocate for conservatism on high school, college, and university campuses.

2024 - Boeing Starliner's Crew Flight Test mission launches aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

Personal Story Of The Day

Clear Vision

You have heard the old saying, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Perhaps an appropriate updated version would be, Beauty is too frequently in the eye of the beholder. We live in a visually stimulating age. Gone the way of dinosaurs are black and white photographs. Everyone has a phone with self-correcting and enhanced camera ability. Everyone can create beautiful images full colour, eye catching and often morally compromised.

Mankind has always struggled with lust, especially lust of the eyes.

A beautiful woman named Bathsheba caught David's eye and that first glance became a lustful gaze. Immorality was the result. Jesus condemned lust in the Sermon on the Mount, saying the person who purposefully lusts is committing adultery in his heart (Matt 5:28).

As Job wrote in his own defence, listing sins he knew he didn't commit, he began by mentioning what he had done to avoid lustful looking. He made a covenant with his eyes not to look lustfully at a girl. While some say, What's the harm in looking?

Job knew that it was wrong to turn simple stimulation into a lasting desire, because it's downhill from there on. Sex sells, so ads are full of sensual images. Television programs and movies are full of sexual themes. Clothes are made to be enticing. We cannot escape seductive images, but we can covenant not to look at them and build upon their original appeal. We can all take steps to minimize our exposure and thinking.

Frequent prayer and simple disciplines will never let us down.

Jokes Of The Day

An atheist was spending a quiet day fishing when suddenly his boat was attacked by the Loch Ness monster.In one easy flip, the beast tossed him and his boat high into the air. Then it opened its mouth to swallow both.

As the man sailed head over heels, he cried out, 'Oh, my God! Help me!'

At once, the ferocious attack scene froze in place, and as the atheist hung in mid-air, a booming voice came down from the clouds, 'I thought you didn't believe in Me!'

Come on God, give me a break!!' the man pleaded. 'Two minutes ago I didn't believe in the Loch Ness monster either!'

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There was a Scottish tradesman, a painter called Jack, who was very interested in making a pound where he could. So he often would thin down his paint to make it go a wee bit further. As it happened, he got away with this for some time.

Eventually the Presbyterian Church decided to do a big restoration job on one of their biggest churches. Jack put in a painting bid and because his price was so competitive, he got the job. And so he set to, with a right good will, erecting the trestles and putting up the planks, and buying the paint and...yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with the turpentine.

Well, Jack was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly done, when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of thunder. The sky opened and the rain poured down, washing the thin paint from all over the church and knocking Jack fair off the scaffold to land on the lawn.

Now, Jack was no fool. He knew this was a judgement from the Almighty, so he fell on his knees and cried, 'Oh, God! Forgive me! What should I do?' And from the thunder, a mighty Voice spoke, 'Repaint you thinner, And go and thin no more!'

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A man goes into a pet store looking for a monkey. "I don't want any old monkey," he says to the store owner, "I want one that can do something special." The store owner points towards three identical looking monkeys in politically-correct, animal-friendly natural mini-habitats.
"The one on the left costs $500," says the store owner.
"Why so much?" asks the customer.
"Because it can program in C," answers the store owner.
The customer inquires about the next monkey and is told, "That one costs $1500, because it knows Visual C++ and Object-Relational technology."
The startled man then asks about the third monkey. "That one costs $3000," answers the store owner.
"3000 dollars!!" exclaims the man. "What can that one do?"
The owner replies, "To be honest, I've never seen it do a single thing, but it calls itself a Consultant."

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Riddle Of The Day

What happens when you cross a whale with a nun?

Answer to Yesterday's Riddle
There is something that is nothing, but it has a name. It joins our walks; it joins our talks; it plays in every game. What is it?
Your Shadow.

Devotional Thoughts Of The Day

I Promise To Quit Quitting... Again

You may remember this from a few days ago... Three of the easiest words to utter are, I give up. Often, they are said when expectations are not met; you expected something, didn't get it, tried, but finally gave up. That happens with things like service at a takeaway, or information on a software problem, or with trying to get something repaired. But it should never be said in regard to God. If ever someone had reason to say to God, I give up, it would have been Job. But he did not. Instead, he said, As surely as God lives... (Job 27:2).

Though difficult to utter, those words are among the most important ones a person can ever say. However, as much as good intentions bring us to repentance, there are often setbacks that interrupt our spirts of faith. If these happen too soon, we tend to convince ourselves that nothing has changed, and we give up once again.

The solution is quite different though. Having developed a habit of giving up, we must also develop the habit of doing the opposite. So it should come as no surprise that we face opposing pressures.

After all... didn't we just pray to stop quitting. That can only be achieved by facing pressures and keep on trusting God... regardless.

In gratitude

And the people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" Exodus 15:24.

Hot springs and cold springs are found side by side in some parts of Mexico. Because of the convenience of this natural phenomenon, women often bring their laundry to such places so they can boil their clothes in the hot springs and then rinse them in the cold ones.

A tourist who was watching this procedure commented to his Mexican guide, "I imagine they think Mother Nature is pretty generous to supply such ample, clean, hot and cold water here side by side for their free use." The guide replied, "No, Senor, there is much grumbling because she supplies no soap."

Ingratitude is not limited to Mexican peasants; Israel demonstrated the same attitude. God had just performed some awe-inspiring miracles for His people's benefit. He had slain the first born of Egypt so that Pharaoh would free the Israelites. He had provided a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire at night to guide their journey. He had opened the Red Sea for them to cross and brought it crashing back on the Egyptian army pursuing them.

Yet when they faced their first problem, instead of trusting God, they turned to complaining.

Times of need are times for praying, not complaining. Complaining says to God, "You aren't taking very good care of me." Prayer says to God, "I may not understand what's happening, but I trust You to take care of me." Do you feel life is treating you unfairly? Are you tempted to complain? Try this. Take a pen and paper and list some of the marvellous things God has already done in your life, such as providing your salvation, a healing, a supportive family and an inspired Bible.

Then look with confidence that He will provide for your situation today as well.

Facts Of The Day

The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid - with a pH of 28. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days. The Phosphoric acid leeches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the increasing incidence of osteoporosis.

To remove grease from clothes, empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

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Closing Thought

Lord, I want to do more for you... help me serve my church better.