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FRESH is a Daily Devotional taking you deeper into God"s Word + closer to Jesus. Each devotion will have a powerful Scripture verse, together with some words of inspiration, hope and encouragement. It"s all about helping you hear from God so that you can live in a rich, dynamic, powerful relationship with Jesus. God"s Word. Fresh, for you, each day.

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Upside Down, Inside Out

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2025/06/22

We each have to make sacrifices along the way. But have you ever thought through what a sacrifice really is? Because if we don’t get that bit, then you have to ask yourself – why even bother? It seems to me that a sacrifice means giving up something that you want today for something that you want more down the track. Chess players might sacrifice a bishop to lure their opponent into a move designed to take their queen. A mother will sacrifice her own comforts, often her own needs, to give her

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Your Hidden Potential

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2025/06/21

Do you know what’s really tragic? When someone’s hidden potential goes unrealised because the world can’t see it, because even the person themselves can’t see it. That is such a tragedy! So what hidden talent lies lurking beneath your skin, hmm? Hedy Lamarr is best known as a Hollywood actress of the 1930’s and 40’s. She starred in many successful films and was celebrated as one of the most beautiful and glamorous women of her day. So you can see how easy it was for the press and the public to

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In Those Hidden Moments

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2025/06/20

We all face temptations in life. Sure, people draw the line between right and wrong differently these days, but at the end of the day right is still right and wrong is still wrong. So how do you respond to temptation? Augustine of Hippo, who lived during the 4th and 5th centuries AD, became one of the most influential Christian theologians in history. But before his conversion, he led a life marked by indulgence in worldly pleasures. For years he struggled deeply with immorality and the so-called

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Beware of Fake Friends

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2025/06/19

Did you know that you can now buy an AI friend? Yep! An artificial intelligence company going under the brand name “Replika” will sell you, and I quote, “The AI companion who cares. Always here to listen and talk. Always on your side.” Fantastic. What could possibly go wrong? On the one hand, it’s pretty clever, right? On the other, how tragic that a human being would need to resort to a computer program for friendship – after all that's what AI is, that and a sophisticated database called a

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Every Time You Remember, Forgive Again

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2025/06/18

A question for you today … well a couple actually. Who are the one or two people in your life who’ve hurt you the most? And since then, have you been able to forgive them – I mean, completely forgive them? There’s one man in my life who, in the worst possible way, has betrayed me more than anyone else on the planet. And I’ll be honest with you, forgiving him these past thirty years (yep, it’s that been long!) has been an ongoing struggle. Now, I know the theory. Forgiveness sets you free – and

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Be Careful What You Tolerate

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2025/06/17

Finger pointing, judgementalism, is endemic in society today. And, sad to say, it seems to be a favourite pastime for many a Christian too. Before I became a Christian I was a brute of a man, almost completely ignorant of the things of God. So the way I lived, how I treated people, made perfect sense to me. Judging me would have made absolutely no difference to my behaviour. And yet while we’re busy judging those sinners out there, we can find ourselves ignoring the bad behaviour much closer to

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Friends Who Lighten the Burden

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2025/06/16

Some friends … well, all you have to do is think about them and it brings a smile to your face. That’s a pretty darned good thing, don’t you think? I have a good friend in South Africa called Jonathan. He’s a radio morning show host and you know what morning shows are like. They’re upbeat, happy … the sort of tempo to set you in the right frame of mind as you’re fighting the traffic on the way to work. And Jonathan is exactly the right guy to be doing that. But I know him off air too. I stay at

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The Loving Eye of the Lord (2)

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2025/06/15

Society seems very quick indeed to throw people on the scrap heap – people who look different, who believe differently, who behave differently, to the rest of us. Why do we do that? Fine, someone’s behaviour is less than acceptable. But we tend only to look at their response, rather than what triggered them in the first place – what hurt from the past, what pressure their under right now, what human frailty that’s left them coming up short. Sure, people need to be held to account for their

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The Loving Eye of the Lord (1)

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2025/06/14

As you look at all the successful people around you, the ones in the spotlight, the ones who get the slaps on the back and the “well done’s”, yeah, it’s easy to come off feeling second best. Looking back, one of the things that I truly regret in my life is how the world’s template of success was somehow dropped on my head – leading me into a world of pain that I otherwise could’ve avoided. I firmly believed that success was everything – having the fanciest car amongst my peer group, an

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A Race to the Bottom

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2025/06/13

The basic paradigm of success these days seems to be that you climb and climb and climb up that ladder until you reach the top. Sure, you have to step on people on the way up, but hey … that’s just the price of doing business. Born in 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte was a tactical genius and a great leader. He was so successful, that by 1804 he’d declared himself Emperor of France, setting out to expand his empire across Europe. But as his power grew, so did his pride and more importantly his sense of

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From Dreams to Reality

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2025/06/12

I don’t know about you, but I love daydreaming – imagining the things I feel inspired to do; turning them over in my mind, watching them form, then morph, then re-form. Yep, dreaming’s a lot of fun. But there’s a huge distance between the dream and seeing it become a reality. Howard Schultz was born into a poor, working-class family in Brooklyn, New York, in 1953. He grew up in a tough neighbourhood. While working for a Swedish kitchen company, Schultz noticed that some small outfit in Seattle

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Shaken by God

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2025/06/11

Today we’re finishing up our wee mini-series on persecution – not because I have some morbid desire to focus on suffering but because the tide of persecution against those who simply believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that He died for their sins and rose again, is rising. Now maybe this idea of some rising tide of persecution doesn’t sit so well with you. Life’s good, the world goes on, what’s this maniac talking about? In 2023, Open Doors (a ministry to persecuted Christians) reported that

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A Prayer for Boldness

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2025/06/10

For most of us, persecution isn’t something that we think about all too often. Elsewhere, in places where people barely dare to whisper of it, it’s simply part of life. What shocks us is when persecution lands on our hitherto safe middle-class doorstep. On July 26, 2016, Father Jacques Hamel, an 85-year-old Roman Catholic priest, was murdered while celebrating Mass in a small town in Normandy, France. Two terrorists entered the church and, after taking hostages, forced Father Hamel to kneel

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Power in the Face of Persecution

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2025/06/09

Let’s be honest, it’s not a whole lot of fun when people disagree with you, when they persecute you even, because of the beliefs that you hold both genuinely and deeply. It’s only human to feel diminished, disappointed, dismayed. But it happens … and it’s going to get worse. The persecution of minorities has been happening since time immemorial. Look at the Jewish nation: Down through their history, from ancient times through to the holocaust of the twentieth century and to the present-day

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I Rejoice in This

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2025/06/08

There’s something quite amazing, intoxicating even, in setting out to do what’s right and actually doing it; knowing in your heart of hearts that you’ve done good. I strongly suspect it was always meant to be so. You know how it goes – in any given situation, there’s always that temptation to cut corners, compromising your integrity for the sake of expediency, putting your finger on the scale to achieve an outcome that’s more favourable to you. We do that because we know we’ll probably get away

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Great is His Faithfulness

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2025/06/07

Sometimes life dumps us in places where we feel powerless, completely abandoned. Other times, we step out into things that we feel called to … but no sooner have we left our place of comfort and safety than the dark storm clouds begin to roll in. Such was the life and ministry of one Jackie Pullinger. After graduating from the Royal College of Music in London, she felt called to go to Hong Kong. Though she had no contacts there or any plan whatsoever, she arrived in 1966, a young, inexperienced,

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Your Body is a Temple

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2025/06/06

Today … we’re going to chat about … well, a touchy subject. Immorality, specifically sexual immorality. When it comes to views on the expression of intimacy, there are two polar opposites. At one end of the spectrum, if it feels good do it. At the other end, perhaps the religious end if we can call it that, there are some very specific moral views on fidelity and family. Where do you sit? A good many historians and moral philosophers will argue that immorality is proven to lead to the decline of

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Some Churches Aren't All That Friendly

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2025/06/05

We people are funny creatures – quite tribalistic when it comes down to it. It’s kind of a manifestation of the fact that we’re social creatures. We like to form groups and stick to them. That’s a good thing … but sometimes, let’s be honest, it’s a not so good thing too. Have you ever been the new kid on the block in some social setting? Perhaps you’ve just begun a new job. Everyone else knows the ropes. Everyone else, for better or worse, knows everyone else. They’re a group … and you have yet

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In My Opinion ...

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2025/06/04

Everyone seems to have an opinion about everything these days. Whilst in one sense there’s nothing new in that – people have been gossiping over the back fence since forever – social media’s provided us each with an instant outlet to trumpet our views. And, sorry to mix my metaphors here, how often does that leave them looking completely stupid with egg on their face? I have to tell you, I treat so-called ‘facts’ published online with a great deal of suspicion. Not because I’m a conspiracy

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Trust in the Lord

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2025/06/03

Stress, or the need to alleviate it, is the number one felt need in society today. What does that say, pray tell, about the way we’re living our lives? Perhaps you’ve heard me say this before but I’ll say it again, because I know it absolutely to be true. Whilst pressure is inevitable, stress is optional. Pressures come at us from all sides – that’s life. How we respond to them is a choice. The stress response is but one option, although sadly for many, it’s the default option. I totally get

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