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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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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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Tolerance Versus Endorsement

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2025/06/02

If there were just one word to sum up the dominant moral ethos of this age, it would be the word “tolerance”. It’s become the hallmark of decency, of concern, of love. And yet instinctively we know that some of the things we’re being called to be tolerant of are … quite plainly, wrong. In this ‘anything goes’ world in which we live, why wouldn’t tolerance be the marque of common decency and respect? Sure, morals today ain’t what they were when I was growing up … but that’s a long time ago. The

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Come to Jesus

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2025/06/01

If ever there was a time in human history when ordinary folk like you and me needed to relearn, to rediscover, the art of rest, it’d have to be here, now, today. With all the technology crowding in on us, our constant connectedness the outside world, the bright little screens disrupting our sleep patterns … yep, today’s the day. Between emails, SMS’s, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter (or ‘X’ as it’s now called) not to mention good old-fashioned telephone calls and all those daily stresses of life,

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The Sabbath Rest of God

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2025/05/31

Of all the things we experience in life – the good, the bad, the ugly – without a shadow of doubt, one the most pleasant, one of the most wonderful … is rest. T’ain’t nothin’ like putting your head down on that soft pillow at night after a long hard day. In fact, when you think about it, rest is absolutely vital to our survival. You can’t keep functioning without it. Eventually, your body will fall asleep no matter how hard you try staying awake. Indeed, protracted sleep deprivation will

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Trust in the Lord

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2025/05/30

Picture this – you’re in a small boat on a calm sea when suddenly thunder clouds roll in, the wind begins to howl, your boat starts pitching violently, the rain buckets down. Water’s pouring in, the boat’s sinking lower in the water, you’re ready to be sick over the side, and in a fit of panic you realise that your life’s suddenly in peril. Can there be anything more frightening than that? I hope and pray that never happens to either of us. And yet there are times in life – in every person’s life

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What Jesus Wants

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2025/05/29

I don’t think any of us needs a lecture on the benefits of rest, of taking a break from our labours, of drawing away and having some “me time”. But if that’s the case, why are so many people living such stressed, frazzled lives? I came home from an international ministry trip recently – a 15 hour flight there and back, an eight hour time change at each end, five cities, nine days running workshops, speaking, meetings, radio interviews … it was awesome but intense. So when I arrived home late

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Getting the Balance Right

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2025/05/28

When it comes to living out your life in what, frankly, is a crazy world these days, it’s becoming more and more difficult it seems to strike a happy work-life balance. Some want to take it easy yet have it all, while others are working themselves into an early grave. There’s all sorts of research out there these days about work-life balance. In one study, around 60% of employees surveyed worldwide felt they were nailing it – which means that 40% weren’t. Not surprisingly, the figures are better

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Driven to Deliver

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2025/05/27

Can I be blunt today and ask you, are you a workaholic? And if not you, are you married to one? Or is one of your adult children a workaholic? Because speaking from experience, I can tell you, it’s a shocking disease. According to a joint report by the World Health Organisation and the International Labour Organisation, in 2016 long working hours led to 745,000 additional deaths globally from stroke and ischemic heart disease. That’s 29% more than in 2000 and we can only imagine that the numbers

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Working Long Hours

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2025/05/26

The need to work is something that we take pretty much for granted. After all, we need to put food on the table, a roof over our heads. And though sadly, many are unemployed and that’s tough, there’s something else going on with work that’s equally bad. While some workplaces are moving towards a shorter working week, others are headed in the opposite direction. In a recent article – “What working long hours does to your body” – National Geographic reported that Greece had passed legislation

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No Excuses

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2025/05/25

We can get grumpy for all sorts of reasons – a lack of sleep, low blood sugar, hunger, stress, unresolved anger, injustice, conflict. Hey, even bad weather can make us grumpy. And when you’re grumpy, the words that tumble out of your mouth … well, they can be pretty ugly. Have you ever had someone lash out at you out of nowhere? Those words stung, so you took it personally – how could you not? And it’s not something that’s easily forgotten either. In fact, it can change the whole relationship

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The Pain of Correction

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2025/05/24

So, a couple of questions for you today: How much do you like being corrected? How much do you like being disciplined? Come on! Have you ever found yourself saying, “I can’t wait for someone to point out my mistakes and correct me”? Not likely! Even more abhorrent in this day and age is the notion of God’s discipline, God’s correction. Though it remains the top-selling book in the world by a country mile, the Bible is one of the least trusted documents in society today. Fancy listening to that

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Honour God with Your Wealth

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2025/05/23

Perhaps you’ve heard me say this before, but I’m going to say it again today because it’s so incredibly important. In this life, pressure is inevitable. Stress, on the other hand, is entirely optional. One of the biggest pressures we can face is financial pressure. How stressed are you over your finances? You can hardly pick up a newspaper or listen to a news bulletin these days without being confronted by the financial pressures that so many are under – inflation, interest rates, tough decisions

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Model Behaviour (3)

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2025/05/22

Suffering is a nasty thing, a terrible thing, a thing that we don’t want to have to go through, or deal with, or even mention. But just as surely as God made little green apples, you and I still have some suffering to get through in the days that remain for us here on this earth. Well, there’s a cheery thought – glad you joined me today? Sure you are, because, just like me, you need to be able to get through your suffering, to makes sense of your suffering … perhaps even to find meaning in your

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Model Behaviour (2)

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2025/05/21

Do you know what I hate? I hate it when I’m made to suffer when I’ve done nothing wrong; when my good intentions are misconstrued and people turn against me. We’ve all been there and it’s a terrible thing. Nelson Mandela was pivotal in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Whilst he initially advocated non-violent resistance, he later cofounded the armed wing of the African National Congress in response to the terrible Sharpeville massacre of 1960. Whilst these days he’s revered as

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Model Behaviour (1)

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2025/05/20

Without doubt, we live in a brutal world. We’d like to believe, for instance, that slavery was eradicated long ago. But according to the World Economic Forum, as of 2021 there were over 50 million people globally living in conditions of modern slavery. 50 million! The very concept of slavery is patently abhorrent and yet it’s been a fact of life pretty much for all of human history, which I guess sets the scene for this somewhat puzzling Bible verse: 1 Peter 2:18 Slaves, be willing to serve

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Trust in the Lord With All Your Heart

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2025/05/19

It’s easy these days to feel pressured – pressured by a lack of time, a lack of resources, the demands that work and life in general place on us, pressing in, it seems, from every direction. What is it in your life that makes you feel pressured? One of the things that can all too easily set me off is my email inbox, especially after I’ve been travelling. I come back to hundreds of emails. How am I ever going to get through them? How am I ever going to meet all these demands? We all have

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