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UCB Word For Today

With daily readings based on Scripture, articles, and things to pray about, the UCB Word For Today is designed to help you get into the habit of spending time with God every day.

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2:09

Encourage someone today

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/28

Every one of us needs encouragement (support that inspires confidence and a will to continue). The words we speak can either build up or tear down the people around us. Author Rebecca Barlow Jordan writes: ‘One of the first questions I like to ask Jesus when I wake up each morning is, “How can I encourage someone today? And who?” He’s always faithful to answer, often through His Word. One morning after asking that question, I read Isaiah 35:3-4 (NLT) and found a practical answer. First, “strengthen

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1:52

Love and honour your wife

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/27

There is an old story where a chief executive officer and his wife are travelling, and they stop to get petrol. The CEO goes inside, and when he comes out, he notices his wife talking to the petrol station attendant. He asks her why; it turns out that she knew the attendant and used to date him. Feeling smug, he says, ‘I’ll bet you’re thinking you’re glad you married me, a CEO, and not a service station attendant.’ She said, ‘No, I’m thinking if I’d married him, he would be a CEO and you would be a

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2:06

Get up and try again

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/26

Thomas Edison conducted thousands of experiments with various kinds of materials in his search for a filament he could use in carbon incandescent lamps. As each fibre failed, he would throw it out the window until, eventually, his pile of failures stretched all the way up to the second storey of his house. Then about thirteen months after his first failure, he succeeded in finding a filament that could stand the stress of electric current. And here is how it happened: he nonchalantly picked up a tad

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2:13

Be prudent; use forethought

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/25

Solomon writes: ‘The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways.’ ‘The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty’ (Proverbs 22:3 NIV). ‘The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty’ (Proverbs 21:5 NIV). What you are today was determined by decisions you made in the past. If you want to change your future, learn to make better decisions. Let these ten principles guide you: 1) Never make permanent decisions based on

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2:12

‘My name is gossip!’

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/24

If you’re inclined to gossip, read this carefully: ‘I maim without killing. I break hearts and ruin lives. I am cunning and malicious, and I gather strength with age. The more I’m quoted, the more I’m believed. I flourish at every level of society. My victims are helpless; they can’t protect themselves against me because I have no name and no face. To track me down is impossible. The harder you try, the more elusive I become. I’m nobody’s friend. Once I tarnish a reputation, it’s never the same. I

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1:50

The ‘shadow’ cannot hurt you

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/23

A pastor writes: ‘The great preacher Dr Donald Grey Barnhouse, whose first wife died, was driving his kids from the funeral. One of the kids said, “Daddy…where did Mommy go? I don’t understand what it means that she died.”…Just then, a truck passed by and cast a shadow over the car. He…said, “Kids, would you have rather been hit by the truck or hit by the shadow?”…Then he said, “Kids, when you die without Christ, you are hit by the truck. When you die with Christ, you are only hit by the shadow.”’

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2:04

Building healthy, fulfilling relationships

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/22

To fulfil God’s plan for your life, you need relationships with the right people, those who stick by you come what may. Remember Jonathan, who loved David even at the cost of his own life? And Ruth, who loved her mother-in-law Naomi and gave her a reason to live again? God can introduce you to such people and help you build a relationship with them. Think about it: He wouldn’t say, ‘It is not good that man should be alone,’ then ask you to live in isolation (Genesis 2:18 NKJV). Sometimes when you’re

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2:03

God’s answer to anxiety (4)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/21

Dr D. James Kennedy wrote: ‘A proper epitaph for most people…today would be “Hurried, worried, buried”…Many times we wish we could wash our hands of all our responsibilities and worries. The executive of one small company decided he would. Even though his company was headed for bankruptcy, he decided to quit worrying about it. So [he] called in his first vice-president and said, “I have had it with worrying about this company. If you’ll take over and handle all my worrying for me, I’ll add $50,000

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2:01

God’s answer to anxiety (3)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/20

One Christian author writes: ‘I once went through a period…when I was plagued by anxiety. I was filled with fear and dread for no particular reason. I kept feeling something terrible was going to happen. Finally I went to the Lord and asked Him what was troubling me. He told me it was “evil forebodings”. At the time I didn’t even know what that phrase meant or where it came from. Sometime later I came across Proverbs 15:15: “All the days of the desponding and afflicted are made evil [by anxious

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1:56

God’s answer to anxiety (2)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/19

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses in the nation. That was never part of God’s plan. In Matthew 11:28-29, Jesus said, ‘Come to me, all you who are…burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls’ (NIV). When oxen work side by side in the fields, they are yoked together and share the workload. That’s what Jesus wants you to do: work in harness with Him. Can you think of anyone

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1:56

God’s answer to anxiety (1)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/18

Anxiety is the curse of the modern era, but it’s not a new trend. Throughout Scripture, Jesus talked a lot about anxiety, stress, and fear. In fact, He mentioned them repeatedly in His teachings. In Matthew 6:25-27, He said, ‘Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or…what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much

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2:04

A fresh start

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/17

The largest bulldozer in the world is the Komatsu D575A. It’s 16 feet long, 25 feet wide, 41 feet high, and weighs 225,000 pounds. It was once used in a country where there was a surplus of rubbish that was polluting the environment. The bulldozer was brought in to dig a hole big enough to gather all that rubbish, bury it, and remove it from the lives of the residents. At the cross, God dug a hole so big that He could gather the sins of the entire world, in the past, present, and future. He gathered

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2:07

Are you feeling the heat?

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/16

C.S. Lewis said, ‘God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.’ It was in the furnace of affliction that the psalmist David said, ‘Teach me knowledge and good judgment, for I trust your commands. Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I obey your word. You are good, and what you do is good’ (Psalm 119:66-68 NIV). But you don’t get to that place of submission easily or overnight. It takes time, some kicking

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2:05

God’s footprints

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/15

The psalmist wrote, ‘Your path led through…mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen’ (v. 19 NIV). When you can’t see God’s ‘footprints’, He is calling you to walk by faith, not by sight (see 2 Corinthians 5:7). Joni Eareckson Tada wrote: ‘A few months from now, I’ll mark an anniversary that is a heart-breaking story of loss and an incomparable testimony of God’s faithfulness…I will have been in a wheelchair for 47 years…barely a heartbeat in history, and as nothing compared with eternity

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1:57

Have you been wounded in church? (2)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/14

Author Sherry Surratt notes that when Jesus promised to build His church, ‘[he] wasn’t just talking about the bricks or wood that form a…building, but he was talking about building his church of…ordinary, human people who are imperfect…broken and [who] bring their messy lives…with them every time they walk through the door. This is what Christ died for…He died for people – for his church…a group of people, led by people, and not a single one of us is perfect. We’re a broken bunch who hopefully

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2:11

Have you been wounded in church? (1)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/13

Being hurt by another Christian can be devastating, but the church is filled with imperfect people who do things they shouldn’t. As C.S. Lewis said, ‘God works on us in all sorts of ways…above all he works on us through each other.’ So before you give up and walk away, consider these suggestions: 1) Admit how much it hurt, and start to cope with it. Running away doesn’t achieve this. Humbly approach the person who hurt you, motivated to reconcile. Discuss your pain with the purpose of releasing it

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2:03

Dealing with stress-producing people

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/12

At times it’s impossible to be at peace with certain people. Recognising this reality, the apostle Paul, in essence, said, ‘Do all that you can to try and make it happen.’ Besides the covenant relationship you have with your husband or wife and your responsibility for your children, if you’re wise, you will prayerfully evaluate your other relationships and know how much time you should invest in them. For example: if you have a close relative who is always argumentative or negative, don’t put

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2:10

Communication that works at home

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/11

Virginia Satir, a founder of family systems therapy, determined that most families have five styles of communication. 1) Some members are placaters. They go along to get along, and reduce stress by saying what others want to hear that makes them less upset. 2) Others are blamers: finger-pointers, nit-pickers, spinners of exquisite theories, eager to prove that they’re right and you’re wrong. And by accepting the blame, you vindicate and empower them. 3) Satir describes other family members as

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1:50

Grace – when you need it most

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/10

During World War II, Corrie ten Boom and her Dutch family hid many Jews from the Nazis. Eventually, she was caught and put in a concentration camp where she saw all sorts of atrocities, including the death of her father and sister. Then she was accidentally released. She never became bitter. She even forgave the man who killed her relatives. Someone asked her how she could endure those dark days and remain loving, forgiving, and kind. She answered with a story of how, when she was a little girl, her

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2:07

Seeing yourself through God’s eyes (2)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/10/09

One Christian author writes: ‘What if everywhere you went, you ran into someone you didn’t like? You attend a party and have to endure her conversation and constant opinions. You go to church, and she’s sitting right beside you…she is at the dinner table…she’s everywhere! That sounds pretty awful, but this is the exact situation you’re in if you don’t like yourself, because you are everywhere you go. You can’t get away from yourself, even for a second, so you’re in for a sad life if you dread your

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