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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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Coming Face to Face with God

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2025/10/19

So, it’s Sunday … is today the end of your week or the beginning of your new week? I like to think of Sunday as the last day of my week, before I launch into it all again on Monday. So I wonder if you’ll allow me to share something encouraging, something mind-blowingly amazing with you to finish off your week? Well, whether you find it encouraging, whether you find it amazing, I guess depends on what you believe is going to happen to you once you shed your mortal coil, so to speak. I received an

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Just You Wait!

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2025/10/18

It’s not at all unusual to go through patches where you find yourself dissatisfied, stagnant, in a rut. I’ve certainly been there and what makes it so confusing is that you can’t quite put your finger on any one thing that might be the cause of this all too common malady. I was reading an article by Penny Timms in the press recently that provided some clarity about what’s going on in the lives of so many, and I quote: It’s that sense that life just isn’t quite where you thought it would be by

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What Does It All Mean?

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2025/10/17

There are so many different belief systems available to us these days – religious, environmental, political, social … whatever. We tend to like to peg our own story, if you will, on some sort of framework, and then identify with that group. But what does it all mean? According to Statista.com around 31.6% of the global population identifies as Christian. That’s around 2.6 billion people, projected to grow to 3.3 billion by 2050. But what does all that mean? Will every one of those people end up

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We All Need Reminding

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2025/10/16

How we see ourselves, the stories we tell ourselves about where we fit into the bigger picture, the comparisons we make between ourselves and others, the degree to which our past failures and present foibles weigh on our minds, all have a massive impact on our lives – on our sense of wellbeing, on our relationships and on the degree to which we fulfill our potential. Wouldn’t you agree? If I had a dollar for every time I disobeyed my parents, every time I disappointed them, every time I cut

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Oh Lord It's Hard to be Humble

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2025/10/15

Humility, gentleness and patience are, for all of us I think, right up there atop of our list of qualities that we love to find in other people. I mean, who wouldn’t like to surround themselves with folk like that? And yet, they’re qualities – let’s be honest – that sometimes fail us in our attitudes and behaviour towards others. Back in 1980, Texan country singer, Mac Davis, released a catchy song about humility – or, more to the point, the lack thereof. The chorus goes something like this: Oh

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A Remarkable Transformation

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2025/10/14

The difference between arrogance and humility is massive. They’re worlds apart, aren’t they!? Which kind of begs the question for each one of us – how do others see me? Am I arrogant or humble or somewhere in between? It’s difficult to think of a more dramatic transformation from arrogance to humility in modern times than in the life of Nelson Mandela. Once a fiery, militant leader who believed that armed resistance was the only way to end apartheid, his twenty-seven years in prison humbled him,

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Troubles That Test Your Faith

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2025/10/13

Can I ask you today to think back to the most testing time you’ve ever faced in your life? The most difficult trial. The toughest situation you’ve ever known. As you reflect on that time, what emotions does it conjure up for you? My toughest time was over 30 years ago when my first wife left me for one of my best friends. It was just awful. Though it’s a long time ago now, the wound’s healed, the scar remains. When I think back on that time there’s still a sadness there. That’s only natural, I

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God's Power of Protection

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2025/10/12

Can I ask you … what keeps you going day after day, through the sunny days, the cloudy days, the stormy days … the days that really, you’d skip over if you could? What keeps you looking forward? Marie Durand was a 16th century French Huguenot who spent 38 years imprisoned in the Tower of Constance for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. Arrested at just 19, she endured relentless pressure to recant. Yet through hunger, disease and despair she clung to the hope of Christ. On the prison wall,

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Your Living Hope

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2025/10/11

As we puddle along day by day, I think it’s all too easy for us to take life for granted. For better or worse, we’re living, breathing and doing all the things we have to do. Until … we’re not. Each morning when I wake up, I thank God for my night’s sleep, the breath in my lungs and the new day, whatever it may bring. It’s my little form of resistance against becoming too complacent about the gift of life. It’s that thought, that notion of the preciousness of life, that makes me see these words

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Where Does Your Confidence Lie?

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2025/10/10

Wouldn’t it be great to live through all life’s ups and downs with a quiet, rock-solid strong confidence; a peace that passes all understanding, no matter what big, ugly, hairy, dangerous thing comes against you? That’d be something, wouldn’t it? It sounds almost too good to be true. Perhaps it sounds near impossible when you think about all the things coming against you right now. I have a friend who’s struggling with cancer that’s spread throughout her whole body. She’s undergoing all sorts of

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Just What Jesus Predicted

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2025/10/09

I think it’s pretty true for all of us that there never seems to be a time in our lives when there’s not something going on that we’d rather not have going on. It’s true, isn’t it? There always seems to be something! Now, that “something” can be a combination of small niggling things, or perhaps it’s one or two really big things. And even if at the moment everything seems to be just peachy … we both know that doesn’t last forever. There’s a reason for that. Life’s complicated. The world’s messy

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A Definite Plan

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2025/10/08

I don’t know about you, but I don’t like to suffer. Hey, I don’t even like being moderately inconvenienced or uncomfortable. How about you? You know what it’s like when you’re freezing cold. You don’t want to stay that way. In fact, all you can think about is getting warm. And when you’re hot and sweaty, all you want is some cool air and a cold drink. For some people, that’s merely a matter of comfort. But for others, it can be a matter of survival. When you’re in one of those uncomfortable

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Feeling Like an Exile

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2025/10/07

It’s not at all uncommon to feel, in a sense, untethered in life – as though you’re not where you’re meant to be. Something’s not quite right but it’s this surreal feeling of displacement. Have you ever felt that? According to the United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, there are 44 million refugees in the world today. And that’s just part of a broader displacement crisis, with over 122 million people worldwide forced to flee their homes through persecution, conflict and violence. Just imagine

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Punished for Doing What's Right

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2025/10/06

Ideally, life would be fair. Good people would be rewarded for doing good. Bad people would be punished for doing bad. All would be as it should be and that would be that. But … public service announcement!! … life ain’t always fair. 489 years ago today, William Tyndale was executed for translating the Bible from Latin into English, which was seen by the religious hierarchy as a challenge to the authority of the church. He was strangled to death and then burned at the stake near Brussels in

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The Gift of Giving

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2025/10/05

I hope you’ll forgive me for asking you a rather direct question today, but … how generous are you? No, really … how much of what you have and who you are do you give away? 19th century Scottish industrialist Andrew Carnegie rose from poverty to become one of the richest men in the world. He believed that the wealthy had a moral responsibility to distribute their wealth for the greater good. Putting his money where his mouth was, he gave away billions in today’s money, finding great personal

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A Woman's Duty to Her Family

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2025/10/04

Years ago, women had no rights. They were mere chattels tethered to their father and then to their husband. Happily, there have been great advances in women’s rights, with hopefully more to come. And yet, I wonder sometimes whether in some ways, we’ve not quite hit the mark. Should a woman have the same opportunities as a man? Absolutely. Should she get equal pay for equal work? Totally. So let’s keep that going. But what of a woman’s duty to her family? We talked about a man’s duty yesterday,

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A Man's Duty to His Family

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2025/10/03

Families, the world over, are falling apart. Sure, there are vibrant families too. But increasingly, with the invasion of technology and all that that brings into the home, with the rise of a ‘me-centred’ take on life, it’s little wonder that both the extended and the nuclear family are under siege. A major contributing factor without doubt is that many men have, for one reason or another, lost their sense of duty toward their family. In many parts of the world, healthy masculinity has fallen out

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Highway to Hell

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2025/10/02

The relationship between work and rest is an interesting one. Many work so hard that it drives them into the ground. Others suffer from too little “work” and too much rest, driving them to boredom and loneliness. Wherever you are on that continuum, striking a happy medium isn’t always easy. When we’re young and working hard, satisfying though that may be, we’re hoping that at some point, it’s going to get easier. We long for a comfortable existence without too much effort. Eventually, trying to

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Prepare to be Stretched

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2025/10/01

None of us likes to be stretched – at least, not too much. We don’t mind a bit of physical, intellectual or emotional stretching, if I can call it that … but not to the point of discomfort. I guess that’s why most people, most of the time, go for the easy option. I was reading an interesting article recently about cognitive decline. The learned professor was saying that around age sixty, people get a bit comfortable … they might avoid challenging and difficult things and start coasting on

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In Your Wildest Dreams

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2025/09/30

One of the saddest of all human conditions is complacency. Each of us is filled with so much potential – different though we all are. But complacency has this nasty habit of robbing us of our potential. Who wants to get to the end of their life wondering … what could have been? Richard Branson is a household name: An entrepreneur extraordinaire, an adventurer and, by all accounts, a pretty decent fellow. Beginning with Virgin Records, his ventures have expanded to over 400 companies including

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