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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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2:08

Only Jesus can satisfy your soul

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/05/13

We are desirous by nature. We keep desiring things just like we keep taking our next breath. The trouble is, when we get the things we crave, they don’t bring us the happiness we yearn for. So, we keep looking for more and more things. Online shops are in the business of ‘creating need’. Things we had assigned to our ‘want’ category are switched to our ‘need’ category. But according to a theologian, here is the problem: ‘We cannot get enough of what we do not need…No matter how much we have, we

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2:07

Born to believe (2)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/05/12

Parenting doesn’t end when your child becomes a teenager. Teens are just more mobile, spend less time with you, and are more independent. Now they value and emulate peers who are as immature as they are. Even when you have laid moral and spiritual foundations in their early years, something will happen that leaves you asking, ‘What happened? Where did I go wrong?’ Adolescence happened! It’s the teenager’s brain; it’s wired that way. Their frontal lobes – the part of the brain linked to moral

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2:02

Born to believe (1)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/05/11

Training a child is both challenging and rewarding. By shaping their underlying belief system, you help their developing brain establish permanent neural pathways that will guide their moral and spiritual growth. Neuroscientists Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman, authors of Born to Believe, tell us the most crucial years are from age seven to ten. That’s when a child has the greatest propensity to understand the concept of a God they can’t see, feel, or hear. What an ideal opportunity! Newberg

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2:04

How God sees you

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/05/10

Once we understand that God’s love for us is based on what Christ did for us rather than what we do ourselves, the struggle is over. Now we can stop ‘performing’, and we can serve God because we know He loves us and that we don’t need to try to make Him love us. We no longer fear rejection by Him because of our mistakes. When we do something wrong, now all we do is repent, receive God’s forgiveness, and then refuse the condemnation that sin brings. Realising we are loved and accepted even though

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1:58

Setting prayer traps

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/05/09

When we read the verse, ‘Take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ,’ we tend to think it’s about capturing sinful thoughts and getting them out of our minds. And it is. But it’s also about capturing creative thoughts and keeping them in our minds. This Scripture also means stewarding every word, every thought, every impression, and every revelation inspired by God’s Spirit. A pastor writes: ‘The Aramaic word for “prayer” means “to set a trap”. We often think of prayer as nothing more

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2:09

How long will you live?

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/05/08

Do you ever wonder how long you will live? The Bible says, ‘The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away’ (v. 10 NKJV). Why do some of us live longer than others? Paul answers, ‘Our knowledge is partial and incomplete’ (1 Corinthians 13:9 NLT). But here are three things you can be sure of: 1) You can lengthen your life by obeying God and shorten it by disobeying Him

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2:04

Use your imagination

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/05/07

Lack of faith is not a failure of logic; it’s a failure of imagination. Lack of faith is the inability or unwillingness to entertain thoughts of a God who is able to do ‘immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us’ (v. 20 NIV). Did you get that? God wants to empower your imagination! A pastor writes: ‘If we are going to have an eternal impact on our culture, we can’t just criticise it or copy it. We’ve got to create it. If we are going to reach our

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1:49

Learn to delegate

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/05/06

The New Testament church grew so fast that the apostles became overwhelmed with the challenge of administering it. What did they do? ‘So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, “It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables. Brothers and sisters, choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this responsibility over to them and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of

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2:01

Put away the measuring stick!

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/05/05

Reimar Schultze says: ‘The more conscientious we are, the more we…go to bed with some sense that we missed the elusive 100 per cent again…Many precious saints fall for this trap…robbing themselves of the joy of the Lord and the peace…that passes all understanding…We all are familiar with the testimonies of some of the greatest men of God. Many of them, like us…found themselves in the gutters of self-incrimination.’ Moses felt completely unworthy and unable to free Israel from Egypt. Yet how often

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2:00

Know when to let go

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/05/04

Persistence, determination, commitment, and recognising the ‘right time…to hold on’ are all commendable qualities, whether it’s setting aside time to pray and read every day, eating dinner with your family, finding a better job, or losing weight, etc. But it’s equally important to recognise the ‘right time…to let go’ of self-generated urgency and things that are stopping you from living ‘life in all its fullness’ (John 10:10 NCV). The Bible tells us to ‘lay aside every weight’ (Hebrews 12:1 NKJV)

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2:01

Don’t break, bounce back (2)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/05/03

Here are two more keys to bouncing back: 1) Instead of complaining about what you can’t change, change what you can. When you can’t change your situation, you can change your attitude towards it. How do you do that? By reprogramming your mind with God’s Word. The Bible says, ‘For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe [trust in God]’ (1 John 5:4-5 NLT). 2) Instead of grumbling

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2:03

Don’t break, bounce back (1)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/05/02

When resilient people hit bottom, they don’t break, they bounce back. The apostle Paul was such a person: ‘We often suffer, but we are never crushed. Even when we don’t know what to do, we never give up. In times of trouble, God is with us, and when we are knocked down, we get up again’ (2 Corinthians 4:8-9 CEV). So, how can you bounce back instead of breaking? By doing two things: 1) When you can’t control your circumstances, take control of your life. When a back injury paralysed Angela Madsen

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1:54

Consult God on your daily to-do list

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/05/01

To come up with a daily to-do list that keeps your peace and joy intact, consult God. When you take on too much, you set yourself up for failure – and stress. If you’re wise, you won’t schedule more than one or two ‘majors’ in a day. Life doesn’t run smoothly, no matter how badly you want it to. So, build in time for interruptions, traffic jams, lost keys, slow-moving people, etc. And be careful about multi-tasking. Studies have connected high-stress multi-tasking to short-term memory loss. Experts

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1:56

When others ‘don’t get it’

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/30

When you share your faith with someone and they don’t seem to ‘get it’, don’t be disappointed, don’t be upset, and don’t be impatient. In Scripture, God’s Word is referred to as ‘seed’ (Luke 8:11), so that makes you a sower. Yes, we would all like to sow and then reap as quickly as possible. But sowing and reaping each have their own season. When the finger of God began to write King Belshazzar’s fate on the walls of his palace and none of his wise men could interpret it, they called for Daniel the

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1:56

Shake it off, and move forward

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/29

Let’s be honest, each of us wants others to love, respect, and accept us. But when people are unready or unwilling to change or haven’t experienced the joy and fulfilment in Christ that you have, you will often experience rejection. Indeed, when you follow Jesus, rejection is guaranteed. What should you do? Here is what Jesus told His disciples to do: ‘In whatever place you enter a house, stay there till you depart from that place. And whoever will not receive you nor hear you, when you depart from

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2:03

Is God shaking you up?

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/28

God told Ezekiel to declare His word to a valley full of bones, and they became a mighty army. These bones were dead, dry, and in disarray. That may describe where you are today. Your hopes are dead, your soul is dry, your life in disarray. What’s the answer? 1) You need God to shake things up in your life. ‘There was a…shaking, and the bones came together’ (v. 7). If it feels like things are being shaken up in your personal life, your home life, and your work life, rejoice; it means God has great

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1:56

Refuse to wear the label

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/27

The name Jabez means ‘pain and trouble’. Perhaps that’s why no other parent in Scripture gave their child that name. But it’s a label he refused to wear and a name he refused to be defined by. A label usually tells you what is in a bottle; its contents and even its value. And when you accept the labels people try to put on you, you start to believe that’s who you really are and that you will never become anything more than that. The Bible says, ‘As he thinketh in his heart, so is he’ (Proverbs 23:7

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1:52

Keep praying and believing

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/26

How long should you keep praying and believing God for the answer? This Scripture addresses your question: ‘Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise’ (vv. 35-36 NKJV). Many of God’s promises have timelines, and you need long-distance faith to receive them. Note the word ‘endurance’, and picture yourself as a marathon runner determined to finish the race and receive the

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1:56

Find prayer partners

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/25

You say, ‘I don’t have faith to be healed.’ Then find some prayer partners with faith. ‘Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. When Jesus saw their faith…He said to the paralytic, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” Immediately he arose, took up the bed,

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2:00

Growth is about enlargement

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/24

Read these enlargement Scriptures: ‘You enlarged my path.’ ‘Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would…enlarge my territory”’ (1 Chronicles 4:10 NKJV). ‘Enlarge the place of your tent…lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes’ (Isaiah 54:2 NKJV). God wants to enlarge you spiritually, emotionally, relationally, and in every area of your life. But to experience enlargement, you must learn from people larger than you. Dr John Maxwell writes: ‘The first ten years that I was

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