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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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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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Don't Play Hide and Seek With God

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2025/05/18

Remember when you did something wrong as a child how you’d hide it from your parents? Sometimes you got away with it, other times you didn’t. Either way, it wasn’t a nice feeling having to hide things or getting caught, was it? In 1963, eleven men pulled off an audacious heist in the UK that became known as “The Great Train Robbery”, stealing £2.6 million sterling (the equivalent of around £55 million today). Most of it was never recovered. One of them, Ronnie Biggs, became particularly well

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Don't Swallow the Jesus Cocktail

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2025/05/17

Down through the centuries – indeed, to this very day – “religion” has been used to perpetrate unspeakable atrocities. There’s no arguing with that. So how does something that’s meant to be good end up becoming manifestly evil? Let’s use the Christians as our bad example for today. Somewhere between several hundred thousand and several million people were killed during the Christian Crusades over two centuries, beginning in 1096. The aim was to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslim control ensuring

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Overcoming Financial Stress (5)

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2025/05/16

One of the reasons that Jesus made such a splash back in His day is that in the face of the brutal realities of the Graeco-Roman world, coupled with the corruption of Israel’s religious leaders, He proclaimed and lived out a message of radical unselfishness. Back in 1836 George and Mary Müller founded the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. They were by no means wealthy. Quite the opposite, in fact. The Müllers struggled with poverty, often lacking the basic essentials. They began with

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Overcoming Financial Stress (4)

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2025/05/15

Whether you’re rich, poor, or somewhere in between, there always seems to be that temptation to want more. And it’s amazing how adept the marketing machines of this world have become at tapping into our various trigger points for instant gratification. Yet along the way, to be honest, there have been times when we didn’t know whether we’d be able to keep it going; when the finances didn’t seem to be there to sustain the ministry. Yet God is a faithful God. Anyone who’s ever been in need and

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Overcoming Financial Stress (3)

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2025/05/14

In the world of high finance, many use debt to make more money. It’s called a leveraged investment. You borrow someone else’s money, invest it, and hopefully make more money. I don’t know about you, but I don’t live in the world of high finance. In so-called developed economies, the big worry – both for financial regulators and individuals – is the easy availability of consumer financing. Worse still, people often use debt, not to fund investments or even a home, but to buy useless trinkets that

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Overcoming Financial Stress (2)

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2025/05/13

Headline after headline is telling us that financial pressures are tearing lives apart. And the more we hear about the financial crisis, the more pressured we feel. I saw another headline the other day: “Ordinary Workers Can’t Afford Their Rent.” The article talked about the fact that even teachers, police officers, nurses – these professionals who whilst not wealthy, earn more than most – are being forcing into second and third jobs just to get by. So imagine how much the unemployed, those on

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Overcoming Financial Stress (1)

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2025/05/12

One of the biggest causes of stress in society today is personal finances. Rising prices. Rising rents. Punishing mortgage interest. Health care. How do I make ends meet? It’s causing a lot of people a lot of worry. This Newsweek headline recently caught my eye: “Financial Insecurity Causing a Mental Health Crisis.” Let me quote from their survey: 88% of respondents felt some level of financial stress. 65% said their finances were their biggest source of stress, having a significant negative

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Why Stay Foolish?

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2025/05/11

Empowerment is a word we all love. Hey, who doesn’t want to feel empowered? Who doesn’t want to be able to crash through their problems? But you can’t talk about empowerment without mentioning responsibility and accountability, at which point, many recoil. What, really? Any psychologist will tell you how important it is to acknowledge your own role in your thoughts, feelings and behaviours. To become more self-aware. To step up and become an active agent in your life. To take the initiative. To

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Being Your Authentic Self

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2025/05/10

The mantra of this age seems to be … be your authentic self! Do what comes naturally. Be who you feel you really are. Which very much sets up the culture wars between so-called conservatives and liberals. What do you make of all that? Nineteenth Century American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson put it like this: “To be yourself in a world that’s constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” That’s great, up to a point. It certainly works if “being yourself” is

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Don't Head Back to Prison

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2025/05/09

I’m fairly certain that just a single night locked up in prison would be more than enough to cure me of any future criminal intent that might be lurking in my heart. How about you? Which is why I find recidivism – those criminals who repeatedly reoffend – so completely incomprehensible. American gangster Al Capone rose to prominence in the 1920’s during the Prohibition era as the leader of the ‘Chicago Outfit’ which ran organised crime operations in bootlegging, gambling and prostitution. He was

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Self-Promotion in Disguise

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2025/05/08

Let’s face it, boasting is an ugly habit. It’s crass. It turns most of us off … and yet people still do it. But not all of it is “in your face” so to speak. A good deal of self-promotion, of bragging, comes dressed in any number of disguises. Yep, boasting arrives incognito. Take humble bragging. “Oh, I’m so exhausted from my vacation in Paris; the jetlag’s killing me.” Or name dropping – “I was just chatting with so and so about that very thing last week,”as though “so and so” is a lifelong

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Stand Firm

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2025/05/07

It feels like the hot days are getting hotter and the cold days are getting colder. Whether or not you believe that climate change is real, there’s one thing for certain – the insurance companies sure do, as premiums skyrocket because of increased damage from natural disasters. And for many, with all that’s going on in the world and in their lives, the storms of life seem to be getting more frequent and more intense too. How do you withstand them? There’s an oak tree on Johns Island near

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Think Beyond the Present

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2025/05/06

Isn’t it just the pits when apparently evil people succeed, and those who try to do good not only fail but suffer as a consequence? And when that happens to us the very strong temptation is to become one of them. American cyclist Lance Armstrong showed tremendous promise during his early career, winning some pretty big races before in 1996, being diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1996. Nevertheless, he recovered and went on to win the prestigious Tour de France seven consecutive times from 1999

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God's Compassion for You

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2025/05/05

When it sees someone suffering, a soft heart, a tender heart, will experience that person’s pain as though it were its own … at which point, it becomes deeply motivated to relieve what’s now become a shared suffering. At different times in our lives, we’ve each been on either side of this great love transaction that we refer to as ‘compassion’. Any parent will many times have been overwhelmed with compassion at the sight of their child suffering. And on some of the darkest days of our own lives

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Don't Become Too Shiny

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2025/05/04

Success can be a fickle thing. Of course we all want to be successful at what we do. Nobody sets out on a venture – large or small – with the express intent of failing. And yet, too much success can be a dangerous thing. Any venture that you embark on takes effort. There are risks to be taken, decisions to be made, opportunities here or there to cut corners, to cheat, to lie. I’ve been there, you’ve been there. But if you manage to resist those temptations, more often than not you’ll achieve at

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Don't Expect Instant Feedback

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2025/05/03

You can ask any AI tool a question and in mere seconds it’ll deliver the sort of comprehensive research that would’ve taken you hours of combing through a library. So our expectations these days are pretty darned high. I was chatting recently with my pastor, Dave, who with his own hands is about to build a modest extension to his home. One of the reasons he enjoys building, he said, is the instant feedback. A few hours, and a wall goes up. A few more hours, and a window goes in. He can stand back

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Reexamine Your Spending Habits

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2025/05/02

Okay, time to get in your face today (you’re welcome!). How do you spend your money? More importantly, what criteria do you apply to choosing either the cheaper or more expensive version of something, or to that impulse item that’s just screaming out at you … “buy me!” If your finances are somewhere between tight and critical, the answer’s pretty simple; you only buy what you have to – although even then the temptation’s still strong to splurge and not leave enough for the essentials. But

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When Prayer Doesn't Come Easy

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2025/05/01

Surveys tell us that at least a billion people across the globe have prayed in the past month – now the statistics don’t tell us to whom they prayed or what they prayed about, simply that they did indeed pray. The Pew Research Center reports that 55% of American adults have prayed in the last 30 days. In the UK, almost half have prayed at least once in their lives, 28% in the past month. In China, only around 16% of people consider themselves to be “religious” (whatever that happens to mean) but

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Come to the Ancient Well

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2025/04/30

There’s a tendency in the high-tech, fast-moving, AI-driven world in which we live to dismiss the wisdom of our forefathers (if I can use such an old-fashioned word) as being largely irrelevant to the age in which we live. So many of the self-evident, foundational truths and practices handed down to us through the centuries have been cast aside amidst a kind of “we know better these days” attitude. Of course, change is a constant and some of the social change that’s gone on has been positive

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