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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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2:00

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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2:00

Today expect God’s favour

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/23

The Bible says that God will surround the righteous with favour. If you are trusting in the finished work of Christ, God sees you as ‘righteous’ (see Romans 3:22). So, you qualify; you can pray, ‘Lord, I need your favour in this job interview,’ or ‘in selling this house’, or ‘in making this deal’, or ‘in going on this date’, etc. Be prepared for your old programming to kick in, where you think about the word ‘righteous’; you begin to wonder if your thoughts, words, and deeds are good enough to

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1:58

Governed by Christ’s love for us

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/22

The most powerful incentive to overcoming sin is not our love for Christ, but His love for us. Even with the best of intentions, our love for Him is subject to fluctuations. Jesus said to the church in Ephesus, ‘You have left your first love’ (Revelation 2:4 NKJV). He said to the church in Laodicea that their love had become ‘lukewarm’ (Revelation 3:16). Many of us grew up in churches where we were told that the reason we yield to certain carnal traits is because we don’t love the Lord enough. So,

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2:02

God knows what’s ‘good’ for us (2)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/21

Carolyn Arends writes: ‘Our expectations are not just unrealistic, they’re anti-gospel…Many of us…distort His promise of abundant life into something that resembles the illusion advertisers sell us every day. How do we resist our sense of entitlement and the distorted expectations that are so deeply ingrained? 1) Check the Definitions. When I read that God “works all things together for good”, I think of the marketers’ definitions…that “good” means “easy”, “youthful”, “desirable”, and “wealthy”. God

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2:15

God knows what’s ‘good’ for us (1)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/20

Our definition of ‘good’ is different from God’s. ‘It was the Father’s good pleasure…to reconcile all things to Himself…through the…cross.’ Carolyn Arends writes: ‘During a jubilant Easter service, our pastor said something that stopped me in my mental tracks: “The world offers promises full of emptiness. But Easter offers emptiness full of promise.” Empty cross, empty tomb, empty grave clothes…all full of promise. If I were writing the Easter story, I don’t think I’d choose emptiness as my symbolic

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1:53

Do you believe this?

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/19

Author Chuck Swindoll tells about a couple whose marriage had been a fifty-year battle. The husband died, and it fell to the wife to choose a gravestone. She contacted a stonemason and told him, ‘I don’t want to be fancy or spend a lot of money. Just engrave the words: “TO MY HUSBAND” in a suitable place on the stone.’ She went to visit his grave and, to her horror, read these words: ‘TO MY HUSBAND…IN A SUITABLE PLACE.’ Swindoll writes: ‘A humorous story helps mask the pain and confusion surrounding

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1:57

Double jeopardy

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/18

In the legal system, there is something known as ‘the law of double jeopardy’. It means that, except in some very specific circumstances, you can’t be tried twice for the same crime. Now, let’s apply this principle to your salvation. Jesus has already been tried and punished for your sins – all of them! So don’t let Satan, the accuser, convince you that God will also punish you for them and send you to hell. Christ’s last words on the cross, ‘It is finished,’ are translated in the Greek text as

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1:58

Embracing uncertainty and following God

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/17

A part of us feels as if something is spiritually wrong with us when we experience uncertainty. But that is precisely what Jesus promised us when we are born of the Spirit and start following Him. ‘The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit’ (John 3:8 NLT). When it comes to being led by God’s Spirit, the operative phrase is ‘You can’t explain how.’ Even when you have

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2:01

Change your routine

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/16

As attested by the law of requisite variety, the continued existence of any system requires the ability to cultivate variety in its internal structures. In physical exercise, for example, routines eventually become useless. If you exercise the same way each time you work out, your muscles begin adapting and stop developing. You have to change your routine. You have to disorient them. This is true spiritually. One author writes: ‘When I’m in a spiritual slump, nine times out of ten, something sacred

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1:46

Fear is the enemy of growth

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/15

If you want to grow, you need to get over any fear you may have of making mistakes. As author and professor Warren Bennis states, ‘A mistake is simply another way of doing things.’ So, expect to make mistakes along the way, and embrace them as a sign that you are going in the right direction. With the Red Sea in front of them and Pharaoh’s chariots behind them, the children of Israel panicked. ‘The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward”’ (v. 15 NKJV)

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1:53

Keep trusting God

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/14

The story of Job reads like this: Chapter 1, he is one of the wealthiest men in his generation. Chapter 2, he loses everything, including his health, his wealth, and his children. Chapter 42, he is back on top again. Wouldn’t you like to know what happened from chapters 3 through 41? If so, you should read the book of Job and find out how he had it all, lost it all, got it all back, and ended up with twice as much as he lost. Did Job have unanswered questions? Lots of them. Did he experience grief

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1:54

Use your gifts in ministry to others

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/13

When God gives us a spiritual gift, He doesn’t take it back. ‘The gifts and…calling of God are irrevocable.’ And if God does not, we must not! Paul writes: ‘If someone falls into sin, forgivingly restore him, saving your critical comments for yourself. You might be needing forgiveness before the day’s out. Stoop down and reach out to those who are oppressed. Share their burdens, and so complete Christ’s law. If you think you are too good for that, you are badly deceived’ (Galatians 6:1-3 MSG). When

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2:02

Expect to ‘wrestle’

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/12

The new birth brings a new battle between your regenerate spirit and your unregenerate body, which still craves old desires and clings to old proclivities. Paul describes this graphically as a wrestling match. ‘For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil

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1:46

You are called to be salt and light

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/11

Jesus gave us two everyday metaphors so that we could clearly understand how He wants us to serve and represent Him each day. Let’s look at each of them. 1) Salt. The only thing that can threaten salt is sitting in a shaker so long that it gets damp, loses its flavour, and can’t be sprinkled. Jesus said, ‘You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavour, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men’ (v. 13 NKJV). The word

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1:49

‘Throw it down’

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/10

The Bible says: ‘Then the Lord asked him, “What is that in your hand?” “A shepherd’s staff,” Moses replied. “Throw it down on the ground,” the Lord told him. So Moses threw down the staff, and it turned into a snake! Moses jumped back. Then the Lord told him, “Reach out and grab its tail.” So Moses reached out and grabbed it, and it turned back into a shepherd’s staff in his hand’ (vv. 2-4 NLT). Then God instructed Moses to go back to Egypt and tell Pharaoh to set the children of Israel free. ‘Take

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1:54

Pass it on to others

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/09

What’s your goal in life? Survival, success, or succession? Some of us suffer from ‘duck syndrome’. We appear calm on the surface, but underneath we’re paddling furiously. We think, ‘I’m glad people around me don’t know how much I don’t know,’ and we keep them at a distance hoping they never find out. That’s not how God wants you to live, as the source of your own strength and wisdom. David wrote, ‘The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?’ (Psalm 27:1 NKJV). On the other hand,

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2:09

Let’s respect our differences

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/08

Paul wouldn’t yield an inch when it came to standing on the central truths of Scripture. But when it came to traditions, personal opinions, and personal preferences, he said, ‘Let each be fully convinced in his own mind’ (v. 5 NKJV). Under the law of Moses, being circumcised was considered equal to having a covenant between you and God. So when Gentile believers joined the New Testament church, Jewish believers insisted they too must be circumcised. Not as babies, mind you, but as adults! Were these

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2:02

How to conquer the fear of failing

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/07

Every opportunity in life comes with two things: the possibility of succeeding, and the possibility of failing. When you reach the end of your life, your greatest regrets won’t be over your failures, but the opportunities you failed to seize because you were afraid of failing. So here are some principles to help you conquer the fear of failing: 1) Be willing to try and fail at something. And when it happens, tell people. Why? Because that’s how you discover failure isn’t fatal. 2) Find a project so

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2:02

The grandfather’s mistake became the grandson’s miracle

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/06

If Abraham and Sarah had been willing to wait a little longer, Isaac would have been born and the promise of God fulfilled. But they became impatient and, as a result, Ishmael was born. One of the names given to God in Scripture is ‘Redeemer’, because He can redeem our mistakes and turn them into learning experiences; He can turn the mess you make into the miracle you need. It took three generations, but God turned the mess Abraham made into the miracle of deliverance Joseph needed. Joseph’s destiny

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2:05

The best is yet to come

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/04/05

Humanly speaking, the chances of a Gentile like Ruth marrying a wealthy Jew like Boaz were less than zero, because the law of Moses forbade it. ‘An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord forever’ (Deuteronomy 23:3 NKJV). If ever a door looked shut, locked, and bolted, it was this one. But when people and circumstances rule, God overrules. His CV reads: ‘He who has the key…He who opens and

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