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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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2:05

Live by obedience, not emotion

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/24

Emotions have a tone that we call ‘feeling’. And the tone of feeling is very strong. Most of us realise how we feel. We make decisions driven by feeling. Relationships are established or damaged because of feeling. Seeing what felt good, enjoyable, and to be desired is what led Eve to disobedience. The Bible does not say she was hungry; otherwise, she would have eaten of every other tree in the garden of Eden. Emotional drama in the first woman, opened the door to emotional drama in all of us. So,

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2:03

Keep going, and you will succeed

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/23

In life, you’re going to have all kinds of problems. So, what should you do? Persevere! No matter what’s going on in your life, the victory is in refusing to quit. Keep in mind that in the heat of your struggles, the Holy Spirit is often doing His greatest work within you. Paul writes, ‘We also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character’ (Romans 5:3-4 NKJV). God is not moved by circumstances, and you must not be either. He will lead you through

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2:00

Want what God wants

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/22

The rebuilding of Jerusalem’s walls began with two questions the king asked Nehemiah. The first question was ‘What is bothering you?’ (see v. 2). The second question was ‘What is it you want?’ (v. 4 NIV). Nehemiah replied, ‘Send me to the city in Judah where my ancestors are buried so that I can rebuild it’ (v. 5 NIV). Nehemiah knew exactly what he wanted, because a passion for it had been conceived in his spirit. He had been thinking and praying about it for quite a few months when the king asked

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1:54

What’s keeping you from winning?

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/21

In ancient Greece, athletes practised with weights strapped to their bodies. But on the day of the race, they took them off in order to win. What’s keeping you from running and winning? 1) Comparing yourself to others? The only person you should compare yourself to – is you. Your objective is to become better today than you were yesterday. You do that by concentrating on what you can do today to improve and develop. If you do that often enough, and if you compare the way you were weeks, months, or

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1:55

Practise being tender-hearted

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/20

In his best-selling book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen Covey describes an experience he had on a subway in New York. A man and his children boarded the train, and the children were so loud and rambunctious, they disrupted the entire car. The man sat down beside Covey, seemingly oblivious to the situation. Covey finally said, ‘Sir, your children are really disturbing a lot of people. I wonder if you couldn’t control them a little more?’ The man looked startled. Then he said,

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1:50

Everybody has a thorn (2)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/19

Paul tells us two things about his thorn: First, that it was a messenger of Satan sent to buffet him. The word ‘buffet’ means ‘to render blow after blow’. It was not one battle, but a series of back-to-back attacks that didn’t let up. Satan knows your weakest areas, and he will repeatedly attack you in those areas. How can you defeat him? The Bible tells: ‘Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on all of God’s armour so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the

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1:52

Everybody has a thorn (1)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/18

Paul writes: ‘A thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me…For when I am weak, then I am strong’ (vv. 7-10 NKJV). Paul had such great faith that when he

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1:58

God can keep you together

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/17

This may come as a surprise to you, but the main purpose of marriage is not to produce children. Couples who cannot give birth are as married as couples who can. Jesus said, ‘A man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’ (v. 5 NKJV). When God looks at a parent and child, He sees two. When God looks at a brother and sister, He sees two. But when God looks at a husband and wife, He sees one. ‘Joined together’ means ‘to be glued to’. Do you ever

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2:01

Faith equals righteousness with God

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/16

We think of Abraham with a halo. Hardly. Not once, but twice he throws his wife under the bus. As they travelled through Egypt, Abram says to Sarai, ‘You’re a beautiful woman; I’m afraid the Egyptians will want to kill me so someone can have you for a wife, so let’s tell them you’re my sister’ (see Genesis 12:11-13). Pharaoh does take Sarai into his harem – giving Abram, her ‘brother’, a bunch of sheep, cattle, donkeys, servants, and camels. Rather than feeling guilty and coming clean, Abram simply

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1:51

A peaceful state of mind

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/15

God wants you to have a peaceful state of mind. His word says: ‘Let the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds, in that peaceful state] to which as [members of Christ’s] one body you were also called [to live]’ (v. 15 AMPC). No position or possession is worthwhile if you don’t have peace; money, status, popularity – it’s all meaningless if you lack peace. You simply

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1:58

Intimacy, dependency, obedience (3)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/14

The third thing that defines Jesus’ relationship with His Father is this: obedience. Jesus said, ‘I judge only as I hear…for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.’ Note the words ‘as I hear’. When you know you have heard from God, you have confidence to handle whatever life throws at you, and to take on any assignment He gives you. Christ’s first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding in Cana. In it you will find a statement that’s crucial to experiencing God’s miraculous power

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2:00

Intimacy, dependency, obedience (2)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/13

The second thing that defines Jesus’ relationship with His Father is this: dependency. Corrie ten Boom used to say, ‘I am just the glove, Jesus is the hand that fills it and works through it.’ That’s a picture of Christ’s relationship with His heavenly Father, and it’s a blueprint for the kind of relationship you can have with God. In the Bible you will notice two all-important things about Jesus: 1) He never seemed to suffer from the fear of failing, like we so often do. Why? Because He prayed

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Intimacy, dependency, obedience (1)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/12

These three things define the relationship Jesus had with His Father, and they are a blueprint for the kind of relationship you need to build with God: intimacy, dependency, obedience. First: let’s look at intimacy. Jesus said, ‘For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does.’ You only reveal yourself, including your innermost thoughts and secrets, to someone with whom you are intimate. And when you become intimate with God, He will share with you things that others are not privy to. David’s

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1:55

Blessing is progressive

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/11

The greatest chapter in the story of Elijah’s life took place on Mount Carmel. That’s when he called down fire from heaven, defeated the prophets of Baal, and turned the hearts of the Israelites back to God. The word ‘Carmel’ means ‘fruitful ground’. But before Elijah could get to Mount Carmel, he had to go through two places: First, God led him to the brook called Cherith. The word ‘Cherith’ means ‘to make covenant with’. It was here that Elijah discovered that God is a covenant-making and

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1:55

The difference between Abraham and Peter

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/10

When Peter stepped out of the boat at the command of Jesus, he was doing something he had never done before; something miraculous – walking on water. As long as he remained in faith, he was successful, but when fear gripped his heart, he began to sink. The Bible says, ‘When he saw the strong wind and the waves, he was terrified and began to sink. “Save me, Lord!” he shouted. Jesus immediately reached out and grabbed him’ (vv. 30-31 NLT). Peter’s mistake was that he became preoccupied with the storm

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1:55

Are YOU feeling unqualified?

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/09

With its walls torn down, Jerusalem was defenceless against her enemies. So, Nehemiah assembled a team to rebuild the walls. He had no training for this job. He wasn’t an architect or a builder. Jerusalem was far away, and he had never been there. Any way you look at it, he was unqualified for the job. That’s a common denominator with many of the people God has used in a remarkable way. Noah was a farmer, called to build a boat in the desert. David was a shepherd, called to topple a Philistine

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1:48

Improve your self-talk

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/08

Whether you know it or not, you have an ongoing conversation with yourself. How does it sound? Do you encourage yourself? Or do you condemn yourself? If you are positive, then you strengthen your positive self-image. If you are negative, you weaken your self-worth. If you’re serious about improving your life, then you must improve the way you think of yourself. And to do that, you must change the way you talk to yourself. And the older you grow, the more responsible you are for the way you think,

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1:50

Breaking out of the failure syndrome

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/07

When you have been abused, rejected, or abandoned, it’s easy to become shame based and end up with a very poor self-image. The devil knows this, so he will attack your personal confidence whenever he can find an opening. He wants you to believe that you are a failure, because without confidence you will never step out and try to do the things you truly want to do. He does not want you to fulfil God’s plan for your life. If he can make you believe that you are incapable, then you won’t even try to

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1:54

Prayer (2)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/06

A PhD student at Princeton University once walked into Albert Einstein’s office and asked, ‘What is there left in the world for original dissertation research?’ The brilliant scientist replied, ‘Find out about prayer.’ Einstein wasn’t the only person who was curious about prayer. Jesus taught about it, and the reason was because the disciples asked Him to. They may not have desired to write dissertations on it, but they wanted to know how to pray. It’s the only time in the Bible where one person

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0:00

Prayer (1)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/02/05

Demonstrating an uncommon level of honesty, a well-known pastor says: ‘Prayer is the biggest struggle I have…It’s difficult to maintain a consistent prayer life, and especially difficult to sustain the conviction that it does any good at times.’ Prayer doesn’t come naturally for the majority of us. We know it’s supposed to be a dialogue, but often it feels like a monologue. There is nothing worse than trying to talk with someone who won’t talk back. We don’t like to admit it, but often what we are

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