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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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The Closer You Are

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2025/09/29

It’s a paradox of human relationships that, on the one hand, we yearn for closeness, for love, for intimacy … and yet the closer we are to someone, the more their weaknesses can drive us completely around the twist. Why is that? Napoleon and Josephine loved one another deeply. But despite their love, his controlling nature and her inability to meet his expectations led to serious conflict and ultimately divorce. As is so often the case, their personal weaknesses destroyed what was once a deeply

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Seeing the Glory of God

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2025/09/28

Do miracles still happen? I mean, when was the last time you experienced something so out of the ordinary, so extraordinary, that you couldn’t call it anything else? Or do some people just have an overactive imagination, using “miracle” to describe something that was just a coincidence? Personally I haven’t seen anyone grow a new limb where one had been amputated. Nor have I seen a glass eye in someone’s head replaced with a real one. And I certainly haven’t seen someone who was physically dead

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The Best Plan

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2025/09/27

Each one of us, at some point – at many points, in fact – faces turmoil in our lives. Things don’t turn out how we’d planned. Or out of the blue, they take a sharp turn for the worse. Not nice, is it? Over the last few days we’ve been chatting about finding ourselves amidst turmoil, and if I can sum things up it would go something like this: Stuff happens. Worry and fear well up inside. But in the midst of it, God wants us to know that He’s still in control and that He will never forsake us. In

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God's Timing is Always Perfect

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2025/09/26

Have you ever found yourself hard-pressed – between a rock and a hard place, as some people would say – waiting on a breakthrough … waiting, waiting, waiting? Will that breakthrough break through in time, or will everything fall apart? I’m sure you’ve been there more than once, as have I. And when things are teetering on the brink, it can seriously make you question God’s timing. In August 1776, during the American Revolution, George Washington's Continental Army was cornered by the British in

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God Will Never Abandon You

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2025/09/25

One of the worst things that can ever happen in life is to be abandoned by those who should have been there for you. There are countless people in this world who were abandoned by their parents. And so many who’ve been abandoned by their soul-mate who’s headed off to greener pastures. Abandonment is a terrible thing. You can even be surrounded by apparently well-meaning people and still feel completely alone. Josephine Bakhita was born in Sudan in 1869. She was abducted and enslaved as a child

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Worry is a Signal to Pray

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2025/09/24

When you think about it, it’s really quite natural for us to worry about things. So much of the important stuff of life is out of our control, so when that one “thing” which can have a huge impact hangs precariously in the balance, we worry. I wonder, what are you worried about at the moment? A health outcome, finances, kids … any number of things, right? Sometimes we even find ourselves worrying incessantly about the trivial stuff. And the thing with worry is that it’s self-perpetuating. The

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Understanding or Trust?

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2025/09/23

I’m sure you’ve met really smart people along the way. Me too. They just leave us in the dust with their brilliance, right? Some are academically gifted. Others seem to have a level of emotional intelligence, of wisdom, that you and I could surely never attain. But it doesn’t matter how smart or emotionally intelligent or wise we may be … we’re all confronted by circumstances in life that are so complex, with so many variables and imponderables … that no one’s every going to be able to figure it

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Now Get On With It

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2025/09/22

I think we’ve all been in that place where we’ve thought to ourselves, “Well, I’m nothing special. I don’t have any particular skills that make me stand out from the crowd. I’m pretty sure my life will never amount to much.” Been there, done that, got the t-shirt! Srinivasa Ramanujan was born into humble circumstances in India in 1887. His father was a clerk in a sari shop, his mother kept house. Yet as a self-taught mathematician, he astonished the academic world with his profound contributions

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The Richness of Grace

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2025/09/21

Imagine being given a gift by someone whom you’d hurt, by someone you’d rejected, by someone from whom you deserved anything but a present. That’d be a turn up for the books, wouldn’t it? The world generally doesn’t work that way. Normally, you get your just desserts. People will turn against you for even the slightest perceived failure – let alone how quickly they’ll drop you if you seriously misbehave. Well, hopefully we don’t seriously misbehave these days but none of us is perfect – not you,

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Now, for the Good News

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2025/09/20

I’m pretty sure there’s not a one of us who hasn’t been at the bottom of a hole that we’ve dug for ourselves; a disaster of our own making. In some cases, we’re able to get ourselves out of it. In others … well, not so much. Over the last few days we’ve seen that that phenomenon is as old as time itself, with Adam and Eve disobeying God in the Garden of Eden by eating a piece of forbidden fruit and being booted out – permanently – to a life of pain and suffering and toil. And that’s the very

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Separated from God

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2025/09/19

Making enemies is never a good idea. No matter how miffed you may be at someone for how they treated you, it’s invariably not worth burning bridges over – and yet we’ve all done it … trashed relationships that could have been saved. Over the last couple of days we’ve been chatting about the terrible consequences of making an enemy of God … not because I mean to paint Him as a cosmic grouch with a big stick – He is, after all, the God of love – but because God’s judgement is real. He is, after

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Consequences - Always Consequences

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2025/09/18

Something that I’ve never understood is why people turn to a life of crime when the consequences, if they’re caught, are imprisonment and in some places, much worse. Do you get it? I don’t. The financial turnover of organised crime globally is estimated to be over $2 trillion US dollars a year. The Globalised Organised Crime Index recently reported that 83% of the world’s population lives in areas with high criminality. Staggering … but I guess, there’s your answer. They’re in it for the money

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Afraid of God

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2025/09/17

Whilst fear is a normal human emotion – a critical protection mechanism in a life-and-death situation – the sort of fear that comes from having done the wrong thing and knowing that the consequences are headed your way … well, that’s the sort of fear you want to avoid, right? Have you ever been picked up by the police for speeding? I remember years ago when it happened to me seeing the flashing lights in my rear vision mirror … and the sense of dread at what was coming when I pulled over. As I

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Stay Alert: Scammer in the Vicinity

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2025/09/16

Self-awareness is so vitally important in keeping ourselves safe; in stopping ourselves from making the same mistakes over and over again; in protecting ourselves both from ourselves and from those who would do us harm, wouldn’t you agree? The problem is, we all have blind spots when it comes to those temptations that repeatedly lead us astray. What are your weak spots – the temptations most likely to bring you undone, hmm? I was reading a news article the other day, written by a reformed

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Warning: Don't Get Scammed

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2025/09/15

None of us likes to be misled, duped, scammed. It’s awful, isn’t it? Yet, according to the Global Anti-Scam Alliance, last year scammers stole over one trillion US dollars globally from ordinary people like you and me. Now, if you’re struggling to wrap your mind around that number – one trillion dollars – perhaps this’ll help. If you were to count to one trillion, one second at a time – one, two, three, four – no meal breaks, no rest … it’d take you just a bit under 32,000 years. So, scams are

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Family Faithfulness

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2025/09/14

So let me ask you, what do you think about the institution of marriage? I guess your response will vary depending on your cultural background, your life experience and probably your age. Wherever you’re at, there’s absolutely no doubt that globally marriage rates are in sharp decline. In the United States for instance, marriage rates have fallen by almost 50% since 1972. The same’s true in many western, developed economies. But it’s also happening in Iran, in Poland, in China, in Japan, in parts

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Make No Mistakes

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2025/09/13

The roles of men and women in running a household and raising a family have changed rather a lot over the last couple of generations. Frankly, the idea of the stay-at-home mum has become a distant historical artefact. Now, let me say upfront, if you’re a stay-at-home mum, or dad for that matter, all power to you! But that’s simply not the reality for many. So the respective roles of men and women in the family unit have changed. Men often find that confusing because it’s at odds with what they

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Family Unity is Important

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2025/09/12

In some cultures “extended family” is still very much a thing. And if you are part of an extended family, albeit that it ain’t perfect, albeit that there are disagreements from time to time, I hope you realise how incredibly blessed you are. For many though, extended family has become a thing of the past. Urbanisation and globalisation have created a mobility that’s resulted in families simply living further apart. There’s an increasing focus on the nuclear family, both with financial

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Parental Responsibility

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2025/09/11

For many parents these days, raising children is becoming harder and harder. Much harder, so far as I can see, than it was for those who, like me, are part of the grandparent generation these days. More and more, both mum and dad are in the workforce trying to make ends meet. For many, the support of extended family just isn’t there anymore. You know the old saying, it takes a village to raise a child. Well, in many places and cultures, that village – even extended family support – has all but

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Honour Your Parents

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2025/09/10

The idea of raising obedient children is much maligned these days. We need to allow them to express themselves, to be who they naturally are, to live life to the full. But the question you have to ask yourself, is … what sort of adults does that produce? Look, I have no argument with the fact that the strict, Dickensian approach to child rearing, where they should be seen but not heard, was way over the top. Kids are kids, after all. Teenagers are teenagers. When I was growing up in the 1960’s

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