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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

You have come too far to give up now!

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/02

V. Raymond Edman said, ‘To be torn…by external forces, and still…preserve one’s inward integrity, is to know the discipline that endures.’ So when you’re faced with opposition, do you automatically throw in the towel, or like Moses, do you persevere? Chuck Swindoll characterises Moses as a man ‘who hung tough, who refused to give in or give up, who decided that no amount of odds against him would cause him to surrender…He possessed the disciplines of durability. He endured the contempt of

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1:53

Overcoming loneliness

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/09/01

You don’t have to be alone to be lonely. Some of us are married to emotionally unavailable spouses. Some of us put up with verbal and emotional abuse because we prefer anybody’s company to our own. Some of the loneliest people you will meet are in crowded bars at ‘happy’ hour. They mingle, but they don’t connect. What is the answer? 1) Get involved in a cause greater than self-interest. After the Prodigal Son had spent his last penny partying with so-called friends, they forsook him, and he ended up

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1:51

The challenge of developing leaders (3)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/31

A leadership expert who conducted a poll to find out how people came to be leaders writes: ‘I asked if they became leaders because a) they were given a position; b) there was a crisis in the organisation; or c) they had been mentored. More than 80 per cent indicated that they were leaders because someone had mentored them in leadership – had taken them through the process…As leaders, if we feel any uncertainty or insecurity about the leadership development process, it is usually not related to the

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1:53

The challenge of developing leaders (2)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/30

In the Bible, you discover that leaders were most often trained ‘on the job’. A leadership expert writes: ‘It takes secure leaders at the top to let the leaders working for them be full participants in the organisation’s leadership process. If [mid-level] leaders…question them, they don’t take it personally. When they share ideas, the leaders cannot afford to feel threatened. When people lower than they are…want to take risks, they need to be willing to give them room to succeed or fail. Leadership

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2:04

The challenge of developing leaders (1)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/29

There is a two-fold challenge in developing leaders: 1) Emerging leaders many times want to take the lead before they’re actually ready. 2) Potential leaders can only become mature leaders when they’re permitted to develop and exercise their initiative. How does this happen? Through good timing! Paul writes, ‘Never be in a hurry about appointing a church leader’ (1 Timothy 5:22 NLT). Again he writes, ‘An elder must not be a new believer, because he might become proud, and the devil would cause him

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2:06

You need to exercise

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/28

Physical exercise strengthens your immune system so that you can fight off heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, thyroid malfunction, impaired memory, and a host of maladies. The best kind of exercise is the one you like and is the most convenient. Here are the two biggest reasons we’re inconsistent in following an exercise programme. First, we lose interest in it because we don’t get much satisfaction out of it. Second, it demands too much time or effort. Whether you go for

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1:52

Just for today

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/27

When the going gets tough, and you’re tempted to complain about your lot in life, stop and remind yourself that this day is a gift from God, one you will never have again. Think about the following words and they will help you: Just for today, I will experience and enjoy each hour to the fullest and not try to tackle my whole life’s problems all at once. Just for today, I will try to improve my mind by learning more than I know; I will read something that requires effort, thought, concentration, and

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2:02

Called to overcome (3)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/26

Have you heard of the principle of supercompensation? A pastor explains: ‘When an athlete is pushed beyond the threshold of pain and exhaustion, the body overcompensates. The more a muscle is broken down, the more it builds back up…The two hundred and six bones in the body are constantly going through a process called remodelling. They are being broken down by osteoclasts and built back up by osteoblasts. The process of remodelling is intensified when a bone is broken. Extra osteoblasts help rebuild

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1:59

Called to overcome (2)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/25

A pastor encourages us: ‘Psychoanalyst Alfred Adler conducted a fascinating research project that popularised the theory of compensation. He studied art students and discovered that seventy per cent of them suffered from optical anomalies. He found degenerative traces in the ears of great composers like Mozart and Beethoven. And he cited numerous examples of other people who eventually became successful in the area of their greatest weakness. Adler believed that birth defects, poverty, illness, and

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2:04

Called to overcome (1)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/24

A pastor writes: ‘All of us want every day to be a good day. But if every day was a good day, there would be no “good” days, because there wouldn’t be any bad days to compare the good days to…Sickness helps us appreciate health. Failure helps us appreciate success. Debt helps us appreciate wealth. And the tough times help us appreciate the good times…Adversity is often the seedbed of opportunity [because it has] a way of bringing the best out of us…Adversity is often a blessing in disguise. We dream

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2:09

Citizens and pilgrims

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/23

There is a story about an American tourist’s visit to the home of a nineteenth-century Polish rabbi. The tourist was surprised to find it so sparsely and inexpensively furnished. The living area, a simple room lined with books, contained a table and a bench. When the tourist asked the rabbi, ‘Where’s all your furniture?’ he replied, ‘Where’s yours?’ The man asked, ‘What do you mean? I’m a visitor. I’m just passing through.’ ‘Me too!’ replied the rabbi. Passing through aptly applies to each of us;

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1:57

Don’t be afraid of getting old

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/22

Before he was put to death for his faith, Paul wrote: ‘I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day’ (vv. 7-8 KJV). Up until the moment he was executed, Paul kept writing truths that would change the world. He could say, ‘I have finished my course,’ but never once did he say, ‘I give up!’ Did he have reasons to give up? Sure, he had been

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2:00

Show kindness

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/21

‘A woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil…and poured it on His head. But there were some who were indignant…and said, “Why was this fragrant oil wasted? For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they criticised her sharply. But Jesus said, “Let her alone…She has done what she could. She has come beforehand to anoint My body for burial. Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has

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1:52

The increased value of a greater purpose

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/20

The value of anything is determined by its function. What problem does it solve? What need does it meet? Sand is a good example. At the beach, sand is free. But if you want to build a playground, that same sand has to be bagged and transported, so it costs more; hence its value goes up. Now what was once free on the beach costs around five pounds a bag. Once this same sand is glued to a piece of paper, making it sandpaper, its value increases again. Now it could be up to twenty pounds a roll. The

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1:55

How to get along with others

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/19

Put yourself in the other person’s shoes and try to see things from their point of view. That’s one of the great keys to working with clients, pleasing customers, sustaining a marriage, raising children, pastoring people, helping those who are less fortunate, etc. Live by this Scripture: ‘All of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tender-hearted, be courteous.’ Try to look beyond yourself, your own pursuits, and your own world. When you decide to reflect upon

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1:51

Speaking in public

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/18

You don’t have to be a great orator; you just have to deliver the message. You don’t have to emulate any other speaker; you just have to decide to be the best ‘you’ possible. So: 1) Forget about messing up. The chances are that you will know more about your topic than 90 per cent of the audience. If you stumble, so what? It signals to the audience that you’re human – just as they are. People often connect better with your vulnerability than your strength. Besides, they’re rooting for you, and they

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2:08

You have enough (2)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/17

Have you been praying, and God hasn’t yet answered? Let’s look at some keys. 1) Maybe you’re expecting a lot from God but not much from yourself. Perhaps He is asking you to work harder by utilising the ingenuity He has given you. Remember, God’s promises are never an excuse for laziness. Elijah was in a devastating drought when God said, ‘Go to the brook Cherith. I will send ravens to feed you’ (see 1 Kings 17:1-4). Elijah could have replied, ‘Lord, I’m exhausted! Can’t you send them here?’

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2:02

You have enough (1)

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/16

Spurgeon’s contemporary, Dr Joseph Parker, pastored the City Temple Church in London. One day he walked up to his pulpit and read this verse: ‘The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.’ After a long pause, he closed his Bible, looked at the congregation, and said, ‘Friends, that is enough!’ And scripturally and practically speaking, he is right! When God is your shepherd, you ‘lack nothing’. Even in the grimmest circumstances, you need ‘fear no evil’ because He is always with you (v.4 NIV). And you

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1:52

Righteousness is a gift, not a reward

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/15

The Bible says, ‘Those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.’ The righteousness that God approves and accepts comes as a ‘gift’. And it’s based on ‘grace’. And grace means ‘unmerited, unearned, undeserved favour with God’. Are you trying through your own efforts to earn right standing before God? Do you believe that by doing more good deeds, giving more, praying more, serving more, that God will love you more and bless you

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1:58

Try to be more understanding

UCB Word For Today ·

2025/08/14

Often the reason a relationship fails is not because of a difference of opinion, but a lack of understanding. Why aren’t we more understanding? For three reasons: 1) Selfishness. Somebody quipped, ‘There’s two sides to every question – as long as it doesn’t concern me personally.’ Paul writes: ‘Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honour giving preference to one another.’ 2) Fear. Prejudice is often the fear of what we’re unwilling to try and understand. When it comes to new

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