Samuel Bagster's
Famous Daily Devotions
October 31
Morning
… ‘Not by strength nor by power,
but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of All.”
Zech. 4:6
“The wind blows where it wants to
and you hear its sound.
You do not know where it comes from
or where it goes.
It is the same with everyone who
is born of the Spirit of God.”
John 3:8
“All these people gathered here may know
that the Lord does not save with sword
and spear.
For the battle is the Lord’s and He will give
you into our hands.”
I Sam. 17:47
Edited by H.C.
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October 31, 1962
Trivia
October 31st was the 304th day of 1962 and a Wednesday.
Most people know their age in years,
but did you know there have been 22,646 days
since this birthday?
That's 62 years old.
In weeks, someone born this day would 3,235 weeks old.
October 31, 1962 was on Halloween.
Excluding solar-based holidays (like Easter),
you could reuse your 1962 calendar in 2029.
Both calendars will be exactly the same!
The number one hit song in the U.S.
on this day was He’s a Rebel by The Crystals
as compiled by Billboard Hot 100
(November 3, 1962).
Ask your parents if they know this popular song.
Someone born on this day has been alive during
16 leap years (including this year).
From this birthday up to this day,
there have been 767 full moons.
How many of them did you see?
The next full moon will be on Friday,
November 15 at 21:30:00 GMT.
Celebrities with the Same Birthday
1795
John Keats
1920
Helmut Newton
1922
Barbara Bel Geddes
1931
Dan Rather
1936
Michael Landon
1942
David Ogden Stiers
1945
Brian Doyle-Murray
1950
Jane Pauley
1950
John Candy
1959
Neal Stephenson
1961
Peter Jackson
1963
Dermot Mulroney
1963
Rob Schneider
1966
Ad Rock
1968
Vanilla Ice
1969
Kim Rossi Stuart
1970
Nolan North
1976
Guti
1977
Piper Perabo
1980
Eddie Kaye Thomas
1980
Nicole Neumann
1980
Samaire Armstrong
1981
Frank Iero
1982
Justin Chatwin
2000
Willow Smith
Famous People in History with the Same Birthday
1711
Laura Bassi,
Italian scholar (d. 1778)
1724
Christopher Anstey,
English writer (d. 1805)
1815
Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (d. 1897)
1835
Adelbert Ames, American general,
27th and 30th Governor of Mississippi (d. 1933)
1875
Vallabhbhai Patel,
Indian freedom fighter and statesman (d. 1950)
1883
Marie Laurencin,
French painter (d. 1956)
1914
John Hugenholtz,
Dutch race track designer (d. 1995)
1941
Spilios Spiliotopoulos,
Greek politician
1947
Deidre Hall,
American actress
1950
Jane Pauley,
American news anchor
1950
Jozef Stolorz,
Polish art painter
1957
Robert Pollard,
American rocker
1959
Michael DeLorenzo,
American actor, director and musician
1961
Peter Jackson,
New Zealand film director
1966
Mike O'Malley,
American actor
1972
Matt Dawson,
English rugby union footballer
1973
David Dellucci,
American baseball player
1976
Piper Perabo,
American actress
1979
Saaphyri Windsor,
American reality TV figure
1981
Frank Iero,
American musician (My Chemical Romance, Pencey Prep)
1981
Lollie Alexi Devereaux,
French actress & writer
1982
Tomáš Plekanec,
Czech ice hockey player
1984
Pat Murray,
American football player
2005
Infanta Leonor of Spain,
Spanish royalty
Historical Events on this Date
475
Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed
Western Roman Emperor.
1517
Protestant Reformation:
Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door
of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
1587
Leiden University Library opens its
doors after its founding in 1575.
1822
Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts
to dissolve the Mexican Empire.
1861
American Civil War:
Citing failing health, Union General Winfield Scott
resigns as Commander of the United States Army.
1913
Dedication of the Lincoln Highway,
the first automobile road across United States.
1917
World War I:
Battle of Beersheba –
“last successful cavalry charge in history”.
1918
Banat Republic is founded
1924
World Savings Day is announced in
Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at
the 1st International Savings Bank Congress
(World Society of Savings Banks).
1926
Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and
peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
1941
World War II:
The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a
German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than
100 United States Navy sailors.
It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.
1943
World War II:
An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful
radar-guided interception.
1944
Dr. jur. Erich Göstl,
a member of the Waffen SS, is awarded the Knight’s Cross
of the Iron Cross, to recognize extreme battlefield bravery,
after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.
1959
Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to renounce his
American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.
1963
An explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum
(now Pepsi Coliseum) in Indianapolis kills 74 people
during an ice skating show.
The explosion also injures 400.
A faulty propane tank connection in a concession
stand is blamed.
1973
Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape.
Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members
escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin,
Republic of Ireland aboard a hijacked helicopter that
lands in the exercise yard.
1984
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated
by two security guards. Riots break out in New Delhi
and nearly 10,000 Sikhs are killed.
1994
An American Eagle ATR-72 crashes in Roselawn,
Indiana, after circling in icy weather,
killing 68 passengers and crew.
1996
A Fokker F100 operating as TAM
Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes
into several houses in São Paulo, Brazil killing 98
including 2 on the ground.
1997
19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward,
convicted by a Cambridge, Massachusetts,
jury of second-degree murder the day before,
is sentenced to life in prison.
1998
Iraq disarmament crisis begins:
Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with
United Nations weapons inspectors.
2000
A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 operating
as Flight 006 collides with construction equipment
upon takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan killing 79 passengers
and four crew members.
2000
A chartered Antonov An-26 explodes after takeoff
in Northern Angola killing 50.
2003
Bethany Hamilton is attacked by a tiger shark and
loses her left arm and three liters of blood.
2011
The world population is now over 7 billion inhabitants
according to the United Nations
***
My Personal Favorites…
Book: Holy Bible
Hymn: Footprints of Jesus
Scripture: Philippians 4:13
Quote: “The Best Is Yet to Be”
- James Stowers
Movie: Pure Country
Color: Blue
Soft Drink: Sprite
Meat: Steak
College Football Team: Alabama
College Basketball Team: Kentucky
N.B.A. Team: Boston Celtics
Favorite Player: Larry Bird
M.L.B. Team: Atlanta Braves
Favorite Player: Chipper Jones
Country Music Performer: George Strait
Rock Band: REO Speedwagon
Country Band: Alabama
Hobbies: Fishing, Hunting, Golf
Countries Visited:
Aruba, Curacao, Venezuela,
Austria, Romania,
Dominican Republic
***
A Note From Hayden…
I would never refer to my dad
As “My Old Man” however
I really do like this song
That the Zac Brown Band
Sings…
"My Old Man"
He was a giant
And I was just a kid
I was always trying
To do everything he did
I can still remember every lesson he taught me
Growing up learning how to be like my old man
He was a lion
We were our father's pride
But I was defiant
When he made me walk the line
He knew how to lift me up
And when to let me fall
Looking back, he always had a plan
My old man
My old man
Feel the callous on his hands
And dusty overalls
My old man
Now I finally understand
I have a lot to learn
From my old man
Now I'm a giant
Got a son of my own
He's always trying
To go everywhere I go
Do the best I can to raise him up the right way
Hoping that he someday wants to be
Like his old man
My old man
I know one day we'll meet again
As he's looking down
My old man
I hope he's proud of who I am
I'm trying to fill the boots of my old man
My old man
Writer(s): Niko Moon, Ben Simonetti, Zac Brown
***
“Wisdom is only found in truth.”
- Goethe
***
A Real Man
First Kings 2:1-4
1 Now the days of David drew near that he should die,
and he charged Solomon his son, saying:
2 “I go the way of all the earth;
be strong, therefore, and prove yourself a man.
3 And keep the charge of the Lord your God:
to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes,
His commandments, His judgments,
and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses,
that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn;
4 that the Lord may fulfill His word which
He spoke concerning me, saying,
‘If your sons take heed to their way,
to walk before Me in truth with all their heart
and with all their soul,’
He said, ‘you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’
Example
A real man is a good example to follow.
Some think a real man is the kind that drinks beer,
whiskey, smokes cigarettes,
uses smokeless Tobacco (Skoal) etc.
We see it advertised all the time.
Some big “hero” guzzling down his “booze”
as if he was a real man, getting his “gusto.”
What a distorted picture!
He is a glutton and a winebibber, not a real man.
His evil appetite is showing his sons and daughters
just what a person is not supposed to be,
and he is deceived in thinking that is manhood.
How many children grow up literally afraid of the
presence of their father because he is a servant
to the devil’s brew?
A real man is an example of honesty, clean living,
clean speech, obedience to the laws,
respect for authority, truthfulness.
Real men do not brag how they outwitted the
policeman or cheated on a business deal.
Fathers with sons in jail wonder why they ever
turned out that way.
Many of them can just look at the example they
gave them and know why.
When their mouth is stuffed with tobacco,
chewing and smoking, cursing and swearing,
what can you expect from that son or daughter
who loves father, but he has taught them to be
servants of Satan like he is.
Real men will be concerned for the home and everyone in it.
They will make time to be with their children and see to it
that they are growing in the right direction.
So many parents really do not know their children
because they spend so few hours with them during
the time of their upbringing.
They are strangers to their children.
Real men are examples of morality, responsibility,
work, and purity.
Real men do not commit adultery.
Real men do not forsake their families.
Real men show the dignity and honor of labor to their family.
Whether one is single or married, a father or not,
a real man holds these things high on his list of that
which is deserving of esteem.
ARE YOU A REAL MAN?
Excerpted from a lesson
Written by Bro. James W. Boyd
***
The Devil’s Hell-Bound Train
A sinner staggered home from the ballroom floor,
Having drunk so much he could drink nor more;
He went to bed with a troubled brain,
And dreamed that he rode on a hell-bound train.
The engine with blood was red and damp,
And dismally lit with a brimstone lamp;
An imp, for fuel, was shoveling bones,
While the furnace roared with a thousand groans.
A boiler was filled with lager beer,
And the devil himself was the engineer.
The passengers made such a motley crew,
Church members, Atheists, Gentile and Jew;
Rich men in broadcloth and beggars in rags,
Beautiful young ladies and withered old hags;
Yellow men and black men, red and white,
Chained all together … what a horrible sight.
Faster and faster the engine flew,
Wilder and wilder the country grew;
Louder and louder the thunder crashed,
Brighter and brighter the lightening flashed.
Hotter and hotter the air became,
Till the clothes were burned from every frame.
In the distance was heard a hideous yell …
“Ha, Ha,” cried the devil, “we’re nearing Hell.”
And, oh, how the passengers shrieked with pain,
And begged the devil to stop the train.
He capered about and danced with glee,
And laughed and joked at their agony.
My faithful friends, you’ve done my work,
And the devil can never a pay-day shirk.
You have bullied the weak and robbed the poor,
The hungry brother you turned away from your door,
You amused yourself at the picture show,
And with the theater gadders did go.
You played and gambled with the devil’s Bible;
You danced and mixed with the sinful idle.
You hoarded up gold till it cankers and rusts,
You have given free vent to your hellish lusts;
You have drunken and rioted and murdered and lied,
And mocked God in your hell-born pride.
You’ve paid full fare, so I’ll carry you through,
For it’s only right that you get your due;
And every laborer is worthy of his hire,
So I’ll land you safe in my lake of fire;
My faithful subjects you will always be,
And dwell in Hell eternally.
Mr. Sinner awoke with an awful cry.
With clothes soaking wet and hair standing high;
And he prayed to God and prayed as well,
To be saved from sin and a devil’s Hell.
Faith and obedience were not in vain,
For he nevermore rode on the devil’s train!
- Anonymous
***
Friend it is time to get off the devil’s train
Obey the gospel of Jesus Christ and become
A Christian and live for Jesus.
It maybe that you were once a faithful child
Of God but you have been riding on the devils
Train for a long time …
I beg you to come back
Home to Your Savior and live for Jesus …
You will not regret it on the judgment day of Christ!
“And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God,
And books were opened. And another book was opened,
Which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according
To their works, by the things which were written in the books.”
“And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was
Cast into the lake of fire.”
(Revelation 20:12; 15)
***
The Jesus Way – Phil Wickman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARSGgC9iQb0
