Thought For Today

I greet you in Jesus precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 13th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Jeremiah 20:9:“Then I said, “I will not make mention of Him,Nor speak anymore in His name.”But His word was in my heart like a burning fireShut up in my bones;I was weary of holding it back,And I could not.”Folks, Jeremiah had had enough. He was completely ridiculed and he said, “That's enough Lord, no more, I am not preaching Your word anymore,” but then he said, “But I can't help it, I have to.” Then we go to the New Testament to the Book of Acts 17:32-33: “And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, “We will hear you again on this matter.” So Paul departed from among them.”Have you ever felt like giving up? Have you ever felt like saying, “Lord, that is the last time I am preaching or speaking or talking to people about Jesus because they don't listen and they mock me every single time”? That's what they did with one of the greatest preachers of the whole Bible. I am talking about Paul, the Apostle. The same thing happened with Jeremiah. He said, ‘That's enough. I am not doing it anymore. They are not listening to me.” Oh, I can identify with these two giants. As a young preacher, I went to a little town in the southern part of our little province. Everything went wrong. I was supposed to speak to a group of people in a hotel. The atmosphere was wrong. The people were waiting for their supper and the supper was late, so when they eventually got down to eating many of them were under the weather. They had been drinking too much alcohol. Then I got up and I preached my heart out. I made an altar call. Not one single person responded. I can laugh about it now, but not that day. I have never felt so naked in my life. I went to the minister's home where I was sleeping and I said to the Lord, “Lord, that's the last time. I am not doing this again. They have a church on every street corner in this town. They don't need me. I am a farmer. I will go back and farm. The Lord spoke to me in my heart and said, “Are you going to do this or aren't you?” Reluctantly, the next day I got up, and I started to preach again, then the dam burst. Aah, what a harvest we had! And I have never stopped since. The same thing happened to Robert Moffatt, the Scottish missionary who founded a missionary station in Kuruman. He was in Scotland trying to recruit missionaries. It was a midweek evening, a handful of white-haired ladies sat in the front row. He was so disillusioned, but you see, what he didn't realise was that there was a young 14-year-old boy who was working the pump organ, standing behind the organ. What was his name? David Livingstone - one of the giants of Africa! Don't give up. Jesus is in control!God bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 12th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Gospel of John 14:6. Remember, Thomas said to Jesus, “We do not know the way,” and “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Then we go to the Book of Acts 17:22: “Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious;…” That was because they were seeking to find the truth. They had many different gods but there was one inscription and it is found in verse 23, and this inscription says,”TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.”Now Paul was speaking to these learned wise men, and he was telling them about Jesus. Of course, when he saw this inscription, he said to them, “This is the Unknown God that you are seeking. His name is Jesus Christ and He is the One that you are worshipping, even if you do not know it.” I want to say to you today, there is no other god, there never was and there never will be. We need to tell people. There are many confused people, good people, and wonderful people, and they believe that all roads lead to Heaven. They do not all lead to Heaven. There is only one God and He has only one Son. His Son is Jesus Christ.Folks, it will make you unpopular. I know that because I have become very unpopular often when I say in love, “there is no other god”. You see, if you say to a person, “I love God”, they will not mind it because God is who you perceive him to be. Some people worship the trees, some people worship the stars, but when you say, “There is only One God and His name is Jesus Christ”, then all Heaven breaks loose! People say, “How can you say that?” “How can you be so self-righteous?” You say, “No, it's what the word of God says. It is what the Bible says, and we believe He is the Word, as it says in John 1:1. In the beginning was the Word and His name is Jesus. I am so proud to tell people that, and I tell them that He died for all men, not just some men, of different ages, different colours, different creeds.So today, do not be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ! Have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Monday morning, the 11th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 4:24: “For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.” Then we go to the New Testament, to the Book of Matthew 22:37: “Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' ” This is straightforward, and it is very serious. The Lord says, “There is no other God but Me.” We cannot serve any other god and expect to serve the Lord Jesus Christ as well. I want to say something very seriously this morning. We must never tease God. Do you know what I mean? I mean if you get a young man and a young lady and they go out, and the young lady thinks that if she teases her boyfriend, then he will love her more, or even more seriously, a husband and wife - if the husband starts to look around and play the fool with another woman and then think that his wife will love him more, it actually works in the opposite. It puts a wedge and a division of mistrust in their relationship.Now, the same thing applies with the Lord. The Lord says, “There will be no other gods but Me.” And we need to understand that. I want to ask you a question. Is there any other god that you know of who has died for his people? No, there is no other god, only Jesus Christ who came to earth, He died for our sins that we might be saved. Now, the least we can do is put Him as the most important Person in our lives.I want to tell you, as I am getting older, each day I love Him more intensely. When I think of what He has done for a wretched soul like me. That is why John Newton could write that wonderful hymn, Amazing Grace: “I once was lost but now I am found, was blind but now I see.” Today, understand one thing. There is no second, third or fourth god in your life. It has to be Jesus Christ, Him, first and foremost, and then secondly, your loved one, your wife, your husband, your child, but Jesus first.God bless you as you put Him first in your life today.Goodbye

I greet you in Jesus' name! It is Sunday morning, the 10th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Acts 17:6:“…These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.” Folks, wherever the Holy Spirit moves, wherever the presence of God is, there is either a riot or a revival! That's what I've experienced in my life, and we must be prepared for it and not be afraid of it, because the Bible tells us clearly in Romans 8:31 that if Christ is for us, then who can be against us? For many years, I was on the other team. I was the one who was trying to make a way for myself. I was the one who was always negative, and these guys that are over the top, I had no time for them, but you know when God touched me, He turned my life upside down, inside out, and I can tell you today that wherever I am with the Lord, He is there before me and I am ready for whatever happens.Just the other day, we had a prayer meeting. When I arrived, I saw two strange men there, fine-looking young men, and I said, ”Welcome to our prayer meeting. Where have you come from?” They said, ”We've come from the North Coast of KwaZulu-Natal.” I said, ”What time did you get up this morning to come to the meeting?” They said, ”Quarter to three in the morning.” They want to hear from God. They want to receive from the Lord and that is good news! Do not be surprised when you see things happening that you actually had nothing to do with because God does it.God sent Paul and Silas to preach the Gospel and what happened? Well, absolute chaos and absolute Holy Spirit power, and I want to say to you today that you and I need to be ready for whatever the Lord has got in store for us because I can tell you right now it will not be like it was before. We are living in the last days and the Lord is moving very powerfully. We don't have to make things happen, not at all. All we have to do is be available, open our mouths and tell people about Jesus. That's all that Paul and Silas did and they were accused of turning the world upside down. Of course, they were quite right, weren't they? Because that's exactly what is happening now. Jesus bless you today as you turn the world upside down simply by telling people who the Son of God is. He is the soon-coming Saviour of the world.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 9th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go straight to the Book of Acts 16:37: ”But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us openly, uncondemned Romans, and have thrown us into prison. And now do they put us out secretly? No indeed! Let them come themselves and get us out.” What had happened was, Paul and Silas had been preaching the Gospel. They had been falsely accused. They had been stripped down, beaten, humiliated and put into prison, but once they had been put into prison, the magistrates realised that actually Paul and Silas were Roman citizens. It was forbidden for them to beat citizens of Rome openly and humiliate them. So the magistrates tried to get out of it and told the jailers, ”Let them go secretly.” But Paul, that's why I love him so much, he said, ”I'm not having this. They must come, those magistrates, apologise and let us out of prison themselves.” Which, of course, they did, they apologised profusely.We need to be careful that we, as believers, are not intimidated by bullies, wherever they may be. Because a man is wearing a uniform, that does not give him the right to do what he pleases to you or me, and I'll give you an example. If you are going down the highway and a Traffic Officer pulls you over and he walks up to your car and says, ”You have been speeding, breaking the speed limit and you need to pay a fine.” You can say to him, ”Yes Officer, I'm quite prepared to do that, but can you show me evidence on your machine that I was actually speeding?” If he says, ”No, I can't.” Then you are not obliged to pay anything because it's his word against yours. He needs to give you evidence.Many years ago I and my young wife Gill, we were just newly married, we were in another country, we were going through the Immigration and Customs and this one officer, quite an otherwise type of person, I don't know why he didn't take a liking to me, he pushed a form in front of me and said, "Sign this form so that you can leave the country.” I was about to sign it and this little voice behind me tapped me on the shoulder and said, ”Angus, what are you doing?” I said, ”He's told me I must sign the forms.” She said, ”No, we are not signing any forms unless we can first read them.” And this man changed his tune all of a sudden and said, ”Yes ok, you can go.” Be careful, you don't sign your life away, folks. Remember, because we are Christians, we don't have to be doormats to everybody. Have a wonderful day, God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Friday morning, the 8th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Deuteronomy 4:2:”You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it,…” Then we go straight to the Gospel of Matthew 5:18: “For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.” Spoken by the Master, Himself. By the way, a jot and a tittle is literally a stroke of a pen or one dot. Nothing is to be changed or compromised. Why? It is for our own good. The Lord did not write the Ten Commandments and the Bible for His good. He is God. He doesn't have to obey the law. He is the law. We need to be obedient. It is for our own sake. Why? Because it keeps us safe. You see, the Bible is our compass. If you are going through the bush, all by yourself, and you get lost and you have a compass, the compass will lead you out of that jungle - north, south, east, west. It sees us through stormy nights when you can't sleep at night and you need comfort. The word of God is a comfort. It really is. It is a light unto our feet and it shows us the way. It brings peace and harmony in the home.You know, when mom and dad are arguing, boys and girls, when mom and dad are arguing, boys and girls, you can say, “Dad, mom, what does the Bible say about the situation? And that is the final answer. It brings security when you are feeling unsure of yourself. What does the Bible say. Do what the Bible says. And accountability - when you go on that long trip, sir, and you get tempted, you are lonely and you are by yourself at night, and this beautiful young lady comes and starts to speak to you, the Lord, through the word of God, reminds you that you have a wife and children back at home and they belong to you, not this woman.It is a wonderful friend. Do not change it. It has been there since the beginning of time and this is not a time to try and take one thing away from it or add one thing to it.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name!It is Thursday morning, the 7th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Proverbs 6:10-11: ”A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep—So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, …” Then we go to the New Testament to 1 Corinthians 15:58: ”Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” It's so important for us, as believers, to keep up the good work. It keeps the soul of a man or woman in good health. We're talking this morning about spiritual exercise. We need to keep spiritually fit. Bishop Ryle said, ”Activity in doing good is one recipe for being cheerful Christians. It is like exercise to the body and it keeps the soul in good health.”Did you get up early this morning? I trained many, many years ago for the Comrades Marathon, which is held in South Africa every year. It is a gruelling race - two standard marathons plus a few extra kilometres thrown in, but these serious competitors are extremely disciplined. They get up in the morning and they run. They run with lights before the sun comes up. Some of them run in the afternoon or even in the evening but they are disciplined because they know, if they are going to get that medal, whichever medal it might be, they have to be fit.I want to say to you today, spiritually, you and I need to be fit! We need to get up, get out of our beds, go through and have our quiet time with the Lord, read the Bible systematically. We need to pray, read a nice devotional, listen to Christian music, and, most of all, speak to Jesus. When you do that regularly, you get stronger and stronger daily, even as you grow older, not weaker, stronger in the faith.Let's do it today. Let's discipline ourselves physically, but more importantly, spiritually, so that God can talk to us!Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 6th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Acts 16:9: “And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” The one thing I loved about Paul, the Apostle, when I read all those letters, was that he was an obedient man. He was not interested in a good idea because he knew that a good idea is not always a God-idea! When he and Silas were travelling, they were going to go to Phrygia, and the Holy Spirit said, “Don't go to Phrygia”, then to Mysia, “Don't go to Mysia, don't go to Bithynia, don't go to Troas.” He never went to any of those places in Asia, but he crossed the sea and went to Macedonia, where the Lord Holy Spirit had told him to go. It is very important to do what the Holy Spirit tells you to do, not what other people tell you to do, not to accept every invitation that comes from all over. Only do what God tells you to do. Now, I can really identify with this Macedonian call. Many of you will remember a few years back, I had a Macedonian call, and it was to Cape Town. Cape Town had had no rain for two years. They were in a terrible state, but that is not what called me. It was a Macedonian call, a young man by the name of Ashley, a very dear son in the Lord, whom I did not know. Through a daily reading of Scripture Union I was reading, I got the Macedonian call. I phoned him. He didn't even know who I was, he thought it was someone playing a trick on him, but when I convinced him that it was me, I said, “I am coming to Mitchell's Plain.”Now, folks, as soon as people heard we were going to Mitchell's Plain, they said, “You are mad. You mustn't go there because those people will hurt you.” I said, “They will not hurt me. God has told me to go there.” And they said to me, ‘But no one will come and support you because no one will go to that area.” Well, we had over 250,000 people there, and by the way, it started raining in the middle of the meeting, and I don't think it stopped since. Signs, miracles, wonders - the first time in my life, the Holy Spirit again told me to take my clothes off and give them to the young gang leaders who had come forward to give their lives, to change their guns for Bibles. It was an amazing event, probably one of the highlights of my preaching career. Today, listen to the Macedonian call! When God tells you to do something, do it. If God tells you not to do it, don't do it, and you will succeed in everything you do.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 5th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the first book of the Bible, Genesis 4:8: ”Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.” The very first family in the Bible, and two brothers, were in contention. They had a dispute, and one brother killed the other.Then we go straight to Acts 15:39:”Then the contention became so sharp that they parted from one another.“ Oh, folks, maybe you've got contention in your family this morning. Maybe there's a dispute that you just cannot seem to settle. I want to ask you to really reconsider before you do something that you might regret for the rest of your life. I looked up the word “contention” in the Oxford dictionary. It means a heated disagreement, it means being stroppy with the other, argumentative. Folks, we are talking here about two giants of the faith. We're talking about a man who actually wrote two-thirds of the New Testament himself. I'm talking about Paul the Apostle, and he fell out, he had a sharp argument with a man, Barnabas, who is regarded in the Bible as “the encourager”, and the two fell out because of an argument over Mark.I want to say to you today, we cannot allow that to happen. We are living in very stressful times, and these heated disagreements must stop. I have seen men lose businesses because they will not settle the argument. They split up and the business fails and goes down. We need each other, we are talking here about relationships. Folks, marriages - it concerns me a lot, the amount of people that are getting divorced, and many times they come to me and I ask them, ”What was the reason? Where did it all start? Is there a third party involved?” “No, no, there's no one else involved. We just cannot get on.” I want to say to you, it's not good enough. You need to go back to God and repent. “Yes, but I've got my rights, Angus.” No, you don't have your rights. If you gave your life to Jesus Christ, you surrendered your rights. We can agree to disagree. We don't have to agree on everything, but we mustn't allow these trivial things, because that's what they are, to destroy your future. I'm talking about friendships, pick up the phone and say, ”Sorry man,” say, ”I didn't mean to say what I said. Please forgive me.”You know it takes two to Tango, as they say, you can't dance by yourself and when you argue, if you say, ”Listen, I'm not going to go any further, I want to tell you. I want to leave it.” Leave it there, go to the Lord and reconcile with one another quickly. Do it today!Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Monday morning, the 4th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Deuteronomy 2:7, in the Old Testament: “For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” Then we go straight to the Book of Philippians 4:19: ”And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” We are living in difficult times, there's no doubt about it. The price of fuel is skyrocketing, it is affecting people in every sector of life - the transporters, the shops, the farmers, in many, many ways, because without diesel we can't plough the fields, without diesel we can't use our vehicles to transport our food, and what happens? The price just keeps going up. It doesn't matter what form of transport, they are being affected at the moment, but we need to keep focused on the Lord. The Lord reminded the children of Israel that He had supplied their needs for forty years. Why is He not going to do it now? Of course, He's going to do it, He has always done it and He always will. He looks after His people. You see, the Lord doesn't say, ”I will give you your wants - no, no, your needs, what you need - food to put on the table every day, clothes that you can look after your children and your family. He will supply your needs and He does it every single day. We need to take our eyes off the situation and focus on the Lord, who will supply our needs. At the moment in South Africa, we are really suffering with that terrible virus called the Foot and Mouth Disease, where the cattle have got huge lesions, sores in their mouths. They cannot eat food, and their hooves are literally falling off. They cannot walk. It is a horrible, horrific sight to see, but we know it has happened before and the Lord has delivered us. He will supply our needs. This disease will pass and the fuel prices will stabilise, but what we need to do in the meantime is thank God that He has never failed us and He is not about to do it now. So let us trust in Him and trust in His goodness towards His people.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 3rd of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in Psalm 103:1: ”Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name!” The Psalm of David, and then we go to Psalm 121:1-2: ”I will lift up my eyes to the hills—From whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” Then the last scripture is found in the Gospel of Luke 19:40, and this is Jesus speaking, “…I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.” Isn't that beautiful?I had the privilege of going to the Drakensberg Boys Choir School, in the mighty Drakensberg mountains and I told those young boys, beautiful singers. I said, ”Don't let anybody ever look down on you and think that you are not strong.” I said, ”The strongest man in Israel is none other than David who was a worshipper. He was a singer, and he was the one who killed Goliath, the giant, with one stone when he was a young teenager. Don't look down upon yourselves boys. God has gifted you to be able to sing.”The Tribe of Judah would always go into battle first. They were the singers, and then the rest of the army would follow, and I want to say to you, my dear friend, I don't know what you're going through at the moment but whatever it is, start to worship and praise God, and you will be surprised how God will strengthen you!Folks, I want to tell you today, when you are under the whip, it is time to praise the Lord. I brought the word of God to those young boys and they responded by singing to me and I want to tell you, it lifted my very soul, and I want to tell you today to sing up and to praise and worship God and He will heal you. He will set you free. He will give you new vision and new hope! Jesus bless you and a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 2nd of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in 2 Corinthians 3:6:”… for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” This is quite a serious and liberating scripture. We cannot live according to the Mosaic law. You can't - that is why they kept offering sacrifices continually when they were in the desert. When the Holy Spirit came to earth after Jesus went to Heaven, He is the one who convicts us of walking in truth and righteousness. Now, if we look at the Book of Acts 15:24, this is what the apostles sent to the Gentiles, the Greeks, the people that were not Jews, and said to them that you do not have to obey the law, you just have to obey the commandments of God. ”Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, “You must be circumcised and keep the law”—to whom we gave no such commandment” Acts 15:24”that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well.”Acts 15:29 The Lord says that the Holy Spirit will convict you and me to walk in righteousness. We cannot just walk by keeping the law. We can't do it. That's why Jesus came down from Heaven to Earth.Now the Westminster Confession says, I love this, this is what they say, "Man's chief end on this earth is number one, to glorify God and number two, to enjoy Him forever.” Isn't that so simple? You see, when you glorify God you keep the law by yourself. For example, when I got saved, the first thing I did was stop swearing. The day I gave my life to Christ, I've never sworn since then, the Holy Spirit convicted me. I stopped bending the rules. In other words, I stopped telling white lies. The truth is the truth, and I did it willingly. I did many things that did not glorify God, and when I met Him as Lord and Saviour, I automatically stopped doing those things.Now today don't put a heavy on people. Don't make them feel guilty. Tell them to love God, and the Holy Spirit will convict them of their sins, and they will start walking in righteousness and, most of all, enjoy the presence of God forever. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Friday morning, the 1st of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in 2 Corinthians 5:14: ”For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;…” The love of Christ compels us! The love of Christ is so great, it cannot be contained and that is why when somebody meets Jesus Christ for the first time they can't help themselves. I think they said about me, for the first six months, “You need to lock him up because he's like a bull in a china shop”, but the fire, the love, the passion! God is so great, and when you realise what He's done for you, your sins have been forgiven, you've been given a new start, you want to tell everybody.What was the last thing that Jesus said to the disciples before He ascended into heaven? Mark 16:15: “Go into all the world and preach the gospel …” You see, the love of God is too large for anyone to contain. We just can't keep it to ourselves, can we? His love has moved us to such extremes. His love has the first word and the last word in everything we do. I got saved on the 18th of February, 1979. I know you know that, but you know that man came and had a cup of tea with Gill and me after the service, and he said, ”Did you mean what you did today? I saw you went forward and committed your life to Christ.” I said, ”Of course I did.” He said, ”Well then, tell the first three people you meet tomorrow morning, Monday morning, what you did.” And I did, and I've never stopped since.Jeremiah was another one. He was tired of being mocked by the people. He said to the Lord, ”That's enough. No more. I'm not speaking anymore.” But if you look at Jeremiah 20:9. He said ”but there's a fire in my bones which constrains me, I can't help it. I have to tell people about the love of God.” He just couldn't keep it in! It is Christ's love that fuels our passion. It will lead us to where it led Him.Now remember, the love of Christ for this world led Him to the cross. He was despised, rejected. He was crucified because of His love for people. When you love people so intently, lots of people won't thank you for that. That doesn't matter. Don't judge them, just continue to love them, and I want to tell you something now. Just the love of Christ in your heart, the look of passion in your face, will bring people to Jesus quicker than any sermon from a pulpit.God bless you as you share the love of Christ abroad today. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 30th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Job 13:15: ”Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.” That's unconditional surrender, and being a farmer myself and looking at his life, you know he suffered very, very much, but at the end of his life, everything he lost, the Lord gave him back a hundred-fold. Then we go to the Book of Acts 14:22. This is Paul: ”…strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.” In the Message Translation, it says, “Anyone signing up for the kingdom of God has to go through plenty of hard times.” Are you going through a tough time at the moment? You know what concerns me sometimes? Many preachers will say, “Come to Jesus, and all your problems will be over.” That's not the truth. Come to Jesus, and He will give you new life. Jesus never promised you or me a bed of roses when we gave our lives to Him. He never said that He would take us out of the fire, did He? No, what He said was, He will walk with us through the fire and that is good news.I want to tell you that since I've given my life to the Lord, I've experienced more trials, tribulations, and hardships than before I became a Christian, but the only difference is that the hardships that I am suffering now are worthwhile. I am in the winning team. Are you in the winning team today? I hope so, because for us, home time is very near and what a life that is going to be. So today, do not despair if you are going through a hard time. Remember, the Lord told us clearly in Hebrews 13:5:“I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Jesus bless you today and have a wonderful, peaceful, joyful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 29th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to 2 Chronicles 16:9a: “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.” The Lord is looking for a man, a woman this morning that He can trust. He wants to support you, He wants to make you strong, and He wants you to speak up. Then we go to John 4:34: “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.”I want to ask you a question this morning. What gets you up early in the morning? What is the thing that gets you excited every time? I have two sons. My second son, if you want to get him up and going, you talk to him about horses. He is our “horse whisperer” on the farm. He knows more about horses than anybody else I know. From a little boy, when he was still in nappies, I used to take him for rides on my horse, and now he is a horseman who is second to none. In fact, he has people on his farm. He brings in young folk, and he teaches them the finer points of horsemanship. If you want to make him start talking to you, just mention horses. Then I have three grandsons and these boys are into paddling. They get into that canoe and they paddle. They have got medals to prove it. If you want to get them going, talk to them about paddling. Then I have got another two grandsons. These boys are ceded Number 1 and Number 2 in their school in tennis. If you want to get them talking to you, talk about tennis. Then I have another two grandsons and their whole focus is on horses as well, roping horses, gentling horses, starting horses and these boys can ride. And then yours truly. If you want to get me talking, ask my wife, you speak to me about preaching, about the Gospel, about speaking to men and women about Jesus, and I will talk to you until the cows come home. We need to understand one thing. Jesus said, “My meat is to the will of Him who has sent me.“ Today, it doesn't matter what we do in life, remember the most important thing, and by the way, all those young boys and my sons that I have spoken about, all of them love Jesus Christ with a passion.God bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 28th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Deuteronomy 1:9 and this is Moses speaking: “And I spoke to you at that time, saying: ‘I alone am not able to bear you.” In other words, ‘I can't do it on my own. There are too many of you.” Then we go to Luke 6:13. “And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles…” Even the Lord Jesus Christ, Himself, would not do it alone. I am not saying that He couldn't, but He wouldn't. He appointed others. You and I cannot do it alone. We were never meant to. We need to learn to delegate and not leave it too long. We must pass it on, otherwise, we will lose it all. Jesus passed it on. I am talking to that old farmer. It is time to pass the baton on to your son. I am talking to that businesswoman. You cannot continue at the pace you are going. You need help and if you don't take it, you are going to lose it all. I am talking about that career. If you want that career to blossom, you need to share it with others. I will never, ever forget in the year 2010, we had possibly the largest men's meeting on this farm, Shalom, something like 450,000 men on this farm. Unbelievable! We have got the evidence to show you. The Holy Spirit clearly said to me, “Now you need to pass it on.” I said to the boys, “It is the last one on this farm. We need to go out and multiply what God is doing, and has been doing on this farm.”Well, I got a lot of criticism. A lot of people wrote in, “What are you trying to do? Are you trying to stop the revival?” “No, I am doing what God told me to do.” And do you know, since then, the Mighty Men movement, which was designed to help women and children, has exploded. As I record this message, we have a delegation coming back from Texas, USA. They have just had a Mighty Men Conference there. Very shortly, we will be going to Walvis Bay in Namibia to have a Mighty Men conference. They are taking place all over the world. If you don't pass it on, it will die. Today, pass it on and God will give you even more.Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Monday morning, the 27th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in Psalm 20:7:”Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.” Who are you trusting today? Are you trusting a certain organisation? Are you trusting in a certain person? No, there is only One we can trust in, and His name is Jesus!Let's go now to the Book of Acts 14:19: ”Then Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there; and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.” One minute a hero! If you read a few verses before, you'll see they wanted to worship Paul and Barnabas because they saw how Jesus had healed a lame man, and now, because of persuasive words from other people from Antioch and Iconium, they turned on him and stoned him. Now, in those days, when you got stoned, that was the death penalty. Paul must have been in a terrible state and yet the next morning he was up on his feet again. What a man!I'll never forget a Rugby Cup Final, being played at King's Park Rugby Stadium in Durban between our team, the Sharks, and the Blue Bulls from Pretoria. The score was hanging in the balance. We were winning the cup. There were a couple of points in it. The referee issued a penalty to our team. All our little scrum half had to do was kick the ball out, and the game was over, but he didn't. He argued with the ref. The ref told him to be quiet. He carried on arguing. The ref turned the penalty around and gave it to the Blue Bulls, and up came their champion kicker, and he kicked that ball through the posts, and they beat us by one point. I want to tell you, from a hero, he became an absolute villain. I think he had to be escorted off the field. The crowd just turned instantly. That is how easy it is to change things!We need to put our trust in the Lord. What about Jesus Himself, when He was coming into Jerusalem before the Passover, they were worshipping Him, throwing their clothes on the road and cutting down palm branches. The next day, literally within a couple of hours, they were screaming out, “Crucify Him”, crucify the Darling of Heaven. Let's not do that today. Let's put our trust in Jesus alone!God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 26th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the fifth book of Moses, Deuteronomy 1:6: “The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.“Then of course, we go to Isaiah 40:31: ”But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.” You and I have dwelt long enough at this mountain. It is time to move forward now. We are praying for courage. Yes, Lord Jesus, we need more courage, more strength, more fortitude. I looked up the Oxford Dictionary to find out the literal meaning of the word “fortitude”. It means bravery, endurance, resilience, mettle, strength of character, backbone, grit or just plain guts! Folks, we've dwelt at this mountain long enough. It is time to move forward now. Most of all, we need godly wisdom. It's time to fly out of that comfortable nest and to move forward for the Lord.I always think of the example of the mother eagle. When the chicks get old enough, mother says, “It is time to move forward, you've been in this nest long enough”, and slowly but surely she starts to throw all the comfortable little bits that she's put in there for the chicks and it becomes very bare. Then she starts pulling out the sticks, and there's nothing left but a rocky ledge, and then she literally edges her babies off the edge of the cliff. They have to fly and she watches them, and if they don't quite get it the first time, she catches them on her wings, takes them to the top and does it again, until they fly.The Lord says to you and me today, we have dwelt long enough at this mountain. It is now time to move forward. Jesus give you lots of grit and courage and guts as you take your next step forward.God bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 25th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Acts 13:45: ”But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy; and contradicting and blaspheming, they opposed the things spoken by Paul.” If we go down a little bit further to verse 49: ”And the word of the Lord was being spread throughout all the region.” Then we go down a little bit further to verse 50. Paul and Barnabas were then expelled from their region. Envy - envy is a terrible thing folks, and what does envy mean? I was speaking to my wife about it. I said, “What do you think the definition of envy is?” She said, “Somebody wanting to be like you, whoever that person may be, or wanting to have what you have.”Now, the Jews saw how the multitudes were responding to the Gospel of Paul and Barnabas preaching about Jesus, and they became envious. They wanted what they had, but they didn't have it and they were not prepared to change. We have to be so careful about how we conduct ourselves. Remember the old story about the old preacher who was accused by all the local churches in town of sheep-stealing, taking members of their churches and bringing them to his church. He said, “No, I am not sheep-stealing,” he said, “but if the grass is greener on my side of the fence, I can't stop the sheep jumping over the fence!”Oh, my dear friend, we don't have to be envious of anyone. All we have to do is preach the Gospel. That is what Paul said to Timothy. Preach the Gospel, not a type of Gospel, not a compromised Gospel - the whole Gospel, not changing it to suit the crowd! People don't like that. People want the truth, they want it straight, and they want it from the heart, filled with lashings of love. Perfect love casts out all fear! 1 John 4:18We really need to get our act together. No one should be left out. If people envy you, well, you know what the Lord Jesus said - He said in Luke 6:23, He said: “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy for indeed your reward is great in Heaven.” That's when people exclude you, they cast you out, they actually hate you and they do it for the sake because they are envious of what you have got. Do not compromise the Gospel!Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Friday morning, the 24th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Numbers 23:19:“God is not a man, that He should lie,…” Then we go to the Book of Revelation 22:12, Jesus speaking: “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me,…”God is not a man that He should lie. We can rely on Him. Who can you rely on these days, my dear friend? But we can rely on Him. Whatever He has promised, Jesus will fulfil. The best investment that you and I will ever make on this earth is better than the Stockmarket. Remember what happened in 1929? The Wall Street Crash. It triggered the Great Depression. The Stockmarket just fell apart overnight. Men who were multi-billionaires woke up in the morning and found themselves paupers. Everything they had was lost, to the extent that some just committed suicide. They literally jumped out of the windows of their skyscrapers. Who can we trust? What is a good investment? Well, I want to tell you the best investment you will ever make, my dear friend, is investing in Jesus Christ. Yes, we have to live in this life, but our hope and our trust must be sure, and it must be in the Son of God. Jesus said He is coming back. I can hear somebody saying, “Oh ja, but He has been saying that for 2000 years.” I want to tell you, in God's economy, a thousand years is like the blinking of an eye. Time is not a problem with God. If God has said it, He will do it. He has never, ever once let me down, not in my whole life, and He won't let you down either. Today, put your investment, your trust, put your future, put everything you have in the name of Jesus Christ and His word. You will sleep better, you will be much more joyful, your investment is growing every moment that you walk with God, and the best news of all is, He is coming very soon! Jesus bless you and have a wonderful, peaceful, hopeful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 23rd of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in Psalm 2:7. The Lord says of Jesus: ”You are My Son, today I have begotten You.” Then we go to the Book of Hebrews 1:5, the exact same scripture: “You are My Son, today I have begotten You” You can go to Acts 13:33 - the same thing! Oh folks, He is everywhere. Jesus is the most mentioned person in the whole Bible. There are 66 books, and He's in every single one, because Jesus is the Word. John 1:1: ”In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” There are none so blind as those who don't want to see!I want to say to that lady listening this morning, that old widow who is missing her husband and maybe her children, Jesus is with you. He is everywhere! When the astronauts circled the Earth, they acknowledged that God was present in the universe. You can go to the highest mountain, Mount Everest, He is there! You can go into the deepest canyon, the deepest mine on earth, He is there! Why? Because He lives inside you, my dear friend. He walks with you. He is with you every moment of the day. You never have to be lonely again if you can ask God to open your spiritual eyes.Now, I want to pray for you this morning, and I want you to pray after me:Heavenly Father, In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, by the power of Your Holy Spirit, please open my spiritual eyes today that I may see You,that I may see You in the stars that shine at night;in the sun that rises in the morning;that I might see You in Your creation;that I might see You in that newly born baby; that I might see You in that lovely old gentleman; that I might see You in all Your glory! I ask this in Your precious name, amen.Have a wonderful day as you open your spiritual eyes today! Goodbye

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 22nd of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the word of God, Psalms 62:5: ”My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him.” We need to really come aside and wait upon God only. I want to read something to you that I saw in a book from an unknown author. I think this is very appropriate for you and me, especially me, because I'm one of those who talk too much and listen too little, but I'm going to trust God to change that.Listen to this beautiful little reading: ”Did it ever occur to you that if you do not hear God's answer to prayer, it may be not because He is dumb but because you are deaf, not because He has no answer to give but because you have not been listening for it. We are so busy with our service, so busy with our work, and sometimes so busy with our praying that it does not occur to us to stop our own talking and listen, if God has some answer to give us with that still small voice! To be passive, to be quiet and to do nothing, say nothing and in some true sense, think nothing, simply to be receptive and waiting for the voice. “Wait thou only upon God”, says the psalmist and again, “wait on the Lord.”I really believe that is a very special word for a lot of busy people. I'm one of them, I've already told you that. We need to listen more. We need to speak less and sometimes, absolutely do nothing. Just listen so that He can talk to us and give us clear instructions as to what the future holds for us.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 21st of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to Jeremiah 1:5 (Amplified Version): “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you [and approved of you as My chosen instrument], And before you were born I consecrated you [to Myself as My own]; I have appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Yes, we are talking about a calling. Then we go straight to the Book of Acts 13:2: “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul (Paul) for the work to which I have called them.” Being set apart for a particular work by the Holy Spirit. I want to make something very clear this morning, my dear friend. A calling is not a good idea, a calling comes from God Himself. It is an important work. I looked up the Oxford Dictionary to find out the meaning of the word “commission”. It is an instruction. It is not something you have decided you will do because things are not working out for you in your employment or in the country you are staying in, or maybe even in your marriage. No, you have to work through things. A calling is specifically from God for a purpose, and by the way, it doesn't always go easy, so don't think “I will just go and serve the Lord and that will be much easier than doing the job as a representative in some company or working in some construction work or mining. Whatever God has put you to, don't try and run away from it. A calling comes from God. Now, I want to tell you a beautiful little story that I heard from my producer just the other day. He and his wife and family went up to Lesotho to do an outreach, and while they were sitting there quietly, a young man told this story. He said he was working in South Africa, and one day he turned on the TV and there was Angus Buchan talking about serving the Lord. He was not serving the Lord at the time. He said it was the first time he saw a preacher crying on the television. I was probably quite overwhelmed - that happens quite often, especially these days - and told the story about how God had changed his life and called him, and he got on his knees in front of the television and accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour. He then left his secular work, went back to Lesotho and started ministering to the shepherds. And of course, my producer and his family were sitting there and they were absolutely shocked because he was telling them clearly, how he was called for a particular work by the Holy Spirit, and now he was a fully fledged pastor and ministering to other people.Today, make sure the calling comes from God. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Monday morning, the 20th April , 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Acts 12:18:”Then, as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.“ Now, folks, I want you to understand something. If you cannot believe in miracles, then you cannot believe the Bible because I'm going to show you a miracle that is unbelievably miraculous. It cannot be explained. If you read Chapter 12 of the Book of Acts, you'll see that Peter the Apostle was arrested by Herod's soldiers and put in prison. Four squads of soldiers were there to keep him from escaping because they were going to kill him after the Passover.He was bound with two chains between two soldiers and the guards before the door were keeping the prison. He was sleeping, and he had a soldier on either side, and he was in chains. Then the angel of the Lord came into the prison and literally set Peter free. When they were past the first and second guard posts, they came to an iron gate that led to the city. It was open to them of it's own accord supernaturally, and it caused no small stir because the next day the guards couldn't find him, he was gone.Folks, I believe in miracles! Wherever Jesus walked on this earth, He caused either a riot or a revival, but nothing in between. Just a few days ago, I met a young man at the airport. His name is Dean. I said, ”Dean, where are you going?” He said,” I'm going to Cape Town.” I said,” Why?” He said, ”Because I'm sick and I have to go to the specialist in Cape Town to see if they can heal me.” So I said, ”Do you believe in miracles?” Of course he did. I prayed for him in the departure lounge, I laid my hands on him and I prayed that God would heal him.Well, not two, three days later, I got a message to say that he has just got a report from the doctors in Cape Town. There is absolutely nothing wrong with him. He is completely healed and he can go home. That is a miracle! Trust Jesus today for your miracle. I want to pray for you: Father, I pray in Jesus name that the person who is listening to this message will claim their healing, their miracle. Be healed in Jesus name, amen.God bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 19th of April, 2026 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Old Testament, in the Book of Numbers 32:32: ”We will cross over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, but the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us on this side of the Jordan.” Now the situation was, as they were going to go across into the land of milk and honey, the Children of Israel, there were two and a half tribes that asked Moses if they could remain on the other side of the Jordan, because they were cattlemen and they were shepherds, and the land was good and the grass was good and they didn't want to go across. So Moses sought counsel from the Lord. The Lord said, ”Yes, they can stay there, but first they have an obligation, they have a responsibility, they need to go with all the other tribes across the River Jordan and fight and defeat the enemy, and then when the battle has been won they can return back, to the other side of the Jordan, and that's when they can have their inheritance.”Then we go to the New Testament, 1 Timothy 5:8. The Lord says: “But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” We've got to get things right first at home before we try and help anybody else. We've got to take care of our wives, our children, and our husbands before we go to the mission fields, as it were. What happened with those two and a half tribes, the tribe of Rueben, Dan and Manasseh, they were very happy to stay back. Moses said, ”Okay but you must fulfil your obligation. First, you must help your family get established across the river, then you can return.You know what is very sad for me, and I am in full-time ministry, is when I hear of young people that get so excited, they meet Jesus, now they want to serve the Lord and they want to save the world, and that's wonderful. That passion is very exciting, I was one of them, but the Lord says, before you do that, you make sure your young wife, your husband, your children are well equipped and taken care of and then you can fulfil the calling of God on your life. There's nowhere in the Bible that you can show me where the Lord says, ”Leave everything you have and your responsibility and obligations and go to the mission field.” Get your house in order first, and then by all means, preach the Gospel with all of your heart.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 18th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Exodus 19:3: “And Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel.” Moses went up the mountain to hear from God. Then we go to the Gospel of Luke 6:12: “Now it came to pass in those days that He (that's Jesus) went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.” People often ask me, “How do we hear from God?” It's a good question. Jesus went up the mountain and spent the whole night in prayer so that He could hear a word from His Heavenly Father. Moses did the same. He went up Mount Sinai to hear the word from God. That is how you hear from God. First of all, by getting up early in the morning. There is an old saying, I will never forget it, it goes like this: “First the mountain and then the ministry” - not the other way around. When we talk about the mountain, we are not talking about 5 minutes or while you are driving to work, ladies, to drop the children off at school, or gentlemen, while you are on your way to work. No, that's not a quiet time. That is not hearing from God. We need to spend time in the presence of God, not for five minutes. This is how we hear from God: We read our Bibles systematically, every single morning. If you are not in that habit, I would encourage you to start in the Book of Psalms. Read a portion of each psalm, every single morning, starting from Psalm Number 1. Then go straight into the New Testament, start in the Gospel of John, and start reading five or ten verses every day. Then get your little notebook and write what God has said to you. There is no abracadabra, there is no magical way of doing it. If you want to hear from God, you have to spend time with God, reading your Bible every single day, meditating and praying. Give Him time so He can speak to you.Quieten your spirit down so that you can hear, and then God will speak to you every single day. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Friday morning, the 17th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Gospel of Matthew 28:20, and this is Jesus speaking: “…and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.” Isn't that a beautiful promise for you today? The Lord says, “all the days”.F B Meyer, that wonderful man of God, wrote a beautiful little passage, and this is what he says: “All the days” He says: “in winter days, when joys are fled; in sunless days, when the clouds return again and again after rain; in days of sickness and pain; in days of temptation and perplexity, as much as in days when the heart is as full of joy as the woodlands in spring are full of song. That day never comes when the Lord Jesus is not at the side of His saints, (that's you and me!) Lover and friend may stand afar, but He walks with them through the fires; He fords with them the rivers; He stands by them when face to face with the lion. We can never be alone. We must always add His resources to our own when making our calculations.”Jesus will never leave us and He will never forsake us. We know that scripture, don't we? It is found in Hebrews 13:5, and that is good news, so we can indeed do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens us! (Philippians 4:13)Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 16th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Romans 10:12-13: “For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” The Lord has no favourites. I have already told you that before. There is a most beautiful song, and it is called “Who am I?” by Casting Crowns, and these are the words. I want to read them to you this morning, and then I am going to pray for you because I feel that there is somebody there who feels that they are a failure, that there is no hope for them, that they have messed up and that this is the end of the road. Not at all! It is a lie from the pit of hell. Listen to these words:Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth would care to know my name?Would care to feel my hurt?Who am I, that the bright and morning star would choose to light the wayFor my ever-wandering heart?Not because of who I amBut because of what you've doneNot because of what I've doneBut because of who you areI am a flower quickly fadingHere today and gone tomorrowA wave tossed in the ocean A vapour in the windStill you hear me when I'm callingLord, you catch me when I'm fallingAnd you've told me who I amI am yours…And it goes on but that is enough. Father, I want to pray for my dear friends today. Lord, there are many listening to this message - who have thrown the towel in, who are down and out - no, not at all. Stand up, woman of God, stand up, man of God. Lord, please today remind them that You love them, just because of who they are, and Lord, we repent today of anything we have done to offend You, to hurt You. Lord, we love You, we ask You to come back into our hearts afresh this very morning. I ask this in Jesus' name, amen.Have a wonderful, blessed day and remember you are so very special to God.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 15th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.We go to the Gospel of Matthew 26:40. This is Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane: “Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” How much time are you and I spending in prayer at the moment? Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, it was the most testing time of His life on earth. He was sweating drops of blood. He was stressing out so much, full of fear and anxiety. He was God, but He was a man too, and He asked the disciples just to pray with Him and He came back and they were sleeping. “Could you not watch with Me one hour?” Folks, we need to really sharpen up on our prayer life. E. M. Bounce was a great man of God. He lived in the 1800's, but most of all, he wrote books on prayer. He was a prayer warrior. This is what E. M. Bounce said, and I am going to say it slowly because it is very important that you hear this. He said, and I quote: “He who does not pray therefore robs himself of God's help and power.” It is not God who is suffering, it is us. You see, when you pray, God speaks to you, and He gives you direction. Martin Luther, who was responsible for introducing us to grace - “and the just shall live by faith” - grace through faith, Romans 1:17 impacted his life, Luther said when they asked him, “What do you do when you get really busy? Do you cut back on your quiet time in the morning?” “No”, he said, “I get up earlier.” There is no excuse.Sir, I want to tell you, spend less time preparing your sermon and more time in prayer. That is what I am doing in my latter years because many a time I have got up on the platform to preach, and as I get up on the platform, the Lord says to me, almost audibly, “I don't want you to tell them about the subject of whatever it might be, I want you to change your message, and I want you to speak about something totally different.” That normally works out to be one of the best messages I have preached. We need to pray! Remember what we always say? When men work, they work, but when men pray, God works. And by the way, ladies, I am not talking about men only. Matthew Henry wrote the most extensive book, a commentary on the Bible, 6 volumes, but he was a man who used to get up at 4 a.m., and he worked on that commentary book for 8 hours a day, and he died at 51 years old. Today, spend more time in prayer and less time speaking. Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 14th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Acts 10:41. This is Peter talking. He says:”…not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, even to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead.” Peter, telling the people that after Jesus Christ had risen (we have just celebrated Easter Sunday not so long ago), he said, “We ate with Jesus, we drank with Him. We know that He is alive.”I want to ask you a question today, my dear friend, why do you doubt the existence of Jesus so much when there is more evidence that He walked on the earth than Julius Caesar, and yet you never doubt that the Emperor of Rome existed but you question the sovereignty and the miracle-working power of the Son of God? There are none who are so blind as those who do not want to see! There are so many negative people who are talking about, “Did He really live?” Yes, we see the Bible. There are so many fake things around. I do understand that, and I sympathise with you, but God's Holy Word, the Bible, has never, ever changed. It is the same yesterday, today and forever. You will find that in Hebrews 13:8, and you and I need to believe when everything in this world is so plastic, so undependable. Now, you say to me, “Angus, how can we know that Jesus Christ has literally risen from the dead?” Very easily. As a farmer, I go out early in the morning before the sun has risen, and I see the stars. They have never changed. Oh, they are so beautiful. I look at the moon, the faithful witness in sky. What does it do? It reflects the sun. Of course, we spell sun, S-O-N. Yes, we need to open our spiritual eyes. I have just become a great-grandfather for the second time, and I held that little baby girl in my arms a week ago, and I could fit her into one hand. But I want to tell you, she is beautiful. She has dark eyes like her mother, my grand-daughter. Her little fingers are unbelievable. When she holds your finger, you say, “Lord, I see Jesus in her creation."Today, stop doubting and start believing, and you will have a much better day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Monday morning, the 13th of April, 2026 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Romans 10:13:”For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Then we go to Acts 10:34:”Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality.” God has got no favourites. Anybody who puts their hand up. Anybody who says, ”Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner,” will be saved. He has got no favourites. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that as I read the Bible, I see so often the Lord seems to choose people that maybe you and I would never have anything to do with. We start with Mary Magdalene. She was a woman who had a very poor reputation, and in fact, Jesus delivered her of seven demons and yet she became His most faithful. What about Zacchaeus? Even the Apostles said, ”Lord, do you know who you are talking to? You can't go in there, that man is a thief, he's a tax collector!” Jesus went in and had a meal at his house, and that day they got saved, not just Zacchaeus but all his cronies as well. The Lord has got no favourites, and that is good news, isn't it? I've heard reports that in Iran at the moment, young people are having dreams of a man who comes to speak to them, wearing a beautiful white robe, with holes in His hands and fire in His eyes. Now, these people have never read the Bible or heard the name of Jesus, but Jesus is visiting them in their dreams, and they are being saved and following the Son of God.Oh, folks, today let us be careful not to point fingers. Remember people who live in glass houses don't throw stones. We need to thank God that He will choose anybody who says, ”Lord, today have mercy on me, a sinner.” And He will, and He has, and that is great news!Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 12th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go straight to the Book of Acts 10:15: ”And a voice spoke to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed you must not call common.” What God has made clean, you cannot call unclean. I looked up The Message translation, and it says, ”… If God says it's okay, then it's okay.” You know folks, we've got the situation here where Peter had that dream, vision or trance on top of the roof of Simon the Tanner's house, and he saw a sheet coming down from heaven and all kinds of creatures and birds of the air were there, and the Lord said to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” Now Peter said, “No Lord! I have never eaten anything common or unclean in my life.” Then the Lord spoke to him again a second time and said to him, ”What God has cleansed, you may not call un-cleansed.”People are more important than traditions, and the Holy Spirit revealed to Peter in a dream that whatever God has cleansed is clean, and we need to know that. I've got a dear friend who goes with me when I travel overseas and up into central Africa. I have told him and we've had a good talk about it, (he's a very special friend to me. He's very particular about what he eats. He keeps himself very fit and very trim), I said to him, ”When you go with me and we go into a house, you will eat whatever is put in front of you, otherwise you're not coming.”Folks, I can preach the Gospel, and I can see people respond to the Gospel and they are deeply touched, sometimes to tears, and then we'll go back to their homes. Some people live in very simple homes, and the food that they give us is very simple and sometimes is not maybe not what you and I would regard as good food, but that woman has slaved over a stove to make a meal for us, and it has cost her plenty. Now, if we turn our noses up, as it were, and don't partake heartily of what she has prepared, it is a great insult to her, but if you eat that food, that will make an impact on her like maybe the Gospel doesn't even make an impact sometimes, because we are doing what God has called us to do. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 11th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Numbers 30:2: “If a man makes a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by some agreement, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.” Wow! That is quite a statement. Then we go to the Gospel of Luke 22:61-62: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” So Peter went out and wept bitterly.”A vow is a serious thing. According to the Oxford Dictionary, it is a solemn promise, a pledge, an oath, and a commitment. Now we know the sad story about Peter, the big fisherman who said to the Lord, “I will never deny You, Lord.” But he denied Him three times. Oh, my dear friend, we cannot break a promise that we make to God. It almost destroyed Peter completely. In fact, if the Lord Jesus Christ Himself had not told the disciples to tell Peter that “He will see him in Galilee” after the resurrection, there would have been no hope for him. I made a vow myself, to the Lord Jesus Christ, many years ago. I was going through an extreme drought on the farm. The maize crop was failing and I was facing absolute bankruptcy. I cried out to the Lord. I will never forget it. I said, “Lord, if You pull me through this drought, I make a vow that I will preach Your Gospel for the rest of my life.Well, He pulled me out of the drought. We had a miraculous crop, and now I am preaching the Gospel. Folks, keep your vow to the Lord. Don't break it. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Friday morning, the 10th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to 1 Timothy 6:6: “Now godliness with contentment is great gain.” Then we read it out of the Amplified Version: “But godliness actually is a source of great gain when accompanied by contentment [that contentment which comes from a sense of inner confidence based on the sufficiency of God].”If God is our sufficiency, then we are content, but many of us are not. Some of the poorest people I know are the most content. They have nothing to worry about because no one can steal anything from them because they don't have anything. And some of the wealthiest people I know are unhappy because they have a large amount of money or possessions that they have to watch over and they are continually worried about losing their money. Contentment! That bus driver, all he is concerned about is getting his salary at the end of the month. The cattleman who looks after the cattle on the farmer's property, he just needs to know that those cattle are in good condition. The waitress in the restaurant, she is happy because she has got a job and she is serving her customers with lots of joy. The usher - I am talking about the usher in the church, he is the one who welcomes you into the church. Often, he has more impact than the preacher. Discontentment is a terrible thing.When you are a multi-millionaire, you have a great responsibility, and everybody wants to get rich, but once you have all that money, you have to manage it. I think about the sad story of Elvis Presley. Elvis Presley said sometimes when he was on the platform, “he feels like he is in a prison and he can't get away because of the commitments on his life.” That is what he said. I have been to his home in America, and it was a very sad place for me. He died, he was only 40 years old. Contentment is very important.You know, we have got a little dog. In Afrikaans, they call him a “worsie,” which is a sausage dog, and this little dog is very happy. We have been away for a while. We were in Central Africa. We got back last night, and that little dog was so happy to see us and so content. She jumped up on my lap, put her head down on my knee and she was totally content. Jesus Christ is all we need. If you have got Him, then you have got contentment and a reason to live. Have a wonderful day today and be grateful for what you have got.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 9th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in that very well-known scripture found in Philippians 3:10: “…that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,…” Then the other one, Colossians 1:27: “…which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” We are talking this morning about our lifestyle, a way of life. Being a Christian is not like belonging to a certain club or organisation. No, it's a relationship with Jesus Christ, the practice of the presence of God, twenty-four/seven, night and day. The more time we spend with Jesus, the more time we get to know Him.William Duma was a Zulu pastor from the Umkomaas Valley in KwaZulu-Natal. A small little man, but what an incredible servant of the Lord! He prayed for the sick, he preached the Gospel without any kind of fear, and people used to flock to his services. But he had an intimate relationship with Jesus. Once there was an organisation that invited him to go to Israel as a gift for all his hard work, not only him, but a few other ministers as well. All of them accepted immediately, but he said, “Can I let you know tomorrow morning? I just want to ask my Lord if I can go.” Of course, he did go. That is the relationship that you and I need with Jesus.That Yorkshire plumber, Smith Wigglesworth, the evangelist, he said, “I never pray for half an hour, but I never let half an hour go by without praying” - a man who had a relationship with God. You see, it is a lifestyle. When we fall down, we say sorry, we repent, and we get up and we keep going again. We need to keep on keeping on. This is a lifetime to achieve. Matthew 6:33: “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” In closing, we need to stop trying to please God and start to be a child of God. We need to seek the Lord and then the peace and the contentment follow.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day as you walk with Him today.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 8th April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We are still thinking today and meditating on the Easter week that has gone by, and we realise again the tremendous price that our beloved Saviour paid for you and me. I want to say to you today, it's the garden, or it is the Cross. We need to make that decision. Jesus did. If we look at Matthew 26:39, the Bible says: “He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”The hard part is to make the decision. Now the Lord Jesus Christ could have said at the end, “No, I can't do this Lord, Father God, I can't go through with this because I know what is going to happen.” He already knew about the forthcoming crucifixion and He sweated blood in the garden, trying to make the decision - is He going to go through with it or is He going to pull out? We can see that in the Gospel of Luke 22:44: “Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” I have heard doctors say that when a person is totally stressed out, it can be that actual blood comes through the pores of his skin. That is extreme stress, agony, anxiety and everything else that goes with it. You see, although Jesus was God, He was also very much man. He went through everything that you and I are going through at the moment. I want to say to you today, God is calling you to make a decision. You cannot sit on the fence, either you are going to go through with it or you are going to call it off, but you cannot stay in the middle. I remember it like yesterday, when I got a word from God to hire the biggest tent in the world. It was built in Britain, it was extended in Germany and then it was shipped out here for the World Earth Summit in Johannesburg and by faith, I had a mere R500.00 in my pocket, that's not even $50 and by faith I went through with it and the rest is history. We ended up with thirty thousand men in that tent and thirty thousand men outside the tent. It was probably the biggest miracle I experienced up until that time, but I had to make the decision. If I had not made the decision, it would never have happened. Now you go to the Lord, you go to the mountain, go into the closet and pray that God will tell you what to do. If you must marry that person or not, whether you must complete that degree or not, whether you must change your job, whether you must emigrate, or whether you must stay here. He will tell you, but you need to ask Him and pray and wait. Jesus said at the end, ”Not my will but thy will be done.”Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 7th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Numbers 25:10-11: “Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel…” Phinehas was zealous for the word of God. Folks, I want to say to you today, we need to be more zealous, more excited, more passionate, more concerned for the things of God. Because Phinehas, the grandson of Aaron, Moses' brother, the High Priest, because of his zeal and his commitment to the Gospel, to saving the people of Israel, the Lord really noticed him. The Lord was so angry with the people of Israel because they had played the harlot with other nations, that He wanted to destroy them, but because of Phinehas' commitment and excitement…I want to ask you a question today. Are you excited about the things of God? You might say, “Uncle Angus, there was a time when I was, but because of the pressures of life and because of the workload, because of the family commitments, I have gone cold.” I want to pray for you today, that God will fill you again with the joy of the Lord and with zeal. You know, they say a new Christian should be locked up for the first six months because he is like a bull in a china shop. I think the Lord prefers that than somebody who just doesn't care anymore, somebody who just goes through the motions. Let me pray for you because we need the fire of God in our hearts, the excitement and joy to finish this race. We won't do it otherwise.Heavenly Father,I pray for my dear friend listening to this message right now. Lord, fill his heart, fill his soul with new fire for Jesus Christ. Lord, open his eyes that he might see there are so many people around him, in the workplace, on the sports field, in the university, in the school, who are desperate for the fire of God. Lord, the fire has almost gone out. There is just a little flame flickering, just flickering. Oh Lord, restore them so that they are zealous for You. I ask this in Jesus' precious name, amen.God bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Monday morning, the 6th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in 2 Corinthians 3:6: “…for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” Then we go on to Acts 7:3. This is Stephen talking to the High Priest and the Council. He is telling them, “and then the Lord said to Abraham, “Get out of your country and your from your relatives and come to a land that I will show you.” Then he goes right on from there to tell the High Priest and the Council, the whole history of the Jewish nation from the time that they were delivered from Egypt out of slavery by the Lord using Moses. A waiter - yes, a waiter reminded the intellectuals, the High Priest, the Council. Those men had so much power they could almost administer the death penalty, and yet it took an ordinary waiter who was serving at the tables to teach them about their own history. Do you know why? Because he knew the Author of the word. That's right, he knew our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, He knew God the Father, and he was filled with the Holy Spirit. That is why the Bible tells us that the letter killeth but the Spirit giveth life. You can know the Bible inside out, back to front. That doesn't mean to say that you understand it unless you are filled with the Spirit of God. All you become is a history teacher. Isn't that right? No, it is when the Holy Spirit empowers you, like He did Stephen, that Stephen understood the meaning of God's Holy Word. I want to say to you today, yes, we must read the Bible. I read the Bible every single day of my life. You know that. That is where I get these Thoughts for Today from, but not only read it but understand it. Ask the Holy Spirit to give you understanding before you read your daily scriptures. The High Priests knew the word, but they didn't know the Holy Spirit, so they had no understanding of the power of the written word of God. So today remember, the letter killeth but the Spirit giveth life.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Easter Sunday morning, the 5th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. I just want to say to you, a very happy Easter Sunday. Yes, He is alive! He is not in the tomb, He has risen from the dead! We go to Romans 8:11: ”But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.” We want to thank God this morning for His precious Holy Spirit. Remember, Jesus said to His disciples, “It is expedient that I leave because if I don't leave, I can't send my Spirit to you. Now, the Holy Spirit is with you young man, right as I am talking, with you young lady, old gentleman, with you, granny, right now, because the Spirit of the Lord is all over the world at one time. He is alive, and because He is alive, you and I can face tomorrow. The same power that raised Christ from the dead can give you and I strength, courage, and hope to finish our race. I want to sing that old song with you, I am sure you know it, Spirit of the living God:Spirit of the living God,fall afresh on me.Spirit of the living God,fall afresh on me.Melt me, mould me, fill me, use me.Spirit of the living God,fall afresh on me!Father God,I want to thank You for my dear friends that faithfully listen to the Thought for the Day every single morning. Holy Spirit, remind them today that they will never, ever be alone again. Father, Your Spirit, the Holy Spirit, is with each and every one of Your believers today and You have promised us that You will never leave us and You will never forsake us. Hebrews 13:5.In Jesus' name.I want to wish you a blessed Sunday and we know that Christ is alive, He is well, and most of all, He is coming back soon. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful Easter Sunday, together with your loved ones.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 4th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Gospel of Luke 21:15. Jesus says: “…for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries (all your enemies) will not be able to contradict or resist.” He will give you the words to speak when it is needed. Don't worry about that. Now, remember the waiter, yes - his name was Stephen. He was confounding all the Pharisees with the word of God, and so they accused him of speaking evil against the Temple and against Jehovah. Acts 6:15: “And all who sat in the council, (they were judging him now) looking steadfastly at him, saw his face as the face of an angel.” I want to tell you something now. You don't have to defend yourself. You just have to spend time in the presence of Jesus and He will give you the words to speak to defend yourself. He will give you godly wisdom and counsel. And do you know what will happen? When you start speaking from your heart, it doesn't matter how clever your adversaries are, they will be confounded because that is what happened to the High Priests when they were judging Stephen. They saw him and his face looked like the face of an angel. The word of God is very powerful when it is spoken through the mouth of an ordinary person. Remember David Wilkerson, the Cross and the Switchblade? The skinny preacher who went down and started preaching to the gangsters in downtown New York? Nicky Cruz was the leader of the Mau Mau gang. David Wilkerson said to him, “Nicky, God loves you,” and Nicky said to David Wilkerson, “Preacher, get away from me, otherwise I will cut you with my flick knife into a hundred pieces.” And David Wilkerson says, “And Nicky, every piece will tell you the same thing, that Jesus loves you.” And with that, that hardened gangster just crumbled and David Wilkerson led him to Jesus.Do you know that the old gentleman is now in his eighties? He is still an evangelist, preaching the love of God. Don't worry about what you will say. Just love people, and the Lord will put the words into your mouth. It doesn't matter who it is.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Good Friday, the 3rd of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. I'm going to read from the Gospel of John 15:13-14 (Amplified Version): No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own life for his friends. You are my friends if you keep on doing what I command you.” This is a very, very solemn day. It's a good day to come aside, wait and think and meditate on what Jesus has done for you and for me today. If He had not died on that cross, we would never, ever be able to receive eternal life. Have you thought about that? God became flesh. He died for you and me so that we have an opportunity to live forever.I went to Israel, the one time I went, I can't remember exactly the year, I went to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem. I know there are two places where they say that Jesus was buried. The one is in the Garden Tomb which is very special and very intimate and the other is a huge church in the middle of the Old City. As I walked through those doors, I sat on a little bench just inside the door and I looked up, and on the other side of that passage there are steps that go up to where they say, the Lord Jesus was crucified, and I've never done it before but I have felt so overwhelmed by the presence of God and what Jesus did for me, I started to weep and I didn't just weep gently. I wept and my dear wife, Jill, had to put her arm around me and comfort me and she said, ”Are you alright?” and I just nodded. The massive price that Christ paid for all of my sins! I want to say to you today, sit down somewhere, please. Have a cup of tea or coffee and think and give glory to God for what He has done for you and for me.We had a Mighty Men Conference on the farm here, many years ago. We called it, Dying to Live. If you want to live, you have to die, die to self and start to live for Christ because that's what Jesus did for you and for me on Easter Friday when He was crucified, an innocent Man, for our sins. I want to pray for you today. Maybe you've never done it before. Jesus, please forgive me for I am a sinner and I have messed up so badly. Please give me another chance. Thank you, that through your death I have an opportunity to have eternal life. I ask this in Your precious name, amen. God bless you and have a peaceful Easter Friday. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 2nd of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Gospel of John 13:14: “If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet”.Spoken by the Prince of Glory humbled Himself and washed the dirty, dusty feet of His servants, His disciples. What an example!Then we go to Acts 6:5: “And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit,…” What happened? The apostles were so busy trying to feed the widows and the orphans and take care of the needy that they were not spending enough time in prayer and preparation and preaching. They said, “We will have to bring some men in that can do the menial jobs so that we can spend time in the presence of God. And who did they choose? They chose Stephen and a number of other men. Stephen was a man who became the first martyr in the New Testament. Folks, we need to understand something - If we want to really be used by God, we must humble ourselves. We must serve one another. We have a men's prayer meeting early in the morning, and the boys come together. This morning we were at that meeting and what a beautiful meeting it was! A lot of these men are ordinary working men. And women, I want to say to you as well, I just love that housewife. Oh yes, yes - what a job you have got! Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a housewife. She was chosen to serve, to wait upon the greatest Man who has ever walked on the face of the earth and He is coming back soon. As we contemplate Easter, Easter Friday will be tomorrow, as we think about that, l want to say to you, let us start to serve one another. Men always banter. Do you know what banter means? It doesn't mean that they are sarcastic, but they joke with each other, that is what men do, and this morning I had to laugh because the electrician in the group did a bit of plumbing and the plumber wasn't very happy with it. He said, “You are coming into my territory”, and they had a good banter and we all had a great laugh, but do you know what they do, both of those men? They serve their fellowmen. They fix the electrics when they break, they fix the dirty plumbing when it needs to be done, and they do it unto the Lord.Today, let us be waiters and serve one another as we think about Easter.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 1st of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Acts 5:42: “And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.” That is just after they had been given a severe beating and told by the High Priest not to mention the name of Jesus Christ again. And what happened? They went straight out and they were rejoicing and they started to tell the people about their beloved Saviour. When was the last time that you and I stood up in public and said, “I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of salvation to those who believe, first the Jew, then the Gentile”? Romans 1:16, and then that beautiful scripture that you find in Romans 5:3: “…but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.”Oh folks, we need to speak it out! I will never forget preaching in the Eastern Cape, many years ago. I love those farmers down there, and at half time I decided to shoot into the bathroom and an old farmer came in. He said to me, “Young boy, when you preach, you don't have to sweat so much.” (In other words, “you don't have to try so hard.”) I said, “Oh sir” I said, “Wait for the second half. You haven't heard anything yet!”There is nothing like perseverance, there is nothing like persecution, to get you to stand up for the Lord. Look what is happening in the persecuted church in the eastern part of the world. We think of Iran, the amount of people who are coming to Christ. We think of China. These are the places where people are not ashamed of the Gospel. They are dying for their faith. I have decided to follow Jesus,I have decided to follow Jesus,I have decided to follow Jesus,No turning back, praise the Lord, no turning back.If you can't say it, whistle it, but do something! Jesus bless you today as you speak it out.Bye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 31st of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in Philippians 3:12: “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.” What a beautiful scripture! Then the next one just to confirm it, is found in the Book of Hebrews 12:1: “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,…”Oh my dear friend, there is no stopping now, no ways! There is no resting, but rather we are pressing on towards our eternal home in Heaven. You say I cannot take it anymore. The road is too hard, it is too steep, it is too narrow, it is too stony. Keep on keeping on. Do not allow any distractions to hold you back. I am thinking of the mighty Comrades Marathon - 90 odd kilometres. When you're tired, and the heat is bearing down on you and those hills are looking absolutely impossible to run over, you say to yourself, “I can't anymore”. And then what happens? A courtesy vehicle rides up, and lovely coffee, the door opens and the people inside say, ‘Look, you are looking very tired. Don't you want to stop?” But you know what happens, when you step into that vehicle, they take the number off your chest and you are disqualified. The race is over for you. Do not stop. Do not let that vehicle tempt you to throw in the towel. Then you carry on, and you carry on, and then all of a sudden you come up next to a beautiful shady tree on the side of the road, and you feel, “If I just sit down for a minute and have a rest I'll be fine.” Don't do it because you will never get up again. Keep on running the race which the Lord is running with you. You are not running on your own. Keep your eye on the finish line and never look back and I want to tell you, you will make it to the end. There is a cloud of witnesses waiting for you at the finish line, all your loved ones who have gone before you. They are clapping. Keep running, you are nearly there, and the worst thing of course is to look behind you. When you look behind you, you normally don't finish the race. Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus and He will see you through.Have a wonderful day, keep running the race and remember if Christ is for you, there is no man who will stand against you. Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Monday morning, the 30th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Isaiah 8:10: “…God is with us.” Isn't that a beautiful comfort to know? And then we go to Romans 8:31: “If God is for us, who can be against us?” Isn't that a beautiful reassurance? Lastly, we go to Acts 5:39. You see, what had happened was that the High Priest and his people were trying to persecute Peter and the apostles, and there was a tremendous fight going on. Then there was a wise man amongst the elders. His name was Gamaliel. When they were arguing about whether we should put them to death or put them in jail? And of course, the jail couldn't hold them! Gamaliel said to them, to all the elders and the High Priest in Acts 5:39: ‘…if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it—lest you even be found to fight against God.” We need to give people a chance. We need to give them an opportunity to prove themselves. If it is of God, it will work. If it is not of God, it will fail anyway. You see, I am a farmer. We'll have a newborn calf. It may not be the prettiest of all the calves, but give it a chance to grow, and it will surprise you. If you are a fruit farmer, doesn't the Bible say leave that tree for the fourth year before you start to reap it for commercial use. We have a little school that is part of us here, this school has a headmaster, not so young anymore, but he has been with us for many, many years and sometimes I would go to him and say, “I really believe we need to give this young man an opportunity. He has failed, but we need to give him a chance.” And the headmaster would say to me, “Just leave him for a couple of years and let's see the kind of fruit that he produces.” Wise man!I want to say to you today, maybe it is your son, maybe it is your daughter and you don't know what to do because you are trusting that they are going to change, but they don't seem to be changing, give them an opportunity. That employee, don't just write him off. Give him a chance to prove himself and he might end up as your best worker. Let's be like Gamaliel today. Let us not be so quick to cut the tree down, to sell the calf, to write that child off. Let us give them an opportunity to prove themselves and you know something, nine times out of ten, with lots of prayer and love, they will surprise us.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 29th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in Numbers 23:8: “How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And how shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?” Then we go to verse 20. This is now Balaam speaking to Balak, his king: “Behold, I have received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.” Wow! The king, Balak, wanted Balaam to curse the Children of Israel, but he had a direction from God, not to curse God's people, but to bless them.Today, we want to speak clearly about being a light in a world that is full of negativity and negative talk. In Matthew 5:14, the Lord Jesus says: “You are the light of the world.” We are not called to curse but rather to be a blessing to people. If you have nothing good to say about somebody, rather don't say anything at all. I want to tell you a story about two young boys who live in the United States of America. Their mother spoke life over those two boys. They had no father, she was a single parent. She worked in a restaurant. I think she held down a couple of jobs to keep these young boys at school. She told them that they had to learn. She spoke life into them. The one became a mechanical engineer, I believe, and the other one became one of the top neurosurgeons, that's a brain surgeon, in the world. His name is Dr Ben Carson. He led a team of surgeons, the first known in the world, to separate siamese twins who had been joined at the back of the head, and they both lived. Why? Because of a mother who spoke life and blessing over her two young sons. She was an uneducated lady herself, but she knew Jesus Christ and she persevered with Him. Today, let us be a blessing. Let us not be a curse. If we have nothing good to say, don't say anything. Let us rather start speaking life and not death. That is what Balaam said. He said to the king, “I cannot curse God's people.” We cannot curse people, folks, we have got to bless them and pray for them and see the good in them, and Jesus Christ will turn the situation around. God bless you and have a wonderful day,Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 28th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.We go to the Song of Solomon 2:15:“Catch us the foxes, The little foxes that spoil the vines, For our vines have tender grapes.” Beware of little foxes - I read this from the great man of God, James Hudson Taylor, who took the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as a young man, by himself, to China. They said he spoke Mandarin better than any other missionary in China. He was a great and very humble man of God. He was responsible for sending something like a thousand families to China to preach the Gospel, and he had no source of income. No missionary organisation sent him. He went on his own, and he told his people, “Beware of little foxes.”What are we talking about? We are talking about those little compromises that we have with the world. That's right, just one small drink won't harm anybody, and that is how the alcoholic gets started. Just one small smoke of marijuana and that is how you could become a drug addict. Just one small indulgence with a woman could be the beginning of the end of your marriage. That little voice that said, “Oh, it's not so bad. You don't have to really pay that account. Just leave it, and it will go away.” “You don't have to pay the taxman, I mean, the taxman does nothing for you.” The law requires that we obey everything. The fruit is eventually spoiled if you continue to allow these little foxes to contaminate your crop, whatever it might be. I know this as a farmer. We have to be on the job. We cannot allow any form of infection or disease to come in amongst our animals. We have to be diligent in everything we do, and if we do that, then God promises us that we will have a bountiful crop. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Friday morning, the 27th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Isaiah 47:12:“Stand now with your enchantments and the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth—Perhaps you will be able to profit, perhaps you will prevail.” The Lord speaking through Isaiah. Trust in your enchantments and maybe, maybe, you'll profit by it. We don't think so, do we? Then we go to the Book of Numbers 23:8: “How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And how shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?” We're talking about the Children of Israel. Balak wanted the prophet Balaam to curse the Children of Israel, but he was not a fool. He said, ”How can I curse what God has not cursed and how can I denounce what the Lord has not denounced?”I believe the Lord is saying to us today and this is a special word for certain people including myself. There is no security in the wisdom of the world. The is no security in fortune telling, old wives tales, horoscopes, etc. There is no security in lucky charms and there is no security in false prophets. Whoever comes and tells you something, ask them one question, ”Can you show me where it says that in the Bible?” And if they say, ”No, I can't show you but somebody told me,” disregard it. It's the word of God in these last days that will keep you and me from straying and going the wrong way. Even Balaam would not prophesy against the Lord.If you look at Proverbs 3:5-6, we know it very well: ”Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”So it doesn't matter who it is. It doesn't matter if it's some person with a great reputation. If they cannot back it up with the word of God, please disregard it.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 26th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go straight to 1 Corinthians 13:1: Paul says: “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.” Then we go to verse 13: “And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”There is no doubt about it, it is the most powerful force on earth because it is God. God is love. He who does not love God does not know God. Many years ago, I had the privilege of speaking to a large group of Welsh farmers, their wives and their children, in a big agricultural hall. I will never forget it. They started to sing that well-known hymn that originated in the Welsh Revival at the turn of the last century. But they didn't sing it in English. They sang it in Welsh, a beautiful language. And I want to sing it to you, just the first verse, and think of these words. Here is love vast as the ocean,Loving kindness as the flood,When the Prince of Life, my ransom,Shed for me His precious blood. Who His love will not remember?Who can cease to sing His praise?He shall never be forgotten,Through Heaven's everlasting day.After that hymn was sung, I was weeping, I could not speak. Such love! Love is also powerful. Do you know the story of the lady who was in the kitchen? Her son was working on a car outside, and the jack that was holding up the car, a huge American limousine, slipped and fell, and he was trapped underneath the car, and obviously, he shouted out for help. His mother ran out, a little lady, and picked up the car so that they could get the young man out from underneath it. The car weighed 3,000 lbs. How is that possible? It is only possible through love. Such love she had for her son that she did something that defied gravity completely, and she held that car up until the neighbour came and pulled the boy out. Today, go out and love one another because that is what Jesus said.God bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 25th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the New Testament, Matthew 6:9: ”In this manner, therefore, pray, Our Father in heaven,…” What a beautiful sound in Father's ear to hear his children cry out to Him: “Our Father who art in heaven…” That's for young men and young women, old men and old women, and especially the children. It's the best name by which we can think of God as our Father.Martin Luther said, ”It is a loving, deep, sweet, heart-touching name, for the name of Father is, in its nature, full of inborn sweetness and comfort." As a father myself, I love to hear the name, when my children, grandchildren call me “Father”. It makes me feel so wanted, so warm. You might say, ”But Uncle Angus, I don't have a father.” You might not have a father on earth, oh, but you've got a Father in heaven who created you, and He is just looking forward to seeing you at home time. Can you imagine the day when Father says, ”Welcome home John, welcome home Mary”? What a day that will be! In Zulu we say, ”Baba.” In the Xhosa language we say, ”Tata.” I have many men that have asked me to mentor them, five hundred and forty at the last count. I'm not their father. No, no, I don't even pretend to be their father, but I do mentor them. Many of them don't have an earthly father so they call me “Dad,” but they don't call me “Father.” I love them dearly. When I get a message from them to say, ”Dad, we just want to tell you, we were praying for you this morning.” It touches my heart deeply.Maybe there's a lady out there who says, ”I've never had a father. I don't know what a father's like.” Oh, spend time in your closet speaking to Him and you'll get to know Him so well. He is such a very special God. He's your protector. He is your soon-coming king. He is your all-in-all. If you acknowledge Him as Father, you'll have nothing to worry about.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 24th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Zachariah 4:6: “Not by might nor by power, but by My (Holy) Spirit,' Says the Lord of hosts.“ Then we go to the Book of Acts 1:8. This is Jesus speaking:”But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” What a commission! Now we must think about this. A hundred and twenty ordinary people, and they are hiding in the upper room because they are afraid they are going to be murdered, there is no accomplished theologian amongst them, there is no multi-millionaire amongst them. They are ordinary people, women and men, working people who go about their daily chores. The Holy Spirit comes into the room and changes their lives forever. I want to suggest something to you. This is not a man's idea. This is not a spreadsheet you put out on a table and say, ”OK, now this is how we're going to do it. We'll go here if we can afford it…” No, they had no game plan. It was a God idea. A hundred and twenty people, that's all, and He said, ”Go into all the world.” And the Bible tells us they turned the world upside down. There were no cell phones. There were no iPads. There were no computers, nothing! They just went in faith by the power of the Holy Spirit and they turned the world upside down, from Caesar's palace right down to the man in the street, and they went all over the world. Thomas went to India and he was speared to death as a martyr. Andrew, James, John eventually, every one of them died a martyr's death. They paid the full price and I think that's maybe where the secret is. The Lord is looking for a man or a woman who is prepared to obey the Holy Spirit, whatever He tells you. Maybe you're sitting in an old age home. You say, ”Angus, what can I do? I can't even walk anymore.” I tell you what you can do. You can do the most important job. Praying. Remember when men work, they work, but when men pray, God works, and God worked through these hundred and twenty ordinary people who went right around the globe to the ends of the earth. That's what the Lord said.I want to challenge you today, come on, we don't have much time left. Jesus is on His way. He's coming back, I'm telling you now. We need to work while it's still day because the night is coming when we can't work anymore. Let us stand up. Let us brush off all that dust and let us get back into the fight.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful, Holy Spirit-filled day.Goodbye