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I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 23rd of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in that well-known scripture found in Psalm 20:7: ”Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.” Then we go to Acts 23:14: “They came to the chief priests and elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great oath that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul.” Forty men pledge that they will eat nothing, they will drink nothing, until they kill the apostle, Paul. But of course, Jesus is Paul's protector. He is also your protector and my protector.What happened was that a young boy, the son of Paul's sister, overheard the ambush that was going to take place and went to the Roman Commander and told them what was going to happen, and they took Paul out of the city. They protected him. Isn't that beautiful? The Lord protects you and me often, and we do not even know that He is doing it. We will know when we get to Heaven. We just thank Him every day for protecting our families, our children, our parents, the widows and the orphans. He is our protection.Remember that story of the preacher named William Duma who operated on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal? He was going on a bus to another preaching appointment. He was in the middle of the sugarcane fields, sitting in the front of the bus on the passenger side, when all of a sudden, the Holy Spirit impressed upon him to get off the bus immediately. So he pulled the emergency wire. The bus driver came to an abrupt halt. There was dust flying all over the place. The bus driver was very angry. “Who pulled the emergency wire, right in the middle of the sugarcane fields?” There were no houses, no village anywhere near to be seen. This little preacher put up his hand. He said, “It was me. I have to get off the bus.” The driver said, “Are you mad? You are in the middle of nowhere.” "Well,” he said, “the Lord told me I have to get off.” Well, he opened the door and pushed William Duma out, threw his suitcase after him, slammed the door, put the bus into gear and roared off with a cloud of dust, and the little man of God stood there wondering, “Why have You done this, Lord?” But do you know that the bus went round the corner, and it wasn't a couple of kilometres away when it had a head-on collision with a truck coming from the opposite direction, and the worst damage was right in the passenger seat, in the front row, right next to where the bus driver was seated. William Duma would have died instantly. It was not his time. Don't be afraid today, call upon the name of the Lord. He will send His angels to protect you. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Monday morning, the 22nd of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 14:25: “…then you shall exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses.” We are talking here about the tithe. That's ten per cent of our income, which belongs to the Lord. When the Israelites had reaped their crop, they would take ten per cent to the Temple and give it to the Lord. What the Lord is saying, “but if you are far off, if you are in a far off place and you can't get home, what you do is you sell ten per cent of your crop, take the money and with the money, you give it to the work of the Lord which the Lord will show you.” Then we go to Malachi 3:8:“Will a man rob God?Yet you have robbed Me!But you say,‘In what way have we robbed You?'In tithes and offerings.The Lord goes on in verse 10:“Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,That there may be food in My house,…”Where is the storehouse? The storehouse is the place where you receive your bread, your spiritual food. He says:“And try Me now in this,”Says the Lord of hosts,“If I will not open for you the windows of heavenAnd pour out for you such blessingThat there will not be room enough to receive it.”He goes on in verse 11, He says:“And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes,So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground,Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,”Says the Lord of hosts;…”Oh, my dear friend, it's very straightforward and it's something we don't like to talk about, isn't it? Some people are just continually losing out, but they will not give the Lord His tithe, which is ten per cent. You might say, ”But I work on a far-off oil rig in the middle of the sea. There's no church where I am.” But you can send your money home, to a place where you receive your daily nourishment, from wherever that might be. God will tell you where to send it, maybe to an orphanage, maybe to a missionary station. I don't know, but folks, I want to tell you, we must not rob God. I am talking to myself as well. We have to give Him 10% of the income from our hard-earned work. He says, if we do, then He will reward us and He will keep the devourer back from us and He will not allow the devourer to destroy the fruit of our labours.Let's just be obedient and let's give to the Lord Jesus Christ His due money. May the Lord bless you, have a wonderful day, and do not feel guilty about it at all. Start as soon as you can, and you will see the difference. Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 21st of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. It is Father's Day, I want to congratulate all fathers on this day, not an easy job!We go to the Gospel of John 20:21: ”So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” You and I have been sent by God. That wonderful man of God, F B Meyer, wrote, ”We should never leave our room until we have seen the face of our dear Master, Jesus Christ, and have realised that we are being sent forth by Him to do His will and to finish the work that He has given us to do.” That's quite an awesome thing, isn't it, to be sent by the Lord?Now, every single day, God has a plan for your lives and for my life, every single day. I can see some old lady there, in an old age home says, ”What have I got to do today? I can't even leave my room.” What you can do, you can pray, and please put me on that list. You can pray because God answers prayer. That's one thing I do know. You know, people ask me often, ”What can we do to help you or help the ministry?” And I just say one thing, ”Please pray.” You see when men work, they work, but when men pray, God works. So every single day, you and I have got something to do. He gives us the wherewithal to do the job.I can hear a young man say, ”I will never get that degree, I just cannot get there.” You can and you will, and every day, you do your part, God will do the rest, and then of course, He doesn't send us out like lambs amongst the wolves. No, He sends us out with the Holy Spirit, and if you listen to Him carefully, He will direct your paths. He will tell you, ”Don't go this way, go that way. Don't do this, do that. Phone that person, don't phone the other person.” Listen! Get into a habit of listening to everything He wants you to do. We need to do exactly as Jesus did because Jesus said, ”The Father has sent Me and even so I send you.” Each one of us. I am so excited about what God has got in store for you today. It might just be what you think is something very small but it might just change a person's life forever. So Father, I pray for my friends now, that they will never think that they are of no use, but You have called them, appointed them for a time such as this. Make them obedient to Your word which says, ”Lord, please send me.” I ask this in Jesus' precious name, amen.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 20th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Hebrews 11:1“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Then we go down to verse 6: “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”Folks, I want to tell you, Abraham was a very wealthy man, he left everything, by faith, and went to an unknown destination. Now, that takes faith. But if we go to James 2:23, the scripture says that “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” If you want to please God, we need to walk by faith and not by sight. We need to believe in things that we cannot see but we need to trust the word of God and nothing else.A man phoned me the other day. He was so sad - his brother had just lost his whole crop for the whole year. A hailstorm came through and destroyed his avocado pears and his maize crop. The young man is devastated. I want to say to you, if you are listening to this message, young man, I do really understand. I have been there, not once but many times, but one thing that will come out of this, if you allow the Lord to take full control, your faith will grow. That's how faith grows. Faith grows when we walk the talk and we stand by faith. “Even though He slay me”, another farmer said, “yet will I still trust Him.” You will find that in Job 13:15.I have got something I put up on the wall in my prayer room. I have stuck it on the wall with Prestik because it is important to me. This is what I have written: “From start to finish by faith, not by effort, not by good works, but by faith.” "It is through faith that a righteous person has life.” Romans 1:17. Mark 11:22: “Have faith in God.” Aim higher, go further, trust more and the mountain must move, and let there be no doubt in what you are doing, and Jesus Christ will do the rest in your life.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Friday morning, the 19th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Acts 23:11. This is Jesus speaking to Paul: “Be of good cheer, Paul; for as you have testified for Me in Jerusalem, so you must also bear witness at Rome.” Then we go straight to Philippians 1:21. Paul says: ”For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Are you afraid to die? Are you afraid of the future? Are you afraid that maybe something will happen to your family if you are not here? This is your time to put your trust in the Lord. We're living in perilous times. I'm sure many young mothers, when they look at their children and their babies, say, ”Lord, what kind of future does my child have?” I want to say something to you, if you are in Christ Jesus, you are immortal until your work here on earth has been completed. Now I've heard that said many times by many wonderful men and women of God. I am immortal until my work here on earth is completed. You see, Jesus said to Paul, ”You've got to go to Rome now. You've witnessed for me in Jerusalem and it caused a lot of trouble.” They were actually ganging up together to kill him. The Lord said, ”But Paul, you've still got to go to Rome. You've got a work to do there before I call you home.”Philippians 1:21: ”For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” When you have that attitude there's nothing to fear in this world because immortal means that no one or nothing can kill you until God says so. So you have a work to do, I have a work to do and until we are finished the work we are not going anywhere.“Once the work is done, you've completed your assignment on earth, whatever that might be, then I will call you home.” Now that is an assurance for me, I hope it is for you as well because that means that we press on irrespective. Obviously, we are wise but we are bold and courageous because our names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life and on the great day when He says, ”Right, it's time to come home, Jane. It's time to come home, Freddy.” You know, ”Lord I am ready.”So may God bless you as you step out today with boldness, courage, knowing that God is in full control of your life. No matter what people might think or say, if God is for you, who can stand against you? No one!Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 18th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start with Psalm 34:19: ”Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” Then we go to the Book of Romans 5:3-4: “And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.”I have never met a man or woman yet, who is worth their salt, who has not been through some fiery trial. Why are we so afraid of pain? Pain can be a good friend, pain can warn you about what is coming. It works patience in us, it builds character in us, and it gives us perseverance. Oh, my dear friend, my father-in-law and mother-in-law spent a large portion of their lives working amongst lepers. They worked in leprosy colonies in Africa, and they would tell us that the problem is not even the disease, but what happens is, there is no pain and so the man is walking on a red-hot coal and he can't even feel it and it forms an ulcer in his foot and that is where the problem is. He bangs his nose on something but he does not feel it and eventually it gets infected and so the disease spreads. Pain gives you a warning. When you stand on something hot, you jump off quickly. Pain is warning you, be careful. Pain can be a friend indeed. Some of the closest friends I have, and dearest friends, are people who have suffered much pain - emotional pain, physical pain, spiritual pain. I am talking about things like blindness, deafness, lameness - and these people have got such gentle spirits. They are very slow to speak, they are good listeners, they give you godly advice if you will just listen to them. They are wonderful people to have around you but they have been through fiery trials. But the wonderful news is, the end of Psalm 34:19 says, “But the Lord will deliver them (you and me) ‘from them all.” Today, endure your pain, whatever it is, with patience, and Jesus Christ will work through it and make you a better person, and you will be healed, and you will be set free, and you will be a nicer person to be with. Jesus bless you richly. Go and find someone today who is suffering and love them and comfort them. You will be amazed how much better you will feel after that. Have a wonderful day,God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 17th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 33:25:“…As your days, so shall your strength be.” The Lord gives us enough strength to do the job. Then we go to 1 Corinthians 10:13: ”No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.” In other words, the Lord will not give you more than you can handle.You're probably sitting there today and saying, ”Angus, I can't take this anymore. I just can't take the load.” You can, and you must, but you must give it to God. Cast your cares upon Jesus because He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7 and then you can handle the load, but He will not give you more than He knows you can handle, and I really want to encourage you there because many of us take on too much. I'm one of them. The Lord says, ”No, don't do that”. He will not impose upon us one needless burden. He will not exact more than He knows your strength can bear. He will not ask you to do anything that He knows you can't do. Trust in Him! I want to pray for you this morning because I'm feeling there's somebody out there who's at breaking point and you're saying, ”If this burden is not lifted, I won't be able to take it any longer.”Father, I want to pray for my dear friend who is really struggling at the moment. Maybe it's finance, maybe it's health, maybe it's a relationship. Lord, please give them the patience and the ability to see it through. Lord, Your word says that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. Let us believe it today. So we give You our burden, we leave it at the foot of the cross and then we carry on with our journey and it's going to be so much lighter and so much easier because we have given it to You and You have promised us that You will never leave us and You will never forsake us.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Monday morning, the 15th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 13:1-3:“If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,…” , ‘Let us go after other gods'—which you have not known—‘and let us serve them,' you shall not listen to the words of that prophet ...“ Then we go straight to the Gospel of John 1:1: ”In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” So how do we identify a false prophet from a man who is a prophet of God? Well, according to the Word of God, very simply. We need to test the spirit and we need to have assurance that this man is talking about the things of the Lord. Remember in the Old Testament when Moses took his stick and it turned into a serpent? The magicians also had sticks and they threw them down and they also turned into serpents. The only difference was that the serpent that came out of the stick of Moses consumed all of the magicians' serpents. The Word of God is true.If we look at John 1:1,”In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Then of course, we need peace. That's the most important thing. If you don't have peace in your heart when someone says to you, ”Let us go and follow something else.” Then you have to check your spirit, ”Holy Spirit, show me.”In John 14:27, Jesus says, ”Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” When in doubt, don't! How many times have we heard that before? The Word of God has never changed. It never will change because the Word of God is Jesus Christ in print. So, if that prophet comes with a word and it lines up with the Bible, that is fine, but if it doesn't line up with the Bible and he tells you it is a new revelation, please folks, do not listen to him and do not have anything to do with him. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Monday morning, the 15th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 13:1-3:“If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,…” , ‘Let us go after other gods'—which you have not known—‘and let us serve them,' you shall not listen to the words of that prophet ...“Then we go straight to the Gospel of John 1:1: ”In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”So how do we identify a false prophet from a man who is a prophet of God? Well, according to the Word of God, very simply. We need to test the spirit and we need to have assurance that this man is talking about the things of the Lord. Remember in the Old Testament when Moses took his stick and it turned into a serpent? The magicians also had sticks and they threw them down and they also turned into serpents. The only difference was that the serpent that came out of the stick of Moses consumed all of the magicians' serpents. The Word of God is true.If we look at John 1:1,”In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”Then of course, we need peace. That's the most important thing. If you don't have peace in your heart when someone says to you, ”Let us go and follow something else.” Then you have to check your spirit, ”Holy Spirit, show me.”In John 14:27, Jesus says, ”Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” When in doubt, don't! How many times have we heard that before? The Word of God has never changed. It never will change because the Word of God is Jesus Christ in print. So, if that prophet comes with a word and it lines up with the Bible, that is fine, but if it doesn't line up with the Bible and he tells you it is a new revelation, please folks, do not listen to him and do not have anything to do with him. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 14th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Gospel of Matthew 10:42. Jesus says, ”And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.” Then we go to the Gospel of Luke 9:48,“Whoever receives this little child in My name receives Me…” I read a beautiful little article this morning by an anonymous writer and this is basically what it says: “Do not trample down the little daisies.” He says, ”We are in danger of looking too far for opportunities of doing good and communicating in reaching for the roses, we trample down the daisies.” So busy looking for the big things to do that the little things get stood upon!I remember like yesterday, we had one of the big tents here on the farm. It was Sunday morning. We'd had a wonderful weekend. All the ladies and children had come to join their dads and their husbands. There was an amazing atmosphere of expectancy. I was coming around the back of the tent with some of the men to get onto the platform and start to preach, and the people were waiting, and I was excited, and as I walked towards them at the back to the tent to enter in through one of the flaps, there was a little boy who ran up to me. He was only about five or six years old. He had a red face, he was very embarrassed, but he had a cell phone in his hand, and he asked if he could take my photo with him. I said, ”By all means, young boy.” And I got on my knees, and he stood next to me, and the guys that were looking after me, around about me, said, ”Angus, you need to get going, the people are waiting. The praise and worship is finished, it's your time to speak now. You need to move along.” And I said, ”Just hang on a second,” and we lined it all up, and the photograph was about to be taken, and the battery was flat on the cell phone. So he said he was going to get another one from his mom and off he ran. The men said to me, ”You can't wait any longer, the people are waiting, you need to get in there now.” I said, ”Hang on a minute.” Then his mother came running up with him and really apologised. I said, ”No problem at all.” We all got posed and ready. Me on my knees, him standing next to me and we got the photograph taken and off he went. He was so happy.Folks, do not trample on the daisies. Do not get so involved in the big things that you forget the most important things in life. You know, when I went in, I preached my heart out that morning, and I believe the Holy Spirit honoured the fact that I'd waited for one of the little daisies before I went into the tent!Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 13th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Acts 22:15: ”For you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard.” That was the word through Ananias, to the great man of God, Paul the Apostle. Then we go to 1 Timothy 3:7: ”Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside…” You and I have been called to be witnesses for Jesus Christ, just as the Lord called Paul, the Apostle. “Tell the world about the soon-coming king.” You don't have to be a theologian, you don't have to go to university and study theology. No, in the area that the Lord has placed you. I want to tell you about three men who have really impacted my life. The first one was a dairy farmer from America, Demos Shakarian. He was a very successful dairy farmer. One of the biggest in the world in his day, and yet the Lord called him to be a witness to men, and he started the Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship, which went right around the world, amongst all denominations and drew many men to Jesus Christ. He was a good witness for the Lord.The second one that really impacted my life was Robert Le Tourneau. Robert Le Tourneau was a very simple man. He was a mechanic, he used his hands, and he had a brilliant mind. He started the earth-moving business, which eventually sold out to Caterpillar. He used to tithe 90% of his income and keep 10% for himself. What an impact he made on the world, especially in the mission field.Then the third man is Dr Ben Carson, the first neurosurgeon to separate two seven-month-old baby boys from Germany, the Binders, and both lived. Normally one would die but in his case, he had a team of over seventy people, and he performed nothing less than a miracle, but what a witness for Jesus Christ!Today, let's use what we've got, and where God put us, to preach the Gospel, and you will be surprised how God will use you.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Friday morning, the 12th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Numbers 11:14: ”I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.” Then we go to the New Testament to 2 Corinthians 12:9: ”And He said to me,“My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” So when we are weak then we are strong. I think you have heard me say this many times before, God gives us strength for the strain. Are you going through a very tough time at the moment? Are you saying to yourself: ”There's no way out for me”; “I am done, I can't do it anymore, I'm tired, I'm weary”; ”I have had a disaster in my business”; ”My marriage is not working well”; “My children are sick”; “There is no hope for me.”? Oh yes, there is! Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face And the things of the earth will grow strangely dim In the light of His glory and grace.I remember like yesterday - it was many, many years ago, I left my young wife and my young children, and I took a huge 20-ton Mercedes-Benz truck and trailer, with a team of men, and we went up into Zambia to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I'll never forget it. We arrived at the banks of the mighty Zambezi River. In those days, there was no bridge over the Zambezi as there is today. You had to wait with a line of trucks ahead of you for a pontoon to take you across this huge river. I remember sitting on the banks of that river and feeling very homesick, and looking across the river to Zambia and thinking about the trip I had organised to take, from the bottom of Zambia right through to the very top, with my dear friend, Peter Motale, who was waiting for me on the other side. He was my chief interpreter and one of my spiritual sons, and I remember sitting there saying, ”Lord, this is too much. The burden is too heavy, the responsibility.” For six weeks, we will be preaching the Gospel, day and night, looking for diesel to fill that truck to keep it going, meeting up with different groups of people in rural areas where we had not been before, and yet the Lord said, ”I will give you strength for the strain. My grace is sufficient for you.”What a promise from God! Today, cast your cares upon Him and let Him direct your paths, and you will get through, and you will accomplish it, and you will give Him all the glory.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 11th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Acts 22:7: ”And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?' So I answered, ‘Who are You, Lord?' And He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting.” The power of testimony! I think, without a doubt, it's the greatest miracle ever. There's a transformation of a person completely dedicated to killing Christians and putting an end to Christianity, then in the space of one moment, became the greatest ambassador on earth, apart from Jesus Christ Himself, for the Gospel. His name? Yes, Saul of Tarsus. Once he was converted, he became Paul the Apostle. He wrote two-thirds of this very book that I am reading to you at this moment. It's incredible, a one hundred and eighty-degree turnaround. Oh Jesus we love You! In a clear sky, in the middle of the day, none of the others around him knew what was happening, and the Lord knocked him off his horse or whatever he was riding and said to him, ”Why are you persecuting Me.” “Who are You Lord?” “I am Jesus of Nazareth.” Oh folks, I've seen it so many times. You can't explain it. The wonderful thing about a testimony is that you can agree to believe it or you can disagree, but you cannot argue about it because you weren't there, and that was the case with Paul when he was converted in an instant, on the road to Damascus, where he was going to persecute God's people.Today, I want to say to that young lady that is so desperate for her husband to come to Christ. I want to say to that old mother who has been praying for her son for many years, I want to say to that young child who is desperately hoping that mom and dad will come to Christ, continue to trust the Lord and pray, and God will answer your request, without a doubt. I've seen it too many times in my own life. Bringing men to a Mighty Men Conference, who didn't even know they were going there - they thought they were going on a fishing trip. Three friends put him in the car, and there were four of them, and they drove, and as they came onto the land where the event was taking place, the man started weeping, and they said, ”Why are you crying?” He said, ”I don't know.” And that was the conversion of a man from the world into the Kingdom of God.Let us keep on for Jesus.God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 10th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 12:1: “These are the statutes and judgements which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the Lord God of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.” The Lord has given us statutes and judgements to live by, not for His sake, but for our sake, that we might live a life of joy and freedom and direction and fulfilment. To confirm that, we go to John 8:36, where Jesus, Himself, says: “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed”.Now, I looked up the Oxford Dictionary to look up the meaning of the word “statute”. It means a rule, a written law, a set up. Then I looked up the meaning of the word, “judgement”. It is sensible opinions, a conclusion, a decision. Can you see now, all of these laws have been put into place so that you and I can live a wonderful, free life. You know that word, “grace”? It is a beautiful, beautiful word. Grace is actually undeserved favour, undeserved loving kindness, given to you and me by Jesus Christ, through the power of His Holy Spirit. When you are born-again and the Spirit of God comes into you, you don't want to break the law anymore. You don't want to walk in untruth and in unrighteousness. You want to walk in freedom. Now freedom comes through obeying the word of God. I really want to encourage you today. This is not a time for you and me to “wing it” as they say, “Just give it a go. It doesn't matter, just do it.” No, the Lord has made you and me responsible people. The people of the world are looking to us to find out what the right way to live a fulfilled, joyous life is, and it is by obeying the rules, by walking in true judgement, by making right decisions. Don't just do things because you think it is a good idea and other people are doing them. No, that is why you read your Bible every morning. God will show you that you must do this because it is right and you must not do that because it is wrong. Of course, your plumb line is the one thing that you stand by, it is the Bible, and the word of God is what sets us free. So today, go into all the world with joy in your heart, knowing that you are doing the right thing because it is what the Bible says.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 9th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Acts 22:1-3: “Brethren and fathers, hear my defense before you now.” And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they kept all the more silent. Then he said: “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strictness of our fathers' law, and was zealous toward God as you all are today.” He had to convince the people he was one of them before he met Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Paul used his background and his heritage to convince the mob and to try and win them over. You and I need to do that. Don't take your background lightly. If you come from a certain people group and you are trying to convince people in that group to turn to Jesus, tell them where you come from. Tell them what you did. Paul told them he was taught by the great teacher, Gamaliel. Now, if we look at Gamaliel in Acts 5:38-39, we will see that this man was a great teacher of the law and obviously a man of God. He says: "And now I say to you, keep away from these men and let them alone; for if this plan or this work is of men, it will come to nothing; but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it—lest you even be found to fight against God.” Now, that is good counsel. Now, when you want to go to the doctor, the first thing you find out is, who is this man or woman? Where did they study? What reputation do they have? Have they got a good name? Yes, they have helped many people, then you feel secure. It might also be that if you want to find out something very important about the word of God, you don't just go to anybody. You must find a person who has walked the road, knows what he is talking about before you start to trust him. That is exactly what Paul was doing with the mob. He was trying to show them that he was not somebody who had just arrived, he is a man of standing, he has a good reputation, comes from a good background, a good home and has also been taught by the best.Today, go out and use every opportunity and qualification that you have to bring people to Jesus.God bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Monday morning, the 8th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Proverbs 4:23: ”Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” Then we go to the Book of Isaiah 59:19: ”When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.” We need to protect our hearts. We need to put guards as it were. What am I talking about? I'm talking about the little things in life, not the big things. We need to watch out for that cell phone, and I want to talk not only to young people, but to the older folk as well. Be careful what you are watching on that cell phone.We need to be very careful how we speak, be careful that we are not blaspheming. We start off swearing with small little words, and slowly but surely, they become worse and worse. Make a covenant with yourself that you are not going to swear anymore. The first thing that happened to me after I gave my life to Christ, I stopped swearing. I have never sworn or blasphemed since that day and that's a long time ago. It takes discipline to do that. Be careful with the company you are keeping. There are certain groups of people you are going out with that you know in your heart is going to lead to a dangerous place. Don't go there! Remember, your heart is the wellspring of your life, it's where the things come out of. Keep it clean. Be careful what you are looking at with your eyes. Put a guard over your eyes because slowly but surely it will lead you down the path. I get very concerned when I hear statistics about the amount of Christians that are watching pornography. That is a very bad and hellish thing, don't go there!Keep your language pure. Do not swear. Make sure that whatever you've got to say is sweet because one day you might have to eat it yourself, and that is not a joke at all. So let us be today those ambassadors of Jesus who will bring glory to His name alone.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 7th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 11:26: ”Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:…” Then we go down to verse 32: ”And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgements which I set before you today.” Then we go to the New Testament, Matthew 6:33: ”But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”I read a very interesting quotation in a book from a man of God. He says, ”We need have only one care, that we put the first thing first, faithfulness to God, then all else we need for both worlds will be supplied. God will never fail us, but we forget sometimes in our rejoicing over such an assurance, that we must fulfil our part if we would claim the divine promise.” Folks, the choice is not God's, the choice is ours. If we put the Lord first in our lives, then He will take care of the rest. Yes, we will have challenges, we will have ups and downs, but at the end of the day, we will prevail because His word is sure, it is true, and it never fails!I want to encourage you today to sit down quietly and have a look at your life and see if you are indeed putting God first - Jesus first, then your family and then everything else, in that order. If you do that, you will not fail because the Lord will ensure that you succeed and that you prosper. Jesus Christ is the guide in our lives, nothing else. Today, let us focus on serving Him with all our hearts and then we will see with our eyes how He will bless us as He has just told us, and we will succeed.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 6th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. If we go to 1 Corinthians 4:15, Paul says: “For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.”Ten thousand instructors, very few fathers, and I want to include mothers in this thought today. I am talking about the heads of our homes. I looked up the Oxford Dictionary to see the literal meaning of the word "mentorship" and "a mentor”. A mentor is an experienced person who advises you over a period of time. It takes a long time to be a mentor, a father, a mother. If you look at the next verse, 1 Corinthians 4:16: it says, “Therefore” Paul says, “I urge you, imitate me.” Then we go to 1 Corinthians 11:1, he says it again: “Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.”Now there is a challenge. It is not easy, no ways, and it takes a long time. In fact, it takes a lifetime. My children are grown up and my oldest children are grandparents already, but yet I am still there for them. I am still their mentor and their dad. A mentor is a counsellor, a consultant, a trainer, a guide, an instructor, a teacher. Are you talking to your children every day? Are they talking to you? Because if they are not, you are not doing the work God has called you to. It is not easy. I know. I have many children. In fact, I am mentoring over 500 men at the moment, so I really know what I am talking about, and it is not easy and often you drop the baton. We were asked many years ago by the ANC, our political party in South Africa, to stop criticising the party and to come with constructive criticism, as it were. I got an opportunity to speak to the President of South Africa, and I said, “Sir, the problem in our nation is a fatherless generation.”I want to say to you today, take up your role as mentor in your home. You might be a single parent but you still have to take the responsibility, father or mother, because the children are desperate for leadership.Jesus bless you and have a good day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 4th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go straight to the Book of Acts 20:37-38:”Then they all wept freely, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spoke, that they would see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.” Now we know that was the last time they saw Paul and they knew it because from there he eventually ended up in Rome and he was beheaded by the Roman Emperor. Always a sad thing to say goodbye, isn't it? An airport for me is always a bitter sweet place. I sit often and I watch when I'm waiting for my plane. People that are arriving, and there is absolute joy and tears and hugs having not seen their loved ones for maybe a number of years, but it is also a place of great sadness when some loved ones are saying goodbye knowing that that they will probably not see them again in this life.I want to tell you about the Drakensberg Boys Choir. Just a short while ago, I had the privilege of speaking to these young men. As we were finishing up, we'd made the alter call, we'd prayed the Sinners Prayer, we'd repented, we'd rejoiced, and a group of these young men gathered around me and they said they'd like to sing me a song, and they sang that beautiful song, “Until we meet again” and I must say it did bring me to tears but you know the Good News is, as believers, as followers of Jesus Christ, it's never goodbye forever. No, it's only for a season.If we look at John 14:3, the Lord says, ”I will come again”. It's a promise! He's coming back to fetch us, you and me, who believe in the Lord and who love Him, and He's going to take us home to Heaven to be with our loved ones. So that is wonderful news and Jesus has promised that to all who believe in Him. I want to encourage you to pray for your loved ones and pray that you will see them again in Heaven.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 3rd of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Ezekiel 3:18: ”…and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.“ Then we go to the Book of Acts 20:26-27: ”Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.” You and I have an obligation to tell people about Jesus, starting with our own families. There's an old saying that goes like this. “Nobody deserves to hear the Gospel twice until the world has heard it once.” Isn't that true?We live on a farm and we've got lots of horses. You can take a horse to water but you can't make him drink. Isn't that right? We need to tell people they need Jesus Christ in order to be saved. If we don't tell them and the Holy Spirit has prompted us to tell them, then their blood shall be on our hands. That's what Paul was saying and that's what the Book of Ezekiel is saying, but don't try and force them. Now this word is specially for wives and for daughters because I want to tell you something, I am so grateful to Jesus Christ for my wife and for my dear old mother who's gone to be with the Lord, soft hearts, but there are men that get tough and the worst thing that you can do is to try and persuade your loved one to become a Christian when he's not ready. The worst thing you can do is to leave Christian magazines on the coffee table! I'm laughing, but it's not funny. Those men are not stupid. They know exactly what you are trying to do. So what must we do? You must pray and you must ask God to soften their hearts, but don't try and force them because you'll probably push them the other way.My dear old dad was one of the strongest men I ever knew, he was a blacksmith by trade. He had his own private ways. He was very conservative, very reserved. Every time I'd try and talk to him about Jesus, he would say, “Son, I've got my own ways and my own belief.” How do you get through to a man like that? Well, I prayed and I prayed and then one day, oh yes, one day he said to me when I said, ”Dad, you need Jesus.” He said, ”Not before time,” and he prayed the Sinner's Prayer with me.” Do it today. Pray, get ready and then tell them about the love of Jesus. God bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 2nd of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Acts 20:7: ”Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.” How's that for a sermon? Preaching all night! But there was a young man, whose name was Eutychus. He was sinking into a deep sleep, and he fell out the window, the third storey. He fell to the ground, and he died. Paul stopped his preaching, went down to the bottom, laid his hands, laid his body over Eutychus and prayed, and God raised him up! Then Paul went back upstairs and kept preaching all night until the sun came up, then he blessed them all and continued on his journey. What a man! What a work ethic!I want to encourage you today, young man, young lady. You must work hard and especially for the Kingdom of God. It's not about, “Oh, so and so is so lucky, or he is so blessed or so privileged.” No, if you look into that man's life, you will see that he was a very diligent, hard-working man or woman. At university, at school, in the workplace, continually working and praising the Lord - a wonderful example to so many people who can't even get out of their bed in the morning.Strength for the strain - God gives us enough strength for the work that he's called us to. Let us not become lazy. Let us not become slack. You know that beautiful scripture found in Galatians 6:9: “And let us not grow weary (tired) while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” Jesus bless you. Have a wonderful day as you keep working for the Master! Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Monday morning, the 1st of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 9:26. This is Moses speaking: “Therefore I prayed to the Lord, and said: ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.” The Lord was so angry with the Children of Israel because they had made a moulded calf out of gold and started to worship it because Moses had taken so long to come down from the mountain. Then we go straight to the Book of Romans 6:23: ”For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Then the last scripture is Luke 23:34: “Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” He said that while He was hanging on the cross.You know sin is a terrible thing. It hurts so many people, especially our loved ones. I'm talking about that divorce, I'm talking about that period that you have spent in prison because you stole something, I'm talking about the lies that have got you into so much trouble. It actually damages our testimony. We have nothing to say after that. It breaks my heart when I hear of men and women of God who have done so much for the Lord and then they fall into sin and their whole testimony is wiped out in one night. I remember one man, we know him well, but I'm not going to name him, he was one of the top apologists in the world. He was a man who had the students literally eating out of his hand, and then he dropped the ball, as they say, and overnight his books, his material was taken off all the shelves of every Christian bookshop that I know of, but I want to tell you some good news. 1 John 1:9 says: ”If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” I want to pray for you. Maybe you have got yourself into a terrible situation. I want to say to you, confess your sins to your wife, to your husband, to your children, to your parents, to your loved ones. Say sorry, Jesus paid the price for our sins. He says: ”Go and sin no more, your sins are forgiven.” Pray this prayer after me: Jesus, please forgive me for the way in which I have sinned knowingly, in a moment of weakness. I am devastated by what I have done and I plead Your blood over my life to wash the sins away so that I can continue to live a life which is pleasing to You and to my loved ones. I ask this in Your precious name. Amen.God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 31st of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to Mark 8:36: ”For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” Or we can say, “family”.I want to speak to you about legacy. What are we leaving behind for our children when we go on to be with the Lord? I want to say to you. I say this with sadness, it wasn't so long ago I was asked to go and speak to a family where the patriarch, the old man of the family, was very ill. A mighty, wonderful servant of the Lord, an extremely hard-working man who has literally built up an empire of business, and he is leaving it to his family. Now he has an extensive family. I went and spoke to the whole family, but as they collected me at the airport to take me to the mansion where he is living, some of his family said to me, ”We need to tell you something. There's been a lot of jealousy, a lot of unhappiness in the family with regard to whom is going to get what, when it comes to inheritance.” Now the old man is not even dead and already they are arguing and fighting. One of his sons actually said to me, and he was very, very sad about it, that he has already been taken to court by one of the family because of money matters or inheritance matters. It should not be like this. It is very, very sad, and unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. I have the privilege of knowing many influential people, and many a time, the old gentleman and his dear wife, who have literally built up a fortune through hard work, through trusting the Lord, through investing wisely, but the children are not carrying on the legacy. They are wanting their part of the inheritance even before their parents have died. Let us be so careful to leave a good inheritance for the children's sake, not for our sake. Teach them the word of God, teach them the principles of Jesus, teach them about the Lord, teach them that it is better to give than to receive. Teach them about their eternal inheritance they'll receive when they go to Heaven, and then, by the grace of God, when we do go home, we will know that our family is in the hands of God and that the Bible is the ultimate authority for giving out your wealth to your loved ones.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 30th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in John 15:5. Jesus says: ”…without Me you can do nothing.” Then we go to Philippians 4:13 which says:”I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Now, if you look at the photo that I've put on this Thought For Toay, you'll see the cover of my new Bible which was given to me by a publishing house and I really esteem and thank them.I looked up a beautiful reading by a wonderful man of God who lived a while back. His name is F.B. Meyer, a man of God, and he says, and I quote, ”Apart from Him…” That's Jesus, ”…we can do nothing. While we are abiding in Him, nothing is impossible. The one purpose of our life should therefore be to remain in living and intense union with Jesus, guarding against everything that would break it, employing every means of cementing and enlarging it, and just in proportion as we do so, we shall find His strength flowing into us for every possible emergency.” Isn't that beautiful? “We may not feel it's presence but we shall find it present whenever we begin to draw on it. There is no temptation that we cannot master. There is no tribulation which we cannot patiently bear. There is no difficulty with which we cannot cope, no work which we cannot perform. There is no confession or testimony which we cannot make if only our souls are living in healthy union with Jesus Christ. For as our day or hour, so shall our strength be.” Isn't that beautiful?So today remember there is nothing which you cannot do if you are spending your time with Jesus Christ.Have a wonderful day. Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Friday morning, the 29th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Exodus 31:18: “He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.” Then we go to the Gospel of John 8:6: “But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.”What was Jesus writing on the ground? Well, people have spoken about that for centuries. No-one actually knows but isn't it God-incidental that His Father also wrote on the tablets of stone with His finger? Can you imagine - burnt into stone? Oh my friend, how desperately do we need something like that in this world where nothing is honourable, nothing is secure. You can't believe anything anymore, can you?I have a very dear friend. Many, many years ago we were talking about, “What is absolute trust?” What can we do? Like we go and sign an agreement, the other person breaks it. He said that piece of paper is not even worth the weight of the paper. (He is a lawyer, by the way). He said, “Uberrima fides,” which is latin for utmost trust. What is utmost trust? It is the promise of a man. I have promised to pay you for that farm - and he does it; I have promised to honour you for the rest of my life, on your wedding day. It is absolute. It cannot be broken, cannot be bent, cannot be changed, cannot be misinterpreted. When I read this, this morning, oh my dear friend, I thought, “God, what an incredible Person You are! You wanted to make sure that we understood that the law of God is not to be broken by anybody under any circumstances.”How many times have countries signed agreements? No more war! They don't even walk out the door and it starts again. Remember, Chamberlain came back from Germany. He had signed an agreement with Adolf Hitler and he said, “Peace, peace!” He got off the aeroplane shaking that piece of paper. “I have signed a piece of paper.” Folks, I don't think Chamberlain had got off the aeroplane and Hitler was already invading the rest of Europe.Today, we need to understand. God gave us His word. Jesus wrote in the sand and He meant it. Have a wonderful day as you put your trust in the Son of God, Jesus Christ.God bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 28th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Acts 22:1-3. This is Paul speaking: “Brethren and fathers, hear my defence before you now.” and when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they kept all the more silent and he said: “I am indeed a Jew…” I always remember a famous man saying, ”If you speak to a man in English, you speak to his head, but if you speak to a man in his mother tongue, you speak to his heart.” What true words! You see, Paul was identifying with the people that he was speaking to. He was speaking to a group of Jews. He said, ”I am a Jew just like you.” Straight away, he had their attention. The Bible says that everybody went silent.I've seen it happen so many times before. When you get a farmer standing up, speaking to a farmer's association and speaking, as it were in their home language, straight away, you have their attention. When you speak to a miner who goes underground to mine for gold or coal, and he's speaking to a group of tough, hardened, wonderful miners, and he starts to talk about mining operations underground, straight away, he's got their full attention. When I see a mother, well I'm thinking particularly of my wife at the moment, a housewife, a mother of five, a grandmother of thirteen, a great-grandmother of two. When she starts to speak to young mothers, she has their complete attention immediately. Why? Because she knows what she's talking about and she knows their heart.Today, let us not concentrate so much on the technical aspect of things but let us start aiming at the heart of people, telling them about the love of Jesus Christ and what He means to you and to me, telling that woman that, ”it's ok, I've been there where you've been before. I was also a young mother once, but my assurance was that Jesus Christ was with me in my darkest times when my child was sick, and I didn't know what to do and I prayed.” And straight away those young mothers will remember that and never forget it. Today, aim at the heart, and not the head. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 27th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in Proverbs 16:32: “He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.” Then we go to Romans 7:19, and this is Paul speaking, “For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.” (Verse 24:) “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” Now this is the great apostle, Paul, struggling also with his own feelings and control of himself. You know godliness with contentment is great gain. You will find that in 1 Timothy 6:6. We really need to take control of our emotions. We can blow it so easily, can't we? We can be really spending time with God, we can be in the presence of God, then get into our motorcar and go to town and somebody cuts in front of you and all of a sudden you are in a rage and shaking your fists at that man, instead of just praying for him. You don't know why that man cut in front of you. Maybe he is trying to get a sick person to the doctor. We don't know what it is. We really need to ask the Holy Spirit to give us control over our emotions.One man of God wrote, “More dear in the sight of God and His angels, than any other conquest, is the conquest of self, which each man with the help of Heaven, can secure for himself.” We really need to ask the Lord to take control. Now, I have mentioned to you before, Brother Lawrence, the French monk who lived 300 years ago, wrote that little booklet. He didn't write it. It was written about him, “Practicing the Presence of God,” when he came to the realisation that it doesn't matter what you do in life, if you give it to the Lord, He will give you His peace. He was the guy who washed the pots and pans in the monastery, the one who sewed up the sandals of the other brothers whose sandals had broken. And they used to gather around him because they wanted the peace and the self-control that they saw evident in his own life, and it was simply because he handed it over to Jesus. Today, hand over to Jesus everything and let Him control your life. Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 26th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to Deuteronomy 8:17: “…then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.” Then we go to the New Testament, Luke 12:19 (This is a very successful farmer): “And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” 'But what happens after that? The Lord says, ‘Foolish man! This very night your soul will be required of you...”We need to be very careful how we stand, lest we fall. Bragging is a very dangerous thing, and I really want to stress today that the Lord was warning the Children of Israel in the first scripture verse I read to you in Deuteronomy, that all these riches that you had were given to you by Me, not by your own hand, but only by the love of God. Don't forget who gave it to you! We really need to be careful of that one. Never forget to say, if somebody says, “Wow, you have done so well”, - it is only by God's grace.” If we go to James 4:15, instead of bragging, the Bible says we ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that” because we don't know how much time we have left on this earth. So it worries me when I see a young man who has been very successful in sport, commerce, industry, even the ministry, and he starts to take the glory. Never, ever touch God's glory. That is the most dangerous thing you could ever do. We need to let our words be sweet when we talk because one day we might have to eat them! So just say, “God has been kind”. I love to drive around a farm where I see a hard-working successful young farmer and I say, “You have done so well here. Your crops are looking good, your cattle are fat, your sheep are looking great,” and to hear the young man say, “Yes sir, but it is only because of the kindness and the grace of God that I have them.'But when I see a young man who is arrogant, “Oh yes, I am going to work for a couple more years and then I am going to retire, and I am just so pleased with myself.” Be careful, it is only through God's grace.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Monday morning, the 25th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Gospel of John 17:19, and this is the Lord Himself speaking: ”And for their sakes (that's you and me) I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.” Sanctified - I looked up the Oxford dictionary, it means, “something holy”. “The only way that you and I can help them is by being the noblest and the best man or woman that it is possible for us to be.” That was spoken by a man named Phillips Brooks. You see it's by example. That is how we help people. They won't do what you tell them. I'm talking about your children; they will do what you do. So if you shout and swear, they'll do exactly the same thing.Never give a person a job you cannot do yourself. Show them, don't just tell them. When you've got a new tractor driver and he's ploughing and the plough is not set properly, and the front coulter's going in too deep, and the back one's sticking up in the air, and he's driving it in the wrong gear, and there's black smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe, don't sit in your pickup at the headland and shout at him. Rather let him come to the end of the field and before he turns the tractor around, jump on the tractor, ask him to sit next to you and show him the right gear, then set the plough for him and then he'll be very happy and he'll listen to you, but if you don't know how to do it then don't try and tell him. We need to walk the talk. That's what Jesus always did, and that's why I love Him so much. Do you remember that old hymn: ”A new commandment I give unto you?” Should we sing it together.A new commandmentI give unto you,That you love one anotherAs I have loved you,That you love one anotherAs I have loved you.By this shall all men knowThat you are My disciples,If you have love one for another.By this shall all knowThat you are My disciples,If you have love one for another.Jesus said, ”A new commandment I give unto to you, that you love one another as I have loved you." He showed us how to do it. Let us go out into the world and make sure that we do not cause people to stumble but to love them in the noblest and the best way we can!Jesus bless you and have a lovely day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Sunday morning. The 24th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Acts 19:19-20: “Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totalled fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.”I just want to say to you this morning that we need to have a good hard look at ourselves and clean out the closet. What does that mean? Well, you know they talk about spring-cleaning. Normally at the end of a winter time, people will go through their homes and take out all the stuff that they don't need and get rid of it. We need to clean out our closets, our wardrobes, our cupboards, our mantelpieces, things in our motorcars and boats that do not reflect the glory of Jesus. I am talking about burning horoscopes, folks. They are not acceptable. You don't need a horoscope when you have the Holy Spirit. Tarot cards, statues of other gods - “Ja, but I got that from my granny and it's an heirloom.” No, it's not. It's something you need to get rid of. Books and trinkets that have no bearing on your faith, get rid of it! You don't need it. You see, it actually distracts us from worshipping the Living God, Jesus Christ.Lucky charms - get rid of them. You don't need them. You have Jesus. He says, “I will never leave you. I will never forget you.” So why are you thinking about things that have no power or relevance in your life? These people were convicted by Paul's preaching, by his signs and wonders and miracles. They took anything and everything out of their homes that did not glorify the Lord and burnt them publicly. So we need to do the same. We cannot serve two gods. Now, just to finish up - 2 Corinthians 5:17 says that if anyone is in Christ (that's you and me) he or she is a new creation (brand-new). Old things have passed away, and behold, all things have become new. When Jill and I were convicted by the Holy Spirit to clean out our house, we took all those trinkets, and all those little statues, and those lucky charms and we took them to our donkey boiler. Now, for those of you in the big cities who do not understand what that is, it is a 44-gallon drum that we make as a little place for warming our water. We make a fire underneath it and we took all those things and we burnt them. And I want to tell you, it made us feel so good.Today, show Jesus you love Him. Show Him physically in action that there is nothing in your life more important than Him.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day!Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 23rd of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Acts 19:16: ”Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.” Then we go back to the Gospel of Matthew 17:21. This is Jesus talking: ”However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” Now remember what happened, the sons of Sceva, seven of them by the way, saw what Paul was doing, casting out demons from people who were demon-possessed, and they thought to themselves, “Well, we can also do that”, and they went in to deliver a man from an evil spirit. But what did this man say? He says, ”Jesus I know, Paul I know, but I don't know you!' And with that he attacked all seven of them, stripped them naked and wounded them and they ran for their lives. What happened there? Well, the same thing that happened with Jesus when the disciples came to Him after He had cast out a demon from a young boy who kept on harming himself, and they said, “Why could we not do that?” Jesus said, “This kind only comes out by fasting and prayer.”I remember the story of William Duma, a wonderful, powerful man of God. He lived in the Umkomaas area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He was coming home one night in his little motorcar, driving towards the township. He was on a dirt road and, all of a sudden, out of the bush came some robbers. He had had to stop his car because they had put logs across the road. As he got out of his car they came running to him with knives and clubs and they were going to attack him. He looked at them and he said, “Do you know who I am?” And they stopped in their tracks. He said, “I am the son of God. If you touch me, you touch God.” And with that, they dropped their knives and their clubs and their steel pipes, and they ran for their lives, and he moved the logs out the way, got in his little motorcar and proceeded to his destination.Do not attempt to do things for God if you are not prepared to do them. You see, William Duma spent hours in prayer and fasting, in reading the scriptures and spending time with God. They recognised Christ in him, but you and I, if we are not going to spend time with the Lord, we must not try and take on those things which God has prepared for those who are equipped, but if you are, if you are a prayer warrior, if you are one who spends time in fasting and time with the Lord, you can do the very thing that Paul, the apostle, did.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Friday morning, the 22nd of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 8:3:”…you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.” Then we go to the Gospel of John 6:35: ”And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger…” Jesus is the one who satisfies your hunger today, no one else and nothing else! Oh, I can tell you from the bottom of my heart, as a young man, I tried everything. I thought that I would be fulfilled when I became a successful sportsman. I thought that I would make it if I just owned my own farm, then I would never hunger again for anything. Then I met my dear wife and I thought, “That is it, now I have everything I need in life!” Then came along the children, even an extra blessing - but still an emptiness in my heart.Are you there today, my dear friend? Are you feeling that way? ”Angus, I've tried everything, I've done everything, I've succeeded in so many ways and I am still not satisfied.” This message is for you today. You see, Mark 8:36 says: ”For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” Our hunger is satisfied only when we eat the Bread of Life and His name is Jesus Christ. The wisest man that ever lived was Solomon, and what did he say after he had achieved everything? “Vanity, vanity,” he said, “it's like chasing the wind. I've done it all and I've got nothing to show for it.” We need the meat. We need the Word of God. I want to pray for you today because maybe you're in that position. Father God, I pray for my friend listening to this message today, that you will show them the only time that they will be satisfied and filled up is when they seek You first. I pray Lord, that they will start to get up early in the morning, spend time in Your presence, in prayer, Bible-reading and in thinking about the things which have eternal value, and Your peace, Your shalom, Your satisfaction will be all they need. In Jesus name, amen. God bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 21st of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.We go to the Book of Acts 19:11: “Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.” Oh, I want to ask you a question today. Do you believe in miracles? I really do and I have seen too many of them to doubt the hand of God. I looked up the Oxford Dictionary to get the definition of the word “Miracle”, and this is what it says: A miracle is a welcome event that is so extraordinary that it is thought to be the work of God or a saint. It is a wonder, it is a marvel, it is unbelievable. Now, I want to tell you about another miracle that happened in my life. Many years ago, there was a farmer. His name was Job. He was going through a terrible drought in the north-west of our country. He reached out and said, “Please pray. We need rain. My boreholes are drying up. We don't have enough water.” He had a dairy farm and his cows were really battling, no food, no water. So we flew up to the farm and before we went up there I had read the account of Elisha and the salt. If we look at 2 Kings 2:22, and this is what it says: “So the water remains healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.” So I took a bag of coarse salt with us, about 5 kilos, and we flew up in the aeroplane. I got to his farm. I wanted to know, “Where is his main borehole?” and I walked up and all the staff got around. We poured the coarse salt down into the borehole and we prayed a prayer.Well, it wasn't a week later, we got a report that there was a flood in that area and there was so much rain that it actually washed the road away. God answered prayer. I've been to that very spring which Elisha poured the salt into the bitter water and I can tell you it is sweet even to this day. Please do not limit God!Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 20th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Gospel of Luke 19:13. This is a parable of Jesus: "So he called ten of his servants, delivered to them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business till I come.' I want to speak this morning about stewardship. I looked up the Oxford dictionary to try and find out the definition of the word “stewardship” - a person who is employed to look after or manage a large estate or a home. Now, I want to speak to you specifically about the stewardship of resources entrusted to servants to look after. For example, silver, gold, but also about giftings and abilities and opportunities that God gives us to develop and to tell people about the Kingdom of God, faithful investments.Many of us say, ”What can we do? You know, I'm an old-age pensioner now. There's nothing else I can do.” There is plenty that you can do. The first thing you can do is to start praying for others. Yes, using what you've got for the Lord. There's a man, he is 90 years old, his name is Bill Gaither. He was being interviewed, and the man interviewing him said, ”You have lived a long time, and you have done many, many wonderful things.” This man has written over 700 songs. He has been the father to many of the greatest performers and Christian singers of the era.He got the award for the Christian songwriter of the century, oh yes. Him and his wife have won six Grammy awards, twenty Dove awards. He is an absolute giant in the Christian music industry, and he was asked by the man who was interviewing him, ”What is the most important thing that you think a man should concentrate on?” And you know what he said? He said, ”Stewardship. Looking after what you have been given.”Now, we go back to the scripture today that the Lord has given us and the nobleman said to his servants, ”Do business till I come.” I want to say to you today. The Lord is speaking to somebody specifically. He says, ”Do not stop. Complete what you started and the Lord will give you more.” Don't be concerned about yesterday, it's gone, we haven't got tomorrow, it's only today to be concerned about, and we need to do business until He comes because He could come at any time, and when He comes, it is good that He finds you and me working hard for the Kingdom.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 19th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Gospel of John 2:5: “His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” I want to tell you about a lady who did just that, and she lived many years ago. Her name was Florence Nightingale. She is known as the founder of modern nursing. She reduced the death rates by simply improving hygiene and living standards. She was known as the “Lady with the Lamp” because she used to make her rounds every night to check on the wounded soldiers during the war. I have a daughter who studied nursing and it is wonderful to see the heart of compassion that these kind of people have. Now we're not talking about great preachers or people that have done great things. We are talking about people who simply obey the Word of the Lord.You might be saying today, ”Well you know, I have had very little education. I have had very little opportunity to serve the Lord.” You can serve the Lord wherever you are and whatever you are doing. Now I want to read a quotation from this woman of God, Florence Nightingale. She said, “If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.” Isn't that beautiful?I want to say to you today, whatever it is that God has told you to do, do it with all your heart. Because the servants filled up the water vats with water, Jesus turned the water into wine. The first miracle that took place in the marriage feast in Cana. Now, maybe God has called you to be a school teacher, maybe God has called you to be a farmer, maybe God has called you to be an airline pilot, or maybe God has called you to be a housewife. Do it with all of your heart, and the Lord will use that to change the lives of many.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Monday morning, the 18th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in Psalm 37:31: ”The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.” Then we go to 1 Corinthians 11:25. Jesus says: “This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” I am talking about Holy Communion. It's very important for us to remember the ordinances, commandments, and laws of God. That is what keeps you and me on the straight road, on the right road. Do you know what a phylactery is? A phylactery is something that the Orthodox Jews use when they have time with the Lord. Many years ago, I was flying in an Israeli airline to Jerusalem, and an Orthodox Jew was sitting across the aisle from me, and during the night, I saw him get up and put a shawl around his head. He took a leather band and he put it around his left hand with a little box on it. He took another leather band, put it around his head, with a little box on his forehead, and inside those two little boxes are Holy Scriptures. He does it during his quiet time. Why? Because he wants to remember the Lord, his God. Now, Jesus said every time you and I have Holy Communion, we do it and we remember what Christ has done for us. Gill and I have communion often, on our own, in the house. Maybe after breakfast, sometimes maybe after lunch, depending on our situation, just the two of us. And we take bread, we break it, and we remember the body of Christ broken for us, and then we take the cup, a little glass of grape juice, and we remember the blood of Jesus shed so that our sins would be washed away. We need to remember and not forget what the Lord has done for us.Many years ago when I was a man of twenty years old, I was a cowboy. I was in Australia. When we knocked off work, these were rough and tough men, but the salt of the earth, we would go into the local pub and there'd be a lot of chatting and talking and smoking, etc. Then all of a sudden, six o'clock every single night, everybody would become quiet, and there would be a little light in one corner of the pub, and then a voice would come over, ”Lest we forget. Let us remember.” We would stand there for, I don't know how long it was, maybe a minute or two, and remember all the fallen soldiers that had died for the Australian people, and they would stand there. Not one person would say a word (because if anybody did it could probably cost him his life), but they remembered those that had given their lives for their country.You and I need to remember that Jesus Christ died for us on the cross of Calvary so that we might have everlasting life.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day and don't forget. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 17th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Psalms - Psalm 34:10:”…But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.” Then the other scripture. Matthew 6:33: ”But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” I want to ask you a question this morning. Are you satisfied with where you are at in your life at the moment? I can hear somebody say, ”No, I'm not. I'm still seeking and I don't even know what I'm looking for but I'm not happy with where I am at right now.” Well, I have got good news for you! The Lord says, ”Seek me first and my righteousness and then all these other things that you are seeking, you will receive.”As a young man, my one desire was to be a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer. My dad was a blacksmith. Oh yes, a blue collar worker and what a hard-working man he was. I never had an opportunity to even get a job on a farm, but you know something, I got that farm and I got another one after that, and another one after that, and didn't find any peace and fulfilment. I was looking in the wrong place. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. I've met many men, very successful, in business, in sport, in careers, and every one of them have told me. ”It was only when I met the man from Galilee that I was totally fulfilled.” It's as the Psalmist says, ”Those who seek the Lord shall lack no good thing.” So maybe it's your career today. You need to say, ”Lord, I have enjoyed my work but there is something missing.” I'll tell you what it is, it's fellowship with God. You see, the Lord created you and me for Himself so that He could have fellowship with us. That's why He created us. He doesn't need us, He wants us because He loves us! He doesn't need anybody. He can do whatever He wants at any time but He really desires that we have fellowship with Him. The purpose of man is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. Now today, start to enjoy the Lord and that career that ambition will come automatically.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 16th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Acts 18:9: ”Now the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision, “Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not keep silent; for I am with you, and no one will attack you to hurt you; for I have many people in this city.” Oh, that is probably my most special scripture verse in the Bible. That is the verse which the Lord Jesus Christ Himself called me to preach the Gospel. On the 18th of February, 1979, I got saved, but this scripture was the one where He sent me to preach the Gospel to the ends of the earth. It changed my life completely. I have never been the same since I received that call from the Lord. For me personally, my dear friend, it was a direct instruction from Jesus Himself. Even as He spoke to Paul, He spoke into my heart, exactly the same two verses. Now the same thing happened to the disciples. Matthew stood up, left his money table, he was tax collector, and walked away following Jesus. Peter, Andrew, James, and John left their fishing nets immediately and walked away to follow Jesus. Paul, the tent-maker, exactly the same, left his tent-making business and followed Jesus. It was a crystal-clear calling!Now I want to say to you today, maybe there's a young man, a young lady, that's listening to this message and they say, ”I too want to do the same.” But you need to have a clear scripture from God, and He will speak to you if you give Him the time. It's no good thinking it's a good idea because it won't last, I can tell you right now. I have had more challenges since I have been preaching the Gospel than I ever had in my entire farming career. It is not something you do because you think it's a good idea. It has to be a call from God because it could cost you every single thing you have. It cost the disciples their very lives, all of them, but there is no other way to live. If you want to live a life full of purpose and meaning, then preach the Gospel. Ask the Lord to give you a clear word and He will do that and then you will do exactly what I have done. I am not farming anymore. I haven't been farming for over forty years. My sons are farming. I am preaching the Gospel and living my dream.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Friday morning, the 15th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Gospel of Matthew 10:14. This is Jesus speaking: ”And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.” Then we go to the Book of Acts 18:6 and this is Paul speaking: ”But when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook his garments and said to them,“Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” These are serious words. I am an evangelist. I'll go to the other end of the world to see one soul saved, but there comes a time when a person does not want to hear from you any longer. What can you do then? There's only one thing you can do and that is to pray for that person and move along. You've heard the old term, “It's like flogging a dead horse”. What does that mean? That means beating a horse, trying to get it to stand up, but the animal is dead. It is a waste of time. It is like a farmer in a field, I saw a picture once, he's in the wrong field. There is a beautiful field of ripe wheat waiting to be harvested, but he is in the next field, which is still green and still growing. He is making an absolute failure of the beautiful green field that is still growing. He needs to leave it until it matures and harvest the field next door, where it is golden and ready for reaping. It's like going into an orchard and picking green apples before they are ripe. They are wasted.You and I today need to really pray hard and we need to preach the Gospel to those who want to hear it and those who have no desire to turn their hearts to the Lord. That's what happened with Paul, and Jesus told the disciples the same thing. Move along and you will find somebody that is desperate to hear the Good News.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 14th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go straight to the Gospel of Luke 24:50-53:“And He led them out as far as Bethany, and He lifted up His hands and blessed them. Now it came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven. And they worshiped Him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the temple praising and blessing God. Amen.” Wow, what a day! Forty days from the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the tomb to the time that He went back to Heaven to be with His Father. Yes, I am talking about Ascension Day. It is a very important day in the Christian Calendar and it is a glorious and victorious day. I remember it so well. I have been there many times. You go from the Old City where the Temple was standing, down into the Kidron Valley, you go across the Kidron Valley, up the other side, you go passed the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus suffered so terribly for our sins, sweated drops of blood when He was thinking about the crucifixion the next day, then you go right up this hill, right to the very top. When you get to the top, if you carry on, you come to this little village called Bethany, a very special place for Jesus, where His friends Lazarus, Mary, and Martha lived. He spent a lot of time there. But right up on the top of that hill is where the ascension took place, and if you look carefully you can look right across the valley to the other side. That is where the Old City of Jerusalem in situated.Today, just remember one thing. Jesus is not in the grave. He is in Heaven. He is sitting at the right hand of our Heavenly Father and He is coming back very soon. I want to pray a prayer for somebody who is unsure about the future, somebody who says he loves God but he doesn't really know Jesus. Jesus says unless you are born again, you will never see the Kingdom of Heaven. Why don't you pray this simple prayer with me right now on Ascension Day:Dear Lord Jesus,Please forgive me for so often doubting You. Today I make a decision to believe what the Bible says about You and on Ascension Day, I surrender my life to You and I ask You to be my Lord and my Saviour and my soon-coming King. I ask this in Your precious name.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful Ascension Day!Goodbye.

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.