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I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 12th of March, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. I want us to read from the Gospel of John 21:24: “This is the disciple who testifies of these things,…” That was John, he was giving a testimony - the power of personal testimony! I want to say something to you my dear friends. Every one of us is called to testify for what Jesus Christ has done in our lives. I mean after all, that is what preaching is, is it not? I love Charles Swindell, and I read something he wrote once. He said there are different types of people giving testimonies. He said there is the “eager beaver” approach where there is no follow-up. You have got to be saved and that's it and away you walk. There is the “varsity approach” which is all about discussion and talking about the things of the Word but no opportunity for the person to get saved. Then there is the “silent approach”. Well, you have just got to live the life, you have just got to relax and people will see Christ in you but that is where it stops. No folks, he says we have got to be available, we have got to be Spirit-led, we have got to be obedient and timing is so important. We have got to be sensitive and we have got to get to the point and stop arguing. I love that little story of Gypsy Smith, the evangelist (His name was Rodney Smith actually). He used to ride around England in his little painted wagon with his horse pulling that wagon. He would stop on open common ground, and crowds of up to 10,000 people would come and listen to him bringing the word of God. One day when he had finished preaching, a lay-preacher came up to him and said to him, “I really admire the way you just keep on preaching, you never seem to get tired. You know, I have preached the Gospel from Genesis through to Revelation and I am so tired and I have got nothing left. What must I do?” Gypsy Smith said to him, “Just keep telling them what Jesus Christ means to you.” That is what preaching the Gospel is, spending time telling people what Jesus means to you. You see, that is the personal testimony. As you know, we have got a movie called Faith Like Potatoes, that's all it is, it is our testimony, myself, my wife, my family and my friends. Today go out and testify about the goodness of God in your life.Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Friday morning, the 24th of November, 2023, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.We start in the Gospel of Matthew 16:24: "Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me." Then we want to go to the Gospel of John 15:13:"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends." Following after Jesus is a costly business. Sometimes we lose our friends when we get serious for the Lord. We are not so popular anymore and it can be quite painful, especially if you are a young person. People are going out, partying, sleeping around, drugging, drinking, and you say, "No more for me." You will be surprised at how quickly you will lose your friends. I remember when I gave my life to the Lord as a young man. I said to the men who were following me up, I said, "There is one thing I don't want to do - I don't want to lose my old friends." They smiled and said, "Don't worry about that, Angus. You won't have to lose them, they will lose you." You see, we cannot have anything to do with darkness when we are walking in the light. It can be quite painful when people mock us for our stand for Christ. Gypsy Smith, that old Romany Gypsy who used to preach off the back of his painted wagon to crowds of up to 10,000 people at a time, said, "It takes a dead fish to flow with the current, but it takes a live one to swim against it." Remember, if your faith is costing you nothing, well then, it is worth nothing. It cost Jesus His life, didn't it? He died for you and for me. Sometimes I despair when I see how little you and I are prepared to sacrifice to stand up for our Lord. I remember a beautiful story told many years ago. A big sailing ship was sailing with people down to the South Sea Islands, and there was a lovely young family who had left their safe haven, their home, and they were on their way to one of these islands where there were cannibals. As the captain docked the ship, just off the coast, and lowered a little lifeboat for them to row to the shore, he pleaded with the family, "Don't go there because they are going to kill you." The man said to the captain, "Sir, we died before we left home." I want to tell you today, let's have a good look at our own lives and really see if we are making a difference for the Gospel and helping the lost.Have a wonderful day, Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name. It is Sunday morning, it's the 24th of September, 2023, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.We start in Philippians 1 and I'm reading verse 23-24. Paul says:"For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. Nevertheless to remain in the flesh is more needful for you." Then we go straight to the Second book of Timothy 4:8 and Paul says:"Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing."We are sojourners in a foreign world. This world is not our home; our home is in heaven and maybe that's why you can't understand why you don't feel comfortable in this world because you're not from this world. The Lord Jesus Christ has promised that He will take us home to be with Him in heaven one of these fine days, but in the meantime, we need to work hard. We need to tell people about eternal life. We need to give them an opportunity to accept Him as Lord and Saviour.Maybe there's a young man or a young woman, who says, "You know, I feel so uncomfortable in this world. I feel like that fish that is swimming up against the current all the time and all the rest of the fish are flowing downstream with the current." Well, I want to tell you something, Gypsy Smith, that old Romany evangelist who used to preach off the back of his painted wagon, said, "It takes a dead fish to flow with the current, but it takes a live fish to swim against the current." Today, don't be disheartened if you feel you are swimming against the current. There's nothing wrong with that. You and I have got our eyes fixed on heaven. Jesus Christ and heaven is our eternal home. We are just doing the work of the Lord here on earth and as Paul said, "… as soon as it's done, I'm going home."Have a wonderful day and keep standing up for Jesus. God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 3rd of May, 2023 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start with Job 12:4: “I am one mocked by his friends,Who called on God, and He answered him,The just and blameless who is ridiculed.”Do they tease you because you are a follower of Jesus Christ? Then we go to John 1:47:”Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!” A godly reputation. You and I have to walk the talk. People must see that we are followers of Jesus, not only hear it by word of mouth. Remember, people don't have to like you but they must respect you. As followers of Jesus Christ, we need to display the fruit of the Spirit. Remember, Galatians 5:22-23, says: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.” We need to display the fruit of the Spirit when we walk down that road. Now, Gypsy Smith, the Romany evangelist that used to travel around England in a painted wagon and preach off the back of it to thousands of people said, “It takes a dead fish to flow down the river with the current, but it takes a live one to swim against it”. I want to say to you young lady, keep your virginity until the night of your wedding. The other girls will mock you, it doesn't matter. Young man, you are known as an honest and God-fearing man, and even though the boys may mock you and tease you, deep down they envy you and they wish that they could be like you. Remember, when you go out to that party, they always give you the car keys, don't they? That's right, because they trust you and they know that you won't get drunk and you will be able to drive them home. They give you their wallets to look after because they trust you. Don't throw your reputation away! “For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his soul?” Mark 8:36Remember, a moment of madness, a lifetime of sadness. Walk the talk! Jesus bless you and goodbye.

Today we go deep into the radio vault, all the way back to the 1930's. With famous preachers that have been a part of this ministry such as H. A. Ironside. Gypsy Smith, George W. Truett, Mel Trotter and Peter Marshal. Learn more about the voice from the past HERE https://www.swrc.com/voices-from-the-past.html

Day 203 Today's Reading: Titus 3 Research experts tell us we communicate only 7 percent with our words, 38 percent with our tone of voice, and 58 percent with our actions. This is why Paul emphasizes the word deeds to the young pastor Titus. In today's chapter we are getting from the apostle Paul the last of the pastoral letters. His emphasis to Titus in chapter 3, and really throughout the entire Epistle, is focused on the 58 percent. I imagine Paul feels like Benjamin Franklin who said, “Well done is much better than well said.” Basically, it is better to be a good doer than a good talker. John Donne said: “Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.” Another word for example in the book of Titus is good deeds. The apostle Paul is really careful to tell us it's not the good deeds that make us Christians and get us to heaven: “He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit” (Titus 3:5). But it is good deeds that should be coming from God's people. He wants us to know that though we are not saved by good deeds, we pursue good deeds because they are the outflow of the work of God in our lives: "Remind the people to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed. . . . This is a trustworthy statement; and concerning these things I want you to speak confidently, so that those who have believed God will be careful to engage in good deeds. These things are good and profitable for men." (Verses 1, 8) Be ready for every good deed and engage in good deeds. Then he repeats in verse 14: “Our people must also learn to engage in good deeds to meet pressing needs, so that they will not be unfruitful.” Again, he encourages us to engage in good deeds. But these exhortations are not limited to Titus 3. In Titus 1:16, Paul tells Titus about people who know how to talk but not live: “They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.” Or as one Colin Morris put it, “Your theology is what you are when the talking stops and the action starts.” Then Paul speaks about good deeds in chapter 2, two more times: “In all things show yourself to be an example of good deeds, with purity in doctrine, dignified. . . . Who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds” (verses 7, 14). Zealous for good deeds. It seems like “good deeds” is the emphasis Paul is giving to Titus: Titus, let your people show their Christianity, not just speak it. You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. Our challenge is to live what we say. People will see with their eyes before they will listen with their ears. Our actions can bring someone closer to Jesus or be the very thing that turns them from Jesus. Charles Banning was right when he said, “Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it.” People may doubt what we say but they will believe what we do. As the late British evangelist Gypsy Smith once quipped, “There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and the Christian, but most people never read the first four.”

And a very good morning to you!It is Monday morning the 24th of January 2022, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.“He first found his own brother Simon, (Simon Peter) and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated, the Christ). And he brought him to Jesus.”John 1:41What is evangelism? Evangelism is one hungry beggar showing another hungry beggar where he can find bread - That is all it is, nothing else. That is exactly what Andrew did, he brought his brother, Peter, and introduced him to Jesus. You can't do it without zeal and belief. You see, unless you have been hungry yourself, you will never understand what it means to show somebody some bread. We have to just keep on telling folk what Jesus means to us. That is what Gypsy Smith said when he was preaching off the back of his painted wagon in the fields... A worn-out preacher came and said, “I have preached everything from Genesis to Revelation, I am worn-out.” Gypsy said, “Just keep telling people what Jesus means to you.”Billy Bray, the Cornish tin-miner, a tough boy - he met Jesus, he was introduced to the King of Kings! He wanted his fellow miners to be saved as well. So he would stand on a wall in the village square on a Saturday morning, and preach his heart out. One day one of his former drinking buddies came to him and said, “If you don't shut up I am going to punch you.” He kept on preaching. His friend hit him so hard, he knocked Billy off the wall. Billy got up, nose bleeding and spitting out teeth, got back on the wall and told him the same story again. He said, “Billy if you don't shut up, I am going to knock you out” and he hit him again. The third time Billy got up on that wall... I tell you what, the blood was flowing, but he was so full of love for his friend. His friend just broke down and wept and knelt at the foot of the wall, “Billy, tell me about your Savior!” And he led him to Christ.Have you seen that movie, “Ordinary people'? I hope you have - It is the story of Mighty Men. One of those stories, a true story, is about a highjacker who tried to highjack two men coming to the Mighty Men Conference. They were in Cape Town and he shot at them and missed them. They overpowered him, they were big, tough policemen and what did they do? They handcuffed him to the back of the pick-up. It was a double-cab and they brought him to the Mighty Men Conference. And what happened - That highjacker got gloriously saved and the last I heard, he was preaching the Gospel in Gugulethu, a township in Cape Town. Go out today and introduce somebody to Jesus, the King of Kings.God bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had. (Luke 21:1-4) 4 Now, if I buy one myself, and somebody come by and say, “Brother Branham, I like that, wished I had one.” I’d say, “Go ahead and take it.” But if somebody give it to me, there couldn’t be nothing take it. You’d have to take it when I had my back turned, the only way to get it. ’Cause I appreciate anything, no matter what it is. And little things that you would think didn’t mean nothing, maybe some people think they’d throw them out, just little old trinkets and things, little mussel shells from Africa, or something like that. I save every one of them. I remember them too, because they come from somebody. Gypsy Smith, I believe it was, once said that the greatest offering that he ever had, outside of salvation… Said, “One night he was going to have a love offering taken up from it, for him.” I think, by the way, that’s the reason he was put out of the Salvation Army, was taking an—an offering, or something… No, it was something somebody give him, a watch or something. I believe you’re not supposed to do that in the Salvation Army. 5 But said, “That all the people would—had give him a love offering. And from the depths of their heart they’d done it.” Many of those people’s in glory tonight and their reward is with them for helping that wonderful man of God. And he said one striking thing. When he started to leave the audience that night, standing back behind the curtain was a little girl, ragged, and she had a little present wrapped up in her hand. And she said, “Give Mr. Smith,” said, “this is all I have, but this is my love offering to you.” And when he got outside and unwrapped it, it was a lollipop, been licked on a little bit. But she happened to think that she… It was all she had to give. 6 He used to tell how he—how it got him. That’s right, it’s all she had. You know, the One Who watched the widow put in the two pennies tithings that time, He seen that lollipop, don’t you believe so? Sure He did; He sees everything. No matter how insignificant it is, Jesus said, “Isn’t two sparrow—isn’t two sparrows sold for one farthing.” And a farthing is a fourth of a penny. Two sparrows, one farthing, one fourth of a penny will buy two sparrows, how insignificant. And said, “There’s none of it… neither of them… No sparrow could even fall without your Father knowing about it.” He knows everything, doesn’t He? So isn’t it wonderful then just to lay our hearts right out before Him? And I want to thank each and every one of you for your cooperation, you pastors. And if your pastor’s not here, and he spoke about the meeting and whatever, give him my love and regards, sincerity. And my prayer is for him that your church will be—become a great spiritual lighthouse and great revival will be in your church, each one of you. I don’t care what church you belong to; that doesn’t matter a thing to me, and I’m sure it doesn’t to God either. Just… You’re the one He’s after, is you. 55-1009 - "The Way To Have Fellowship" Rev. William Marrion Branham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Order your own copy of the Family Altar at http://store.bibleway.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Appreciate what we do? Consider supporting us: https://anchor.fm/ten-thousand-worlds/support --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ten-thousand-worlds/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ten-thousand-worlds/support

What do you find in the desert? A mocking world, bent on hate and disbelief? Or something else, something precious, something divine, something bigger than life, satiating your thirst as you grow through the trials? In 1978 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described a world "split apart" due to self-centeredness. Having spent 11 years in the gulag, his speech was given at Harvard. Some booed, some listened. In WWII a statue of Christ stood, the hands having been destroyed by bombs. Billy Graham would use the illustration to say that people of faith are to be the hands of Jesus to the world. Then there is Gypsy Smith, who a hundred years ago offered advice to those wanting spiritual revival; "Go home, lock yourself in your room, kneel down in the middle of your floor. Draw a chalk mark all around yourself and ask God to start the revival inside that chalk mark. When He has answered your prayer, the revival will be on." We end with James Loder, who shares a story of a powerful personal miracle. He was a Princeton professor, and after the experience he could hardly stop crying tears of joy the rest of his life, becoming known as the "weeping professor." He found a way, and you and I can too, to live in a "God-bathed, God-soaked, God-intoxicated world."

Do we know a lot about prayer, or do we pray a lot? Is prayer an afterthought, or does prayer define our spiritual walk? Prayer is a discipline I know I need to grow in.  What about you?   Referenced in the podcast: British evangelist - Gypsy Smith (1860-1947).  Here are two places you can learn more about his ministry. www.christianity.com and www.biblebelievers.com

Sermon by Gypsy Smith preached on Old Fashioned Sunday 2018

From an article in the Cottonwood County Citizen in Windom, Minnesota by Dave Fjeld: “Revival starts with prayer,” Moede continues. “So, I would really appreciate that everybody pray for this revival, pray for the Lord’s will to be done and pray for a powerful movement of the Holy Spirit. Pray that hearts will be prepared to hear the gospel, pray over all the speakers and musicians, pray for safe travel for myself and for Shari Hardway Johnson.” Moede quoted a piece about old-time evangelist Gypsy Smith, who asked his audience if they truly wanted to see a revival begin. “When the people said, yes, Gypsy replied, ‘Then go back home draw a circle around you on the floor, then get down on your knees in the middle of that circle and ask God to convert everybody inside that circle. When you do that and God answers, you are experiencing the start of revival,’ ” Moede, says quoting the piece. “So it starts with us — in our homes.”

Rodney ‘Gipsy’ Smith never received a formal education, yet he lectured at Harvard. He grew up in a gypsy camp outside London, yet he was invited to the Whitehouse by two different presidents. Gypsy Smith was powerfully used of God preaching to millions as he crisscrossed the Atlantic Ocean forty-five times. Everywhere he went, it seemed like revival was on his heels. Gypsy revealed his secret to a delegation of hungry seekers that asked him how they could make a difference with their lives the way he had with his. His answer was simple yet profound—as timely and timeless now as it was a hundred years ago. Go home. Lock yourself in your room. Kneel down in the middle of the floor, and with a piece of chalk, draw a circle around yourself. There, on your knees, pray fervently and brokenly that God would start a revival within that chalk circle. For the video visit: http://northplacechurch.com/watch