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In the Ways of the Lord
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 14th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in 1 Samuel 8:3: ”But his sons did not walk in …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 14th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in 1 Samuel 8:3:
”But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.”
Then we go to the Book of Proverbs 22:6:
”Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
It’s very important, dads and moms, that we train up our children in the ways of the Lord. We’ve got to shape them. We have got to work with them. We’ve got to teach them the difference between wisdom and foolishness. I’m not talking about beating your child. I’m not talking about anything like that. I’m talking about obeying the way of the Lord.
Now, Samuel, in my opinion, was probably the greatest of all the prophets in the Old Testament. He never wavered once. He never let the Lord down once. He stood firm. He was a godly man from the time he was a little child right through to the day he died, but there was a problem - his two sons, they were not brought up correctly. “Why?” You say because they behaved badly. They took bribes, they bent the rules and they perverted justice for their own needs. So they gave their father a very bad time, so much so that the children of Israel did not want to listen to them and asked Samuel to give them a king like the other nations. This is so important because if we don’t do this it can actually bring a lot of disfavour to the family and most of all, to the name of the Lord.
When I go into a house to greet people and I see young men jump up out of their chairs and come up and greet me, it touches my heart and then they ask me to please sit down. They give me their place as a sign of respect. That warms my heart. If you go into their home and the young lady comes up and says, ”Uncle Angus, would you like a cup of tea?” And they go and make some tea before their mom and dad even say anything. That warms my heart.
Come on boys, come on ladies, let’s bring our children up in the ways of the Lord! The Bible says, and when they grow old, they will not depart from them.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.
The Bible
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 13th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go straight to the Gospel of John 1:1-4: ”In the …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 13th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go straight to the Gospel of John 1:1-4:
”In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. (That’s Jesus) All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”
What a powerful scripture! Of course, we’re talking about no one but Jesus Christ Himself, because the Bible tells us He was with God. So there was Jesus, there was God, and there was the Holy Spirit. I’m very excited to tell you that this is noted as Bible Month. Folks, you can see these adverts being put up in places like Piccadilly Circus in London, Osaka in Japan. It’s a global Bible Month, and I cannot stress it more. We need to read our Bibles more. Many of us are in a bad place because we are listening to everybody and everything else except the Word of God, which never changes.
I want to tell you myself, you will never see me in a photograph without my Bible, hardly ever, because the Bible is a friend to me. My Bible is my advisor, it’s my agricultural manual. It tells me when to plant, when to reap, when to buy cattle, when to sell cattle, when to buy horses, when to sell them, sheep, chickens, whatever.
The Bible is also a compass. It gives me direction. It shows me where to go and where not to go. It is a comforter when I am mourning the loss of a loved one, and what’s very exciting for me is that our team has notified me that we now have twenty Bible reading plans available on the Bible App, and we want to thank the Bible App for the wonderful work they are doing all over the world and these Bible reading plans are available for free.
Folks, do not waste time. Get into it because it will save us. The Bible is Jesus Christ in print. So the next time an unbeliever, somebody who says to you, ”There is no God. Show me this God you are always talking about.” Give them a Bible. Show them how to read it.
Jesus bless you as you make a decision to consciously start to read your Bible every day before you start anything else.
God bless you and goodbye.
Faithful to the End
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 12th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in 1 Samuel 7:15:”And Samuel judged Israel all …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 12th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in 1 Samuel 7:15:
”And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.”
Then we go to the New Testament to the Book of Philippians 1:21. Paul says:
”For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
This morning the Lord is talking to you and me about being faithful to Him to the very end. Samuel was one of the few prophets that went the full distance. He never once disappointed God. He was faithful in his calling to the very end and Paul could honestly say, and he did it, that ”For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” So if we live, we live for Christ and if we die we go home to heaven.
God is looking for faithful men and women today. There is no place for fair-weather Christians in the Kingdom of God. “What does that mean, Angus?” That means you cannot serve God today and, because things don’t go the way you want, you are not serving Him tomorrow, and then next week you decide you’ll serve Him again. It doesn’t work like that. God is looking for faithful men and women.
Remember, it’s not how you start the race that counts but rather how you finish. You can start as fast as you like and leave everybody else behind but halfway down the road you run out of steam and you pack up, that’s no good. No one is interested in that. As a sportsman, you will know you are only as good as your last game, and that is a fact. People don’t think about all the good things you did. They only remember you at the end, and that disappoints me so much in this day and age in which you and I are living. So many men and women are not finishing strong and we need to make a decision that we are not going to drop the ball just before the finish line.
I want to pray for you:
Father God,
I pray for my dear friend who’s running the race of their lives at the moment. Lord, they are tired, they are weary. Many are contemplating giving up, “It’s too tough, we can’t finish.” Lord, I pray that they will be like Paul who says, ”For me to live is Christ and to die is but gain.” I ask this in Jesus name.
Amen.
God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye
Foot Soldiers
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 11th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in 1 Samuel 17:45: “Then David said to the …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 11th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in 1 Samuel 17:45:
“Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.“
A young boy with a sling and a couple of stones defeated the mightiest warrior of the Philistines.
Then we go to 1 Peter 5:5 where the Lord says:
“God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”
God uses ordinary people. We know that so well. A man by the name of Thomas Champness said: “Is it not one of the difficulties of church work that we have more officers than men? We need more of the rank and file who are willing to march anywhere and to do the lowliest tasks. We shall succeed in doing greater things when all are willing to be subjects.” Yes, we are talking about more foot soldiers and less officers needed. He goes on to say, “It is the bayonet rather than the golden braid that is needed when the enemy is to be subdued.” I want to say to you today, God is looking for foot soldiers. We are not going to win the war against the devil and his demons with only officers.
We need the foot soldiers, the privates, the ordinary men, men like William Carey, who was mocked once, “I believe you are just a shoemaker?” He said, “No, I am not a shoemaker, I cannot make shoes. I am a cobbler, I can only repair shoes.” Yet, he went on to do so many great things for God in India by translating the Bible from English into Sanskrit and many Indian languages - a foot soldier that God used to be a general. Today, we mustn’t be so concerned about becoming officers in God’s army, we must rather become a band of foot soldiers who are prepared to go wherever the Lord calls us.
So today, say, “Lord, whatever you tell me to do, I will do it with all of my heart”, and God will use you in the most surprising ways.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.Power in the Name
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 10th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in 2 Corinthians 4:5: ”For we do not preach …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 10th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in 2 Corinthians 4:5:
”For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, …”
Then we go to the Gospel of John 12:32. This is Jesus speaking:
”And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.”
Oh, there is power in the name! Oh folks, I’ve got so many testimonies to share about that - when we pray in His wonderful name. Now some people say, ”Now how do you pray to God?” Well, the way I do it is, I pray to my Heavenly Father, through the name of His Son, Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. I have seen healings take place. I have seen blind eyes open, deaf ears unstopped. Yes, I’ve seen the lame walking. It’s the name which is above every other name. I’ve seen deliverance, people set free in an instant by that beautiful name of Jesus.
Forgiveness, wow, that’s a big one. In 1 John 1:9, The Bible says:
”If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. “
We’ve preached at some big open-air meetings. I remember one year, and maybe many men listening to this message will remember it, when the rain gathered right around this farm, but it was dry among those thousands of men until the meeting was over and the weekend was over, and then the rain came.
Jesus is the Rainmaker. Some people say to me, ”Are you the Rainmaker?” I say, ”No, I’m not the Rainmaker, I’m the Rainmaker’s son.” And I’ve seen it time and time again. It’s that wonderful name! If you’re lonely today, call on that name. He’ll be a friend to you that’ll stick closer than a brother.
If you are bereaved. If you are missing your wife, your husband, your little baby that has gone to be with the Lord, speak to Jesus, He will comfort you. It’s a beautiful name. We must use it more often!
God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.Remember
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 9th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in 1 Samuel 7:12: ”Then Samuel took a stone and …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 9th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in 1 Samuel 7:12:
”Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.”
It literally means “stone of help”, and then we go to 1 Corinthians 11:25. Jesus says:
”This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
When they won the battle, to remember how gracious the Lord had been to the children of Israel, Samuel set up a stone, a rock, as a reminder of God’s help and how He had delivered the enemy into Israel's hands. And the same way, Jesus Himself, on the night of His betrayal, when He had broken bread and given thanks, and He had drunk from the cup, He said, "Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of Me.” It’s so important to remember where the Lord has brought us from.
Just outside our little chapel on the farm, we have a big cairn of stones and we put them up there as a remembrance of how the Lord has helped us. I’m talking well over twenty years ago. The Lord has brought us through tremendous droughts. He has grown a crop of maize when there was no hope. He has raised up a crop of maize that has been pummelled to the ground by hail. It is a place also where we remember our loved ones, tragedies and also great successes, funerals and weddings. It is a special place, and even now, I often walk past there before church, and I remember how the Lord has delivered us in times of extreme pressure. Maybe today somewhere in your garden, maybe in your churchyard, maybe in a very special place, you can put up a big stone or a cairn of stones to remember that the Lord has been with us and delivered us.
Jesus died for you and me so that we can have eternal life. Break bread, have communion as often as you can, wherever it might be. God bless you as you remember how the Lord has delivered us.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.Pray Always
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 8th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Colossians 4:2:”Continue earnestly …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 8th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Colossians 4:2:
”Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;”
Then we go a little bit further on to 1 Thessalonians 5:17:
”…pray without ceasing,…”
It is a lifestyle. It is a habit, yes, and a very good one to develop. We need to pray more and speak less. Early this morning, I read something very special by a man of God, and this is what he wrote: “Our prayers often resemble the mischievous tricks of town children who knock at their neighbour's houses and then run away. We often knock at heaven’s door and then run off into the spirit of the world instead of waiting for entrance to be granted. We act as if we were afraid of having our prayers answered.”
Isn’t that so true? We pray but we don’t even believe that we’re going to get it, do we? Oh, my dear friend, I want to say to you today, we need to pray intentionally. We need to pray expecting an answer from God because the Lord is waiting for you and me so that He can answer our prayers.
We should pray when we go out. I was visiting a grandson of mine at university and we sat down in the restaurant, where we took him out for a meal, and as the waitress brought the food, we automatically held hands and prayed earnestly. We’d pray before we get in the motorcar to go on a trip. We pray all the time. It is a way of life. Jill and I will never go to sleep without praying. We pray in the morning. It’s the first thing we do when we open our eyes. We don’t run away like those naughty children knocking on the door. We wait at the entrance so that the Lord can answer our prayers.
Today, we need to start to pray, continually and earnestly. Not for other people to see us, but not afraid either. We pray in the marketplace; we pray in church; we pray at home; we pray when we are our own. I pray when I ride my horse, I pray when I ride my mountain bike, I pray for others.
Many a time, I’ve stopped at a garage to put in petrol and the Lord’s told me that lady sitting in that car is battling. I walk over and ask if I can have a word of prayer with her. Her eyes fill with tears and she says, ”Yes please.” Let us pray. God will answer every single one of our prayers.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.
Suffering
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 7th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Psalms 34:19:”Many are the …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 7th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Psalms 34:19:
”Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
Then we go to 2 Corinthians 1:4: ”(God) who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”
You might be asking yourself a question today, ”Lord, why am I going through such deep waters? Lord, don’t you care? Lord, why do you allow me to suffer like this?” Folks, unless you have been through the fire, you can’t comfort other people. Unless you have been there, you don’t really understand what they are going through. I read somewhere a while back that most millionaires, men who have made it, have gone bankrupt at least three times before they make it! We need to understand something. If we are going to be of any use to our fellow man, we must be able to identify ourselves with their suffering, and we can only do that if we’ve been through it ourselves.
I remember a church service that took place. The man who was speaking gave his testimony. He had come from the Eastern Bloc, from Russia, some place where Christians were terribly oppressed. He was trying to tell the people about how God had helped him, but the people were not listening to him. He got no response at all, until eventually he stopped preaching and he started undoing the buttons of his shirt and then he took his shirt off and he turned around and he showed the congregation his back. His back looked like a ploughed field. He had been thrashed with a whip and he had scars right down his back. He was trying to say to the people that, ”I understand the suffering of the Christians that are in prison. We must pray for them,” and he had instant attention. Straight away, everybody was watching and listening to him
Today, do not be concerned about the hardship you are going through. God is going to use this trial, He will pull you through. He’ll definitely pull you through if you keep your eyes on Him, and you will have a story to tell others who are going through the same thing.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.
Tell the Truth
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 6th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to 1 Samuel 3:19: “So Samuel grew, and the Lord was …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 6th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to 1 Samuel 3:19:
“So Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.”
Then we go straight to the Gospel of John 8:32, and Jesus says:
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
How are you feeling this morning? Are you feeling like you are tied up? Do you feel you are in bondage? Do you feel that maybe you are not trustworthy? I want to tell you a story. This little boy, named Samuel and the Lord told him what was going to happen to the High Priest, Eli. Now, Samuel was being brought up by Eli. Hannah, Samuel’s mother, had taken the little boy, because she promised the Lord she would, and gave him to the High Priest and their sons, and he was going to serve all the days of his life in the Temple. But he had a dream, and he saw exactly what was going to happen to Eli.
Now Eli knew that God was speaking to Samuel, and he said to Samuel, “Tell me the truth. What did God tell you?” That little boy had the courage, and this is the punchline. You and I have to have the courage to stand up and tell the truth because the truth will set us free. That is exactly what Jesus is saying to you and me this morning. And because that little boy told him the truth. He didn’t know what was going to happen to him but he told him all about Eli. Everything he told Eli and his two sons happened to them, because they were living in sin. But I want to tell you that God was with that little boy, Samuel. He grew up to be one of the greatest prophets that Israel has ever had. He never defaulted once. Why? Because the truth shall set you free.
I want to say to that gentleman, sir, this is a tough one. You need to go and tell your wife the truth. You have had an affair. She knows it but you have always denied it. Go and sit down and tell her the truth. Repent and God will set you free. Tell the truth, even if it is going to get you into trouble. Go and tell your boss that you have been dishonest. Ask for forgiveness, and I tell you what, he will forgive you, and he will trust you and God will promote you. Even if it makes you unpopular at school, young lady, you tell the girls, “I am a virgin. I am staying that way until the night I marry my husband.” You will be very unpopular, but I want to tell you something now. You will help a lot of young girls to do the same.
Close the door on the lies of the devil. He is the one who keeps holding you. Don’t say, you'll go to join, don't say that or she will divorce you. It is a lie. Tell the truth, just like Samuel did to Eli. God used him to be one of the greatest prophets to Israel.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.
Be Still
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 5th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to 1 Samuel 3:10: “Now the Lord came and stood and …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 5th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to 1 Samuel 3:10:
“Now the Lord came and stood and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel answered, “Speak, for Your servant hears.”
The other scripture is Psalm 46:10:
Be still, and know that I am God;…”
You and I need to start to listen to the word of the Lord, and once we have listened like the little boy Samuel did, then we can speak. Unfortunately, the age in which we are living now - everything is instant. That’s right, instant coffee, instant noodles, fast foods. So we programme ourselves to do everything on the run. I have seen it. I have seen young people trying to eat while they are running, walking. No-one is sitting and listening. We need to understand, with Jesus we must wait.
I had the privilege of travelling the world, and I want to tell you the one thing that would really distress me. I would go to New Zealand or maybe to Australia, or maybe Canada, maybe the USA, and I would speak to groups of people and often I would see people sitting there with the tears running down their faces, and they would come up to me afterwards and say, we just love to hear that beautiful South African accent when you speak. Then they will say, “Well, you know, we left South Africa, and we didn’t pray about it, and we didn’t wait to hear the voice of the Lord confirm what we should do and we made a bad decision. God did not want us here. What we have done is, we have burnt our bridges. We have sold up everything, we can’t go back. Now the Lord does undertake, please hear me clearly. He does compensate, He does make a way but it is not His best for you.
The little boy, Samuel listened to the voice of God. Three times the Lord spoke to him. Three times, he went to Eli, the High Priest, thinking he was calling him. “No, I am not calling you, son.” Then Eli realised God was calling him. He said, “Go and listen.” And then the Lord started to speak to Samuel. Samuel was one of the greatest prophets who ever lived. He never once faltered. He did exactly what God told him to do, and as a result, he had an extremely close relationship with God.
Today, start to learn to slow down. Start to learn to listen to the voice of the Lord, and He will speak to you in your heart and He will confirm whatever it is that you are asking Him. If He tells you nothing, that means you stay where you are. If He tells you to go, you go. If He tells you to come back, you come back. You do exactly what He tells you, and your life will be much more peaceful and successful.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.
Open Doors
I greet you in Jesus precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 4th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in 1 Corinthians 16:9: ”For a great and …
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I greet you in Jesus precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 4th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in 1 Corinthians 16:9:
”For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.”
Then we go to the Book of Colossians 4:3:
”…meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains,”
A great door of opportunity open, but much opposition, many adversaries. There’s a cost involved if you really want to serve Jesus Christ. Whether it be in the pulpit, whether it be in the workplace, whether it be at school, university. Great doors of opportunity will be opened, but they always come at a price, and I want to suggest to you today it’s more spiritual than physical.
For over forty years, I have driven out of this little farm called Shalom. With tears often running down my face as I have just said goodbye to my dear wife once again and all my little children, a hard price to pay. Are you prepared to do it, and do it with all your heart or not? I would have many a conversation driving down the road to go and catch that aeroplane and fly overseas to another continent for a few weeks. “Lord, I really don’t want to do this. I am a farmer, Lord. I’m a happy farmer, I love farming. Oh, but Jesus, You have seen fit to open a huge door for me, a wonderful opportunity to speak to many multitudes of people, but I miss my wife, I miss my children. I miss the farm.” - many adversaries.
For me, I love telling people about Jesus, but then I’ve got to go to that hotel room again and sit there on the other side of the world and trust that the Lord is looking after my dear wife and my children. It is a price, folks, but it is a spiritual price. You must understand that when Paul wrote the letter in Colossians, he was actually in chains in the dungeon but he still regarded it as a great opportunity to tell people about Jesus. We must do the same and there is no retirement, there is no slowing down, there is no stopping. We must do it till the end by His grace.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.Lend to the Lord
I greet you in Jesus precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 3rd of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in 1 Samuel 1:28. This is Hannah speaking …
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I greet you in Jesus precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 3rd of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in 1 Samuel 1:28. This is Hannah speaking:
”Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord; as long as he lives he shall be lent to the Lord.”
Then, of course, we go to John 3:16:
”For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
I looked up the Oxford Dictionary to find out the exact meaning of the word, ”lent.” It means, allow someone to use something on the understanding that they will return it. Now Hannah had been waiting for a baby for how long? Many years. She was mocked by the people in the community. She went up to the Temple. She cried before the Lord. Eventually the Lord heard her. He gave her the most beautiful baby. Yes, I’m talking about Samuel. Samuel is one of the few prophets who never faltered. He was steadfast from the day he was born until the day he went home to be Jesus. Hannah made an agreement. She said, “Lord, if You give me that child I will give him back to You.” Now the time came. I mean, can you imagine how this woman felt? She was suckling this baby on her breast.
I believe in those days it would have been maybe three years until he was weaned. And then she had to go up to the temple and then she gave him back to God, but what she said was that he shall be lent to the Lord all the days of his life. I want to say that God, our Heavenly Father, understood the heart of Hannah because He gave, not lent, His only begotten Son so that you and I could have eternal life.
There might be a mother, a younger mother, an older mother, a granny, who is now in a position that she has to lend her child to the world. They have completed their educational studies, they are going to university or they are going to take a trade or they are immigrating and you have got to lend your child back to God. Today, do it. I am going to pray for you:
Father,
I pray for strength, for courage, for that mother. Only she understands the pain of being able to say goodbye and trust her loved one into Your capable hands. Lord, give that mother, give that granny, give that single mother courage and strength to do it and to do it joyfully, knowing that You will watch over them.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
God bless you and have a wonderful day, goodbye.
Mothers
I greet you in Jesus precious name! It is Monday morning, the 2nd of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in Genesis 18:14. God asks Sarah: ”Is anything too …
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I greet you in Jesus precious name! It is Monday morning, the 2nd of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in Genesis 18:14. God asks Sarah:
”Is anything too hard for the Lord? “
Oh, I want to speak to mothers, potential mothers. I want to talk especially to ladies today who cannot have a baby. That’s what God has laid on my heart. Matthew 7:7:
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.“
Early this morning, while I was praying, I remembered Hannah, that godly woman, couldn’t have a child. She went to the temple, she was weeping, she was praying under her breath, just her lips were moving. Eli, the priest thought she was drunk. No, no. She was wailing because she couldn’t have a baby, but God gave Hannah the most beautiful child. His name was Samuel. He was one of the only prophets who never faulted to the end of his life.
What about Sarah, ninety years old, and God asked her a question, ”Is there anything too hard for me?” What about Elizabeth, well advanced in age? She gave birth to a man who made the roads straight for Jesus Christ, John the Baptist. What about Samson? Probably the strongest man in the Old Testament physically, we don’t even know what his mother’s name was. His father’s name was Manoah. God gave them a child.
I want to say to you today, and I’m saying, “Mother”. You say, ”But Angus, I don’t have a child.” “But you want a child.” “Yes, I desperately do.” Well I’m calling you “Mother” by faith. What is required is persistence. Yes, asking, seeking, knocking. Now I want to pray a simple prayer for you and I want to pray this prayer after me:
Dear Lord Jesus,
Today I am desperate for a baby. Lord, I have been waiting for so long. Today, by faith, I receive that child which is coming and Lord, I promise, I promise to dedicate that child to You, to bring that child up in the fear of God and I thank You Lord, for the soon-coming baby.
In Jesus name. Amen.
I want you to cling on to this promise of God and the day that you conceive, please let us know.
God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.It Is Finished
I greet you in Jesus precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 1st of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Isaiah 25:8:”He will swallow up …
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I greet you in Jesus precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 1st of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Isaiah 25:8:
”He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces;”
Then we go to 1 Corinthians 15:55: "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?”
Death, where is your sting? Now where is your victory? Who's afraid of you now? No, we are not afraid of you. I want to say to you today, death is the beginning of life, life eternal. Many, many years ago on this farm, Shalom, we had a terrible tragedy. We lost my little four-year-old nephew, my brother's son, when he fell off the tractor that I was driving. Probably the darkest day of my life, but Jesus Christ never leaves us and He never forsakes us. Maybe you’re going through the same thing. I want to tell you some good news. Your loved one, as long as they know Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, is not dead. They are in Heaven and they are waiting for you and me.
About three months after that tragedy, my dear brother had a vision at night, he had a dream. He said, as clear as day, and he dreamt that his little son Alastair, blonde hair, blue eyes, was running through an emerald green field of grass, and when he called out to him, he said, "Daddy, I am in Heaven. I am with Jesus. I’m not afraid. I am very happy and I don’t want to come back to earth, but I am waiting for you in Heaven.” And my brother knows that, and his dear wife and his family and I know that too and that is the hope that we have.
So today, if you are mourning, if you are weeping for a lost one, that’s okay. You can do that, in fact you have to do that, but please never forget the fact that death has lost its sting. When Jesus Christ said, ”It is finished.” When He was hanging on the cross, He meant it. Jesus is not dead, He’s alive. Your loved one is alive, and we need to be ready. You know, if your loved one could speak to me today, they would say, "Angus, please tell my mother, tell my wife, tell my child that I’m not dead but I want to see them in Heaven one day.”
We need to run the race, we need to finish it strong, and we need to finish it with Jesus Christ holding our hand.
Have a wonderful day.
God bless you and goodbye.Redemption
I greet you in Jesus precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 31st of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in Ephesians 1:7:”In Him we have redemption …
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I greet you in Jesus precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 31st of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in Ephesians 1:7:
”In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace”
Then the next one, a little bit further on in the Book of Colossians 1:14:
”in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.”
Jesus Christ has paid the price for you and me. We are sinful people. We can try as long as we like to justify our sins, but we can’t. In the Old Testament, they were continually offering up sacrifices for their sins, but it didn’t work. Father God sent His only begotten Son to die on the cross to pay the ultimate price for your sin, young man, for your sin, young lady.
I looked up the meaning. “Redeemer” means that He pays the price to rescue humanity from the bondage of sin, spiritual death and separation from God. The Lord has paid a tremendous price for you and me, and He has paid it in full. When He died on the cross He said, ”It is finished.” Hallelujah! And He meant it. That means you can walk free. Repent of your sin, ask the the Lord to forgive you and He will do it. It is something that is very hard to understand. You say, ”Every sin I’ve ever committed, Angus?” Yes, every single sin that you have ever committed.
I was at a prayer meeting this morning, and I heard a very sad story of a man who is busy dying at the moment because he will not accept the fact that Jesus Christ has paid for his sin. He said that his sins are too terrible for God to forgive. That’s a lie, and it comes from the pit of hell.
You know that old song, I think we have sung it before haven’t we?
He paid a debt He did not owe
I owed a debt I could not pay
I needed someone to wash my sins away
And now I sing a brand new song
Amazing grace
Christ Jesus paid a debt that I could never pay.Pray this prayer after me.
Dear Lord Jesus, thank You for dying on the cross of Calvary for a sinner like me. I confess all of my sins to You today, and by faith I believe that You have forgiven me. Amen.
God bless you and Goodbye.
Peace-Makers
I greet you in Jesus precious name! It is Friday morning, the 30th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in Numbers 12:3:"(Now the man Moses was very …
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I greet you in Jesus precious name! It is Friday morning, the 30th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in Numbers 12:3:
"(Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.)”
Then we go straight to the Gospel of Matthew 5:9:
”Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.”
Folks, we must differentiate here between peace-makers and peace-lovers. A vast difference. Now we know Moses, we have read so much about him. I’m looking forward to shaking him by the hand when we get to Heaven. For a man to be able to take a million-plus people out of slavery, through the Dead Sea, through the wilderness with no food and no army to protect him. Often no water to drink and often the very people that he was sent to save were trying to kill him.
A man who can take that kind of pressure, I can tell you, as the saying goes, the softest part of Moses' body was his teeth. I like that one. Folks, there was nothing soft about Moses, let me tell you. Yet he was a humble man. He was a peace-maker, and I want to say to dads today, because I get lots of letters from moms, dad, we need to be peace-makers in the home, not peace-lovers. Dad, you need to take your authority in the home. You need to love your wife. You need to protect her. You need to take authority in your home with your children. Children, you need to listen to dad. He has been put there by God. He is there to look after you and the Lord says, "Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the sons of God." Not peace-lovers, peace makers.
Dad, to be a peace-maker you need to use discipline in your home. Your wife must be protected. Sometimes the children, not intentionally, take advantage of mom. They don’t listen to her. They didn’t make their beds in the morning. They don’t get up when she asks them to get up. They don’t do the chores around the house and dad, you sit in that chair watching television. No good. Take your responsibility!
If you want to be a peace-maker in your home, you need to exercise authority. You need to be prophet, priest and king in the home. People often ask me, ”What does that mean?” Prophet is the one who directs the family. The priest is the one who has quiet times with his children every day, and the king is the one who brings the food home. He makes the money. Then you’ll have the peace of God which surpasses all understanding.
Have a blessed day, moms and dads, boys and girls.
GoodbyeThe Sparrows
I greet you in Jesus precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 29th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Isaiah 50:10:“Who among you fears …
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I greet you in Jesus precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 29th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Isaiah 50:10:
“Who among you fears the Lord? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord and rely upon his God.”
Then we go straight to the Gospel of Matthew 10:31:
”…you are of more value than many sparrows.”
Jesus knows that little sparrow's name. You have nothing to fear today, my dear friend. Keep your eyes on Jesus. He says, “Even that little sparrow cannot fall to the ground without My notice.”
I want to read a beautiful little reading I read early this morning and it was by a man of God, and it goes like this:
”In fierce storms,” said an old seaman, ”we can do but one thing. There is only one way. We must put the ship in a certain position and keep her there. This, Christian, is what you must do. Sometimes, like Paul, you can see neither sun nor stars, and no small tempest lies on you; and then you can do but one thing; there is only one way. Reason cannot help you; past experiences give you no light. Even prayer fetches no consolation. Only a single course is left. You must put your soul in one position and keep it there. You must stay upon the Lord; and come what may - winds, waves, cross-seas, thunder, lightning, frowning rocks, roaring breakers - you must lash yourself to the helm, and hold fast your confidence in God's faithfulness, His sovereign engagement, His everlasting love in Christ Jesus.”
That is the way, you and I will get through any storm we are going through at the moment. Remember that beautiful old hymn, "Why should I feel discouraged? Why should the shadows come? Why should my heart be lonely and long for heaven and home, when Jesus is my portion, my constant friend is He?"
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. Today, keep your eyes on Jesus.
God bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.
Bless Someone
I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 28th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Ruth 2:12:”The Lord repay your …
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I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 28th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Ruth 2:12:
”The Lord repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.”
Then we go to Galatians 6:9, in the New Testament:
”And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”
This is such a beautiful story, my dear friends. It has touched my heart very deeply this morning. When we think that Ruth, who was not a Jew, came back to Israel with her mother-in-law, Naomi, to look after her. Boaz noticed it, which is why she found favour with him. Not only did he favour her, but he eventually married her. Her husband had died, remember, and she was a widow and gave birth to a son, and that son went right down the lineage to Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world. So Ruth is of the line of Jesus. We’re not talking about the fact that Jesus Christ came straight from Heaven, we know that, but He was born through the line of which Ruth had the privilege of being part of.
I want to say to you today, you must do something for someone who has no idea who you are, and has no idea how they got that blessing, so that the Lord Jesus Christ Himself can bless you for your good works. I’ve seen it before.
Let me give you an example: I went to the hairdresser the other day, and I had my hair cut, and as I got up to pay, he said, "It’s already been paid.” He said, “You know the man who was in the chair next to you?” I said, ”Yes.” He’s paid for your haircut.” I said, ”Where is he?” I wanted to thank him. He said, ”Look out the window. You see that blue BMW that’s just reversing out?” He said, ”That young man paid for your haircut.” Folks, that touched me so deeply because he didn’t even want me to know who he was and that is a blessing.
Today, do the same thing. Boaz saw what Ruth was doing for Naomi and because of that he blessed her. Not only did he bless her, he married her. Not only did he marry her, but she had a child from the line of David.
May God bless you as you do something today for someone who will never know it was you, except the Lord.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.
Christ in You
I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 27th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.We go straight to Galatians 2:20. Paul says:“I have been …
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I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 27th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go straight to Galatians 2:20. Paul says:
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”
I read the most beautiful little reading early this morning. It was written many, many years ago by a man named Phillips Brookes. He was an Episcopalian minister in America, and he said something quite profound. He said, "A man who lives in God knows no life except the life of God." Isn't that beautiful?
One of my heroes was a Zulu preacher from southern KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He was just a young Zulu boy who herded his mother's cattle. He grew up and became a great preacher, a great man of God. He had a tremendous healing ministry as well - William Duma. William Duma was once invited by a group of Christians, with a few other pastors as well, just as a form of thanks for all the work he had done for the Lord - a trip to Israel, to the place where his beloved Saviour, Jesus Christ, lived and walked and died and rose again. The other pastors - there were a number of them - were overwhelmed, and immediately they said, “Thank you so kindly” - not William Duma. He said, "I am so honoured, I am so overwhelmed, but can I let you know tomorrow? I just have to get permission from my Lord, to go, tonight." The man who lives in God, knows no life but the life of God.
That relationship with God will stop you, sir, from falling into adultery, it will stop you, madam, from looking at other things except Jesus Christ. Young man, young lady, that relationship will stop you from getting involved in pornography on your cell phone, stop you from bending the rules, stop you from cheating because Christ in you is the hope of glory!
Have a wonderful day and give the Lord Jesus Christ full reign over your life today.
God bless you. Goodbye.
Amongst the People
I greet you in Jesus' precious name. It is Monday morning, the 26th of October, 2026 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.We start in the book of Genesis 28:16. This is Jacob …
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I greet you in Jesus' precious name. It is Monday morning, the 26th of October, 2026 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the book of Genesis 28:16. This is Jacob speaking.
Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”
Folks, the Lord is with you and me all the time, and we forget it so often, don't we? Then we go to Matthew 4:25.
Great multitudes followed Him - from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
Then we go to Mark 12:37
... And the common people heard Him gladly.
Our Lord, Jesus Christ, is the Lord of the common people, the man in the street. One of His titles is "the friend of sinners". I love that one. Yes, folks, He can be found everywhere. He can be found in the palaces of the kings of the world. But mostly you'll find in the Bible He was thronged by the ordinary working class, you could say. Now, I read this beautiful little reading in a small book by an unknown author. It's in Old English, so I'll try and paraphrase it as we go along.
The parish priest, a very sincere man, climbed up in the high church steeple
because he wanted to be nearer God that he might be able to hand down His word to the people.
And in sermon script, he wrote his sermons on a piece of paper daily,
what he thought was sent from heaven,
and then he dropped it down on the people's heads,
twice a day in seven.
In his age, God said to this parish priest,
Come down, come down from the steeple.
And he cried out from the steeple,
Where are you, Lord? He's trying to get as high as he can to heaven.
And the Lord replied, I'm down here among my people.We don't have to look for the Lord in some special holy place. He is in amongst these people. And by the way, He's in your heart today.
Father God, I pray for my dear friend listening to this message, that he or she will remember that they don't have to go to Israel or to Britain or to America to find You. You are right here in his heart, her heart. Let us remember that.
In Jesus' Name, amen.Have a wonderful day.
God bless you and goodbye.No Doubting
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 25th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Galatians 1:12: ”For I neither …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 25th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Galatians 1:12:
”For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
Then we go to 1 Corinthians 15:2:
”…if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.”
The Lord is speaking to you and me today about holding fast to our faith. People are questioning the divinity of Jesus Christ. Oh, my dear friend, He’s more real to me than you listening to this message at the moment. You know that Jesus was seen by up to five hundred people after His resurrection, and then Paul says, ”and lastly by me.”
There might be one or two Thomas’ this morning listening to this message. “I’ll believe it when I see it. When I can put my fingers through the holes in His hands and His feet and my hand in His side where He was struck by the spear of the Roman soldier, then I’ll believe.” And at that time Jesus just stood right in front of Thomas. He didn’t open the door, He walked through the door and He said, ”Thomas.” And Thomas fell to his knees, ”My Lord and my God.” He said, “Thomas, you do well that you say that but blessed are those that come after you who haven’t seen me and still believe.”
It was like yesterday, I’ll never forget it, when I stood on the platform down in En Gedi and I’d been preaching about the rushing mighty wind that filled the upper room, when all the disciples were baptised in the Holy Spirit and began speaking in tongues. I was so overwhelmed by the whole affair - five thousand delegates from all over the world, eighty nations represented. I walked around the front of the lectern, and you can see it on YouTube - it’s there, and I said, Jesus. Please do it again.” And oh, my dear friend, He did it. The wind started blowing so hard it was blowing the equipment off the platform, and then it started to rain. It never rains down there, hardly ever. Jesus manifested Himself to five thousand of us, plus.
Today, never, ever doubt the reality that Jesus Christ is Lord of all, and He’s coming back soon.
Jesus bless you. Have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.Tragedy to Victory
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 24th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Old Testament, in the Book of Ruth 1:20 …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 24th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Old Testament, in the Book of Ruth 1:20:
"But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.”
Then we go to the Book of Job 13:15:
”Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.”
Are you going through a very tough time at the moment? Are you feeling a bit bitter, maybe towards the Lord? Naomi left her country and went to stay in Moab with her husband and her two sons, and they married two girls, but Naomi’s husband and her two sons both died and left Naomi on her own with her two daughters-in-law. The one stayed in Moab, the other one followed Naomi back to Israel, and when she got home, people all greeted her. She said, ”Don’t call me Naomi because I’ve got nothing. I have lost everything.”
Maybe you’re there today? I was there. I remember it very clearly. I planted a beautiful crop of corn, of maize, but I made a terrible mistake. I got my plant population wrong. Instead of planting the seeds six inches apart they were coming up a foot apart. I thought I was ruined. They were so sparsely planted that I could walk through the maize crop in the early morning and not get any dew on my clothes, but oh folks, God is in control. I cried out to God just like Naomi did.
You know what happened with Naomi? Naomi’s daughter-in-law, Ruth, got remarried to Boaz. They had a child. His name was Obed. Obed was the father of Jesse, who was the father of King David, and that line goes right down to Jesus Christ. You talk about things changing - she was directly related to the King of Glory. Tragedy turned into an unbelievable victory. And for me, that year we had one of the worst droughts in the history of this district and the men that had planted their maize close together, like it should be, had no cobs because of the drought, but because of the spacing in my crop, I had massive cobs, and you get paid not by volume but by weight, and that year I had a bumper crop.
Today, you might be feeling a bit down. Maybe you feel bitter. Things are not going your way. I want to tell you, trust in the Lord like Job the farmer did. Even though He slay me, yet will I still trust Him, and God will turn your situation around. He’s done it so many times for me.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.In the Name
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 23rd of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start with 1 Corinthians 15:22:“For as in Adam all die …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 23rd of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start with 1 Corinthians 15:22:
“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.”
Isn’t that beautiful? And then John 3:16:
”For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Praise be to God. Through Adam we have death. Through Christ we have life, as simple as that. Just the other day we were at the little church on the farm, Shalom, and a visitor came to join the congregation and afterwards I spoke to him. I said, ”Where do you come from?” He said, "I come from Iran.” I said, ”Are you a muslim?” He said, ”No.” I said, ”Are you a Christian?” He said, ”No” I said, ”What are you?” He said, ”I’m searching, I don’t know.” Straight away I felt the Spirit of the Lord say to me, “Ask him if he’d like to give his life to Jesus Christ?” I said, ”Would you like to be born again? Would you like to give your life to Jesus Christ?” He said, "Yes please, sir.” And right there and then I prayed the sinner’s prayer over that man and straight away another man walked over, and he came from another town and he was a muslim. He said, ”I too want to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and saviour.” Isn’t that Wonderful?
It’s the name above every other name folks, and we must not be shy or slow to introduce our beloved Jesus to people. It’s not a case of, ”Oh well, I don’t want to embarrass him.” If that man does not know Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour, he will go to hell. That’s what the Bible tells us, so who cares whether he’s embarrassed or not. This man is in the Kingdom of God today, and by the way, the Lord impressed upon me to give him a Christian name. I said, ”I’m going to give you a new name.” I haven’t done this before, and his face lit up. I said, ”Your name is going to be Daniel. Daniel in the lions' den. Daniel was in Babylon when the Lord touched him and saved him from ravenous lions killing him.” And so we have a Daniel now, and we are so excited, but I want to ask you a question. You have been listening to the thought for the day, maybe for a long time, maybe not so long. Have you ever given your life to Jesus Christ? The Lord says we must be born again. You’ll find that in John 3:3. Please pray this prayer after me if you would like to be born again.
Dear Lord Jesus,
I acknowledge I am a sinner and I need a saviour. Please come into my life. I am sorry and repent for all of my sins and today I ask you to be my soon-coming King and Saviour, and I pray this in Your precious name. Amen.
Jesus bless you and go out and tell the first three people that you meet what you did today!
Have a wonderful day, God bless you and goodbye.
The Burden-Carrier
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 22nd of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Psalms 37:5: “Commit your way to the …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 22nd of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Book of Psalms 37:5:
“Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass.”
Then we go to Psalm 55:22: “Cast your burden on the Lord, And He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.”
Then the last scripture, 1 Peter 5:7:
"…casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”
Today, cast your cares upon Jesus because He will carry your burden and because He cares for you. In Numbers 22:23, we read that the donkey is a burden carrier, but he is also highly intelligent. We think a donkey is stupid. A donkey is not stupid, my dear friend, he is extremely clever. Balaam’s donkey was carrying Balaam along the path, remember? And she stopped dead. Balaam started to hit her with a stick and told her to move. She wouldn’t move. Why? Because Balaam’s donkey saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the road with a big sword. So she went off into the field.
A donkey is an animal of peace, and that is why I love donkeys so much. A donkey carried Jesus into Jerusalem, when all the people laid palm leaves on the roads and their clothes, and the donkey walked over them all. He is the burden-carrier. They say in the olden days, when a king came into a neighbouring kingdom, he would ride a donkey if he meant he wanted peace. If he rode a horse, a war horse, that was indicative of war.
I want to tell you a little story. An old man I loved dearly, named Johannes Nel. He used to ride with me in my truck when I went down into the low-veld, into the homelands, when I went to collect people to come and work on the farm, and every time we went past a group of donkeys that were standing under a thorn tree, the old man would raise his hat and tears would fill his eyes. And I said to him once, “Oom Hannes, why do you do that?” “Oh”, he said, “Angus, that is the animal that carried my Master into Jerusalem”. Yes, I have never forgotten that.
Do you know that a donkey has got a cross on his back? Every donkey - it goes down his spine and across his shoulders. Cast your cares upon Jesus, the Burden Carrier, the Prince of Peace, and He will give you the strength and the ability to complete your task.
God bless you and have a wonderful day, goodbye.
Significance
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 21st of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Gospel of John 13:4-5: “He rose from supper …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 21st of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Gospel of John 13:4-5:
“He rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.”
I am talking about an act by the Son of God. I am talking about the great I AM. I am talking about the greatest Man who has ever walked on the face of this earth. He took a basin, He filled it with water, He took His coat off and put a towel around His waist and He started to wash His disciples dirty feet. I want to ask you a question today. Do you feel like you are living a meaningless life? Do you feel like you are living a life of no significance?
I want to speak to that mother who is looking after her three children, her husband is a blue-collar worker. He is bringing very little money and she has to make things work. She has to wash her children’s clothes the night before so they're dry, ironed, and ready to put on the next day because they don’t have another set of clothes, and she feels like this life is worthless. I want to say to you mother, I esteem you and I salute you.
I want to say to that man who has got a very menial job, you don’t think that anyone is even interested in you and that you are making no contribution to the world. Don’t be fooled. Look what the Son of God did!
I want to tell you a story. Maybe you have heard it before. Many years ago, I was in Central Africa with that big truck, the Seed-sower. We were preaching the Gospel to an unreached people, and we were very far into the bush. There was a pastor, a very humble man and his dear wife with a very small flock of people. We were tired, we were wary, we had been travelling for days. We were dusty. Anyway, after preaching the Gospel, we eventually went to bed. I was in a one-man tent. And during the night, I thought I was dreaming, I kept hearing water pouring. I would have given anything to have a basin of water.
When I woke up the next morning, there was a forty four gallon drum right next to my tent and it was filled to overflowing with beautiful fresh, clean water. That pastor’s wife walked back and forth from the river, about half a kilometre away, all night, carrying a bucket balanced on her head, and she brought forty-four gallons of water for us as a team, so we could drink and wash. God saw her heart. Make no mistake, I want to meet her in Heaven one day. Do not think you are of no significance, just do what God has told you to do and do it with much joy, and your reward is awaiting you in Heaven.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day, goodbye.
Led by the Holy Spirit
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 20th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Galatians 1:12:“For I neither …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 20th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Galatians 1:12:
“For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
That is a very powerful word, an encouraging word for many lay-preachers, men who tell people about Jesus without having gone to Bible College or university.
Then we go to Exodus 3:14:
“And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”
What a beautiful confirmation! The last one is 2 Corinthians 3:6. Paul says:
“…for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”
I want to say to you today, my dear friend, that we need the Holy Spirit like never before. I want to qualify something right at the beginning. I have no problem with education. I have no problem with Bible College, with university or studying Theology. In fact, I wish I could have done it myself, but it was not possible, but for those who have not been to university, those who have been to the school of life, that is my teacher. It was the same teacher of the great preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. He never had any Bible instruction at all and he was regarded as the “Prince of Preachers”.
What about Dwight Lyman Moody? A shoe salesman, a farm boy. He went to Britain on a crusade and came back a couple of years later having led over 2 million people to Christ. His teacher was the Holy Spirit. Today, do not despise small beginnings. Do not sell yourself short. Tell people what Jesus has told you. Where do you find that? In the quiet time place, in the closet, early in the morning. You do your preparation before you get on the platform or into the pulpit. That is why I never use notes in the pulpit because I do my preparation at home and I keep my eye on the people to hold their attention.
Let the Holy Spirit direct you today.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day, goodbye.Be Careful How We Speak
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 19th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go straight to the Gospel of Matthew 5:22: ”But whoever …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 19th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go straight to the Gospel of Matthew 5:22:
”But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire.”
Those are strong words, spoken by the Master, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. We need to be very careful when we use those words!
There was a famous Scottish poet. His name was Robert Burns, and he lived a long time ago. He said, “A man is a man for all that.” What does that mean, Angus? Well, it means that he is not an animal. He is a man, a creation of God, therefore, treat him as such. We need to be careful how we speak.
Why am I speaking to you this morning about this very fact? Because a very dear friend of mine has just passed away. He gave his life to Jesus in our little Christian coffee bar in Greytown, many, many years ago. He died in his sixties. I think he gave his life to the Lord when he was a young teenager, maybe 14 or 15, and he became a friend of mine over the years. But he struggled. He struggled with mental illness and was very often mistaken for the things he said and did. He was an immensely strong man, very powerfully built, but I loved him dearly.
I can tell you right now that today, he is in the presence of Jesus Christ. Why? Because he loved God with a passion. I have not met many men who could memorise scripture verses like he could. What an incredible man. He used to love going up the mountains with me. We used to walk the mountains together. We need to really be careful that we don’t judge a book by it’s cover. We make that mistake too often, don’t we? He knew my birthday. I didn’t know his. He never, ever forgot to wish me happy birthday, and he knew the birthdays of every single member of my family, oh yes.
Have you heard of a man named John Nash? He won the Nobel Prize for mathematics, but he struggled with mental illness all his life. They made a movie about him called, “A Beautiful Mind.” Folks, I want to tell you something now, that movie and my dear friend have taught me one thing - to be kind, gracious and gentle with people who struggle with mental illness, because I want to tell you, they are definitely not fools. Let us love our fellowman, because he is a creation of God.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day, goodbye.
Yesterday, Today and Forever
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 18th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Gospel of Luke 9:16: “Then He took the five …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 18th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Gospel of Luke 9:16:
“Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. So they all ate and were filled, and twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them.”
Then we go straight to the Gospel of John 21:12:
“Come and eat breakfast.”
Another version says: “Breakfast is ready.”
Oh, my dear friend, how are you feeling today? Are you feeling deserted? Are you feeling desperate? I want to tell you that Jesus has compassion on you and me. He saw that the people were hungry. A little boy had two little fish and five barley loaves that his mother had probably made for his lunch. Jesus took it and fed 5000 men, not including the children and the woman. I believe in miracles, but the point the Lord is making this morning is that He loves us and He wants to help us and he wants to feed us, not just spiritually but physically as well.
The story, you know it well, I have told it many times before. We were having a large men’s conference on this farm, Shalom. We were catering for 5,000 men. We said we would feed them three meals, supper on Friday night, lunch on Saturday afternoon and supper on Saturday night. Well, you know what happened! 7,500 men arrived! And the kitchen staff came running out and they said, “Please tell the men to go easy with the food.” I was so overwhelmed by the response and the amount of men that came. I said, “A message from the kitchen, eat as much as you can!”
Oh but folks, after those three meals were finished, my good friend, Peter, came running into the tent when we were all praying and he said, “We have just counted all the leftover food. There are thirty six baskets of left overs. Thirty-six divided by three, that’s right! Twelve baskets of leftovers per meal, exactly like when Jesus fed the five thousand!
Today, do not be anxious, do not be afraid because Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. (Hebrews 13:8) He will supply every one of your needs.
God bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.
Speak to the Heart
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 17th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in 1 Corinthians 13:1: ”Though I speak with the …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 17th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in 1 Corinthians 13:1:
”Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.”
Then we just move on a little bit further to 1 Corinthians 14:10:
”There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without significance.”
There are a great many languages in the world and folks, we need to get the Word of God, Jesus Christ, out to a dying world. We are not talking about Bible studies, we are not talking about history lessons. We’re talking about the undiluted love of Jesus Christ Himself, and the best way we can do that is to get the Bible into individual languages as quickly as possible.
That is why I have a great respect for two groups of people in this world. Number one, intercessors. Those who lock themselves up in their closet and pray every day for the power of God to be manifest in this dying world through the name of Jesus Christ, and secondly, the Bible translators of this world. Those people who are sitting in the jungle somewhere, I know some of them. They don’t see any anybody, nobody seems to notice them but they are committed to translating the Bible from English into unknown languages, and that’s what Paul is saying today.
One of the great leaders in this country once said, ”When you speak to a man in English you speak to his head, but when you speak to him in his mother tongue you speak to his heart.” Today, you and I need to start speaking to the heart of people. The world is desperate for love. If we look at the four Gospels, we will see that people flocked around Jesus just like bees around a honey pot. Why? Because they wanted to experience the undiluted love of Christ. Now you and I have that privilege. Let us not waste the time that we have on this earth. Let us not get involved in things that have no consequence for eternal life. Let us talk to people about the future.
Let us tell them that there is a God Who loves them. Let us tell them that there is a Christ Who is coming back soon to take His people back to Heaven with Him. Let us leave no one behind. Today, go out and love the people with the Word of God.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.Sacrifice
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 16th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Judges 16:30: “Then Samson said, “Let …
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 16th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Book of Judges 16:30: “Then Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” And he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his life.”
Then we go straight to the New Testament, John 12:24. Jesus says: “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.”
We had a Mighty Men Conference many years ago on this farm and we called it, “Dying to Live”. The biggest enemy you and I face is our own self-preservation and stinking pride. If you want to live, you have to die. As soon as you say, “No, I can’t do that because what happens if it doesn’t work?” And “I can’t do that because if I go up there and share my testimony, people will laugh at me.” They might do, but they might also give their lives to Christ.
I want to tell you a little story that happened in our little town, Greytown, 15 kms away from this farm. Greytown is nestled in a little valley. A massive 40-ton truck was coming down the road. It was loaded with some heavy cargo, and the poor driver, coming down that hill, had his brakes fail, and he couldn’t stop the truck. The truck started picking up incredible speed, and as he approached the town, coming down the hill, he didn’t know what to do, because just ahead of him was the end of the lessons for the little school down at the bottom of the hill. All the children were coming out of the classrooms and they were walking across the road.
Well, there could have been a mass disaster, but that brave driver- and I don’t even know his name, but Jesus knows his name - do you know what he did? He drove that massive truck into a huge gum tree that's still standing today. He drove his truck straight into the tree and of course, crushed himself to death because the cab literally disintegrated and the load was trapped at the base of the tree and all the children were saved.
That is what Jesus Christ did for you and for me! He sacrificed His life so that you and I can have eternal life. Today, go out and do something that will help somebody else.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day, goodbye.
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