I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 30th of June, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in Luke 9:20:

“He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”

Then we go to John 6:69:

”Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

The disciples had no doubt whatsoever about who Jesus Christ was. They knew that He wasn’t just a good man, they knew that He wasn’t just a prophet. They knew that He was Emanuel, God with us. Who do you say He is today? And that is critical for your Christian walk. You cannot serve two masters, either you serve God, or you serve the devil. Matthew 12:30, Jesus said:

“He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.”

When it comes to the holiness and the deity of God, there can be no excuse. Either Jesus Christ is the Son of God or He is not, and if He is not, you cannot call yourself a Christian. We are believers, not even by what we read but what we believe. You see, there was no-one else who has ever raised a man from the dead - Lazarus, after he had been dead for four days in the grave. In the Middle East the body has already started to decompose.

There is no man in history who has ever walked on top of the water and right across the Lake of Galilee, 21 km long and 13 km wide. He walked on top of the water. I want to tell you today, for me, Jesus Christ is the Miracle-Worker, but more than all of that, personally, He is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Every hardship, trial, tribulation that I have been, and am still going through, I can manage only because of the grace of God who says, “I will never leave you and I will never forsake you.

Today, be decisive because I want to tell you, He is the only one who can really help you, and He is more than willing.

Jesus bless you and and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is the 29th of June, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

I am sitting, looking into the most beautiful picture, the mighty Drakensberg Mountains, which run on the western side of our beloved South Africa and Kwazulu-Natal. There is only one Scripture that comes to mind that I want to share with you today, and it is found in Psalm 121:1-2:

“I to the hills will lift my eyes —
From whence comes my help?
My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.”

Now, I quoted that Scripture on purpose because if we don’t think very carefully about it, it looks like we are saying our strength and our health come from the mountains, but they don’t come from the mountains. They come from the One who made the mountains, namely our beloved God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. You see, the Scripture goes like this:

I to the hills will lift mine eyes?
Where does my help come from?
My help cometh from the Lord
Who made heaven and earth

I want to ask you a question this morning, because I have time to meditate, looking at these beautiful blue mountains, partially covered in cloud. Where are you putting your strength? Where are you putting your hope? Is it in the government? Is it in the weather? Is it in the economic situation? Is it in your own physical wellbeing? If it is, you are going to be sorely disappointed in the future.

Our hope comes from God alone. The Bible says,

“If God is for us, no man will stand against us.” Romans 8:31.

Today, looking at these majestic mountains that were formed with one word - that’s what He said - I know again that my strength and my help comes from the One who created those beautiful mountains.

Today, remember, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus Christ and not even on the mountains!

God bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, it’s the 28th of June, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in 1 Corinthians 9:27. The Apostle Paul says:

“But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.”

Oh folks, you and I really need to walk the talk, don’t we? People need to see Jesus in us. There is no use in “dropping the ball” every time. I am thinking about ordinary common things like your language. As a follower of Christ, you may not swear anymore. You know I had a terrible vocabulary because when I got uptight as a farmer, I would curse and I would blaspheme, but the amazing thing is, the day that I gave my life to Jesus Christ, I have never sworn since that day. That’s a miracle. I have shouted a lot, but I have never, ever blasphemed. We need to conduct our behaviour which is befitting for a Christian.

We cannot just do our own thing and say “Well, that’s the way I am.” No, we have got to change because people are watching every single move we make. Paul says that is why he disciplines his body and brings it into subjection. You can’t stand up in church with your hands in the air and praise God, and then go out and get blind drunk on Friday night and say, “Well, I am under pressure. I just wanted to get a bit of a release.” You can’t do that. That’s what keeps people out of the church. That is what keeps people from following Jesus.

I used to say the same thing in the old days before I met the Lord. I would see some men who would tell me they are Christians, but then their lifestyle was pathetic. They couldn’t feed their children, they didn’t love their wives, and yet they were telling me to get my life in order, and I used to say to Jill, “If that man is a Christian, I will get to Heaven before he will.” But you see, I made a big mistake. Who said he was a Christian? He said he was, but on the day of judgement each one of us will have to give an account of our conduct. Let us start to discipline our bodies, our minds and our hearts, so that people will come to us and say, “I want what you’ve got.” And we will say, “What have we got?” “I see peace, I see love, I see acceptance, I see patience, I see Jesus in you.” Let's do it today.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 27th of June, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go the Gospel of Luke 9:13:

”But He said to them (Jesus) “you give them something to eat.”

Folks, that is a big and a tall order. Do you know, there were 5000 men there? They had nothing to eat. The disciples came to Jesus and said,“Lord, we’ve only got five loaves of bread and two fishes. How are we going to feed them?” Maybe God is asking you the same question this morning, ”You feed them.” And you say, ”But I can’t Lord. I don’t have any money left. I don’t have any wherewithal.” He says, ”I’ve got it all. I’ve got all the money and all the wherewithal.”

This story is very special in my life because I experienced it personally on the farm Shalom in 2007, when we hired a 5,000-seater tent and were expecting 5,000 men. What happened? 7500 men arrived! And I’ll never forget the kitchen. The ladies came to me and said, ”Angus, please, I don’t know how we’re going to feed them. We’ve only catered for 5000 men and 7500 have arrived!" I want to say to that lady listening to this podcast. How would you like to have 2500 men come and spend the weekend in your home without your husband telling you they’re coming? That’s exactly how they felt. They said, ”When you get up and welcome them, please tell them to go easy on the food.”

We were feeding them Friday night, Saturday (two big meals) - three meals in total. Well, I got up and I was so full of joy. I never expected such a big crowd of men. I said, ”Boys. There’s a message from the kitchen. Eat as much as you can,” and these boys can eat, especially those from the Free State. They came in and they loaded up their plates. Well, I want to tell you, a miracle happened because they ate as much as they could for the whole weekend and at the end of the weekend, yes, my dear friend Peter, came into the prayer room and said to me, ”Angus,” he was in tears. He said, ”Three meals, twelve baskets collected of leftovers from each meal. Three times twelve is 36 baskets. We have just cleared thirty-six baskets of leftovers.”

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. If He tells you to do something, then do it and He’ll perform another miracle in your life.

God bless you and have a wonderful day.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 26th of June, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Gospel of Luke 8:23:

”But as they sailed He (Jesus) fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water, and were in jeopardy.”

Jeopardy means danger, peril, risk or harm. How are you today, my dear friend? Are you in peril? Are you in jeopardy? Are you fearful? Do you feel like you’re drowning? Well, let’s go on to verse 25: “But He said to them…” Jesus said to them “…Where is your faith?” Today, we need to exercise our faith when the going gets tough. You know the old saying, “When the going gets tough, the tough keep going.” Listen to this: “…Where’s your faith?” Listen to this: ”And they were afraid, and marveled…” This is after Jesus had stood up in the middle of the storm. Folks, I’ve been to that lake. I want to tell you it’s not that big, it’s 13 kilometres wide, it’s 21 kilometres long. A good swimmer can swim that lake on a calm day but I want to tell you, it is perilous when it comes to storms.

Now, we have been in the middle of that lake and we’ve had Holy Communion with a couple of other boats. It is an awesome experience but that lake is very, very deep. It’s the lifeblood of the whole of the Middle East in that area, and so they were very afraid and they marvelled when they saw that the Lord calmed the storm,

”… saying to one another, “Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and water, and they obey Him!”

You know, when we have our men’s meetings all over the world, most of them are outdoors because there’s no building that can house thousands of men, and then we are totally reliant on the weather and if the weather is otherwise, we have to call upon the name of the Lord. I don’t know how many times, right up until the eve of the beginning of the meeting, when we have ordered a huge platform, toilets have been built, food has been organised, transport, advertising - and it is pouring with rain! That is when we have to call upon the Lord. “Lord. It’s over to you.” We can do nothing else and many times, it makes me weep even telling this to you. I wake up in the early hours of the morning. I walk out. The rain has stopped on the big day. I look up into the sky, the stars are shining and then we say, ”Let it begin.” And what an incredible conference it is because the One who can direct the weather and the wind is Jesus Christ!

Now, He can do the same in your life. What is it today that you are in jeopardy of? Let’s put it before the Lord.

Lord Jesus,

I pray for my dear friend, listening to this message early this morning.

Whatever it is, finances, health, future. Whatever it might be, we put it in your hands and we say, Lord, please work another miracle.

In Jesus name. Amen.

God bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 25th of June, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Book of Genesis 12:13:

“Please say you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that I may live because of you.”

Then we go straight to 1 John 1:9:

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Folks, this story I am going to tell you is very sad for me because I love my wife, and I believe by the grace of God, I will die for her if necessary, but Abraham, the father of many, many nations, Abraham, the man that the Lord said, “He is My friend”, what did he do? He was afraid that Pharaoh was going to kill him because Sarah, Abraham’s wife, was a very beautiful woman. So in order to save his skin, he said to Sarah, his wife, “When pharaoh asks you who you are, you must tell him that you are my sister and not my wife.” Now look, I am not laughing, this is very serious! So here is a man of God who is prepared to offer up his own wife in order to save his life. To me, that is probably top of the list when it comes to self-centredness, and yet, God still loved Abraham.

How are you feeling today? Are you feeling like a failure? Have you done something that you should never have done, in order to save face or to save your reputation, and it has come at the cost of someone else? You might say, “That is exactly what I have done, and I feel wretched about it.” You know, Abraham didn’t do that once, he actually did it twice, and yet God still forgave him and still used him to be the father of many nations. Our God is so gracious, He is so loving, but what do we need to do? We need to say sorry. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Please pray this prayer with me:

Father God,

I feel an absolute failure today. I feel I have let You down.

I feel I have “dropped the ball,” as they say and I really don’t know what to do.

So I am coming to You today to ask that You forgive me and give me the strength to never do it again.

In Jesus’ name,
Amen.

God bless you and have a great day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 24th of June, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go straight to the Book of Galatians 3:1:

“O foolish Galatians!” (Oh foolish John! Oh foolish Mary! Oh foolish Jenny! Oh foolish Matthew!) We go down then to verse 2: “This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?”

Yes, what we are asking ourselves is a question. We started this race in the Spirit, remember Jesus saved us. Remember, we were falling apart, we had come to the end, we couldn’t go on anymore. We cried out to God, and He saved us. Now He has restored us! Have we now forgotten where we came from? Sometimes it is good to look back and remind yourself that if it wasn’t for the Lord, I would be lost indeed. Don’t try and finish the job that you started in the Spirit by doing it in your own strength. That is what the Lord is saying. That is why that hymn that is so popular, Amazing Grace - that’s what it’s all about. John Newton found the Lord. Remember how it went?

“Amazing grace!
How sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me!

I once was lost, but now am found;
I was blind, but now I see.”

You were blind, you called out to God, He saved you, He saved me. Now that we can see, let us not go back to where we came from.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 23rd of June, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go straight to the Gospel of Luke 9:3:

“And He said to them, “Take nothing for the journey, neither staffs nor bag nor bread nor money; and do not have two tunics apiece.”

I think the Lord is telling you and me this morning that we need to travel lightly in this world. You know, sometimes I marvel when I travel in an aeroplane, especially going on a long trip overseas, and I sit quietly in my seat, and I watch the things that people bring onboard onto that aeroplane, how they push and shove and try and stuff their bags into that little overhead compartment. They are red-faced, some of them are perspiring, they are totally stressed out and they are just totally overdoing it. And you know, the thing is, half of that stuff they carry, they won’t even use.

We need to be very careful. I am not just talking about physical things. I am talking about spiritual things as well, stressing and worrying. Often when I go to a farm dispersal sale where maybe a farmer has decided to stop farming and retire and they have an auction, and you walk around the yard and they have all kinds of implements to sell, and you will see a heap of chain. Now a farmer can use chain, chain to pull a tractor out of a ditch, chain to tie up a gate, and they will make a bid on a heap of chain, ordinary chain. They will buy that chain and they will take that chain to their farm and it will lie there until that farmer is not farming anymore and then someone else will buy it! I have seen it! I have done it!

We need to start being more careful that we don’t overload ourselves with things which are of no consequence. We need to focus on Heaven - on Heaven, where no rust or moth will destroy our possessions, where no thief will steal. We need to start storing up riches in Heaven where we will be able to use them forever and ever. I am talking about prayer, I am talking about reading your Bible. I am talking about getting up in the morning and spending ample time with God. We need to really be very careful how we use our time and don’t waste it on things of this earth that we will never use.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.