Thought For Today

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 23rd of September, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go straight to Isaiah 61:1. Of course, this is referring to the Lord Jesus:
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;…”
Then we go straight to the Book of Acts 10:38:
“…God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”
I want to speak to you today about doing good. There is somebody listening today who says, “Well you know, I can’t do anymore. I don’t have enough money, I am not physically strong enough, I can’t do anything.” Oh yes, you can! The main thing you can do is pray, but one man of God wrote something very beautiful, and this is what he said, “The finest of all arts is the art of doing good, and yet it is the least cultivated.” Isn’t that true? The art of doing good - we need to exercise that a little bit.
Many years ago, the Lord laid upon my heart to get small little bottles of mustard seed. My office staff know exactly what I am talking about because these precious ladies have to fill these little bottles up with mustard seed, and then we seal them, and I put them in my pocket and wherever I go and I see somebody who is looking a little bit down, a little bit anxious, I say, “Excuse me, can I give you this little gift.” And they look at this and they say, “But what is this?” And then it opens the door. I said, “You know this is a reminder for you when you are going through tough times because the Master, Jesus, said, 'If you have faith the size of one mustard seed, you can tell that mountain to move, and it must go.” They walk away with a smile on their face, knowing that if Jesus Christ is with them, there is nothing that will hold them back. Today, go and do good just like the Master did and our Lord Holy Spirit will bless you richly.
God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name. It is Tuesday morning, the 22nd of September, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.
We start in that beautiful scripture found in the book of Jeremiah 29:13.
And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.
Then we go straight across to Philippians 3:10. He said,
"...that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death."
I really believe this morning there are some people that want to grow closer to Jesus, but you're not spending time seeking Him. The Lord says to us today, "If you seek me, you'll find me."
There was two old ladies, two sisters, Peggy and Christine. Peggy was 84 years old. She was blind. Christine was 82 years old. She was crippled with arthritis. They sought the Lord with all their hearts to bring revival to the island of Lewis, off the west coast of the north of Scotland. The revival came and the revival stayed for four years and thousands of people came to Christ, because they sought after the Lord with all of their hearts.
If you really seek for God, you will find Him. He is actually waiting for you. They invited an evangelist by the name of Duncan Campbell to come up to the little island and hold an evangelistic outreach. He tells us in his memoirs that when that little boat arrived at the small harbour on the island of Lewis, these two old ladies were standing at the harbour waiting for him. When he got off that little fishing boat, they asked him a question. Mr. Campbell, do you know God? He said he was taken aback. He said, oh, ladies, I sincerely hope so. With that intensity, these ladies used to pray every night from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. in their little cottage, and God answered their prayers.
Seek Him today with all your heart and you too will find Him.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 21st of September, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Gospel of Matthew 6:6: “But you, when you pray, go into your room (or your closet), and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”
“Faith’s stronghold is the closet”, one man of God said, “however, if the closet door hinges are rusty and the room is deserted, the heart of that room is soon taken over by the devil himself.”
It’s a funny thing, if I am with a group of men and I don’t know them too well and they have come to meet me, often I will say to the man, could you please open in a word of prayer for us, and he starts to pray. I can tell you within a minute if that man spends time in his closet or not, just by the way he speaks to Jesus. We need to spend time in the closet.

A story which I will never forget was told about the great missionary, James Hudson Taylor. He took the Gospel to China. He was responsible for sending no less than a thousand families, by faith, with no support, to China to preach the Gospel. He came back to England once, probably to find more missionaries. He was in a small prayer room with quite a few other people praying, and a journalist from America was sent over to interview this great man of God. Well, the journalist said when he walked into the room, people were praying and they were happy, but there was one man sitting in the corner of the room with a big overcoat on, and he hardly said a word, and this journalist was saying to himself, “How am I going to make a story of this interview, because this man has basically said nothing? He just sits there quietly on his own.” But when they started to pray and it was his turn to pray, the journalist said it was like Heaven came down into that room, as this man started to speak with his God personally, and it was incredible. Not only did he have a story but he had a scoop because he met a man who spoke and knew God, and the hinges on his door were well-oiled.

Today, make a point of spending time in the quiet time room before you go out to face the world.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 20th of September, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Book of Psalms 32:8:
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.”
Then we go straight to 1 Corinthians 6:1:
“Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?”
That is quite a stern rebuke, isn’t it? “Why do we go to the system of the world for justice when we will one day be judging the angels?” is what Paul writes just a little bit further on. I want to tell you a true story that is quite amazing. You can read it in 1 Kings 3:16.
There were two harlots who were living in one house. They were both pregnant. They both had babies within a couple of days of each other. One night, when they were sleeping, the one mother rolled over by mistake on top of her little baby boy and smothered him. So she got up in the middle of the night and took the dead baby and put it next to the other mother with the live baby, and she took the live baby into her bed.
When they woke up in the morning, the mother of the live baby realised that the dead baby was not actually her baby. Now they had a predicament because the other mother said, “No, the dead baby is not mine,” but it was. They didn’t know what to do. So eventually they went to Solomon. They did not go to the system of the world, they went to the man of God and they told the story to him. Two women, two babies, one dead and the other alive, both of them claiming that the baby that was alive was theirs, and the other one that had died belonged to the other woman.
Solomon sat with a predicament, so what did he do? He said, “Bring me a sharp sword and what I will do is cut the live baby in half, and then you can have half each.” Well, the mother of the dead baby said to the king, “That is equal and that is justice and that is fine,” but the mother of the live baby said, “No! Please King, give the live baby to the other woman.” And then Solomon said, “The mother of this baby is the one who was concerned that her baby should live and the other woman was the one who had the dead baby.”
Now folks, that is quite profound, isn’t it? And that is in the Bible. Please, I want to encourage you as the Lord is encouraging me this morning. Take your problems to God. Take your situation to another man of God, woman of God, and ask them to help you to do the just thing.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 19th of September, 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.”
What a powerful scripture!
I read something in a little book that I want to share with you, and it was written by a Roman Emperor named Marcus Aurelius. This is what he said: “I expect to pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing that I can do, to any fellow human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it; for I will not pass this way again.” What a powerful word for you and me today. ”I shall not pass this way again.” We live once and then the judgement. Let us not put off for tomorrow, things we can do today.
We need to put our flesh down once and for all as the scripture says because it is Christ in us that gives us the strength. Phone that person after this message. Email them, send them a text, tell them how you love them, ask them to forgive you for something you have done to them a long time ago, maybe unconditionally, because you will not pass this way again. This is the life, this is not a dummy run and we are coming back to give it another go. No, we don’t believe in that. We do not believe, like some faiths, that you keep coming back until you get it right. No, this is it! After this, it is eternal judgement and it is home time.
Oh my friends, don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today because you don’t really know if you have tomorrow, but one thing you do know is, you have today, and live it to the full and make sure that you don’t leave any regrets behind.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day today.
Goodbye.