Thought For Today

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 10th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to 1 Timothy 6:6:
“Now godliness with contentment is great gain.”
Then we read it out of the Amplified Version:
“But godliness actually is a source of great gain when accompanied by contentment [that contentment which comes from a sense of inner confidence based on the sufficiency of God].”
If God is our sufficiency, then we are content, but many of us are not. Some of the poorest people I know are the most content. They have nothing to worry about because no one can steal anything from them because they don’t have anything. And some of the wealthiest people I know are unhappy because they have a large amount of money or possessions that they have to watch over and they are continually worried about losing their money.
Contentment! That bus driver, all he is concerned about is getting his salary at the end of the month. The cattleman who looks after the cattle on the farmer’s property, he just needs to know that those cattle are in good condition. The waitress in the restaurant, she is happy because she has got a job and she is serving her customers with lots of joy. The usher - I am talking about the usher in the church, he is the one who welcomes you into the church. Often, he has more impact than the preacher. Discontentment is a terrible thing.
When you are a multi-millionaire, you have a great responsibility, and everybody wants to get rich, but once you have all that money, you have to manage it. I think about the sad story of Elvis Presley. Elvis Presley said sometimes when he was on the platform, “he feels like he is in a prison and he can’t get away because of the commitments on his life.” That is what he said. I have been to his home in America, and it was a very sad place for me. He died, he was only 40 years old. Contentment is very important.
You know, we have got a little dog. In Afrikaans, they call him a “worsie,” which is a sausage dog, and this little dog is very happy. We have been away for a while. We were in Central Africa. We got back last night, and that little dog was so happy to see us and so content. She jumped up on my lap, put her head down on my knee and she was totally content.
Jesus Christ is all we need. If you have got Him, then you have got contentment and a reason to live.
Have a wonderful day today and be grateful for what you have got.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 9th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in that very well-known scripture found in Philippians 3:10:
“…that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,…”
Then the other one, Colossians 1:27:
“…which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
We are talking this morning about our lifestyle, a way of life. Being a Christian is not like belonging to a certain club or organisation. No, it’s a relationship with Jesus Christ, the practice of the presence of God, twenty-four/seven, night and day. The more time we spend with Jesus, the more time we get to know Him.
William Duma was a Zulu pastor from the Umkomaas Valley in KwaZulu-Natal. A small little man, but what an incredible servant of the Lord! He prayed for the sick, he preached the Gospel without any kind of fear, and people used to flock to his services. But he had an intimate relationship with Jesus. Once there was an organisation that invited him to go to Israel as a gift for all his hard work, not only him, but a few other ministers as well. All of them accepted immediately, but he said, “Can I let you know tomorrow morning? I just want to ask my Lord if I can go.” Of course, he did go. That is the relationship that you and I need with Jesus.
That Yorkshire plumber, Smith Wigglesworth, the evangelist, he said, “I never pray for half an hour, but I never let half an hour go by without praying” - a man who had a relationship with God. You see, it is a lifestyle. When we fall down, we say sorry, we repent, and we get up and we keep going again. We need to keep on keeping on. This is a lifetime to achieve. Matthew 6:33:
“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
In closing, we need to stop trying to please God and start to be a child of God. We need to seek the Lord and then the peace and the contentment follow.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day as you walk with Him today.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 8th April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We are still thinking today and meditating on the Easter week that has gone by, and we realise again the tremendous price that our beloved Saviour paid for you and me. I want to say to you today, it’s the garden, or it is the Cross. We need to make that decision. Jesus did. If we look at Matthew 26:39, the Bible says:
“He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”
The hard part is to make the decision. Now the Lord Jesus Christ could have said at the end, “No, I can’t do this Lord, Father God, I can’t go through with this because I know what is going to happen.” He already knew about the forthcoming crucifixion and He sweated blood in the garden, trying to make the decision - is He going to go through with it or is He going to pull out? We can see that in the Gospel of Luke 22:44:
“Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”
I have heard doctors say that when a person is totally stressed out, it can be that actual blood comes through the pores of his skin. That is extreme stress, agony, anxiety and everything else that goes with it. You see, although Jesus was God, He was also very much man. He went through everything that you and I are going through at the moment.
I want to say to you today, God is calling you to make a decision. You cannot sit on the fence, either you are going to go through with it or you are going to call it off, but you cannot stay in the middle. I remember it like yesterday, when I got a word from God to hire the biggest tent in the world. It was built in Britain, it was extended in Germany and then it was shipped out here for the World Earth Summit in Johannesburg and by faith, I had a mere R500.00 in my pocket, that’s not even $50 and by faith I went through with it and the rest is history. We ended up with thirty thousand men in that tent and thirty thousand men outside the tent. It was probably the biggest miracle I experienced up until that time, but I had to make the decision. If I had not made the decision, it would never have happened.
Now you go to the Lord, you go to the mountain, go into the closet and pray that God will tell you what to do. If you must marry that person or not, whether you must complete that degree or not, whether you must change your job, whether you must emigrate, or whether you must stay here. He will tell you, but you need to ask Him and pray and wait.
Jesus said at the end, ”Not my will but thy will be done.”
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 7th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Book of Numbers 25:10-11:
“Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel…”
Phinehas was zealous for the word of God. Folks, I want to say to you today, we need to be more zealous, more excited, more passionate, more concerned for the things of God. Because Phinehas, the grandson of Aaron, Moses’ brother, the High Priest, because of his zeal and his commitment to the Gospel, to saving the people of Israel, the Lord really noticed him. The Lord was so angry with the people of Israel because they had played the harlot with other nations, that He wanted to destroy them, but because of Phinehas’ commitment and excitement…
I want to ask you a question today. Are you excited about the things of God? You might say, “Uncle Angus, there was a time when I was, but because of the pressures of life and because of the workload, because of the family commitments, I have gone cold.” I want to pray for you today, that God will fill you again with the joy of the Lord and with zeal. You know, they say a new Christian should be locked up for the first six months because he is like a bull in a china shop. I think the Lord prefers that than somebody who just doesn’t care anymore, somebody who just goes through the motions. Let me pray for you because we need the fire of God in our hearts, the excitement and joy to finish this race. We won’t do it otherwise.
Heavenly Father,
I pray for my dear friend listening to this message right now. Lord, fill his heart, fill his soul with new fire for Jesus Christ. Lord, open his eyes that he might see there are so many people around him, in the workplace, on the sports field, in the university, in the school, who are desperate for the fire of God. Lord, the fire has almost gone out. There is just a little flame flickering, just flickering. Oh Lord, restore them so that they are zealous for You. I ask this in Jesus’ precious name, amen.
God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 6th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in 2 Corinthians 3:6:
“…for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”
Then we go on to Acts 7:3. This is Stephen talking to the High Priest and the Council. He is telling them, “and then the Lord said to Abraham, “Get out of your country and your from your relatives and come to a land that I will show you.” Then he goes right on from there to tell the High Priest and the Council, the whole history of the Jewish nation from the time that they were delivered from Egypt out of slavery by the Lord using Moses.
A waiter - yes, a waiter reminded the intellectuals, the High Priest, the Council. Those men had so much power they could almost administer the death penalty, and yet it took an ordinary waiter who was serving at the tables to teach them about their own history. Do you know why? Because he knew the Author of the word. That’s right, he knew our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, He knew God the Father, and he was filled with the Holy Spirit. That is why the Bible tells us that the letter killeth but the Spirit giveth life.
You can know the Bible inside out, back to front. That doesn’t mean to say that you understand it unless you are filled with the Spirit of God. All you become is a history teacher. Isn’t that right? No, it is when the Holy Spirit empowers you, like He did Stephen, that Stephen understood the meaning of God’s Holy Word.
I want to say to you today, yes, we must read the Bible. I read the Bible every single day of my life. You know that. That is where I get these Thoughts for Today from, but not only read it but understand it. Ask the Holy Spirit to give you understanding before you read your daily scriptures. The High Priests knew the word, but they didn’t know the Holy Spirit, so they had no understanding of the power of the written word of God. So today remember, the letter killeth but the Spirit giveth life.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.