Thought For Today

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.