I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 23rd of February, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in Psalm 18:6:

“In my distress…” (are you distressed today, my friend?) 

“In my distress I called upon the Lord,
And cried out to my God;
He heard my voice from His temple,
And my cry came before Him, even to His ears.”

Isn’t that a wonderful thing to know, that the Lord is hearing every one of our cries? Then we go straight to the Gospel of Matthew 8:25. The disciples are also very distressed because the boat that they were travelling in was about to sink in the middle of Lake Galilee:

”Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” 

Call out to the Lord Jesus Christ today, my dear friend, and He will hear you in your depths of despair. Call upon His name and He will undertake. I looked up in the dictionary “distress” means extreme pain, unhappiness, suffering, agony, or danger. Are you feeling like that today? Well then, this message is for you and the Lord is saying to you today clearly, “Call upon My name, I am listening.” Despair means complete loss or absence of hope. It causes depression, misery, causes one to give up, to lose heart. Are you there today? 

Oh, I know it well. I have been in that position myself, many times. I have shared that story with you, it is in the movie, “Faith like Potatoes”, when that fire was going to jump over the fence from our farm and go into a massive forest of pine trees and I was totally stressed out. That is the honest truth. I was a brand-new Christian, and I remembered, the Lord said, “Call to me when you are in times of despair and distress." I got on my knees in the dust and I said, “Please Lord, help me. If this fire jumps into the neighbour’s pine plantation, we will be ruined.” And what happened? The wind changed, gentle rain came up from the south and the Lord put that fire out.

Today, He will put the fire out in your life. I don’t know what it is. Maybe it is a sick child, maybe it is a work situation, maybe it is a financial problem. Today, call on His name. He saved the disciples, the boat did not sink, and He also saved David, “the apple of His eye”, as He called out in his distress. 

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.