I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 15th of February, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Luke 17:6:

So the Lord said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.”

“Have faith in God.”
Mark 11:22

That’s it -  have faith in God. Without faith, we cannot please Him. Now Luke 17:5 says:

”And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

Now, even the disciples asked Jesus, ”Please, increase our faith”, because they realised without faith, we can do nothing. Today, maybe you’re struggling to believe God for a promise He’s given you. Maybe He gave it to you many years ago and your faith is starting to wane, starting to lose power. How do we regain our faith? Well, if you look at Romans 10:17, the Word of God says:

”So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

Spending time reading your Bible, spending time believing what the Lord has said about you. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, My Lord will supply all of my needs according to His riches in Glory.  We need to get started this morning. We need to get back to walking the faith walk. You see, faith is a way of life, not faith in faith, but faith in Jesus Christ, and the Lord always honours faith. 

Now I’m sitting here thinking about the first campaign I ever organised - it was in that little town of Ladysmith about probably an hour’s drive west of where we live. It was ten minutes to seven in the evening. The service was going to start at seven o’clock and I was downstairs in the dungeon. I was waiting for the people to come. The band which we had brought up from Port Elizabeth were bravely on the platform playing music and I climbed up the steps, opened the door, had a look in, there was no-one there. 

I was devastated. I mean, I’d been praying and we’d been trusting the Lord. I went down and I said, “Lord, if nobody comes, I’m going to preach to the chairs.” This is the honest truth. At seven o’clock, by faith, I walked up, I opened the door and the hall was half full of people. That was the beginning. Well, I want to say to you, we started off with the Mighty Men Conference on this farm with 240 men, and we ended up with 450 000 men at our last meeting on this farm in 2010, and I’ve got news to tell you, that this year there’ll be twenty Mighty Men Conferences happening all over the world.

That mustard seed of faith! Trust the Lord, my dear friend, He’ll do it for you. 

Jesus bless you and goodbye