I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 4th of September, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Psalms 113:1-3:

"Praise the Lord! Praise, O servants of the Lord, Praise the name of the Lord! Blessed be the name of the Lord From this time forth and forevermore! From the rising of the sun to its going down. The Lord's name is to be praised."

We need to praise the Lord, my dear friend, today. How are you feeling this morning? Not feeling so good? It's a good time to praise the Lord, especially when you don't feel like it.

The other scripture is Isaiah 59:19:

"…When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him."

That is the power that we have as followers of Jesus. We can praise the Lord in all our circumstances.

On a Wednesday morning here at the farm, very early before the sun comes up, there's a group of men that come together and we pray in the chapel. Now, when we get into that chapel for the prayer meeting, we've normally had a cup of coffee or a cup of tea, the first thing we do is we start to sing and we praise the Lord and we sing for quite a while, and then we start to pray, and I want to tell you folks, it clears the air. You can see smiles on the men's faces because they are praising the Lord.

Now the reason why I'm sending this to you is because this very morning we had a power failure. There were no lights and the first thing is, I couldn't find the torch. Then eventually I found the torch and I tried to get hold of a candle. I got the candle but I couldn't find the matches. I'm laughing but I wasn't laughing at that time! Now, I'm trying to make a fire because it's freezing cold here and I don't want my dear wife Jill to get up. It's cold in the house but I can't get outside because there's no lights and there's no firewood next to the stove. Eventually I got it all sorted out and we got the candle going, and then the lights came back on!

I want to say to you today, we praise the Lord unconditionally, not just because we feel like it. It's because He's worthy to be praised and when we praise the Lord, it's like that candle, when I've finally found the matches, I could strike the match and the darkness literally went out of the room. I could see what I was doing, make a nice fire for my wife, put the kettle on and give her a nice cup of tea, and then the lights came back on.

Today, I don't know where you are at, I don't know what you are dealing with but just start to praise Him and you will be surprised how things will turn around. 

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.