I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 6th of December, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Book of Daniel 2:19:

”Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. So Daniel blessed the God of heaven.” 

Then we go straight to the Gospel of Mark 4:41:

”And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!” 

-  Jesus, speaking to the weather and calming the storm, a physical impossibility. Here at Shalom, we’ve got a favourite saying, and it goes like this: ”One genuine miracle equals a thousand sermons.” 

If you imagine Nebuchadnezzar telling his wise men, ”I want you to interpret a dream I had last night because I cannot sleep and I’m very anxious and fearful.” And they said to him, ”Well King, tell us what you dreamt and we’ll interpret it.” “No, no, no, no. You must tell me what I dreamt and then interpret it.” They said, ”There’s nobody on earth that can do that.” And the king started to kill the wise men, the sorcerers and the magicians, until the soldiers came to Daniel, Meshack, Shadrack and Abednigo. Daniel said, ”Give us time and we will interpret it.” Folks, you see, that’s a genuine miracle, and of course, we know that when Daniel interpreted the dream, everything changed.

I want to tell you a little story, a few years ago, I’m sure many of you in South Africa remember it, we had a prayer meeting in Bloemfontein, in the middle of our country. Our country was in dire straits. Over one million people arrived at that meeting, an open-air meeting. It was an incredible occasion. One of my sons brought his friend, a professional rugby player, an unbeliever, to the meeting and he told me afterwards that the young man was very impressed by the beautiful music. He was impressed by the massive crowd and he was interested in the message that I brought, but that didn’t change anything. Then out of the blue, a whirlwind started at the back of the crowd and it came right forward taking up into the air, blankets, deckchairs, cooler boxes, never to be seen again, and hovered over the stage for a while, in a perfectly calm day with not a breath of wind. This young man was so amazed by this event that he gave his life to Christ.

Today, let us not underestimate the miracle-working power of our God.
Jesus bless you and goodbye.