Thought For Today

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 25th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Acts 13:45:

”But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy; and contradicting and blaspheming, they opposed the things spoken by Paul.”

If we go down a little bit further to verse 49:

”And the word of the Lord was being spread throughout all the region.”

Then we go down a little bit further to verse 50. Paul and Barnabas were then expelled from their region. 

Envy - envy is a terrible thing folks, and what does envy mean? I was speaking to my wife about it. I said, “What do you think the definition of envy is?” She said, “Somebody wanting to be like you, whoever that person may be, or wanting to have what you have.”

Now, the Jews saw how the multitudes were responding to the Gospel of Paul and Barnabas preaching about Jesus, and they became envious. They wanted what they had, but they didn’t have it and they were not prepared to change. We have to be so careful about how we conduct ourselves. Remember the old story about the old preacher who was accused by all the local churches in town of sheep-stealing, taking members of their churches and bringing them to his church. He said, “No, I am not sheep-stealing,” he said, “but if the grass is greener on my side of the fence, I can’t stop the sheep jumping over the fence!”

Oh, my dear friend, we don’t have to be envious of anyone. All we have to do is preach the Gospel. That is what Paul said to Timothy. Preach the Gospel, not a type of Gospel, not a compromised Gospel - the whole Gospel, not changing it to suit the crowd! People don’t like that. People want the truth, they want it straight, and they want it from the heart, filled with lashings of love. Perfect love casts out all fear! 1 John 4:18

We really need to get our act together. No one should be left out. If people envy you, well, you know what the Lord Jesus said - He said in Luke 6:23, He said:

“Rejoice in that day and leap for joy for indeed your reward is great in Heaven.”

That’s when people exclude you, they cast you out, they actually hate you and they do it for the sake because they are envious of what you have got.

Do not compromise the Gospel!
Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 24th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Numbers 23:19:

“God is not a man, that He should lie,…” 

Then we go to the Book of Revelation 22:12, Jesus speaking:

“And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me,…”

God is not a man that He should lie. We can rely on Him. Who can you rely on these days, my dear friend? But we can rely on Him. Whatever He has promised, Jesus will fulfil. The best investment that you and I will ever make on this earth is better than the Stockmarket. Remember what happened in 1929? The Wall Street Crash. It triggered the Great Depression. The Stockmarket just fell apart overnight. Men who were multi-billionaires woke up in the morning and found themselves paupers. Everything they had was lost, to the extent that some just committed suicide. They literally jumped out of the windows of their skyscrapers. 

Who can we trust? What is a good investment? Well, I want to tell you the best investment you will ever make, my dear friend, is investing in Jesus Christ. Yes, we have to live in this life, but our hope and our trust must be sure, and it must be in the Son of God. Jesus said He is coming back. I can hear somebody saying, “Oh ja, but He has been saying that for 2000 years.” I want to tell you, in God’s economy, a thousand years is like the blinking of an eye. Time is not a problem with God. If God has said it, He will do it. He has never, ever once let me down, not in my whole life, and He won’t let you down either. 

Today, put your investment, your trust, put your future, put everything you have in the name of Jesus Christ and His word. You will sleep better, you will be much more joyful, your investment is growing every moment that you walk with God, and the best news of all is, He is coming very soon! 

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful, peaceful, hopeful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 23rd of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in Psalm 2:7. The Lord says of Jesus:

”You are My Son, today I have begotten You.” 

Then we go to the Book of Hebrews 1:5, the exact same scripture:

“You are My Son, today I have begotten You” 

You can go to Acts 13:33 -  the same thing! 

Oh folks, He is everywhere. Jesus is the most mentioned person in the whole Bible. There are 66 books, and He’s in every single one, because Jesus is the Word. John 1:1:

”In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

There are none so blind as those who don’t want to see!

I want to say to that lady listening this morning, that old widow who is missing her husband and maybe her children, Jesus is with you. He is everywhere! When the astronauts circled the Earth, they acknowledged that God was present in the universe. You can go to the highest mountain, Mount Everest, He is there! You can go into the deepest canyon, the deepest mine on earth, He is there! Why? Because He lives inside you, my dear friend. He walks with you. He is with you every moment of the day. You never have to be lonely again if you can ask God to open your spiritual eyes.

Now, I want to pray for you this morning, and I want you to pray after me:

Heavenly Father, 

In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, by the power of Your Holy Spirit, please open my spiritual eyes today that I may see You,
that I may see You in the stars that shine at night;
in the sun that rises in the morning;
that I might see You in Your creation;
that I might see You in that newly born baby; 
that I might see You in that lovely old gentleman; 
that I might see You in all Your glory! 
I ask this in Your precious name, amen.

Have a wonderful day as you open your spiritual eyes today! 
Goodbye  

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 22nd of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the word of God, Psalms 62:5:

”My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him.”

We need to really come aside and wait upon God only. I want to read something to you that I saw in a book from an unknown author. I think this is very appropriate for you and me, especially me, because I’m one of those who talk too much and listen too little, but I’m going to trust God to change that.

Listen to this beautiful little reading: 

”Did it ever occur to you that if you do not hear God’s answer to prayer, it may be not because He is dumb but because you are deaf, not because He has no answer to give but because you have not been listening for it. We are so busy with our service, so busy with our work, and sometimes so busy with our praying that it does not occur to us to stop our own talking and listen, if God has some answer to give us with that still small voice! To be passive, to be quiet and to do nothing, say nothing and in some true sense, think nothing, simply to be receptive and waiting for the voice. “Wait thou only upon God”, says the psalmist and again, “wait on the Lord.”

I really believe that is a very special word for a lot of busy people. I’m one of them, I’ve already told you that. We need to listen more. We need to speak less and sometimes, absolutely do nothing. Just listen so that He can talk to us and give us clear instructions as to what the future holds for us.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. 
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 21st of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to Jeremiah 1:5 (Amplified Version):

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you [and approved of you as My chosen instrument], And before you were born I consecrated you [to Myself as My own]; I have appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

Yes, we are talking about a calling. Then we go straight to the Book of Acts 13:2:

“Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul (Paul) for the work to which I have called them.” 

Being set apart for a particular work by the Holy Spirit. I want to make something very clear this morning, my dear friend. A calling is not a good idea, a calling comes from God Himself. It is an important work. I looked up the Oxford Dictionary to find out the meaning of the word “commission”. It is an instruction. It is not something you have decided you will do because things are not working out for you in your employment or in the country you are staying in, or maybe even in your marriage. No, you have to work through things. A calling is specifically from God for a purpose, and by the way, it doesn’t always go easy, so don’t think “I will just go and serve the Lord and that will be much easier than doing the job as a representative in some company or working in some construction work or mining. Whatever God has put you to, don’t try and run away from it. A calling comes from God. 

Now, I want to tell you a beautiful little story that I heard from my producer just the other day. He and his wife and family went up to Lesotho to do an outreach, and while they were sitting there quietly, a young man told this story. He said he was working in South Africa, and one day he turned on the TV and there was Angus Buchan talking about serving the Lord. He was not serving the Lord at the time. He said it was the first time he saw a preacher crying on the television. I was probably quite overwhelmed - that happens quite often, especially these days - and told the story about how God had changed his life and called him, and he got on his knees in front of the television and accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour. He then left his secular work, went back to Lesotho and started ministering to the shepherds. And of course, my producer and his family were sitting there and they were absolutely shocked because he was telling them clearly, how he was called for a particular work by the Holy Spirit, and now he was a fully fledged pastor and ministering to other people.

Today, make sure the calling comes from God.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 20th April , 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Acts 12:18:

”Then, as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.“ 

Now, folks, I want you to understand something. If you cannot believe in miracles, then you cannot believe the Bible because I’m going to show you a miracle that is unbelievably miraculous. It cannot be explained. If you read Chapter 12 of the Book of Acts, you’ll see that Peter the Apostle was arrested by Herod’s soldiers and put in prison. Four squads of soldiers were there to keep him from escaping because they were going to kill him after the Passover.

He was bound with two chains between two soldiers and the guards before the door were keeping the prison. He was sleeping, and he had a soldier on either side, and he was in chains. Then the angel of the Lord came into the prison and literally set Peter free. When they were past the first and second guard posts, they came to an iron gate that led to the city. It was open to them of it’s own accord supernaturally, and it caused no small stir because the next day the guards couldn’t find him, he was gone.

Folks, I believe in miracles! Wherever Jesus walked on this earth, He caused either a riot or a revival, but nothing in between. Just a few days ago, I met a young man at the airport. His name is Dean. I said, ”Dean, where are you going?” He said,” I’m going to Cape Town.” I said,” Why?” He said, ”Because I’m sick and I have to go to the specialist in Cape Town to see if they can heal me.”  So I said, ”Do you believe in miracles?” Of course he did. I prayed for him in the departure lounge, I laid my hands on him and I prayed that God would heal him.

Well, not two, three days later, I got a message to say that he has just got a report from the doctors in Cape Town. There is absolutely nothing wrong with him. He is completely healed and he can go home. That is a miracle! Trust Jesus today for your miracle. I want to pray for you: 

Father, 

I pray in Jesus name that the person who is listening to this message will claim their healing, their miracle. 

Be healed in Jesus name, amen.

God bless you and have a wonderful day. 
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 19th of April, 2026 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Old Testament, in the Book of Numbers 32:32:

”We will cross over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, but the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us on this side of the Jordan.” 

Now the situation was, as they were going to go across into the land of milk and honey, the Children of Israel, there were two and a half tribes that asked Moses if they could remain on the other side of the Jordan, because they were cattlemen and they were shepherds, and the land was good and the grass was good and they didn’t want to go across. 

So Moses sought counsel from the Lord. The Lord said, ”Yes, they can stay there, but first they have an obligation, they have a responsibility, they need to go with all the other tribes across the River Jordan and fight and defeat the enemy, and then when the battle has been won they can return back, to the other side of the Jordan, and that’s when they can have their inheritance.”

Then we go to the New Testament, 1 Timothy 5:8. The Lord says:

“But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” 

We’ve got to get things right first at home before we try and help anybody else. We’ve got to take care of our wives, our children, and our husbands before we go to the mission fields, as it were. What happened with those two and a half tribes, the tribe of Rueben, Dan and Manasseh, they were very happy to stay back. Moses said, ”Okay but you must fulfil your obligation. First, you must help your family get established across the river, then you can return.

You know what is very sad for me, and I am in full-time ministry, is when I hear of young people that get so excited, they meet Jesus, now they want to serve the Lord and they want to save the world, and that’s wonderful. That passion is very exciting, I was one of them, but the Lord says, before you do that, you make sure your young wife, your husband, your children are well equipped and taken care of and then you can fulfil the calling of God on your life. There’s nowhere in the Bible that you can show me where the Lord says, ”Leave everything you have and your responsibility and obligations and go to the mission field.”

Get your house in order first, and then by all means, preach the Gospel with all of your heart.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. 
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 18th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Exodus 19:3:

“And Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel.” 

Moses went up the mountain to hear from God. Then we go to the Gospel of Luke 6:12:

“Now it came to pass in those days that He (that’s Jesus) went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.” 

People often ask me, “How do we hear from God?” It’s a good question. Jesus went up the mountain and spent the whole night in prayer so that He could hear a word from His Heavenly Father. Moses did the same. He went up Mount Sinai to hear the word from God. That is how you hear from God. First of all, by getting up early in the morning. There is an old saying, I will never forget it, it goes like this: “First the mountain and then the ministry” - not the other way around. 

When we talk about the mountain, we are not talking about 5 minutes or while you are driving to work, ladies, to drop the children off at school, or gentlemen, while you are on your way to work. No, that’s not a quiet time. That is not hearing from God. We need to spend time in the presence of God, not for five minutes. 

This is how we hear from God: We read our Bibles systematically, every single morning. If you are not in that habit, I would encourage you to start in the Book of Psalms. Read a portion of each psalm, every single morning, starting from Psalm Number 1. Then go straight into the New Testament, start in the Gospel of John, and start reading five or ten verses every day. Then get your little notebook and write what God has said to you. There is no abracadabra, there is no magical way of doing it. If you want to hear from God, you have to spend time with God, reading your Bible every single day, meditating and praying. Give Him time so He can speak to you.

Quieten your spirit down so that you can hear, and then God will speak to you every single day. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.

Goodbye. 

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 17th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of Matthew 28:20, and this is Jesus speaking: 

“…and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.”

Isn’t that a beautiful promise for you today? The Lord says, “all the days”.

F B Meyer, that wonderful man of God, wrote a beautiful little passage, and this is what he says: “All the days” He says: “in winter days, when joys are fled; in sunless days, when the clouds return again and again after rain; in days of sickness and pain; in days of temptation and perplexity, as much as in days when the heart is as full of joy as the woodlands in spring are full of song. That day never comes when the Lord Jesus is not at the side of His saints, (that’s you and me!) Lover and friend may stand afar, but He walks with them through the fires; He fords with them the rivers; He stands by them when face to face with the lion. We can never be alone. We must always add His resources to our own when making our calculations.”

Jesus will never leave us and He will never forsake us. We know that scripture, don’t we? It is found in Hebrews 13:5, and that is good news, so we can indeed do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens us! (Philippians 4:13)

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 16th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Romans 10:12-13:

“For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

The Lord has no favourites. I have already told you that before. 

There is a most beautiful song, and it is called “Who am I?” by Casting Crowns, and these are the words. I want to read them to you this morning, and then I am going to pray for you because I feel that there is somebody there who feels that they are a failure, that there is no hope for them, that they have messed up and that this is the end of the road. Not at all! It is a lie from the pit of hell. Listen to these words:

Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth 
would care to know my name?
Would care to feel my hurt?
Who am I, that the bright and morning star 
would choose to light the way
For my ever-wandering heart?

Not because of who I am
But because of what you've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who you are

I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean 
A vapour in the wind

Still you hear me when I'm calling
Lord, you catch me when I'm falling
And you've told me who I am
I am yours…
And it goes on but that is enough. 

Father, 

I want to pray for my dear friends today. Lord, there are many listening to this message - who have thrown the towel in, who are down and out - no, not at all. Stand up, woman of God, stand up, man of God. 

Lord, please today remind them that You love them, just because of who they are, and Lord, we repent today of anything we have done to offend You, to hurt You. Lord, we love You, we ask You to come back into our hearts afresh this very morning. I ask this in Jesus’ name, amen.

Have a wonderful, blessed day and remember you are so very special to God.

Goodbye.