Thought For Today

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 7th of November, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.

We go to the Book of Deuteronomy 9:19-20:

“But the Lord listened to me at that time also. And the Lord was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.“

The Lord changed His mind! The Creator of Heaven and Earth and everything in it, listened to His creation and changed His mind! Remember what happened? Moses was up the mountain on Mt Sinai getting the Ten Commandments from the Lord and the Lord said to him, “What’s that noise I hear down there?” And of course what had happened was the children of Israel were impatient. They had been waiting for their leader, Moses, for 40 days and 40 nights and he hadn’t come down, and they thought maybe he had died, so they said to Aaron, “Let us make an idol out of gold, a golden calf.” Now, that angered the Lord so much. Can you imagine? God was so angry, probably so disappointed as well that He was going to wipe off the face of the earth, the children of Israel and you and I would not have been here today if that had happened, but one man, Moses, said, “Lord, You can’t do that because the Egyptians and all the other nations of the world will mock You.” The Bible tells us very clearly that the Lord relented. What does “relent” mean? It means finally agreeing to something after first refusing it. He said, “I am going to blot them off the face of the earth.” Moses said, “You can’t do that Lord,” and the Bible says that God relented. What an incredible God we serve that He would even listen to His creation!

When I was farming, I would often stop and have a chat to my tractor driver or my stockman and ask him questions, and we’d have a chat, and he felt that he could talk to me because I was definitely not superior to him, although some farmers maybe won’t listen to their workers. He would explain to me something that he had learnt on another farm - a better way of maybe looking after the cattle, a better way of building fences - and I tell you what, it cost nothing and I would be going in this direction and after talking to this worker, I would change my mind and say, “You know something, your idea is much better and I’m going to do it.” And it worked and it also paid off.

Today, don’t be proud. Be prepared to listen and change your mind if you have to. Jesus bless you and have a lovely day,

Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 6th of November, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to 1 John 4:16:

“And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love (please remember that - God is love), and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.”

God is love. People need love desperately, all people, in every walk of life! I am doing this programme particularly today to say thank you to every single person who has been praying for the event that we had in the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa. I would like to thank you all over the world. We love you very, very much. Words cannot express how we appreciated your prayer cover when we went down to that very dangerous place, where very few people want to go, and we saw and experienced something that I have never experienced before in over 40 years of preaching the Gospel. I experienced the love of God like never before!
When we arrived in the Athlone Stadium, the first thing I asked for was to meet the intercessors, because as an evangelist I know that if there is no prayer there is no power. They took me into a room that was full of approximately 50 women who were interceding. They weren’t just interceding, they were travailing. Now if you don’t know what that word means - a woman who is having a child, in labour, she is travailing, and that is what they were doing - travailing for their people, for their families, their children, their husbands. I was so touched, I was overwhelmed, and I prayed for them and they prayed for me, and they loved me and they hugged me and kissed me, then they took me out to the stadium.
There was such desperation from the men. We were talking to men, it was a Mighty Men event, but I want to tell you, they were hanging on every word. These men are hungry for the love of God. Before I left home, my wife Jill said to me, “Just tell them, Angus, that God loves them.” And that’s all these men wanted to know. Young boys, 12, 13 years old, to older men, they were there in the thousands, and we thank God.

The Lord laid on my heart to commission them, like you commission someone into the army, and we called them into the front, we prayed the prayer of repentance, and then we prayed over them and
commissioned them. I said, “The Government can’t help you,” I said, “the army can’t help you,” I said, “the police can’t help you. The only people that can help you are yourselves and the power of the Holy Spirit.”

As we left, a young man ran up to me. I said, “Bring him.” I said, ‘What can I do for you, young man?” He said, “I just want a hug from you. I lost my dad, he died, I lost my grandfather a few days ago. You remind me of my grandfather.” And with that he said, “I just want a hug.” That’s all he wanted. I took him in my arms, we hugged each other, he wept, I wept and God did the rest.

I am believing for revival in the Cape Flats. Thank you for your love and your prayers.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 5th of November, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of John 17:17:

”Sanctify them by Your truth. Your Word is truth.”

Then we go straight to John 4:42:

”Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.”

Remember what happened? After Jesus had told the woman at the well her whole life story, she knew that He was a prophet indeed, and she ran into the village and told them, ”I’ve found the Master. I found the Messiah.” She told them that He has just told her her whole life story and she’s never seen Him before. Isn’t that amazing? Then the whole village was saved and they came out to meet Jesus at the well, and that is when they said, ”We don’t believe that He is the Christ because of your story. No, we believe He is the Christ, not because of your words but because we have heard it for ourselves.”

I want to tell you today, and I’m saying this with the greatest love, that the Lord Jesus Christ is the ultimate authority. Now, He is the Word. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God. (John 1:1) People are not interested in our opinions, they want to know what Jesus says about the matter. That’s why when you go to a high court and you have to give evidence, they make you put your hand on the Bible and they ask you to swear that you’ll tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God. Why? Because God’s Word is final. It is the ultimate answer.

I want to speak to families who are experiencing disputes within their family. You want to know about inheritance; you want to know who’s going to get the business; who is going to get the farm when dad dies, or maybe dad has died, or what’s going to happen with the children when they leave school? You need to go to the Bible. You need to go to the Word and see what the Lord Jesus says about the situation. You say, ”No, but times have changed now.” No, they haven’t. Nothing has changed. Go to the Word, hear what God says and apply it to your family, to your situation, your workplace, wherever it might be, and you’ll be surprised how things will be agreed to, not because of what you said, not because of what I said, but because of what the Word says. 

Jesus bless you and have a lovely day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 4th of November, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of John 4:34:

“Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.”

We want to speak about food. What is your favourite food? Well, being a cattle farmer, my favourite food has got to be steak! I know that I have one young man who is very dear to me, and his favourite food is vegetables because he is a vegan. So we have got a lot of things to talk about. He respects what I love and I respect what he loves. But you know, we are not talking about that kind of food, are we? No. We are talking about doing the will of the Father. That is what fills us up more than any physical food. 

I love to carry a pocketful of sweets. That’s right. I can hear mothers say, “That is not good for the children.” Well, mom, a little sweet is not going to hurt them, and when I go to church these little children come and stand around me and I know why they are there, because they know I have a sweetie for them. Visitors must think, “Aah, look at the way the children flock to Uncle Angus - oh, it must be because he is a holy man.” No, it’s because children love sweets! But folks, I want to tell you now, it’s so important to do the thing that God has told you to do. Jesus said, “My food is to do the will of Him (His Heavenly Father who sent Him)…” And not only that, but to finish the job.

I don’t know about you, but when I have had the chance to speak to somebody who is struggling, someone who just needs prayer, or a young person who needs godly counsel, that is the food that sustains me. After I have been to a meeting where I have been able to pray for someone in hospital, where I have been able to preach the Gospel to a crowd of people and see the response, that fills me more than any physical food.

Today, go out and do the will of Jesus Christ and love people, and I want to tell you, you will be filled to the brim, pressed down, shaken together and running over.

Jesus bless you today, as you eat the food that the Father is going to give you.
God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 3rd of November, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the rain on my tin roof. Oh, it’s like music from heaven, I tell you what!

We start in the Book of Leviticus 11:44:

”…and you shall be holy; for I am holy.”

That’s the Lord speaking. We go to 1 Peter 1:16:

”because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.” 

You and I serve a holy God. Holiness is so important in our lifestyle, the way in which we love our Lord and Saviour, and people can see it from far. Oh, I want to tell you, they are watching you and they are watching me. The way in which we behave towards our beloved Jesus. If we love Him, we must respect Him, we must honour Him and we must give Him first place in our lives always. Do you know that the scribes in the Bible would change their clothes and wash their bodies before they even wrote the name of Jehovah on a parchment? Isn’t that amazing? When an Orthodox Jew writes me a letter and he signs the letter at the bottom and says, “God bless you”, he spells God, G-D, He will not even write the name of God.

I don’t know about you, but there’s nothing more pleasing to the eye than to see the way in which a young man or a young woman respects their elders. I love it. I love to see a young man walk an old lady across the road when she’s waiting for the traffic lights to change. I love to see the way in which a young man will take an old man’s rucksack and put it on his back and carry it for him with out even being asked, but I also want to say to you, there’s nothing more hurtful for me and I’m sure for you, than to see young people pushing old people aside so they can be first in the queue. It’s very disrespectful.

When you go to the house of the Lord, remember you are going to honour God and one day you are going to see Him, face to face. It is going to be a glorious day. I know what’s going to happen. He will run to you and love and hug you, but never forget that He is a holy God who deserves our love and utmost respect at all times.

God bless you and have a wonderful day, 
Goodbye. 

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 2nd of November, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go straight to the Gospel of John 3:35:

”The Father loves the Son and has given and entrusted all things into His hand.”

Our Heavenly Father gave Jesus all authority and all responsibility, and Jesus fulfilled and completed the responsibility right to the last letter. He died on the cross for your sins, for my sins. He set us free. He put the devil down once and for all, and then He went back to Heaven to be with His Father. But before He went back, He told His disciples that He will not leave us as orphans. Homeless, with no leaders. He said, ”I am sending you My Holy Spirit.” In Greek the name is, Parakletos, which means “the Helper”. “I am sending you the Helper so that you can complete the entrusting that God has given to me.” That’s what Jesus said.

Now in the amplified version, reading that today, in both scriptures, we go to John 16:7: But I tell you the truth, (Jesus said) it is to your advantage (our advantage) that I go away (that I go home, that I go back to My Father in Heaven); for if I do not go away, the Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor—Counselor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him (the Holy Spirit) to you [to be in close fellowship with you]. 

I want to speak today, not only to men but to women, to young people, to leaders. The Lord never expected us to do it on our own. Our Father in Heaven sent His Son down to earth because He saw that we were failing terribly. The Son did the work. He’s gone back to the Father but He’s left us with His Holy Spirit. He says, ”Now you” (That’s you and me, sir, you and me, young lady) “complete the job.” You know, it’s a handing over, it’s a responsibility. 

In these Olympic relay races, the most important part of the race is handing the baton over. If you drop the baton, you are disqualified, and there’s only a certain place that you can hand it over. There are two lines. You’ve got a few yards. You’re running at a full sprint. You need to be in unison with the person that you’re giving the baton to. Today, you and I need to understand that our Heavenly Father has given us the authority, he has given us the ability. Now we need to do it, we need to do it fast and we need to do it safely. 

Let’s finish the job. 
Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 1st of November, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in 1 Samuel 17:45

”Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you.”

What a powerful scripture! 

Then we go straight to 2 Corinthians 10:4-5:

“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,” 

What an incredible scripture!

Today, we are on our way to war. Yes, we are. We are going down to Cape Town, the southernmost city in our beloved country of South Africa. A most beautiful place, but there is a war going on in the Cape Flats as I speak to you. We are going to assist. We are going to support. We are going into the fight, and we are going to take satan’s head off, just like David took the head of Goliath off, and we are not going with firearms. No, we are going with the word of God. 

Even as the young boy David said to the giant, ”You come against me with spears and swords. I come against you with the name of the Lord God of Israel.” It is going to be a most wonderful day of victory. I cannot wait. In fact, the victory is already there. We are just going to join up with God’s men in the Athlone Stadium in the Cape Flats. Please, gentlemen, if you are not planning to come, come along, because you will see something you will never, ever forget as long as you live, and one day you will sit with your grandchild on your lap and that child will ask you, ”Were you there, grandad?” I hope you will be able to say, ”Yes indeed, I was there, the day that the Lord Jesus Christ came down in fire and authority and defeated the devil once and for all!”

Please pray for us. 
God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 31st of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. 

We go to the Gospel of John 4:35:

”Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!”

Do not be unprepared for the greatest harvest the world has ever seen. The signs are all there. The question is, are you ready to bring it in? Are you prepared? Is your harvesting equipment in order? In this day and age, the scythe that they used in the old days to cut down the wheat and the corn is not sufficient. The harvest is too great and the time is too short. It is time for that huge four-row, six-row mechanical harvester that can harvest literally hundreds of acres in a day. Remember, we need to be ready.

I remember as a young farmer, once passing a farm where a man had a beautiful crop of maize. Golden unto harvest. It was magnificent, but every day that I rode past that farm, nothing was happening and then I saw in the corner of the farm, he was planting a crop of cabbages but the time was running out. He could not see it, and the tragedy was that in the end, when he did start to harvest this beautiful crop of maize, it was too late. It was springtime and the rain began to come and blew the crop over and the crop rotted in the ground.

Today is the day of salvation, not tomorrow. Tell that loved one today, they must be ready for the coming of the Lord. Tell those people who are sitting on the fence, you need to make up your mind. Are you going to be part of what God has prepared for us or are you not? Because you cannot be indecisive. We really need to get our act together. Get that harvester into the field. Get the crop in while there is still time left.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful harvesting day today,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 30th of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. 

Matthew 17:21. Jesus says:

”However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”

Now remember the story, the disciples could not cure the young man who was demonised. They failed. Jesus came in, prayed over him, cast out the demon immediately. They came to the Lord, they said. ”Lord, how come we could not do that?” And He said, ”This kind only comes out except by prayer and fasting.” He said, ”If you’ve got faith the size of a mustard seed, you can tell that mountain to move from here to there, and nothing will be impossible.”

We need to fast today. I have asked very humbly that you will join me. In a couple of days time we are going to the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa and we are believing for a full stadium of young men. It is a Mighty Men Conference and we are going to trust God for a complete encounter with the Holy Spirit, and we want to purify ourselves, even today. Now you might ask, well, I can’t fast because medically the doctors have said I’ve got to keep eating. That’s fine, it’s no problem. Maybe you can spend a little less time watching television and read your Bible and pray a little more. Maybe today, you can go without something that is very special to you. Maybe you like eating chocolate, what about giving it a break?

You say, ”Come on. Angus, fasting is a bit more important than that.” No, it’s not. It’s a time when we will remember the Lord. Maybe you need to just drink water today and nothing else. Maybe you need to have an extra quiet time in the middle of the day and pray for the situation that we are going to face on Saturday. Young people are getting murdered daily. Young children are getting caught up in the cross fire. Old people are getting murdered in their homes through the gang wars. It’s got to stop, and we are asking you to please fast and pray with us so that the Lord can completely take over in that stadium.

Never before in my life have I been so excited about what God is going to do on the 1st of November at two o’clock in the afternoon in the Cape Flats in South Africa, when we face up to this terrible slaughter that is taking place, and in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, we will cast it out. 

Please fast today with us.
God bless you and have a special day today.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 29th of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Exodus 25:40, and this is what the Lord says to Moses:

”And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.”

The building of the tabernacle - keep it to the pattern.

Then we go straight to the Gospel of John 14:15. Jesus says:

“If you love Me, keep My commandments.”

Don’t tell people you love them, then do the opposite. “You shall know them by their fruit,” Jesus says. An apple tree produces apples, and an orange tree produces oranges. We really need to keep to the pattern. You know what a blueprint is, young man? A blueprint is something that you have been given by a builder, and then he says, ”Build it according to the blueprint. Do not change anything because it is proven, this building will stand if you build it according to the blueprint.”

Smith Wigglesworth said, ”Jesus said it, I believe it and that settles it.” No arguments! What does the word say, that is your pattern for this life. That is your blueprint. You know the wisest man that ever lived, according to the word of God, was Solomon, and if you look at Ecclesiastes 1:9, He said, ’ ... And there is nothing new under the sun.” It has all happened before, it will all happen again, but we’ve got some whizz-kids thinking they are inventing something new. Nothing new under the sun. I sound like an old man, don’t I? Well, I’m getting old, and I want to tell that young lady, I wish that I knew when I was your age what I know now, and I wouldn’t have made so many mistakes and I wouldn’t have hurt so many people.

The Lord told a farmer named Noah to build an ark. He said build it according to the blueprint, and he did, and the ark never sank, did it? There is nothing new. Running your home - run it according to the principles of God. Discipline in your house, love your wife, submit to your husband, respect your parents, discipline your children. These are according to the blueprint.

What about business? “Aah, my people don’t want to work for me.” Maybe because you don’t pay them correctly. What about having a quiet time every morning? You say, ”Uncle Angus, you’re always telling us that.” Of course, I am, because that’s where you’ll get your instructions for the blueprint that you are going to implement on that day.

Practise what you have been taught.
Jesus bless you and goodbye.