Thought For Today

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 8th of September, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Exodus 3:14:

”And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ “

Wow, what a title! I’m so excited this morning. “I AM who I AM.” I AM is the name of God, and then we go to John 14:10:

”Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? “

You see, Phillip said, ”Show us the Father.” “I am the Father. I am in Him and He is in me.” I can hear somebody say, ”Oh, are you sure about that?” Don’t be like Phillip. Just believe, folks. Our faith is all about believing in the fact that Jesus is God. How can I prove that? Well, Matthew 1:23 is very specific, and His name is Immanuel, which is translated, God with us.

Oh folks, today I want to tell you, we need to open our eyes, and we need to ask the Holy Spirit to show us Jesus in this world. You know, I’m a farmer. When I get up early in the morning, as the sun rises. I can see Him in the sunrise, I can see Him in the sunset, I can see Him in the face of a newly born baby. Oh yes I can. I can smell Him when the first rains after a long dry winter start falling onto the dry ground. I can feel Him in my Spirit!

Do you remember that beautiful old hymn, “All over the world the Spirit is moving?” If you know it please sing it with me:

All over the world the Spirit is moving,
All over the world as the Prophet said it would be, Hallelujah! 
All over the world, there’s a mighty revelation,
Of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

Oh, deep down in my heart the Spirit is moving,
Deep down in my heart as the Prophet said it would be, Hallelujah!
Deep down in my heart, there’s a mighty revelation,
Of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Jesus bless you. Open your spiritual eyes and you’ll see Him today,
God bless you and goodbye

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

We go to the Gospel of Luke 20:2:

“Tell us, by what authority are You doing these things? Or who is he who gave You this authority?”

I looked up the Oxford Dictionary to find out the literal meaning of the word “authority”, and one of the meanings is “recognised knowledge or expertise.” 

Folks, Jesus had it all. He had the ability. Whenever He walked into a place, people stood back. Remember when the soldiers tried to arrest Him in the Garden of Gethsemane, the night He was betrayed? When He spoke, they fell to the ground. Peter recognised who Jesus was. He actually said to Him, ”Get away from me, Lord, for I am an unclean man,” when he saw the miracle that Jesus performed with the fish at the Sea of Galilee.

They asked William Carey, the man who took the Gospel of Jesus Christ to India. The theologians questioned him and said, "What qualifications do you have?” One man, being very sarcastic, said, ”I believe, you are just a shoemaker.” “ Oh no, Sir.” He said. ”I’m not a shoemaker. I’m a cobbler. I can’t make shoes, I can only repair them.” But I want to tell you that man translated the Bible into Sanskrit, into Hindustani, into languages that are so very difficult for anyone to understand. He became the Chief Interpreter in the High Court of Delhi.

I want to say to you today, if Jesus Christ is your Lord and Saviour, if He has forgiven you of your sins, you have the authority, you have the power and the knowledge and the expertise to tell others about Him. Remember that song, I’ve sung it before, but I need to sing it again today with you. A beautiful song and I want you to sing it with me.

He paid a debt, He did not owe,
I owed the debt, I could not pay,
I needed someone to wash my sins away.

And now I sing a brand new song,
Amazing Grace,
Christ Jesus paid a debt that I could never pay.

He paid a debt for me and He paid a debt for you. If you love Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, that will give you the authority to go into all the world and tell people that the Lord Jesus Christ has given you the authority, and you are born again and you belong to Him!

Go out today and sing that song from the top of your voice,
Jesus bless you and goodbye.

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

We start in the Book of Exodus 3:11:

”But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

Then we go straight to the Book of Isaiah 6:8: 

“Whom shall I send and who will go for Us?”

Maybe the Lord is speaking to you this morning, and to me, and He’s saying that He wants us to keep on keeping on. He wants us to tell people about the soon-coming King. Jesus Christ is not coming soon, He’s on His way I tell you! You’ve heard me saying that many times, and it’s true. Folks, God used Moses. Moses was a shepherd, that’s right. Yes, he had been in Pharaoh’s court, but because he was a murderer, he ran for his life and ended up looking after his father-in-law’s sheep, and yet the Lord called him to set the people of Israel free.

The Lord uses whoever puts their hand up. Jesus Christ used fishermen, tax collectors, and tentmakers to do His bidding. “Why?” you ask. It’s a good question. I’ve asked myself that question many times before. “Lord, why do You use nobodies?” I believe it is because He will not share His glory with any man. So when a man like Moses puts his hand up, or a man like Peter or Paul the apostle, or Matthew the tax collector, and they start to work for God and God uses them powerfully, people will say, ”It wasn’t that man, that must have been God in that man.”

I think of D.L. Moody, one of the greatest evangelists of all time. Do you know that he couldn’t even speak properly? Do you know, he had no education? He was a shoe salesman. I think of C H Spurgeon, the prince of preachers, is what they call him - never went to Bible College in his life, spoke with a very broad English accent, an incredible man. At the age of twenty-one years old, they built the London Tabernacle for him to seat ten thousand people. Then what about Billy Graham? His only ambition, as a teenager, was to be a professional baseball player, but that man has touched millions around the world. He was a dairy farmer’s son.

Today, don’t despise the call that God has put on your life. You might be living in a nursing home, you might be in a school hostel in some boarding school, you might be an airline pilot. Jesus wants to use you today to set His people free. Just keep telling them what Jesus means to you. Remember, it’s Christ in you, the hope of glory!

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

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

We start in 1 Timothy 2:4:

”…who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. “ 

All men to be saved! Jesus does not want one person to go to hell, to perish in that everlasting fire. He wants all men to be saved. The most famous scripture in the whole Bible is found in the Gospel of John 3:16:

”For God so loved the world (that’s you and me) that He gave His only begotten Son (that’s Jesus) that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.“ 

Jesus loves sinners. He died for sinners. He said, ”I didn’t come for the righteous, I came for the sinner.” (Luke 5:32)

I don’t know how many mothers I have met and read about, who prayed for their wayward sons and daughters, and eventually they came to the saving grace of Christ. Our Lord is not out there to catch us out. He is not out there to condemn us. He came to give us life abundantly. (John 10:10). Where are you standing today? Are you still running, my dear friend? Are you running from God? Are you trying to run from your past? Stop it today and accept Jesus as your Lord and saviour, and He will change your life. He did it for me.

I want to do something that I don’t always do on this little programme. I want to give you the opportunity of saying sorry to Jesus, accepting Him as your risen Lord and Saviour, and starting all over again.

If you’d like to do that, please pray this prayer after me:

Dear Lord Jesus, 

Thank You for dying for me, a sinner, on the Cross of Calvary. 

Today I believe that you are the Son of God, that You have come to save me, to forgive me of all my sins and to give me a brand new life. 

In Jesus' name, amen.

Now, I want to ask you to do something, just like I did when I prayed that same prayer that you have just prayed, tell the first three people that you meet today, what you have done. You don’t have to labour it but don’t hold back because this is the beginning of a new life for you. 

Jesus bless you you and goodbye.

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

We go to the Book of Exodus 2:12:

“So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.”

Yes, Moses was a killer, and then he fled for his life!

Then we go to Acts 7:58-59:

“And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Saul was a murderer. He was instrumental in killing the first martyr in the New Testament. I am talking about Stephen. 

This may be a special message for someone who feels there is no hope. “There is no hope for me, Angus. I have done the unforgivable. I have committed a crime, there is no way back.” Oh my dear friend, there is if you will but repent. The Bible says in 1 John 1:9:

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 

Jesus has got a habit of taking nobodies and making them into somebodies. Moses paid a severe price for what he did. He spent 40 years in the desert, unknown. He looked after his father-in-law’s sheep. Nicky Cruz was a warlord in the slums of New York in the USA. He was a gang leader, the warlord in the Mau Mau. His own mother called him, “the son of satan.” He is now 86 years old today and he is still preaching the Gospel. He heard the word of God through a preacher by the name of David Wilkerson, gave his life to the Lord, repented of his sin and did a 180-degree turnaround. He is now a very famous evangelist and is known all over the world.

Do not lose heart. Pray the Sinner’s Prayer, be like Moses, be like Saul who became Paul, be like Nicky Cruz. Say, “Lord, give me another chance.” He will do it for you today if you genuinely repent.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

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

We go straight to the Gospel of Luke 19:40:

”But He answered…” Jesus answered,”… and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.” 

We need to be free to praise and worship the Lord as we see fit. Let us not judge people because they happen to be a bit loud in church. 

Yes, I am talking about myself as well. I can’t help it. When I go into a church, I want to praise the Lord at the top of my voice. I want to raise my hands because I love Him so much because He’s done so much for me. Don’t restrict other people praising God just because you don’t.

Now, I don’t mind if people want to be quiet and they want to worship the Lord in the quietness of their heart, that’s fine, but if others want to dance around the church, how can you stop them? I want to say to you, God is looking at the heart. Don’t show off in front of other people, not at all, but don’t hold back. Don’t restrict people from telling Jesus they love Him, by showing Him by the way they worship Him. He says if you don’t, the very stones will shout out and cry out!

One of the places where I really love to worship the Lord? Early in the morning, I go out and I ride my mountain bike. Sometimes it’s so early I’ve got to use a light because it’s still dark, and while I’m riding my bicycle, I smell the fresh morning air. I hear the birds singing. I can see the sun just starting to come up. It’s a new day, it’s a new opportunity and I just let rip. I think some people think I’ve lost it when they come past! I just praise Him and worship Him because I love Him so much because of what He’s done for me and my loved ones. Please do the same. There is power in praise. When you start to praise the Lord, all those burdens begin to fall off you because you start to remember exactly who He is and what He’s done for you and me.

So have a wonderful day, praising and worshipping Jesus, 
Goodbye.

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

We start in the second book in the Bible, Exodus 2:6:

“And when she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. So she had compassion on him,…”

This was a heathen woman who had compassion on a little baby that was crying, and of course, we know what happened after that. She took that little baby to be her own, and his name was Moses. She gave him that name, and he grew up to be one of God’s chosen men. He took the Israelites out of bondage, out of Egypt and through the desert to the land of milk and honey.

Then we go to the Book of Matthew 18:6:

“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”

A millstone weighs approximately 5 tons. Jesus is making a very clear point this morning to you and to me. Jesus loves little children. Remember when He was tired and the mothers were bringing their children, their babies to Jesus so He could bless them? And the disciples were trying to help the Lord and keep the children back, and what did He say?

“Let the little children come unto Me for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” 
Matthew 19:14

The Lord is making it very plain today, sir and madam, look after that child. That child actually does not belong to you. That child belongs to God. He is just allowing you to look after that baby for Him. We had better do it. Don’t neglect your children. Spend time with them, love them and discipline your children. There is nothing more embarrassing than to see a child - I saw it once in the game reserve - a child throwing its plate of ice cream all over the table, and the waitress had to try and clean it up, and the mother and father did nothing about it. What an embarrassment! I have never forgotten that as long as I live. Teach them good manners, love them, spend time with them, and most of all, be a good example to them. 

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

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

We go to the Gospel of Luke 19:35:

“Then they brought him to Jesus. And they threw their own clothes on the colt, and they set Jesus on him.“ 

I want to speak to you today about miracles, small miracles. There is no such thing, of course, as a small miracle. It’s either a miracle or it’s not a miracle. Now, I have been riding horses for fifty years. I am still riding a horse. I think you know him, maybe better than you know me. His name is Snowy. He is now 19 years old and he is still a beautiful horse and he is doing me so proud. But I don’t want to talk to you about that. I want to talk to you about a young donkey, a male donkey, a colt, that has never ever been ridden before. Jesus got on that donkey and rode him into Jerusalem, into a crowd that was shouting and screaming and praising and throwing their clothes on the road, and waving palm branches all over that donkey. He never once tried to run away, tried to bite someone, tried to buck the Master off his back - not once! Have you ever thought about that?

What I want to say to you today is that we must get used to small miracles. That old lady trying to find a parking place because she has got sore legs: “Lord, just open a parking place for me in front of the supermarket, please.” And what happens? Oh yes, because she believes. The problem is, a lot of us don’t.

When we started farming, Jill and I didn’t have very much money at all. Often that vehicle of ours would be on empty. Some people say that “empty-e” stands for enough! It’s not funny. It's amazing how the Lord makes that vehicle go just that much further. When we did that huge prayer meeting in Bloemfontein when the boys were mowing down a thousand hectares of grass, people would bring in diesel to fuel the tractors, and many times the young men would come to me and say, “Oom Angus, we don’t know how this works. That bowser was supposed to be empty two days ago, and it is still producing diesel and filling the tractors, every single day.”

Trust the Lord for your miracle today and He will not disappoint you.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

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

We go straight to the Book of Ephesians 2:8-9:

“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.”

Undeserved loving kindness, unmerited favour - that’s grace. It is amazing! You can’t earn it, you can’t work for it, you can’t even study for it. You can just humbly and gratefully receive it.

Zacchaeus received it when he came down from the sycamore tree and invited Jesus home, with all the other tax collectors, the professional thieves, and what happened? He received grace. That day, he was so overwhelmed by the goodness of God. He said, “I am going to repay 400%, (4 times, not 10%, 400 times) of anything I have ever taken from anyone else, because he received the love of Christ.

John Newton, a slave ship captain, received it. He wrote that hymn: 

“Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound
In a believer’s ear,
I once was lost but now I am found,
I once was blind but now I see”

I received it. That is why I love Jesus Christ so much. I want to be really honest with you today. I was a self-made man, I started farming from nothing and I learnt one thing very early from my parents, you don’t ask for things and you pay for whatever you buy, and if you can’t pay for it, you don’t take it. Now to the measure, that’s okay but it does teach you to be a little bit proud and to learn to accept the gift of God freely was quite difficult for me. I wanted to pay for it, but I couldn’t. Jesus said, “Freely you have received Angus. Freely give.” 

All the Lord wants you and me to say today is, “Thank You for saving my life. Thank You for giving me eternal life.” We just need to say thank you for the unearned favour of God. I don’t know if you have ever done this in your life before but I want to pray the sinner’s prayer with you today. Maybe you have and maybe you are not there now. Maybe the Lord is calling you home. Please pray this prayer after me, this prayer of gratitude for the grace of God.

Dear Lord Jesus,

Today I repent of all my sins and I ask You to be Lord of my life. Please forgive me for not appreciating what you did for me on the Cross of Calvary when you died for my
sins. 

Today I accept You as my Lord, my Saviour and my best Friend.

In Jesus’ name,
Amen.

Have a wonderful day and remember those sins have been paid for. Do not go back there again. 
God bless you and goodbye.

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

We start in the Gospel of Luke 19:13:

“So he called ten of his servants, delivered to them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business till I come.”

Are you doing business for the Lord today or are you just playing it safe? You see, that was a parable that Jesus told the people. The man that he gave one mina to, went and he multiplied his minas, and the Lord was very pleased with him when he came back (the nobleman), the other one did the same but the last one, he said, “No,no…” He was scared he was going to lose that mina so he hid it. What did the Lord do? He took the mina from the man who had one, and he gave it to the man who multiplied his mina. Even the people said, “But Lord, that’s not fair,” and the Lord says those who are working hard, those who are using what God has given to them will even be more blessed, and those who are lazy, fearful and will not use what God has given them, even that which they have will be taken away from them and given to others.

I heard a story once about a farmer. A fertiliser representative, or maybe a herbicide representative; I don’t know. Maybe he was an Extension Officer. He drove onto the farm to come and see the farmer and he saw the farmer sitting on the porch drinking coffee. And he said to him, “How is the farm going?” And he said, “No, not very well.” 

So the Extension Officer said, “Why not?” He said, “I haven’t planted any potatoes this year”, and the Extension Officer said, “Why did you not plant any potatoes?” 

“Because they told me there was going to be a lot of blight and the potatoes wouldn’t grow too well.”

He said, “I see your maise fields are barren. There is no maise growing there.”  

“No, they told me that this year there is going to be a drought so I decided not to plant any maise.”

“I see you have got no green fodder for your cattle.” 

“No, I have sold off all my cattle because they said to me, this year it is going to be very, very dry.” 

And as a result, the farmer was sitting on his porch, drinking his coffee and quietly going bankrupt. 

I want to say to a young man, a young woman today, use what you have got for the Lord and He will multiply it. Jesus said in Matthew 6:33:

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”

Do not depend on what the politician says, or what the weather predictions say, or man’s opinion. Seek the Lord and then go for it with all of your heart and the Lord will multiply it for you. I have experienced that in my own life many, many times. 

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.