Thought For Today

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 10th of February, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Gospel of John 18:31:
“Then Pilate said to them, “You take Him and judge Him according to your law.”
That is what you call “passing the buck”, compromising, and reneging on your authority. Do you know that Pontius Pilate was the representative of Caesar in Rome? He had the absolute authority to put the thumb up for life or to put it down which meant death. He actually said later on, “I find no fault in this man”. Yes, but they said, “We want you to kill Him.’ They wanted the Romans to do the dirty work for them. They protested and Pontius Pilate realised he was about to have a revolution on his hands, an uprising, and he had very few soldiers in Jerusalem at that time. So what did he do? He compromised. Don’t we do that, you and I? When the heat is on, and we think, “We are in trouble here”, we compromise. He got a basin, he washed his hands in front of all the Jews that were standing, waiting for judgement to be declared, and he said, ‘I wash my hands of this man. I have nothing more to do with him.”
That is called the fear of man. Oh, folks, I want to tell you, it is a dangerous place to be, the fear of man. Because you are in a group of people who are blaspheming, people who mock God, a group of people who think they are just absolutely the best thing that ever happened, they are so brazen, so forthcoming that you just keep quiet. You know, there is a group of conservative followers of Christ where they have made Pontius Pilate a saint because they believe that he did nothing wrong. Well, maybe he didn’t do anything wrong but he didn’t do anything right either, did he? Remember, his wife had a dream the night before, and she came to her husband and said, “Have nothing to do with this man.” And he took her advice and he told the Jews, “You take Him away. You judge Him according to your law.”
Today, people tell us that Jesus Christ is a fake. We can tell them, gently but firmly, “No, no. He is the Son of God.”
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 9th of February, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
“‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, ’Says the Lord of hosts.”
Zechariah 4:6
What a powerful scripture. Then we go to Matthew 26:52:
But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.”
Remember what happened? The High Priest’s men came to arrest Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, and Peter took out his sword to defend the Lord and actually cut one of the servant’s ears off. Jesus told him to put his sword away.
Today, we want to speak about the battle. We need to lay down our swords, the battle belongs to the Lord. I am not talking about the war that is looming between Iran and America. No, I am not talking about a world war, I am talking about the home. I am talking about the war that is taking place between you and your husband. I am talking about the war that is happening at school between you and some of your friends. The weapons of our warfare are not fleshly (carnal) but mighty in God to the pulling down of strongholds. We have got to do it Jesus’ way.
Jesus told His disciples, “I can call a legion of angels down from Heaven right now and they can destroy all of these enemies of ours, but the Lord did not do that. He said, “If you live by the sword, you will die by the sword.” I heard somebody saying, “I have my rights. I am tired of the arguments. I am calling it a day. I am going to sign the divorce papers. We are out of here.” Then where are you going to go, and what are you going to do? Did you not make a promise on the day that you got married that you would stay together? Well, what has changed?
I want to say to you that it takes two to fight. You cannot fight on your own. If you say to your husband, you say to your wife today, “Listen, I am not fighting anymore. I am putting my sword away and I am going to pray. I am going to pray for our relationship, I am going to pray for our children, our wayward children. I am going to pray for the job situation. I am not fighting anymore. The way I am going to fight from today onwards is on my knees. I am going to pray. I am going to use the word of God which is the sword of the Spirit, just like Jesus did in the Garden of Gethsemane, and He will give me the victory.”
It has happened in my own life. I want to ask you to please put the sword away, because that same sword will be the end of you if you don’t, and do it Jesus’ way. He will bring healing, He will bring forgiveness and He will bring reconciliation in your family. In Jesus’ name I pray this.
Have a wonderful day,
God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 8th of February, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Gospel of John 18:5-6:
“They answered Him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am He.” And Judas, who betrayed Him, also stood with them. Now when He said to them, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground.”
Then we go right down to verse 8, the same thing again:
“Jesus answered, “I have told you that I am He. Therefore, if you seek Me, let these go their way,…”
What an incredible Saviour you and I serve, always standing in the gap, always letting others go and Jesus taking the full brunt of any accusation! Jesus said three times, “I am the One you are looking for.” You and I need to start speaking out. We too need to start saying, “Yes, and also am a follower of Jesus Christ.”
“Are you one of them?”
“Yes, I am.”
Speak it out! Let the people know! There is nothing whatsoever to be ashamed of. Remember what the Lord said in the Bible. He said, “If you are ashamed of Me, I will be ashamed of you when I stand before My Father in Heaven.” There is nothing to be ashamed of. Jesus has never let us down, He has never, ever sinned, He has never, ever hurt a child, or a widow, or an orphan, or an older person. No, He has never committed adultery, He has never stolen. We need to speak it out. We need to become more vocal. When people ask us, we need to speak up and say, “Yes, I am a follower of Jesus Christ. He is my Lord and my Saviour. He is my best Friend, He is the One I meet early, every single morning. He is indeed a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”
I want to say to you today, like never before, you and I need to speak out when people ask us, “And who do you follow?” Then we need to say, “Aah, the Darling of Heaven, the King of kings, the Lord of Lords, the Lion of Judah, the Holy One, the soon-coming Saviour of the world.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful Sunday,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 7th of February, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Gospel of Matthew 26:36:
“Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane,…”
Gethsemane is a garden. I have been there myself many times. There are olive trees there that they say are thousands of years old, and I sit there often and I think of what the Master went through. Gethsemane actually means, “the oil press”, yes, the place of intense spiritual struggle.
Oh my dear friend, are you there this morning? Are you in an intense spiritual struggle? You see, it is the place where Jesus endured profound agony and emotional pressure. Are you emotionally under pressure at the moment? It was so much for the Lord that he sweated drops of blood when He was praying, but what did He say? He could have said, “Lord, I can’t take this. Please send a legion of angels down to take Me home.” No, if you look at verse 39, while He was praying He said,
“My Father, if it is possible let this cup pass from Me, nevertheless not as I will but as You will.”
So if you are suffering, that does not mean that you are not walking with the Lord. It does not mean that you are backsliding or that you haven’t got any courage. It means that you are in the garden, you are in the time in the oil press, in a time of exceedingly great pressure. Now, what is the answer? Well, the answer is to do exactly what Jesus did. What did He do? He prayed and He prayed, and then God, through the power of His Holy Spirit and His angels, gave Jesus the strength to do what He had to do for you and for me.
Now this morning I want to pray for you. I just sense as I am sitting in my prayer room, that many people are in the garden, in the place called Gethsemane, and you are sorely pressurised on both sides and you don’t know what to do. Well, I am going to pray for you, and I want you also to pray this prayer with me:
Heavenly Father,
In the name of Jesus Christ and by the power of Your Holy Spirit, I bring before Your throne, my problems.
They are many, Lord, I cannot even find a way out, but Lord, I appeal to You now and I ask You to undertake for me.
I pray for strength for the strain. Lord, I know that this time will pass by, but at the moment, it seems like there is no way out.
I ask You in Jesus name to strengthen me Lord, so that I can endure that which has been put before me, and I will give You all the glory, all the praise and all the honour.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 6th of February, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Gospel of John 17:21. And this is Jesus speaking to His Father:
”that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.”
I want to speak to you this morning about relationships, and I want to speak to you about probably the hardest place to keep a relationship. Where is it? It’s at home. Oh yes, I can see you smiling, and some of you aren’t. It’s not easy. The first murder in the Bible after the creation of the earth was between two brothers, Cain and Abel. Cain killed his brother, Abel. Look at the dispute that Abraham had with his nephew, Lot, when they argued about who was going to have the high land and who was going to have the low land. What about Moses and his brother, Aaron and his sister, Miriam? What an argument they had! If God hadn’t intervened there, there would have been big trouble because of family.
What about David and Absalom? David was so blinded by the love that he had for his son, that he couldn’t see that his son was plotting to kill him. If it wasn’t for David’s men, his own son would have killed him. What about Paul, Barnabas, and John Mark? They had a terrible fallout because of John Mark, and Paul said, ”I’m not going with him again. He let us down once before and that’s it.” Barnabas said, ”No, well I am taking him.” And they split up.
Now, this is not a negative message, my dear friend, it’s a challenging message. Jesus says that you and I must love one another in the family so that the world can believe that the Father sent Jesus down to the earth.
“A new commandment I give unto you that you love one another as I have loved you. By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love, one for another.”
John 13:34-35
A new commandment I give unto you that you love one another as I have loved you.
That you love one another as I have loved you.
By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love, one for another.
By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love, one for another.
Let’s love each other. Let’s sit down after this message and say, ”Dad, I forgive you”; ”Mom, I forgive you”; “Son, I forgive you.”; “ Daughter, I forgive you.”
For Christ’s sake, let’s do it.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.