Thought For Today

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 26th of September, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Judges 7:7: ”The Lord said to Gideon, Then the Lord said to Gideon, “By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand.
Then we go straight to the Gospel of Matthew 20:16: ‘“So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.”
Gideon had a total of 32,000 fighting men and the Lord said to him, ”You’ve got too many. You need to send some home.” 22,000 went back home. They didn’t hesitate, they left the battlefield. 10,000 remained. Then the Lord said to Gideon, ”There’s still too many here.” So he sent more back home and he was left with a mere 300 hundred men to take on the mighty army of the Midianites. God has got a habit of doing that. I want to encourage you today, if you are feeling a little bit left out, if you are feeling a little bit down, that you’ll never get an opportunity to serve God, folks please don’t lose heart!
Samuel went to appoint the next king of Israel. He went to the house of Jesse. Jesse had 8 sons. He chose the youngest, the smallest, the one who wasn’t even brought into the home to be judged. He was left out in the field looking after the sheep. We are talking about David, King David. What about Moses? Moses had dropped the ball big time, maybe you have today. Moses ran for his life. He was a murderer. The Lord used Moses to take an entire nation out of slavery and into the desert for 40 years.
What about the fishermen? Jesus chose 12 men. These were not educated men, they were not talented, they were illiterate fishermen, and a couple of tax collectors to boot. Why does God do that? Well, He does it for one reason. He does not want to share His glory with any man. God chooses nobodies to do His work so that nobody can touch His glory.
You must attempt something so big, we say at Shalom, that if it is not of God, it is doomed to fail. Why? Because if it works, God will get all the glory. People will say, “There is no way that those men could have achieved that enormous victory that they had on their own. God was with them!”
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 25th of September, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Book of Judges 6:37-40. Now I would like you to read that on your own. It is a very important scripture, and we need to read it slowly. Gideon put a fleece before the Lord because he didn’t know what to do. Now for those young people listening to this, a fleece is what we take off a sheep.
Then we go to Ephesians 3:20:
”Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,…”
God can do anything that we desire if we ask Him correctly.
Now the important thing is to know that when you put a fleece before the Lord, you are prepared to obey whatever he tells you. Now what Gideon did was, he put a fleece out before the Lord at night, and he said, "Lord, when I wake up in the morning, if there is dew on the fleece and it is dry on the ground, then I will know that You will save Israel.” And the Lord did it, and then, just like you and me, still he wasn’t totally convinced. So he said, ”Lord, just please once more. Tomorrow morning, I want the fleece to be dry and the ground to be wet.” And He did it.
Oh folks, God loves you and me so much. He wants the best for us. No using that crystal ball with the fortune teller, no tarot cards, no horoscopes, no witch doctors. This is very important what I’m going to tell you now, and if God does not answer us immediately, that does not mean He hasn’t heard us, not at all, He hears all our prayers. What do we do? We wait until He answers us. So if He doesn’t answer us, don’t make a plan. That’s what King Saul did. Remember? And he lost his kingship. He would not wait for the prophet, Samuel, to come and offer a sacrifice. He said, “I’ll do it myself”, and that was the beginning of the end of his kingship.
Today, let’s wait upon the Lord. Let’s put the fleece out and let us see what God says to us.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 24th of September, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in 1 Corinthians 7:24:
“Brethren, let each one remain with God in that state in which he was called.”
Then we go to 1 Timothy 6:6:
‘Now godliness with contentment is great gain.’
Paul was saying to the believers, you don’t have to be circumcised to be a follower of Christ, you can remain in the state you are. In other words, if you are uncircumcised when you meet the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour, you don’t have to go and get circumcised. No, you can remain the way you are. Don’t try and be somebody you are not. Rather, remain the person that God called you to be and created you to be. Be content. I see so many people who are not happy with the way they are.
There are big, stout ladies who want to be skinny. There are skinny ladies who want to be stout. There are men with curly black hair who want straight, blonde hair. I am laughing, but it is so true, isn’t it? We are not content with where we are at. Paul says, “Let each one remain with God in the state in which they are.”
Casting Crowns is one of my favourite Gospel bands. Don’t quote me, but I think for the last 20 years, they have been the top Christian band in the world. Now, the man who leads it is a man by the name of Mark Hall. Mark Hall, folks, has dyslexia. He had that Attention Deficit at school. He couldn’t concentrate on anything, and basically they thought he had no future. I want to tell you, when that man sings, I normally cry. He has given God what he has got, and God has taken it and used it.
What about DL Moody, one of the greatest evangelists who has ever lived? He went to Britain for a few years and over 2 million converts came to Christ through his ministry. He struggled to speak English with a good accent. What about C. H. Spurgeon, the “Prince of Preachers”? He had no education. He had a very broad country accent, and yet folks, at the age of 21, they built the London Tabernacle for him to contain the crowds that were coming to hear him preach.
Today, you and I, let us be very grateful and content with the way God has made us, because if He has made us, and He has, He will also see us through.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 23rd of September, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go straight to Isaiah 61:1. Of course, this is referring to the Lord Jesus:
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;…”
Then we go straight to the Book of Acts 10:38:
“…God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”
I want to speak to you today about doing good. There is somebody listening today who says, “Well you know, I can’t do anymore. I don’t have enough money, I am not physically strong enough, I can’t do anything.” Oh yes, you can! The main thing you can do is pray, but one man of God wrote something very beautiful, and this is what he said, “The finest of all arts is the art of doing good, and yet it is the least cultivated.” Isn’t that true? The art of doing good - we need to exercise that a little bit.
Many years ago, the Lord laid upon my heart to get small little bottles of mustard seed. My office staff know exactly what I am talking about because these precious ladies have to fill these little bottles up with mustard seed, and then we seal them, and I put them in my pocket and wherever I go and I see somebody who is looking a little bit down, a little bit anxious, I say, “Excuse me, can I give you this little gift.” And they look at this and they say, “But what is this?” And then it opens the door. I said, “You know this is a reminder for you when you are going through tough times because the Master, Jesus, said, 'If you have faith the size of one mustard seed, you can tell that mountain to move, and it must go.” They walk away with a smile on their face, knowing that if Jesus Christ is with them, there is nothing that will hold them back. Today, go and do good just like the Master did and our Lord Holy Spirit will bless you richly.
God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name. It is Tuesday morning, the 22nd of September, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.
We start in that beautiful scripture found in the book of Jeremiah 29:13.
And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.
Then we go straight across to Philippians 3:10. He said,
"...that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death."
I really believe this morning there are some people that want to grow closer to Jesus, but you're not spending time seeking Him. The Lord says to us today, "If you seek me, you'll find me."
There was two old ladies, two sisters, Peggy and Christine. Peggy was 84 years old. She was blind. Christine was 82 years old. She was crippled with arthritis. They sought the Lord with all their hearts to bring revival to the island of Lewis, off the west coast of the north of Scotland. The revival came and the revival stayed for four years and thousands of people came to Christ, because they sought after the Lord with all of their hearts.
If you really seek for God, you will find Him. He is actually waiting for you. They invited an evangelist by the name of Duncan Campbell to come up to the little island and hold an evangelistic outreach. He tells us in his memoirs that when that little boat arrived at the small harbour on the island of Lewis, these two old ladies were standing at the harbour waiting for him. When he got off that little fishing boat, they asked him a question. Mr. Campbell, do you know God? He said he was taken aback. He said, oh, ladies, I sincerely hope so. With that intensity, these ladies used to pray every night from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. in their little cottage, and God answered their prayers.
Seek Him today with all your heart and you too will find Him.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.