Thought For Today

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 2nd of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Old Testament in the Book of Deuteronomy 16:1. The Lord says:
“Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.”
Then we go to John 3:3:
“Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Then we go down a little bit further to verse 7, Jesus says again: “Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.” A conscious decision to make the greatest decision of your entire life, and we cannot afford to forget that time. I know some of you listening to this message can honestly say, “I don’t remember the exact day. I don’t remember the exact month, but I know that God has changed my life. That is wonderful and I rejoice with you but there must be a time in your life where you have drawn a line in the sand and said, “Devil, this far and no further.”
I did it on the 18th of February, 1979, in the little Methodist Church in the Main Street of our town, Greytown, and I will never ever forget it. No, I didn’t see any bolts of lightning, I didn’t hear any thunder - no, I made a conscious decision that I was going to follow Jesus Christ and Him, alone.
That is why the Jewish people are so strong in their roots, because they do not forget the time that the Lord took them out of Egypt, 400 years of slavery, took them out by night - miraculous - and they will not forget that. I have been to Israel many, many times. I have had the privilege of speaking at the Feast of Tabernacles, where they rejoice in the Lord and tell their children about what happened and how they came out of slavery in Egypt. I want to tell you now, even today, I want to pray with you if you have never, ever made a conscious decision to follow Jesus Christ with all of your heart. Please pray this prayer after me, and I am going to pray it slowly:
Dear Lord Jesus,
I repent of my sin, and I ask you to be the Saviour of my life today, on the 2nd of July, Thursday morning, 2026. I will serve no other gods but You.
Thank You for dying for me, a sinner, on the Cross at Calvary, but Lord, through Your death I have been set free from the slavery of the system in this world.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
Wonderful! Congratulations! Go and tell 3 people what you have just done. Until next time, Jesus bless you!
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 1st of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Matthew 25:21:
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.”
I want to ask you a question today. Are you being obedient to what the Lord called you to? Whenever I think of an obedient servant, I think of Job, the farmer. Job didn’t always have it going well for him. We know that. If you look at Job 13:15, he said
“Though He slay me, yet will I (still) trust Him.”
That is unconditional surrender, that is being a faithful servant whether the going is good or whether the going is not so good. Where do you stand today?
I want to pray for you in a moment because I read something this morning that really stirred me up. A famous man of God said, “God holds us responsible, not for what we have but for what we might have had, not for what we are but for what we might have been.” I want to say to you today, there is no future in the past but this is a directive that I believe we need to look at. The Lord is saying, “But I told you to do that and you didn’t do it, now you haven’t got anything. I gave you an opportunity to go through that door, but you were scared. I gave you an opportunity but now you have lost it.” But we thank God that He is a merciful God and if we cry out to Him, He will give us another opportunity to put things right. So I want to pray for you:
Heavenly Father,
I pray for my dear friend listening to this message today, that he will repent, say sorry, for things in his life he knows he should have done and yet he didn’t do them. Give him an opportunity, Lord, to rectify that situation by opening another door for him, that he might go through in faith, and then Lord, he will become the man, the woman, that you meant them to be.
I pray this prayer over myself as well, Lord. Please forgive me for pushing aside so many opportunities because of fear, because of unsureness, because of a lack of faith and maybe because of sin in my life. Today, I say sorry, I repent, I dust myself off and I am going to go ahead and take that new opportunity that, by faith, You are going to give me. I pray this in Jesus’ name, amen.
God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 30th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Luke 12:12:
“For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”
Now that is a beautiful scripture. I am thinking particularly this morning of young students at university or at school; I am thinking of CEO’s of large companies who have to deliver a critical speech. I am thinking of employers who have to come up with the right answer for their employees today.
From that Scripture, we go straight to the Book of Acts 24:1:
“Now after five days Ananias the high priest came down with the elders and a certain orator (that is a specialised speaker) named Tertullus. These gave evidence to the governor against Paul.”
So they brought in the professionals to accuse Paul of something, of course, which he did not do. Then the last Scripture, I want to share with you today, found in the Book of Psalms 81:10:
“Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.”
It doesn’t matter who is standing against you. Paul defended himself. He never got a defence counsel. He spoke up himself. When you speak the truth, when you speak the word of God, no one can stand against it because the Holy Spirit is speaking through you, the truth. When you speak the truth, no one will contest the truth. Lies never hold any water. When you make your defence, keep it simple and let the Holy Spirit speak through you.
Many a time, when I am about to get on the platform to speak to a large crowd, I will be walking up the steps, it’s quite a frightening thing, by the way, and as I am walking up, the Lord will say to me, in my heart, “I do not want you to speak about this subject. I want you to speak about marriages.” Now, I haven’t prepared a thing, but God gives me a Scripture, and when I am obedient, and by the grace of God, I do exactly what He said, because I am too afraid to do anything else, we hit the bullseye.
Today, it doesn’t matter what you are doing, what court you are going into, remember, if Christ is for you, there is no man that will stand against you.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 29th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 24:15:
“Each day you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and has set his heart on it; lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and it be sin to you.”
Then we go to the Gospel of Matthew 20:2:
“Now when he had agreed with the labourers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.”
Now, it is not in the Bible, but you know the old saying, “a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay”? But that is so true. We really need to be careful. If you are an employer and you are listening to this message, a word from the Lord for you: if you try to underpay your staff and steal their wages, the Lord will not be pleased with you, and things will not go well in your business. I also want to say to the employees, if you are abusing your boss, your employer, by stealing his time, using his equipment for personal gain or profit, the Lord will not be pleased with you. I can tell you right now, the work will not go well, and you will probably eventually be caught and fired. We really need to honour what the Lord has put in place. We need to work hard, we need to work diligently, then our employer will treat us, hopefully, in a godly manner.
You know, when I started farming, I was in a new area. I didn’t know many people here. In fact, I hardly knew anyone, and the only people I would speak to were the people who would come to the farm and ask for work, and I built up some wonderful relationships with my staff. My one foreman, you might have heard of him - Simeon Bhengu, he became, not only my employee but a very good personal friend to me. Many a time we would sit together and talk about the day’s work. Should I plant this crop or shouldn’t I? Should I buy those animals or shouldn’t I? And he would give me godly wisdom. Now, he is not a very well-educated man but of course, neither am I, but together, we would sit and make a plan and it would work, and he would be happy and I would be happy.
If a man comes to work for you and he is stealing from you, you need to dismiss him because he does not honour you, especially if you give him a warning and he still carries on with his abuse of the responsibility that you have given him. Today, pay well, work hard and God will do the rest.
Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 28th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Zachariah 13:1:
“In that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.”
Then we go to 1 John 1:9. The Bible says:
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Isn’t that beautiful?
We don’t have to carry that weight around with us, just breaking us. Just go to the Lord and ask Him to forgive you, and He will cleanse you with that blood that comes from Jesus Christ, the blood which covers a multitude of sin. There is no sin that is too great for the Lord not to forgive, and there is no sin which is too small for the Lord not to forgive. I really want to encourage you to address those small sins because I know people say, “We don’t want to bother the Lord. We know how busy He is.” No, deal with it while it is still in the bud. If you leave it, what happens? It grows and grows, and eventually becomes a huge problem in your life that you cannot handle. I am talking particularly in the area of your life, things like immorality, I am talking about things like pornography. I am talking about things like getting involved in immoral relationships. It starts very innocently and eventually it can ruin your marriage, it can ruin your career, it can ruin your life. Don’t let it happen! And that great sin that you think God cannot forgive - there is no sin that Jesus Christ cannot forgive.
When He said to His Father, when He was dying on the cross, just before He died, He said, “It is finished!” - which means He had completed the work that Father had called Him to do. Now, do not disregard that beautiful promise from God and start to live free like an eagle that has got nothing to hold it back, and catch those thermals and fly up into the high places, and talk with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
May Jesus bless you as you walk in truth and righteousness.
Goodbye.