Thought For Today

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name. It is Tuesday morning, the 15th of September, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in Mark 16:7:
“But go, tell His disciples—and Peter—that He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him, as He said to you.”
Then we go to the Gospel of John 19:26:
“When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!” Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home.”
Folks, Jesus was hanging on the cross. I believe it is probably the most painful torture before a man dies. He had nails pierced through His hands and feet, and yet He could still look down and with love and compassion ask John, His beloved disciple, to look after His earthly mother, Mary. That is love that we cannot comprehend. And what about Peter - Peter, the big fisherman? Peter, the one who said, “I will never leave you. I will die for you, Lord”, and yet he denied Him three times, not once, and actually swore that he did not know who Jesus was. And so when He told the disciples to go to Galilee, and He would find them there, He said, “Tell the disciples and Peter.” Why did He say that? Because He knew that Peter would never go to Galilee to meet with Jesus because of what he had done, but Jesus loved him so much.
Oh my dear friend, He loves you and I so much. There is nothing too big or too small that He doesn’t take notice of. Yes, He can part the Red Sea with one word, but He can also show that old lady who is desperately looking for a parking place at the supermarket, and I can see that old lady, whoever she is, maybe there is more than one. And what about that young boy who is trying to get to university, and he can’t find his car keys? “Where did I put them last night. I came home so late! And he prays and the Lord reminds him. I want to tell you, I love Jesus so much. Ask Him today to show you those things that you think are too trivial and He will do it. I know because He does it for me all the time.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 14th of September, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go straight to the Old Testament to the Book of Job 5:13:
“He catches the wise in their own craftiness,…”
Then we go to 1 Corinthians 3:19:
“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.”
Folks, we need to understand one thing this morning. God is in Heaven and we are on Earth. We need to be very careful how we stand and how we talk. God will not be mocked by any man nor any nation.
We go to Galatians 6:7. The Lord says:
“…for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.”
I have spoken to some people who are angry with God. They don’t really understand what they are even saying, never mind thinking, and they shake their fist at God, and they say, “I want some answers from God when I get to Heaven." I have got news for you. When you get to Heaven, you will not be shaking your fist at God. You will probably be lying prostrate on the ground and crying for mercy.
We need to respect God. We need to understand that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit love us but They are holy and They will not tolerate any sin of any kind. Our God is a merciful God and He has given us much grace, undeserved loving kindness, but we must not take it for granted. We must revere the Lord, we must treat Him with great reverence. He is our Creator. He is our soon-coming King, and we need to be ready for it. Don’t be casual in the way you talk to God.
I want to pray for you this morning because there are people who have told me they are angry with God. Oh my dear friend, please, if you want to get angry, get angry with the devil or anybody else, but never God.
Father,
I want to pray for my dear friends who faithfully listen to this little message every single morning. Some are confused, some are fearful, some are angry because they do not understand. Lord, how can we possibly understand the wisdom of God who created the universe? We ask You to forgive us today. We ask You, Lord, to show us in Your gentle divine way just who You are and who we are not. And we ask this in Your precious name!
Amen.
God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 13th of September, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Psalms 34:19:
“Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
What a beautiful scripture! Then we go to the New Testament, Romans 8:31:
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”
So then, what the Lord is saying to us here is that because you have become a Christian, that does not mean that you are not going to be subject to tribulation and trials. But the good news is, He says He will never leave us, and He will never forsake us. He is not going to take us out of the fiery trial, no. He says He is going to walk with us through the fiery trial.
Opposition is actually a healthy thing because what it does, it strengthens us. So if you are going through a tough time at the moment and you are feeling that God has abandoned you, He hasn’t abandoned you at all. He is walking right next to you. He says, “If I am for you, there is no man that will stand against you.” Ultimately, you will have the victory. Now the best example that I can see anywhere in the Bible is the story of Moses bringing the Children of Israel, over a million people, out of Egypt and into the promised land.
There is an old saying I learnt long, long time ago: I have yet to meet a man or a woman worth their salt who has not been through fiery trials. Any man or woman who has ever achieved anything, it is through fire that the Lord has brought them through and made them stronger. I want you to think of Moses for a moment. Moses was between a rock and a hard place, as the saying goes - between a rock and a hard place - are you there today? Well, listen to this. Now Moses is standing at the shores of the Red Sea. Behind him is coming this most powerful army of that time, and they are very angry because their oldest son in their families, each and every one of them, had died. They wanted revenge. What could Moses do? He couldn’t go forward and he couldn’t go back. He called upon the name of the Lord. The Lord opened the ocean and they walked through on dry, friend. That is a fact, my dear friend. The archeologists will tell you that at the bottom of the Red Sea at that particular place, there are chariot wheels from the time of Pharaoh that are still there. It happened!
Today, it doesn’t matter what you are going through. If Christ is for you, there is no one who will stand against you!
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 12th of September, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to 1 Corinthians 6:19:
“Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit…?”
Then we back up a little bit to 1 Corinthians 3:16:
“Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”
Some of us are not doing well, are we? No, we are sick in our bodies, we are sick in our minds, and we are very sick in our spirits. Your little boy, your little girl, driving to work with you or to school, ask them a question, “Can you put diesel into a petrol fuel motorcar?” Of course not! What will happen? It will stop immediately. Ask them if your motorcar needs to be serviced regularly or not? No, well we don’t have the money to service our car. Well, it won’t last. It is going to stop, it is going to break down. These are essentials. Now, why do we take care of our vehicles, but we don’t take care of our physical bodies?
I want to say something very serious to the grown-ups. Pornography is not an option. You are pouring filth into your body every day, and then you are wondering why you are in a state of depression, anxiety, and fear. We need to destroy that thing today. Get rid of it. Some movies we are watching - let us ask ourselves a serious question. If you had to sit there on your own, in your flat, in your house and watch a movie, ask yourself a question. Would I be comfortable watching this movie with the filthy language and the suggestiveness, with Jesus Christ sitting next to me? Of course not. Well then we need to stop doing that.
We need to eat properly, sleep properly, but I am not talking so much about that. I am talking about the spiritual context. If you want the Holy Spirit to work in your life, He will not come into your life if you are living in sin. You have to deal with it today. That is the problem, and that spiritual sin turns into physical sickness and disease. You go to the doctor, you are asking him to help you, but you will not stop smoking, madam. It is killing you. You will not stop drinking, sir, but it is poisoning your system. Stop it today, and I am telling you, you will not have to go to the doctor because Jesus Christ will be dwelling within you.
Have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 11th of September, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in 1 Corinthians 3:11:
“For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.”
I want to speak today about foundational people.
The Chief Engineer - I have told you many times, my mother’s brother was a Chief Engineer in the Merchant Navy in the Second World War. They operate below sea level. No one sees them. Everyone sees the Captain on the bridge, but without that Chief Engineer and his men, that ship is going nowhere. He is vital.
I want to speak to you about maybe the greatest men’s conference that met for a weekend at Shalom Farm, in the year 2010. I can’t tell you exactly the number of men, not women and children, only men, that came to this farm on that weekend which I will never, ever forget. We believe it was in excess of 450,000 men for a full weekend, starting on Friday and finishing on Sunday morning. Yes, I was the speaker but I want to tell you something now, without foundational men and women who organised that event, it would never have happened. I had the privilege of standing there, but without them who did all the work, before and after. It took us over 2 weeks to collect all the rubbish on the farm and deliver it to the rubbish dump. It was incredible. Do you know that Greytown, the little town that is 15 kms away, had nothing left in it. It was as if locusts had been through the town! Some say it was the biggest Christian men’s gathering in world history.
I want to tell you about the greatest Foundation of all. Yes, I am talking about the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit, my dear friend, you can do nothing. We need to give Him more place. Many of us never even mention His name. I want to tell you, He is part of the Triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Jesus said, “It is beneficial for you that I go home so that I can send you a Helper.
Today, put some effort into your relationship with the Holy Spirit. He is the One who makes things happen. Without Him, nothing will ever happen. Speak to Him. Ask Him to help you, direct you, counsel you. He is everything you need, and He is all over the world at the same time. What a Foundation!
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.