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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 19th of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Zechariah 4:10:
“For who has despised the day of small things?”
I read a beautiful reading by an anonymous writer that goes like this: “It is the little words you speak, the little thoughts you think, the little things you do or leave undone, the little moments you waste or use wisely, the little temptations which you yield to or overcome, the little things of everyday that are making or messing up your future life.”
Don’t forget the little things. They mean so much, don’t they? When somebody brings you a nice little bunch of flowers, especially if it is a little child, I tell you that it touches my wife’s heart and my heart as well, or something small.
I had an old gentleman who used to live on the farm with us with his dear wife. His name was Jimmy. We called him Uncle Jimmy. Uncle Jimmy had a very bad chest, he didn’t sleep a lot at night. He contracted some sickness when he was in the Royal Navy in the Second World War, and he came and retired on our farm and stayed in a little cottage, and do you know something? Every single day, Uncle Jimmy would come down to see me and he would bring me a little scripture verse, carefully written out on a piece of paper, and everyday that scripture would mean something so special to me, more than if I had got a letter from an international speaker or some well-known person - but Jimmy, every single day, that impacted my life, especially as a young preacher.
We need to be careful not to overlook the small things in life because they are the things that will determine our future. So maybe today God is impressing upon your heart to phone somebody or write a little letter. Do you know how nice it is to get a handwritten note? It means that somebody took time out to get a piece of paper and a pen and write it out and then send it to you. It means the world to me, I can tell you right now because it took effort.
Today, let us take time out to concentrate not just on the big things in life but the small things too.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day, goodbye.
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 18th of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Book of Acts 28:30-31:
“Then Paul dwelt two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who came to him, preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence, no one forbidding him.
I want to talk to you about commitment. In the Kingdom of God, there is no such word as “retirement.” I can’t find it. I have looked from Genesis to Revelation. Promotion - yes, retirement - nothing. God needs you and me to preach the Gospel until the very end. That is what Paul did to the end. He had to rent his own house. The people just came to him and he taught them about salvation and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I remember a story told about the great evangelist, Billy Sunday. Billy Sunday was a professional baseball player. He would slide in to the platform like a baseball player slides into base, and he would sometimes preach even on top of his pulpit. He had a passion for Christ. He met the Lord in a very special way. He spoke against alcoholism, drug addiction and all these evils. He was very, very controversial but very popular and used greatly by God. He would build a trapdoor on the edge of the platform where he was preaching, and when he would make the altar call and ask the people to come forward and give their lives to Christ, he would lift the trapdoor and go into the trapdoor and that would bring him level with the people in the crowd. Then he would shake hands with each one of them as they prayed the sinner’s prayer.
The one day, he had a heart attack on the platform, he never died but he was in a serious state. One of the helpers, one of his assistants, came up and took him by the hand and said, “Are you ok, Billy?” And Billy said, “Listen, just pray this prayer after me.” He thought it was one of the people coming forward to give their lives to Christ and he was totally oblivious to the fact that he was actually dying and he would lead him in the sinner’s prayer. Totally committed to the very, very end.
I want to say to you today, I don’t care how old you are, how young you are, preach the Gospel at all costs.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 17th of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to that very well-known scripture, Philippians 3:12. Paul says:
“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.”
My dear wife saw a little writing on a wall in a restroom which said, “Happiness is not the destination. It is part of the journey.” So true! We are so concerned about getting to our destination that we don’t enjoy the trip, and that is actually quite sad, isn’t it? My late mom always used to say to me, the best part of any holiday for her was the trip, not the destination.
How is it with you today? How is it with me today? We need to pace ourselves, enjoy every single moment God has given us, and stop always wishing for something we don’t have while forgetting the time we have. I am thinking about with your family. Your children, spend time with them. I know what I am talking about. My family are all grown up, in fact my grandchildren are grown up, I’m a great-grand father and it’s happened in the spur of a moment. Do not waste time because you keep on looking at the end of the race and not enjoying the journey. I think of the tortoise and the hare. I know it’s laughable but that tortoise just keeps going. He’s carrying his house on his back. The hare goes flat out and then stops. The tortoise keeps on going. You and I need to do that. It’s like a little Noddy car, it just keeps going down the road and the sports cars cars scream past but they normally stop just up the road and then they go on again and that little Noddy car gets to its destination, sometimes quicker than the sports car.
Let us really start to appreciate the time God has given us, and let us make a point of finishing the race. The Comrades Marathon for me, the heroes of the Comrades Marathon, are those guys right at the end just before the gun goes off and the time is up, and the race is over, and they’re pulling each across over the finish line. Yes, we appreciate the gold medalists and the silver medalists but the boys and girls, that are really pushing hard, really touched me.
So today, remember, it’s not the destination, it’s the journey with Jesus Christ that you and I have got to spend time on.
Have a wonderful day, Jesus bless you and goodbye.
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 16th of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Book of Deuteronomy 20:4:
“…for the Lord your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
We then go to Psalm 20:7:
“Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.”
Oh, I want to encourage you this morning. Maybe you are facing a giant in your life. It might be your health. Maybe you have just been told by the doctor, “There is nothing more we can do for you. Just go home and make yourself comfortable because you are not going to live.” We don’t receive that because we trust in the Lord, not in our own abilities! Maybe it is a crop you planted and you are expecting a good yield, but your neighbours are telling you you are in big trouble because nothing is going to happen. El Niño, the drought is on its way. Don’t accept it! Remember, the Lord says He will fight for you and He will see it come to pass. I cannot encourage you enough to trust in the Lord.
We have got a saying at Shalom that goes like this: “You must attempt something that is so big that if it is not from God it is doomed to fail.” Now, you might say, “Why do that?” Because when it works, people will say, “There is no ways that that man could have achieved that. That was a miracle from God.” And if you look at the word of God, and that is why I love the Bible so much, it is one miracle after another. When people say, “It can’t be done”, you say, “But God!” God can do all things. So if Christ is for you, then no man can stand against you.
So I want to encourage you to keep on by faith. What is faith? Oh, faith is the substance of things hoped for. It is the evidence of things not yet seen. And that is why I love Jesus so much. When we trusted the Lord for a million people to come to the centre of our nation, South Africa, and to pray, and we gave ourselves 6 weeks, people said to me, “Angus, it is impossible.” (It took Billy Graham 2 or 3 years to organise a campaign, even when he came to South Africa), but it did happen and we had over a million people all seated in an open field to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to repent of their sins and to pray for the nation.
Remember what happened after that? Change in politics, a different president came in, the drought that was predicted became a bumper crop, the many, many miracles, many miracles that we will only hear about in Heaven - people healed, marriages restored, new businesses opening, men going into full-time ministry because our trust was in the Lord.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day, goodbye.
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 15th of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go straight to the Gospel of Matthew 14:22:
”Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side, while He sent the multitudes away.”
Are you on a journey today and are you feeling that something’s going wrong because you firmly believed that the Lord told you what to do, start that business, finish that degree, marry that man, have children? And it’s not working, and you are wondering whether, in fact, you have heard God correctly. Well, I’ve got a special message for you today.
I read this story by a man named George Matheson. You’ve heard me speak about him many times before, a blind Scottish preacher, and this is what he says: Jesus urged them to go. One would think that if ever there was a certain promise of success in a mission it was here, absolutely sure that it was a directive from God, so it must work.” This is what he says ”Surely here, if anywhere, a triumphant issue might have been confidently predicted; and yet here, more than anywhere, there was seeming failure. He sent them out on a voyage, and they met with such a storm as they had never yet experienced.” Remember, these were fishermen. ”Let me think about this, for it has been so with me as well. Many times, thinking I was doing the right thing, going ahead in faith and all of a sudden, everything changed. "I have sometimes felt,” he says, ”myself impelled to act by an influence which seemed above me - urged to put out to sea. Urged to step out in faith. “
I know this so well in my own life. “The belief was that I was constrained, urged, given the confidence, and I was sure of a calm voyage but the result was outward failure. The calm became a storm, the sea raged, the winds roared, the ship was tossed, and in the midst of the waves almost sank and my whole enterprise was wrecked before it could even reach the land. Was then my Divine command a delusion? Was it a dream, a pipe dream? No. Was my mission a failure? He did send me on that voyage but He did not send me for my purpose. He had one thing in His mind and I had another thing in my mind. My end was outward calm, His was my meeting with the storm. My end was to gain the harbour of material rest; but His aim was to teach me, there is a rest even on the open sea.”
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 14th of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go straight to the Book of Deuteronomy 19:21. The Lord says to us:
“… life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.”
Then we go straight to the Book of Matthew 5:38-39:
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.
Yoh! That is a challenge, is it not? Because we want justice, we want people to understand that they cannot mess with us. But then we go to Luke 23:34:
“Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.”
We really need to exercise forgiveness, and I can imagine there are a lot of you who are saying, “No, Angus, we have got to pay back for what we get.” Well, Jesus disagrees. He says we have got to go the extra mile. He says we have got to forgive, but He says, “Forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.” Sometimes people are not aware of what they have done, and those same people whom you forgive will come back later and say, “Listen, I made a terrible mistake. Please forgive me.”
I am speaking particularly to husbands and wives today. There comes a time when you say, “I am not fighting anymore. I am going to turn the other cheek, you can say what you like but I am not going to retaliate. I am not going to pay back. I am going to leave it in the hands of the Lord. You know, it takes “two to tango”, as they say, and if you say, “I am not arguing, I am not fighting any more, I am making a choice, I am going to forgive you.” And that gives the person an opportunity to realise the mistake he has made.
One person said one day, if we had to pay back everybody for everything they have done to us, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, nobody in this world would have any teeth, and we would all be blind. Today, I really want to encourage you to pray over this scripture. It is a tough one. Today, let’s do what Jesus said and let Him undertake for the results.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 13th of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Proverbs 27:17:
”As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.”
Then we go to 1 Thessalonians 5:6:
”Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.”
We have a responsibility, don’t we? Now, how do we keep awake? I heard this from C H Spurgeon, the great Baptist preacher. He said one way we keep vigilant and on our toes, as it were, is through Christian fellowship. Do not isolate yourself, my dear friend, if it is possible at all, but have fellowship with one another, not just in church on a Sunday morning, or in a fellowship group on a Wednesday night, but all the time, wherever you meet someone.
I had the privilege of speaking to a young man not so long ago. I met up with him. I was on a campsite right up in the northern part of South Africa, and as we started talking, he said to me, ”You know, I remember like yesterday, the big tent on your farm. It was a turning point in my life, sitting in that tent with thirty thousand men inside and another thirty thousand men outside, and how we had fellowship together and how we spoke about the things of God.” As I spoke to him, I was encouraged myself, iron sharpening iron, sparks flying, having a laugh, and maybe even a tearful moment, thinking about how the Holy Spirit moved in our lives together!
That is what keeps you on your toes. That is what keeps you from becoming slothful, becoming sleepy, and not watching and praying. So when we had finished, we greeted each other, we prayed, and he went on his way rejoicing, and I was rejoicing. Why? Because we were having fellowship. We were not sleeping as others do but we were talking about our beloved Saviour and the miracle-working power that we find when we spend time talking about Him together.
Jesus bless you and remember, if Christ is for you, there is no man that will stand against you.
Jesus bless you and goodbye.
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 12th of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go straight to the Book of Acts 28:1-6:
”Now when they had escaped, they then found out that the island was called Malta. And the natives showed us unusual kindness; for they kindled a fire and made us all welcome, because of the rain that was falling and because of the cold. But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.” A snake bit him.” So when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet justice does not allow to live.” But he shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm. However, they were expecting that he would swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had looked for a long time and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.”
Folks, we can see again, one minute a villain, the next minute a hero! The same people, within a few moments. He didn’t die, so they started to worship him, but before that they wanted to kill him because they said that he was a murderer. What is the point of this story? The point of this story is, the only reward that you and I ever need is from God. I’ve had that experience myself many, many times. One moment, everybody thinks you’re great. You make a mistake, whatever it might be, an honest mistake and everybody is down on top of you. Don’t do that, you can’t live like that.
Let’s today, start to trust the Lord like Paul did and He, Himself, will be our Redeemer and our Rewarder.
Have a wonderful day.
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 11th of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 19:7:
”Therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall separate three cities for yourself.”
Now what happened here, the Lord in His mercy said, when the Israelites went into a new country, three cities were to be separated so that people who had made an honest mistake can go and hide from those who want to avenge the mistake that he has made.
Then we go to the Book of Romans 6:23:
”For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
You know folks, I want to say to you that our Lord is such a gracious God. If you read on in that scripture just before Deuteronomy 19:7, you will see that the Lord explains that if a man, for example, is cutting down a tree with his friend and the head of the axe comes off the shaft and hits his friend on the head and kills him, it’s an accident. They make these three cities available for people to go and hide so that they are not avenged, and the Lord Himself has made a way through Jesus Christ for you and me to have our sins forgiven. That’s why He says, ”The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.” Jesus died on the cross of Calvary so that you and I can live. Yes, the God of the second chance - we made a mistake, He has forgiven us and He’s given us an opportunity to continue to live!
You know I looked up that beautiful scripture, Luke 7:47:
”He who has been forgiven much, loves Me the most but to whom little is for forgiven, loves Me little.”
And I want to tell you something now, we can make mistakes, I’ve made many myself, but if we come to the Lord with a repentant heart and ask forgiveness, He will make a way for us where there seems to be no way.
I don’t know how many testimonies I’ve heard from men who have been restored by the Lord Jesus Christ after making a mistake. What about Zacchaeus, the tax collector? He was an evil man, stealing money from his own people, but Jesus came to his house, had lunch with him and said, ”Your sins are forgiven.” Zacchaeus was so overwhelmed, and the Lord said, ”Salvation has come to this house today.” Not only for Zacchaeus but all his friends, the other tax collectors as well.
Today, know one thing, that if you are genuinely repentant, God will give you another opportunity.
Jesus bless you and goodbye.
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 10th of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Book of Galatians 3:27:
“For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.”
We must be seen by the world as being different, different people. They must see Jesus in us without us having to tell them. Do you remember that story? I think I told you years ago about a man who was sailing in the South Sea Islands, and he had a shipwreck. He was the only survivor, and the local inhabitants were going to kill him but they decided to leave him. They said, “We are going to see how you live, and we believe that you are one of those missionaries who are coming here. We don’t want to hear anything.” So the man never said a word, he just lived the life. He lived with them for many, many years. Eventually, he died and they buried him.
A few years later another sailing ship arrived at that island with missionaries, and when the missionaries came to the island they got the local people to sit and they were telling them about Jesus, but they noticed that these people weren’t surprised, they weren’t excited. They were nodding their heads in full agreement. When the missionaries had finished preaching they said, “Have you heard the Gospel before?” They said, “No”. “Well, we see that you are not surprised about the story of Jesus.” They said, “No, we are not surprised.” “Why?” And they said, “Come with us.” And they took these missionaries to a very special place, and there was a grave, and they said, “The man that you are speaking about used to live here with us, and he died and we buried him here.”
That man was living the life of Jesus Christ, without saying one word. They saw Jesus in him, in the way in which he acted, in the way in which he loved them, in the way in which he denied himself for their sakes. They had met Jesus through a man who lived there for many years and was not allowed to speak about the Lord.
Today, let you and I put on Jesus. Wherever we go, let people come to us and say to us, “We see there is something different about you. Can you please explain to us what it is?” Then we will be able to say to them with a nice smile, a gentle smile, humbly. “Maybe it is Jesus Christ. Would you like to meet Him as well?”
Father God,
I pray in Jesus’ name, that my dear friend who is listening to this message, will also put on Jesus Christ every single day.
I ask these things in Your precious name, amen.
God bless you and goodbye.
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 9th of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 18:22:
“when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.”
Folks, I really want to say to you this morning, and I know men who have got a prophetic ministry, and they are very accurate, and they love the Lord, and you can see it in their conduct. They are men that you can trust, but we must be very careful. The Lord is warning us this morning, not to be misled by a presumptuous prophetic word. I have heard of people who have sold their homes and immigrated to another country because they felt that a prophetic word was spoken over them, only to find when they got to the other side that they had listened to a man who was speaking presumptuously. It was not the word. We really need to test the spirit. That is why it is so important to let the Holy Spirit give you His peace.
Now, we go to the Gospel of John 1:44-45. Now this is a prophetic word:
“Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
Now that is a prophetic word you can believe. “We have found Him…” We need to use the Bible to confirm a prophetic word that has been spoken. If it is not in the Bible, I don’t care who it is, you cannot believe it. It must be confirmed through the word of God, and that gives you security, that gives you peace, and that shows you the difference between a prophetic word and a false prophecy. If that word cannot be confirmed with God’s Holy Word, do not listen or believe him.
So I want to say to you today, don’t be afraid, no, not at all. I have had many prophetic words spoken over my life and they have come to pass, but I have also had other words spoken over my life which I have cast aside because they are untrue and my spirit, the Spirit of God in me, does not witness with it. It is very, very important, especially for young people today.
If God has not told you what to do, then don’t do it. If God gives you a word, and then it is confirmed through somebody, sometimes a stranger, then you know it is not a coincidence, it is God.
Have a wonderful day,
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 8th of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Book of Acts 27:10: Paul speaking:
“Men, I perceive that this voyage will end with disaster and much loss, not only of the cargo and ship, but also our lives.”
Now Paul, the man of God, the apostle, gave them warning when they were at sea because the winds were getting very dangerous, and he suggested that they sit tight, but no, if you look at verse 11:
“Nevertheless the centurion was more persuaded by the helmsman and the owner of the ship than by the things spoken by Paul.”
So the so-called experts, the ship’s captain, the owner of the ship - of course they had ulterior motives - they didn’t listen to the man of God, and they carried on with their ways and we know what happened in the end. Everything that Paul said happened exactly like that. They lost everything, the cargo, the ship - they were totally lost.
I want to tell you about something that happened to me, many years ago. The Lord led us to hire the biggest tent in the world at that time. It was built in the UK, it was enlarged in Europe, and it was shipped out to Johannesburg, South Africa, for the first Earth Summit meeting. We heard about it. We hired it - seventeen 40-ton rigs brought down to the farm, and it took three weeks to erect it. It was a magnificent tent, but we had 30,000 men inside, that was the capacity of the tent, and 30,000 men outside. It was an amazing event. Many of you listening to this message today were there. But the interesting thing that I want to share with you is that after the event was finished, and it was wonderful, God moved powerfully, a group of businessmen contacted our office and said, “We want to buy the tent and give it to you so that you can carry on preaching the Gospel”. Well, I mean that is amazing. This tent was worth millions and millions of dollars.
So I went into my closet. We went into prayer and I sought the Lord, and I felt the Lord say, “Do not touch the tent.” I mean, I couldn’t believe it. So I went back to the men and I said, “Thank you very much for your very kind offer but we feel the Lord does not want us to take the tent.” I only found out later that the tent, on average, cost a million rand to erect each time, then had to be taken down and shipped to the next place, and we would have to hire a whole fleet of trucks. Of course, needless to say, the very next year we had that next conference with 120,000 men and counting, who would never have fitted into the tent.
Today, listen to the word of God and not to man’s opinion, and things will go better for you.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 7th of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Gospel of John 11:21-25:
”Now Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.”
You see what happened there? Martha was one of Jesus’ best friends. Martha, Mary and Lazarus, he used to stay at their house many times. Now she asked, ”Lord, I’m praying for my brother.” He was dead. Jesus said to her, ”Your brother will not die, he will live.” Now she misunderstood him, she thought He was talking about the resurrection. No, He was talking about the fact that he was about be raised from the dead immediately. Do not limit God!
So often, we ask the wrong things. See, after that, Jesus went to the tomb, called Lazarus out of the tomb, and he was raised from the dead. Martha thought that the Lord was speaking about the day of resurrection when we are all going to be raised up. No, we need to listen to God and we must not ever limit God. He can do anything. I know. I’ve experienced it in my own life. I had an experience on this very farm where a woman was struck by lightening and all her friends told me she was dead. I prayed for her and God raised her up. That is a fact. Do not limit God!
That wonderful missionary, William Carey, who took the gospel to India said, ”Expect great things from God and attempt great things for God.” I heard one old faithful man of God say, ”He who aims for the stars, aims too low.” We must aim above the stars because God is not limited in anything. Do not limit God today. I don’t know what it is that you are trusting Him for, but I’m going to pray for you that God will open your spiritual eyes just to get a glimpse of how big and how great your God is!
Father,
I pray for my friend listening to this message right now, who has been limiting You, Lord. Their expectation of You is so low and yet Lord You want to give them so much. Lord, give them spiritual eyes to see well above anything that they can even dream of, and we thank You Lord that You will answer that prayer of faith.
In Jesus precious name.
Amen.
God bless you and remember, aim high and never limit God!
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 6th of July 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go straight to the Book of Acts 27:1 and I’m reading one verse:
”And when it was decided that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to one named Julius, a centurion of the Augustan Regiment.”
Are you on a journey today? Of course you are. All of us are on a journey, and just like Paul, the Apostle, we are trusting the Lord Jesus Christ to get us to our destination safely, but if you read on from this from this story, you’ll see that Paul went through a lot. Eventually, the ship he was sailing on actually sank, but no one drowned. Paul was trusting the Lord and encouraging the people.
This journey that you and I are on is not a bed of roses, not at all. God never promised us a bed of roses, but He did promise us that He would never, leave us and that He would never forsake us. Hebrews 13:5. So where about are you on the journey at the moment? Are you starting your journey? Are you completing your journey? Well, only God knows, but what we do need to do is to take one day at a time, sometimes one hour at a time, it’s all we can manage, but we must be sure of our destination.
Remember, if you aim at nothing, you’re going to hit it. If you’ve got no port of call to aim for, then you’re going to be wandering in the sea. Paul knew he had to go to Rome. He knew that he was going to suffer and he knew that he was going to die for the Lord, but he could still be steadfast, encourage other people and run his race. What a man of God! The men here at Shalom, we have a prayer meeting on a Wednesday morning at five o’clock and one of our favourite songs is the following one:
I have decided to follow Jesus
I have decided to follow Jesus
I have decided to follow Jesus
No turning back. Praise the Lord, no turning back.The cross before me and the world behind me
The cross before me and the world behind me
The cross before me and the world behind me
No turning back. Praise the Lord, no turning back.Amen. Let’s set our sights, like Paul, on the destination which is ultimately heaven itself.
Have a wonderful day, Jesus bless you and goodbye.
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 5th of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 17:19:
”And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes,…“
Then we go straight to Psalm 119:105:
”Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
We have it all there, the Lord has put it before us. The Israelites wanted a king like all the other nations, and so reluctantly God gave them a king, but the statute was that the king must obey the law of the Lord. The fear of the Lord - that’s not to be afraid of God, but it is to respect God, to treat the Lord with reverence, to obey His laws, and then things will go well for him, and you’ll see that right through history. When a leader uses God’s Holy Word, the Bible, as his compass and direction finder, that man, that woman, will be used mightily of God to lead their people.
I think of a school today. The school that opens every morning with prayer and scripture reading, that school is going to go well. I’m telling you folks, I know it. The same thing happens in the business. I’ve seen it, men are doing it all over the place and woman, they start their day, whether it be a garage where they are fixing motor vehicles, whether it be in a mine, where they are going down underground, before they go down they pray and they read the word of God. On the farm, all my farm workers coming together and hearing the word of God for that day. It brings unity, it brings peace, and it brings joy. What about the home? That’s the real place. You see, when we use the word of God at home, it settles all arguments and disputes. In the morning, moms and dads, pray for your children before they go to school, before they go to university, every day.
We think of a court of law. When that person is called up in a court of law, he has to put his hand on the Bible, and he’s got to say, ”I promise to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God.” These are statutes that have been put in place so that we might live lives of peace, of prosperity, and of hope, giving Jesus Christ first place every single morning in your life, and you will be amazed at how well things will go!
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 4th of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to 1 Samuel 15:22: “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.”
Now, every single time the Israelites disobeyed God, they had to bring a sacrifice, an offering to ask God to forgive them, but now the man of God, Samuel, a wonderful prophet of God, said it is better to obey rather than keep on saying sorry, to keep on making a sacrifice, taking the fat of rams, which was very choice, and using it as an offering.
I want to say to you three things: True faith in God (number 1) brings obedience, (number 2) and the obedience eventually brings blessing. What do I mean by that? Well, many, many years ago we had a big campaign in King’s Park Rugby Stadium in Durban, South Africa. When I was preaching my heart out in my Scottish kilt, they had said on the radio that El Niño, that horrible, horrific drought, was coming to South Africa. The rural small-time farmers must not plant any crops because it will be a failure. I said clearly, “To hell with El Niño, I am going home. I am going to plant a crop of potatoes. Now, I had never grown potatoes in my life, and I had no form of watering them, no irrigation. I was going to do it on dry land. Even my neighbour came over and said, “Angus, are you committing suicide? You can never reap anything out of that, and El Niño is coming. I said, “I am going to do it by faith.” So, by faith, I went home and planted my first crop of potatoes, and, of course, the rest is history.
What a blessing! Oh yes, they did grow in spite of what all the naysayers said, and I reaped a crop of potatoes, and that was the beginning of an abundant blessing that God has given to me, because I wrote a book called “Faith like Potatoes.” Do you know, that book is in 17 different languages? Do you know there is a movie? And it is still available to this day. Sony, the big picture movie giants have signed us up for another 15 years. Why is that? It is because obedience brings blessing.
Today, I don’t know what it is that you are struggling with. Hear clearly from God, then by faith, do it. Sometimes it won’t even make sense. By faith do it, so that God will receive all the glory. May the Lord bless you as you step out into the unknown by faith, with your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the waters, Jesus Christ.
God bless you and goodbye.
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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 3rd of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Book of Acts 26:28:
”Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You almost persuade me to become a Christian.”
We want to talk today about the power of personal testimony.
The Lord saved my wife, Gill and me through a lay witness mission. What does that mean? A group of ordinary people, like you and me, coming into a church and just getting up one after another and giving testimony of the change in their lives through what Jesus Christ had done for them. Simple, yet absolutely profound, honest stories from the lives of just the man in the street, that is what changed my life. It was no fancy preaching. It wasn’t a fancy sermon. It wasn’t an intellectual lecture. No, it was a simple story told by a simple housewife, a simple farmer, a simple student - just real stories. Now, Paul, the apostle, did exactly that. He just told Agrippa how Jesus Christ had met him on the road to Damascus and his life was instantly changed.
Well, these people came up, I’ll never forget it as long as I live, one by one, and they gave short stories. These stories lasted maybe two minutes, three minutes at most. They were saying,” I was caught up in alcoholism. I could not stop drinking. I hated myself for it, then I came before the Lord and I asked Him to help me, and supernaturally He delivered me from the curse of alcoholism.” Then the next person would come up and say, ”My marriage was in a total mess.” He would come up with his wife. The two of them would stand there. ”We couldn’t get on. We decided we were going to get divorced, then we thought about the children and we thought we’d give it another go and then we met Jesus Christ. Now we are more in love with each other than we were when we first met each other.” Powerful stories! Successful businessmen who were really in a bad way, their businesses all of a sudden took a downward turn and everything that they had been working for was lost. Then they turned to Christ and He restored them a hundred-fold.
I want to say to you today, do not be scared to tell people how the Lord has impacted your life and you might say, ”Well I don’t have much of a story.” You will be surprised, my dear friend, the simpler the story, the more profound. Just keep telling people what Jesus Christ has done in your life. That is the most powerful story you will ever tell.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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