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Thought For Today
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A short, inspirational thought for today, from Angus Buchan.
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Hard Workers
3d ago00:02:27Tap to summarizeI greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 2nd of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Acts 20:7: ”Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.” How’s that for a sermon? Preaching all night! But there was a young man, whose name was Eutychus. He was sinking into a deep sleep, and he fell out the window, the third storey. He fell to the ground, and he died. Paul stopped his preaching, went down to the bottom, laid his hands, laid his body over Eutychus and prayed, and God raised him up! Then Paul went back upstairs and kept preaching all night until the sun came up, then he blessed them all and continued on his journey. What a man! What a work ethic!I want to encourage you today, young man, young lady. You must work hard and especially for the Kingdom of God. It’s not about, “Oh, so and so is so lucky, or he is so blessed or so privileged.” No, if you look into that man’s life, you will see that he was a very diligent, hard-working man or woman. At university, at school, in the workplace, continually working and praising the Lord - a wonderful example to so many people who can’t even get out of their bed in the morning.Strength for the strain - God gives us enough strength for the work that he’s called us to. Let us not become lazy. Let us not become slack. You know that beautiful scripture found in Galatians 6:9: “And let us not grow weary (tired) while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” Jesus bless you. Have a wonderful day as you keep working for the Master! Goodbye.
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Confess
4d ago00:03:24Tap to summarizeI greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 1st of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 9:26. This is Moses speaking: “Therefore I prayed to the Lord, and said: ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.” The Lord was so angry with the Children of Israel because they had made a moulded calf out of gold and started to worship it because Moses had taken so long to come down from the mountain. Then we go straight 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.” Then the last scripture is Luke 23:34: “Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” He said that while He was hanging on the cross.You know sin is a terrible thing. It hurts so many people, especially our loved ones. I’m talking about that divorce, I’m talking about that period that you have spent in prison because you stole something, I’m talking about the lies that have got you into so much trouble. It actually damages our testimony. We have nothing to say after that. It breaks my heart when I hear of men and women of God who have done so much for the Lord and then they fall into sin and their whole testimony is wiped out in one night. I remember one man, we know him well, but I’m not going to name him, he was one of the top apologists in the world. He was a man who had the students literally eating out of his hand, and then he dropped the ball, as they say, and overnight his books, his material was taken off all the shelves of every Christian bookshop that I know of, but I want to tell you some good news. 1 John 1:9 says: ”If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” I want to pray for you. Maybe you have got yourself into a terrible situation. I want to say to you, confess your sins to your wife, to your husband, to your children, to your parents, to your loved ones. Say sorry, Jesus paid the price for our sins. He says: ”Go and sin no more, your sins are forgiven.” Pray this prayer after me: Jesus, please forgive me for the way in which I have sinned knowingly, in a moment of weakness. I am devastated by what I have done and I plead Your blood over my life to wash the sins away so that I can continue to live a life which is pleasing to You and to my loved ones. I ask this in Your precious name. Amen.God bless you and goodbye.
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Legacy
5d ago00:03:02Tap to summarizeI greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 31st of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to Mark 8:36: ”For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” Or we can say, “family”.I want to speak to you about legacy. What are we leaving behind for our children when we go on to be with the Lord? I want to say to you. I say this with sadness, it wasn’t so long ago I was asked to go and speak to a family where the patriarch, the old man of the family, was very ill. A mighty, wonderful servant of the Lord, an extremely hard-working man who has literally built up an empire of business, and he is leaving it to his family. Now he has an extensive family. I went and spoke to the whole family, but as they collected me at the airport to take me to the mansion where he is living, some of his family said to me, ”We need to tell you something. There’s been a lot of jealousy, a lot of unhappiness in the family with regard to whom is going to get what, when it comes to inheritance.” Now the old man is not even dead and already they are arguing and fighting. One of his sons actually said to me, and he was very, very sad about it, that he has already been taken to court by one of the family because of money matters or inheritance matters. It should not be like this. It is very, very sad, and unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. I have the privilege of knowing many influential people, and many a time, the old gentleman and his dear wife, who have literally built up a fortune through hard work, through trusting the Lord, through investing wisely, but the children are not carrying on the legacy. They are wanting their part of the inheritance even before their parents have died. Let us be so careful to leave a good inheritance for the children’s sake, not for our sake. Teach them the word of God, teach them the principles of Jesus, teach them about the Lord, teach them that it is better to give than to receive. Teach them about their eternal inheritance they’ll receive when they go to Heaven, and then, by the grace of God, when we do go home, we will know that our family is in the hands of God and that the Bible is the ultimate authority for giving out your wealth to your loved ones.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.
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Nothing is Impossible
6d ago00:02:43Tap to summarizeI greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 30th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in John 15:5. Jesus says: ”…without Me you can do nothing.” Then we go to Philippians 4:13 which says:”I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Now, if you look at the photo that I’ve put on this Thought For Toay, you’ll see the cover of my new Bible which was given to me by a publishing house and I really esteem and thank them.I looked up a beautiful reading by a wonderful man of God who lived a while back. His name is F.B. Meyer, a man of God, and he says, and I quote, ”Apart from Him…” That’s Jesus, ”…we can do nothing. While we are abiding in Him, nothing is impossible. The one purpose of our life should therefore be to remain in living and intense union with Jesus, guarding against everything that would break it, employing every means of cementing and enlarging it, and just in proportion as we do so, we shall find His strength flowing into us for every possible emergency.” Isn’t that beautiful? “We may not feel it’s presence but we shall find it present whenever we begin to draw on it. There is no temptation that we cannot master. There is no tribulation which we cannot patiently bear. There is no difficulty with which we cannot cope, no work which we cannot perform. There is no confession or testimony which we cannot make if only our souls are living in healthy union with Jesus Christ. For as our day or hour, so shall our strength be.” Isn’t that beautiful?So today remember there is nothing which you cannot do if you are spending your time with Jesus Christ.Have a wonderful day. Jesus bless you and goodbye.
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The Finger of God
1w ago00:02:57Tap to summarizeI greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 29th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Exodus 31:18: “He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.” Then we go to the Gospel of John 8:6: “But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.”What was Jesus writing on the ground? Well, people have spoken about that for centuries. No-one actually knows but isn’t it God-incidental that His Father also wrote on the tablets of stone with His finger? Can you imagine - burnt into stone? Oh my friend, how desperately do we need something like that in this world where nothing is honourable, nothing is secure. You can’t believe anything anymore, can you?I have a very dear friend. Many, many years ago we were talking about, “What is absolute trust?” What can we do? Like we go and sign an agreement, the other person breaks it. He said that piece of paper is not even worth the weight of the paper. (He is a lawyer, by the way). He said, “Uberrima fides,” which is latin for utmost trust. What is utmost trust? It is the promise of a man. I have promised to pay you for that farm - and he does it; I have promised to honour you for the rest of my life, on your wedding day. It is absolute. It cannot be broken, cannot be bent, cannot be changed, cannot be misinterpreted. When I read this, this morning, oh my dear friend, I thought, “God, what an incredible Person You are! You wanted to make sure that we understood that the law of God is not to be broken by anybody under any circumstances.”How many times have countries signed agreements? No more war! They don’t even walk out the door and it starts again. Remember, Chamberlain came back from Germany. He had signed an agreement with Adolf Hitler and he said, “Peace, peace!” He got off the aeroplane shaking that piece of paper. “I have signed a piece of paper.” Folks, I don’t think Chamberlain had got off the aeroplane and Hitler was already invading the rest of Europe.Today, we need to understand. God gave us His word. Jesus wrote in the sand and He meant it. Have a wonderful day as you put your trust in the Son of God, Jesus Christ.God bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.
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Aim for the Heart
1w ago00:02:53Tap to summarizeI greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 28th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Acts 22:1-3. This is Paul speaking: “Brethren and fathers, hear my defence before you now.” and when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they kept all the more silent and he said: “I am indeed a Jew…” I always remember a famous man saying, ”If you speak to a man in English, you speak to his head, but if you speak to a man in his mother tongue, you speak to his heart.” What true words! You see, Paul was identifying with the people that he was speaking to. He was speaking to a group of Jews. He said, ”I am a Jew just like you.” Straight away, he had their attention. The Bible says that everybody went silent.I’ve seen it happen so many times before. When you get a farmer standing up, speaking to a farmer’s association and speaking, as it were in their home language, straight away, you have their attention. When you speak to a miner who goes underground to mine for gold or coal, and he’s speaking to a group of tough, hardened, wonderful miners, and he starts to talk about mining operations underground, straight away, he’s got their full attention. When I see a mother, well I’m thinking particularly of my wife at the moment, a housewife, a mother of five, a grandmother of thirteen, a great-grandmother of two. When she starts to speak to young mothers, she has their complete attention immediately. Why? Because she knows what she’s talking about and she knows their heart.Today, let us not concentrate so much on the technical aspect of things but let us start aiming at the heart of people, telling them about the love of Jesus Christ and what He means to you and to me, telling that woman that, ”it’s ok, I’ve been there where you’ve been before. I was also a young mother once, but my assurance was that Jesus Christ was with me in my darkest times when my child was sick, and I didn’t know what to do and I prayed.” And straight away those young mothers will remember that and never forget it. Today, aim at the heart, and not the head. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.
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Self-Control
1w ago00:03:12Tap to summarizeI greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 27th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in Proverbs 16:32: “He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.” Then we go to Romans 7:19, and this is Paul speaking, “For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.” (Verse 24:) “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” Now this is the great apostle, Paul, struggling also with his own feelings and control of himself. You know godliness with contentment is great gain. You will find that in 1 Timothy 6:6. We really need to take control of our emotions. We can blow it so easily, can’t we? We can be really spending time with God, we can be in the presence of God, then get into our motorcar and go to town and somebody cuts in front of you and all of a sudden you are in a rage and shaking your fists at that man, instead of just praying for him. You don’t know why that man cut in front of you. Maybe he is trying to get a sick person to the doctor. We don’t know what it is. We really need to ask the Holy Spirit to give us control over our emotions.One man of God wrote, “More dear in the sight of God and His angels, than any other conquest, is the conquest of self, which each man with the help of Heaven, can secure for himself.” We really need to ask the Lord to take control. Now, I have mentioned to you before, Brother Lawrence, the French monk who lived 300 years ago, wrote that little booklet. He didn’t write it. It was written about him, “Practicing the Presence of God,” when he came to the realisation that it doesn’t matter what you do in life, if you give it to the Lord, He will give you His peace. He was the guy who washed the pots and pans in the monastery, the one who sewed up the sandals of the other brothers whose sandals had broken. And they used to gather around him because they wanted the peace and the self-control that they saw evident in his own life, and it was simply because he handed it over to Jesus. Today, hand over to Jesus everything and let Him control your life. Jesus bless you and goodbye.
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Only By God's Grace
1w ago00:03:06Tap to summarizeI greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 26th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to Deuteronomy 8:17: “…then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.” Then we go to the New Testament, Luke 12:19 (This is a very successful farmer): “And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” ’But what happens after that? The Lord says, ‘Foolish man! This very night your soul will be required of you...”We need to be very careful how we stand, lest we fall. Bragging is a very dangerous thing, and I really want to stress today that the Lord was warning the Children of Israel in the first scripture verse I read to you in Deuteronomy, that all these riches that you had were given to you by Me, not by your own hand, but only by the love of God. Don’t forget who gave it to you! We really need to be careful of that one. Never forget to say, if somebody says, “Wow, you have done so well”, - it is only by God’s grace.” If we go to James 4:15, instead of bragging, the Bible says we ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that” because we don’t know how much time we have left on this earth. So it worries me when I see a young man who has been very successful in sport, commerce, industry, even the ministry, and he starts to take the glory. Never, ever touch God’s glory. That is the most dangerous thing you could ever do. We need to let our words be sweet when we talk because one day we might have to eat them! So just say, “God has been kind”. I love to drive around a farm where I see a hard-working successful young farmer and I say, “You have done so well here. Your crops are looking good, your cattle are fat, your sheep are looking great,” and to hear the young man say, “Yes sir, but it is only because of the kindness and the grace of God that I have them.’But when I see a young man who is arrogant, “Oh yes, I am going to work for a couple more years and then I am going to retire, and I am just so pleased with myself.” Be careful, it is only through God’s grace.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.
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Sanctified
2w ago00:03:36Tap to summarizeI greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 25th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Gospel of John 17:19, and this is the Lord Himself speaking: ”And for their sakes (that’s you and me) I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.” Sanctified - I looked up the Oxford dictionary, it means, “something holy”. “The only way that you and I can help them is by being the noblest and the best man or woman that it is possible for us to be.” That was spoken by a man named Phillips Brooks. You see it’s by example. That is how we help people. They won’t do what you tell them. I’m talking about your children; they will do what you do. So if you shout and swear, they’ll do exactly the same thing.Never give a person a job you cannot do yourself. Show them, don’t just tell them. When you’ve got a new tractor driver and he’s ploughing and the plough is not set properly, and the front coulter’s going in too deep, and the back one’s sticking up in the air, and he’s driving it in the wrong gear, and there’s black smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe, don’t sit in your pickup at the headland and shout at him. Rather let him come to the end of the field and before he turns the tractor around, jump on the tractor, ask him to sit next to you and show him the right gear, then set the plough for him and then he’ll be very happy and he’ll listen to you, but if you don’t know how to do it then don’t try and tell him. We need to walk the talk. That’s what Jesus always did, and that’s why I love Him so much. Do you remember that old hymn: ”A new commandment I give unto you?” Should we sing it together.A new commandmentI give unto you,That you love one anotherAs I have loved you,That you love one anotherAs I have loved you.By this shall all men knowThat you are My disciples,If you have love one for another.By this shall all knowThat you are My disciples,If you have love one for another.Jesus said, ”A new commandment I give unto to you, that you love one another as I have loved you." He showed us how to do it. Let us go out into the world and make sure that we do not cause people to stumble but to love them in the noblest and the best way we can!Jesus bless you and have a lovely day. Goodbye.
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Clean Out
2w ago00:03:23Tap to summarizeI greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning. The 24th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Acts 19:19-20: “Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totalled fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.”I just want to say to you this morning that we need to have a good hard look at ourselves and clean out the closet. What does that mean? Well, you know they talk about spring-cleaning. Normally at the end of a winter time, people will go through their homes and take out all the stuff that they don’t need and get rid of it. We need to clean out our closets, our wardrobes, our cupboards, our mantelpieces, things in our motorcars and boats that do not reflect the glory of Jesus. I am talking about burning horoscopes, folks. They are not acceptable. You don’t need a horoscope when you have the Holy Spirit. Tarot cards, statues of other gods - “Ja, but I got that from my granny and it’s an heirloom.” No, it’s not. It’s something you need to get rid of. Books and trinkets that have no bearing on your faith, get rid of it! You don’t need it. You see, it actually distracts us from worshipping the Living God, Jesus Christ.Lucky charms - get rid of them. You don’t need them. You have Jesus. He says, “I will never leave you. I will never forget you.” So why are you thinking about things that have no power or relevance in your life? These people were convicted by Paul’s preaching, by his signs and wonders and miracles. They took anything and everything out of their homes that did not glorify the Lord and burnt them publicly. So we need to do the same. We cannot serve two gods. Now, just to finish up - 2 Corinthians 5:17 says that if anyone is in Christ (that’s you and me) he or she is a new creation (brand-new). Old things have passed away, and behold, all things have become new. When Jill and I were convicted by the Holy Spirit to clean out our house, we took all those trinkets, and all those little statues, and those lucky charms and we took them to our donkey boiler. Now, for those of you in the big cities who do not understand what that is, it is a 44-gallon drum that we make as a little place for warming our water. We make a fire underneath it and we took all those things and we burnt them. And I want to tell you, it made us feel so good.Today, show Jesus you love Him. Show Him physically in action that there is nothing in your life more important than Him.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day!Goodbye.
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