I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 15th of September, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of Luke 21:28. Jesus says:

”Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”

Then we go to Revelation 1:7:

”Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.”

This morning, the Lord says to you and me, “Lift up your heads because I am coming back and I’m coming back very soon.” The signs are all around us, folks. How much more terrible must it become on this earth before the Lord returns? He has promised us He’s coming. He goes on to say in verse 29. He says:

”Look at the fig tree, and all the trees. When they are already budding, you see and know for yourselves that summer is now near.”

In South Africa, summer is near. Outside the window of my little prayer room, I have a beautiful fig tree that my young daughter gave me a couple of years ago as a gift. We have planted it. I want to tell you, it is budding. What is it telling me? It’s telling me that summer is coming. Now the Lord says, when you see all these terrible things happening on the earth, be prepared for My second coming because these are the signs that I’m coming back for my people.

All those young mothers will tell you that when they are pregnant for the first time and dad is so excited and waiting for their first baby to be born, they have everything ready. Everything is in place. They’ve got the room prepared. They’ve got the cot, the special blankets, the special colours. I don’t know whether it’s blue or pink, it doesn’t matter, but I want to tell you one thing, when that baby says, ”I’m coming”, you'd better be ready because that baby is coming irrespective of what you say. That is how it is with the Lord. He’s coming in the clouds. We must be ready. Prepare yourselves, prepare your hearts, prepare your children, prepare your family, prepare your friends. Tell them, Jesus is on His way.

God bless you and have a wonderful day as you lift up your heads and wait because He’s coming in the clouds, and we can’t wait for that day!

Have a lovely day,
Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 14th of September, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Book of Malachi 3:8:

”Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me! But you say,’ In what way have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.”

Then we go down to verse 10,

”Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house…” (The Lord says),”… and try me now in this if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.”

We’re talking about a tithe. A tithe is ten percent of your income. It’s a serious one and it’s a very sensitive one, and I’m just going to share my heart with you. It is not money that you have to even think about. It belongs to God. The first ten percent is His. I’m not talking about tithing on money that you’ve borrowed. That’s not your money. I’m talking about money that belongs to you, and then after the tithe comes the gifts and the offerings.

Robert Le Tourneau, the man who started those big yellow machines, was one of the wealthiest men in the world. He loved God with a passion. He used to tithe ninety per cent of his income and keep ten per cent, and he was a multi-millionaire, and he supported Christian missions all over the world. He used to say, ”When you go to church and you put your hand in your pocket when the offering plate comes around, don’t ask yourself the question, ”How much of my money am I going to give to the Lord today?” Ask yourself, ”How much of the Lord’s money am I going to keep to myself today?”

The mindset for that man was, it all belongs to Him anyway, and God prospered him because he was generous. Now, I can hear someone saying to me, ”But I don’t go to church. I live in the bush. There’s no churches anywhere near me. Where do I send my tithe?” You send your tithe to the storehouse where you get your bread, where you get your food from the Lord. That’s where you send your tithe so that the Lord can use it to expand the work He’s given us to do.

The Lord also likes a cheerful giver. He doesn’t want you to tithe if you hate doing that or if you don’t like giving money to the Lord’s work. Don’t do that, He doesn’t like that at all. You must do it willingly and joyfully and God who has told us here. He says, “Will not I open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such a blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it?” That’s what we do.

Jesus bless you as you pray about this because it’s between you and God, no one else.

Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 13th of September, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to 1 Corinthians 9:27:

”But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.”

I want to say to you, my dear friend, today, and this applies to me equally, as believers and followers of Jesus Christ, we have to live disciplined lives. Undeserved loving kindness, unmerited favour, that’s what grace is. We have been saved by grace through faith and that not of ourselves, for it was a gift from God. (Ephesians 2:8) but the Lord requires us to be good examples. Do not drop the ball, so to speak, by being a poor example to other believers and leading them astray.

The other night, I was watching an interview on television for an upcoming international rugby match, a really important one between the All Blacks of New Zealand and the Springboks of South Africa. It was a very serious and intense discussion by rugby experts, and it was a panel of New Zealanders. The one interviewer asked one of the great All Black players, ”What is it that you think the team needs to concentrate on, when the Springboks come across to New Zealand because it’s going to be a very critical match?” I was quite interested to hear what this man said. He said one word, ”Discipline.” He said,“We’ve got the players, the talent, but if we do not discipline ourselves we can lose the match.” Because when you get a yellow card, the player has to go off the field for ten minutes, and if you get two players off the field, you are now down from fifteen to thirteen players and the opposition has a distinct advantage and you can lose the match just by the lack of discipline.

I want to say to you today as believers, we need to watch how we are living because we can give the opposition, I’m talking about the devil, a chance to get the upper hand in our lives. We need to get up in the morning. We need to eat correctly. We need to exercise. We need to spend time in the Word. We need to pray. This is Paul speaking when he says, ”I discipline my body and bring it into subjection.” It means it must come into submission, so that you become a good example of what a Christian should be like.

Today, let’s go out and discipline ourselves, and we will enjoy life a lot more as well.

Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 12th of September, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of Luke 20:38. Jesus says,

“For He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him.”

You and I do not worship a god made of stone or wood, which is carved by human hands. Oh no! He is alive, He is well and He wants to talk with you and me today.

I have been to Israel many, many times. I love that place. I always go to the Old City and I go to the tomb to see where the Lord Jesus Christ was buried, and I want to tell you, my dear friend, there is nothing in that tomb. It is empty! “Why?” you might say. Because Jesus rose from the dead. He is not there. Even when Mary Magdalene went down early in the morning, to find the body of Christ, He was not there. He was alive, He was risen, and He is well, and He wants to talk with you and me even today. You can go to David’s tomb, also in the Old City, and his remains are there, that’s right, his bones are still there, but Jesus is not dead, He is alive.

I see Him so often as a farmer. I see Him in the early morning sunrise as the sun comes over. I see Him in the evening, in the sunset when the sun is starting to set. I can see Him in the face of a newly born baby. I can smell the Lord when there has been rain after a period of dryness. You can smell that perfume. He is alive, He is your God, He is my God and the good news is, He is coming back very soon to take you and me to be with Him in His house forever.

So today, worship the Lord, praise His name, speak with Him because He wants to have fellowship with you, and open your spiritual eyes and you will see Him all over the place.

Jesus bless you and have a great day,

God bless,
Bye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 11th of September, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in Psalm 81:10. The Lord says,

“Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.”

Then we go to Jeremiah 1:6:

“Then I said “Ah, Lord God! Behold I cannot speak, for I am a youth.”

God equips the men and women that He calls to do His work for Him. I don’t often give a Thought For Today a title, but today I believe the Lord wants me to do that, and we would call this particular Thought For Today, “Speak Up”. Like never before, we need to, as believers, speak up. We need to tell people about Jesus Christ.

That’s exactly what happened with Moses. The Lord told Moses to go to Pharaoh and tell him to let His people go. He said, “But I can’t speak. I am not a man of eloquent speech.” He had a stutter; he couldn’t speak properly, but the Lord said that He would give him the ability to speak and what a statesman he became! Many people say the greatest statesman that has ever walked on the earth was Moses, greater than any president of any country, because he opened his mouth and God filled it.

The key for you and me is found in John 15:7, which says:

”If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”

It’s God’s words in our mouths that will do the job. We are only a conduit pipe. That’s all we are, and the Lord uses us and speaks through us.

Robert Murray McShane, that wonderful Scottish preacher. A young man who died at the age of about 29 years old. He said, ”Rather than have been an instrument of the Lord, all I was, was an adoring spectator.” I can tell you and confirm that. Many a time I’ve stood on the platform and looked out at a massive crowd of tens of thousands of people and I felt myself standing next to myself, if that makes any sense, and God speaking through me.

The first sermon I ever preached in my life was in the main street of Greytown. I had prepared that message for about six weeks. I stood up there for the first time in my life. The minister was standing next to me. He said, ”Don’t worry, Angus, if you can’t finish it off, I’ll do it for you.” But he didn’t have to. I opened my Bible, page one, said good morning to everybody, and I turned over page one and there was nothing there! I had left the notes somewhere. I had lost them and I had page fifteen (which was the benediction). That was the day that the Lord said, ”Are you going to do this by faith or not?” Well, I said, ”Yes Lord, by faith.” And the rest is history. Today, remember if God has called you, He will equip you.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 10th of September, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Book of Exodus 4:3:

And He said, “Cast it on the ground.”

That was the rod that Moses was holding. The Lord said, “Cast it on the ground” and it became a serpent. That, my dear friend, is a miracle.

Then we go right to the New Testament to the Gospel of John 2:11:

”This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.”

Jesus turned the water into wine at the marriage feast of Cana. The Bible says, “and His disciples believed in Him.”

We have a saying at Shalom, it goes like this: “One genuine miracle equals a thousand sermons.” Isn’t that true? The Lord said to Moses, “Cast the stick onto the ground” and it turned into a snake, then the Lord said, “Put your hand in your breast under your clothes, and then pull it out,” and it was leprous, white with leprosy. Then the Lord said, “Put your hand back into your clothes, to your breast, and pull it out a second time”, and it was clean and clear. Then the third thing He said, “Take some water, pour it on the ground and it turned into blood.”

Folks, I want to say today that I believe in miracles. There are three miracles that the Lord gave Moses to prove to Pharaoh that God had sent him. What about you today? Do you believe in miracles? I want to pray today for an alcoholic who is listening to this message. I want to pray for a drug addict caught in substance abuse, and I want to pray for a miracle in your life today, and I want you to write to me and tell me what has happened. There is an old song that I heard the other day, an old Country and Western song, the type that I really love and this old man was singing a beautiful song from his heart and he said that God turned the wine back into water for him. Isn’t that beautiful?

Father,

I want to pray today for that man, that woman, who is suffering from alcoholism, drug addiction, substance abuse.

In Jesus’ name, I am believing for a miracle in their lives. Lord, turn it around, set them free, give them a new life.

Until next time,
Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 9th of September, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Psalms 118:22:

”The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.”

Then we go to the Gospel of Matthew 21:42:

“Have you never read in the Scriptures” (Jesus said) “the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.”

Jesus is the cornerstone in our lives. Without Him, we will not stand. When you build a house or any building, look at any builder, he will always put up the corners first and then fill in the flat walls joining to the corners. If he tries to build a flat wall first, it will fall over. It cannot stand. Jesus is our chief cornerstone!

I looked up the Oxford dictionary to find out the literal meaning of the word, “cornerstone”, and this is what it says: a stone that forms the base of a corner of a building joining two walls. Another explanation is: an important quality or feature on which something is based. If your faith is not based on Jesus Christ, it will not stand, it will fall and that is a fact.

Your marriage, young lady, young man. If Jesus Christ is not going to be the cornerstone of your marriage, it will fall over, it will not last. Your future, young person, if it’s not based on the Chief Cornerstone, which is Jesus Christ it will fail. It will be rejected, it will fall, because as soon as the winds come, the tribulation, the hardship, the stress, the blood, the sweat, the tears - as soon as that comes, it will collapse if it is not based on a strong cornerstone which is Jesus Christ.

Today, make Him the cornerstone of everything you do. He must be your very hope and then you’ve got something you can build on.

God bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 8th of September, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Exodus 3:14:

”And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ “

Wow, what a title! I’m so excited this morning. “I AM who I AM.” I AM is the name of God, and then we go to John 14:10:

”Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? “

You see, Phillip said, ”Show us the Father.” “I am the Father. I am in Him and He is in me.” I can hear somebody say, ”Oh, are you sure about that?” Don’t be like Phillip. Just believe, folks. Our faith is all about believing in the fact that Jesus is God. How can I prove that? Well, Matthew 1:23 is very specific, and His name is Immanuel, which is translated, God with us.

Oh folks, today I want to tell you, we need to open our eyes, and we need to ask the Holy Spirit to show us Jesus in this world. You know, I’m a farmer. When I get up early in the morning, as the sun rises. I can see Him in the sunrise, I can see Him in the sunset, I can see Him in the face of a newly born baby. Oh yes I can. I can smell Him when the first rains after a long dry winter start falling onto the dry ground. I can feel Him in my Spirit!

Do you remember that beautiful old hymn, “All over the world the Spirit is moving?” If you know it please sing it with me:

All over the world the Spirit is moving,
All over the world as the Prophet said it would be, Hallelujah!
All over the world, there’s a mighty revelation,
Of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

Oh, deep down in my heart the Spirit is moving,
Deep down in my heart as the Prophet said it would be, Hallelujah!
Deep down in my heart, there’s a mighty revelation,
Of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Jesus bless you. Open your spiritual eyes and you’ll see Him today,
God bless you and goodbye