I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 2nd of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Old Testament in the Book of Deuteronomy 16:1. The Lord says:

“Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.”

Then we go to John 3:3:

“Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Then we go down a little bit further to verse 7, Jesus says again: “Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.” A conscious decision to make the greatest decision of your entire life, and we cannot afford to forget that time. I know some of you listening to this message can honestly say, “I don’t remember the exact day. I don’t remember the exact month, but I know that God has changed my life. That is wonderful and I rejoice with you but there must be a time in your life where you have drawn a line in the sand and said, “Devil, this far and no further.”

I did it on the 18th of February, 1979, in the little Methodist Church in the Main Street of our town, Greytown, and I will never ever forget it. No, I didn’t see any bolts of lightning, I didn’t hear any thunder - no, I made a conscious decision that I was going to follow Jesus Christ and Him, alone.

That is why the Jewish people are so strong in their roots, because they do not forget the time that the Lord took them out of Egypt, 400 years of slavery, took them out by night - miraculous - and they will not forget that. I have been to Israel many, many times. I have had the privilege of speaking at the Feast of Tabernacles, where they rejoice in the Lord and tell their children about what happened and how they came out of slavery in Egypt. I want to tell you now, even today, I want to pray with you if you have never, ever made a conscious decision to follow Jesus Christ with all of your heart. Please pray this prayer after me, and I am going to pray it slowly:

Dear Lord Jesus,

I repent of my sin, and I ask you to be the Saviour of my life today, on the 2nd of July, Thursday morning, 2026. I will serve no other gods but You.

Thank You for dying for me, a sinner, on the Cross at Calvary, but Lord, through Your death I have been set free from the slavery of the system in this world.

In Jesus’ name, amen.

Wonderful! Congratulations! Go and tell 3 people what you have just done. Until next time, Jesus bless you!
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 1st of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Matthew 25:21:

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.”

I want to ask you a question today. Are you being obedient to what the Lord called you to? Whenever I think of an obedient servant, I think of Job, the farmer. Job didn’t always have it going well for him. We know that. If you look at Job 13:15, he said

“Though He slay me, yet will I (still) trust Him.”

That is unconditional surrender, that is being a faithful servant whether the going is good or whether the going is not so good. Where do you stand today?

I want to pray for you in a moment because I read something this morning that really stirred me up. A famous man of God said, “God holds us responsible, not for what we have but for what we might have had, not for what we are but for what we might have been.” I want to say to you today, there is no future in the past but this is a directive that I believe we need to look at. The Lord is saying, “But I told you to do that and you didn’t do it, now you haven’t got anything. I gave you an opportunity to go through that door, but you were scared. I gave you an opportunity but now you have lost it.” But we thank God that He is a merciful God and if we cry out to Him, He will give us another opportunity to put things right. So I want to pray for you:

Heavenly Father,

I pray for my dear friend listening to this message today, that he will repent, say sorry, for things in his life he knows he should have done and yet he didn’t do them. Give him an opportunity, Lord, to rectify that situation by opening another door for him, that he might go through in faith, and then Lord, he will become the man, the woman, that you meant them to be.

I pray this prayer over myself as well, Lord. Please forgive me for pushing aside so many opportunities because of fear, because of unsureness, because of a lack of faith and maybe because of sin in my life. Today, I say sorry, I repent, I dust myself off and I am going to go ahead and take that new opportunity that, by faith, You are going to give me. I pray this in Jesus’ name, amen.

God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 29th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 24:15:

“Each day you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and has set his heart on it; lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and it be sin to you.”

Then we go to the Gospel of Matthew 20:2:

“Now when he had agreed with the labourers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.”

Now, it is not in the Bible, but you know the old saying, “a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay”? But that is so true. We really need to be careful. If you are an employer and you are listening to this message, a word from the Lord for you: if you try to underpay your staff and steal their wages, the Lord will not be pleased with you, and things will not go well in your business. I also want to say to the employees, if you are abusing your boss, your employer, by stealing his time, using his equipment for personal gain or profit, the Lord will not be pleased with you. I can tell you right now, the work will not go well, and you will probably eventually be caught and fired. We really need to honour what the Lord has put in place. We need to work hard, we need to work diligently, then our employer will treat us, hopefully, in a godly manner.

You know, when I started farming, I was in a new area. I didn’t know many people here. In fact, I hardly knew anyone, and the only people I would speak to were the people who would come to the farm and ask for work, and I built up some wonderful relationships with my staff. My one foreman, you might have heard of him - Simeon Bhengu, he became, not only my employee but a very good personal friend to me. Many a time we would sit together and talk about the day’s work. Should I plant this crop or shouldn’t I? Should I buy those animals or shouldn’t I? And he would give me godly wisdom. Now, he is not a very well-educated man but of course, neither am I, but together, we would sit and make a plan and it would work, and he would be happy and I would be happy.

If a man comes to work for you and he is stealing from you, you need to dismiss him because he does not honour you, especially if you give him a warning and he still carries on with his abuse of the responsibility that you have given him. Today, pay well, work hard and God will do the rest.

Jesus bless you and goodbye.