I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 7th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in Numbers 14:9:

“…and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them.”

Then, of course, we go to that well-known scripture in 2 Timothy 1:7:

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”

The only thing we have to fear today is fear itself. Now remember, twelve spies went into the Land of Milk and Honey, and they came back with a report. Two of them with a good report and ten with a bad report: “There are giants in there, and if we go in there they are going to kill us”. But you see, Joshua and Caleb, and by the way, they were not youngsters (those men were in their eighties), they said, “We need to go up.” They had their eyes on Jesus, the other ten spies had their eyes on the situation and that is maybe your problem today and mine - our eyes are on the wrong place!

The only thing we need to fear is fear itself. How do you combat fear? I can hear some ladies saying to me, “But how do I get rid of this fear?” Well, it is a very simple answer. It is found in Romans 10:17:

“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

That is how you get rid of fear, by faith, not anything else, and you get faith by reading your Bible and also believing it. Remember, faith is not a feeling. Faith is a fact, it is a reality, and that is how Joshua and Caleb lived, and they went into the Promised Land by faith, faith in God.

I want to tell you about fear and what fear can do to you. Fear paralyses you. My one son is a horse trainer, and he told me a while back that I should know that, I am also riding horses. He said, “Dad, when you are within one metre, that is three feet, from a horse, that horse knows whether you are afraid or not, and that will determine how that horse responds to you, because if you are afraid of that horse, straight away that horse wonders, “Why is that person afraid?” And they become very fearful themselves, and that is when they sometimes bolt or they try and buck you off, but if you walk up to that horse in faith and love, pat him nicely on the neck and hug him and say, “Hello my boy, today, you and I are going for a ride”, then you’ll enjoy your ride.

Remember, God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and of a sound mind.

Have a wonderful day,
Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 6th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of John 21:22:

”Jesus said to him, “If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.”

That’s what Jesus said to Peter when Peter wanted to know what was going to happen to John. I think the Lord is saying to you and me this morning that what other people are doing is not your business. They belong to God and God will deal with them in His own time.

I think of Saul of Tarsus, who persecuted the Christians terribly, and then he got converted, and became Paul the Apostle. Probably, in my humble opinion, the greatest of all the apostles in the Bible, and I can hear a young man, a young girl, saying, ”I wish that I could be like Paul the Apostle.” Well if you look at 2 Corinthians 11:23, you will see how much it cost Paul to be an apostle for Jesus Christ. He gives a whole list of what he went through to follow the Master in his calling. Jesus gives us enough grace for our work and our calling. He says that His grace is sufficient for you and me. Do not be concerned about how other people are living.

“Can you drink of the cup?” That’s what He asked James and John. They said, ”We can.” And He said, ”and you will.” I want to tell you that 1 Timothy 6:6, is a very special scripture to me,

”Now godliness with contentment is great gain.”

Be satisfied with your lot, where you are in life, and be grateful to God, and pray for those who have a tremendous burden to carry, but don’t ask for things that you cannot handle, because those will trip you up eventually. The Lord knows how much you can take, and as He said to Peter, ”It’s got nothing to do with you, what I’m going to do with John. You follow me.”

Today, follow the Lord and be content with what you’ve got.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 5th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Joshua 14:8:

”Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the Lord my God.”

Then we go to Numbers 13:33:

”There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

Oh folks, how do you feel this morning? Do you feel like a son of God or do you feel like a grasshopper? That’s the question we need to ask ourselves. What is that giant in your life that is holding you back today from being an obedient child of God? You see the devil calls us grasshoppers. He says, you’ll never make it, you’re a failure, you messed up once before or twice or three times and you are done and dusted. No no! Jesus says that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. Do you remember that beautiful song? It was written many years ago and some of the lyrics sound like this:

When others see a shepherd boy, God may see a king,
Even though your life seems filled with ordinary things,
In just a moment, He can touch you and everything will change,
When others see a shepherd boy, God may see a king.

I want to say to you today, God did not create you or me to be grasshoppers. He created us to be the sons of God. “Yes Angus, but you don’t know what I’m going through.” No I don’t, but I know that anything is possible and all things are possible for those who believe. Remember those two words, “But God”. When people say, ”You’ll never make it.” You say, “But God”. When people say, ”You’ve got no education, you’ll never qualify”, “But God”. When people say, ”You will never be healed, you are dying.” You say, “But God”. Now I want to pray for you, and I want to pray that God will turn you and me from grasshoppers into kings, into princes, into princesses.

Father,

I pray in Jesus name, for my friend who is listening to this program right now.

Lord, change our outlook. Change our attitude. We are not grasshoppers, we are sons and daughters of the living God.

In Jesus name, amen.

God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.