I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 1st of January, 2026. Happy New Year! This is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Zechariah 4:6:

‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts.”

Then we go to John 12:21:

“Then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”

I really believe 2026 is going to be a year of great harvest and it’s not going to be done by theologians. No, it’s going to be done by ordinary people, like you and me, blue-collar workers, as they say! Yes, the mother, the young student, the miner, the farmer - we have to bring in the harvest. It is too big for us to rely on the pastors and the leaders of churches, and we respect them and love them dearly, but we cannot expect them to bring in this mighty harvest. You see, Jesus is not coming soon, He is on His way. I have told you that for years, and this is our opportunity now, to tell the world about the soon-coming King.

I have a very dear man who is very close to my hear. He is one of my spiritual sons. He has just returned with a band of young men. I don’t think there is one of them that is older than thirty years old, and they are not theologians. They are students, school leavers, and they have gone to the other side of the world to preach the Gospel to the people of Nepal. Yes, they have been walking up and down those foothills of the mighty Himalayas, and they have been doing it for over ten days. They have been preaching, they have been binding the strongman and releasing the Holy Spirit to do a mighty work, and what a harvest!

We are not talking about tens of thousands of people. We are talking about an old lady who lives by herself in a little hut on top of a foothill, where they had to walk 20 kilometres to reach her and bring her to Christ. We are talking about the sick and the poor. We are talking about strengthening the young church that is growing at a rate on the foothills of the mighty Himalayas. Somebody got healed, somebody came to Christ, somebody was born again, and now they have returned to their home in South Africa. Today, remember the Lord is available to whoever calls upon His name. Those Greeks that came to Israel were asking Philip, “Please sir, we want to see Jesus.”

Let’s show the world this year who Jesus is!
God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, yes, the last day of 2025, can you believe it? Tomorrow will be a brand new year. I really want to say to you, well done, good and faithful servant. You have almost completed another year!

I have a beautiful scripture for you today and it’s found in Hebrews 7:25, and today I want to read it to you out of the Amplified translation:

“Therefore He is able also to save forever (completely, perfectly, for eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede and intervene on their behalf [with God].”

Jesus will never leave you, Jesus will never forsake you, Jesus never changes, He lives forever! Isn’t that good news because you don’t know what the year’s going to hold for you, do you? You’ve heard all kinds of threats of what’s going to happen in the world - governments rising; government falling; different moral standards. You don’t know what’s happening but He lives faithfully forever.

Now I found this beautiful little reading in an old devotional that I’m reading at the moment and this is written by Alexander Maclaren:

”This is our hope for ourselves and for His truth and for mankind. Men come and go; leaders, teachers, thinkers, all speak and work for a season, and then they fall silent and impotent. He abides. (He doesn’t change) They die but He lives. They are lights kindled, (like a little candle light) and, therefore, sooner or later are quenched; but He is the true light from which we can draw all their brightness, and He shines forevermore.”

So today, our confidence is not in any leader, in any government, in any situation, in any monetary system, or moral situation. No, our trust for 2026 is in Christ alone because He lives forever. Enjoy the last day of 2025, and let us look forward with confidence to what 2026 has in store for us, because He ever liveth!

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 30th of December, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go straight to the Gospel of John 12:43:

“for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.”

When I read that Scripture I just think of one thing, the fear of man, and I want to say to each one of us as we are facing the new year of 2026, let us stop chasing the approval of man and start doing things for God’s glory alone. It will change our lives dramatically. I looked up the translation of this Bible verse in The Message Translation, and it is quite interesting. It says,

“They were afraid of getting kicked out of the meeting place. When push came to shove they cared more for human approval than for God’s glory.”

How true is that? Let us change our complete outlook this coming year. Let us start asking ourselves that question, “What would God do?” - before we do it.

I have spoken to men who got trapped in alcoholism, alcoholics, and I asked them, “Why did you do it?” And they have told me, “No, we didn’t do it because we wanted to. We did it because we wanted to stay in favour with the crowd”, and of course when you become an alcoholic, you are immediately chucked out of the crowd and you are on your own. I have spoken to drug addicts, and I said, “Why did you get into this hellish thing?” And they said, “We were just trying to keep in with the crowd, to be popular, and so we thought we would dabble in these drugs.” And now, they have been caught up in that horrible thing called addiction. The young girl, a virgin who loved the Lord, why did you sleep with that man? “No, not really, but I was just wanting to be popular with the crowd because all my friends were doing it.” And because you did it thinking it would be safe, you ended up getting pregnant and marrying the man you did not love.

Let us not go down that road this coming year. Let us start doing what the Lord Jesus Christ wants us to do for our own sake and for His glory. Let us start to walk in holiness and then we will have a life that is full of joy and purpose and victory!

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.