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

We start in the first book of the Bible, Genesis 4:8:

”Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.”

The very first family in the Bible, and two brothers, were in contention. They had a dispute, and one brother killed the other.

Then we go straight to Acts 15:39:

”Then the contention became so sharp that they parted from one another.“

Oh, folks, maybe you’ve got contention in your family this morning. Maybe there’s a dispute that you just cannot seem to settle. I want to ask you to really reconsider before you do something that you might regret for the rest of your life. I looked up the word “contention” in the Oxford dictionary. It means a heated disagreement, it means being stroppy with the other, argumentative.

Folks, we are talking here about two giants of the faith. We’re talking about a man who actually wrote two-thirds of the New Testament himself. I’m talking about Paul the Apostle, and he fell out, he had a sharp argument with a man, Barnabas, who is regarded in the Bible as “the encourager”, and the two fell out because of an argument over Mark.

I want to say to you today, we cannot allow that to happen. We are living in very stressful times, and these heated disagreements must stop. I have seen men lose businesses because they will not settle the argument. They split up and the business fails and goes down. We need each other, we are talking here about relationships. Folks, marriages - it concerns me a lot, the amount of people that are getting divorced, and many times they come to me and I ask them, ”What was the reason? Where did it all start? Is there a third party involved?” “No, no, there’s no one else involved. We just cannot get on.” I want to say to you, it’s not good enough. You need to go back to God and repent. “Yes, but I’ve got my rights, Angus.” No, you don’t have your rights. If you gave your life to Jesus Christ, you surrendered your rights. We can agree to disagree. We don’t have to agree on everything, but we mustn’t allow these trivial things, because that’s what they are, to destroy your future. I’m talking about friendships, pick up the phone and say, ”Sorry man,” say, ”I didn’t mean to say what I said. Please forgive me.”

You know it takes two to Tango, as they say, you can’t dance by yourself and when you argue, if you say, ”Listen, I’m not going to go any further, I want to tell you. I want to leave it.” Leave it there, go to the Lord and reconcile with one another quickly. Do it today!

Jesus bless you and goodbye.

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

We go to the Book of Acts 16:9:

“And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”

The one thing I loved about Paul, the Apostle, when I read all those letters, was that he was an obedient man. He was not interested in a good idea because he knew that a good idea is not always a God-idea! When he and Silas were travelling, they were going to go to Phrygia, and the Holy Spirit said, “Don’t go to Phrygia”, then to Mysia, “Don’t go to Mysia, don’t go to Bithynia, don’t go to Troas.” He never went to any of those places in Asia, but he crossed the sea and went to Macedonia, where the Lord Holy Spirit had told him to go. It is very important to do what the Holy Spirit tells you to do, not what other people tell you to do, not to accept every invitation that comes from all over. Only do what God tells you to do.

Now, I can really identify with this Macedonian call. Many of you will remember a few years back, I had a Macedonian call, and it was to Cape Town. Cape Town had had no rain for two years. They were in a terrible state, but that is not what called me. It was a Macedonian call, a young man by the name of Ashley, a very dear son in the Lord, whom I did not know. Through a daily reading of Scripture Union I was reading, I got the Macedonian call. I phoned him. He didn’t even know who I was, he thought it was someone playing a trick on him, but when I convinced him that it was me, I said, “I am coming to Mitchell’s Plain.”

Now, folks, as soon as people heard we were going to Mitchell’s Plain, they said, “You are mad. You mustn’t go there because those people will hurt you.” I said, “They will not hurt me. God has told me to go there.” And they said to me, ‘But no one will come and support you because no one will go to that area.” Well, we had over 250,000 people there, and by the way, it started raining in the middle of the meeting, and I don’t think it stopped since. Signs, miracles, wonders - the first time in my life, the Holy Spirit again told me to take my clothes off and give them to the young gang leaders who had come forward to give their lives, to change their guns for Bibles. It was an amazing event, probably one of the highlights of my preaching career.

Today, listen to the Macedonian call! When God tells you to do something, do it. If God tells you not to do it, don’t do it, and you will succeed in everything you do.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 4th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Book of Deuteronomy 2:7, in the Old Testament:

“For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.”

Then we go straight to the Book of Philippians 4:19:

”And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

We are living in difficult times, there’s no doubt about it. The price of fuel is skyrocketing, it is affecting people in every sector of life - the transporters, the shops, the farmers, in many, many ways, because without diesel we can’t plough the fields, without diesel we can’t use our vehicles to transport our food, and what happens? The price just keeps going up. It doesn’t matter what form of transport, they are being affected at the moment, but we need to keep focused on the Lord.

The Lord reminded the children of Israel that He had supplied their needs for forty years. Why is He not going to do it now? Of course, He’s going to do it, He has always done it and He always will. He looks after His people. You see, the Lord doesn’t say, ”I will give you your wants - no, no, your needs, what you need - food to put on the table every day, clothes that you can look after your children and your family. He will supply your needs and He does it every single day. We need to take our eyes off the situation and focus on the Lord, who will supply our needs.

At the moment in South Africa, we are really suffering with that terrible virus called the Foot and Mouth Disease, where the cattle have got huge lesions, sores in their mouths. They cannot eat food, and their hooves are literally falling off. They cannot walk. It is a horrible, horrific sight to see, but we know it has happened before and the Lord has delivered us. He will supply our needs. This disease will pass and the fuel prices will stabilise, but what we need to do in the meantime is thank God that He has never failed us and He is not about to do it now. So let us trust in Him and trust in His goodness towards His people.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.