I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 25th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the New Testament, Matthew 6:9:

”In this manner, therefore, pray, Our Father in heaven,…”

What a beautiful sound in Father’s ear to hear his children cry out to Him: “Our Father who art in heaven…” That’s for young men and young women, old men and old women, and especially the children. It’s the best name by which we can think of God as our Father.

Martin Luther said, ”It is a loving, deep, sweet, heart-touching name, for the name of Father is, in its nature, full of inborn sweetness and comfort." As a father myself, I love to hear the name, when my children, grandchildren call me “Father”. It makes me feel so wanted, so warm. You might say, ”But Uncle Angus, I don’t have a father.” You might not have a father on earth, oh, but you’ve got a Father in heaven who created you, and He is just looking forward to seeing you at home time. Can you imagine the day when Father says, ”Welcome home John, welcome home Mary”? What a day that will be! In Zulu we say, ”Baba.” In the Xhosa language we say, ”Tata.”

I have many men that have asked me to mentor them, five hundred and forty at the last count. I’m not their father. No, no, I don’t even pretend to be their father, but I do mentor them. Many of them don’t have an earthly father so they call me “Dad,” but they don’t call me “Father.” I love them dearly. When I get a message from them to say, ”Dad, we just want to tell you, we were praying for you this morning.” It touches my heart deeply.

Maybe there’s a lady out there who says, ”I’ve never had a father. I don’t know what a father’s like.” Oh, spend time in your closet speaking to Him and you’ll get to know Him so well. He is such a very special God. He’s your protector. He is your soon-coming king. He is your all-in-all. If you acknowledge Him as Father, you’ll have nothing to worry about.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 24th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Zachariah 4:6:

“Not by might nor by power, but by My (Holy) Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts.“

Then we go to the Book of Acts 1:8. This is Jesus speaking:

”But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

What a commission! Now we must think about this. A hundred and twenty ordinary people, and they are hiding in the upper room because they are afraid they are going to be murdered, there is no accomplished theologian amongst them, there is no multi-millionaire amongst them. They are ordinary people, women and men, working people who go about their daily chores. The Holy Spirit comes into the room and changes their lives forever.

I want to suggest something to you. This is not a man’s idea. This is not a spreadsheet you put out on a table and say, ”OK, now this is how we’re going to do it. We’ll go here if we can afford it…” No, they had no game plan. It was a God idea. A hundred and twenty people, that’s all, and He said, ”Go into all the world.” And the Bible tells us they turned the world upside down. There were no cell phones. There were no iPads. There were no computers, nothing! They just went in faith by the power of the Holy Spirit and they turned the world upside down, from Caesar’s palace right down to the man in the street, and they went all over the world. Thomas went to India and he was speared to death as a martyr. Andrew, James, John eventually, every one of them died a martyr's death. They paid the full price and I think that’s maybe where the secret is.

The Lord is looking for a man or a woman who is prepared to obey the Holy Spirit, whatever He tells you. Maybe you’re sitting in an old age home. You say, ”Angus, what can I do? I can’t even walk anymore.” I tell you what you can do. You can do the most important job. Praying. Remember when men work, they work, but when men pray, God works, and God worked through these hundred and twenty ordinary people who went right around the globe to the ends of the earth. That’s what the Lord said.

I want to challenge you today, come on, we don’t have much time left. Jesus is on His way. He’s coming back, I’m telling you now. We need to work while it’s still day because the night is coming when we can’t work anymore. Let us stand up. Let us brush off all that dust and let us get back into the fight.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful, Holy Spirit-filled day.
Goodbye

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 23rd of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to Zachariah 4:6, and the word of God says:”

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

Then we go to the Gospel of John 15:5. Jesus says:

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”

I read a little article and it really spoke to me. This is what it said, ”Hand full and the heart empty.” Be careful. Your hands are so full of doing good work for Jesus that your heart is empty. Jesus said for without Him, you and I (I’m talking to that young lady, that young man, that old pensioner), you and I can do nothing. Too much work, you forget the Master, and then everything just starts to slowly but surely disintegrate. You start making bad decisions, you start panicking, you do rash things that you would never normally do. Why? Because your hands are too full and your heart is too empty. But on the other hand, if the heart is full of God, then the hands cannot forget God. Folks, I know people who are working so hard doing the work of the Lord that they have forgotten the Lord of the work. You can’t do that because it’s all about Him anyway.

What really upsets me a lot and it’s actually very sad, and it worries me, is when I see large Christian organisations that started with some man or woman or couple, or a small team that loved Jesus. They had regular quiet times every single morning before they started work and they went out and their vision, their work for the Lord, just blossomed like a beautiful rose opening up, and then it got so big and they got so busy that they forgot why they were doing it, and Jesus Christ is not even brought into the equation.

They’ll go right through a meeting and right at the end, just to make it look respectable, they’ll bring up a scripture verse. That is not acceptable. It’s got to be the other way round. Spend time with God every morning, hear what He’s got to say. Ask Him to help you with your heart and then go out and you will have plenty of time to do your work and plenty of time to be with the Lord. We need to get it the right way round.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.