I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 19th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Acts 3:6-8:

Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”

Then we go to verse 8:

“So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them—walking, leaping, and praising God.”

Ja, I’m laughing because, oh, oh, my dear friend, I love Jesus so much. I have had the privilege and the honour of seeing many, many miracles with my own eyes. Now, that man had been lame from his mother's womb. He had never walked in his life before and they laid him at the temple gate everyday to pick up alms, which is money gifts so that he could live, and he had asked Peter and John for money and they said, “Silver and gold we do not have, but in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”

We have a very special saying here at Shalom: one genuine miracle equals a thousand sermons. Isn’t that right? You can’t dispute a miracle. The man was lame from birth. He never walked in his life. He jumped up and he started leaping and walking and praising God.

I remember, we had a crusade. It was a big tent, and we were bussing in people every single night, and the crowd was growing because people were being healed and set free. I remember us hanging a wheelchair from the roof of the tent as evidence that a lady had been supernaturally healed. There was a Sikh of the Sikh faith, he had a turban on, a very dignified man, and the Sikhs, they don’t cut their hair, and they brought him to the front and onto the platform when they saw the miracles that were taking place, and they said, ”This man cannot speak, he is mute, he is dumb, he cannot talk and he wants you to pray for him.” I said, ”No problem.” So we prayed over him. I anointed him with oil in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Then I laid my hands on him and I said, ”In Jesus name, be healed.” I took the microphone, I put it to his mouth and I said to him, ”Say Jesus.” He opened his mouth and he said, ”Jesus.” The crowd went berserk. They all knew him.

One genuine miracle equals a thousand sermons. Folks, go out and pray for the sick and Jesus will raise them up.

God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 17th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Book of Acts 2:37:

“…Men and brethren, what shall we do?”

There’s a question, what shall we do? Then we go to Acts 9:4-5. Jesus says:

“Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he said, “Who are You, Lord?”

Then we go to the last scripture, Acts 16:30:

”And he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

Paul and Silas, singing hymns and praying, the Holy Spirit visited that jail, broke open the gates, brought an earthquake, and released all the prisoners. The guard was so afraid, he wanted to kill himself, and Paul said, ”Do no harm to yourself, for we are all here. We are not running away. “What must I do to be saved?”

I want to ask you a question this morning. What must we do? This is what they asked Peter on the day that they were baptised in the Holy Spirit and filled with power. What did Peter say? Peter said in Acts 2:38:

”Repent and let every one of you be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

The Lord is asking you and me this morning, ”What shall we do?” What does the Lord want us to do? I tell you what He wants us to do. He wants us to tell them that they must be saved, and I’m not talking about telling people that they must stop drinking, they must stop swearing, they must be saved! I’m not even telling them that they must go to church, that they must read their Bibles, that they must have a quiet time. No, they must tell people that they must be saved!

The first man I ever led to Jesus Christ was a man named Jannie Barnard. We were refereeing a game of Polocrosse, that’s rugby on horseback, and he looked at me, and he said, ”There’s something different with you. What’s happened to you?” I said, ”I’ve given my life to Jesus.” He said, ”I also want that. What must I do?” “I said, “I’ll see you tomorrow afternoon in my green cathedral, in my corn fields, my maize fields.” And at four o’clock that afternoon, I had the privilege of praying with Jannie Barnard and leading him to Christ. Go out and do it today.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful, successful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 18th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in that very special psalm, Psalm 23:3:

“He leads me in the paths of righteousness...”

Then we go to Proverbs 22:6:

“Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.”

We need to understand that we have a responsibility as parents, even as young people, to lead our fellowman in the ways of the Lord. Do you know the old matriarch elephant? Yes, the bull protects the herd and breeds with the females, but there is a matriarch in the herds of elephants, and she is the dominant animal in that herd. She is the one that teaches her young their way and she leads them, and she leads them because her mother before her has shown her the right way to walk.

Now, in Africa, we have some terrible droughts. The rain goes away, the rivers dry up, the waterholes start drying up, and that is where the matriarch remembers. The elephant has an incredible memory that her mother showed her the way when she was a young elephant, the way to go and find those sources of water in the time of drought. She will lead the herd, all the way, sometimes forty, fifty, a hundred kilometres, and it will be something that she was taught when she was a young baby elephant. She never, ever forgets the way.

Now, Jesus Christ said in John 14:6: “I am the way”. Please parents, teach your children the way of the Lord, and they will never forget it, even if they go into the far country (I have been there myself), they will remember! "Granny used to nurse me on her knee when I was a small little girl or boy and she used to read Bible stories to me." She used to sing Christian songs. We have a little book called “Snowy”. It is all about my horse, and I want to tell you, little children love that book. They sit and they look at the pictures and then granny will tell them the story about Snowy.

I want to say to you today, please, take time out. Maybe you have a friend at university who has lost the way. Tell them the way because Jesus will lead them in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.

Have a wonderful day,
God bless you and goodbye.