I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 2nd of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Gospel of Luke 5:5:

“But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.”

Then we know what happened after that. He caught so many fish that the net was breaking, and he had to call the other disciples to help him pull in a massive catch.

Then we go to Galatians 6:9:

“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”

Once more, once more - you say, “I can’t.” You can and you must. Cast it out once more, cast that net out. “But we have tried everything, and it is not working." “Once more”, the Lord said to the disciples. They said, “We have been fishing all night. He said, “Once more.”

Remember the story, I think I have told it to you maybe a few years ago, about the Scottish King, Robert the Bruce. He was getting a terrible hiding from the English, and he was hiding in a cave. He was just about all done. He had tried everything, and he sat in that cave, and he saw a spider. This spider was trying to swing across the mouth of the cave from one side to the other, and he watched it. It tried once, it failed, it tried twice, it failed, it tried three times and it failed. It kept doing it and eventually got to the other side. That Scottish King went outside, he rallied his troops, and he won the battle.

I want to say to you today, I don’t know what it is, maybe it is healing that you are looking for for your body. Maybe it’s a relationship. You say, “I just can’t do any more.” Once more, go and see them once more, cast your net out once more. That crop that I planted, nothing is coming up. Plant again. Those animals that I am trusting for, for healing, just keep on trusting God and He will see you through.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 1st of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Numbers 12:4:

“Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, ”Come out you three, to the tabernacle of meeting!” So the three came out.’

Then we go to Ephesians 5:22:

”Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”

Then verse 25:

”Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,…”

Then the last one is Ephesians 6:1:

”Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.”

We’re talking about family. You know it’s the hardest place to be a Christian, in your own home! Let’s be honest with each other this morning. We are talking about an incredible family. Aaron, Moses and Miriam. Do you know that Miriam was the older sister of Moses and Aaron was Moses’ older brother, he was Moses’ right-hand man? This wasn’t just any family. This was a very special family in God’s eyes and yet they fell out. They had an argument, so badly that God had to intervene, and He told them to behave themselves.

I want to say to you today, you have been put in a family by God. You can’t choose your family, can you? Yes, what do they say? You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family. We need to work it out. Now God put a system in the family and this is how it works, I’m telling you, it says it in the Bible: Wives, you are to submit to your husbands, husbands you are to love your wives, and the Bible says, children you are to obey your parents. If you get that right then you are going to have a very special family.

So what can we do about it? Number one, we need to start praying together every day. ”No, but I don’t want to.” It’s not about what you want. It’s about what God wants. Pray together, all of you, whether it’s in the morning before you go to school, or go to work, or whether it’s in the evening before you go to bed, pray together.

What’s the next thing? Talk to each other. Sit down and talk about it. That’s exactly what happened with Moses, Aaron and Miriam and God sorted it out.

I remember an old couple. They told me that they used to lie on their bed on a Sunday afternoon and talk about all the things that had gone wrong during the week, and ask each other for forgiveness and get ready to face the new week.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day together as a family.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 28th of February, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Old Testament, Numbers 11:18:

“Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.”

The complaining Children of Israel, short memories! They forgot about the slave-drivers, how they were beaten, working 18 hours a day, 7 days a week. No, they wanted to go back to Egypt. There is no future in the past. I want you to remember that, my dear friend.

So then we go to the Gospel of John 21:3.

Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.”

We have got such short memories. We forget from where we have come. Yes, things are tough. I will be the last one to tell you that they are easy. We are struggling in every area: politically, economically, spiritually, and in our work situation, but there is no going back for you and me. Isn’t it an amazing thing (well, I can only speak for myself), you always seem to remember “the good old days” but you don’t remember the bad old days. Folks, I want to tell you, as believers we have got the most glorious future waiting for us. When we go home, we are going to be with Jesus Christ because He has promised us that if we serve Him faithfully and believe, we will never die.

Do you remember what it was like when we didn't know Christ? We used to get so depressed, didn’t we? Because there was no future. We didn’t know where we were going. We had no guarantee of anything and yet we, now and again, hanker for the old days. They weren’t such good old days, were they? Be honest, because we didn’t sleep very well at night. No, because we didn’t know what was going to happen in the future. We need to look forward. We need to keep going. Peter and the disciples went fishing. They caught nothing the whole night until Jesus, in the morning, told them to become fishers of men, to keep the calling, keep the vision, keep going forward, and God will go with us. We are not going back to Egypt. There is nothing there for you and me, so today push those shoulders back, lift up that head and say, “It doesn’t matter how tough it is, I am going forward because I am homeward bound.”

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.