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Angus Buchan
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A short, inspirational thought for today, from Angus Buchan.

  1. 1H AGO

    Macedonian Call

    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.

    3 min

  2. 1D AGO

    Contention

    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.

    4 min

  3. 2D AGO

    He Supplies

    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.

    3 min

  4. 3D AGO

    Worship

    I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 3rd of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in Psalm 103:1: ”Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name!” The Psalm of David, and then we go to Psalm 121:1-2: ”I will lift up my eyes to the hills—From whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” Then the last scripture is found in the Gospel of Luke 19:40, and this is Jesus speaking, “…I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.” Isn’t that beautiful? I had the privilege of going to the Drakensberg Boys Choir School, in the mighty Drakensberg mountains and I told those young boys, beautiful singers. I said, ”Don’t let anybody ever look down on you and think that you are not strong.” I said, ”The strongest man in Israel is none other than David who was a worshipper. He was a singer, and he was the one who killed Goliath, the giant, with one stone when he was a young teenager. Don’t look down upon yourselves boys. God has gifted you to be able to sing.” The Tribe of Judah would always go into battle first. They were the singers, and then the rest of the army would follow, and I want to say to you, my dear friend, I don’t know what you’re going through at the moment but whatever it is, start to worship and praise God, and you will be surprised how God will strengthen you! Folks, I want to tell you today, when you are under the whip, it is time to praise the Lord. I brought the word of God to those young boys and they responded by singing to me and I want to tell you, it lifted my very soul, and I want to tell you today to sing up and to praise and worship God and He will heal you. He will set you free. He will give you new vision and new hope!  Jesus bless you and a wonderful day. Goodbye.

    3 min

  5. 4D AGO

    Walk in Righteousness

    I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 2nd of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in 2 Corinthians 3:6: ”… for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”  This is quite a serious and liberating scripture. We cannot live according to the Mosaic law. You can’t - that is why they kept offering sacrifices continually when they were in the desert. When the Holy Spirit came to earth after Jesus went to Heaven, He is the one who convicts us of walking in truth and righteousness. Now, if we look at the Book of Acts 15:24, this is what the apostles sent to the Gentiles, the Greeks, the people that were not Jews, and said to them that you do not have to obey the law, you just have to obey the commandments of God.  ”Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, “You must be circumcised and keep the law”—to whom we gave no such commandment”  Acts 15:24 ”that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well.”Acts 15:29 The Lord says that the Holy Spirit will convict you and me to walk in righteousness. We cannot just walk by keeping the law. We can’t do it. That’s why Jesus came down from Heaven to Earth. Now the Westminster Confession says, I love this, this is what they say, "Man’s chief end on this earth is number one, to glorify God and number two, to enjoy Him forever.” Isn’t that so simple? You see, when you glorify God you keep the law by yourself. For example, when I got saved, the first thing I did was stop swearing. The day I gave my life to Christ, I’ve never sworn since then, the Holy Spirit convicted me. I stopped bending the rules. In other words, I stopped telling white lies. The truth is the truth, and I did it willingly. I did many things that did not glorify God, and when I met Him as Lord and Saviour, I automatically stopped doing those things. Now today don’t put a heavy on people. Don’t make them feel guilty. Tell them to love God, and the Holy Spirit will convict them of their sins, and they will start walking in righteousness and, most of all, enjoy the presence of God forever.  Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

    3 min

  6. 5D AGO

    The Love of Christ

    I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 1st of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in 2 Corinthians 5:14: ”For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;…”  The love of Christ compels us! The love of Christ is so great, it cannot be contained and that is why when somebody meets Jesus Christ for the first time they can’t help themselves. I think they said about me, for the first six months, “You need to lock him up because he’s like a bull in a china shop”, but the fire, the love, the passion! God is so great, and when you realise what He’s done for you, your sins have been forgiven, you’ve been given a new start, you want to tell everybody. What was the last thing that Jesus said to the disciples before He ascended into heaven? Mark 16:15: “Go into all the world and preach the gospel …”  You see, the love of God is too large for anyone to contain. We just can’t keep it to ourselves, can we? His love has moved us to such extremes. His love has the first word and the last word in everything we do. I got saved on the 18th of February, 1979. I know you know that, but you know that man came and had a cup of tea with Gill and me after the service, and he said, ”Did you mean what you did today? I saw you went forward and committed your life to Christ.” I said, ”Of course I did.” He said, ”Well then, tell the first three people you meet tomorrow morning, Monday morning, what you did.” And I did, and I’ve never stopped since. Jeremiah was another one. He was tired of being mocked by the people. He said to the Lord, ”That’s enough. No more. I’m not speaking anymore.” But if you look at Jeremiah 20:9. He said ”but there’s a fire in my bones which constrains me, I can’t help it. I have to tell people about the love of God.” He just couldn’t keep it in!  It is Christ’s love that fuels our passion. It will lead us to where it led Him. Now remember, the love of Christ for this world led Him to the cross. He was despised, rejected. He was crucified because of His love for people. When you love people so intently, lots of people won’t thank you for that. That doesn’t matter. Don’t judge them, just continue to love them, and I want to tell you something now. Just the love of Christ in your heart, the look of passion in your face, will bring people to Jesus quicker than any sermon from a pulpit. God bless you as you share the love of Christ abroad today. Goodbye.

    3 min

  7. 6D AGO

    Trials and Tribulation

    I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 30th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Job 13:15: ”Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.” That’s unconditional surrender, and being a farmer myself and looking at his life, you know he suffered very, very much, but at the end of his life, everything he lost, the Lord gave him back a hundred-fold.  Then we go to the Book of Acts 14:22. This is Paul: ”…strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.” In the Message Translation, it says, “Anyone signing up for the kingdom of God has to go through plenty of hard times.” Are you going through a tough time at the moment? You know what concerns me sometimes? Many preachers will say, “Come to Jesus, and all your problems will be over.” That’s not the truth. Come to Jesus, and He will give you new life. Jesus never promised you or me a bed of roses when we gave our lives to Him. He never said that He would take us out of the fire, did He? No, what He said was, He will walk with us through the fire and that is good news. I want to tell you that since I’ve given my life to the Lord, I’ve experienced more trials, tribulations, and hardships than before I became a Christian, but the only difference is that the hardships that I am suffering now are worthwhile. I am in the winning team. Are you in the winning team today? I hope so, because for us, home time is very near and what a life that is going to be. So today, do not despair if you are going through a hard time. Remember, the Lord told us clearly in Hebrews 13:5: “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”  Jesus bless you today and have a wonderful, peaceful, joyful day. Goodbye.

    3 min

  8. APR 29

    Will of God

    I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 29th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to 2 Chronicles 16:9a: “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.”  The Lord is looking for a man, a woman this morning that He can trust. He wants to support you, He wants to make you strong, and He wants you to speak up. Then we go to John 4:34: “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.” I want to ask you a question this morning. What gets you up early in the morning? What is the thing that gets you excited every time? I have two sons. My second son, if you want to get him up and going, you talk to him about horses. He is our “horse whisperer” on the farm. He knows more about horses than anybody else I know. From a little boy, when he was still in nappies, I used to take him for rides on my horse, and now he is a horseman who is second to none. In fact, he has people on his farm. He brings in young folk, and he teaches them the finer points of horsemanship. If you want to make him start talking to you, just mention horses.  Then I have three grandsons and these boys are into paddling. They get into that canoe and they paddle. They have got medals to prove it.  If you want to get them going, talk to them about paddling. Then I have got another two grandsons. These boys are ceded Number 1 and Number 2 in their school in tennis. If you want to get them talking to you, talk about tennis. Then I have another two grandsons and their whole focus is on horses as well, roping horses, gentling horses, starting horses and these boys can ride.  And then yours truly. If you want to get me talking, ask my wife, you speak to me about preaching, about the Gospel, about speaking to men and women about Jesus, and I will talk to you until the cows come home. We need to understand one thing. Jesus said, “My meat is to the will of Him who has sent me.“  Today, it doesn’t matter what we do in life, remember the most important thing, and by the way, all those young boys and my sons that I have spoken about, all of them love Jesus Christ with a passion. God bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

    3 min
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