I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 14th of November, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Book of Exodus 34:29:

”…Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him.”

Moses had just come down from Mt Sinai with the Ten Commandments. He had spent 40 days and 40 nights in the presence of our Heavenly Father, and his face was shining like the sun. Isn’t that amazing?

We go to Matthew 17:2:

”…and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.”

That was Jesus, our Saviour, when He went up the Mount of Transfiguration. He shone like the sun when He met with His Heavenly Father.

Folks, that can happen to you and me as well if we spend time with the Lord Jesus Christ, then we start to become more and more like Him. Moses had to wear a veil over his face. The people were too scared to come near Him because of the presence of God in His life. Surely that’s how we should be as well. People should want to come and be with us because they see the love and the presence of God in our lives, not so much by the way we look, but rather by the way we act and live. You know, little children are very good judges of people who know God. They are drawn to people like that. I’ve seen them. They’ll hang around and stand around and be close to people who spend time with God.

I want to tell you about a man that made a big impression in my life when I was a new Christian, many many years ago. His name was Reverend Tom Parker and his dear wife, Gladys. They came all the way from Yorkshire, England and they became the ministers of the little church here in Greytown, one of the dearest men I think I’ve met in my life. He had a hard life. He was in the Second World War, serving on submarines. He never complained and was always gentle. He wasn’t the greatest preacher that I’ve ever heard but he gave off the presence of Jesus wherever he went. I used to love just sitting, listening to him talking and he would get so caught up in the Holy Spirit, that you battled to follow him when he was preaching, but I want to tell you, he gave the presence of God wherever he went.

You and I today as well, people just want the love of God and they are desperate to meet with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

Today, let’s be Jesus to them.
God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 13th of November, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Old Testament in the Book of Exodus 34:7:

”…by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity (the sin) of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

Then we go straight to the Book of Romans 6:23:

”For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Beautiful!

Many people often contact me and they are very troubled and they say that they really feel oppressed. They find themselves doing the very things they don’t want to do and they find out that their parents and their grandparents before them did exactly the same thing. I’m talking about sin. I’m talking about things like alcoholism, drug addiction, immorality even suicide. “Yes, my father took his life, my grandmother took her life, and so what hope is there for me?” Well, there is lots of hope for you today. If we go to Luke 8:2, we’ll see that Mary Magdalene was delivered of seven demons by Jesus. He set her free. That woman was the first person to see Jesus resurrected from the tomb on Easter Sunday.

I want to pray for you this morning and I want to pray that this thing that you are troubled with will be cut off once and for all. That’s why Jesus said: ”It is finished.” John 8:36 says if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. You do not have to walk around with that thing on your back. Today it is going to be cut off and never to be spoken of again. Now if you want me to do that, I’m going to pray for you and maybe you’d like to pray after me:

Dear Lord Jesus,

Today I repent of all the sins of my fathers and mothers and grandfathers and grandmothers and those before them, because Lord, You came down from heaven to earth to set things straight. You’ve said if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us and set us free.(1 John 1:9).

Therefore, you are free today. Go, as Jesus always said, and sin no more.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 12th of November, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to Mark 6:37:

”But He answered and said to them, “You give them something to eat.”

We’re talking about feeding the five thousand with two fish and five barley loaves of bread. Some thoughtful mother gave her little boy, I’m sure, two little sardines, five little barley loaves of bread, to go to listen to Jesus preaching. That is all the disciples could find, but that’s all that Jesus needed. Remember what happened? He took the fish, He took the bread, He lifted them up to heaven and He said to the Lord, ”Lord please, You multiply them” and He did.

Oh folks, I can give testimony to that. Yes, young man, young lady, it actually happened on this very farm, and the year was 2007 at a Mighty Men Conference. We had ordered a five-thousand-seater tent, and we told the men that we would supply them with food.

Well, the big day arrived, the tent was erected and everyone is excited, and seven thousand five hundred men arrived on this farm. I want to say to that housewife, that mother, the one who does all the cooking in the house. How would you like it if an extra 2,500 men came home with your husband and your son to spend the weekend with you, and you had to feed them? I think you’d run for your life. I would. That’s exactly what happened. Oh yes!

On Friday night, the ladies had prepared food for five thousand men. That’s quite a task anyway, but seven thousand five hundred arrived. They came to me, they didn’t know what to do, they said, ”Angus, please tell them to go easy with the food.” Now, there were some big strong farmers from all over the country and miners, businessmen, policemen, professional sportsmen, they were all there. I was so overwhelmed at the turnout. I got up on the platform before supper, before we said grace, I said, ”Boys, I have a request from the kitchen, eat as much as you can.” And they did. These boys came out with plates of food from the kitchen, but you know something? Every single one of them got fed, and there were baskets full of leftovers afterwards.

Our God is only testing us in this world to see if we can believe Him. There is nothing which is impossible for God.

Have a wonderful day,
Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 11th of November, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Book of Romans 9:14-15:

“What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”

I am sure you will agree with me - I am so very happy that it is the Lord, our God, who determines our future at the end of the day - upholding fairness, justice and honour. I am so pleased that when I get to Heaven, there is nobody who is going to judge me apart from my Heavenly Father, because we men are so fickle. What does that mean? Well, I know that young man says, “I don’t know that word.” Well, today we are hunting with the hounds and tomorrow we are running with the hares. That is how man is, but God is sovereign and steadfast. His “yes” is yes and His “no” is no. He is a compassionate God and a merciful God.

All we have to do, even today, is to call upon Him. Don’t try and make your own plans, seek the Lord and He will take care of everything. It happened in my own life, I don’t know how many times. If it wasn’t for God intervening at the 11th hour, I would have been totally lost. Yes, I have been through some severe testings. There have been times when I said, “Lord, where are you? This is not fair.” But at the end of the day all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to His purposes. (Romans 8:28)

Remember that story about that wonderful Zulu preacher, William Duma, he walked very closely with Jesus. He was getting a ride on a bus in the sugar cane fields of KwaZulu-Natal. In the middle of the trip, he felt the Holy Spirit say, “Get off the bus”, so he pulled the emergency cord, and the bus driver screamed to a halt, and he said, “What is wrong?” He was very angry, and the people in the bus didn’t understand. There was no bus stop, there was no town in sight, just sugarcane fields. And this little man, a giant in the faith, said, “I have to get off the bus.” And the bus driver said, “Well, get off the bus.” He took his little suitcase, he stepped off the bus, stood on the side of the road, the bus roared off, dust everywhere, and he stood there and he said, “Lord, well I am here. Why am I here?” Do you know that the bus went around the corner and hit another truck, and if William Duma had been sitting where he was, he would have been crushed to death. God has mercy and compassion on you and me. Today, remember He will not let you down.

Jesus bless you and have a lovely day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 10th of November, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

The Book of Acts 7:51 - this is Steven speaking just before they stoned him to death.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.”

I want to speak about being stiff-necked. Folks, we must be so careful about that one. To be stiff-necked is to be stubborn, to be rebellious, to be disobedient, refusing to listen, not obeying the word of God. To be rigid and obstinate sounds terrible, doesn’t it? That’s what a stiff-necked person is like.

I’ve got a son on the farm here and he specialises in training horses that are a trouble to their riders. They send the horse here for three or four months, and he schools them correctly, and one of the hardest things that he has to deal with is a horse that has got a stiff neck. The horse refuses to bend its neck. Now he has to teach it to bend its neck and basically to humble itself so that it can respond to instructions. I don’t know how much you know about a horse, but I want to tell you that if a horse has got a stiff neck and it starts to gallop away with you, and it gets the bit in its mouth, it is totally out of control. It cannot see where it is going because its head is in the air. It is a danger to itself and to the rider, and by the way to any passersby, any pedestrians. That horse will run over the edge of a cliff, no problem, run through a barbed wire fence. I’ve seen it myself because it refuses to listen. I know people like that, people who have hurt themselves terribly because they refuse to say sorry, they refuse to change, and they refuse to listen. The children of Israel were like that. Our Father God in heaven spoke about them as being a stiff-necked people and it cost them severely.

Today, you and I, let us start to become soft, pliable, teachable, people who are pleasant to be around. Those are the people who have lots of friends. Don’t be standing in the corner like that stiff-necked horse that refuses to change. By the way, if it doesn’t change, it has to be put down because it becomes a danger to all those around it. Do not be like that. Today, be a child of God and then God will use you.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 9th of November, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Gospel of John 5:11. This is the former paralysed man speaking:

“He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your bed and walk.’ ”

That man had been paralysed for 38 years. Jesus spoke to him, healed him instantly, a powerful miracle, and then told him to take up his bed and walk. Amazing! I have been to that place. I have prayed for many sick people in that place and they have recovered.

It is a beautiful place in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is where the Pool of Bethesda was. Once a year the angel would stir up that pool of water and the first person who was lowered into that water would be healed miraculously. This man had no one to help him into the pool and Jesus said to him, “Take up your bed and walk” and he walked. But you know what is so sad for me is, when the people heard about the miracle and they knew that man, they never glorified God for the miracle. They asked him, “Why are you walking on the Sabbath?” There is a scripture in 2 Corinthians 3:6, and this is what it says:

“…for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”

We need to be so careful that we don’t become judgemental. When the Spirit of God moves folks, we need to rejoice and give all the glory to Jesus Christ. People need the Lord. Now, as you know, I have recently returned from an incredible evangelistic event, where I saw the poorest of the poor - not only poor, but also fearful, anxious, lost, and forsaken. They were not wearing three-piece suits. No, they were very meagrely dressed. I saw a miracle take place. I saw a hunger for Jesus Christ, like I have very rarely seen in my life. I saw a desire to know Him more. I saw people’s eyes open when they heard the simple Gospel message.

Today, be very careful that you do not kill the Spirit of God by being religious. Religion kills the Gospel. It’s the freedom of the Holy Spirit that sets you free! I will never forget that meeting in my life and I will never forget the Pool of Bethesda in the Old City of Jerusalem where we prayed for sick people. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful Sunday.

God bless you.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 8th of November, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go straight to the Book of Exodus 32:1:

“Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

Oh, I want to tell you my dear friend, when I read that scripture this morning, my heart broke. What short memories do we have? Here is a man, Moses, being directed by God to take the people of Israel, out of slavery, out of Egypt, to take them to the sea, and the Red Sea opened. They passed through the sea, then the Red Sea closed on top of the most powerful army on earth at the time, and drowned them all. Then he turned water that was so brackish that they couldn’t drink it into sweet drinking water. They tell me it is still there today. He took them through the most savage of all deserts, where it is over 50 degrees. Then they had no food to eat. He fed them manna from Heaven, every single morning, and partridges (quail). He looked after them, and just because he was a bit late in coming down the mountain with the Ten Commandments, they forgot all about Him.

Maybe today you are feeling like that. You are feeling “Angus, I have taken care of my family. I grew them up, I paid for their schooling, I paid for their university, I paid for their wedding and now they don’t even phone me.” Or maybe a young person is saying, “My mom, my dad, they don’t want anything to do with me. They said, ‘You are on your own now,’ but I have loved them and been faithful to them all these years.

I want to encourage you today to look up and speak to your Heavenly Father. He understands the hurt that you are experiencing right now because it hurt Him as well when His beloved people turned their backs on Him because His servant, Moses, was a couple of days late, and they went straight ahead and made an idol out of gold. How could they do it? How could your son, your daughter, just walk away? How could your mom and dad disown you?

Turn to the Father today and speak to Him. He understands. He will listen to you, He will dry away those tears. Have no animosity, no unforgiveness, and move on.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 7th of November, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.

We go to the Book of Deuteronomy 9:19-20:

“But the Lord listened to me at that time also. And the Lord was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.“

The Lord changed His mind! The Creator of Heaven and Earth and everything in it, listened to His creation and changed His mind! Remember what happened? Moses was up the mountain on Mt Sinai getting the Ten Commandments from the Lord and the Lord said to him, “What’s that noise I hear down there?” And of course what had happened was the children of Israel were impatient. They had been waiting for their leader, Moses, for 40 days and 40 nights and he hadn’t come down, and they thought maybe he had died, so they said to Aaron, “Let us make an idol out of gold, a golden calf.” Now, that angered the Lord so much. Can you imagine? God was so angry, probably so disappointed as well that He was going to wipe off the face of the earth, the children of Israel and you and I would not have been here today if that had happened, but one man, Moses, said, “Lord, You can’t do that because the Egyptians and all the other nations of the world will mock You.” The Bible tells us very clearly that the Lord relented. What does “relent” mean? It means finally agreeing to something after first refusing it. He said, “I am going to blot them off the face of the earth.” Moses said, “You can’t do that Lord,” and the Bible says that God relented. What an incredible God we serve that He would even listen to His creation!

When I was farming, I would often stop and have a chat to my tractor driver or my stockman and ask him questions, and we’d have a chat, and he felt that he could talk to me because I was definitely not superior to him, although some farmers maybe won’t listen to their workers. He would explain to me something that he had learnt on another farm - a better way of maybe looking after the cattle, a better way of building fences - and I tell you what, it cost nothing and I would be going in this direction and after talking to this worker, I would change my mind and say, “You know something, your idea is much better and I’m going to do it.” And it worked and it also paid off.

Today, don’t be proud. Be prepared to listen and change your mind if you have to. Jesus bless you and have a lovely day,

Goodbye.