I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 31st of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of John 4:35:

”Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!”

Do not be unprepared for the greatest harvest the world has ever seen. The signs are all there. The question is, are you ready to bring it in? Are you prepared? Is your harvesting equipment in order? In this day and age, the scythe that they used in the old days to cut down the wheat and the corn is not sufficient. The harvest is too great and the time is too short. It is time for that huge four-row, six-row mechanical harvester that can harvest literally hundreds of acres in a day. Remember, we need to be ready.

I remember as a young farmer, once passing a farm where a man had a beautiful crop of maize. Golden unto harvest. It was magnificent, but every day that I rode past that farm, nothing was happening and then I saw in the corner of the farm, he was planting a crop of cabbages but the time was running out. He could not see it, and the tragedy was that in the end, when he did start to harvest this beautiful crop of maize, it was too late. It was springtime and the rain began to come and blew the crop over and the crop rotted in the ground.

Today is the day of salvation, not tomorrow. Tell that loved one today, they must be ready for the coming of the Lord. Tell those people who are sitting on the fence, you need to make up your mind. Are you going to be part of what God has prepared for us or are you not? Because you cannot be indecisive. We really need to get our act together. Get that harvester into the field. Get the crop in while there is still time left.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful harvesting day today,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 30th of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

Matthew 17:21. Jesus says:

”However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”

Now remember the story, the disciples could not cure the young man who was demonised. They failed. Jesus came in, prayed over him, cast out the demon immediately. They came to the Lord, they said. ”Lord, how come we could not do that?” And He said, ”This kind only comes out except by prayer and fasting.” He said, ”If you’ve got faith the size of a mustard seed, you can tell that mountain to move from here to there, and nothing will be impossible.”

We need to fast today. I have asked very humbly that you will join me. In a couple of days time we are going to the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa and we are believing for a full stadium of young men. It is a Mighty Men Conference and we are going to trust God for a complete encounter with the Holy Spirit, and we want to purify ourselves, even today. Now you might ask, well, I can’t fast because medically the doctors have said I’ve got to keep eating. That’s fine, it’s no problem. Maybe you can spend a little less time watching television and read your Bible and pray a little more. Maybe today, you can go without something that is very special to you. Maybe you like eating chocolate, what about giving it a break?

You say, ”Come on. Angus, fasting is a bit more important than that.” No, it’s not. It’s a time when we will remember the Lord. Maybe you need to just drink water today and nothing else. Maybe you need to have an extra quiet time in the middle of the day and pray for the situation that we are going to face on Saturday. Young people are getting murdered daily. Young children are getting caught up in the cross fire. Old people are getting murdered in their homes through the gang wars. It’s got to stop, and we are asking you to please fast and pray with us so that the Lord can completely take over in that stadium.

Never before in my life have I been so excited about what God is going to do on the 1st of November at two o’clock in the afternoon in the Cape Flats in South Africa, when we face up to this terrible slaughter that is taking place, and in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, we will cast it out.

Please fast today with us.
God bless you and have a special day today.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 29th of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Exodus 25:40, and this is what the Lord says to Moses:

”And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.”

The building of the tabernacle - keep it to the pattern.

Then we go straight to the Gospel of John 14:15. Jesus says:

“If you love Me, keep My commandments.”

Don’t tell people you love them, then do the opposite. “You shall know them by their fruit,” Jesus says. An apple tree produces apples, and an orange tree produces oranges. We really need to keep to the pattern. You know what a blueprint is, young man? A blueprint is something that you have been given by a builder, and then he says, ”Build it according to the blueprint. Do not change anything because it is proven, this building will stand if you build it according to the blueprint.”

Smith Wigglesworth said, ”Jesus said it, I believe it and that settles it.” No arguments! What does the word say, that is your pattern for this life. That is your blueprint. You know the wisest man that ever lived, according to the word of God, was Solomon, and if you look at Ecclesiastes 1:9, He said, ’ ... And there is nothing new under the sun.” It has all happened before, it will all happen again, but we’ve got some whizz-kids thinking they are inventing something new. Nothing new under the sun. I sound like an old man, don’t I? Well, I’m getting old, and I want to tell that young lady, I wish that I knew when I was your age what I know now, and I wouldn’t have made so many mistakes and I wouldn’t have hurt so many people.

The Lord told a farmer named Noah to build an ark. He said build it according to the blueprint, and he did, and the ark never sank, did it? There is nothing new. Running your home - run it according to the principles of God. Discipline in your house, love your wife, submit to your husband, respect your parents, discipline your children. These are according to the blueprint.

What about business? “Aah, my people don’t want to work for me.” Maybe because you don’t pay them correctly. What about having a quiet time every morning? You say, ”Uncle Angus, you’re always telling us that.” Of course, I am, because that’s where you’ll get your instructions for the blueprint that you are going to implement on that day.

Practise what you have been taught.
Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 28th of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of John. Now, the most famous verse in the whole Bible has got to be John 3:16. Ask your little girl, your little boy as you are driving them to school and they will quote it for you and they will:

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

But don’t we often just stop there? What about verse 17? Now, this morning, the Lord Jesus impressed upon me to share with you the importance of the next verse, verse 17:

“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”

Oh, what a beautiful scripture!

The Lord does not condemn you today, Sir. The Lord came to forgive you of all your sins so that you can live a life that is abundant. If we go to Romans 8:1, I will confirm that: “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,...” If you love the Lord Jesus with all your heart today, He says, “I do not condemn you”, He says, “I came to set you free.”

When the Father forgives, He forgets. Isn’t that beautiful? When you forgive somebody for something they have done and you have a bit of an off day, what do you do? Oh yes, you do! I do as well, ”Remember that thing that you did the other day?” No, when the Lord forgives, He forgets.

“Lord, remember that sin I committed before I became a Christian?”

“No, I don’t remember it at all, and I don’t want to hear about it.”

What do we need to do this morning? We need to repent. Say sorry for the thing we have done and then move on with our life. Now this is important that I am going to share with you. It is the devil, satan, who condemns you, but Jesus convicts you. There is a big difference. He says, “Listen, get your life right. Stop that nonsense, stop having that affair because it is going to catch you out and destroy your marriage, stop that drinking because it is going to kill you.”

I want to say to you as we close, I remember a long time ago hearing a story about a little lake, and there is a big signboard which says, “No fishing here!” Now, you take that sin, that thing that is condemning you, throw it into that lake and put that sign up, “No fishing,” and move on with your life for Jesus. He loves you. That’s why He died for you.

Have a wonderful day,
God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, 27th October 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Exodus 25:8:

”And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.”

Then we go to the Gospel of Mark 1:35:

”Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a “solitary place; and there He prayed.”

Do you have a solitary place where you meet with God every morning? It is very important, especially in this hectic lifestyle that we are living in at present. I want to tell you about a place called a poustinia. It is a Russian word for a quiet time place. It literally means a desert place. Yes, a physical one but also a spiritual one. Do you have a place where you can come aside on your own, where the family doesn’t come and distract you, or anybody, and spend undivided time with the Lord every day? A poustinia is a quiet place to contemplate, to think about, a place to encounter God. It’s a place where you remove all distractions. It’s a place for solitude and prayer. It’s not a thing, it is a practice.

Now, I want to tell you about my poustinia. When I travel, it is very busy. Sometimes I have to change planes, I have to wait in the departure lounge, maybe sometimes for an hour, two hours before I go to the next appointment to preach, and it is very busy. Then I close my eyes and go into my spiritual quiet time place, my poustinia, and I will describe it to you: There’s a place up in Zambia where they buried the heart of Dr David Livingstone after he died, and I went and spent time there. Now you walk down this little path and on the left hand side you’ll find a big log. I sit there quietly. I hear the birds singing. There’s a gentle breeze blowing the reeds and I pray and I spend time with God and refresh myself.

Then I hear on the overhead speakers, ”Flight number 256, flying to Nashville, Tennessee, is now boarding through Gate number 25.” I get up, take my bags and I move on. I am refreshed. I have spent time with Jesus.

You need to do the same today.
God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 26th of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Gospel of John 3:7. This is Jesus talking:

”Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.”

Then we go to 2 Corinthians 5:17:

”Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

We must make a new start. We must be born again. That is not a charismatic or a Pentecostal statement, that is a Jesus statement. Every single man, woman and child must be reborn. You see, you telling me that, ”Ah, I come from a Christian family and I was born into a Christian family, and my mother and my father were Christians, and my grandfather and grandmother were Christians. I want to tell you something very carefully, the Lord has no grandchildren in heaven. Do you know what that means? It means that every one of us, me included, especially me, we need to make a clean start. We need to start all over again. Each one of us has to make a personal commitment to Jesus. That’s what Jesus told Nicodemus. Nicodemus said, ”How can a grown man go back into his mother’s womb for a second time?” Jesus said, ”You don’t know where the wind comes from and you don’t know where it goes but you can feel it. You can feel it on your face.”

I want to say to you today, please consider what the Lord is saying. It is so very important. We are living in the last days. Look around you, see what is happening. We need to make a complete change in our lives. Let’s do it today. I want to pray a prayer with you. There’s somebody that’s listening to this message who has been struggling with this issue for many years. Please let that pride fall away and say, ”Lord today, I want to tell you, I cannot carry on on my own, I can’t make it. This depression is killing me. The stress. The responsibility with the family.” I know, I was there. Now let us pray this prayer together. I’m going to pray it real slow so that you can grasp it and it’s going to be very simple.

Pray after me:

Dear Lord Jesus,

I know that I am a sinner, and I need you to save me. You have told me this morning, very clearly, through Your word that I need to be born again. I repent of all my sins and I ask You alone to be my Lord and my Saviour. I will serve no other gods but You. Thank You for dying for me, a sinner, on the cross of Calvary.

In Jesus' name, amen.

Now go out and tell the first three people you meet what you’ve done, ”I have become a born-again Christian.”

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 25th of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

”...Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Nehemiah 8:10

I want to sing a hymn with you today. Do you remember Fanny Crosby? Remember, she was stone blind, but she wrote some of the most beautiful hymns that have ever been written. Do you know that beautiful one “Do not pass me by, oh gentle Saviour”?

Let’s sing it together:
Pass me not, O gentle Saviour,
Hear my humble cry;

While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
Saviour, Saviour,
Hear my humble cry,
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.

Doesn’t that make you feel good? Absolutely!

Now the other day, I was walking through the field and a young girl, I didn’t even see her, she was listening to me, I was whistling. I say with great sadness in my heart, how many people do you hear that whistle these days? I hardly hear anyone, but I love whistling, and I’m going to try and whistle this one for you today.

Go out today and whistle and you’ll feel so much better and Jesus will be so close to you.
God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 24th of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.

We start in the Gospel of John 15:7. Jesus says:

”If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”

Then we go to the Gospel of Matthew 11:28-29. Jesus says:

”Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”

I really want to share my heart with you this morning, the Lord has been so very, very close to me. I’ve been listening to a broadcast by Andrew Murray, the South African preacher, whose books are still very well read, all over the world. The one I’ve been listening to is, “Abide in Christ.” Stay in the Lord, that’s what he wrote, and then just a few days ago I sent you that thought for today, “Practise the presence of God.”

“Practise the presence of God” by brother Lawrence, the French monk who lived 300 years ago. People flocked around him all the time. All he was, was the cook in that monastery. He wasn’t the abbot or holding a senior position and he used to mend sandals, remember I told you. In fact, he himself never wore any shoes but the people flocked around him. Why? Because Jesus was in him! You see, he said that Jesus was with him wherever he went, and I want to encourage you today.

That’s exactly what Andrew Murray’s talking about. He says, if you abide in Christ and He abides in you, then you are with God all the time. Whether you are a shoe maker; a cook in the kitchen; whether you are a CEO of a large company; whether you are an airline pilot, whether you are a policeman; a school teacher; a farmer; a miner, Jesus can be with you all the time if you allow Him to.

Remember Colossians 1:27:

”…Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

It’s not about going to church on Sunday. Yes, I go to church every Sunday. It’s not about going to a midweek Bible study, I go to two prayer meetings every week, but that’s not where I find Jesus. I find Jesus every moment of every day in my life, from the time I open my eyes to the time I go to sleep, and what these mighty men of God are talking about is that we can live with the Lord even when we are here on earth. We don’t have to wait until we get to heaven to experience the presence of God!

Today, open your heart, listen to the word of God and talk to Him because He wants to listen to you.
Jesus bless you and goodbye.