I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 17th of February, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of Matthew 24:35. Jesus said:

“Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.”

Jesus puts His word even above His name, the word of God, the power of the spoken word of God. What you say is what you get. What are you saying about yourself this morning, my dear friend? Do you remember that old cliché, “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me”? That is totally wrong. In fact, it’s the other way around. If you have a broken bone it can be healed but words said in anger, words of death, are very, very hard to get rid of. You actually need prayer. Words are powerful.

If we look at the Gospel of John 1:1, this is what it says:

“In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself.”

Jesus has always been, from the beginning, Him, His Father and His Holy Spirit! I want to tell you a little story that happened yesterday. A senior gentleman, a very, very well-known man, came to see us. He said to me that he had a word from God that he was going to be healed when he came to Shalom. Now I want to clarify something here. This has got nothing to do with me, it has nothing to do with Shalom, it has everything to do with the spoken word of God. He was very persistent, he has been trying to get to see us for months, if not even longer, but he would not give up. It reminds me of Bartimaeus, the blind man, who was persistent. When everybody said, “Keep quiet”, he said, “No.” He shouted louder and the Word of God heard it and His name is Jesus, and He healed his blindness.

This man’s wife had told me he had been prayed for many, many times but nothing had happened. He arrived on the farm and he was walking with crutches. Very, very gingerly, he came into our office. He told me that he had a word from God that he was going to be healed today at Shalom. Folks, I was just a vessel, not a very good one either. I anointed him with oil, I prayed the prayer of faith. He gave his crutches to his wife and he walked out from this place, totally healed. Why? Because that man believed in the power of the spoken word of God.

Today, go out and believe what Jesus said about you, and it will come to pass.
God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 16th of February, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Isaiah 26:3-4:

”You will keep him in perfect peace,
Whose mind is stayed on You,
Because he trusts in You.
Trust in the Lord forever,
For in Yah, the Lord, is everlasting strength.”

Then Psalm 20:7:

”Some trust in chariots, and some in horses;
But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.”

Trust - who are you trusting in today, my dear friend? Are you trusting in politics? Are you trusting in your own efforts? Are you trusting in your personal belongings, your personal riches, your efforts, the things that you’ve built up, or are you trusting in the promise of God?

I’ve got a dear friend, we have walked together for most of our lives and he is a lawyer by profession, and one day I spoke to him and I said, ”Leon, what is the ultimate trust that we can put ourselves into? He said, ”There is a word in Latin and this is what it says, “uberrimae fidei” which stands for utmost trust.” He says, ”The promise and the word of a person is more trustworthy than any document.” He says, ”That agreement that you’ve signed on that paper is not even worth the weight of the paper, it’s the promise that a man gives you.“

Now God has promised you, He will keep us in perfect peace if we concentrate our minds on Him. It’s the trust that we have in the Lord that gives us His peace. Jesus Christ has promised you and He’s promised me that He will never leave us and He will never forsake us, and that is where our faith comes from, and our peace, and our hope, and our future.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 15th of February, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Luke 17:6:

So the Lord said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.”

“Have faith in God.”
Mark 11:22

That’s it - have faith in God. Without faith, we cannot please Him. Now Luke 17:5 says:

”And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

Now, even the disciples asked Jesus, ”Please, increase our faith”, because they realised without faith, we can do nothing. Today, maybe you’re struggling to believe God for a promise He’s given you. Maybe He gave it to you many years ago and your faith is starting to wane, starting to lose power. How do we regain our faith? Well, if you look at Romans 10:17, the Word of God says:

”So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

Spending time reading your Bible, spending time believing what the Lord has said about you. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, My Lord will supply all of my needs according to His riches in Glory. We need to get started this morning. We need to get back to walking the faith walk. You see, faith is a way of life, not faith in faith, but faith in Jesus Christ, and the Lord always honours faith.

Now I’m sitting here thinking about the first campaign I ever organised - it was in that little town of Ladysmith about probably an hour’s drive west of where we live. It was ten minutes to seven in the evening. The service was going to start at seven o’clock and I was downstairs in the dungeon. I was waiting for the people to come. The band which we had brought up from Port Elizabeth were bravely on the platform playing music and I climbed up the steps, opened the door, had a look in, there was no-one there.

I was devastated. I mean, I’d been praying and we’d been trusting the Lord. I went down and I said, “Lord, if nobody comes, I’m going to preach to the chairs.” This is the honest truth. At seven o’clock, by faith, I walked up, I opened the door and the hall was half full of people. That was the beginning. Well, I want to say to you, we started off with the Mighty Men Conference on this farm with 240 men, and we ended up with 450 000 men at our last meeting on this farm in 2010, and I’ve got news to tell you, that this year there’ll be twenty Mighty Men Conferences happening all over the world.

That mustard seed of faith! Trust the Lord, my dear friend, He’ll do it for you.

Jesus bless you and goodbye