I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Easter Sunday morning, the 5th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

I just want to say to you, a very happy Easter Sunday. Yes, He is alive! He is not in the tomb, He has risen from the dead! We go to Romans 8:11:

”But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”

We want to thank God this morning for His precious Holy Spirit. Remember, Jesus said to His disciples, “It is expedient that I leave because if I don’t leave, I can’t send my Spirit to you. Now, the Holy Spirit is with you young man, right as I am talking, with you young lady, old gentleman, with you, granny, right now, because the Spirit of the Lord is all over the world at one time. He is alive, and because He is alive, you and I can face tomorrow. The same power that raised Christ from the dead can give you and I strength, courage, and hope to finish our race. I want to sing that old song with you, I am sure you know it, Spirit of the living God:

Spirit of the living God,
fall afresh on me.
Spirit of the living God,
fall afresh on me.
Melt me, mould me, fill me, use me.
Spirit of the living God,
fall afresh on me!

Father God,

I want to thank You for my dear friends that faithfully listen to the Thought for the Day every single morning.

Holy Spirit, remind them today that they will never, ever be alone again. Father, Your Spirit, the Holy Spirit, is with each and every one of Your believers today and You have promised us that You will never leave us and You will never forsake us. Hebrews 13:5.

In Jesus’ name.

I want to wish you a blessed Sunday and we know that Christ is alive, He is well, and most of all, He is coming back soon. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful Easter Sunday, together with your loved ones.

Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 4th of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Gospel of Luke 21:15. Jesus says:

“…for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries (all your enemies) will not be able to contradict or resist.”

He will give you the words to speak when it is needed. Don’t worry about that. Now, remember the waiter, yes - his name was Stephen. He was confounding all the Pharisees with the word of God, and so they accused him of speaking evil against the Temple and against Jehovah. Acts 6:15:

“And all who sat in the council, (they were judging him now) looking steadfastly at him, saw his face as the face of an angel.”

I want to tell you something now. You don’t have to defend yourself. You just have to spend time in the presence of Jesus and He will give you the words to speak to defend yourself. He will give you godly wisdom and counsel. And do you know what will happen? When you start speaking from your heart, it doesn’t matter how clever your adversaries are, they will be confounded because that is what happened to the High Priests when they were judging Stephen. They saw him and his face looked like the face of an angel. The word of God is very powerful when it is spoken through the mouth of an ordinary person. Remember David Wilkerson, the Cross and the Switchblade? The skinny preacher who went down and started preaching to the gangsters in downtown New York? Nicky Cruz was the leader of the Mau Mau gang. David Wilkerson said to him, “Nicky, God loves you,” and Nicky said to David Wilkerson, “Preacher, get away from me, otherwise I will cut you with my flick knife into a hundred pieces.” And David Wilkerson says, “And Nicky, every piece will tell you the same thing, that Jesus loves you.” And with that, that hardened gangster just crumbled and David Wilkerson led him to Jesus.

Do you know that the old gentleman is now in his eighties? He is still an evangelist, preaching the love of God. Don’t worry about what you will say. Just love people, and the Lord will put the words into your mouth. It doesn’t matter who it is.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Good Friday, the 3rd of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

I’m going to read from the Gospel of John 15:13-14 (Amplified Version):

No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own life for his friends. You are my friends if you keep on doing what I command you.”

This is a very, very solemn day. It’s a good day to come aside, wait and think and meditate on what Jesus has done for you and for me today. If He had not died on that cross, we would never, ever be able to receive eternal life. Have you thought about that? God became flesh. He died for you and me so that we have an opportunity to live forever.

I went to Israel, the one time I went, I can’t remember exactly the year, I went to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem. I know there are two places where they say that Jesus was buried. The one is in the Garden Tomb which is very special and very intimate and the other is a huge church in the middle of the Old City. As I walked through those doors, I sat on a little bench just inside the door and I looked up, and on the other side of that passage there are steps that go up to where they say, the Lord Jesus was crucified, and I’ve never done it before but I have felt so overwhelmed by the presence of God and what Jesus did for me, I started to weep and I didn’t just weep gently. I wept and my dear wife, Jill, had to put her arm around me and comfort me and she said, ”Are you alright?” and I just nodded. The massive price that Christ paid for all of my sins! I want to say to you today, sit down somewhere, please. Have a cup of tea or coffee and think and give glory to God for what He has done for you and for me.

We had a Mighty Men Conference on the farm here, many years ago. We called it, Dying to Live. If you want to live, you have to die, die to self and start to live for Christ because that’s what Jesus did for you and for me on Easter Friday when He was crucified, an innocent Man, for our sins. I want to pray for you today. Maybe you’ve never done it before.

Jesus, please forgive me for I am a sinner and I have messed up so badly. Please give me another chance. Thank you, that through your death I have an opportunity to have eternal life. I ask this in Your precious name, amen.

God bless you and have a peaceful Easter Friday.
Goodbye.