I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 19th of August, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 10:22:

”Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.”

Then we go to Zachariah 4:10:

“For who has despised the day of small things?”

I want to speak to you today about small beginnings. Seventy people went down to Egypt, and God has multiplied that little band of people into a mighty nation. He delights in small things. Remember the little boy with the two sardines and the five barley loaves of bread? The Lord Jesus took them, prayed over them, multiplied them and fed five thousand men, not including women and children, and that is why I love Him so much!

Today, I don’t know what you are going through. Maybe your business is taking major strain. Maybe your degree is getting too much for you and you don’t think that you will ever complete it at university. Maybe you have just started a new venture and it’s just not going so well. What must you do? You must continue to trust the Lord. The Lord has not forgotten you. I can only share with you a personal story.

I came back from bonny Scotland in 1993. I’d been preaching over there. I sat down in my little house, one that we made out of wattle and mud, and I felt the Lord Jesus tell me to write my story. Now, as you know, I don’t have much education, and I started to write a little book which became a movie, which has just been resigned for a further fifteen years with Sony. What is the name of that movie? It is called “Faith like Potatoes” and all the glory this morning to our Lord Jesus Christ! Do not despise small beginnings. That movie and book are in seventeen different languages throughout the world.

You might ask a question, why does God do that? I believe one of the main reasons is because He will share His glory with no man. When you do something for the Lord and it is something which is unbelievable, people will say that man didn’t do that, that was God who did that.

So today, do not despise small beginnings.
Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 18th of August, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of Luke 17:5-6:

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

I am talking this morning about faith.

“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
Hebrews 11:6

As I was meditating on this scripture early this morning in my quiet time room, the Lord brought to memory what took place in my life on the 17th of November, 1989, a long time ago. I was sitting having my quiet time. I had been reading a book written by John Wimber, called Evangelism Explosion. In the back of that book, there were a whole lot of anecdotes and little cameos of mighty men and women of God who dared to believe God and to trust God by faith, and how the Lord had used them. Very few of them were qualified. They were ordinary working people just like you and I, and I got so excited. I got on my phone. In those days, we had the old phone, you had to crank it up, and I got hold of my pastor in Grey Town and I said to him, “Gavin, the Lord has revealed something to me today and I have to share it with you.” And he said, “What is it?” I said, “I have just been reading a book about men and women of God who have been used mightily by the Lord, and there is a golden thread that goes through each one of their stories, and it is one word, 'faith', having faith the size of a mustard seed."

He got so excited, he turned around and took his ball-point pen, and wrote on the wall of his office, and the office had just recently been painted, and he wrote, “17th November ’89” and he put my name there, and it stayed there until that church got repainted. Well, I want to tell you, that was the beginning. From there, I took that seed of faith and I went to a nearby town called Ladysmith, and I booked the town hall, the first thing I had ever done in my life, and that was the beginning of what the Lord has done, by faith, nothing to do with me.

Today, I challenge you to trust the Lord for that thing that you are believing for, but it must be so big that if it is not of God, it is going to fail. Why? Because when it works, God gets all the glory.

Jesus bless you walk by faith and not by sight.
Goodbye.

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

We go straight to the Book of Romans 4:17:

“God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;…”

Then of course we have got to go to the Book of James 2:23:

“Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God.”

There are not many places in the Bible where God calls any man His friend. Everybody wants to be God’s friend. The Bible tells us that God looked down from Heaven, He saw that farmer, Abraham, because Abraham believed Him, and He called Abraham His friend.

I got a beautiful message all the way from the Outback of Australia, where the tough men farm, where sometimes it doesn’t rain for maybe up to 7 years, and these men, by faith, plant their crops every year, trusting by faith that God will honour them. He sent me this little quotation and I think it is priceless, and I want to share it with you. He says, “What’s going on around you is only limited by what’s going on in you.” Don’t you think it is special? I really have sat and thought about this saying. It is so deep. “What’s going on around you is only limited by what’s going on in you.”

Abraham was 100 years old. His wife was in her 90’s. God said, “You are going to be the father of many nations. You are going to have a son and you will name him Isaac, and Isaac will be the father of many nations.” If you love Jesus Christ today, my dear friend, and you are a follower of Christ, you are a son or a daughter of Abraham by faith. What you say is what you get.

When I was farming as a young man and I had come to know Christ as my Saviour, we had no irrigation on this farm, nothing, and when things got dry, I got on my knees, and I started to pray the prayer of faith, calling those things that aren’t as if they were, getting in my pick-up every morning and driving around the crop as the maize was starting to die, and saying, “Lord, I believe in the promises of God. Lord, you said it, I believe it and that settles it.” And that is exactly what happened.

Today, start to call those things that aren’t as if they were by faith and trust the love of Christ to bring them into being.

Have a wonderful day,
Jesus bless you and goodbye.