His Plans For You

Thought For Today

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, it’s the 18th of July, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Isaiah 55:8, the Lord says:

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.”

Then we go to Jeremiah 29:11, a very well-known verse in the Bible. The Lord says:

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

What a beautiful promise from our Lord! Oh, my dear friend, maybe you feel forsaken today, maybe you feel the Lord has left you, maybe you feel He has got nothing for you. I want to tell you some good news! God has got plans for you and me, well-being and not disaster. You know, the farmer makes a plan. Well, I have got news for you - not one of my plans have ever worked! I have never heard God speak to me audibly, but in my heart, and one morning many years while having my quiet time, the Lord said to me in my heart, “Your busyness, Angus, is making me tired.” I shared that with Jill, my wife, and she reminds me often about that one. The Lord has peace for you and I, not evil. He has a future for you and I, a hope, and it is all found in Christ alone.

Last week we had the AGM of the movie, “Faith like Potatoes”. Do you know that that movie was made 18 years ago and it is still going strong? Sony, the film-makers have just signed a contract for another 15 years for that movie. Isn’t that incredible? Now, I want to tell you very quickly what happened. I was standing on the platform at Kings Park Rugby Stadium in Durban, South Africa, and I made an outrageous statement, because a terrible drought was predicted - el Nino was coming. I said, “To hell with el Nino, I am going home and I am going to plant potatoes." I had never planted potatoes in my life before, I had no irrigation. You know the story very well, but you see, that wasn’t the plan. The plan that the Lord had was, out of that statement of faith, because that is what it was, raw undiluted faith, a little book was born called “Faith like Potatoes”, and then the movie was born. That was God’s plan, that wasn’t my plan.

I want to say to you in closing, that little book and that movie have touched more people than any bit of preaching I have ever done in 46 years. Now, today slow down, listen and do only what God tells you to do and you will be amazed at the plans He has for you.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.