Live By Faith

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 6th of January, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in Romans 1:17:

“The just (or righteous) shall live by faith.”

Then we go to the Book of Habakuk 2:4:

”But the just shall live by his faith.”

Then we go to Galatians 3:11, says the same thing. I think the Lord is trying to tell us something today.

Now, as we start the new year, I want to encourage you to ask the Lord to give you a scripture that you can hang onto for the whole year. The Lord has given me this very scripture for this year. Yes, and the righteous shall live by faith. You see, my dear friends, we cannot live without it. In fact, we cannot exist without faith in God, not faith in faith but faith in God. So as we start the new year, we’re into our sixth day, I want to encourage you to discipline yourself and start to live by faith and not by chance or by hoping for the best.

Us farmers have a saying. In the Afrikaans language, it is, ”Die Boer maak ’n plan.’ (The farmer makes a plan). Well, I tried for many, many years to make my own plans when I was farming and they never worked. When I started to trust in the Lord, then my plans began to fall into place, but I can hear one young farmer asking me a question, ”How do you get that faith?” The answer is found in the Book of Romans 10:17:

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

So if you want more faith, you need to spend more time reading your Bible and that will encourage you to walk by faith.

I want to tell you a little story. In 1993, I came back from Scotland. I had been preaching over there and on my way back I felt the Lord tell me, by faith, to write my story. Now I have a limited education. I had never had any experience in writing before, and we wrote a little book called ”Faith like potatoes.” Folks, that book is now in 17 languages. A movie has been made of that book, which is still being shown all over the world. It is a miracle. It is not possible for me to do something like that, but by faith, I stepped out the boat and I trusted the Lord.

This year together, let us start to walk by faith and expect great things from the Lord. 

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.