# Strength in Weakness Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948/strength-in-weakness Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948/strength-in-weakness.md Podcast: [Thought For Today](https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948) Published: 2026-06-12T03:10:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.angusbuchan.co.za/thought-for-today/strengthinweakness3 Audio file: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5927cdc63a04115c6edb89e4/t/6a2a88dd1ccf731abd3e2091/1781287180990/TFT_120626.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/thought-for-today-116948/episodes/strength-in-weakness Duration seconds: 207 ## Resource I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 12th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Numbers 11:14: ” I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.” Then we go to the New Testament to 2 Corinthians 12:9: ” And He said to me,“My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” So when we are weak then we are strong. I think you have heard me say this many times before, God gives us strength for the strain. Are you going through a very tough time at the moment?  Are you saying to yourself: ”There’s no way out for me”; “I am done, I can’t do it anymore, I’m tired, I’m weary”; ”I have had a disaster in my business”; ”My marriage is not working well”; “My children are sick”; “There is no hope for me.”?  Oh yes, there is!  Turn your eyes upon Jesus,  Look full in His wonderful face  And the things of the earth will grow strangely dim  In the light of His glory and grace. I remember like yesterday - it was many, many years ago, I left my young wife and my young children, and I took a huge 20-ton Mercedes-Benz truck and trailer, with a team of men, and we went up into Zambia to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I’ll never forget it. We arrived at the banks of the mighty Zambezi River. In those days, there was no bridge over the Zambezi as there is today. You had to wait with a line of trucks ahead of you for a pontoon to take you across this huge river.  I remember sitting on the banks of that river and feeling very homesick, and looking across the river to Zambia and thinking about the trip I had organised to take, from the bottom of Zambia right through to the very top, with my d… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/thought-for-today-116948/episodes/strength-in-weakness/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948/strength-in-weakness.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.