In the Middle East, the shepherds lead their sheep. In the West, we tend to chase our sheep with sheepdogs, but in the Middle East, the shepherd calls his sheep. They hear his voice and they follow after him.
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But then, early this morning, I woke up and I went across to my prayer room and the first thing I always do, I look up to the sky. I saw no stars today, just beautiful clouds - no stars, no wind, no noise, only peace - a great calm.
He will not desert you, my dear friend. He will not desert us. Why? Because He is in the boat with us.
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They went in and they did a check and they came out and they said, “Angus, you need to go back again. There are too many flowers that have been left. They need to be pulled out today. We are coming back tomorrow and if they are not out, we are going to condemn the whole crop.”
That would have been my whole farm and livelihood finished with one stroke of the pen…
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I had some neighbors come and say to me, “Angus, you are committing suicide. You don’t have any irrigation. How can you plant potatoes? And we are expecting the worst drought ever!
I said, “I am going to do it because I am keeping my eyes on the Faithful One - Philippians 4 verse 9.
“The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.”
Well, we planted the crop...
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You know, our biggest enemy is not the devil. No, no, no!
It is ourselves. I always remember the saying that the devil’s neck was broken on the Cross of Calvary.
When Jesus Christ said, “It is finished.” He meant it.
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Oh my dear friend, as this lockdown persists, I am getting so many letters of people who are afraid, people who are lonely, people who don’t know which way to turn.
I want to encourage you today…
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We really need to be content with the wives of our youth.
We cannot be unfaithful.
No relationships are to be had outside of the marriage.
This is not just for husbands, for wives as well.
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We have to prefer one another. We have to put other programs before our own.
You know, often the gospel is called, “the upside-down gospel”.
The Khoisan people call the baobab tree, the upside-down tree, because in the winter when the leaves are all off the tree, it looks like the roots are sticking up in the sky, and so it is with us as followers of Jesus Christ.
We are sometimes regarded as people who are following the upside-down gospel. Why?
Because Jesus said in Luke 14:27:
“And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.”
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Do you remember that little band that we used to put on our wrists? What would Jesus do? WWJD? I had one on my wrist until it literally fell off, eventually. Let us today be careful who we speak to and who we turn away because we might even be turning away an angel.
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The Lord says, “Do not be unevenly yoked.”
What does that mean?
It means a believer cannot marry an unbeliever. Why? Because oil does not mix with water and darkness with light.
You say, “But I will get him to come through for The Lord when I marry him” or, “I will bring her to The Lord when I marry her.”
No, you won’t! The chances are it will be the other way round.
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You see, the Word of God is actually Jesus, Himself in print.
That’s right. If we go to 1 John Chapter 5 and verse 7, the Word of God tells us that there are three who bear witness in Heaven: The Father, The Word, and The Holy Spirit.
So who is the Word? Yes, the Word is Jesus.
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This morning, very, very early, I received a most beautiful letter from the United States of America, from a young man who I am mentoring.
It stirred me up so much. And in the letter he wrote, he said little boys with big dreams don’t always materialize.
They don’t always turn out the way we expected them to and we feel like failures so often.
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You know, I love the simplicity of children and we really need to give them time folks, because they can teach us so much. I can’t wait to see my grandchildren every day. They live all around us and they are such a blessing to me. They teach me so many things. You know, as a preacher, I always…
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To me, those parents are very cruel because that little boy or that little girl has got no discipline in their lives and when they go to school they think they can just do what they like, and sometimes it takes the other little boys and little girls, to prune that child and it is extremely painful…
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He wants to talk with us, He wants us to tell Him our plans. He wants us to ask Him advice and He wants us to tell Him how much we love Him. He loves us very, very much - so much that He gave His only begotten Son to die on the Cross of Calvary so that we might be saved.
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You see, Jill and I have succumbed to Covid19. That’s right.
We were afflicted, 67 days in self-isolation, and five tests later, we eventually were negative.
But you see, my dear friend, we can understand how people feel who have COVID 19…
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And then tears filled his eyes. He said, “Son, it is not because of you. It is because of your mother because when I was a little boy, my mother died early, and your mom became a mother to me. I am doing it for her.”
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I remember as a brand spanking new Christian, I was so excited that I had met Jesus. I said to Jill (she was a young girl in those days. Our children were all babies. I have 5 children), I said to Jill, "I feel I want to give the farm away. I want to go to Bible College and then I want to become a pastor”. And Jill, you can imagine, was a little bit concerned about…
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On the farm, Shalom, we have a thirty-foot cross and when the sun goes down, we have a time switch, and the lights come up. We are not ashamed to tell the world that anything good that has happened on this farm, is due to the Glory of God and nothing to do with ourselves.
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You see the heavy rain had softened the soil and when the hail came, the whole crop fell down but it didn’t break. It just lodged.
And when the sun came out, the crop stood up again. Oh yes! Those stalks had a permanent bow in them right until we reaped it but we reaped a bumper crop.
You must put your trust in Jesus.
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