I remember like it was yesterday, we had that massive tent on the farm. Remember, there were 30,000 men inside and 30,000 men outside.

We had fully extended ourselves.

We had nothing left in the kitty, not even a cent, and the organising committee came to me and they said, “We need more speakers.”

I said, “We don’t have any more budget.”

They said, “If they can’t hear the message, what is the point in having the meeting.

Reluctantly, I went to the Lord and said, “Lord, we need more money.”

And I said, “Go ahead”, by faith, “and get the extra speakers.”

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There is nothing so sad for me as to see an old man holding on by his fingertips, the business or the farm or the ministry that he has built up and will not hand that baton over.

Eventually, the young man leaves and he goes somewhere else and makes his own way and the old man sits there and everything that he has built up disintegrates around him.

We really need to get out of the driving seat, walk around and get into the passenger seat and let your son or your daughter drive the car.

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I remember many years ago when I was doing my agricultural training in Scotland, that I would spend weekends with my Uncle Ronnie.

He was my dad’s brother and he was a very, very compassionate and good shepherd.

He had been sickly all his life. He never had much opportunity to go to school because he was always in hospital.

So he became a shepherd and a very good shepherd at that.

He was a compassionate man.

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And then he got off the train and he saw her but he got quite a shock.

She was a middle-aged woman.

She was very plain, quite poorly dressed. She was in a shabby green dress but she had a beautiful red rose.

He was very shocked. He was actually disappointed.

But he had to make a choice and he could have walked right passed her as she had never seen him either, but he didn’t.

He kept his promise and he walked up and he introduced himself to her and she said…

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I will never forget it as long as I live, one of the highlights of my preaching ministry, to see those wonderful people on their knees on the sand dunes in Mitchell’s Plain, asking God to send the rain and then it started raining.

Do you remember? And I don’t think it has stopped since then.

My young farmers, in the Western Cape area, say they are looking at the best crop they have had in many, many years.

God is a prayer answering Lord.

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On a Thursday night, he was relegated to speak to a few old ladies.

I love old ladies because they are prayer warriors, and they filled the front row of the church, all these old ladies but he was looking for men.

But you see, the lady who was playing the pump organ had a little boy of a about 13 years old, who was pumping the organ at the back and when the man of God spoke about the lost in Africa, his heart was on fire.

That boy was…

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George Matheson, a budding young Scottish preacher, many years ago - he was tipped to be one of the best preachers in Scotland - he was engaged to a beautiful young Scottish lass.

They were going to be married but he was having trouble with his eyesight so he went to see the doctor and the doctor told him, “I am very sorry to tell you but you have a degenerative problem.

You will be blind in just a number of years.”

He was totally shattered…

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And you know, there are many, very, very famous opera singers - Pavarotti and many others but when they lead, Andrea Boccelli, he usually wears a white suit ,and they lead him onto the stage because he cannot see where he is going, and they lead him up to the microphone, and they let him go - folks, I want to tell you, it brings a tear to my eye every time, and he sings like a bird.

That man has risen above his circumstances.

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You know, I remember in 2008, we had the biggest tent in the whole world pitched on this farm, here at Shalom.

It took up four rugby fields. It took us three weeks to erect with professional riggers, Attie van Staden and his team.

It took seventeen thirty ton lorries to bring the tent to the farm.

It even had its own weather station.

The tent was so big they had to know when to tension those ropes that were made of that steel wire.

It seated over 30,000 men inside and we had 30,000 men outside. What a weekend!

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Right in the middle of my message, there was a commotion that came from the back of this huge hall and two ladies, middle-aged ladies, were walking up the middle of the aisle and they were weeping uncontrollably.

I didn’t know what is going on.

I said to the ushers, “What is the problem?”

I stopped preaching and as you know, I am not a man who has a quiet voice, and I was so excited I said, “Bring them onto the platform.”

They brought them onto the platform and the one lady started to speak while her friend was standing there with both their hands up in the air, praising God.

She said…

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“Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.”

He will keep you warm.

He will show you and lighten up your path and show you the way home.

Today, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus and He will lighten up your life.

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I said, “The Lord has shown me, if I have got the faith of a mustard seed and I go out and I preach the Gospel, I book stadiums, I book sports fields, city halls, God will honour my faith.

You know, he took his fountain pen and he turned around and he wrote on the wall on his office.

“17/11/89 Angus.”

And it stayed there until they repainted the church.

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He says, “I stand at the door and I knock.”

He is knocking at the door of your heart this morning my dear friend.

Revelation Chapter 3 and verse 20. He says, “if you open the door, I will come in and I will sit and talk with you and sit and sup with you, I will have a meal with you.”

But the handle, remember is on the inside and The Lord Jesus is a gentleman. He will not force himself on you.

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And he said, “Sir, I want to hear D L Moody preaching but nobody will let me in.”

And D L Moody said, “ Well son, take a hold of my coat tails and don’t let go.”

And the little boy got hold of his jacket on the back and as the great man of God walked in, he walked right down the aisle, right through all the crowds, up the steps, onto the platform and he put the little street urchin, seated right next to him and then he started to…

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“No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of Heaven.”

But there is an exception and the exception is when we count our blessings and we tell our little ones about our roots, where we came from and how God has protected us thus far.

He is not about to leave us at this stage of our lives.

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If he wanted to brush a fly off his nose, he couldn’t do it.

They did it for him.

If he needed to go to the bathroom, they had to take him.

And he was so full of the love and…

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Now the game rangers after the fire were doing a patrol across those slopes and they came up and saw a partridge.

This partridge had been burnt by the fire.

It was lying face down with it’s wings spread out, and one of the game rangers bent down and…

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Don’t be like that old farmer who, when he wakes up in the morning, he sees the sun coming up, he says “Here comes the drought.”

And at lunchtime the black heavy clouds come over full of rain, and he says, “Here comes the flood.”

He is never happy. Don’t be like that!

Get the first milk into your system today and God will strengthen you and grow you up.

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I went out and I answered the phone.

It was my eldest son and he said, “Dad, we have got all the staff, (We had a large staff in those days. We were doing seed maize.) and they are standing outside the local store.

They are wanting to go in and purchase their groceries, and the owner of the store has said that the cheque that we issued, has bounced. There is no money left in the bank, and they are standing outside.”

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I was trying to get the spare wheel out of the back when many cars went passed us and some very, very expensive motorcars went passed at 120 plus - but an old bakkie, that is a pick-up, with a trailer behind it, was going in the opposite direction, turned around and out got Marius and Frances and their two little girls.

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