I saw one of the most startling sculptures I think I have ever seen in my life, probably because I am a naturalist, and I am farmer, and The Lord speaks to me so much by nature - a sculpture done by Hennie Potgieter, of two beautiful kudu bulls with those long horns, entwined in a fight to the death.

And underneath it is a sign that says: “Conquered Victor.”

Conquered Victor!

Be careful that you and I don’t become conquered victors, because you see what happened is, that they got themselves entwined, didn’t they?

And they couldn’t get loose.

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He was so thin that his little body couldn’t stand the pressure of the saddle, and that is why we put the cushion in the front.

And we used to talk about eternal life.

And he said he was waiting for that white horse with Jesus riding on it, to come and fetch him and take him to eternity.

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I will never forget the picture.

It is still bright in my mind, Jill standing at the gate with all of my five children, and her husband, this wild man, driving off in his pick-up, with a bucket of water and his Bible, to hear from God.

Well, I came back after six days and when I arrived on the farm, and I got out the pick-up, Jill was standing there and she was smiling.

And I said…

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If we go to the game reserve and we sit and watch that majestic elephant which is the largest existing animal on earth - it weighs up to 6 tons; it lives up to 70 years old;

It travels up to 20 kilometers a day; it has to find kilos and kilos of food to eat but never panics, is never in a rush.

He looks like he is just moseying along - 20 kilometres a day!

He needs to look for tons of food but he never seems to be in a rush.

You will watch him stripping the bark off a small little mopani tree, taking his time and yet he is always looking in good nick.

Why is it that you and I are rushing around at such a pace?

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I can smell the soot. I can see the smoke coming out the chimney!

I can hear the carriages coming down the line, full of people that want to tell the world that Jesus Christ is alive, and that they are over-comers through their faith in Him!

Can you see us steaming into those villages, steaming into those towns?

Everybody off the train, into the streets, going to the hospitals; the old age homes; going to the schools; down the street - Speaking to people about the love of God?

Coming together in the evening at the station, packed with people, preaching off the back of that train and the next day, steaming on to our next destination?

You’ve got to attempt something that’s so big that God will increase your faith.

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Maybe today there is a child who has so disappointed you and you are so angry with him or her and you feel you just cannot forgive them.

You have to, because Jesus said so.

That unfair business deal - that man who has let you down so badly, forgive him. Why? Because Jesus said so.

That broken relationship you have with your parents - go and sort that out. Why?

Because Jesus said so.

It is not even optional.

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And then we found out later on, a Zambian lady who loved Jesus very much, had got up in the middle of the night with a bucket and walked about three or four kilometers, down to a river and had collected fresh water and carried it up on her head, and filled that 210 litre drum for each one of us.

We didn’t know her name. She refused to be identified.

She did it because of the love of God in her heart and her love for us.

That type of love, you cannot buy, you cannot repay. It comes from deep within.

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So the servants filled six stone water pots that hold 150 litres each, full of water - 720 litres of water, and miraculously, that water turned into the finest wine ever.

We need at this time in which we are living, to do what God tells us to do. No more and no less.

Remember, we always used to say, “A good idea is not always a God idea.”

God’s economy doesn’t work the way we think.

Two plus two doesn’t always equal four with The Lord. It equals seven sometimes.

We need to be obedient to what God is calling us to.

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I remember reading a lovely story many years ago about a missionary who went to the South Sea Islands to preach the Gospel to the Islanders.

They were war-like cannibals and they allowed him to stay among them with only one condition, and that condition was that he was not allowed to speak to them about his God.

Well, many, many years later, another sailing ship arrived on the South Sea Islands with missionaries, only this time to find a peace-loving people who warmly welcome them.

As they, the islanders sat listening to the wonderful gospel story of Jesus, preached by the missionaries, the missionaries noticed that they were not particularly surprised, and thenthey asked them, “Have you heard this story before?”

They replied, “No, never.”

But they said, “Come with us, we want to show you something.”…

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You know, many years ago, when Jill and I arrived from Zambia, we brought everything we could fit into that old truck.

We brought in farming equipment, personal household equipment - everything, and I did not declare everything at the border when I came through.

Well, two or three years later, after I met Jesus Christ as my Saviour, the devil used to continually attack me.

He used to say, “You are a smuggler. You are a thief. You did not declare your personal goods at the border.

And it started getting to me so badly, I was losing my joy.

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We had been driving for about three weeks. We were exhausted.

We had no contact with home. In those days there were no cellphones. We couldn’t afford a satellite telephone and I was concerned because I hadn’t heard from home and they hadn’t heard from us.

And we drove into a little village and there was a little office there, and it was the office of some overseas assistance organization, and as I walked in, a lovely young Zambian lady…

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I heard a story once about a sailing ship, a huge big sailing ship - this was a couple of hundred years ago.

They were sailing up the east coast of South America and then a calm came over the ship.

Now, any sailor, listening to this, will know that that is a very dangerous thing.

No wind - the ship does not move and that ship just sat there in that position for weeks.

And eventually, the sailors were starting to die of…

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Billy Graham is regarded as probably the greatest modern day evangelist of all time and when he was a young evangelist there were certain things in the Bible that he did not understand.

So he said, he went into a forest one day and he took his Bible and he opened it up and he laid it on top of a tree stump, and he got down on his knees and he said,”Lord, I don’t understand everything in this Book but I am choosing today to believe your Word is unadulterated, written by men under the inspiration of The Holy Spirit.”

And with that he stood up and he went out and he took on the whole world.

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I started to plant my seed maize crop into dry land.

Now, any farmer will tell you, you wait for the first rains because that soil has got a little bit of dampness in it, just enough to germinate the seed and then it dies, but I carried on, day after day after day, I planted in the dust but do you know what happened…

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Many, many years ago, I was at Agricultural College in the North East of Scotland, the North of Scotland College of Agriculture, and during the one term, one of our fellow students - his name was MacMillan (He was a tall man, about 6 ft 9 tall, black hair, sharp features), he got special permission from the principal - he was the only one who could do that, to go back home to his farm.

He farmed on the West Coast of Scotland, a high mountainous area.

He was a sheep farmer. He farmed the black-faced sheep and…

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I remember very clearly in 1989, on 17th November, The Lord gave me a vision, to go to towns, to town halls, to sports fields and to hire them and to preach the gospel.

I got into my pick up with my flask of coffee and said goodbye to my young wife and small children and I went to book the Town Hall in Ladysmith, Kwazulu-Natal.

I didn’t get much encouragement from the local clergy at the time.

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You see, on a Sunday morning we went to church.

I was reluctant to go but my wife could see that I really needed help because I was just working myself steadily to death, night and day,.

And we went to a little Methodist Church in the main street in our town, Greytown, and the methodist minister had organized a lay witness mission.

What does that mean? It means just ordinary people - builders, housewives, sportsmen, musicians, doctors, farmers - giving their testimonies and telling folk what Jesus had done for them.

Broken marriages restored, sickness healed, new vision given, sins forgiven.

I sat there in that church and for the first time in my life, I saw men and women weeping openly, about The Lord Jesus Christ and what He had done for them.

I could identify with these businessmen who said, “I just couldn’t stop. I had to keep working to put bread on the table and I could see there was just no end, and then I met the Man from Galilee.”

A simple altar call was made and up we went.

We committed our lives to Christ and I have never been the same since.

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As we know, last week, there was a very critical situation in our country but I can tell you that over 2000 intercessors, prayer warriors that I know of, were praying for the situation in our beloved South Africa.

We had two zoom conferences with Christian leaders in, and men and women of God who were praying, believing, for a miracle.

It was called by our Chief Justice…

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My dear friends, The Lord told Joshua, “It is time to cross over. It is time to take your inheritance.”

Many of us have been waiting and procrastinating for too long.

Those days are over. We need to get on that train now and we need to start to tell people about the soon coming King and stand against that spirit of fear.

Jesus says, “I have not given you a spirit of fear but of power, of love and of a sound mind.”

Even today, as you rest, contemplate, meditate and think about that promise that God has given you and then go and take it.

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