My second eldest son, Fergie, is a cattle man. He has two young boys and he is teaching them how to rope cattle.

They go into the field and when they find a sick animal, they lasso it. They bring it to the ground and they doctor it and then let it go, and the rest of the herd just continue grazing.

And I love to watch them do this. I cannot do this by the way. It is quite an art - but I love to see the oldest boy, Buckies, the red-head, the one you see on television - he says, “Dad, I have got this one”, and he persists in trying to rope this animal and he can’t in the end. Eventually, hot, bothered and full of flies, he stands back and then his dad gallops up and lassos that animal first time and they do it together. He is trusting in his dad and his dad is teaching him how to do it. You and I need to trust in our Heavenly Father.

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I believe in the Word of God and I stand firmly on it but I am fighting the fight of my life.

I am determined to finish the race at all costs.

Like Paul, I want to be able to say at the end, “I have kept the faith.”

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We have got a bull. He is an Aberdeen Angus Bull. He must weigh over a ton, and he is held back from going into a field of knee-high lush grass, by a single strand of electric wire, powered by a small battery.

A little trickle of an electric current passes through that piece of wire, even a small child would not be harmed by it, and yet that one ton bull - all he needs to do is to walk straight through it and he is into a beautiful paddock of lush grass, but he is intimidated by a lie. That lie comes from the devil.

The law binds us but the Spirit of God frees us.

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And what about that other story of an evangelist by the name of Mordecai Ham?

He was operating in the backwoods of America, preaching the Gospel.

What was he doing? He was doing good, and one night a sixteen-year-old boy, the son of a dairy farmer who wanted to become a professional baseball player, went to that meeting and he heard a feisty, fiery sermon by Mordecai Ham, and he stepped forward and gave his life to Jesus.

Who was that? That was Dr. Billy Graham, probably one of the greatest evangelists of all modern times.

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Remember, if you are liar, you better have a very good memory because you have to keep remembering the lies you’ve been telling, but seriously folks - I want to tell you one thing, that the devil is the father of all lies and he will hold you with his lies. He is the deceiver of the brethren.

You know that The Lord Jesus, when He was being judged by Pontius Pilate in John Chapter 18 and verse 38, Pilate said to Jesus, “What is truth?”

Isn’t that amazing. He was standing, looking at truth in the face, and He asked Him, The King of Kings, “What is truth?”

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I went back home and I prepared the land, I bought the seed and I started to plant potatoes with no irrigation.

My neighbors were so concerned about me. “Angus, this will send you one way. You will go bankrupt.”

I said, “No, I have had a word from God”, and I planted those potatoes and I leased the farms next door and I did the same there. I planted maize and we trusted God.

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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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