Well, a few weeks went passed, and then one night I was sound asleep with my young wife and children, and I heard cows in the garden.
I got up and I saw someone in the middle of the night, had left the gate open, and the cows were in the garden, eating Jill’s flowers.
Read MoreI looked down in front of me. There was a man sitting in a chair with a pair of crutches and his leg was straight out in front of him.
I heard The Holy Spirit say, “Pray for him, so that I might heal him.”
I went down off the platform. I told them, “I am going to pray for this man and God is going to heal him.”
Of course I didn’t realize what the problem is. Just as well…
Read MoreWalt Disney was fired from his newspaper job because he lacked imagination and good ideas.
Winston Churchill was considered a dolt by one of his teachers.
Soichiro Honda was rejected by the Toyota Motor Corporation when he applied for a job, leaving him jobless until he began making scooters in his garage, and eventually founded the Honda Motor Company.
The list goes on and on.
Read MoreOn a quick review, I don't think that I have done anything more important in my life.
You see we're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments.
But great moments often catch us unaware - beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.
People may not remember exactly what you said or what you did but they will always remember how you made them feel.”
Read MoreHe turned around with a pen and he wrote on the wall, “17/11/89 - Angus.” And that was the start!
I got in my pick-up with a flask of coffee, in my farm clothes, and off I went to the town nearby called, Ladysmith, and I booked the town hall, and that was the beginning.
I want to ask you a question today.
Are you trusting God or are you trusting yourself?
Why don’t you allow The Lord today direct your path?
Live your dream. Do that thing that you are too scared to do but put your trust in Him and He will amaze you.
Read MoreI sent out one email - that’s all - a couple of lines, “Come to the farm. We want to speak to you.”
240 men arrived in 2004.
The next year 600 men.
The next year 1060.
The next year 7,400 men arrived on Shalom Farm.
The ladies were distraught.
We were feeding the men in those days.
They had only prepared enough food for 5000 men.
Read MoreI remember a lovely story that my brother told me many years ago.
He was a golf professional and he is now a preacher of the gospel.
He said there were two rookie professionals who went to the USA to try and get on the circuit.
They arrived at this prestigious golf club. They saw a senior golfer hitting…
Read MoreWell, the day arrived and I had qualified and I ran with all my heart.
My family had been seconding me and Janna, the young lady was waiting for me at the finishing line in Durban.
Well, I had 14 kms to go and I collapsed.
I passed out. I woke up in the ambulance.
I was taken to hospital. I was put on a drip and I felt totally broken-hearted and crushed.
I had let everybody down…
Read MoreI have a mentor. He is 85 years old as well.
He is probably the most positive man I have ever met.
He rides his bicycle every single morning.
He swims in the great Indian Ocean everyday and whenever I phone him, before I can ask him how he is keeping, he always wants to know how things are with me and my family.
He hardly ever speaks about himself.
He has had a major heart surgery.
He has had eye surgery and lots of other things but it never ever holds him back.
After building a huge Christian school, I asked him if he was going to slow down a bit.
The answer was a definite, “no”. He is praying about building a Christian university.
You see, he has a different spirit - he is a man on a mission.
Read MoreMy 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.
Read MoreI 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.”
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreAnd 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.
Read MoreRemember, 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?”
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreHe 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.
Read MoreI 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…
Read MoreIf 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?
Read MoreI 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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