There are people who I want to esteem today, and they are the Bible translators.
They sit in the jungle, they sit in a foreign land, and they spend their life translating the Bible into the local language.
Nobody knows about them, but I want you to know, I esteem them greatly, because they know the importance of the written Word of God.
Read MoreYou know, as I talk to you now, we are steaming up a Revival Train in Cape Town.
You say, “Where is it?” I don’t know yet.
You say, “When is it?” Round about March.
You say, “Where is it going?” Well, they tell me the trains can go right up to Musina.
And then what happens? Well, there is a bridge, isn’t there? It goes over the Limpopo River and there is another bridge that goes over the Zambezi River.
How big is God? As big as you allow Him to be!
Read MoreDon’t hesitate to show Jesus’s love at every opportunity that you are given.
If you give somebody even a cup of water, it is as if you have done it for The Lord.
Matthew Chapter 10, verse 42 says:
“And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.”
Life is too short to waste on arguments or bitterness, or…
Read MoreIt is gratitude for Calvary when I love my enemies, because this is how much God loved the world, that He gave His only Son for you and I.
God proved how much He loved the world by the action He took at this Christmas time.
It is impossible to meet the Carpenter from Nazareth and still remain the same.
Mother Theresa left the security of a convent where she was a teacher, and she taught young girls from privileged homes - she left that convent to work in the slums with the poorest and the most helpless individuals on the face of the earth.
Often, she would pick up those men who were literally covered with maggots and they would even say to her, Why? How can you touch me?”
And she would say, “Because Jesus loves you.”
Read MoreYou know the letters that still bring a tear to our eyes, are when we get a letter, not from the men, funnily enough, but from a wife, a woman who says, “Thank You Jesus, for bringing back home this weekend, the man that I fell in love with twenty years ago.”
And the one that really makes us cry is when we get a little girl or a little boy, who is just learning to write in that big handwriting, and just thanking us for giving them a new daddy.
If Christ is for you, gentlemen, there is nothing to hold you back!
Read MoreThere was a young farmer, his dad left him in his will, a beautiful farm, all paid for, a magnificent crop of golden wheat, ready for harvest and a fleet of tractors.
They were fairly old but all in good running order.
Then a salesman arrived on the farm and he told the young farmer, “Well, you are pretty old in your set-up here and you need to up your operation to the next level.
You need to expand. Sell those old tractors and buy a brand-new shiny fleet of new ones.” He showed the young farmer how he could manage by putting up the crop and the farm as a guarantee,
and selling off all his old tractors, and just pay the interest off each month.
But you see, something terrible happened…
Read MoreMany years ago, I was invited to go to a place called Pevensey. It is on the foothills of the mighty Drakensburg Mountains.
It is a place where mentally challenged and physically challenged people live, about 70 guests there, plus. Grown people, beautiful people, lovely people, people of faith.
And I was asked to speak at their Nativity play and of course, all their relatives came from all over the country, and we were packed into that hall and there was such an excitement.
And then the service started, and they walked in, and the one man was holding a…
Read MoreMany years ago, a man came to my farm. He wanted to sell me a new tractor. We sat down. We had a cup of tea together, and I said to him,
“Will you give me your best price. I am not going to haggle with you.” He said, “Angus, this is the best price I have got for you.”
I said, “Thank you very much. I will let you know tomorrow.”
When he left, I phoned up another tractor supplier and I asked him to come and see me. He came to see me and I said, “Give me your best price”, and his price was cheaper than the other man’s, so I bought the tractor.
The first salesman, when he heard that I had bought a tractor from the opposition, he shot around to my farm and said, “But why didn’t you phone me?”
I said, “About what?” He said, “We could have talked. I could have given you a better price.”
I said, “No, but you told me, that the truth was that that was your best price.”
“No, no, we could have spoken about it.”
Because he was telling lies, that wasn’t his best price, he lost the deal.
Read MoreYou know, one of the darkest moments in my entire life was when my little nephew fell off the tractor I was driving, and he was killed.
I wept so much that I had no tears left for days and months.
And then I got a telephone call from my brother, Fergus.
One day, he said, “Angus, I had a dream, a vision, in the middle of the night.
I had a vision and I saw my little son, Alaister, and he was running towards me . He was so happy.
He was running towards me and his face was glowing. He was running through a field of emerald green grass, and I asked him if he wanted to come back to us?
And he answered…
Read MoreI want to read you a prayer.
It is called, “The Farmer and The Lord.”
While resting the other evening
By the side of the road
I saw an old farmer
In the field that he had just sowed.
His face was all brown
And wrinkled from the sun and by the wind
And he was taking’ to the Lord
Just like He would be talking to a friend…
Read MoreI have got a young sheep farmer down in the Karoo in South Africa, and he has taken over the Mighty Men Conferences that are taking place, right throughout the world.
Why? Because we handed over the baton and gave them an opportunity. Oh, I am still there but I am there to watch them.
My favourite age groups to speak to are the late teens and the early twenties. I just love young people.
We have a church on the farm here.
We can seat 500 people (before the Covid 19 came into place). I am the oldest man in the fellowship, and I love it, and I sit in the crowd and I listen and they teach me.
By the way, these pastors - I lead them to The Lord, but now they are teaching me about the Word of God.
Read MoreI remember many years ago, going to Swaziland, and at Manzini, they have got a huge stadium, and we had a massive campaign there, and on the Sunday, the King Mswati, himself, arrived with all his entourage.
It was a great occasion. I was actually wearing my Scottish Tartan that day, and that seemed to amuse him greatly, as he was dressed in his traditional robes.
God gave me a clear word to give to him in front of all of the people.
I will never forget it. It was with fear and trembling, I brought him the word.
I said to him, “Your majesty…
Read MoreYou know, there is a very dear friend of mine, him and his dear wife live in a small bachelor flat in Harare, Zimbabwe.
He is a senior man, in my age group.
He was an extremely successful commercial farmer. He had an agricultural college and a school on his farm.
He took care of the poor and the rural people, but he was unjustly chased off his farm, at the point of a machete.
But this man, before he left, with only his shirt on his back, he asked the perpetrators if…
Read MoreThis Covid 19, Coronavirus that we are involved in, we are running literally, the race of our lives.
You see, this race has never, ever been run before. It is the first one in the history of this world.
When someone has been there or done it before, it is very encouraging and inspiring and it even makes it easier for us.
For example, Bruce Fordyce, the multiple gold medal winner of the Comrades Marathon, shows us that it can be done.
Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing conquered the highest mountain on earth, and showed us that it can be done, but this deadly Coronavirus,
with all its deadly tentacles, those attributes like fear, hopelessness, uncertainty, has never ever happened before.
This is the time for us to seriously look to Jesus, to wait on The Lord, to renew our strength, to mount up with wings like eagles, not to be weary but to keep on walking, and Jesus Himself will bring us through.
Read MoreWhen I went into the palace, I was warmly welcomed into the palace, myself and my Induna.
He is illiterate and I am semi-illiterate so we made a good pair, and they put us in two chairs, and the king was sitting on his throne.
The elders were crawling in on their knees to speak to him about business affairs and then crawling out backwards, never turning their back on the king.
The wives were seated around him on grass mats, and then he looked up and he said to me in pure Zulu, the King’s Zulu - excuse the pun,
(Angus speaks Zulu) “I want the farmer to testify about the power of God.”
Read MoreYou know, I know of many men who are praying and reading the Bible, in front of their staff every morning before they go to work. They are giving the glory to Jesus.
I have seen sporting teams giving honour to God for winning their championship and that is where the power comes from.
You know Jesus said, “If you deny Me before men, I will deny you before My Father.”
So folks, go out today and tell people,”I am not ashamed to tell you that I am a follower of the soon-coming King Jesus.”
Read MoreI remember, my oldest son, on his wedding - he made me so very proud.
With all his friends present and our large family gathered together at a hotel at that beautiful reception, he made the groom’s speech.
His beautiful bride was seated right next to him and he was in his mid-twenties at the time.
And he stood up, and he put his shoulders back and he lifted up his head, and he said this very scripture that I have just quoted from Joshua Chapter 24 and verse 15.
He said, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Read MoreI have a place I will describe to you. It is in Northern Zambia.
It is the area and the place where they buried Dr David Livingstone’s heart under a tree. I walk down a little path. High elephant grass is on both sides. It is a tropical rain forest with many small birds singing.
I sit down upon a fallen tree log on the side of the path. A gentle breeze is blowing the reeds in the swamp, just ahead of me, and they are moving back and forward, dancing for The Lord.
Out of the quietness in the distance, I hear the call of the mighty African Fish Eagle. I worship God and I renew my strength. Isaiah 40:31.
Just then I hear the announcement over the microphone that Flight Number 325 is now boarding for Nashville, Tennessee.
Totally refreshed, I get up and get ready for the next stage of my journey.
Read MoreThe opposition of unbelievers and satan himself shall never succeed since God is for us.
It reminds me of that little, small, puny traffic officer who steps out onto the highway and puts his hand up and stops a thirty ton truck carrying timber or some heavy cargo, in its tracks.
That driver puts on brakes, he puts on his flashes and he pulls over instantly, and this little man walks up and he asks for his license and does a complete thorough check.
He is wearing a badge on his cap you see, and he is representing the whole nation.
Read MoreYou see, dad is not speaking at the moment, children, because he is very worried.
He doesn’t know if he is going to be retrenched next month.
Mom is short and snappy because she doesn’t know if she is going to have a meal to put on the table tomorrow.
The boss is pushing unreasonably hard because he doesn’t want to lay off any of his workers.
But you think otherwise, you see, because that is perception. We have got to stop that.
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