I read just yesterday about a young woman. She was tipped to be in the top 50 up and coming…
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General George Patton - they called him, “Old blood and guts.” He was a three star general from the United States army and he liberated my…
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I remember many years ago - I am talking about fifty years ago, 1970, I went to Australia and those Australians are wonderful people…
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What an opportunity this Christmas time to be intimate with The Son of God. But you know, it takes time…
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Papua New Guinea, the Sawi Tribe, a cannabal people - In 1962 a missionary, by the name of Don Richardson, with his 7 month of son, Steven, and his young wife, paddled up that river to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and he was struggling to try and explain to them what Jesus means to us and what our Heavenly Father did, until he heard a tradition of these tribes.
What they would do is, two tribes who were warring against each other, would find peace by giving a young baby from each tribe, to the other tribe. And they would look after that baby and that baby would bring peace to the tribe.
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This man thought, “What on earth am I doing in this place?”
Then all of a sudden, one man got up and he walked across the circle and he took his boney finger and he stuck it in the businessman’s chest and he said two words, “Too busy.”
And then he went and sat down and nothing happened.
And after five minutes, the same man got up again, the same man and he walked across and put his boney finger in this successful business-man’s chest, and he asked him one question, “Why?”
And then he went and sat down.
This man collapsed and he broke down and he went to Henry Nolan and he said, “I have got my answer.”
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Isaiah 45, verse 22:
“Look to Me and be saved.”
You know that little scripture verse was preached by a semi-literate farm worker, in a little church in England, and to get out of a snow storm, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the prince of preachers, snuck into that church to get out of the weather and heard that scripture verse. It changed his life.
Do you know, at the age of 21 years old, they built the London Tabernacle for him.
It could seat 10,000 people.
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You know, so often over the years, we have been standing at the air-strip next to our farm, waiting for an aeroplane to fetch us to take us to a meeting, and the mist descends, and it is so thick, you can’t even see your hand in front of you.
And the phone calls start coming in from the organisers of the meeting which is 500 or 600 kms away, asking “are you on your way?”
And by faith, raw faith, we say, “We are coming.”
And then we can hear the engines of that plane circling over the farm but the mist is so thick it is like pea-soup, it just can’t get down…
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You know, early this morning, I walked out of my house, going down to my quiet time room, and I looked up into the sky and I saw multitudes of swallows, flying across the sky, just as the sun was starting to break during the night, and I thought, “Lord, You are amazing!
That little bird has arrived in Africa, for summer. He has left Europe because of the winter, and he has come down, all the way down - thousands and thousands of kilometers, down to South Africa, to spend the winter here in our summer time.
Who told him to do that? He has a connection with You.”…
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I remember as a young boy, maybe 10 years old, going down to a rugby match.
We did it regularly, with my brother and my dad.
My dad was a blacksmith by trade, probably one of the strongest men I have ever met.
He would work on that anvil and that steam hammer, all day long, and when I walked into that rugby stadium, next to my dad, holding my hand, and with my brother’s hand on the other side, I felt so secure.
I saw my dad as the strongest man who had ever lived.
If the heavy-weight boxing champion of the world had walked along, I felt like he would have stepped aside when he saw my dad walking down the path.
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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.
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You 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!
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Don’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…
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It 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.”
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You 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!
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There 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…
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Many 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…
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Many 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.
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You 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…
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I 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…
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