I remember reading a beautiful story about that famous evangelist, Corrie ten Boom, that Dutch lady and her sister…
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Worrying doesn’t help at all. It just makes you sick. You know my young daughter, Jilly, gave her mother and me a beautiful picture of…
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I want to encourage you this year, to start using the Word of God because His Name is Jesus Christ and He will show you the way…
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This is the year of doing great things for Jesus on Earth, but we must only use God’s Holy Word, The Bible, as our mandate, and nothing else…
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I just want to greet you from all of us at Shalom Ministries - the whole team; the camera crew; the producers; the ladies in the office; all those on the farm…
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You know, many years ago, I used to do powerlifting as a sport, and I looked in the Guinness Book of Records - I can’t remember when it was…
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“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.” This is not a time for…
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You know, I read a book called, “Half-time” by a man named Bob Buford, and in that book, he spoke about going from success to significance…
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Wesley went all the way in a sailing ship to preach the Gospel to the Red Indians, hoping that he would find a closer walk with The Lord…
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Many a time in farming, I have been farming now for, ja - over fifty years, and you know, some of the crops I have planted, I have thought, “Lord, we are not …
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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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