Thought For Today

Even the demons recognize Jesus as the Holy One of God. In fact, that is the first person who acknowledged Jesus Christ as the Son of God, and yet, just before that he was in Nazareth, His hometown, and everyone rejected Him... they even tried to murder Him.

We must be careful that we are not caught up with public opinion - Just because everybody else is doing it, that doesn’t make us right. We must watch out for...

We must be careful that we are not caught up with public opinion - Just because everybody else is doing it, that doesn’t make us right. We must watch out for...

We need to be faithful to God and we need to trust the Faithful One. Early this morning I was riding my mountain bike past an airstrip. It was absolutely dark and very, very misty.

In South Africa it is springtime - it is the time of new beginnings. As a farmer, I can go and look at the trees and they are pushing out brand new leaves...

James Hudson Taylor took the Gospel to China hundreds of years ago and one of the Chinese converts came to him after he had been converted for a few months. James Hudson Taylor said to him, “How is it going?”

Over this past weekend, we experienced a snowstorm on Shalom Farm, indeed the whole of KZN, as we have never ever seen before in 44 years of farming at Shalom.

Don’t just tell folk that you love them, show them that you love them by your lifestyle... that you are changed. There has got to be a change in a person’s life when they meet that Carpenter from Galilee, the Lord Jesus Christ. I would go so far as to say it is impossible to carry on with your lifestyle like before once you have met the Lord.

Now, we always say here at Shalom, “A good idea is not always a God idea and a need never justifies a call.”

What does that mean? It means that when the Lord Jesus Christ walked the earth, He didn’t heal all the sick and He didn’t feed all the hungry. He only did what His Father in Heaven instructed Him to do.

Now, remember bad company corrupts but good company builds up good character. We need to spend time with positive people who have got a vision, who are going somewhere, who are full of life...