Thought For Today

Our Guide... He leads us. Jesus doesn’t direct us, He leads us. He leads you and me through the rough times and through the good times. He carries us through the hard times. Remember that old story about footsteps in the sand?

I remember a lovely old couple who mentored Jill and me years ago, they told us, when I asked them the secret of their successful marriage: Every Sunday afternoon after lunch, they would go and...

Little children are very, very important to our Lord Jesus Christ. Just these last few days I have been so blessed by the little people. I have had the privilege of dedicating a little two-and-a-half-month-old baby girl and what a beauty she is! Her name is Indiana Rose and she is a miracle baby.

Another definition of humility is controlled strength. Moses was not a weak man by any means. He took a nation of people, a grumbling nation, through the wilderness for forty years - There is no weak man who could do that.

We don’t want to get ourselves into unnecessary debt. When you owe somebody something, you have got to adhere to what they demand.

Now, I want to say to you as a farmer, we borrow money every season to put the crop in. When the crop comes off, we pay our debt and whatever is left over we keep for ourselves. Of course, we have to tithe as well.

Jesus is no respecter of men, that is why I love Him so much. I want to be honest with you, my favourite place to preach the gospel is not in a church. No, it is at a businessman’s breakfast, at a group of farmers, some sportsmen or maybe at a school presentation - that is where I enjoy telling people about the marriage feast.

You and I have been not been called to preach division but rather to bring reconciliation between man and Jesus. An ambassador is a diplomat sent by a state as a permanent representative in a foreign country - that is you and me.

You see, you can’t plough a straight line if you keep looking back. Ask anybody who knows how to plough a field. Luke 9:62 is one of my favourite verses: “But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plough and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."

Don’t tell people that you love them and then don’t show them that you love them, rather show them by the way you love Jesus.

Just the other day my dear wife Jill and I drove up to the mighty majestic Drakensberg Mountains, about an hour and a half drive, west from our farm, Shalom. There is so much uncertainty in the world today...