I spent two weeks during these violent land invasions trying to keep the peace between groups of invaders and frightened farmers, bearing in mind that most farmers were militarily trained and had a gun cabinet full of weapons.

A few days later they were in our yard, spoiling for a fight.

And I suddenly found myself at a crossroads, was I going to be obedient to the Lord or was I going to take the law into my own hands?

So I had their mob with them, screaming obscenities at me. And I had the courage within me. I put my hands on their shoulders and I just said, can I pray with you? I prayed and I opened my eyes. And there before us, two lions have turned into lambs.

Welcome, everybody.

This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired.

Great team back.

Another fantastic week of encouragement and stirring of our faith.

We are relentlessly bombarded by bad news that sort of induces

fear and anxiety and cynicism. And the antidote to that is feeding ourselves. Good stuff.

And that's what the inspired podcast is all about. So I love introducing you to a range of different

friends from across the planet doing beautiful stuff and overcoming sucker punches.

And I've got no doubt this week you're going to be inspired because we got with us Craig Deal.

Welcome Craig.

Hi, Simon is such a joy to be with you.

Thank you for inviting me.

Yeah, real pleasure.

So Craig is in my favorite city, Cape Town right now.

I was with Craig's son, Sean, at a church weekend away that was preaching at, flew into Geneva, and it's just the other side. We did it in France a few weeks

ago. And I was talking to Sean, he said, well, he was just raving about his dad and Foundations

for Farming. So Craig is an international CEO of Foundations for Farming. We've already had in the podcast, Donna, Bloomfield's been a practitioner of that in Burundi.

And absolutely gorgeous.

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