702, Monday night

Okay, yeah. No money, given up my good banking job. And I did a talk at an Enfield church at Constantia Crane. And the guy came up to me and said, Gordon, I want to give you two hectares of land. And I was like, wow, thank you, Lord. But I said, I need to go check it and pray about it and see if this is what it's supposed to be. And I'll never forget I went there.

No gate, no fences, but I fell on my land and I just knew it was what I've been so I was looking further out where it was cheaper. This is right near schools, near everything, a beautiful 9.4 hectares of land. And I said, cool. He said, move in. There were other people there. We started fixing up the place. You know, no one wants to support your gift.

You anything because now you don't own the land. If you don't own it, then people don't want you. Yeah, I was just talking about it in the previous hour. Yeah, I was listening on the way here. And I said, Well, what's going to happen? He said, No, we must subdivide. And then we found out the cost, I said, Well, I haven't got that kind of money to subdivide. And sadly, he eventually lost his business, he lost his home. I said, I worked for the bank for.

Many years, let's go talk to them. So we came up the road here, saw the main guy, and I said, Well, I'm here, I'm on the land, this is what I do. Don't you want to give it to me? The finance, no, just give me the land. I'm quite upfront. And he said, Yeah, sure, you can have it for four million. I said, But I've got a bond, I'm not worth it.

I've got a family. I don't have money. He said, okay, oh, there's a house here in Krugersdorp I'll give you. I said, I can't do what I've been called to do in a house in Krugersdorp. I regretted afterwards not taking the house and selling it and using that money, but anyway. And it went up for auction. So I got the papers.

And being an ex-banker, you know, I was normally quite structured, but I put them on my desk and I forgot. And I was up one morning and I'd been reading the Bible and praying, and I just felt the Lord saying, Gordon, do you want that land? I was like, Of course I do. He says, Well, look at that paper. And I looked at that paper, and the auction was that morning at nine o'clock. And I briefly scanned through it and it said, You need a 2,000 rand deposit to come and bid.