05/04/2025
Many seek to know how we started, how did we get the money , where do we get funding, why the religion and what’s that got to do with horses , how do we do what you do etc.
The answer is to be relentless in everything.
You don’t need to be the hardest worker, the smartest, strongest etc , just be relentless, show up everyday, seek to start 10 minutes early and finish 10 minutes late.
When I was a young teenager working on big stations, I dreamed of owning country but never dreamt of owning my own mountain range, a dozen lakes, livestock, a plane ,dozer, grader, loader, a dozen motor bikes, string of Toyotas etc etc.
I was just a boy who went into a boys home at 12 yrs of age, not a very good start to life but I was relentless.
Not only did I fall into the grace of God but I found God also, two different things.
I worked every job known , in the way out, outback, some extremely tough bosses, many openly hated by others but all better to me than my biological father.
I was favoured by these tough men because I was relentless.
Not much hurt my feelings because none could harm me more than I had already been harmed.
Words were but water that ran off a ducks back.
I was a semi reckless young man, polite and courteous ..but reckless, l did whatever seemed to suit me , there wasn’t a horse that could throw me, I sought horses that others couldn't subdue, my life was worthless to me..but I was relentless.
In my mid twenties I started to see a future for myself, I started to use the years of experience and knowledge to purchase land.
I worked myself into the top .05% of corporate station managers, lead the world in artificial insemination that lead to buying Land…because I was relentless.
I seemed to have an ability of turning whatever I touched into gold. Proverbs 21:3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Then came the humbling, a three year spell of drought, 3 young children, no ability to borrow money, newly purchased 60,000 acre property, no livestock, $13 dollars in cash….but I was relentless.
Started harvesting a native stand of broombush for fencing with a machete, took in livestock for others to manage, did mobile mechanicing, caught wild goats for breeding and selling…..yes relentless.
Building my empire to 189,000 acres and carrying up to 22,000 sheep equivalent of stock through many droughts, thefts, injuries, wife’s unwellness , coping with my own depression through out…but you get it, I was relentless.
“God is best seen the revision mirror”.
Looking back over my life I can see where I started out oblivious to God, in the grace of God, in the Knowledge of God, righteous, drifted into self righteous and fully in the light of God.
To my recollection I have never performed a dishonest deal, if anything I have put the other ahead of myself, that’s something written on our hearts.
11Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, But he who gathers by labor will increase. 12Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life. 13 He who despises the word will be destroyed, But he who fears the commandment will be rewarded. Proverbs 13:11-13
Just a common old cow poke who was happy to be with animals to becoming a global mental health facilitator ???
It was my wife’s unwellness that led me to seek tools on how to help make her better that eventually pulled me into this field of mental health.
A life time of personal exposure to trauma and adversity slowly formed into my current situation.
4BP horses, the sensation of training a wild horse in three hours burst onto the world stage becoming a global thing over night…not really, it’s because I was relentless.
The horse training technique that relieved people of their afflictions, illnesses, mental health , now came into play.
Everything in my life suddenly made sense, suddenly everything that had been poured upon me, experienced or seen , exposed to was now relevant..it made sense.
I planned with my heart what I wanted to do for others…God guided my footsteps. Proverbs 16:9
In selling a large portion of the personal empire for a God delivered fortune my wife of the time departed.
Not seeing it coming, it crushed me, broke my heart and left me bewildered and lost.
I was sinning before the Lord for I loved my wife more than God, I had been idolising her, placing her before the Lord. Luke 14:26
What a blessing….. I fell immediately before the Lord in prayer, I read scripture day and night, listened to scripture, practiced scripture…I was relentless.
What a blessing for I was dead but became alive in the Lord, the revision mirror is wonderful to see , it confirms to us that the Lord is guiding us always.
The Lord allowed me to repair.
Life is steady as it goes, be patient and sure of your direction, place your dreams and afflictions at the foot of our Lord, do not be of two minds.
People who have a professional employment go away for training days for their job, to be better at what they do.
I see God has done and continues to enriched my life just the same way with “training” through life events, He makes good of all bad situations.
Isaiah 40:31 But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Be steady, plan with your heart, be righteous , be open, forgive.
We may not see God in front of us, nor alongside us but always we see Him behind us , how He guided us, carried us, delivered us.
I gave up empire building for myself and my family to work on my Fathers kingdom and those who seek it.
Nothing is more important to me than delivering relief of affliction to those that have fallen, to those who are where I laid, I dwelled and occasionally wallowed.
I pray that I continue to be relentless in my work and relentless in the Lord.
All Glory to our Heavenly Father for anything we perform as we are nothing without our Lord Father.
Reach out if you too wish to walk with the Lord, find him or set up a place like us.
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Psalm 1:1-6
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...
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