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02. Prayer Topics

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
January 24, 2025 56m 45s

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Camp Title - If You Love The Lord. Machaneh Collection - 67. Preached in 2010, Ghana (UG-Accra). Bishop Dag Heward-Mills is a world-renowned evangelist, bestselling Christian author with over 100 books, and leader of the United Denominations, present in 100+ countries. Through his Healing Jesus Campaigns, thousands have been healed, and millions saved across Africa and beyond. As you follow this podcast, may you begin to know God in a way you have never before! Don’t forget to click the follow button and turn on notifications.

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Welcome to track #2 of if you love the Lord. Thank you, Dad. Forget about all these funny. Prayers you are praying. Start. To pray for the spirit of wisdom, revelation, spirit of understanding, and what again, and that you may know, what is the hope of your calling. What even to know? That the hope of your calling that you are called. When you read it's a, it's a blessing. When you read Rejoinder's book, he said the greatest folly was for people to rise up live. Their lives never doing anything. For the Lord. So is is pray that people who know their call. Most Christians don't know their. Call. Most people don't even think about their call. When they think of call, the maximum is that you should. You should pay tithes, yeah. Give an. Offering. Give a special offering. That's all. How many people know their calling? I want to know my my blessing is connected to my calling. My blessing is connected to fulfilling my call my. Future is connected to fulfilling. My call, my prosperity is connected to fulfilling my. Call. So if I don't even know my call. I don't even know that. I don't even know what is. Going to prosper? Me, I don't even

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Welcome to track #2 of if you love the Lord. Thank you, Dad. Forget about all these funny. Prayers you are praying. Start. To pray for the spirit of wisdom, revelation, spirit of understanding, and what again, and that you may know, what is the hope of your calling. What even to know? That the hope of your calling that you are called. When you read it's a, it's a blessing. When you read Rejoinder's book, he said the greatest folly was for people to rise up live. Their lives never doing anything. For the Lord. So is is pray that people who know their call. Most Christians don't know their. Call. Most people don't even think about their call. When they think of call, the maximum is that you should. You should pay tithes, yeah. Give an. Offering. Give a special offering. That's all. How many people know their calling? I want to know my my blessing is connected to my calling. My blessing is connected to fulfilling my call my. Future is connected to fulfilling. My call, my prosperity is connected to fulfilling my. Call. So if I don't even know my call. I don't even know that. I don't even know what is. Going to prosper? Me, I don't even know how I'm going to even survive. I don't know anything about my life. If I. Don't even know my calling, much less the hope of the calling. These are what? We should pray for according to the will of God. These are what you should be praying for. What? One day when I started doing crusades, I had a revelation. Suddenly I found myself I was coming to attend the crusade. I was coming to preach. Then I was coming from behind the stage, but I could not see what was in front of the. Stage, just as I was. About to get onto the stage, a man came to prevent me from coming onto the stage. So I started fighting. I said I am going on the stage and I'm going to preach and the guy was fighting with me as he was fighting. Then I just moved my head to the side like this to see. Then I saw that people, a sea, a sea of people, and the Lord said, you see the devil, He wants to prevent you from seeing something great that you are supposed to see in this evangelism that you are doing. God was showing me the hope of that call to be an evangelist. He was showing me the hope of my caller. You don't know what God has called you to. Do and if you know what God has called you to do and you know. What is inside the call? I don't know, you know. As I'm standing here today, my main work is to be cancelling invitations. That's one of the main things I do is to cancel invitations. How would I? Ever know that my main work would be to be cancelling invitations? You are invited. As I can't go invited, I can't go invited. I can't go. In fact, yesterday I cancelled 2. I can't go here, I can't go here, I can't go here, I can't go here. It's amazing. You never know that it is true until it has happened to you. May you pray. I'm showing you prayers. Oh, I'm not. I'm not giving you good. News I'm giving you prayer topics. May you pray these prayers from to. Every day when you pray after five, you don't know what. To say again, Spirit of wisdom and revelation, Spirit of wisdom and revelation, Spirit of understanding. Now the. Hope of your calling. In Jesus name, Spirit of wisdom and revelation. As soon as your words are finished or that's the next word, join it to tongues, small tongues, then spirit of wisdom and revelation. Small tongues pray for understanding. Small tongues pray for the hope of your thought. Small tongue, pray for the spirit of. Wisdom your processor which made you get grade 2 at all level. Grade 2 you know all level. Grade 2 at all level that processor God will touch it. It will become a Grade 1 processor. Do you know O level? What exam do you do SSS what what is the passing and what is bombing? So when you have a good call, you get what I mean by when is 6A's, 7A's. But when you are a bomber, seven FS, 5DS5ES7ES and 1BB in Islamic studies. Now there is a way your mind works. Everything you are taught, you don't pass the exam. It's true. It's the way you process things those. Penties teaching you and say. This fine processing no good. This is very good. So they give you the. Exam. And you? Process. And you're right, then they look and say processor, processor, processor, processor, processor, processor. Then they say, no, your processor is not very good. Be a Carpenter. Go here a Carpenter, the processor is not so good. You have to be a welder. Your processor is not very good. You are a cleaner your processor. Your processor is very. Good, You can be a manager. The processor is very good. You can be this. Your processor is the way you are processing, I'm telling. You. So as I'm preaching, everybody's processing it differently. Some are seeing something different, some are seeing something else. Processing and then what is the surpassing greatness of his power towards us who believe, praying that you know the power because there's always power when you are working with God. There are miraculous things, there are supernatural things, there are powerful things. Hey, you cannot. It's not just doctrines and teachings. As I'm standing here, I'm. Standing here by Greece, I'm standing here by Supernatural. Messes and powers that are. Working on my behalf. There is always a power that. Comes and adds to whatever knowledge you have. It's not just the processing of knowledge, but there's. Power. Workings and miracles and graces, David said. Oh my God, you have saved me. You have your, your, your, your marvelous. You have shown me your marvelous kindness in a besieged city. I was besieged though, but you showed me. Motherless. Loving. Kindness in a besieged city, you see. So what he's saying is that. Even though he was in the city, surrounded the Lord. Showed him his motherless loving. Kindness in a besieged city when you are serving God. There is always a power. And a miraculous element. That is why David said you are my sword. And my shield. My defender, even though the real source fighting with real source and the. Lord is my sword, my shield, when the people. Come Can you imagine war all? This side versus all this side in those days with Blake sharpened. Everybody before. You come to fire, will you not? Sharpen. Will you not sharpen very sharp so that if he just touches into this? And everybody's coming with the sharpest sword, sharp, sharp, David said. You are my Shields. You are my strong tower, my fortress, my deliverer, my God, in whom I will trust what? If the Lord is not your shield, then what is going to happen to you? There is a power element in our saving God. It's not just step by step cleverness and goodness. There is a power that is at work in all that we are doing. Shabba yabba lama shaka yabba. Then he said in my alarm I said I am. Cut off, O Lord, from before thine eyes. But the Lord answered my supplication. He thought God, I cut him. Cut him off in my alarm. I said I am cut. Off from before thine eyes. But the Lord answered my prayers and my supplications. That's how He knew that He was not. Cut off. But he was alarmed. He told that I've been cut off from the eyes of the Lord. The Lord is no more. See me? You know, when I was at a crusade, this last crusade, there was a man who came like this. He hold the stick like this, shaking like this. He went to the hospital and they told him that his old age and he said no, I have a brother who is older than me. He doesn't work like this. The mouse. Shake it like this. So he said during the prayer time, they said put your hand. So he closed his eyes, and he put his hand, and as he was. Standing there suddenly, he said, I, I step. On you know that wires. Sometimes the wires on the floor. So we turned out the wire with the ring. So, he said I step. On an. Electric. Why so? He opened his eyes to see the electric wire. There was not electric wire. The power. The power, The Holy Ghost, I tell you of all. The many miracles, I just remember them, man. He, he said. I thought I'd step on. I've stepped on. Electric wire with the water because of the rain. I've stepped on electric power, then he. Realized that he was. Not here he was. Walking. Look, there is a power associated with working for God and working with God if you think everything is just. By step by step step. By step doctrines and ideas, No, there is a supernatural element. Now you see that supernatural element in your life. That is why we pray. For the surpassing greatness of His power. And we will see if we also know it. Otherwise your life will be different from the way it is supposed to be. Hallelujah. Are you going to pray this kind of prayer? These are. What you should be praying for now? Spirit of revelation, Spirit of understanding. The power of God Yeah, these are how you. Should be praying. That's it. Stop wasting your time on prayers that will not be answered. This was for sure. God is not going to say you asked me for spirit of wisdom. What reason will he not give you wisdom and especially that processor of yours. It made you not do well in school. It made you not do well in your. Relationships. 2nd. Beloved, who when they saw that your processor is not correct, they saw that your processor is not correct. When they say something, I realize that your mind is going this way. Oh. OK, more prayers. That's 14 Ephesians chapter 3. For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. Verse 16. That He would grant you according to His riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner mind. These are all you should be praying for. Instead of praying to be a macho man, you are praying for strength. In the inner. Mind instead of trying to develop. Muscles praying for muscles. Which are no more used even in fighting. Muscles are no more used in fighting. Real fighting. Nobody uses muscles. The mind is what is used to fight. It is in the days of. Alexander the Great and those kind, that is when your muscles are important and now we don't use muscles, we can kill lions. You don't have to be have any extra muscles to kill a lion. You need wisdom. You can finish off 3 lions, 2 elephants just now with the mind. But Paul is not even telling. You to pray that you'll be strengthened in the inside, the inner man, which is where a lot of us have a weakness. Now. One of the reasons why I love to send people to the mission field is because it will bring out any weakness in you which is covered by being at the Kodesh. Oh, see, right now. All your weaknesses are you have an umbrella because you are here with us. When you are with us, you are covered. Whatever you are not is not seen. You see, I used to play instruments so that we have two keyboards 3 We play drums, this, this, that. Sometimes when you are not playing, nobody knows. You are not playing. When you reach somewhere you don't know how to play, you just be very terrible. Nobody knows because another person is also playing. So you are covered all the time. So sometimes you play something. Nobody, nobody even knows that you are not really doing anything out there because there's more of you. 3-4 keyboards, everybody is there, everybody is playing something. So all your weaknesses are brought out on the field. When you go to the machine field, that's when you see that you cannot control yourself. Ghanaian girls are some of the coolest girls you have in the whole world. Ghana girls? Yeah. Coolest in terms of attracting you to cause you to fall. Ghana girls? Yeah, some of them. I mean, it's like when you're playing World Cup and get a team that you can easily beat. It's true, right you go. Outside. Why do you think? There's so much HIV, for instance, in South Africa. In South Africa, I think there are places where the parents inject the check 12 years when they start to inject them immunization against pregnant, they give them the pill by injection their father will give them so that she doesn't get pregnant. Why do you think there's so much as everybody has slept with everybody before? They have a different strain of HIV, they say, but it's also the culture. It's when we went to South Africa, we said they encourage them marry, marry, marry, marry, marry. They don't marry Zimbabwe. DeSoto, Namibia. Oh, this that culture is there Kenya. Hey, so you, you are in Ghana? You say you have overcome. Temptation. You are joking. Go to Brazil, go to Colombia. One day I went somewhere and some Colombian ladies came to give a speech where pastors the the the Colombian lady and then her daughter was also grown up. They had powerful breasts. Listen, I'm telling you a story. After they were giving the. Speech because they were giving. The speech to other pastors, I was bowing down my head and I was saying that. These people. Are they not aware of how they are dressed and. Where they are because the breast has almost it just left with the nipple that hasn't come up. That's the only thing that is left and they and they were giving a speech. They were giving a speech to. Senior Pastors. And I realized that that is normal to them. It wasn't. It wasn't obscene. To them it's normal. So that's why I said that you, you are here, you think you are strong. There is a place that is where you'll be tested. I will see what you are made of. No, they were not at a disco or anywhere. They were giving speeches. Bastard was giving. They were bringing fraternal greetings from their country. Yeah, but that is that is normal to them. All of the sisters are. When they are covered up up to their neckline, they are covered. There is a place you say what? Oh, here. We cut over. Now that is why you must be praying for. Strength in the inner mind. Because, you see, you don't even know how weak you are. That's why sometimes I like to send people to the mission. Field. That's where they will see that they cannot even control their. Wife. Oh yeah. You see differences in husbands by the mission field, Yeah, when you say to her. Cat. She say. Why you say safe, she say? Because that's. Where you see your powers, I see that you don't have strength. That's why I like to send people to the mission field. Where you see, that's where you see where you are. Financial management is poor. Yeah, survival abilities is 0. You cannot survive no matter what is given to you or what. Is done for you. That's why we see so so that. Even if you get another location to work, you appreciate. It and and even appreciate missionaries. People who look. After missionaries must appreciate them what they do. It's true. Otherwise, you never know what somebody is going through to be there. Amen. That's why you should. Pray for. Strength, because you don't even know that you are weak. Strength in the inner man because. Something would show you that. You are not strong. Something will come and show you that you see, now you see, Now you see that you were not as strong as you thought. You see Now you see that you are not. Strong. That's why the mission field is a good experience. Everybody should go, at least for some time. You see fire, fire for fire, and. You see the you say you are a soldier when you hear purple true. Then you see that you are melting. How many want to go on the mission field? Are you ready for what is coming then? You see when you see somebody's tent falling down, don't. Say, why is your? Tent falling down. There are 7 main keys that stabilize. Tents #1 The. Peg. That you use #2 the rope #3 the reinforcing cables. #4 this number. 5 is number six, no wind direction principles. When we took our tents to Tamale, that is where we saw that neither by principles nor by strategies would this tend to be standing anywhere. Because there is a. Wind. If it blows on you, no matter the principle that you have used. You will calm down. Yeah, that's what people don't realize in life. So. So that when you see problems happening, So what do you realize? That you've never been that high. Up in the north. To see such a wind. Before. So you don't know what what happened if such a wind bad. Wind blows on you. In fact, of all your principles and everything, you see that when that wind. Blows few can ever stand and that the average person will just give up. So when you see something happening to somebody, stop praying. When you see your brother's beer on fire, go and collect your water. Quickly put it by your. Side. Should in case you also also catch fire, don't start saying hack and your hack. And your beer on fire. Principles that will keep your bear from. Catching Fire #1 number. Two number three shave regularly 2. Test test 3 Use Gillette #3 is what Triple blades? A bad wind? A bad wind can change all your principles. That's why you should pray for strength. So that in the evil day. You will be able to stand. May you stand in that evil day. In the name of Jesus, Amen. I'm going to pray for strength. That's efficient. 3 All this. Is in my book Strategy for Prayer so that Christ may where is it may dwell in your hearts. Through faith, Amen. So that Christ. May dwell without thought that. Christ. I've accepted Christ. In my heart as my Savior. But you see what comes out of your spirit when you speak. That's what we know. What's in your heart. Some of you money is in your heart. It's not Christ you see when you speak now. It's money that you speak out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth. Speaketh if Christ and Jesus is all that is. Deep in your heart. When you speak, we will. Feel it, but Christ is not dwelling in our although you are Christ our Savior. But he's not dwelling in our hearts. In a certain way. And that's what he's praying that Christ. Will be possessed and filled, consumed with Christ one day. My little daughter said, you know, give me some volume, whoever is taking up my volume. My little daughter was watching, I think the Passion or she was watching some film of Christ. Then she was she was crying. So my wife asked her what? What are you? What is? Why are you crying? So the way they treated. Jesus so bad she was crying for. That is how you and I as we have grown should rather be feeling. Crying for the way Christ was treated for us. But now we are not like that at all. Which of us will? Cry because Christ has been beaten for you. Your. Your mind is that he. Should be beaten. So that we'll be saved. By his tribes we are here, we have thought. If he was not beaten, we cannot be here. We need the beatings. It is his duty. It is. His duty to be beaten. We. We are OK, but it's his duty to be beaten. A child is crying. Because Christ has been. Beaten while they beat him. So much they are treating well. After all that, he. Did for them. When was the last time that Christ is so much in your hands that you even think or feel that way? This is not it is not. Are you listening to me? We are praying prayers in the Bible. That's you being rooted and grounded in love. Wow. May be able to comprehend the breadth, the length, the height and the depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge that you might be filled with the fullness of God. Amen. He says that you should pray. Amen to comprehend. All right. That we should be. Rooted and grounded in love. We, we didn't want to pray for something like that. Oh Lord, I pray today in Jesus name that I'll be rooted and grounded in love. I mean you pray such I want to be rooted and grounded in. It doesn't occur to you see but this. What you should pray rooted in love and I'm telling you without it you are not going anywhere to happen. By all means, something is going to test your love and that's what we have difficulty and that is why the whole world is in conflict. Do you know that the world is in conflict? Fighting, always fighting. Whenever you meet somebody who has the ability to win by not fighting, the first principle of war is try to win the war without fighting. The highest Sun Tzu if you've ever read Sun Tzu, The Art of War, the first principles win without going to war, without fighting if possible. War is expensive. Everybody suffers when you go to war. So the greatest strategy in war is to win without shooting one shot Now it's the greatest way of fighting as a principle, the. Bible says the devil was. Bound for 1000 years and when he was released the whole world was at peace for thousands. When he was released he went and gathered the nations to war. I mean, that's the first thing that he does as. Soon as Satan is released. Into our life, he gathers as you come and you fight Team A-Team B fight this side versus this side fight. It's the sign of the presence of the devil now a person who is. Rooted and gathered. In that one, the devil says you come, I'll show you who you fight. Fight with this person. Just now you see it doesn't take anything for the devil to just suggest. One and you are fighting, but when you are rooted and grounded in love come when you are rooted and grounded in love and I am the devil. I am the devil and I say. Come let me show fight between killing. You see now it's not rooted and grounded in love. If you are rooted and grounded in love, I will call you or you never come. Come and try again. If you are rooted, rooted, rooted, rooted, rooted, and I said quite kill this person, fight him, quarrel. He's grounded and rooted in love. But I see. How he was behaving at first. So ready to kill. So ready to fight because he, the devil is always calling us. Fight with this, fight with this. Should I tell you which of the passes in Accra the devil has made me fight since I became a pastor and which he has called me to fight with? Should I tell you? Should I? You promise you will not tell anybody. Promise, promise. Raise your hand if you promise you want me to tell you. I'll just tell you. The pastors in Akram whom the devil has called me to find it. Should I tell you? Sure. All of them. Oh oh. There is hardly any church. That's well, when I say all of that mean the charismatics, I there's hardly I can't tell you a story about why I should be not be in conflict with each of them and not have anything to do with them and not talk to them. Let's have the heavy check. I can tell from this you mentioned I'll I'll give you a. I'll sit you down, tell you a story. True stories, each one true story. Stop. You just think of a church. I'll tell you a. Story. It's amazing, but I see. When you are. Rooted, but you will not see that I'm friends with all of them. Yeah, flow with all because I saw that thing past that the sector. Was loose from there and he gathered the nations to come. So he's coming to gather me. I said I won't be gathered. I won't be gathered. I refuse to be gathered. When the devil comes into a house, a home, he would say to the what's your name? He would say to the wife you and then call her husband what's your name? Portia and Joseph. You say Portia attack him is bad and then Joseph. Attack. Her. That's it. Fighting is the sign of the president. But when you are rooted on ground, when they say attack, you just look at them. Never. I will not take you on because you are. Every quarrel you have shows. How little love you have, every single quarrel you have, no matter how justified it is, it shows how little love #18 verse 18, that you may be able to comprehend with the Saints. Verse 18, what is the breadth and length and height and depth? Amen. It is only when you are rooted and grounded in love that you can comprehend. You see, it's only when you walk in love that you can understand the extent of things. You see, for instance, if you don't, if if you love me, you will understand me more. Read the verse. It says that you may comprehend the length. You see that you will be rooted in, grounded so that you can comprehend the length and breadth and height and death. Not of God, of anything. There's not, not of the length and death and breath of of God, the length and death and breath of anything. You comprehend it when you love it, when you are full of love, when you love somebody, don't you understand the person? You understand why an explanation. And that's the background and then the reason. When you don't love the person, you don't see any reason why. Yeah. Did you get it or you don't get it? Should I say it again? You should just read it in English. That you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with the Saints what is the height and the length and the breadth and the depth. That's all that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend. Height, length, depth, breath. When you are rooted and grounded in love, you understand height, length, depth, breath of anything. You understand a lady and her behavior when you are rooted in love. When you are not rooted in love, don't understand, so you are useless. You are, you are foolish. I can't stay with you. Go away. When you are yes, next the person comes. When you are rooted in love, you understand people. So people. It's only people who have. Love who are given authority. If if you don't have love, you cannot understand people. You see, like poor people. You cannot be a leader of poor people. If you don't love, have love. When you are leading a poor person, you must understand him, how his mind works, what people. They think differently. Their eye is on their salary. Their eye is on their. Wages never. Withhold even for one day the wages of a very poor person. You have to understand how he does nothing and his eye, The Bible says his eye is on that thing. Everything he has. From hand to mouth is different from talking to a manager. Are you there? But if you are not filled with love, love for laborers, love for very poor, love for the rich, you never have a certain depth and breadth, breadth and length of understanding that you may comprehend. Understand the length. Understand. The depth. Of this problem, understand the width, understand the. Height. Of a woman or a man or a marriage. Do you understand? So pray that God will give you love. Many madams you see that they don't have any love for their house helps. It's true. You see how they behave towards the girls get up. But when you look at the girl, you may realize that she's even more beautiful than you, only that she has no money to do her hair and she couldn't go to school and she's actually even nicer than you. And that you, if we were to cut off your hair and put some groundnuts on top of your hair, you are just the same as that woman who is working there. But you see, they they don't have that understanding to accommodate this person. Sometimes you see people shouting at some. I said look if the. Person had If you unloved the person, you understand. If the pet you understand the length and breadth of the persons. The person is not that intelligent. If he was that intelligent, he would not be in the house doing that job. Or would you? Would you not? Would you not have gone to do computer science? So why are you killing the person for what he cannot? Do or she cannot do I see. When you don't, when you are not rooted in life, you don't understand people, you don't understand anybody you know. If you understand thieves, when you are rooted in life, you understand a thief. We'll have compassion for a thief. Oh, yeah. One day we caught a suspected thief and he said he he didn't steal. I said fine, no problem. It's not even one of the things that I'm worrying my head about. If you didn't steal, fine. If you still be careful, it's from God. But as I was under, I realized that I am not worried about a thief. I rather try to secure myself from a thief, but rather prove I rather pity for them. Because there are two type of stealing 31. Sometimes a problem when something is dead, they cannot help but to take it. Some people. Have a real problem? Start praying. You see you don't have love, that's why you don't know about such some of you. If you catch a teeter, he would die and in your hands. He would. Die in your hand today, he would die in your hands today is number two people still because they are genuinely in need. Who are these people? Are looking for somebody. Sometimes people are in need, that is why they steal. They need something truly even is in the Bible. You should be careful when somebody has told him because. He's poor and some people. Steal because they're it's it is even fun to them, they still to get more. So you see, you've got when you're full of love, but when you're in authority, you have to deal with thieves too. In my position, you always you have to deal with thieves. What are you going to do? This thief cannot help himself. He's got a wife, has got children, cannot pay his school at his age. Now when you sack him, what work is he going to do? You have to think about all those things when you are dealing with when you don't have love. You not think about the length and depth and breadth of this problem. You just say out it's finished for you. That's why you are not in charge. If you are in charge, we will all die under you. We are waiting for you to mature in love. Then you can be put in charge. And then with a hand of love and mercy and feminist, you can also look after that. Including the thieves. They are also your duty to look after. I don't understand my message. The length and breath and depth of a thief. Huh. Are you there the length and depth and breadth of a fornicator? Amen. And then finally, and that you may know the love of Christ with which surpasses knowledge. Amen. Love that you baby, know the love of Christ which is greater than the knowledge. Knowledge is better. Love is better than knowledge. Give me somebody who loves me rather than somebody who knows a lot. I would choose a person who loves me rather than the person who knows a lot. Oh, if I have to choose somebody to build a house and I have somebody who knows a lot about building and somebody who loves me, I'll choose the person who loves because love surpasses knowledge, love of Christ which surpasses knowledge. I see you didn't know that love is more important than knowledge. So when you grow in the Lord and you pray all these prayers. You start to see how. Great. These things will be coming to you. Amen. Are you there? These are all prayers. That you should pray. So I think it's a diversion that we took. I don't know how come we got into all that, but that was number six, Amen. It is important to pray according to the will of God #7 It is important to go places by the will of God. Amen. Are you there #7 It is important to go places by the will of God. Verse 30. Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God, to me, that I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judea, that I may come unto you with joy by the will of God. Glory I got. It is important to go places by the will of God, that I may come unto you with joy. Amen. Are you there? What do you think? That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God. That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God. That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God. That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God. That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God. You will only come with joy when you are in the will of God. How many want joy in your life? How many want to be in America with sadness? How many would you be in England with sadness? So you see joy going with joy. It comes by going in the will of the Lord. So you can be full of joy in Zoom, you can be full of joy in Damungo, you can be full of joy in a village in Nigeria. You can be full of joy in any part of the world if you are coming by the will of the Lord. That's what people don't you see? Do you know why? I know I told you about those 2 W African countries that love to travel. Did I tell you about them? Do you know how I I know many times when they come visiting they are so surprised when they see us happy here. This is what they comment about. We, we the people are so happy. They are flowing, they are happy. But the question why are you expecting us to be sad? We're expecting something different, you see, because when you see Africa on the news. Even when they are playing the World Cup and they are doing the commentary about us. It's so unfortunate. I was listening to the commentary when they were Ghana was playing with USA and you can say that the guy wanted USA to win clearly I mean. Even when it was. 15 minutes to time he was saying we don't know who is going to play with Uruguay. Well, we are we. Are leading 2115 minutes to time. We don't know who is. Going to play with 5 minutes to time he was still saying that same. Thing. We, we, we are yet to see who is going to play with Uruguay. In the semi final or the quarterfinal, we are. Going to see will it be USA? Will it? We are leading the team by two One, you are saying we are still going to see who. Is going to play with Uruguay? Yeah. That we we have not. Scored any goals in 40. Matches we have scored one goal or two goals, we haven't scored any. Goals so. Brothers and sisters, you need to go places with joy and if you're going to be happy, you need to be in the will of the Lord. You can. America can be the will of God and that's where you should be. That's where you should be is the will of the Lord. One time I had a pastor who went to Kenya and later he went to America. I was happy with him. He believes that he should be there and I believe it too. I believe what you believe. If if you believe that, I believe it and I pray that you'll be blessed that Amen, whatever you believe is what I believe that I'm going to be encouraging people to work for God and to go everywhere. It includes America, it includes Kenya. So wherever you end up being, you must go there by the will of God. And when you are there by the will of God, you are going to be happy there. I met a certain brother, he used to be a worship leader in one of our churches and he got AI don't know whether it's a green card or something. And he went to live in America. So after some years, I went to visit him. When I went there, actually the only reason why I went there because his wife was complaining. They were so unhappy. So when I went to visit him, I realized that he was turning into a homosexual. So his wife showed me look at look at the film that he's watching. So when? The brother came, I said. What are these films you are watching now? Men are giving you their complimentary cards, inviting you, and you are. Following them. We will have a wife and a child or children. We are turning into a. So I. Told the brother I said maybe it would have been better than you didn't come here. He said, oh, he thinks it would have been better that he didn't even come here. You see, there are many. Journeys that don't end with joy, they end with destruction. So make sure that you are in the America is not necessarily the will of God for you. No, America is not heaven. Take it out. Of your coconut. England is not heaven. Germany is not heaven. Take it. Out of your coconut. Be young and believe it. But when you are old, you believe it anyway. You will say either here or there, whichever is the will of God. If God wants me to be in America, oh, you see me inviting the whole world to America. God wants me to be here, I'll be here. Amen. So you must go to. Place with joy. In the Holy Ghost Amen #8 you can give your whole life to the Lord, to a man of God, if it is the will of God. More of our brethren we do you to wits in Romans Second Corinthians chapter 8 verse one, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia. How that in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty are bounded unto the riches of their liberality. Verse 3. For to their power I bear record and beyond they were willing of themselves, praying us with much entreaty that we should receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the Saints. And this they did not as we hoped. But first gave their own. Selves to the Lord and unto us by the will of God. Wow, this is a scripture which also shows that people actually can give themselves to a man of God and say whatever you say I should do, I will do, but if you are going to do that, it must be by the will of God. Amen. There are people that have given themselves to me. Whatever I say they should do, they will do. But you must only give yourself to, like Paul said, some people, they've given themselves to us. They've given themselves to God and to us by the will of the Lord. It must be by the will of the Lord. If it is not by the will of the Lord, it is not a blessing. It will become something else. Are you listening? Are you still around, Ida? Are you still there? Come and sing for us before we go to #9.