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03. Atmosphere Camp - 7 Reasons Why Atmosphere Is Important For A Christian-1

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
February 28, 2025 1h 23m

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Camp Title - Atmosphere. Machaneh Collection - 80. Preached in 2012, Ghana (Mampong Akuapem). 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 #3 of atmosphere, seven reasons why atmosphere is important for Christians. So a lot of people who are doing well, it's not that they are great, they're just in some environment. They're just saying that being there. I think you should get the. Film and watch it being there, but I'm going to look for it or being there. The star in that film was I think it's Peter Sellers. You know, if you know Peter Sellers, Pink Panther, Batman. No, it's not a Pink Panther film, but it is him. He just stays there in a suit and it's just just there. When you say, well, they think it's a very great wise word, then it's fantastic. It's a stupid film, but it's amazing. A lot of people. See, that is why you must not look down and somebody who is not also doing well because the environment that they they grew up in is different. Yeah, there are some people from Europe or America. If I send them on a mission and I say go to Cameroon or go to Ghana or go to Nigeria, I'll go somewhere in Africa, you'll see that they cannot, they cannot why they are downfall because they they have grown up in an environment which. Has made them a certain. Way. So

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Welcome to track #3 of atmosphere, seven reasons why atmosphere is important for Christians. So a lot of people who are doing well, it's not that they are great, they're just in some environment. They're just saying that being there. I think you should get the. Film and watch it being there, but I'm going to look for it or being there. The star in that film was I think it's Peter Sellers. You know, if you know Peter Sellers, Pink Panther, Batman. No, it's not a Pink Panther film, but it is him. He just stays there in a suit and it's just just there. When you say, well, they think it's a very great wise word, then it's fantastic. It's a stupid film, but it's amazing. A lot of people. See, that is why you must not look down and somebody who is not also doing well because the environment that they they grew up in is different. Yeah, there are some people from Europe or America. If I send them on a mission and I say go to Cameroon or go to Ghana or go to Nigeria, I'll go somewhere in Africa, you'll see that they cannot, they cannot why they are downfall because they they have grown up in an environment which. Has made them a certain. Way. So maybe there are trees like this or maybe very slim. Yeah, I thought you see that it hasn't developed in a certain way, certain branches that it could have had it don't have. If you see some of the trees here in this area, you see that it's different from the trees we have in Accra because the environment here is different. It rains more over here. Just look out of the window. You see tall trees, It's. Like a rainforest, you get it. So the environment here is completely different. So trees seem to flourish. And you think of this is a special tree. I mean, I really thank God for this tree's life. What a blessing it has been today. It's just the environment that it has been in. Yeah. I mean, some of you are virgins. That is the environment. The environment has has made you a virgin. Yeah, the atmosphere that if you have been transplanted for just six months in another atmosphere, in another environment, you are down for it's over just six months. Yeah. So when you are a Christian and you are about to go into a certain environment, you must really prepare. As soon as you hate the cold, you just die. Yeah, see that's why so now when you go into into winter. You mean because you know that it's something that kills in just a short you find a lot of people. Hey, Charlie, it's cool. Hey, come on. Come on. Because it kills. It actually kills. If you stay unprotected with short while, you are over. When Hitler came into power, one of the experiments he was doing was to see how long people could stay in the cold without dying. So they put people in. You see that one hour is dead. One hour, 20 minutes, the person is dead. A certain type of temperature. You are stayed there. You will die. It's over. You have done 4. You get it? Yeah, So, so, so. Somebody may be looking. Down on someone because that person has even. Done better than you because in that environment or in that atmosphere what the person has achieved and what you have achieved nothing in the good atmosphere. Look at the atmosphere like this and you are just grass. You are just a small low lying grass instead of becoming a big tree in this. Atmosphere. Look at the trees. All around you just were able to grow up to this. Yeah. So the atmosphere in which you are is going to virtually determine everything. All right, So because you are a tree, that's the first reason. Because you are a tree. Second reason, and I've shown you 1000 scriptures about that number 2, is because you are a branch. You are called a branch of a tree. You are called a branch. The Bible calls you a tree. It also calls you a branch. You are called a tree, and you are also called a branch. Amen. I am the vine, you are the branches. I didn't write the Bible. The Bible calls you a branch of a tree, and the branch of a tree is as doomed as a tree when it is in a bad atmosphere. It's over. You are downfall, some of you. When I see your new friends, I know it's finished. It's over. You are downfall. It's true. You see some people you go and join MPP or you go and join MPC like you are doing politics now. As soon as I see a group that I know, I know your future you are down for. Yeah, it's true. I can tell Bible calls you a branch. Bible calls you a tree. I didn't write the Bible reading it just like you #3 the Bible calls you a garden. First Corinthians chapter 13, chapter 3, verse 9 we are fellow. Workmen, joint promoters, laborers together with and for God. You are God's garden. You are God's garden and vineyard and filled under cultivation. You are God's building. So God calls you a garden. First Corinthians chapter 3, verse 9. What does your Bible say? You are God's what? Yes, you are God's husbandry. We don't use that word husbandry. You know anybody who says husbandry, I'm going to my husbandry. Say something like that. There's nothing like that today. OK, it's an old word, alright? It means garden or field or vineyard. OK, we don't use husbandry. I'm going to my husbandry. I'll be back on Friday. There's nothing like that. I'm going to water my husbandry. Oh, no, no, no. OK. You have a husbandry. I mean, there's something like that. This is old English. OK. Do you understand what I'm saying? Do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah. You are gone garden. So if you are a garden, it's no surprise if there's I come in the Hamakan environment and I see you become brown, brown, it's no surprise. You should not be surprised if I find you brown totally with it. I realize that you have been planted in the desert one day. I went to a certain golf course in a certain country, and that country the environment is harsh, so there is no grass on the golf course. The golf course supposed to have grass. So when I when I said what are we going to do? And the man said don't worry. When we got to the place where we are supposed to play on the field where there was supposed to be grass, he opened his bag and brought something out. It was a carpet, a special carpet with like, grass, freckles on small one. And he put it on plastic grass. Yeah, yes. So everywhere you go, you put it there and then you play because the environment is such that the grass will not grow there. If you go to Burkina Faso, where it's desert, there's no grass on the golf course. It's red. It's a desert and it's a golf course. Yeah. So that is the environment. And you don't expect trees there? Give me some water. I see something. Somebody. And where's your gun? Where's your gun? What's her name again? Come this way. What's her name again this way? My darling here, what's her name? What's her name mean? She's the star for the actress, right? No fire with this one. Is she dead yet? But you are being sure you don't fall down? Is she down? Is she fully down? But she's still sitting so she cannot be around. Is she? Is she fully? Fire until she's OK, alright. She's now done. You are God's garden. Well, what are you? I got them. I will not be surprised if you are moving in a standard environment and you just wither. I'll not be surprised at all. Yeah, when I was coming to Lagan campus, I had heard about this school, that it's a place where you fall many times. I've entered new environments, new atmospheres, and I knew what was there and so I prepared for it. Yeah, Before I came to Lagong, I went to the Botanical gardens to fast and pray for my entrance into the school. Yeah, I used to take off my shirt and walk in the gardens. I finished, I finished 6th 1, which is like s, s and walked through the gardens, through under the trees on the roads there, through. I know every corner of the gardens. Yeah, I've actually lived there. It's true. I come from home and I come there. I've not yet entered university and I was prepared that I've heard that there is a place. Called Lagos, When you go, you fall, you can start, this will happen, this will happen, this will happen. So I prepared. Myself so that when I hit the environment, when the winter hits me, I pick my jacket. Yeah, when I, when I travel, I mean, the weather changes, you see you like it's how it's hot here when you enter the plane, the temperature in the plane. I think sometimes they bring the temperature down to maybe 12° I think, or I don't know what, 15 or 12° in the plane. Sometimes, especially depending on the airline and you see that it's freezing, especially if you are by the window, it's colder than in the middle of the plane. Yeah. And outside the temperature is -55° -, 55 plus the wind speed of 500° maybe -100. And at first, sometimes when I travel, I realized that by the time I am there, as I say, I'm almost dying out of the changing it because when I was coming from England right now, it was winter, winter. Ice. Cold. When I write there, it's hot. Atmosphere changes immediately. Everything changes. Yeah. So every change of atmosphere. What's your name again? I'm Rebecca. If you sleep again, you have to open your mouth and we shall fail. We shall fail it. So listen, many of you, you have entered atmosphere. There are some people, they were, they were Christians in JSS. What do you call it? Now that we have NBC, we are expecting them to do what they have promised, which is free basic education, free basic for all people, everybody in Ghana from now and free SHS from 2016, yes, free SHS from 2016. And then to increase the number of they are going to build 200 SHS schools, they are going to build 200. So we are expecting it now. And then also 10 teacher training colleges. They are going to build 10 teacher training colleges. And then we are going to have, yeah, all these. And then they are going to rehabilitate the Commerce Jute factory and the Abosso glass factory. And the opponent Manso Steel and Iron industry is also going to be revived and brought on board and they are going to increase their support, sell their support from 16,000 farmers to 40,000 farmers and increase the youth employment with the 10 million. CD whatever. So we are expecting all, I'm not happy all the wonderful things like a better Ghana with single digit inflation and GDP growth rate of 8% and a strong currency which will not go further than the current 2 to one. Yes, these are all things that we are all excited to going to have 200 USHS schools and so on back-to-back to what we were talking about, what were we talking about, but. Better Christians. I knew where I wanted to see whether you, you knew where I was. So listen you when I was coming from Christian, I was coming from secondary school s s or whatever. I was not an s s. I was delivered from bathroom. And then I entered a new environment where suddenly you are free. You can go and visit a boy at any time. You can visit a girl at any time. You can sleep in the same room, on the same bed. You don't have to go to lecture. Nobody knows whether you come or you don't care whether you are early, whether you are late. Nobody cares. Nobody checks. No roll call, no housemaster, no senior house mistress, no lights out, no preference. No that you can't have the phone. You can't do this. No, no, no, no, no. You can't do everything suddenly. It's like liberty. It's a sudden change of atmosphere. Yeah. And people go wild. That's why they wait for the fresh freshers in the first years, when they come, when they start with jams and what beach parties and welcome debba, welcome Debbas and all sorts of things. When I when I when I visited my, my, my, she was not my wife. I was going round on ministry visits, ministry visits, and I was on one ministry visit and I came to her room. Her room was P20IN water hall. So when I got there and I saw in her pigeonhole, she had a little thing that you can put notes. It was full, full. Hey, So what? Are these I saw this? What are these invitations? She was being invited to jam here party this welcome freshers. I said what are these because I have not been invited to even walk her victims. And you are you are a girl and also going for these welcome parties. Can't you see that you are like an antelope with lions trying to locate you? And you are being invited to come to the. Forest, the Savannah, to come and roam around openly for them to pounce on you. And you are also going. And when you come at you, because I don't know what happened to me, I fell asleep. You fell asleep. They made you sleep. And what happened to you when you were sleeping? You never know. And you are also going because you hit a new environment of liberty and you are shocked with the liberty. That's how life every time you move from 1:00 when you finish school to life, you hit a new atmosphere. You'll be shocked. When you travel abroad and you travel, you hit back. Sometimes you've been away from home and you come back home. You hit an environment where you used to do bad things. So there are people who do well in school spiritual as soon as they go back home back you just you enter back into that environment of that misbehavior and then you revise it and it starts again up and down to a cold, hot, cold, hot, cold, hot, cold, hot, cold, hot because you are cause guardian. So you keep responding to the different. Environment and atmosphere that you fall into. That's how we are. It keeps changing. So at a point you now need to get your security and your protection, whether it's your coat, your winter. As soon as I hit this environment, I put this one on. I will change when I go into this new environment. And sometimes you'll be surprised. Everyone will play with you, go, come, go, come, go. You go, You change, you come, you go like that, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Sometimes it can happen to you three times or four times before you realize that the environment has changed and it's making you change again. Changes making you change again because you see it depends. On what sometimes you go. Home. Your parents will not allow you to go to church. They will say no, no, no, no. It's too late, this and that one. Rather you see that you are backside. Sometimes your parents operate like a witch or a wizard and actually induce fornication, bringing ankles to come and say this, your ankle do whatever. No, that uncle wants to sleep with you. That's true. Or sometimes, oh, this your cousin, whatever that cousin is sleeping with you. Yes. Or sometimes you say no, no, no, don't have progress. They want you to rather be friends with this, this unbeliever. And sometimes our mothers want you to have things to do because that's all that they did through their life before they gave birth to you. You, you see, when your mother, you have my that's here to tell you, Mama. Tell me about you. Tell me. Tell me, tell me, tell me. Tell me more. I want to know you. I want you have any picture of how you were when you were young, Mama, tell me some stories I want to know. I want to know you as you see her in her cloth with her big bottoms, walking around her. You cannot imagine how she was something all over the place, having sex with groups. Groups. Your mother, your mother. You'll be surprised. Just ask questions. Ask questions. Tell Mama I want to know. Tell me, Mama. What were you like, Mama? Before you met Daddy and you had me, and then you changed so much and you became bitter widow or bitter, whatever you are. Botelli Bita widow. By the time most of us grew up, we saw the bitterness of our madness, not their sweetness. The sweet era has passed and they are turning to the bitter madness that you know with negative things to say about your husband and all men, her husband, and all men except those who are restrained by the web of God. And they don't say much, but most of them will say, and they will call your, they will call your father, your father, your father, that man, your father, your father. They don't call, They don't call him daddy. They don't call him Daddy or anything or sweetheart or my darling. They call your father. Your father. It's like not my anything, your father. It's not my any device. It's your father. Have you heard some of that before? So it it has shielded you from having an idea of how your mother was, how your mother was. Your mother was acrobatic. Your mother was like a dancing queen. Your mother was charming, sensational, sensational charmer. Sensational charmer. You have no idea. You think you are beautiful. She was 10 times more beautiful than you. Start to ask questions, ask for pictures. And I want to see your picture. Mama, who were your boyfriends before? Before you met Daddy. Before you met Daddy, you were your boyfriend number. What happened? How was it like? Check your date of birth and the date of their marriage. Check your date of birth and the date of their marriage. Some of you your your father was going to marry somebody else until she Met Your Mother the last minute and she charmed him with her sister attitude of sweetness. She she laughed him with her sweet voice and her hairstyle, and she knew what a man wants when she has sex with your father. She he has not seen some before. What is happening to me? What is happening to me? What are we talking about before we got into your mother? Yeah, you have no idea. You have no idea. So the environment, the atmosphere of your life is making you, you are becoming something. So you better get your coat ready at a time. You are grown up. You have done so many things. The atmosphere has changed in the house. Nobody will know how you were you. Were sweet. Marvelous. Are you listening? I have learnt to prepare for the new atmosphere. Oh yeah, atmosphere of life. As soon as you finish. School. It's like you have to enter a new cold, bitter weather, go to the go to the churches and see the people sitting there. You see them like that. You see them sitting there like that. Very when you say something, they just look at me. But they were, they were nicer than you. They were gentle and nicer. Your mother, you see her that she doesn't. When your father talks, she doesn't even turn her neck. The neck doesn't even move. It was nicer than you. Since she entered into a bitter well, a cold weather. A cold weather changed my plants. It has changed it. She was tighter than you. You, you are. You are eating. You are eating the ugly duckling. Compared to her. Even people were wondering that a beautiful woman like hell have given birth to you. She was nicer than you. I'm telling you that when she met a certain weather, it has changed her. It has changed her. She doesn't look so. It doesn't look so gentle. Speaking with a sharp tongue, Rebuking your father, Talking a certain way. Yeah. Insulting. It's a cold weather that she met. Yeah, go to the churches, you see you. You move from Exeter University, then the weather has changed. You move from university. You hate real life pain. See that? The thing has. Changed you travel to London. I'm going to do masters. Tell me you see that the weather has changed and when you go to London you see that oh, you are looking for accommodation. There's somebody who you couldn't get a pay when one room is 200 lbs. So when you look you can fetch with somebody. That person is actually the person you couldn't get the person you know their sister, that you know, their friend, that you know the girl that where she stays far at Manchester. So the only person that you know is this guy who has got a person, he's got a room there. He's got a lesser room. So you can pass that when you go, the extra room that he has got is the sitting room of a room, the sitting room of a room. So as somewhere the two rooms is one room and then the. And so it's like because of 1212, your job is also near. So you are somehow patching there before you realize you've moved from the sitting room because there's no heating in the sitting room. Yeah, so you can go to a place where they slot for heating, you know, slot you. Put slot there are some houses in here, I don't know if they say you slot 50P for the heater to come on 5050. If you don't have it. To go up and you see the weather, the weather, it comes into the house. One time I went somewhere. I was going there for some, for something and when I got there the heater was not working. I told the people, but I said I cannot stay here. I left. I just, I just came back to Ghana. I cannot stay here. You can't. You can't if when you wear clothes even you can, you will be like an Eskimo in the you can. I stayed. After two days, I I was more than an Eskimo and I was, I was. Bathing every 12 with hot water. I bathed and I dressed like a desk. When I'm in the house, I cannot stay there after, after I said no, I'm going, you cannot stay. Oh yeah, you are downfall. Many years ago anybody who goes to London back slides or back slides or I knew every my friends back slave. So when I went to London, I went and looked for all of them, brought them to church. I went round the whole of London and brought them to the church that I found them. Yeah, that the pastor who ordained me, the pastor who ordained me to the ministry, his church. I gathered anybody I knew. From school I went as far as I know. I know everywhere in London. By following people, following. I understood that nobody's paying. Following people. Christ. Yeah. I'll find the house every any place You mention London. I know that area. I followed somebody there before visitation. Following up. I bought Kenneth Hagin booklet. There's no one I'll give to them. So here, here, here. I give them some. Come, Come to church. I'll go to them from their house and wait till Sunday morning. Let's go. Not my church. I wasn't collecting anything from them. And I wait for them. Let's go. This is their way to the church. And we all go. Many people. Yeah. They are all falling. Away. But when I came, I had the mind that everybody falls. I will not fall here. I came. Ready. Hey, even the readiness. It was almost not easy for me. Your mother was nice. Take it from me. Your mother was nice. Mama, how sweet you were. She was. Nicer than you and. When she ate the light atmosphere. Then she became a different and when by the time you grew up, the atmosphere has worked on. Her. Has worked on her for a long time when you first started to talk when by the time you were in Latin 1315, the atmosphere has worked on her of life. So you don't know you don't even know how she was she was charming. She was sensational before she hit the atmosphere. She's she was also God's garden. And she hid. The icy atmosphere. And she changed that. That's why I said what I'm preaching. I said that you are going to do better than we did because we are preparing you for. Ice. Icy atmospheres, Yeah, icy atmospheres. And you will do well, I know for sure. That you will be better, you will do better, you will be happier. Yeah, in Jesus name. Wow, are you excited that you are a garden? So I'm giving you 7 reasons. I'm giving you 3 #4. Atmosphere is important for you because you are. Called a fruit. Fruits, Amen. Time will be the John 15, John 15. Hey, what are you saying? Are you still turning lips? See iPad, iPad, Galaxy, Surface Camphor. Do, do do you believe what I'm saying? Yeah. How many, how many have already had certain new phones have come into your life? Yeah. New phones. It's happening practically. John 15. I have. You have not chosen me. This is the best we are reading for the prior time. You have not chosen me. Those of you who thought you chose God, you are. You are choosing to serve God. God has chosen you. But I have. Chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruits, not gas. And that your fruit should remain, and whatsoever you shall ask of the Father. In my name he may give. It to you. Amen. So the fruits that you are supposed to bear are what is it not human beings? I don't know people. So we are also called fruits. Yeah, I'm somebody's fruit. As I am like I'm a fruit, I'm a fruit. You are also a fruit. You are somebody's fruit and somebody's fruit. Everybody's somebody. And what you are going to bear is fruit. And fruit needs a certain atmosphere. First of all to be born for the fruit to come out. Even the the the weather tells you that it's time to bear fruit. Wow. Let me let me tell you something. You know, in, in, in, in. How many continents do we have? But what are the continents? Africa. Asia. Europe. North America? South America. Australia. OK, Six. No, we have more than that. Which other one? Antarctica. 7. What about Arctic? It's not Antarctica. Yeah. You know how you know? How do you know how Antarctica? How big it is? You know how big it is. It's just made of ice. OK. But if it's as big as this square, every year they have winter. They have summer for just a few days. A few days I'm talking about fruits. Don't forget. You always forget when I ask you, you think I've forgotten. I'm also trying to see whether you can remember. And in the winter time, which is almost the the whole year when the summer goes for just a few days, the ice, the answer it double S the sea freezes, the sea becomes ice. The deep blue sea becomes ice and the whole thing expands there and few animals. There are no trees. That few animals. There are some places that if you are a Christian and you are that you are a Penguin Christian, Penguin Christian, only Penguin Christian and Poland Christians are able to stay in certain places. So if you know you are not a Penguin, don't go there. Do. Not go there if you know you are not a spiritual Penguin or a spiritual polar bear. You have no business in certain environment. If you are going to be a politician and you are a young beautiful girl, all of them want to sleep with you. Politics goes with sex and deception and hypocrisy. So if you if you are not a Penguin spiritually able to withstand winter and withering icy conditions, do you understand then it is important, brother. Good evening. I used to arrest start now. Thank you. Fire. He was diving, isn't it? He was diving. Say again, OK, now if you know. If you know you are not a spiritual Penguin or a spiritual polar bear. You have no. Business in certain places. I don't expect to see you there. Yeah, it's true. You. You become. You'll be You. You, You. You. You'll be destroyed. You. Are downfall now amazingly, amazingly, you get it exactly at the moment when in time the weather changes all right. The Penguins come from the sea. They come from the sea. Come to the land. All right. The polar, the the the seals also come the Penguins come at a particular time when the weather changes. They come, Everybody finds a mate. Yeah, they they they find it. That's why. That's why some of these findings of partners. And so if you know that it's so natural that you have to learn how to control it. But the animals don't control it. If you can't control as a sister, I can't control the finding of a mate of brother. I can't control it. You are just a Penguin. Do you understand? That's a Penguin. Now listen, listen. When they find a lover, the Penguins, they stay together for life. Unlike most animals. After meat, the wine OK will give birth to the egg and transfer the egg to the husband. Yeah, transfer the egg. The, the temperature is -20 they are in it, they are OK. And just at that short window when the weather changes, the atmosphere changes. No, the fruits comes. Then they transfer the egg to the man, to the legs, and the man, the brother holds, holds the egg, and the wife goes to the sea. All of them go to the as if they are being directed. They leave their husbands there, and their husbands stay for the whole winter. They stand there, they stand there with the egg and that the winter dough descends and now they're freezing good water. And then the wives go back to the sea and they swim and they eat and they do whatever for the next whatever and come back at the next season. The season of fruits is fantastic. Yeah, it's amazing. You should see it. And you see that exactly at a particular even the egg, when they are transferring the egg, the egg should not touch the ice. When you touch the ice, you just freeze. So it's like there's a small atmosphere that. Within which you can bear the fruits. As soon as the atmosphere changes, I bet they store this egg lane and whatever is finished, it's time to swim. It's time to just stand there like they stand and they experience the winter they detest already. It's cold. The summer is minus whatever before the winter is going better down -100 it's dark and cold. Are you listening? What I'm saying is that you are called fruits and we are called fruit bearing trees, but we are also called fruits. You are somebody's fruits and at a particular moment you can bear fruits, just at a particular moment. I am one of the fruits of Papahaga, my real father. My real father is Papahagan. My father in the ministry, Real, real, real. The one who over me in a certain way is Papahagan. Really. And I encountered him when I when he was 63 years old. Yeah. And that fruit that he bore in me, it came from encountering me at a particular moment of my life, tender 1617 years old. He he ministered to me when I was a teenager and, and I loved him. I, I immediately fell in love with I immediately fell in love with him recently. I was listening. Well, sometimes you, you see me in a house, the house is dark and only his voice and I'm working in a frame. One time I was praying and I was listening to at at the. Point, I said my my father, this is my dear father. This is my. Dear. Father, I tell you, the power in the anointing was too much in the room. Hey, Yeah, I'm telling you. And you see there is only a window within which you can bear fruit. When the window passes, it's over. You can't even bear the fruit. It won't even come. Fruit is very very window related. That's why when people want to bear so I'll wait for call later. I'll do this this time later I'll have it tastes just a short window it's too. Small to bear fruit and you the fruit itself is just delicate. It can survive in a certain environment and after that it cannot stay. Yeah, The reason why there are no lions here, the reason why they are known is because they are human beings. There's no environment here for lions. There's no environment here for. And if you take it from me, there were wild animals here. There were wild and there were leopards. There were leopards, There were animals. But once human beings come, they killed because since we came here, we have killed snakes that can only be found in the zoo. They are found here around us here should only be found in the zoo. But as we have come here, we are killing them. But we've seen when we started digging the foundation, we saw them brown one, see, this one is going here, this one big thick snakes. They have lived here peacefully in an atmosphere. Of. Tranquility. You see, when the book admits I said let's so that thy tranquility be extended. Their tranquility was no more extended here. Hallelujah. Are you listening to me? Wow, you are, you are, you are a fruit. Somebody will bear you at a. And you too, you will bear fruit at a particular moment of your life. Those who are planning, I will bear fruit in the future. I'm planning I'll be this, I'll be that. I will become after this, after this, after. That's why, look, anybody wants to serve God. It's time to serve God when you are young, simple and either serve him all out or forget it. You're calculating with God. God is not a calculator. You cannot calculate with God. God is somebody who you either keep yourself to or forget it. God is not something small. What is? What is NPP, what is NDC? That's why I don't commit myself to. Any of these things? I should be blindly loyal to people who are full of all kinds of things. I can. I cannot be possible. I have no basis to do something like that. The person I'm said is far higher, far greater than these, than these people. Are you listening to me? Yeah. So my friends, you know I want you to really take foot bearing. Since you are a fruit and you will bear, you see fruit since you are a fruit and you will bear fruit since you are. A fruit. And you will bear. Fruit. You must remember that it's a window. Sometimes you see some ladies, you know. So I'll marry later, Later, Later. I'll marry later. Somebody wants to marry soul. You want to marry soul later, you know. Huh. No, no, not thinking about that now. Oh, no, no, no, no other boys. I don't want to. Yeah, it's true. Girls like boys. You must also think about it at a point and think about it in time. In time. And brothers do the same. Yeah, is to think about it. It's it's something you have to get at a point, but it's always window related. Can you imagine? I say I'm now going to, I'm going to start a church. I've come from America. I'm going to start a church. Can you imagine it? I am now going to start a church. I've come from America. I've got everything that I need now and my classmates and my friends, most of them don't have everything that they want. Most of them don't have everything that they want. You cannot easily get it. So you want to marry? You should be as zealous for wanting to serve God. Forget about the marriage part and serve the brothers. Just be more spiritual and and and you. Follow things properly. You, you. You will not desire. You will not. You will choose. You will choose at a point. You said any money, no? Anointing sisters, be there. A strategy of being there. They know that you are there. Let's be there. Can't have to smash on hair. No, let's be yourself. Be nice, make up eyes, doing things with the eyes, changing your eyes. By the time you don't take care, you'll be blind. Doing things with your eyes, doing things with your hair. So many things. No, no, no, no. Don't do. Don't do that to attract any boy. It's not good, it's not necessary. Just be yourself. How you are in the room, how you are in the room, be like that. Those of you who tie your hair like Captain Haddock so that you can impress us during the day, we want you to know that we have seen it all and we are no more impressed. Are you going to bear fruit? You have a short window. You have a small window. Take it from me. You have a small window. If the Holy Spirit doesn't help you, you will never bear fruit. Take it from me. You have a small window of your life with which we can bear fruit for God. It's very small. As soon as you cross a certain distance, you can bear fruit again, I'm telling you. Maybe some gas, some, I mean some liquids, something fruits, you know, some pellets. But fruits is over, is what I'm saying. Somewhere you want to have you want you want to have a church. It comes from a whole life. The whole life is used for that. You see, like how you are. You are listening to me. What what, what some people will do from what I'm saying, when I finish with, they'll make a song out of it. That's all. But God is more than a song. But somebody will listen to what I'm. Saying and say, here I am, I am, I am giving my life for Jesus Christ. I'm going to do something for God and I'm going to bear fruits. That's why, you know, most of my pastors when they always want to show me their members when I go somewhere, they want to cancel, oh, I'll, I'll take the sheep. They want to get some of our members from. You see, it is it is it is a person who is trying to show his fruits. You see. Yeah. So these are my these are my fruits. They don't say it in that spiritual way, but that's actually what everywhere I go. Oh, these are some of my members, like, like the sister who came from Hungary with the. She's showing me her fruits and the fruits. I also explained that this is also, I came from this place. This is a tree. Yeah. So these are all our members from whatever they want to say hello. And I just wait you all. We have players. When I was in Guinea Bissau, the Pasta brought all the members from the Bissau church. So they are all the ones standing over there. Oh, how are you? I said. What a shock. They all want a shock. Hey, they're happy. Bye. And. Then I was gone, Finished. They want to show the fruits. I've got some fruits to show. I've got some fruits. I've got some real fruits. Yeah. Is it amazing? Is it fantastic? Thank you for your drums. Thanks for your thanks for your. Thanks for your music. But you see why I moved from drums. Yeah. You see, I don't know if you can play this song Sweet Communion on the drum, but most dramas don't know how to play. But I can play. Yeah, most dramas can't play. If I, if I say play sweet communion, you don't know how to play. I know how to play sweet. I play sweet communion. You know how to sing that song? Sweet communion? Yeah. Most they don't know how to. When you play, they will spoil their song. Yeah. Piano playing. I did 8 BRSM as as up to grade 7. Yeah, the highest is grade 8. You don't even know. You can't even know what it is. You don't know NATO. You are God's garden. Wow. You are God's tree. You are God's branch and you are God's fruits. It's getting. It's getting Wilder. I've given you 7 reasons why atmosphere is vital for you. Number. Number what #5 Hey. I'm still turning lips, I'm still turning this come forth #5. Atmosphere is important because you are called a harvest. God calls you a harvest. John chapter 4 Jesus calls you harvest. 10/10/10 10:10 I should have been telling you tap. Tap it or scroll. Tap, scroll see I'm tapping, I'm tapping. Tap your Bible and say I'm tapping 2. I'm tapping 2 John chapter 4, verse 34 Jesus saith unto them, My need is to do the will of him that sends me and to finish his work. Verse 35 say. Not ye there are yet four man's. And then cometh harvest. Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes, look on the fields, they are white or ready to harvest. Hallelujah. The 37 herein is that saying true one sweat and another reefs. I sent you to reap whereon you bestowed no labor. Other men labored, and ye are entered into their laborers. Amen. Jesus says, look at the harvest. Or is it a was it a, was it a, what do you call it? Corn harvest? Was it maize or wheat or wheat or any of those things? He was talking about the people, the souls. So souls are called harvest and that harvest is available for just a short period, a short window. And if there's there's no exciting environment, it doesn't come forth. Now when you talk about early. Rain and the latter rain in the Bible, the early rain 'cause it comes to water the ground so that you can plant the seeds then there's a. Long. Period. Then the latter rain comes, and the latter rain comes to bring the thing to maturity, so that after the latter rain, then the harvest comes. So there's a long period between the 1st and the latter rain. Now God is telling us that there is just this window where harvest time has come. If you don't get a harvest, there's hunger. It's just a short period and you need the weather to change, the whole season to change the rain to come, everything the right as otherwise the God is called a failed harvest. It's very delicate. So ladies and gentlemen, you and I are harvest for somebody and somebody I'm somebody's harvest, I'm somebody's harvest and you are somebody's harvest as well. Isn't it amazing? It's getting Wilder the next one. You are called. Grass, grass. Listen, Psalm. One O 3 Atmosphere is important, because your life is like grass. Psalm 103 that speaks As for man, his days are as grass. Isaiah 40 the six The voice said, cry, and he said, What shall I cry? Cry that all flesh is grass. All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. By Grass, Grass, Isaiah 40, the six 10:10 to Isaiah 40. And the last point is #7 you are called a flower. You are called a flower flower. So you can only flourish at a certain, you can only prosper at a certain time in it. In it, yeah. Everything that is going to have to do, you have to do it in a particular season, otherwise it's not going to be so. You are grass. Isaiah 40 verse 60 tells us. What does it say? Read it. Do you have it? Our voice said, come Rosina, read it for me, a voice said. The voice said cry. And he said, what shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the good Lin goodliness thereof is as of the flower of the field. Goodliness. Oh, oh, goodliness, niceness. I told you you're not nice. Your Nana. Nana. Send your girl child to school. Mama's son, her to school. Your Mama was nice. Oh your Mama was sweet. Your Mama before your mother's stomach grew as big that she now has no waste and has become like a can cook now. Before she was nicer than you. Take it from me, she was charming. She was enchanting, I'm telling She was goodly, goodly, goodly. She was nice. People liked her. She used to hug your father. Now she has stopped hugging and. She sees the gel. Evening. Evening more and more your goodliness. And the flower, it comes in a particular moment when the environment changes. That's it. Look at the grass. It's because it's been raining. If you come here in the Hamatan Ahmatan, you will see brown. Everything is brown. The best place to see this is the golf course, Achimoto Golf Course, because it is, it is. It is not being managed by intelligence. It's being managed by the by nature. Nature manages the cost, it's natural management. So as the season changes, it changes. It becomes totally down. There's no grass at us. Red. When I first started playing golf, it was red places where gas totally red, Red, just red sand. Yeah. Even now it's it's it's, it's a little better. But you see then, and so the atmosphere changes and the rain comes. If you go to Kumasi Golf course, you always see green, thick. The grass is thick. Thick green grass. You see beautiful, nice, thick. It's nice to walk the evening in the Hammer town. It's green, green, green. This Kumasi is green. The environment changes you so much so those of. You who joke with environment, you are joking with your life. You are downfall those who are, who are working with crooks, who are downfall, those of you whose friends are thieves and liars, who are downfall, those of you who have surrounded yourself and put yourself in an environment and an atmosphere of certain things. If you are downfall, Yeah. Mr. If if your environment is ministry type of people, people who listen to messages, people who read the Bible, people who are a certain way. And you also pick a wife or a husband. From that environment you are better off. But if not, if not, you know what is going to happen. You are going to pick a mystery. And you are going to marry a mystery. And you, you, you will never know what you are dealing with. Mystery will be turning this way and that way you will always not know what you are dealing with. You will be sitting there in those issues. I pray for you that you will be a green grass in the presence of the law. Wow. Yeah. One day I planted grass in my house. Yeah, and the grass would not grow. I did everything and the whole house was brown. One day the weather changed. You see, I think I planted at the wrong time, so it was struggling when the weather changed. I remember one day I looked out of my window and as I looked at the grass in the house, the change was so dramatic and I realized how much change comes when the Bible says and the Lord will give you rain in the time of the latter, and green grass in your fields, you. Change so. Much by the environment, some of you have been changed by coming to 1st after your parents will not even recognize your, your who you are, you said. Wow, what change? And it's just I've been in a certain environment. Yeah. Singing for the Lord, dancing for the Lord, becoming a shepherd. And when you become a responsible shepherd. Look, when the angels were appearing by night, they appeared to shepherds while shepherds. Walked their flock by night. They didn't appear to singers, They didn't appear to dancers. They didn't appear to worship leaders. They appeared to shepherds. While shepherds walked their flock by night. By night, the shepherds we're watching the greatest. Thing to be is to be. A shepherd, Shepherd of my song. Oh, I have made a choice. Amen A shepherd Shepherd Shepherd leader A shepherd is a leader. A shepherd is a. Leader. A shepherd has read the Bible for himself. A shepherd can share the word of God. A shepherd can give a perspective on what is going on. A shepherd can say something. A shepherd is not a blank tape. A shepherd is not a blank CD. A shepherd has something to say, something to share. A shepherd is spiritual. Yeah. And a certain atmosphere makes you into a shepherd. Yeah, take it from me if. I can become a shepherd. You can become a shepherd. Yeah. Because I'm Captain Zero. I was 0. No one ever chose me. No one ever chose me for anything. It's true for anything. After today, they, they still don't choose me. So if I can be a shepherd, that's why all my teachings are how to, how to, because I'm sharing with somebody how you can. Also why even nobody is choosing when you don't look spectacular or dramatic or you don't even look great. You can be, you can be, you can actually become something for God. Yeah, and I know you are going to be in Jesus name. In. Jesus name, you are grass and you need to set H grass. You are just grass. You need some environment, I tell you otherwise they are going to change. So I'm going to now share with you the different types of atmospheres that have different effects as you go along on your Christian walk and keys to changing these atmospheres so that certain things can flourish. The eggs can come, the gas can end and the eggs can come. Wow, do you want? These different types of atmospheres that are necessary for Christian performance. Christian fruitfulness for the grass to be green. You know that when I see you, I can see even when you are not doing well. Yeah, there are many things that I see. Sometimes I didn't even know what I was seeing. When I look at somebody, sometimes I can see the person has withed in the spirit, is withed in the spirit. Sometimes I can see the person sick in the spirit. It's true. And so that I can see when darkness has fallen on someone. It's true. Sometimes a darkness falls on somebody in the spirit. Darkness and blackness. Falls on the. Person and the person disappears under a dark cloud, unable to rise and unable to shine. The person is surrounded by the envelope in darkness. They are all spiritual witherings, spiritual disappearances. The Bermuda trial of the Triangle of the Spirit where people vanish and disappear into. You can see it. And you can see that there is no more vitality and the strength is finished so that people same. And you can just see. You can shake hands and you can see you are walking insane. You are walking in darkness. You are falling. You are falling, sister. You are falling, brother. I can see many times, yeah. It's a spiritual thing. So you are spiritual. You you think you are physical grass. You are spiritual grass, spiritual. You are just like Elisha. You see all the things that are physical are spiritual. Elisha was taken to heaven with Chariots and horses. These were not physical horses. They were spiritual horses which eat spiritual grass. The horses eat grass, they eat spiritual grass. So all the things we have, grass, they are all spiritual also. And just as this one Withers under the hamatan, you also wither under a spiritual Hamatan when you live. Under a spiritual hamatan and spiritual hamatan says spiritual dry seasons and you can see when somebody flourishes under spiritual rain. Bible says that your doctrine shall fall like rain. There is there is preaching that is the preaching of the Bible. The dolphin is called rain. Some prophets when they see ring, it speaks of teachings falling because the Bible says your doctrines shall fall like ring. It's like doctrines and teachings fall on a person. See the person changes under teaching. That's why you see somebody listen to a machaner, listen to this, listen to this, see the person is. Changing you can. Actually see that the person is changing. Literally, yeah, you are spiritual. You are a spiritual flower. Sometimes I look at myself in the mirror to see whether I can see some of those changes that I can see in people in myself. Like if I see a change in I can see things and it makes me worry when I see. Then I look at myself whether I can see in myself what I see. That makes me worry because as soon as I see, I can see it. Even sometimes when somebody is above you spiritually, you can you can see the person in a certain environment. One day when Benny Hinn was sharing some things with me, I said, oh, all these things, I knew them, but I didn't know that I knew them. Oh yeah, because I knew. I could see. So that I look at him, I tell myself the man is in a certain atmosphere. Too hot, as when he spent his book and he said. I said no, I know it's fantastic. The atmosphere can bring you out. Can quite you can. Try to make you wither, but God will give you the anointing of a Penguin and follow the anointing to stay in the wind in the withering environment. To survive, if it is the case that it is his will that you should be in that environment, yeah, that's why you are. Also prophesied to be like a coconut tree. A coconut tree will grow in the salty water. Even buildings cannot be built in the salt. When there's too much salt, you cannot build and trees cannot grow. But coconut tree, palm trees, they will grow. They will grow, they will grow in that wintering environment, salty environment. Yeah. And so when God has. Called you, and God has determined that you. Are supposed to be in certain. Places you see that you can stay there. And you can do well. One day I sent a batter to the mission field. After some time I saw, I said he was withering, his wife was withering. He he were being destroyed. I could see that if the tanks of the tree were almost off. I had to evacuate him fast before it all was over. The environment, it will change you so much. The environment. It will change you. Look under every big tree you see often the grass doesn't go there. You see? You see that? The the the the the sun cannot come there. The sun cannot be there. Are you with me? Yeah. So, atmosphere. It's very, very important for you to do well in the ministry. So the atmosphere, the different, different types of atmospheres are what you now need to know. What are they, so that you can pick the atmosphere. I know for myself for sure that atmosphere affects me very, very much, Very much. Even physical atmosphere affects the spiritual. Yeah, even the physical environment affects the atmosphere and effects what you say if you are tired. That's why I don't like people sleeping in front of me if you are tired, it affects even my ability to bear fruit because I mean, my atmosphere changes to the presence of tired. Either they are not cold or they are not spiritual, because unspiritual people sleep at the height of spirituality. When the height of the anointing or the height of the presence of God, then people asleep. Then unspiritual people and people who are not called sure, then at the height of something see that they are now the ones that are sleeping. When people's eyes are wide open. Like this and then that one is now off. Yeah, I've seen it over and over and over and over. Even just now it's happening. True. It's not everything that I see. So you must be kept. And also people who eat a lot and their flesh is not controlled. The flesh is not controlled. It's revealed in eating, it's revealed in sleeping, it's revealed in the ability to wake up early early in the morning to to get to work there. The flesh is not controlled and to rise when you must rise, the flesh is not under control. It's uncontrolled. It's also seen overweight. The flesh is not controlled because it takes a huge effort to control the flesh to go overweight. At a certain point, it's natural to be overweight. It's not unnatural. It's rather natural. Most of you are slim because of the age, your age and also the lack of food. Amen. All right, stand up. Huh. OK. All right. Lift your hands.