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04.How To Fulfil Your Ministry Through The Mercy and Love
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - Fulfill Your Ministry.Machaneh Collection - 94.Preached in 2013, 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 #4 of fulfill your ministry. We start #1 the mercy. So the mercy you receive from the Lord. Is the first guiding. Post for your ministry, the first guiding post yeah, I'll show you second Corinthians chapter #4 I'm now on. I'm just giving you these 10 guiding things that are guiding is showing you your ministry. OK, you get it. And then thereafter you can say you don't know your ministry and you see what will happen to you. So if you don't want to know your ministry to have a judgment, it will be best you can leave during the next break. You can just go now. That way you can't say you knew your, you didn't know your ministry or whatever you knew your ministry. 2nd Corinthians. Chapter 4, verse one. Therefore, seeing we have. This ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not. Amen. Saying. We have received what this ministry. As. We have received mercy, Amen. Now you see now what Paul is saying, Paul is saying here that the ministry that he received, OK, it is in accordance with, it is in accordance with Messi that has been received. Do you get what I'm saying? It is in accordance with mercy that has been received or
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Welcome to track #4 of fulfill your ministry. We start #1 the mercy. So the mercy you receive from the Lord. Is the first guiding. Post for your ministry, the first guiding post yeah, I'll show you second Corinthians chapter #4 I'm now on. I'm just giving you these 10 guiding things that are guiding is showing you your ministry. OK, you get it. And then thereafter you can say you don't know your ministry and you see what will happen to you. So if you don't want to know your ministry to have a judgment, it will be best you can leave during the next break. You can just go now. That way you can't say you knew your, you didn't know your ministry or whatever you knew your ministry. 2nd Corinthians. Chapter 4, verse one. Therefore, seeing we have. This ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not. Amen. Saying. We have received what this ministry. As. We have received mercy, Amen. Now you see now what Paul is saying, Paul is saying here that the ministry that he received, OK, it is in accordance with, it is in accordance with Messi that has been received. Do you get what I'm saying? It is in accordance with mercy that has been received or seeing we have this ministry as as as means like in accordance or in, in the flow of Honabon, Inchon, are you there or you are going home? Yeah. Now, you see, most of us, most of us do not realize how much mercy we have received and the mercy that we have received itself, the striking. What strikes you as mercy is in itself a guiding post to ministry for you. Yeah, it's a strong guidance. You must think of mercy, God's mercy for your life. And when you think of the mercy of the Lord, you are left with very few options. And that alone starts you on the road. Because you realize that look, where would I be if Jesus didn't? Love me. Where would I be if Jesus didn't care? Where would I be if he hadn't sacrificed his life? For me. Oh, but I'm glad. So glad he did. He's no more going to write such a song and he's no more going to sing such a song. So if he had any songs to sing, he should have written it by now and sang it by now. Are you there or you are going home since we have received this ministry? 1st. Corinthians, chapter number 7. Verse 25 Now concerning virgins, I have no command of the Lord. OK, I don't have anything to say. But I gave an. Opinion as one who by the mercy of the Lord, is trustworthy. Amen. And Bishop, I don't, I don't really get what we are talking about, because when you say that we are receiving the mercy of God and then that means that God has called us, I don't actually understand it. Fool, stupid look, if it's not you, just, you know, keep smiling. No one will know that it's you when a young man comes to you and shows you great love, buys a gift for you, visits you, smiles at you. Me, I don't understand anything. You see, you see, now you see you are a hypocrite. You see you are a hypocrite when you are receiving love. No one, you don't say you don't understand the message. No one. You, you, you, you said that you don't understand that. It's a call to follow me for the rest of my life. You say that it's a bit mystical. Oh, Lord, I don't really get the message. So, Lord, what specific message is there? What specific? Ministry is that? Specific ministry, specific ministry to that particular specific person. That's why you're able to see it and some even hear calls. That they shouldn't hear. Small smile or you are. Hearing wedding bells one visit you are hearing a man outdoor. You are hearing outdoor in bells. That's what you understand it to the 10th power. To the 10th power, you understand the love. You understand love. And mercy, but God's love and mercy, you don't understand it to the 10th power. You understand it to the. Minus 10th power, you don't understand it. I don't really I don't really get, I don't really get what I mean. I. Don't really understand what. He said. I know what he means. That is why today you can hardly make friends with anybody. Because people are here overhearing the court, overhearing, overhearing, overhearing over sensitive years. By you, a wicked person like you, a bad girl like you, a bad boy like you. And God has shown you love. I. Love you. I'm showing you mercy. I want you. You don't understand it. Oh. God, I didn't understand what you were saying. Oh God, I didn't understand what you were saying. I wanted a compass. I wanted. You to just speak. Clearly, no, I don't. Know when you say ministry, I don't understand it fully. Yeah. Oh, God, I don't understand you. I don't understand it clearly. The whole. Church is at risk of being judged severely for not understanding the mercy of God. Severe judgment standing and saying you don't, you don't. That's that is. Because of overhearing of. Calling. We are so restricted in our relationships. Yes, you cannot. You cannot. Tell somebody. Oh. I miss you tell. Me. It's a call. I mean, I miss, you know, it's a call for you to follow me for the rest of my days. You say I miss you, but that you are dead. True or not true? As soon as you. Hear this mercy and love being shown to you, eh? Don't tell me you don't know your calling. Don't tell me you don't know. Otherwise, don't ever respond to love when it comes your way. Yeah. Just. Be there. Yeah. Don't ever tell. No, no, no. I don't understand my calling. I don't know what is my ministry. Immediately there is a poll towards the. One who showed you kindness towards the one who showed you some patients. That's why I told Doctor Go that he did not love God, because I felt that somebody who used to drink vodka, a bottle of vodka at the age of 11, and God has been. Able to save you. You don't understand, You don't, you say. You say you don't understand, you don't understand what is being said. You don't understand what is being said. And Bishop, if I was like you and I had a clear call, very clear call, like your calling. I'll know what to do. You know what to do, Hey? This is what you are waiting for. That's what I saw now is look at people, I say it means nothing to you. All that is being done for you. And one day we went to Takorade, and there came out of the disco a wild man at 2:00 AM. After we were we were relaxing and having a drink after the crusade till about 2:00 AM. And when we were going here, came out of this door a man with chains and muscles and other. Things. Tattoos and what have you. And then Dr. Go said this is the door out of which I used to come at 2:00 AM and go from here to the next club and the next club and the next club. And here you. Stand in dignity. As a doctor. And someone who has been saved miraculously, whether the man came out of the door. I wanted to help. To save him. I didn't know what to do. I couldn't know what what to do to get this man to know God. But you the love that is shown to you after today, you say you don't understand it fully and you are waiting for a compass and navigational equipment of Boeing 777 so that you can know the way and the direction to your calling. You see God. Has no intention of giving specifics when it is not time for specifics. Yeah, when he's showing you love. He's showing you love. And the response to love is love. The response to love is love. The answer to love is love. If somebody has shown you that much love, your response to that is to love the person back. Yeah, and in a way that the person understands the love. If I come to you as a girl and I show you great love, and in response to that great love, you cook snails Stew for me and bring it to me, you have made a mistake. I don't eat snails too. I hear it is nice, but I don't eat. You get it. I don't. I don't eat snails too. I hear it's very nice. Yeah, I I used to visit somebody who was always making some special snail Stew type of whatever, so delicacy, always serving it. But that is not what I would interpret as love or snail Stew. Now you got to do something else. So, dear friends, the love that God has shown to us alone. If you think about it carefully for me, I don't know any other interpretation. Interpretation of the love, just as you also don't know any other interpretation of the letters you have been receiving, of the visits you have been receiving, of the calls you have been receiving all night long. Tigo #1. The gifts you have been receiving, that's why you've not misunderstood it. You've understood it very well. And you've, you are, you have not said I want details so that I can respond. Hear me. You want details. Stand up. You want details you want. Details from God to know what to do this, what you are waiting for before you can answer. Where are your fellow friends? What has become of them and what is becoming of them? You are asking for details. You are asking for details to know you don't understand it. Kindness. You don't understand kindness and love. You want. You want what? What? What do you want? To hear again. That's why some people. Some ladies don't get married. Yeah. They don't understand love when it's coming to them. Some don't. You see them doing something, sisters, you better. Wisen, Apple and. Understand the message. All I can say is you fool. You missed a good opportunity. Yeah, that's why ladies. You need. Good advice because your. Body is developed far ahead of your minds, yeah. Far your body is developed. Your mind has not developed. Hey. Back to you. You say you don't understand. How can you say you don't understand? How can you say you don't understand? Look at the church that God brought you into. You see it as an accident. You see it as my church. Look at how you are. You are standing here pure. Compare yourself today with just a little time before. You don't understand it. You still don't understand. It you want. Deeper explanations. If you want deeper explanation, it will be to your own head. Yeah, it will be to your head. No, you have to understand it. Yeah, you have to. When you are hearing mercy and love, you must jump up and start responding. You know these people from Wesley Girls, You know they have. A way of just looking, you know. I think they don't understand anything. They like, they don't want to smile, they don't. They don't want to show that they're happy. No, that must not be your story. Everybody likes to be loved and to receive love back. I love you and you like me too, the way I like you. You see, Have you watched this Michael Jackson thriller? Some of you have watched it. It's a very old thing. But you see the the words that he told the young girl as they were walking together, he said, I, I like you. He said, I like you too. Do you like me the way I like you? See, that was the question that he was asking me. I mean, do you like me the way I like you? That's what God is. Asking you. Do you like me the way I? Like you when? Somebody's showing you. Kindness and love. It's a call. But I need specifics, can I can? I know the job I'm going to do. Please. No, don't offend. Yeah. I mean, you've got to be careful. You've got to be careful. Don't misunderstand God. Nobody here should misunderstand God. We show a lot of kindness. Some of you are not from Ghana. You have been shown a lot of kindness by God. No, it's as if it's by chance. But if you were to see in the Spirit the Lord who shows and send an Angel to bring you here to guide you to do this, this is not by chance. Or maybe you think of chance, but God doesn't think of chance. You can't die by chance. There's no chance. So now don't misunderstand it. Interpret it, sit down and analyze the texts. The calls, the letters, the gifts, the Whatsapps, the visits and go. Do you understand what the word? God likes. You do you. Like him the way he likes you already, that one. You have received a detailed calling and the call is to respond with love. Whatever God sees as love, you must give yourself to loving Him back, Back. I'm loving you back. I'm loving you back alone. Look, that one alone, you will find yourself doing the work of God in a way. Oh yeah, yeah. You know. This is the first. Calling that I started to obey when I was in secondary school. God loving me and me wanting to love God back. That's that's that's. You know, all the people who have had visions of Jesus and all that. I, I really envy them. I really envy them. I wish I could say this is also my story, but it is not. God loves me and I really love God. I like God back, so I'm going to love him and love him and love him and love him and love him. I don't need details so. Excuse me, can I, can I look If I marry you, if I marry you, what what are what, what, what, what are the conditions I would like, I would like us to go through. No, no, no, I'm serious. Because my mother, my mother really went through a lot of things and I I don't want, I don't want certain problems. I don't want certain problems. I. Want you to show me exactly what? I'm going to experience when I respond to your. Love. So please tell me #1 I don't want to cook certain things because my mother didn't teach me to cook certain things #2. Where will you work? Because there are certain people I don't want to marry, certain type of workers, I don't accept them #3 your spirituality. Let's go through your spirituality. Are you into quiet time? Are you into prayers? Are you into fast things? Are you into? Mccanne Yeah, OK. These four. Are OK. I don't want somebody who is not into mccanne #5 Will you go on missions? But I cannot go on a missionary this time because because I have to be frank with you. I have to be frank with you, I don't like lizards. And other things I. I hear that on the missionary field there are so many lizards and frogs and other things. I'm. Afraid of those things? Especially world geckos. I don't like it. At all. Wow. And then? Number six, children, what is your spam? Count what's? Your spam count? What's your sperm count? No, no, no. Don't think that. I don't want you to think that. What I'm? Saying is not necessary. I don't want to say that what what I'm saying, sorry. Because there are some brothers who have sperm. Count is not much. So what is your sperm count? You don't know you. Have to check #3 what about? Cycling, cycling. You don't know what about HIV? There are lots. Of things you have to check please. Check on all. Those things before you come back with your. Your love. Wow, wow, wow. This is your response. To the love. Don't be surprised if you never get married. In other words, don't be surprised if you are never. In the ministry, you say you. Don't like lizard? You don't like? This cockroaches you are asking that what is the? Sperm count of the. Person, which means that I mean, can you bless me? What? What do you have? What? What money? Do you have what? Money do you have what blessings do you have? And then what was your future direction? I mean, when you say I should I should be in the ministry, what the future direction? I want to know the. Details is that. Going to be left, right or center. Wow. Sit down Yemi. Stand up. Think about all your gifts and talents. You know how God likes you. God is showing you love and kindness. What do you think it means? It means that Yemi must also jump and love God back without thinking too much and asking too many questions. I don't. You don't sense a call to be an apostle. It is not there, is it? There are 10 things down there. At the end is the office. This one is the mercy. When you respond to the messy you, you jump about 70% of your ministry. It's true. Look, when you minister like if I'm ministry, I'm the I'm more blessed than you. Ministering saves you the. Minister more than the. Person who is being ministered to, Oh yeah, I'm, I'm the one who is being blessed. I'm the one who is being blessed. I'm the one who is being blessed. I'm blessed to minister. 70% you are. 70% down the road of your whole ministry, including specifics. And everything by just. Responding, I also love you. I love I. Also love you, I like you I I like. You too. That's it. But everything stops when the responses are not commensurate. I've loved many people who don't love me the same way I love them plenty. Yeah, I've loved many people who have not loved me. This the extent which I will think about them, care for them, look after them. That's not the way they I pretend they laugh, not that they've done evil, but it's like it's not the same, you know, like if you somebody comes like smile. Oh yeah, Oh, hi, cool down, cool down. No need to be emotional. Just cool down. You get a gift for somebody, you present the gift and the person says why. You don't have to always give gifts. Love can work without all these gifts or you. Give somebody a gift in the person. Why are you trying to buy my love? Or what are you trying to buy, my love? Huh. Wow. So yeah, me. God is not trying to buy you. He just wants you to jump. You will jump. He just wants you to. Have. The same sort of eagerness, Yeah. It's so nice to be met by a happy person. Yeah, some people are afraid to go to their houses because when they go, they don't know the reception they are going to get, whether it's going to be stand, face, serious or happy, laughing, smiling. Yeah. So now people come home with happiness, only to meet an angry, Moody sister in the house whose face has come. Whose what? Whose face has come? Lift your hand Father thanks a million for his life, a life for you always in Jesus name, Amen. Wow, what a blessing. Now this is the Messi. It will take you 70% of your calling your whole life ministries in this one alone. The rest of them also guide you and show you how to fulfill. But this one takes you 70% down the road. Oh. Yes. I can't lie to you. I wish I would tell you something more complicated. But just. Responding in love your whole life. Your marriage is it. Not responding to love. Just responding to love. Is going to change your. Calling where you will live, who you will be with whose. Bed you sleep in what your name will be. Everything about you is just. Responding to love. Not details, no letters. Check this checked out. Check whatever test and whatever. Just responding to love will take you 70% of your whole life. Yeah, just responding to love. Proper response to proper love. When I was in school, when I was in lagoon, I don't know. I don't know. It was first year or second year. My my wife had a friend. She had a friend. We were all from, I don't know, school, same school and boys were coming. When I say boys, I. Don't mean vagabonds. I don't mean Jimacla. I don't. Mean. I don't mean. I don't mean worthless fellows, I mean brothers of dignity. Yes, and. When you when. You hear a word and you don't understand. Just ask your neighbors, what did he say? Just ask your neighbor what did he say? Don't feel shy to ask. All right? And you can ask what language is that? OK, Wow. She did not respond to any of the brothers. Can you open the door behind you so these people can see? Open the door behind you. Open it all the way to the side there. Glory to God. Wow. And you can put your chair right back where it used to be. Make sure the door opens all the way. Yeah, brother who is sister who is behind the door? Yeah, movie. Let it open and you sit there open against the wall. Glow. The guy or the door cannot open. It should be able to open. It does open. It does. OK, up to a point. Not bad. Wow, what was I saying, huh? Here there was this sister she was not. Responding to the laugh. I was in my school. Different good brothers will write letters. She would. She would come and show the letters and laugh. Look at what he's written. And the brothers will be right. My dear Rose, you are the flower in my garden. When I saw you, my heart started to. Flutter I had. Palpitations for two hours until I calm down. I want you to know I've never felt the way I did from the moment I saw you. Oh, my dear Rose. No, she's not called Rose. Oh, her name is not Rose. But she's calling her Rose. My Rose. My Lily. My bougainvillea. Please say yes. To my love, please say yes to my love, because my love is strong, it's real, it's genuine. Oh, and they were told the letter and laugh. You are laughing. She rarely struggled to marry. Yeah, after school, she was now an elderly primate. Another one. Same. Same thing. Everybody who proposed to her, she said no, no, never responded to the lab. I personally know at least two or three good brothers who proposed to her. And out of just one day she said no, no, I don't like you. No, I don't like that's. Why I say that? And 77, more than 80% of the person. 'S life is gone. One of them. I know she's now over 50. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you see some, some of the responses to love is sometimes from something you've experienced. Sometimes maybe your family broke up or your mother left, father left. Those type of things can affect you. You see that you are afraid of life. And you should be afraid. You should. Be afraid. There is fear in life, you should be afraid, but to you have to be able to be healed and to overcome it and. More than 70%. Of their lives are gone. So in the same way, when God comes with big, big. Love. Big, big love. Big big love. Big, big love. And it's like, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, Lord. You, you. So much of your life is gone. Suppose I hadn't been in the ministry? No, I. Wouldn't be standing here. We all wouldn't. Be here. Huge percentage of. My life will be gone. I'll just. Be maybe. I don't know if I'll even. Be alive. I doubt just loving the Lord. It's been worth having the Lord in my life. Loving the Lord. Wow, how much of your life is going to be missed by not flowing in love? So brothers and sisters, flowing in love, responding properly now, God's love is the greater love. You see, Bible says greater love has no man than this love that a man should lay down his life for a friend. So it means God's love for you like is the greatest expression of laugh. So you 2 must find a very great laugh to respond with if you come up with a lesser loath. It's not going to work. If somebody comes to you and starts talking. Oh, hello, how are you? Then your response is you see. I mean, I'm the quiet type. I don't talk. I mean, I don't like cooking. So when? When come to visit, I go to. Buy What's the name of the watches Sell at Colegu Chef Solo The one in Colegono? Huh? Barcelona. I'm going to buy Barcelona. Huh. On your birthday, the person will shower you with love. Wow. And then you you say, oh, I'm not the birthday type. I'm not the birthday type. Wow, you are not the birthday type. Nonsense. 70% of your life is what gone, huh? Yeah. So many things that we do destroy our whole lives. So if God calls me like he calls you, uh huh. Just interpret the lavso. Well. You see, Bishop, there's I just want to explain something. You see, when a boy loves you, there's no need. Some of the things, the things that he was saying, I don't appreciate it one. Day, a sister, you know, the Beloved. I don't think he was even the Baba. He was approaching her and he was the poetic type. So he would listen. He would write poems. I've never seen anybody like that before that. Is how he laughs by writing poems. I mean, I've never. I have never written a poem to my to my wife before because I I don't write poems. But you don't have to step back and say, what is this? It's like you are. Even thinking that the person. Is not normal. Oh. Yes, at a point. That was how it was just like. Is he is he normal? And how do you write the poem? Because the poems were fantastic in the poem, we said. I can't see anything because you have blocked my view. I tell you, I can't see anyone else. You block my view. Hey, I mean, what? Can you believe that this brother was almost? Discarded as a mental. Patient. It's like, oh, this person is, I mean, psychologically I. Mean it's. Not a proper whatever because you have never seen such laugh. And you see, there are people who are saying to God, oh God, if you love. Me, I thank you, but there's no need to die there's. No need to die for me. Why is this all this? Dying drama on a cross and what have. You and all these things and I don't, I don't know why you are doing. All that. You know, if you love me, just love me. But they're dying on the cross. I don't understand. All those things, that's not how. If you laugh, I don't see why you would even die. What do you die for? Me for Cross and all this? I can't do that. Oh, you see, if the love is coming to you in a way that you are not used to, don't reject it because it may be the greatest love and only you don't know that kind of love. There are levels of love, levels of love, and I'm going to show you how to respond to God. God must feel you, I said. God must what? Feel you. Are you still around or you are going home? God must feel you. He must feel.