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04. The Will Of God

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
January 24, 2025 57m 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 #4 of if you love the Lord. Hallelujah #15 your life will only be complete. When you are in the will of God. Your life will only be complete when you are in the will of the Lord. Amen. Your life will only be complete when you are in the will of the Lord. Colossians chapter 4, verse #12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you might stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. For I bear him record that he had a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in a hierapolis. Amen. Complete, complete, complete in Him we are complete in Him. Complete, complete, complete in Him we are complete in Him. It's not by works of righteousness, but by His grace alone. It's not by works of righteousness, but by His grace alone. It's not my works of righteousness. My pride is face alone, and we are completely complete, complete, complete, complete in Him. We are complete in Him. Complete, complete, complete, complete in Him we are. I want you to sing not just that it's not by works of righteousness, but by his grace alone. It's not by wor

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Welcome to track #4 of if you love the Lord. Hallelujah #15 your life will only be complete. When you are in the will of God. Your life will only be complete when you are in the will of the Lord. Amen. Your life will only be complete when you are in the will of the Lord. Colossians chapter 4, verse #12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you might stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. For I bear him record that he had a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in a hierapolis. Amen. Complete, complete, complete in Him we are complete in Him. Complete, complete, complete in Him we are complete in Him. It's not by works of righteousness, but by His grace alone. It's not by works of righteousness, but by His grace alone. It's not my works of righteousness. My pride is face alone, and we are completely complete, complete, complete, complete in Him. We are complete in Him. Complete, complete, complete, complete in Him we are. I want you to sing not just that it's not by works of righteousness, but by his grace alone. It's not by works of righteousness, by his grace alone. It's not by works of righteousness, but by his grace alone. And we are completely. It's not by works. It's not by works of righteousness, but. By his Grace alone. It's not by works of righteousness, by His grace alone. It's not by works of righteousness, but by His grace alone. And we are complete. It's not by works of righteousness, but by His grace alone. Come on. It's not by works of righteousness, but by His grace alone. It's not by words of righteousness, by His grace alone and. We. Are complete, complete, complete, complete, complete, complete, complete. We are complete, complete, complete, complete, complete, complete. We are complete. Look, my works of righteousness. It's not my works of righteousness, but by His grace. Alone it's not my works. Of righteousness by his ways alone. It's not my ways of righteousness by His ways alone. And we are complete. There's another vest. You're the vest. God had Father dwelleth in my soul. The spirit of that God had body leap well. In my. Soul, the spirit of that God had body leap well in. My. Soul and we are complete the spirit of that God. Had body well in my soul the. Spirit of that. God had body well. In my soul, the spirit of. My head, body dwell. In my soul and we are completely, completely, completely, completely. We are completely, completely, completely, completely, completely. Completely. I know a lot of people who have a lot of money but are not complete. Yeah, yeah, they have everything, but they are not complete. There is somebody says something is not complete. What do you mean there is something missing? I said something missing. They are PhDs. They have American passports, British passports, money, the bank houses, whatever. But they're not. They lack some. Something is missing. One day I had a vision. In the vision, I appeared in a house that belonged to a rich man. His sitting room was a glass door and he was nice grass outside, but he was sitting inside. They were all alone and he had a big glass of either whiskey, wine, beer. Well, I don't, I don't know the difference between the things, but there's something that he was drinking and then he was smoking a big cigar and he crossed his leg and he was sitting alone. Air condition, you see through the glasses. Sit in a posh. I don't know if you can imagine a posh and he was sitting all alone in this air conditioned room, sitting there quietly. He was not watching TV, but he was smoking a cigar and he was drinking. He was stale. And the law said to me, this man is waiting for you. There is something that he lacks. It was because of this vision that I started FCBPI. Yeah, that there are rich people and there are professionals, businessmen waiting for somebody to come because even though they have a lot of things, there is something missing and you cannot be complete unless you are in the will of God. It is being in the will of God that makes you complete. Coming into the will of God is what is the first step to becoming complete. Being complete is doesn't mean you have a wife, you have a husband, you have a child. Then Jesus was not complete and Jesus had no child and he was not complete and John the Baptist either. There was also no complete, you know, Mrs. John, John Baptist, there's nobody like that. Those are not the things that make Jesus have nothing. When he died, his inheritance was his mother. He gave his mother to his Apostle John. That was the inheritance that he had. That was his will. His will. He just said it on the cross. It was nothing to write, there was no lawyer or anything. Just a look, John, can you look after her for me? And then that's the end. Those are not the things that Bible says. A man's life does not consist in the abundance of things that he possesses. That is why recently in a poll done about the happiest countries in the world, the happiest country topping where Nigeria was one of the happiest countries in the world. Yeah, it was about, it was about the 5th happiest country in the whole world. Countries like Switzerland, Britain went down 50 something, 70 something. Yeah, Jamaica, all those countries were ranking the 1st 10 of the happiest countries in the world. Yeah. And he said that a country like Nigeria with a lot of corruption. So I'm one of the happiest countries in the world because a man's life does not consist in the abundance of things that he possesses. That does not make people happy or does it make them complete? So ladies and gentlemen, don't let there be something missing in your life. Being out of the will of God is like having your bath with your socks on. There is something missing. There's something wrong with this bath. Those socks are on. You are having your bath. It's like having your bath with your trousers on or your clothes, or you are bathing back. There's something wrong about this bath being out of the will of God. It's like having your bath with your socks on. There's something wrong and something missing from this bath. One day I had a vision. I saw a duck, duck or duck, or do you know duck or duck? A duck. It was wearing a hat, a round hat that old men wear round like that. And the Lord said to me, there's something wrong, something's missing, something's odd, something's not right. It was actually a vision that led me to discover a whole lot of things that were wrong with the Fellowship. That was a part of the leadership. I was part of the leadership. He showed me a doctor. There is something wrong when a dark is where it's odd. A docker docker is wearing a hat that an old man, an elderly man wears. Something is missing in your life. You may get a degree, but something is missing. You may have the car, but something is missing. You may have the money, but something is missing. You may get what you wanted to get, but something is missing. He said that you may be complete in all the will of God. I tell you, as long as you live, you will always do that. Something is wrong and something is missing. Many people have lived their lives right up to the end, trying to compensate for not obeying God, trying to compensate for never taking the step that God wanted them to take. The mother of Catherine, the mother of Amy Semple Manifest and the founder of the Four Square Gospel Church. She was a 16 year old house help who was sent to go and help a certain elderly man and his elderly wife. As she was looking after this elderly man and his elderly wife, his elderly wife died. And when his wife died he decided to marry the house help who was Amy's mother and he had one child with her and that child was Amy Semple MacPherson. But this lady, she went there because she was transferred there by Salvation Army. Salvation Army also had posted her there to help them or something like that. And her mind was that she was going to be a mystery and work for God. But now that this man's wife was dead, the man said, I love you and I want you to marry me. Flesh of my flesh. Wraps were being given to the 16 years. Old. And and, and, and before she could say Jack Robinson, she had accepted it. So when she gave birth to this child, she pumped it into the child. You are going to do my calling that I didn't do. And that's how she pushed the girl into the ministry. Now, as they grew up, when they got to a certain point, there was a big conflict between the mother and other because the the daughter, Amy felt that her mother was controlling her because her mother was the manager of her ministry. But you see that's how the whole thing started. And then they even split up, getting to the end of the ministry. Their mother went and she sacked the mother or the mother's son or whatever. There was a sack, but you see it is the typical story of someone who didn't do it and is trying to do it in another way through somebody by paying money, by not doing your job properly. Say I'm doing it half time, I will not go. I will not take a job somewhere. Look, I see lay people, so I'm not taking that the job I should. Why you not take the job? It's not when you don't earn a lot of money, it doesn't compensate for you not doing certain things. Earn the money at least and pay tithes. I've taken a lesser job so that I can be available. The bottom line is that you have not been available. May you not bath with your socks on and realize that even though I'm bathed, there's something wrong with this bathroom. When the man that you have love and honor in the house comes to you and and says will you marry me? To your surprise the house help. I've been chosen somebody like you never thought you would have somebody. And now you are being chosen to be a bone of my bone and be a flesh of my flesh. Even though you have the wild calling, you can understand why people are always trying to compensate because they feel something is missing. Something is missing. A certain man he gave birth to twins, twins, two boys, and he had always wanted to be a priest. So when he looked at their faces, one of them's face looks harder than the other. So he chose the harder one to be a businessman and chose the softer looking face to be a priest to compensate for his calling. So when the two of them were growing up, he told the younger 1, you, I'm going to give you property. You don't have to go far. You have to be a priest to fill in for my failure as well though compensation. But when the softer looking face grew up he said no, I will never do this work. And he went into the world and did everything else in the world. Amazingly, the harder looking face decided I want to be a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and rather became a priest. Is that not amazing? So brothers and sisters, don't do something now. You always know there's something missing. Zimbo Ziglag. Are you listening to me? Are you ready to open your hearts to the Lord and do whatever he says? Open up your heart to the Lord and he's going to bless you. Sit down. When Jesus comes from me, I'll be waiting here, watching patient lead with my eyes to the sky. I know He'll be from me. My heart has confessed those things that set men free and gave them your life. The life I treasure now is alive, filled with love and so much ecstasy. For God to love the world He gave his own, His only Son that we shall have new life. He shed his blood for you when we to cleanse us from heart. Unrighteousness forgot to love the world He gave his own, His only Son, that we shall have new life. He shed his blood for you when we to cleanse us from heart unrighteousness. All you have to do is open up your heart and let him dwell in you and you give you your life. Give a place for him to set up his Kingdom. That's where life begins. The Kingdom is at hand. Those of you who have eyes to see is to hear. Then come on in. Forgot so loved the world. He gave his own His the only Son that we shall have new life. He shed his blood for you and me to plant us from our unrighteousness got to love the world. He gave his own His only son that we shall have your life. He shed his blood for you. We need to cleanse us from our on the righteousness. I'm saved, I'm saved. Open up your heart and let it dwell in you. And then you see your life begin for your eyes. Open up your heart. Give a place for me to dwell in you. The truth begins as love and sight got to love the world behave His own, His only son, that we shall have new life. He shed His blood for you and me to blend us from our righteousness. Open up your heart and let His love shining. And then you see your luck begin before your eyes. Oh open up your heart, give up place for Him to dwell in you. The truth begins in the love inside. Open up your heart leg is love shining, and then you see the light begins before your eyes. Open up your heart give up place for him to dwell in you. The truth begins in the love inside. Hallelujah, number 16. Do you want a wee, wee break? Yeah. OK. All right, for you know what commandments the will of God #16 the will of God is for your sanctification and a holiness. Amen. First, the will of God is for your sanctification and a holiness. First Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 23, two verse 2 to three. For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus, For this is the will of the Lord, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication. You should abstain from what? Fornication? Having sexual intercourse with another person that is not your husband or wife is the will of God is the will of God. Having sexical relations with somebody who is not your spouse is not the will of God. Are you listening to me? It is not the will of God. So you have to live all your life trying not to commit sexical relations with somebody all your life. You have to start from young and plan your life not to have a sexical relation with somebody who is not your husband or wife. It is the will of God. You have to find a way that your body will be able to survive the stresses and pressures that will come on you to have sexy cow relations with people that are not your husband or wife. What do you think? At every stage of your life, you need to battle. That's the will of God. You need to battle it out when you are young and full of hormones because these hormones, if we take the title or we take the, the level of the hormone setting hormones in your blood and in my blood and somebody who's 60 years old blood, you're going to find a different level. Now, different levels have different devils. So when you are younger, you have a stronger desire for the unknown. That desire for the unknown and the mystical leads you to sexical relations that you shouldn't have. Are you listening to me? Boys and girls, you have to try your hardest. You must try, try, try, try to stay. Amen. It will only destroy you. So you have to try a little kindness. You have to show a little kindness. You have to strategize. It is almost like you are in a car that goes fast on its own. It's like you are inside a car that moves by itself before you realize it's going this way. If I realize it's going this way and you see that the guy is moving, if you don't have a strategic, you see President Clinton, when Ghana was going to play with America a couple of days ago, President Clinton was interviewed about what does he think about this match with Ghana. Do you know what he said? Do you want to know what he said? He said every battle today, whether it's political, whether it is war, whether it's economic, it is up there. It is the mind, it's the strategy that is used that will give the victory. The one who can strategize and think through it can survive it. It's true. Almost every battle is won by a little balance of power changing through strategic maneuvers. Are you listening? You stay there with your volatile body, volcano ready to explode and don't strategize. We are joking. How many reliable volcano is in you? Hot lava, is it not amazing? So the will of God is something that you have to think about. It's not something that will happen easily. It is far easier to become a womanizer or a philanderer. A philanderer. Do you know what is a philanderer? Do you want to know what a philanderer is? Either Find it for them. Read it. If you say that a man is a philanderer, you mean that he has a lot of casual sexual relationships with women? Womanizer. You mean that he has a what? A lot of casual sexual relationships with women. Messi, a philunderer, is someone who has a lot of casual sexical relationships with a lot of women. May the spirit of the philanderer be cast out of you in the name of Jesus. Messi casual. It's not a serious thing. It's just, you know, for the weekend, for the road. One of the main wills of God is to cut for yourself a clean life. Amen. And you, you, if you don't, and I'm not going to go into it in this service, it's only going to be certain people who deserve to hear it, who hear it. The rest I will leave to you to strategize because I've already given you strategies. Those who can have ears to hear you, stay there. You say you will not marry when you are burning, burning fire. You are bent to a charcoal and you are walking around charcoal. Charcoal is walking, but it is the will of God that you see if He has defined sanctification, that you abstain from fornication. They should not commit fornication. Wow. Yeah, it's a major achievement. It's a major spiritual step. It's like tithing to not commit fornication. It's a major spiritual achievement. Yeah, it's a major spiritual achievement to to not commit fornication. Ideally, it's a scientification that you abstain from fornication. It's a major, major spiritual step to be able to abstain from phonica either as a young man or a married man, an old man, and people call it phonica. At the age of 80, the desire gets less but is still there. Now you see, 81 years got a child, two years old. But perhaps the commonest cause of wrong sexical relations is a lack of honesty. Yeah, you see, we are so ashamed to admit that we are human beings and that we are weak. Most passes will be preaching. Even the topic is not mentioned. Meanwhile you are a sexical human being and you have sexical feelings. How many have sexical feelings? Are you listening to me? Lack of honesty? Some years ago I belong to a fellowship that did not. If you have a beloved, it means you are not spiritual in that fellowship. If you have a beloved, you are not. There's nothing like beloved. There's only backsliding. Either you are a Christian or you are backsliding. So we, we don't even know how they even married, but they were super spiritual and they will not accept it or admit it. So what happened? All the relationships went underground. They all went into the underground church. So there were relationships, but they were all underground when you see them. And it's like until you hear that this sister is pregnant and she's not married. Yeah, all relationships went underground. There was no above ground relation. There was nothing like that. Yeah, because we wouldn't, we wouldn't even admit that at a certain point the Briders are getting attracted to the sisters and the sisters are getting attracted to the Briders because it is something that happened even with lions, leopard, all of them. So all relationships went underground. It was unaccepted and recognized now, and underground all things were going on. That is why in the church, when we introduced the concept of beloved doses, it was a public thing. This person is my beloved. Even that one is a form of protection because openly I am with this person. So it helps you to also conduct yourself so that you don't have a wrong sexical relationship with the person because it's like an open beloved. This is my person I intended to marry, but the underground, beloved, not knowing that you and you, you are working on something together in the underground church, shabaya and all the works of darkness flourish in darkness. That's why they are called the works of darkness. But once it comes into the open, any time you get somebody who is honest, people are shocked. How can you say that? Many times? I'm pretty sure that's it. But all I'm saying is something that is real, that is true, that's happening. And you see is this. We want to not talk about things or say things, but that is what is killing us because we don't say it. Then it all moves into the underground. You see anything that will be there? When I say it will be there, whether you go up or down, it will be there and you say it should not be there, It moves under because it will exist. It's true. It's like black marketing. Ghana. People will always have dollars. Even right now, if I ask somebody, anybody got dollar here, 10 dollar, $5, is there anybody here like that? I just want to know if anybody has got $5.10. Yeah, somebody there. Yeah. Bring, bring for me to see. Dollar will always exist in Ghana, but there was a time if you show a dollar, it's a crime. Look at that. No, Show the people. Yeah, dollar. Yeah. May, may it increase to 100 in Jesus name, Amen. You are blessed. Dollar is part of Ghanaian life. It's part of almost every country has dollars. But why you say, no, we should not use it, We're only using our currency. But when they came out, they said forex bureaus. This is why you change dollars. This dollar. Everybody came out to say, I remember one day I had some dollar in my pockets, but you see my little pocket that you could see through. So I went somewhere and the dollar was my pocket. In those days. Somewhere I said what? Your pocket, what? It was a crime. It's the same to have dollar. Nobody should see the dollar. So what it goes underground when we officialize it down dollar is nothing. So brothers and sisters, you you have a relationship official propose in the daylight. I said, sister, I've chosen you will you choose me? Now everybody knows that alone will help you to keep yourself correct until you can become bone of my bone and either will sing that song for you at your wedding. Hallelujah. Are you listening to me? Amen. Sanctification to keep that zip zipped as far as Martino. But through, not just through strength, because your strength cannot. That's what the Bible say. Fleet. Look, when you are going to see wild animals, you have to know about them #1 when you see a lion and there's a lion here, rule #1 never run. When you run it will take you up. But when you see an elephant and the elephant is annoyed with you, rule number one, run for the beauty of your life. They will kill you. Right now your sexy girl feelings are that elephant that is moving all over the place. Your sexical feelings are what that elephant, you don't argue you were that. I was in Kenya, they told us a British student, he came with his camera, he wet, but they told him the elephants came. They they killed him. They just run. They run over your stamp to lift you with their tasks and lift you in the air and stamp on you and kill you. I mean they kill elephant. They are very dangerous. Yeah, very, very dangerous. That elephant, I said that elephant, it's that seusical feeling that you have. And the Bible says flee. It's not a discussion. It's not a debate. It's not a prayer about it. There's no prayer. Bible say call upon the Lord in a time when he may be found. Surely the Lord cannot be found in the flag of great waters. Have you not seen that Psalm 32? Tell you, I'll show you Psalm 32. There is a time that God can hear that prayer. There is a time that He cannot hear that prayer. You say you have seen elephants. You are praying. It's not a time to pray Psalm 32, That's sex. Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. There's a time when you can find God. Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach Him. There is a flood. When it happens, you are not going to see God and your prayers will not reach Him. What does the Kingdom say? In a in a flood of people, they will not come now you will never get near to God. That's the one that's crisis. You don't even think of praying. Even when you pray, you can't pray. You can't pray. When Mrs. Saki died, I couldn't pray. I didn't even care to me to pray. Some people have been blaming me for not trying to raise hair from the dead. But you see, the point is that it didn't even care to me. In a flood of great waters. You don't think about certain things. You start, you start thinking of swimming in the flat of Britain. You think of swimming. Don't think of praying. When the elephant is chasing you, my friend, don't pray about it. Run for your life. You stay yourself. I rebuke in the name of him. Another one. You see that? Are you there? So honesty. You see when you say you are running from zombie, people say oh how it's like you shouldn't have such. We have it. You think we don't notice beautiful girls. We notice them only that we are controlling ourselves. Are controlling ourselves. How many have been noticing the beautiful girls? How many have been controlling yourselves? Surely in a flood of great waters you shall not reach him. Even the flood of great waters, Can we say you want to have Holy Communion? The water is coming over your head to drown. You say you want to have Holy Communion. Shall we have Holy Communion at this time? You are a fool and a joker. Better start swimming. You say you are coming to reach God. So this is the will of God for your sanctification, that you should abstain. The penis of yours is going only to one place. Did you hear what I said? You need directional. You need direction. One Direction, One Direction, one way, one way. You need directional 1 branch. Only one branch. And that vagina of yours is going to receive only one penis. Only one. The sisters are not jumping. That is the will of God. Did you hear me? I said. That is the will of God. And if you love the Lord, you will love his will for you, if his will is only one to one place. If you love the Lord, instead of questions why, why can't I have groundnut soup and light soup and palm soup and green soup? No, if it's groundnut soup, you are eating groundnut soup till you die. You die with that groundnut soup. If you love the Lord, come on. You will love His will for you instead of questions, right? There'll be praise for all He brings you through. And if you love the Lord, you will love His holy commands. Delight yourself in them. Everything you do will short E that. Or if you love the Lord His discipline, you won't despite 'cause it will prove to you you're a child in his eyes. And if you not fellow, you seek his face with all your heart. And even when you're home come Souli ways, you won't divide. We are his work budget created for good works right? Called us to walk around ourselves. A living sacrifice and if you love the you will love his will for. You instead of. Questions why I They'll be praised for all he brings you through. And. Give you love the you will love this will for you. Instead of questions why, they'll be praised for all he brings you through. Come on, sing it again, love the Lord, Come on if. You love you. Will love this will you will love this Will for his number of questions. That of questions why we pray I'll be praised for all he brings you through. Come on all, if you love the Lord, you will love His will. You will love His will for you. He's telling that I. Pressed just why? I pray, we pray. For all he brings you through. All if you. Love, let the Lord you will, love His will for you. That'll be praise for all He praise you through. If you love if you love if you. Love, love. Is will you? Will love is Will 1 Is that a question that up? That'll be praise for all he praise you through. If you love. His will you? Will love His will for you. Questions why? There will be praise for all He brings you. If you. Love, love this will for you. Now we praise for all He brings you. Come on. It is the will of God. You need direction, one location, one destination, one people, one God, Shabbaya. It's the will of God. You, even your sanctification to abstain from fornication. It is the will of God if you love that law. You will love His will for you instead of questions why There'll be praise for all He brings you through. If you love, love, no. Love is. Holy for us you will love. His holy for mind, and if I'll. Be praised for. All he brings you through. Come on, if you love, love His holy command, you will love His. Holy is that of. Questions. That of questions why? Sit down. Tell your neighbor I am unidirectional. One branch. Tell your neighbour I play golf with only one hole. You need directional 8. None. Who will love His will for you? Instead of press transpired, there'll be praise for heart. He brings you through. If you love the the heart, you will love His holy commands. Delight yourself in them and everything you do. Wish all these men. If you love the heart, He will love his will for you instead of that's just my eyes. There'll be praise for all He brings you through. If you love the the you will love His holy commands, Delight yourself in them and everything you do. Wish all these that if you love the you will love His will for you instead of we're just fine. There is praise for all we bring you through. If you love the the earth, you will love this holy command. Delight yourself in them and everything you do. Wish all these that. If you love the Lord, if you love the Lord, He will love His will for you. Then up questions. Fine, then we praise for all He brings you through. And if you love the Lord, he will love His holy commands. Delight yourself in them and everything you do will surely stand. If you love the, you will love His will for you. Instead of questions by I, there'll be praise for all He brings you through. If you love the Lord, you will love His holy commands, Delight yourself in them and everything to do. Wish all these then. Oh.