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05. Atmosphere Camp - Types Of Atmosphere-1

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
February 28, 2025 32m 37s

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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 #5 of Atmosphere. Is it not? Is it hot? Is the weather hot? Very hot? Isn't it amazing? So you see that in this atmosphere we will get tired and comfortable and able to pray, unable to even concentrate spiritually on what you have to concentrate on. Yeah. And if you sleep, you wake up wet, you'll be totally wet when you wake up. You'll be wet because it's so hot and humid. So you are not likely to even stay for a long time to pray because you will be so sticky and so hot and so sort of wearing. And it's a rainforest atmosphere. It lets certain animals flourish. A lot of animals flourish in this rainforest atmosphere. And it also effects you spiritually. The second natural atmosphere is a savanna atmosphere. Again you have a certain animal that we come a lot. That is what they also do well in. You can plant those outside the atmosphere. The new set of animals come there and in that savanna atmosphere you find now that that one can even be hotter and drier and western the tropical river where they may be raining constantly. So you see that the missionaries move from across to to a group of because we were moving from

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Welcome to track #5 of Atmosphere. Is it not? Is it hot? Is the weather hot? Very hot? Isn't it amazing? So you see that in this atmosphere we will get tired and comfortable and able to pray, unable to even concentrate spiritually on what you have to concentrate on. Yeah. And if you sleep, you wake up wet, you'll be totally wet when you wake up. You'll be wet because it's so hot and humid. So you are not likely to even stay for a long time to pray because you will be so sticky and so hot and so sort of wearing. And it's a rainforest atmosphere. It lets certain animals flourish. A lot of animals flourish in this rainforest atmosphere. And it also effects you spiritually. The second natural atmosphere is a savanna atmosphere. Again you have a certain animal that we come a lot. That is what they also do well in. You can plant those outside the atmosphere. The new set of animals come there and in that savanna atmosphere you find now that that one can even be hotter and drier and western the tropical river where they may be raining constantly. So you see that the missionaries move from across to to a group of because we were moving from the Savannah to more of the tropical river, which was easier. Then the third one is the desert. The desert like wrought sand hot. Few people can survive except highly motivated people. Highly motivated people can stay in the desert and you are not likely to be able to pray much. You just want to feel cool. You can't even be thinking of prayer. It's true. I have noticed for myself that physical atmosphere, natural atmosphere, greatly affects my spiritual abilities. And then the third one is winter. I said, yeah, Arctic snow environment, that's not a season, but it's like an environment of the OR the Antarctica, that kind of environment, snow, ice and snow atmosphere, that one too few animals can stay there. So you see in each atmosphere things either flourish or they just quench. Both the physical life and the spiritual life also is affected by I mean if you are dying of cold, you can't even pray anymore. You just have to die. So as you move, so the same thing as you move from atmosphere to atmosphere, it affects you in the natural and affects you spiritual. So don't disconnect the two. Don't disconnect the two. They are related. Yes, they are related. That is why people rarely read books by written by black people. That's true. If you go to America and say not people, but Americans go to America and you show your black face as you put in a book. I mean, they see us on the news every day. Afrikaans. This, this, this what is happening? This is this. You don't have this. But then you've written a book about how to prosper, how to make it a house. Are you serious? You're joking. I once took my books and written. I went to a bookshop in London. The white man looked at the book and said. He said, OK, we don't have space on our shelves. Then he said, well we are sending some shipments of Bogota and the Sierra Leonean what was on so you can add it to the ship to send to the war stricken victims in Sierra Leone. That's what he told me, not that he told somebody to tell me. He told me because they they see the environment from where we are coming and what we are right and what we are saying. Yeah. And then, I mean, you can't have much to much to say. I mean, there's not much you can say. I mean, what have you achieved? Look at where you look at your house. Look at your room. If I come to your house, I can know a lot about you by by where you are. Even your room, your room in school. Oh, yeah, I can see that. I mean, I once went to some people's room in the medical school. I immediately knew the temperament of the sister. There were two sisters, one was a sanguine, 1 was a melancholic. So you see from the room and up to today their houses reflect those natures. What a shock if the if the weather was cool and you were even feeling cold. Probably like the last time we were here, people were wearing whatever and shivering. They understand you may be more capable of staying longer and surviving better. So you see that the change in the atmosphere, the change in that is affecting you. Yeah. So for me, for me, I've noticed that even the absence of a window in a room can prevent you from prayer. I once had a room, there was no, there was a window of only one side. So the air wasn't blowing across. I, I was supposed to pray there, but I never went to pray there. The way the window was created and I was able to pray, I just noticed myself going there to pray because physically we're OK, because to pray you need, you need a certain environment to stay in one place for seven hours, for five hours, for 10 hours. You are not going out of that place. You must be comfortable there, and if you are not comfortable there, you have to do something to get up. You cannot stay there. Yeah, I'm telling you. So you may not know, but if the House of whom is arrayed will now prevent prayer in your life forever, forever. You'll never understand why you are not praying. But it's actually how your house is and how things are. That's why you don't pray. But I don't pray because you have no decision to pray about how the atmosphere is and how things are arranged. It has affected your and prayer life, especially when you are not living alone. My mother told me something. You see, we moved into our house, our family's house in 1968, 1968. And she said to me that where we used to stay at another part of Accra, we're staying in a flat. OK. Then when my father built the house, I saw an upstairs and downstairs house. And when we moved there in 1968, she said to me, from then our lifestyle changed. Even the marriage changed. Not marriage changed, but the life changed because he said that now that there was up and down, when my father came home, she would she would be up already asleep. So the kitchen was down. So when he has come to come and call her from us or whatever. So he just organized himself down there and then come up. So he said that the life changed from the day that they moved into the house, that everything's changed. It changes from the environment. This this guy there? Are you new? Yeah, I knew. Yeah. Level 100. Oh, that. You deserve more. Give me more. More. OK. All right. Than atmosphere, I'm fighting one. So the technical nature is still of where you are living it. It can just change so many things that you will be praying about or saying, I've decided from today that I'm going to the back. That's not what you don't need to decide from today. What you need is a change of the atmosphere, of the environment, of rearranging things. I'm telling you. I mean, I'm telling you from 50 years, almost 50 years, not of being a Christian, but many, many years of being a Christian. Yeah. It's not actually a decision to play on New Year's resolution that you need. It's the atmosphere that is not backing for you. Some of you shouldn't. You shouldn't even decide that you don't pray in your house again because you can't. As you keep time, then you feel that you failed, so you should decide. So you should decide. I won't pray in the house again. I have my I have another place. I'll go to that place and wait on God there. Yeah. Because it's not possible. Yeah, you are in the room with four roommates. This one is doing this, this one is doing this, this one is doing this, this one is doing this. And a pressure, there's nothing, no space. My my my next door roommate, my room next to my room in Ki was in K30K31. The guy had a small tape recorder. I think it was a Sanyo tape recorder. And his favorite song was sexual healing and, and his his room was the balcony. So I don't know whether he, he, he put the tape so the broadcasting station next to my room and that was the main sexual healing. I've not heard that song before. I didn't even know what it's about. But sexual healing. Sexual healing. Hey. And he was, I've been so many girlfriends. Yeah. And he was playing and I think whilst he was having sex, whilst he was having sex with a guy, I think he was playing that and over charging himself whilst he was from another country, from Gambia. It's a Gambian. Yeah. And he was playing. I never prayed in my room when I was in school. Never. I don't remember praying in my room in school. It was even too hot. I couldn't pray. Have you stayed in the main hall before? Can you stay in the room, be very hot? I wouldn't pray. I never prayed in my room. So some of you are making too many New Year's resolutions about something that cannot be. Yeah, Some of you, if you want to have an air conditioner in your room, suddenly you become prayerful. Yeah, you'd be surprised is that people don't know DG people. People are Christian. You'll be surprised. People are Christian for years and they don't realize how much the atmosphere effects them in every way. Every kind of atmosphere effects. It has an effect. That's what everything to have a meeting with the presence of a Moody place. I don't, I don't want It changes my meetings. It changes my flow because I slow prophetically out of out of what the points are for the meeting into things that are necessary. Yeah. So when I start diverting into certain things or whatever, and it's like, here is somebody who is angry, has a mood, have a face, it's like it's a hindrance. I don't want such a person in my meeting. You are making too many New Year's resolutions about things that can never change. When I was in school, I just walked out of my room and I walked from legal hall to to N2 to the junction of NT and I pray around there, around there between zoology and botany department. I pray around there and then walk there and walk all the way back. That's how. And I pray in the night. There's nothing like I can't have time in the morning. There's nothing like that. I have to pray. I walk and pray. I pray to God and I walk. It was, it was not, it was not realistic. Yeah, I was. I was when I was in school, in secondary school, I was in the dormitory. There are so many people here at the bed, whatever. I couldn't get anywhere to pray. So the strategy that I had was that I lying on my bed and I cover my face with the pillow and I spray into the pillow in the dormitory. I didn't have all that was in from from far from Father. And my ceremony has used pornography as the mattress. Yes, mind the whole yeah, magazines, yes. And the atmosphere in the place. Everybody doing this, making soaking, shouting, talking and spiritual. That is where I became more spiritual. I became more spiritual when I wanted to pray. I will get out of the house and go, go somewhere. I will go to the assembly hall down the road and stand in the room there and pray and pray and find trees, find a room and find a place and pray. You're wasting your time. That's why you can't pray. That's why you don't pray. It's not that you haven't decided. I will decide. You decided. More than seven times you have decided to become the ritual or to pray or to do this, or to do this or to do this or to do this. It's not happening. It's not working. Yeah. They do not. They do not change. When I was younger, I told my wife. I said, look, even if I'm dead, I don't want my children to go to school abroad. I said even if I'm dead, I don't want them to go to school here. Yeah, neither have to go to school at Lincoln. Some people when one they argue that my child, my students go to school at Lincoln International, go to GIS, they go to my child, go to school at Dansoman. My child is a founder of the school. He was the first student at Class Ambassador's nursery school, the first themselves, and only the only number of the school guys ambassadors. He's a pioneer, he's a founder. As I don't want my child to, I don't want my child to go to Lincoln. I don't want my child to go to America. My child will be in America. So I'll be praying, praying, pray. Lord, Lord. Lord, while they are sending videos of whatever to each other doing all sorts of things for birthday presents, they are sending genitals across and these are your birthday presents. GIS Lincoln School shooting themselves stung in themselves because they are not a girl hanging herself because their boyfriend has left. A guy would take a gun and shoot himself wearing nice canvas shoes. I remember I was in the watching one the nice guy from Lincoln school shot himself in the head. The whole brain is shot out like this. Very nice, this type of nice. What do you call track suits this light Gray and a posh. You see that it's a posh guy that has grown his brains out. I said let my child go to school at dance woman, please. Because my prayers will not overcome the environment that is at that place. The environment is stronger than the prayers that I can pray. I said the atmosphere that is higher than my prayers, atmosphere is more higher than your decisions and more higher than so many things you have decided you have decided to do. I said you should go to school at that summer, guys, ambassadors, it should be a fight near them. I don't like that place. I don't like Lincoln. I don't want my child to be with this American type of people. I know. Come and say Daddy you, daddy you. I don't know. I don't like your mommy. I don't think you. The atmosphere is greater than the prayers that you are praying. Atmosphere is atmosphere is greater than any of your prayers. I'm telling you, take it from me. Hello, are you listening to me? The atmosphere is more than the prayers you are praying. You can pray that. I've sent my child to this place and I'm praying for the child. It's like sending your you have got your dog or your sheep or your goat or your horse from Ghana and you have send your to the Antarctica and you are praying for the cab in that atmos. You are praying for the dog or you are praying for the sheep in Antarctica for the Asava. Lord, I commit 21 days of fasting and prayers in Antarctica -70°C with 120 mph wind blowing. And when the wind blows, it drops the temperature greatly down to -100 and something. And you are standing there and say you are praying for the, for the chance. I said please do that. So man, that's ambassador. You can be a founder at that place. It's not bad as you see some people I've met, one guy said, oh, I don't want my child to grow up in a certain environment. I said, which environment were you? Which environment did you grow up? But he didn't want to run the mission field. I said, you want to run mission field because I don't want my child to grow up in such a place. I said, wow, wonderful. You see, as soon as I was born, as soon as I was born, I was not born in Ghana. I was not born here, but as soon as I was born, I was brought here. Yeah, it was. It was a divine transfer. Divine transfer. As soon as I was born, I was brought here. I was born here. As of born. I wasn't born here. For that I can tell you the truth. As soon as I was born, I was put on a ship and I was transferred not by air. I came by ship and I've been here ever since. Yeah. Every school that I've been, I've been to school in Ghana. I've not gone to any international abroad school, nothing. Yeah. To Catholic school guys that came to Achimota, to University of Ghana. That's why I've not been to any school any so that people meet. Yeah. Where did you study next? Were you in California? Look, you are some of your, all you are battling is not, is it like some of you is like, OK, you decided that you wouldn't do it again. You won't do it again faster. But where you are going, you will do it. You won't do it. You will do it. Although you are beside them and although you are brave, although you are faster when you go there, you won't do it because the atmosphere is far rather than your prayers or your decisions. All those things you are saying, all those things you are saying the atmosphere is far wider, you will do it. That thing that you say you won't do it again, you will do it. Look, if it has happened to you before, raise up your hand. You said you won't do it again, but when you went to that atmosphere, you did it again. And sometimes you went better. You went, you went higher, higher, higher. Higher. You seen that boy? It was when he went to his house and his mother was not there and his father was not there. And they took you to hit the room and it happened there and you said you won't do it again. You prayed about it, you bound it, you lose it, you cast it, you cast it, you release it. Then you went back to the atmosphere. After such powerful prayers, as soon as you enter the atmosphere and the guy has got a certain switch in the light that the light goes by itself, Same, same, same, same, same, same. And he has a certain jazz music that he's played. Play that dark music. And an emotional tone, an emotional tone, an emotional tone was created. Hi there, come here. An emotional tone was created. And and as he pulled out the music, he said, you are. You are. Kill my life killing the star seasons lovely hear me my whole life with his wife killing me the here there are people throwing my pain in the sea there will leave my love with us right getting the stop see with this stop. After he played his wife, you stand to him and you said you are killing me softly, you are killing me softly, you are. Killing me softly. Feeling my love with the world, killing me softly with his soul, killing me slowly with the soul, hearing my whole life within the. World killing me soft. He sent to you what he said. Darling, darling, don't worry. Come closer, come closer, baby, come closer, baby. Just come for a. And then when you were in the atmosphere of the heart, you started to feel safe. And then and then you step to your bodyguards. You may rest, you may go, you may go home for the evening, you may go home for the evening. Just your work tonight and safe the angels that you had released and have released from heaven to come to help you. Now you ask them to leave and you are safe in the arm. It's killing you softly. So those of you who don't respect atmosphere and are rather using, I mean you are saying you are greater than atmosphere, you are better than atmosphere, your prayers are more than atmosphere and you are using spiritual powers and that those things don't apply to you. You wait, you will pray, You will see that the atmosphere is super powerful. New Year's resolution upon New Year's resolution. Just as fornication thrives in certain things, so many things thrive. Amen. What's the problem? All right. Amen. Are you listening? So many things thrive in atmospheres. And all that you need is you do not need anything other than the change of atmosphere. A decision concerning atmosphere. Take it from me. Yeah, I've been at it for some years. Yeah, I've been at it for some years. It's not that you are bad or good. I'm neither bad nor good. You are normal, I said. You are normal. The atmosphere as well. Are you a spiritual Penguin? If you are not a spiritual Penguin, don't go to certain atmospheres where only it is the only animal that is alive there, or a polar bear or a spiritual Penguin. Hi John, your brother and companion in tribulation and in the Kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ. I was in the eye. I went there in the spirit on the lost day, and I was in the spirit on the lost day and I heard a voice. That's why I don't hear any voices, only just stupid annoying voices all around. Amen, Finam.