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06. Atmosphere Camp - Causes Of Spiritual Atmosphere -1

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
February 28, 2025 57m 7s

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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 number six of atmosphere. As each day passes by, I feel my love run dry. I get to we rewound and test run in a storm. Well I'm lying to all his needs and I'm tired of planting seeds. I seem to have a way so many thoughts about myself. I want to I need to be more like that. Yes, I want to. I need we need to be more like our Father's will worth that by giving us his hands who pay the highest cost to point us to the cross. And when I think of him thinking the whole with sins, I take one look at me compared to what I'm come to be. I want to I need to be more like you than yes, I want to I need to be more like him. Remember, there's no greater love than a lay down your life for a friend. The end of all my prayer is to tell like my Lord here is my wanting only God his image in my soul if my weakness is free me and by his drop downhill his faithful and is true to complete the work me begin city. I want to, I need to be more like that again. I want to, I need to be more like him. Remember, there's no way to love than a lay down your life. No, there's no way to love and a lay down your life for a friend. For a friend. I want to I

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Welcome to track number six of atmosphere. As each day passes by, I feel my love run dry. I get to we rewound and test run in a storm. Well I'm lying to all his needs and I'm tired of planting seeds. I seem to have a way so many thoughts about myself. I want to I need to be more like that. Yes, I want to. I need we need to be more like our Father's will worth that by giving us his hands who pay the highest cost to point us to the cross. And when I think of him thinking the whole with sins, I take one look at me compared to what I'm come to be. I want to I need to be more like you than yes, I want to I need to be more like him. Remember, there's no greater love than a lay down your life for a friend. The end of all my prayer is to tell like my Lord here is my wanting only God his image in my soul if my weakness is free me and by his drop downhill his faithful and is true to complete the work me begin city. I want to, I need to be more like that again. I want to, I need to be more like him. Remember, there's no way to love than a lay down your life. No, there's no way to love and a lay down your life for a friend. For a friend. I want to I need to be more like Jesus. Yes, I want to. I need to be more like him. I want to. I need to be more like Jesus. I want to I need to be more like. Hallelujah Father, thanks for the great blessing and opportunity that we have today. In Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated. Now, what is an atmosphere? It's a what? Surroundings. Yeah. So the two main components of an atmosphere, natural and spiritual, isn't it? Yeah, and both of them have a strong influence on what happens to you spiritually and in every way very, very important. OK, All right, So what else is an atmosphere? It's A1A pervading mood. Like the mood, if somebody is dead, if somebody is dead, a sudden mood comes. If somebody close to you is dead, there's a type of mood that comes that is difficult to shake off. It takes a long time for that feeling. It's a feeling you wake up and you there's something bad, something bad. It's like when Ghana lost the World Cup, there was a certain pervading mood in the country. You know, I went to play golf the next day and a certain man is analogy. He saw me. He said you didn't he pray for us? No, no, I didn't even know that he knew that I was a Christian. He was. He was so angry. He said, look what I mean, we are almost dead. You see the mood was terrible. It was terrible. Also after the election, those who lost the election, the pervading mood was terrible. So you, you may even be preaching and not the pervading mood. You realise that it, it, it affects the, the, the, the, the, the preaching. It affects even the preaching. I, I remember when Juanita, Mrs. Saki died from five years ago, it was a Tuesday that I had to come and preach. I had to come and preach in that on that Tuesday. It was a church service. People didn't know even that she was a some had heard, you know, and now here I was. I have to, I have to speak, you understand. So it's not, it's not a normal sermon because of the mood. I'm explaining to you that it's not like, let's say it's an atmosphere of prayer or something. But whatever has happened or whatever has created a certain pervading mood effects everything. So the atmosphere is not just made-up of spiritual things that make a good atmosphere, but physical things and the pervading mood, the emotional tone, is it not one of the emotional tone? And we have Christmas Day service exactly a week later, we have, we have to celebrate Christmas, you know, and then we have 31st and you know, a main person is dead and you have 31st and you have to say, OK, it's a year of this. God is going to do this. God is good. I mean, it's like, and then you are in that atmosphere and then the atmosphere is mixed because many of the people sitting in the church don't have that feeling that you have because though somebody is there though it's unfortunate, just get on with it. It happens to a lot of people. All die, be die, just get on. You know, just move on. All die, be die, just move on. I mean, stop. I mean, you can't whatever the fact that you are because when somebody dies, very few people really mourn. If somebody close to you dies and you are more, don't think everybody is sad though, especially at a funeral. Just you and some one or two people. Very few people take it from me now when they see the bereaved person they will become straight faced and as soon as they leave they start cracking jokes and talking normally. Yeah, I know a certain singer. When? When I mean there was a crisis like that exactly 9 months after she had a baby. So it means that even in that mood people were able to do things. I'll not I'll not mention anything, but you can start the alphabet from the beginning. What is the next what is the next mood what's the next definition of the mood environment or environment the next one is what the dominant moods don't allow anybody to dominate you and before you marry, make sure the person you are getting married does not have a dominating moods. There are there are particular people who have dominating moods. You see the person laughing and flowing Internet, and the person has a dominating mood and the brains to dominate. It's not pervading, but this is dominating. It is like everybody should be quiet. Everybody should be up till he or she has decided to talk or till he or she has decided to be happy. It's a controlling and dominating mood. Yeah, your roommate can also be like that. The face has come. It's that the face was somewhere. It has come and it is there. Everybody should be quiet. Everybody should be there until you have decided that you will talk and you will laugh. And when you will laugh, everybody should be talking. And whatever the next one, this one, an atmosphere. Describe the distinctive quality of a place. Yeah. The higher the quality of the place, the higher the atmosphere. Next one, the character has placed hands. Next one general impression. You go to a place you have a general impression of peacefulness, happiness, poverty, death, confusion, filth. Yeah. So a lot of a lot of white people when they when they arrive in Ghana, you have a sudden impression and there's nothing you can do to change it. When I was younger in the ministry, I used to try to change their impression. I realized after some time that their mind is fixed because there are things here that you don't have over there. No matter how many nice things we have, they don't have a river of bolla with plastic bags in it, with little, little plastic bags filled with whatever short puts that have been thrown into it. There's nothing like that in England. There's nowhere like that. I'm just, there's nothing like that. Yeah. If you go to Abidjan, they have rubbish on the streets. The streets are filled with baller. Yeah, it's wonderful. The next one is 1 emotional tone of a work of art, and it's also another one. It's an emotional tone, the general emotional tone, if you like, like in the case of death, there's an emotional tone, but works of art bring emotional tones. Works of art, like music brings an emotional tone, a certain tone, a certain atmosphere is created. And that is why I've always worked with music people. I like them because they create a certain atmosphere within which I can flow. And we can all flow. Yeah. So any pastor, one of the important people to you will be the person who has music to bring. It's a very important person to you. Yeah. Don't joke with it. Don't say I'm not musical. You are musical to a point. Everybody can have some music sense about you. It's something. It's nothing at all. The dressing of the person who is singing there is music as well. But when the person came to dress and stood there, you, you, you could see things that you didn't want to see. And that alone is musical. That is musical because it affects the music, because once we are singing, people are looking at things. Next, physical surroundings, so important, All right, Physical surroundings have a great effect. That is why the Isle of Atmosphere, it's one of the 34 atmospheres that we have. The Isle of Atmosphere. It's the surroundings of an island. It's the sea and the, the serenity, the mountains, the, the, the nature. You see, like what we were watching yesterday, you see there's something awesome. And, and you see when you see the mountains, when what you were saying there, you know, I've seen mountains because Switzerland also, I have to also say my nationality sometimes. And Switzerland, we have mountains, something that we have there. We have one of some of the best mountains in the world, the straight Alps, very beautiful. And when you go to some of these mountains, you, you will be odd, you know. And so white people have for years tried to climb these mountains to get to the top to the highest point. And they have named each mountain the peak as a name. When the mountain range goes on, it can go for 100 miles, mountains very high, nobody lives there that's ice. And each one has a peak like this and it goes like that. Then it's a peak and they've named this one is called this, this one is called that. This one is called. They have names. And they have the one who climbed this one, the one who climbed this one, the expeditions to climbed. The first expedition was in 18 whatever to climb this, a team of this and they have pictures and history of how they conquered each mountain. But as a type of people, if there's a mountain, they don't even ask what is behind the mountain. But you are not that type of person in Jesus name. Your mind is active. Now say my mind is active. Say I'm an explorer, I'm an inventor, I'm a child of God in Jesus name. Do you believe it? Say I'm an explorer. I'm an explorer. I'm interested in nature. I'm interested in God's creation. Amen. Yeah. So you see that because you are changing. Most of you were able to stay awake to watch that that film yesterday, but I've never seen something like that before. Some of you have been watching pornography. What we watch is so different. OK, what's the next meaning of atmosphere? Level of death, of cleanliness in a place? So there's an atmosphere created by by white tiles that's different from the atmosphere created by brown tiles. Yeah, it's a totally different feeling. One day a very important person honored me. I'm being honored to be taken to people's houses and people's bedrooms. A very important person took me to his room. In different countries, different places, a very important person took me to show when I entered the room, I was what turned me was the tiles. Yes, that's where in the room. I've never seen a room like that before. Yeah. The, the beauty, the cleanliness, the feel. And I and I immediately saw that it was from the tile, the type of tiles. Yeah. That had been put there. It was. It was beautiful. Yeah. And immediately you have a certain atmosphere. That's why. That's why John wrote and he said that I, John, your brother and companion in Tribulation and in the Kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ. I was on the Isle of Patmos on the lost day. I was in the spirits and I had a voice when I was sitting on the island. I was talking. And after today, people are taking ferries and boats to that island. It's a special out with several monasteries and carting grounds. And this is where this is the place that he was standing when he had the revelation. Yeah, you can check on your map you see Patmos. It's called the island of Patmos. It's there right now. You just go to Athens or Turkey, and then you go with a ferry. This way and this way. You can come there. It's right there. Yeah. You, you. You'll be there one day in Jesus name. Tell your neighbor I'm a traveler. I'm not restricted. Tell your neighbor I'm not restricted. Tell your neighbor you may be restricted, but I'm not restricted. And I don't mean travelling to going to be a cleaner somewhere. So the level of cleanliness, next one, the atmosphere, the level of newness, of oldness, of a place is part of the atmosphere. Yeah. A new place has a different place. For instance, if you go to the University of Ghana, the old halls, toilets and atmosphere there and the newer halls, isn't it Alice Papung and the Nelson and so on, the atmosphere is different. Yeah, yeah. Because if you have your own toilet in your own room, it creates a different atmosphere from a general toilet where everybody with his own peculiar characteristic dance to next one spiritual quality of a place. There are different spiritual qualities of different places and the more you travel, the more you will know the different atmospheres, spiritual nature of a place. In certain places it it is more possible to be spiritual than other places. Yeah, just as we show the icy, whatever there is icy spiritual environment. Let's see next one finish. OK, now let's let's move a bit quickly because we have so many. So what are the different atmospheres? The next the atmosphere, the next atmospheres I'm going to give you now different. So now I'm moving into spiritual atmospheres, different spiritual atmospheres that we have. OK, right. Yeah. Remind me about it. Remind me again. I'll tell you about it. Just remind me again, I'll tell you. You know the spiritual atmosphere, OK, of of different places OK is determined by the different types of spirits that are residing there OK, the area boys of a place OK, and there are things you can do to make it possible for you to stay somewhere for a period. So you must be aware of both the natural and the spiritual. So you must control the natural and you must control the spiritual. So controlling the natural will greatly affect your spiritual. And I told you yesterday, you know most of you, it's nothing to change. It's just the atmosphere. You stop making those resolutions and stop praying about it. You can't do it in that. Are you a Penguin? So what are you struggling about? OK then to mark chapter 5, the cause of spiritual atmospheres, that's one. They came over to the other side of the sea and to the country of the gatherings. When it was come out of the ship, immediately them met him out of the tombs, a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs, and no man could bind him, no, not with chains, because he had been often bound. You know the story of this madman. He had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked as standard by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Neither could any man tame him. And always, day and night, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying and cutting himself with stones. OK, now listen, the demons, give me a chair. The demons which were controlling this guy, The demons which were controlling this guy took him to the cemetery. There is an atmosphere in a cemetery and and and in a mountain in the back. You turn off the lights. I'm telling you, you cannot stay. Yeah. You cannot stay alone here. When when there's no light here. Take it from me. You will never feel secure. It's that you cannot see anything. It's, it's, it's, it's so far from when there are lights. So the devil, even when he's fully in control of you, will take you to an environment. Yeah. And within that atmosphere, he will control. That's why they bring buses to take you to beach parties. What they are going to do, they cannot do it on campus in that they need a place where they are controlled. So, so as the demon was taking this madman to the mountains and the tombs, it's like, it's like people bringing bounces to take the young people to beach parties. At the beach party, they want to have sex. Every boy wants to have sex, isn't it? They want to drag you. They want to dance, they want to grow wild. They want to do things they've never done before and want to come back and give what what they have done. They cannot do it in the in the hall. They need a place. So demons also take people to atmospheres and when they arrive with you there, that is it. So the Marvel says he was in the tombs and they have feathers and where were we when he saw Jesus he ran and cried, what am I to do with thee Jesus, thou son of the most high God, I adored him by God, torment thou me not for he had said unto him, come out of the man thou unto in spirit. But the demon wasn't going. He wasn't going. God Jesus said come out and the man was was was saying, don't torment me, don't torment me. So when you are casting out demons, right, and they don't go, they are not going. The next thing to do is what Jesus did. You ask for the name of the demon, He said. Then you asked him, what is your name? The demons have names, you understand. Demons have names. You ask what is your name? Because if I say, if I say to you stand up, if I say come out, you understand you will not stand up there. You don't know if I say Karen, Karen, Karen, where are you? Uh huh. I got, I got some response. So when you, when you, when you change to, to what is your name? When you get the name, your power over that individual increases by 100 times. So that's when Jesus was asking to come out. They were asking, don't torment us. They said, what is your name? So my name is Legion. Legion come out. Do you understand that? I got somebody to stand up because I asked. I got a name. OK, thank you, my dear. Now he asked me what is my name? He said my name is Legion, for we are men. Now notice when demons are coming into your life, they usually come in groups. So listen. Listen, when you are being filled with lying, it comes with stealing. Stealing goes with lying. You need to lie to steal successfully. Then it also goes with pretending, which is hypocrisy. So we find out about 3 things are moving together when it comes to fornication. It also goes with deception you understand and then a double life and hypocrisy. Then it can come with pornography, you understand and then it can come with perversions. Even perversion law or twisted perversion means twist. It's twist. So it's like you are not normal. The one that happened is that at the point I'm not normal, you are not normal sexually. You are no more normal because of what you've done to yourself and what you've been doing and has been done to you. Are you listening? You are not normal anymore. So when sometimes a good person wants to marry you, but you don't like the person because of what has happened to you and because of some people that you've met, or sometimes because of a bad experience with her, with a brother, you would translate that relationship, bring come fornication, bitterness, unforgiveness, hatred. You see like you hate, you hate them. Then you translate them, you hate all men. Then it's like you might. Then it changed from bitterness, hatred to inability to laugh. So the best is your marriage. You will suffer. It may always jot over you, laugh you like. But you, you can't laugh. Many sisters can't laugh. Yeah, many sisters can't laugh. You don't know how to laugh at all. Yeah. So you see that the Gibbons that I've come to you is like about 3. One marriage or inability to marry. Bitterness, hatred and you know, inability to laugh. It's like you are almost you are almost psychologically and emotionally I'll it's true just for one person that you meet. And so for we are men. We are men then fear and then pride. You see that Wesley girls, a lot of girls who go to Wesley girls are filled with two evil spirits, spirit of fear and the spirit of pride. They fear, they fear men and they fear to be hurt. They are afraid to be hurt. They don't give themselves to men. So they teach them in the school. You can make it on your own. You are, you are OK. You don't need a man to make your make your make. Make it in life you are. What did they say? Independent ladies? I mean what is a man? A man is yes, 4/4 eights, all that they all they want is to do well in school. You know, 111 when somebody went to the school and then was telling me, I think my daughter was telling me that somebody had a A and I have a subject due to four eights. I think a person had 3A's and 4B's or so. And then they said the person was cursed. You know, it's like it was a curse that had had it was a curse that had a curse that had wept. The person had only three A's. It's like a curse. The person had a parallel with somebody, and the person cares the person that the case has happened. That's why the person had only three A's. Are you listening to me? Yeah. So you see that a lot of them are filled with love. So you, you marry you space in the passive mind. The person never loves you. All through your life you see that you love it. And a evil spirit came into the face. Or sometimes the parents would divorce and from your parents divorce, it has affected you and you can't flow with the you don't trust you leave their house somewhere they think that your mother too said it has also entered. The mother would tell you look, I was like I was sweet, like I was sweeter like that you I was nice. I was also gentle as you are smiling. I was also just like that. That is I will be 4 certain things happening. I was taught originally like this. I was taught a bitter widow like I am, I am now. I was nice. I was also nice. I used to flow people like me. People used to kiss me anyway. Therefore we are many, how many are in you? Verse 11 Now there was 9 onto the mountains, a great herd of swine feeding, and all the devils besought him saying, send us into the swine because they could feel the pressure was mounting for them to leave, you see. So they realized that it was a matter of time. So they began to negotiate. Hussein was in the hole, and the American Marines put a torch in. He was inside a septic tank when they opened it, and they put a torch tank. He littered it in his hand. He said, look, I'm the president of Iraq. I want to negotiate. That was those of his friends. I'm president of Iraq. I want to negotiate. When all the American guns were pointing down into the hole that he was in a septic tank or in a small hat by a river, that's where he was hiding. I want to negotiate. So the Divas wanted to negotiate when they realized that it was going to be very too much for them. Now listen to their negotiation. There's a reason why I'm showing you this period. Listen to the negotiation. All the devils besought him saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them, like we are saying that if we cannot stay in a human being who speaks and who is respected as a human being, we want to stay in Swain, you see. And then, and he besought him very much that he would not send them out of the country. Out of the country? No, no, not out of the mine. They wanted to stay in the country that they have been staying in. And he besought him much, much, much that he would not send them out of the country. Now this is the negotiation. In order to stay in the country. We are saying that we prefer to be sent into pigs than to be moved out of this particular area. You understand the negotiation. So then we should be sent out of the country. We would like to be in pigs. So Jesus gave them leave, and the unclean spirits went out and entered into the swine. Now the head ran violently down at steepage. That's why when demons are coming out of people sat on these scream or they start falling, rising and shaking and moving and you see you will never see a spirit. You have to do what it's like when spirits are come. But when you read the Bible, it's as if they were seeing the demons. A blue one came, a red one came, a dark one came, 24 of them came out. You'll never see it that way. You see the reactions of demons now that Philip went down to Samaria and preach Christ unto them. And the people gave heed and to him both seen and heard the miracles which he did for many that were taken with their paws and many that were lame were healed. And the spirits came out of them, many people crying and screaming with the demons coming out of them in Acts chapter 8. That's how they knew the people were screaming, Crying people were healed and people were screaming and demons were coming out. So the reaction of their peaks immediately now notice that the demons wanted to stay in the country. And the demons caused the character of the place to be in a certain way. Yeah. So when there is war in a in a, in a country, you get it. You see that a spirit has come there when you interview people who have killed people during the war, You see, I don't know what came over me. It's like I am as if I was possessed. A man was being in the Hutu in Rwand I said as if the devil came into hand. I took a machete. People that I know, I just cut them and kill them. Cut their shoulder, cut their head, cut. Yeah, cut. Yeah, cut their hands everywhere. They killed them in 90 days, 800,000 of their neighbors and their friends whom they have lived together with for years. And they were all interviewed after I said, why did you do that? I think the devil came into hand, so that spirit is moved. For instance, there's a spirit of war in West Africa. It's roams, it's roaming around. It started, I don't know where it came from, but when it landed in Liberia, then it's been moved. Each country thinks it cannot happen there. There's been, it's now in in Mali. It came from Liberia, Sierra Leone, then went to Cote d'Ivoire, then went up the the neighbor wants to come to Ghana too. And in Nigeria, there's also one there. It has been there for years, resting and so on. And even the CIA, you see sometimes spiritual people are sometimes so blind. Even the CIA has predicted that Nigeria would divide into 3 by 2015. Yeah, they, they have predicted it like they look at the country. The country would divide by a certain time. They have all these predictions, and they analyze the situation there. Yeah. Are you still there? So in houses, there are spiritual atmospheres. That's why some of you fall into same when you go home. Oh, your home is a home of same. Yeah, your parents don't know that you have had sex in their bed. Yeah, when they when they traveled small, you came to sleep in there. You took over the house and you are jumping there. Oh, you know, fine. You fine. Or, you know, fine. So this is one of the reasons why spirits stay in places. Now, if you look at animals, all right, you can understand animals fight, they fight each other. Not not like buffaloes will fight with lions, but buffaloes fight buffaloes, antelopes fight antelopes, zebras fight zebras, lions fight lions, zeppas fight leopards, and they fight for territory. And animals are also all the spirits. Many of the spirits are spiritual animals. So all the animals, if you watch a bit of this thing I was showing you yesterday, you will see if you were surprised. See, lions cannot eat the mathala, but the buffaloes will fight each other and kill the males who kill for territory. That's for territory. So there is a strong territorial nature in animals and also in demons, and so they occupy places. And so the people there are influenced by those spirits and they live in those ways. Now if you come to Africa, there are territorial spirits of filth, Bola, rubbish. Look, you only have to travel. There is no difference between Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Benin. If you don't travel, you will not know. The differences are very small. It's like gene, NDC and NPP. There's almost no difference. I mean, the way we can know they are similar is that they they have equal hatred for each other. They accuse each other. When this one is in power, another one finds nothing good about the other one. When this one is out of power, it finds nothing good about. It's always accusing when they are in power. There's no still no light, there's still no water, there's still no Rd. there's still nothing. Years go by, the other group comes, it's the same thing. It goes on and on. It keeps on changes and ultimately we are the user end. We are the user end of their politics. Don't feel much difference. I mean, where you see my house, there has been no Rd. there since I moved there more than 20 years ago and there is still no Rd. It's sand and I don't, I don't. And those two houses were there before I came there. It's like for 20 years, it's like I said, sometimes they come and put heaps of time there and they all choose the different from Rollins to this person who fall to Miss Mills, to Days to that, to whatever they always do, the airport roads where the embassies and ambassadors and so on. And when you go there, it's always time. It's like those of us who stay at those places, we are ghosts. We are not Ghanaians. Do you understand? We are not Ghanaians. Those are the people who are at airport. They are human beings and those of us who stay in those places, we are not human beings. So it is similar. You get it? Yeah, of course. I was talking about before I came into all these. No, no, no. I was telling you something. They are similar. OK, Anyway, but all these are important. You have to know, those of you who are very politically, whatever those who are so loyal to NDC because you are away, think about it. Don't, don't do that. Don't do that to yourself. It's not right. Because when you do that, when you do that, it it it shows that you are not thinking in a certain way. Yeah, because you should be able to. You should listen. You shouldn't. You shouldn't be tribalistic. It's an evil spirit. It's what brings genocide. People who hate people. I guess a new hatred in Canada has come because of politics. It was never in Ghana. Take it for me. I grew up. I never. All my best friends were always from secondary school. My best friend came from Khandu. Always. I've been my friends even up to now I have I have Airways in my house always Apple today do that work in there, but Airways are fully Airways. They don't have guns, they don't have panties, they don't have the the water region. 100% vote for NDC. There's no NPP person there. There's no there's no variation your house self, your days worth. So it's not a good thing because then people say that. So you have you have that mind as I'm working with you. This is this is how you are thinking. I didn't know that that is how you are thinking. You see, it brings another feeling. It's an evil spirit. So these spirits, they come into the nation, They come into the country and you see that it's spoiling peace. And then before you realize everybody has changed, war has come. So the country is affected by the presence of the spirit. So I was saying that NBC MVP has similar. I was saying that the country Ghana is very similar to Togu, very similar to Benin. It's very similar to Nigeria. In fact, there's almost no difference between Ghana and Nigeria now. It's very, very similar. The two countries are so similar. That's fantastic. And Cote d'Ivoire, oh, Guinea Bissau senator, all are the same. I mean, you just can't believe it. You get back. What causes it is the spirits that are there. They create an environment. That is why when you come under the power of God, you start to change the environment. If you like. Notice the most organized places in Ghana are churches. Every type of church is more organized, whether it's Presbyterian, whether it's Methodist, whether they are usually the most beautiful sections of a town or of a place. Because where the power of God comes, there's a departure from the spirits that are dominating area. So if you came to Colegonos on time ago, you will see that the Katima is in the midst of something, a one place. But just within that place is like you are in a different world. Yeah. I mean, some Americans came to the Kodesh to preach once when they go out there, The guy said I'll vote for you. This is the only place where there's other in this country since we since we came from the airport to the hotel. He's the person I'll vote for you. I'll vote for you. This is it's like America. This place is different. I'll vote for you. I've not told you I'm standing for elections. So you vote for me. Have I told you that I'm standing for elections? So as soon as listen, as soon as you come under the power of the Holy Spirit, you start to change. You start to even, I'm telling you, even your room. You say, you know, my room is not a good room the way this room is. No, no, no, no, no, no. There is a spirit. There is a spirit chair, and that spirit came from your mother or your father or something that you learn. That's why you are here to learn a new thing. Yeah. You are here to learn something new. That's why you are here. I said. That's why you are here to learn something different. Yeah. Get a new atmosphere for your world and for your life. Are you listening? Are you ready to learn? Yeah. A real spiritual person is all round because it affects you. I remember I was telling you, you know, one day I was taking, I went to South America, to a town called Cochabamba. Now I have never seen a town like that where there is rubbish boiler on the streets in the middle of the road. It's as if it's decorated rubbish. So when I, when we arrived at the airport, they brought us to the hotel and the hotel was right in the middle of the rubbish. Yeah, right in the middle of the rubbish. You just as soon as you step this like a little bag of rubbish or spread over tins. I mean it's amazing they have to dodge it to walk on the street where you would drive. I've not seen anything like that in Ghana, any part of Ghana. And I hear Cody wines in them like that. But that is how this city was. So when they when they took us to the hotel, they did not take us to the hotel they were supposed to take us to. In fact, a pastor had been brought dead a year before. When he entered the place, he said, I'm not staying here, so I'm not staying here. He told the president, take me to the best hotel in this. I will not stay here. But I didn't do that. I just said fine. So they took us up. It was people not knowing that it was the fastest business. The fastest was doing business. And he had made part of his house into a hotel, a type of pasta, you know, a kind of pasta. I don't know something, but he was upstairs, somebody was upset and the next floor was the hotel, so that is where they put us. When I entered the room and then when I saw the bathroom, there was an electrical wire that enters the water. When the water is coming, the water passes through the electric wire and they said that that wire is the heater. So when the water is coming, then you bath with it now. Amazing. This is one of the places that I had to stay for a long time. I think we stayed there for about 5 days or six days, some long food programme and it was difficult to stay there for me to pray to do it. I did so many things you can do to change the atmosphere, but it was really something. When you lie on the bed you don't want your skin to touch. When you go and bath, you don't want your skin. If if your just something drops on the floor, you don't like it again, I don't like it again. You just you stay there. Yeah. When I finished, after five days, we flew from there to Argentina. When I got to Buenos Aires, they took us to a new hotel, a different hotel. Well, as soon as I entered the room, as soon as I entered the room, and then I put my things down and I settled in the room. Suddenly I started to have, it was a nicer hotel, wasn't the highest, but it was far different from where I started to have an idea, something to do in the ministry. But for the time that I was in Koduma, I had no idea about any. No, no, no revelation came to me. No, I'm telling you something. I'm telling. No, no revelation, no revelation came to me. No idea. No, nothing. No, no idea. This is what I should do. Or maybe this is the next step I should take in the ministry. Not 0. But this is the contrast of because I had stayed for so long in Kochamamba, as soon as I entered the room in I immediately ran. And I wanted to call some somebody to give the person some instruction or something immediately. It was just instant. And, and I, I knew how instantaneous, how important the atmosphere is. Yeah, as soon as the surroundings change, even the way you think would change. And that's why some of you are so happy with a certain environment that you don't know that it's even affecting your thinking. A lot of boxes, a lot of bags, a lot of things, lot of shoes, a lot of things arranged. So many you cannot even, you cannot even find your things. It is like you come out of a jumbo sale or you come out of some, I mean complex, whatever, come out shining with your hair, you know, and this camp, I'm going to ask the sisters, you know, all of you. You see, for the next session, I want you to all tie your hair how you do it in the night, remove your earrings, everything. Come and sit here with us so that we get a feeling so that wrap, wrap up all your makeup, everything, move your earrings, everything and just tie your hands. Come as you are in the room so that we will know you really how much you are. Brother, should you like to see the reality reality TV? So remind me to give that brother, do you want to see the reality TV? Sister, do you want to come as you are? No, I will put ashes at the door. If you don't come as you are, you cannot enter. So I am explaining to you that the atmosphere is created by the spirits. They create the physical environment, I tell you, and they also create a spiritual environment. All right, so now the different spiritual environment that we are going to go to, I was explaining to you the causes of spiritual environment.