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06. The Sufferings Of Christ - The Calling 4

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
December 8, 2024 42m 34s

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Camp Title - The Sufferings of Christ. Machaneh Collection - 52. Preached in 2008, UK (Swanick). 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 the sufferings of Christ. You need to decide to cut away people a little cut off your telephone has become an agent, anti prayer agent. Some of you have two phones. If you can't reach me on this number, you can get me on this number. You can get me on the landline. Both are ringing and you are answering your. Hello. Hold on. OK, Let me. I'll call you back. Let me. Let me call you back. I want to take a call. OK. Hello. Are you a telephone list? What is your new job? People call me and tell me. I've tried to call you. I can't get you. I said I don't answer. I don't answer. Especially international call. I don't answer when I don't know the number. I'll not answer. If you call me, I won't answer. But if I answer, like right now, I have to answer and stop, go out and talk on the phone and soon I come, go out and talk about all the time. Sometimes when you call, I answer. Then it means you are blessed that I answer. Maybe I'll be late to answer your call, but usually I don't. Yeah, I know you are having dreams. Hey, the Christians are having the dreams without interpretations. It's fantastic. How to cut a

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Welcome to track number six of the sufferings of Christ. You need to decide to cut away people a little cut off your telephone has become an agent, anti prayer agent. Some of you have two phones. If you can't reach me on this number, you can get me on this number. You can get me on the landline. Both are ringing and you are answering your. Hello. Hold on. OK, Let me. I'll call you back. Let me. Let me call you back. I want to take a call. OK. Hello. Are you a telephone list? What is your new job? People call me and tell me. I've tried to call you. I can't get you. I said I don't answer. I don't answer. Especially international call. I don't answer when I don't know the number. I'll not answer. If you call me, I won't answer. But if I answer, like right now, I have to answer and stop, go out and talk on the phone and soon I come, go out and talk about all the time. Sometimes when you call, I answer. Then it means you are blessed that I answer. Maybe I'll be late to answer your call, but usually I don't. Yeah, I know you are having dreams. Hey, the Christians are having the dreams without interpretations. It's fantastic. How to cut away people So painful. No, if you are a father, you, you think about your children and especially when they are smaller, it's difficult to leave them. There's a feeling when I used to travel and my children were younger, there's a feeling. I don't like that feeling, you know, I have this little one now. There's a feeling that she brings when I'm travelling. Yeah. The small ones, they are more difficult to live. You if you want to die. When you think of them, you say, look, I'm gonna die again. I'm not dying. Now. Those are the small one. I'll stay. I'll stay, I'll stay. Are you there? If you are young, you will not understand. That's why in the Bible you see there's a lot of visible Jairus brought his daughter, this one brought his son, this one brought my child is this. But when you grow up, you understand that that one is equally a senior. So for you, the parent, the child is like you. So you cannot be serious. If you having too many children, definitely cut them out. Cut out the people. I once had a notice I had my study. I used to use my study more in those days. I put a notice on the door which I learnt from school. As a brother he used to have this. He was a prefect and he had a notice on his door because his door was on the way upstairs. And he put a notice on the door and the notice said, if you knock on this door and receive no response from within, do not continue knocking or call for me. If you do anything that contradicts this simple instruction, be it known unto you that this door will not be open unto you, no matter who you are. Because he wanted to pray. He wanted to pray. You get it, and that's the only way sometimes to pray. Now there are you. Every Christian must learn the how to suffer and exclude people from your life so that you can pray. If it means you have to travel, if it means you have to wake up in the night sometimes to pray, you now need to change your lifestyle and rather sleep early and wake up when they are all asleep. How many of you sleep around midnight or after midnight usually? Raise up your hand. Raise up your hands. Look, that's why you can't pray in the morning. That's why you can't pray in the morning. How can you get up and pray when you sleep at midnight? Hey, recently I realized I was struggling to pray and I realized that there is nowhere to escape from all this family. Hey, when you turn to the left, they are there. When you turn to the right, they are there. When you lie on the bed, they are also there. How can I, how shall I, how shall we escape so great a way of salvation? So I decided I was praying about it and the Lord gave me, I said sleep early. So I, I didn't say anything to my wife. I started sleeping early about 8:00 and I say, oh, I'm going to sleep. Hey, 9:00 like an old man. And when you sleep early, you don't need an alarm clock to wake you up. You yourself will get up. The Holy Ghost will wake you up. And you wake up because after those #5 realize that you are awake. And when you wake up, everybody's asleep. So I'll take my baby Paula, the last little one, and I'll take it to bed. Say let's go and choose. Go and sleep. So let's go and I'll tell you a story. Also tell me a story. And then we sleep so she tell me so when she tell me so that I fall asleep. If the sleep is not coming, take Panadol. Panadol makes you sleep small. Don't have to take Valium that sometimes something small just to so that you go quickly. Otherwise you can be lying the calculating my mortgage, my money is Jesus. Are you listening to me? One hour of prayer would change a lot of things and introduce some more power and spirit in what you are doing. Yeah, there are children here. Otherwise, I would reveal certain things. Children should go out so that we can share. Locate the nearest child. When say brother, close your ears. OK, OK, OK. Leave the children's. OK, leave the children. Now listen. Are you listening to me? All right, so to pray how to cut away people right now a new sacrifice that has come into the world is how to switch off the phone like this off. How many realize that it is difficult for you raise your right hand if it's difficult for you. Meanwhile, you're not an important personal. The calls that are coming they they, they are not bringing any business. There's no money. There's no breakthrough in the phone call, just useless socializing, chatting, friendliness. Be nice chatting. Oh, in Ghana we have a new one of the phone people. They've given something when you text. No, it's not that one. When you text in the morning from that one CD $1.00 and you text once from that day from that time, it's free. When you call and and and on the same network free, you can talk for 24 hours. Those with the spirits, the spirit of talking have received messy. Cut them out. How many have realized that setting people in your life need to be cut out? And those people that you need to call out, they are nice people. They are important people who call you, who sleep with you, who sleep around, who play around. And you people in London, your houses are so small. From here to here, it's your house. There's no window in your toilet. Hey, thank God for every freshness. You cannot escape from people around you. But Jesus had to tell his nine disciples, look, I like you. It's not that I've rejected you. I like you. You are nice people in my life. I don't know what you think, maybe I'm partial or what, but you stay here. They took three and then when he got to a certain place, he left the three there and said, you 2 stay where I'm going. Three don't come there. Now I'm going alone. As I said, this type of joint fasting, joint praying, you know, it's not letting us develop as we could because something that you are being forced to. One day somebody came to our church and I said, how did you did you enjoy the church some years ago? I said, Oh yes, praise and worship. So yes, but there's only one thing that I really like, said the person who is leading the prison. He always has to say lift your hands, do this is like the people will not do it unless they are told to do it. And in rejoin this church, he says they don't tell people stand up. Do this is that everybody should do what they feel if they want to stand up to worship God, they want to scrap to worship God, they want to stand. Whatever they want to do, they should do it. So he had to leave them. Then he went to pray. Where is that verse? Sit here and go and pray. Then he went to pray and he says my soul is deeply grieved to the point of death. Remain here and keep watch with me. Now another suffering is staying awake. Keep watch. How can you amount to much in God if you can't stay awake? You have to know how to stay awake, how to drink coffee. People drink coffee to stay awake to pass exams, and you can't. You do it to stay awake, to serve God, drink water. They do all kinds of things. Set your alarms to keep ringing. Every 15 minutes you wake up again. Oh, what do you think? So God is giving you help to pray. Amen. Peter and the two sons began to be grieved and distressed. Sit here once. I go and pray. All right. And he went a little. OK. No, No. Where was I? Keep watch with me. Yes. Now the next one is remain here and keep watch with me. The next suffering is to remain here, to stay in one place. Yeah. Can you stay in one house for three days without going out unless you are sick? Unless you are sick, you always go out. Is it not true? You know, some time ago, the Lord always makes me sick for me to pray unless I'm sick. I don't, not even to pray, but to stay home. Unless I'm sick, I don't stay. And you must get to a point there saying you stay at home, not because you are not because you are not because you are sick, you are well. But you said I don't go out. And all the ministers who do well in the ministry, they know how to stay. They know how to remain in one place. The the pastors, lighthouse pastors who are anointed and do well because not all the pastors are anointed. Some of them we we mistakenly appointed them. Some well said it it it it it gives me that I I repent that I have appointed you. He told Saul and repented me that I've appointed you. The passers were anointed. They stay they know how to stay at home a lot. They just stay at home. Prophet and I noticed it when especially earlier, the fewer passes are like Prophet Kakra just stay at home in the house. Paul is just in the house, morning, afternoon is in the house. The like it's not going anywhere. That's in the house, in the house, in the house, in the house. The anointed people, they know how to remain in a place. Oh, yeah, yeah. An anointed people say, you see that they are that I have to go to the airport to check something, then I'm going to this office. I've received a mail, I'm checking my mails, sending emails, computer, whatever. That does not bring anointing. A man who can stay in the house and knows how to just remain. He said remain here, remain here, remain here and pray and keep watch. So lay pastors, you should believe God. Sometimes you take off a day to take off 2 days and all of you why to stay home. When I was in medical school before my final exam, I took day off. I didn't go out just fast and pray, not learning to remain in my room. Actually, I can stay in one room for a long time. I can stay and stay and become happy. I become happy with myself alone. Yeah, it's great. What do you think? How many realize that you have not been doing that? Raise your heart, raise your hand if you have not been doing that. Yeah, but if you can learn it, you'll find out that the same preaching, the same words are becoming more anointed. If you learn how to remain, if you learn how to cut away people, cut away your loved ones, escape from them, escape from their presence, run away from your 12 disciples, run away from your 3 disciples until you are alone and pray to God alone. Your ministry and your words will have more power. You will speak to people and even if they don't like what you say, they will know their hearts will bend within them. You see what I'm preaching? I'm not coming here to preach something to make you whatever I'm preaching. What is my topic? Suffering. Sufferings of Christ. Is it a pleasant sounding subject? One of my most distasteful chapters in the whole Bible is Matthew chapter 26, which is the chapter that we are. Whenever I get to that chapter, I don't like reading because that's the chapter where Christ was crucified. When he started to take him, that was the end. I don't like it. I don't like the crucifixion. I don't like that thing. It disturbs me. It hurts me, and it pains me. You get it. Are you with me? Remain here. Yeah. So that you become an anointed persona. Amen. And keep watch. And he went a little further and fell on his face and prayed, saying, My father, if it is possible, let this car pass for me. And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping and said to Peter, So you could not keep watch with me for one hour. Now we are talking about the suffering of one hour's prayer. Any prayer less than one hour is not serious. If you pray less than one hour, it's not prayer. Let me give you the standard again. Prayer less than one hour is not prayer. Forget about it. Decide to be someone who and time yourself. Because Jesus mentioned the time. I didn't mention the time. He was shocked that they couldn't pray for an hour. Could you not just pray for an hour? Just an hour? You couldn't pray for just one hour. What kind of what kind of person are you? What kind of disciple are you? You can't cut away people, you can't remain in one place and you can't pray for one hour continuously without interruption, without phone calls, without watching television, without doing anything, just an hour. Then what are you going to do when you have to pray for 10 hours? As for me, one of my targets in life has always been to see number of hours I can pray. I remember where I prayed for three hours. First time I prayed in a school called Association School in Ghana. The first time I prayed for because there are landmarks in my life. I remember when I prayed for seven hours for the first time, it was again in school in my box room. I laid between the bed and the the bed. The bed was here, my trunk was here. I push it and I laid diagonally in the room and I prayed from 4:50, seven hours. Yeah, it was under crouches music that I was listening to. I remember where, because these are landmarks in my life now. Sometimes when I pray, I'll set myself attack and pray for 50 hours. 40 hours. Yeah, about something. Before I started doing the crusade and started doing that, I said I'm praying for 100 hours. Yeah, 100 hours. Not one hour, 100 hours. Oh, you don't understand what I'm saying. Yeah. So so check a market in your life. You can't pray for one hour. You can't suffer. I mean just the suffering of staying in a place, suffering of staying awake and the suffering of concentrating for an hour to pray my Cadala Bashan and you can speak in tanks to Canada. Look at the time. There's no that there is no, I'm not the one inventing the time idea. The Bible says an hour. He did it three times. That's three hours. We are coming to three hours, but let's talk about an hour. That is what introduces the powerlessness of our lives, powerlessness of our words, powerlessness of our music, powerlessness of everything is the absence of praying. Christians who pray, and therefore the West, have no power and no meaning. They're just nice words that have been conjured up. God is calling you to suffer for Christ and to join the sufferings and be able to identify and and be someone whose sufferings are to a similar degree of Christ's sufferings. When he prayed and he woke up a great while before they and he prayed for an hour and he prayed for an hour and an hour and another hour, and he remained in the same place and he cut away 12 disabled. He cut 9 away. Then he cut the last three away and he went alone. This is what he's looking for. Don't think about going to the mission field. Think about remaining alone for an hour. Don't think about being a missionary to Saint Dominican Island. Think about how to remain alone for one hour. Because if you go to Saint Dominican Island and you don't know how to remain alone for one hour, you will not accomplish much over there. All that you're going to do there is just to say, hey, we went to the Dominican island. Learn how to stay alone and pray to God for an hour and another hour and another hour. Let it enter your spirit. Remember the place where you pray for one hour and 3 hours, 7 hours, 10 hours, 50 hours, 100 hours. We are talking about spiritual power, the quest for spiritual power. There must be power in the things you say. Your West must have power to change people's life, to make them take decisions, to make them move from place to place, to make them do the will of God. You will have no power in your life and your W if you have no prayer. Look, you cannot continue to live this social life. To be called means to be separate. To be called means to be. It's part of it. You go outside, you become a little detached. You become very detached. To be called means to be separated from a particular group to which you belong. It means that in society and socially, but it also means even domestically in your house, to be separated. That's what it means. And if your call is higher than somebody else's call, you'll be separated more. If your call is higher than your wife's call or your husband's call, you will be separated more. What do you think? Do you understand my message? Amen. So please, these are the things that and you all know, those of you who've tried to pray, you know how difficult it is. You know how difficult it is. So I mean, if you can't master it, and I'm telling you, if you start praying, things will start. Angels will be assigned even money in Kenneth. He's like whenever he had a vision, he sometimes he would see an Angel. The Lord would tell him, I've asked my Angel to bring you some money because you see angels bring money, contracts, jobs, situations change because of intervention of angels. That is why even for the death of John the Baptist, the angels who are guarding him have been asked not to intervene, because with their intervention, certain things will never, never, never happen. And things are allowed to happen because spiritually there is no intervention. And when Jesus, when something bad was going to happen to Jesus, Jesus Christ said, he said, listen, do you not think I can ask my Father to bring angels to intervene in this physical world? Angels are always intervening in the physical world. That's why Job said about God. He said that you, you have built a hedge around him. We can't touch him. We can't level. We can't take him out. We can't kill him. We can't. We can't kill his kidney, we can't kill his heart. We can't kill his man. We can't put cancer on him. We can't give him leukemia. We can't do all these things because you've covered him. We can see it in the in the vision journal. Seeing the demons, they bring diseases, too many people kill them in accident, storms, all kinds of things. And the demons were having a good time inflicting every horrible thing on human beings. And it's like unless there's angelic protection, these things are not there. How can it not be? That prayer is what is going to change the cause of your entire life, the pro, the prosperity you are looking for and things you are just searching with all your energy. If there was such a small intervention by God and He was to send just an Angel, how things will be so different in your life, how God will turn things around with just a little effort, you would earn 100 times what you are earning now. Oh, if there was just a little intervention from heaven in all that you have, all that you do, all you are trying to do with lipstick and eyelashes and everything, still you are unable to get something good for your life. Timmons and evil Wizards and other things are sent to you because angels are not asked to stop Wizards from coming to destroy your future. Only evil men propose to you because angels have. There's no angels, no God, there's nothing. You are just a free person. You don't call on God. God does not intervene and send his angels. Kenneth Higgins said. Kenneth Higgins said the Angel, the Lord said the Angel of the Lord have sent my Angel to bring you money. He's going to bring you man. Within a certain number of days, the money was in his hand. And although it looked like circumstances, it's the Angel of the Lord. Yeah. My dear friend. My dear friend, listen to me. This life we live in, if God does not step in, it's useless. You are struck. Can't you see? Can't you see your own life? You turn here, it's locked. You turn here. You hit your head. You turn here. Things are just going round and round and round and round. If only you can decide to sleep at 9:00, is it too hard for God to ask you sleep at 9:00 and wake up when the whole world is asleep and call on God for him to send angels to come and deliver you. God showed me that the a devil had tried to kill us last year when we went to Nigeria, but he's in fact on that day I felt it that an Angel was downstairs because all the guys need to come was upstairs. We were lying on the floor, all of us, about 18 of us were lying on the on top of each other and about the shooting was coming on just by the staircase door. And on that day I said an Angel has turned these people away. Yeah, they would have come to kill us when they are seen us there, a lot of us in suits and how they would say that we have got the real meat to eat. And when I read this thing with me join away. He said that the Angel were asked not to intervene in the Baptist and the Baptist said I finished my ministry. He said when Jesus when Jesus came and he baptized, they said we had a voice. What was that? Who said who spoke? This is my son. And I said after that John the Baptist was someone who offends people so much. He said he was, he's a very offensive person. They were talking among they said that he has offended so many people. Everybody's offended by him, the way he behaved and the way he talks and so on. He said. But that day when the voice came, he became different and he became calm. And then he told his disciples. I finished my ministry and the disciples said, what are you saying? We have left everything. We've been following you. What do you mean by you finish your ministry? The ministry that God had given was over, and he said that now he must increase and I must decrease. And he began to look up towards heaven and to long to join the great prophets who had been given the privilege to observe the last battle that was going on on the earth. Devils all over the earth, swelling black demons all over trying to destroy the earth, to destroy people, to kill them, to harass them. If you don't also rise up with spiritual power and call on call on higher forces and superior powers. When Jesus was going into the wilderness, Jesus was working with Michael and there were angels lined up all on the roads as he was walking and the right up to the wilderness He was not. They were asked not to enter the wilderness, and the whole other woman was covered with blackness, darkness with the demons that have come from Rome. They have all come to the wilderness there to come and meet the Lord. They were waiting there. So even to be tempted, even to be tempted, it's something that God has to allow before you even be tempted. Sometimes God's power is what will keep you from being tempted with the temptation that will definitely destroy you. But it's a power. So it was like something that was allowed by angels, by God, by the Holy Spirit, that this temptation should come on. Hey, will you not pray so that God will know that? And when he came out of the wilderness, Michael met him. He was so happy, the Angel was told, They were so happy. He said when Michael did his sword at that, hundreds and thousands of angels, they all lifted their sword like that in their speed, glistening golden angels. It was like a lot of spiritual powers in the atmosphere, hey? And Jesus told, Jesus told Michael, he said that there will be another one, that one will be wider than this one. That's this one we are talking about now. But they would tempt him and torment him to see if he would say something and if he would deny his God. Hey, my friend, everything is spiritual. Your existence is spiritual. Your future is spiritually determined. Your ministry is determined by God. Even your perspective, which you are struggling to get, it may seem to you that it's a carnal or ethnic thing, but it's also spiritual. Money is in the hands of the devil and is using it to destroy the world. It's got it in pockets. Even men have millions. This last election we had in kind of primary election, primary, we heard that some of the candidates use between 10 and $50 million each to campaign primary elections and some candidates will give as much as a million. One candidate who gives somebody as much as 5 million, seven million different millions. You see them walking around as normal people. All that money's channel, channel, channel, channel. It exists. It's just swelling around in groups, demons controlling it, and it will lose his power and some will be given to the hands of the church. If only we know how to pray, dear friend, God is calling you to something better than your own physical fight, which is taking us all nowhere, which is getting us nowhere. If you are alive, God has allowed it. Not a drop off from your hair can fall. Unless God has decided that you should die, you will never die on this earth. I tell you, no aeroplane can crash with you need no car can crash in it. Nothing can happen to any part of your body unless God has determined. But if he has determined, it will happen. Yeah. That's what gives you the peace. That is what gives you the stability. And that's what gives you the strength and takes away the fear and strengthens your spirit and say I can't work for God. I can't go anywhere. I can't do any. I'm not afraid. My hand and my life, my life is in the hands of God. His power is what keeps me, and His power is what is keeping me. May you become a man of prayer. May you intercede. May you be strengthened by prayer. One time I was with the Archbishop Duncan Williams. I was with him on a plane, and I think our plane was struck by lightning of the plane shifted a bit, and he lifted his hand. Kaaba Shaka Taiba. I realized that look, that man is a man of prayer. He doesn't have education, He doesn't have the back backing of so many things that I even have because I've been to school and and all I have friends who are lawyers, doctor I employ. I have about 6 lawyers that work in my office, 6 of them doctors, engineers, all kinds of things. He doesn't have that all that he believes in spiritual things. That is what I've brought him to where he is today. Yeah. If you can deploy the spiritual powers that exist and learn how to remain in his presence. I want to see some of you pastors to go and rent a house for three days and be in the house. Yeah, just be in the house. Take it as an achievement. I can be alone in this house for three days. It's an achievement. Take it as an achievement of yours that can be there and nobody knows that you are there, that you can be in the garden from the morning to the evening for 4:50 in the I'm giving you the time, 4:50 nobody will speak to you and no, but nobody can reach you. Even the people that work with me, I always call them, do this, do this, but they don't know. I'm so proud of them when I call them and I can't reach them because they are praying. I'm so happy even though I'm irritated I can't reach them. I'm happy that, you know, I said I've got good people who are lenient Princess like that so that you can't reach him because he's praying. But he's a spiritual person, very spiritual person. Although he doesn't, he does so many things. One time he was preaching on the stage and he had a voice. Your, your place is not on the stage. Your job is to do difficult things. That's why he's the one in Mali or wherever he is. I don't know where they are. All the hard things that that are fight with me. That is your I have people that have very hard for hard things. And without being spiritual, you can't stay. Hey, but everything that you think is physical is spiritual. Many times I've I've lost something in the house. I can't find the key. So I'm just wasting my time. I said sit down, take your hand off your kid and I'll see the the thing just there. It has happened to me too many times to think that it is a natural thing. Hey, hey, look, when you follow groups, you will never know God. Let me tell you, For God to say that he's going to kill the whole, he's going to drown everybody except Noah, he should show you how few people really serve God, how group prayer and group, following of groups and following of association and going with the group is very deceptive in your life and your ministry. Any real pursuit of God is an individual matter. It's an individual matter. I'm telling you the true pursuit of God is just by you as an individual and it is not by a group. We, we decided we are going, we are there, we are the ones. There's nothing like that even among the disciple. Everybody is a disciple on his own. Let God bless your life. Let God protect you from harassing demons which are just tormenting you and changing your future and your destiny and making you into something that you are not supposed to be. Changing the course of your life because you wouldn't get up and pray how the course of your life can be changed. Thy will be done. If you could only pray that thing, the course of your life will be perfect according to His will. Chandala bakasa Talamana Telama sundalama cambala ba bande hey lama sunto Toto tolumala kamandala ba perida remen lundun Dun dalama sintella ba ba ba mende sutu talam ba Ren bellequisto chandule prezima remprequel halender relender relender relender relender me rivas sectaria verdisse verdisse verdisse verdisse merdisse merelide merelide merelide merelide. Element. Hey. Raymond, Liberty. Raymond Liberty. 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