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09. Atmosphere Camp - Thanksgiving And Praise Atmosphere-1

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
February 28, 2025 40m 6s

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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 #9 of atmosphere. Beautiful, beautiful. The next one, an atmosphere of Thanksgiving. Now this is different from the atmosphere of question. Now this is a very key atmosphere. Do you know why? Because this is an atmosphere that is the atmosphere that Is there a problem? What's going on? You need to use the bathroom. Everything alright? OK. This is probably one of the most important atmosphere because it's an atmosphere that is not. I'm not talking about the atmosphere during church service. No, it's the atmosphere of daily living. Yes, it's the atmosphere of daily living. Yeah. It's not an atmosphere to pray or anything like that. And it's a little different from the atmosphere of anointed music. And I'm not an atmosphere of worship. It's the atmosphere of Thanksgiving. Yeah. It's an atmosphere for a certain kind of daily living. Wow, wow. Tell somebody I want that atmosphere of daily living now. How many want that atmosphere now? This atmosphere does something special and fantastic. It brings a continuous presence of His power. Excuse me? You want this atmosphere. Are you sure? It's one of the most fantastic atmo

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Welcome to track #9 of atmosphere. Beautiful, beautiful. The next one, an atmosphere of Thanksgiving. Now this is different from the atmosphere of question. Now this is a very key atmosphere. Do you know why? Because this is an atmosphere that is the atmosphere that Is there a problem? What's going on? You need to use the bathroom. Everything alright? OK. This is probably one of the most important atmosphere because it's an atmosphere that is not. I'm not talking about the atmosphere during church service. No, it's the atmosphere of daily living. Yes, it's the atmosphere of daily living. Yeah. It's not an atmosphere to pray or anything like that. And it's a little different from the atmosphere of anointed music. And I'm not an atmosphere of worship. It's the atmosphere of Thanksgiving. Yeah. It's an atmosphere for a certain kind of daily living. Wow, wow. Tell somebody I want that atmosphere of daily living now. How many want that atmosphere now? This atmosphere does something special and fantastic. It brings a continuous presence of His power. Excuse me? You want this atmosphere. Are you sure? It's one of the most fantastic atmospheres. It's the atmosphere of continually being in His presence. Now listen, listen, listen. I don't have to read the Bible for this one because it's the easiest to see how many want to be in His presence. When you walk out of here, when you walk out of here like this, when you get to the door, you want to be in His presence. You want to stay in His presence. When you are on the other side, when you are working with your friends, you are holding hands with your friends, you want to be in His presence. When? What about when you go to the toilet and you sit on the toilet? You want to be in His presence. Wow. So when you are in your car, you want to be in His presence with your friends. What about with your beloved, your best friend? You want him to be there, then the atmosphere you need is an atmosphere of Thanksgiving. Why, why, why? Enter his gates. Enter his gates with Thanksgiving, enter his presence, the gates will open. Go into where he is with with Thanksgiving. You enter straight. As soon as you start saying thank you, Lord, we are blessed, the presence of God is immediately there activated. Yeah, As soon as you murmur and you complain, evil spirits, the atmosphere, that's the atmosphere that the Israelites had. That's why they were destroyed. The murmur, the exact opposite is complaining and criticism. So those who complain, complain about your mother, compare your father, complain about this, complain about this, complain you have a negative atmosphere. Evil spirits are always around somewhere, but you enter his presence. And I always remember one day I entered a lift. And as we entered a lift, it was a beautiful hotel over the Pacific Ocean in South America. I went way up to the top. My, my hotel room was glass. Glass. We just stand in the room like that beautiful room. And you just see the ocean. Yeah. So I came out with Pastor Joel and we came to the lift. And then we we went into the lift and we stood there. And then he also stood by my side like this. And then I said we are blessed and he said, you know, I think because we are always saying we are blessed, that's why we are blessed. You know, when you're always saying thank you, when you're saying we are blessed, this is a great thing. Do you understand? It's like you are thankful, you see, and when you are thankful, that was a big filled with us for giving thanks. I will show it to you. You enter his, you're always in his presence. You know, they told us that this. You see, Monkey, you see, that is what I think. You see, you think that whatever we, we are always doing this evil spirit, it's always a different atmosphere. And you think about some of your children. Are you complaining about your mother, complaining about your father, complaining about your husband, complaining about whatever? You see a woman who is always complaining about her husband, you see that there are evil spirits in her. She lives in an atmosphere of complaining them talking anger, what have you. Oh, Shabba. Yeah. Do you understand what I'm talking? Enter, Enter is gay. Enter is gay. Enter, Enter. I I came into his presence with Thanksgiving. Yeah, with Thanksgiving. And I was in his presence. I was just moving around with my friends. Come friends. And I'm, I'm in his presence even when you are come friends. Come when I'm with when I'm with my friends. And we are thanking God. We can't do bad things. Oh, God. God has God has blessed us and God has brought us here. God. God has been good. And we are thankful. And God is with us. Will there not be a presence there When? When you don't have the presence of God, you don't say thank you. You don't think God has brought you there? Another spirit is coming. Enter. Yeah. I'm. I'm not in the midst of these people here. I'm not in the midst of them. I'm outside, but these people are there. I'm always to enter. I need Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, Hey, I'm in the midst of the people now with Thanksgiving. I'm always saying thank you. I'm always saying I'm blessed. I'm always saying it's a good thing. It is good for me. It is a blessing. Yeah, I'm always grateful. Always grateful. Say God has blessed me and happy. I like it. I was with Doctor Ogo in Guinea Bissau when I sat on the stage. We were sitting together and I said to him, I just whispered to him. I said we are so fantastically blessed to sit here. Did I know? Is that what I told? You said it. You said we are so blessed. This is a great promotion. That's what the word. I've been promoted to be sitting here in Guinea Bissau watching crowds, receiving Christ and preaching the word of God. An honour. Honour. Thank you. Wow. It was super Portuguese speaking Christians and unbelievers. You preach and somebody interprets into Portuguese. And I would like to be Bafata blessed. One story building. We stay. We stayed in a hotel where there's no lights, there's no water, there's nothing. And I said we are, we are so happy, but we are maintaining the presence. Not even that. That's not the reason. But genuinely, you think you are blessed? One day, One day suddenly pastors, I asked him. I said. I asked him, am I rich? He said I'm not rich. You are just content. We're always thankful. We're always happy. But we seem to be happy with a few things. Yeah. If somebody who is close to me, if somebody who is close to me, you seem to be happy with. I mean, because one day I called him. I said, look, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, the Prince of I said he cannot compare himself with me. I told him he cannot compare himself. I said, look at somebody making tea for me. A lawyer is making or a doctor, or I mean a bank manager. I said no, no, no. And I have the highest in order. Look at me. I'm blessed. See. I'm glad you are not glad. But I'm glad. I'm glad. I'm glad to be here. You are not going to be here. I'm glad to be here. You may not be glad now. I'm glad to be here. I'm happy to be here. When you go home to your parents, you thank God. When you get home, thank God. Hey, thank God for this opportunity. Grateful. Whenever I'm about to eat, I thank God. I'm so grateful. Sometimes I'm about to relax. I take the remote. I'm about to put on the television and and relax to just eat something. I kneel down, usually alone. I don't even let my wife. Sometimes I see my wife come. I get up quickly. It's private. I'm just thanking God personally. It's private. And I and I say thank you for this moment. One day I was in the Moore tree and a man, a man was dead and they wanted to know the cause. So I cut open the man. When I open the man, I couldn't find what was wrong. So the the stomach was when I cut open the stomach. When I opened the stomach, it was full of yam. Yeah, just had his dinner. Yam like you. Clear Yam, cat. Yam with thumb. I don't know whether it was some kind of palm oil. Also in the yard. He had just eaten. His stomach was full of, I don't know why he didn't chew it, but because we could see the pieces. I don't know whether he was just. And I realized that he had eaten and just died. It's a blessing to eat and you are still alive. Thank you, Lord, thank you for this meal. Thank you for this place. Thank you for this honor. Enter his gate. I I'm in the house now. I'm in the house where he stays and I use Thanksgiving, an atmosphere of Thanksgiving and I was I was in my car, the atmosphere of Thanksgiving. So we are blessed when I landed in Gambia, we sat in our healing Jesus. We said, I said glory be to God. We drove through Gambia, through Senegal, through Guinea Vista, through different places where we want to go to toilet. We will go to the bushes, we will walk to the so glory. We are so not as we are saying that we are blessed to sort of suppress complaints at the genuine feeling. When I go to toilet in the booth, I feel so blessed. I feel so blessed. You're so blessed. What a blessing you are complaining every day. Complaining every day. That's why you don't stay in his presence. Yes, you, you enter the gates of God and God continually stays with you through thanking always. Oh, thank God they tell somebody. I thank God the people that work with me, I'm always thanking them. You can ask them. I'm always thanking them. So many times they say, oh thank you, I understand. Thank you for what you are doing for me. Thank you for this. Thank you. So me, look at me, I have classmates even they don't have even somebody to iron their shirt for them. Yes, at this age of at the age of 50 something, they have worked as professors, doctors, whatever. Even somebody to iron. Oh, is it somebody to watch the attack? There's nothing like that. Yeah. Look at me, Pastor. Wow. We are blessed, Blessed. Blessed. No, no, no, no, no. I feel that's a blessing. And my father, my father didn't pay my school. But thank God for your father. It is because your father didn't pay your school. That's why you become a Christian. That's why you are a Christian. If you had been paying your fees, you would have been some stuck up, stuck up, proud, proud child. Very arrogant and risky. One day, one day, one day, my wife was watching TBN. Do you know TBN, American Christian Television, when she finish watching, she was telling me what she was watching. My wife, she just bosses naturally, she will boss you. What's happening? And she told me that the people that she was watching, they were giving testimonies and the testimony, one of the testimonies was that one of the ladies said, one of the people said, yeah, my voice. I thank God for my life. I thank God. I thank God for all his blessings. You know, I so many, so many bad things could have happened to me a little hard. It's really good to me. I could have even been born in Africa, but God. She was, she was given a testimony. So with the God, so with the God, you know, really, really great with God for all his blessings, so many wonderful things he's done for for my life. I'm really grateful. You know, I could have been born in Africa. I could have been born in Africa. Here I am. And that's been so good to me. I could have been born in Africa by joking we we are thankful to God that we are born here. Hey, some people are not. Some people are not graceful. None. We we are grateful to God. We are grateful to God. We're grateful to God. We are born here and we are here. Faithful to God Are you Faithful to God? Did God then get to you? Are you tired? You're born in Africa. You must be grateful. You see, one day I saw met a certain sister from Takradi. And when I was talking to her, she had she had travelled wrong and she was not coming back. I said to her, your husband is waiting for you integrally. She said, ask for me. I feel that I'm hidden from here. You see, you have to be thankful. Thankful, not ungrateful. Thankful for what you are and who you are, what you have. Amen. And immediately, immediate moment, you are in the presence, presence of the Lord. Wow, you cannot marry your wife after some years to look at her and say paints me bad, but I married you paints me bad. No, no. When you say that, how many would agree with me? An evil spirit has entered your marriage. An evil spirit. It it it really pains me that I made that I mean mistake. Should I have known had I known? Should I be like this? Not that and immediately you know that an evil spirit. But when you turn and you say, Oh my darling, I'm so grateful to the Lord for thy life as you are to me. Nobody is to me that way. After all these years, I still do love these. Wow, you know the Holy Spirit is still there. Is it amazing? Sit down now. The next one is Yeah 10 to Ephesians chapter 5, verse 18. Be not drunk with wine wearing its excess, but be filled, be failed, be filled, be filled, be filled with what? After the wet spirit comes once semi colon, you see a semi colon there, which means one that is to say, speaking to yourselves and sounds and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, making melody in your heart if you sing it and then after making melody in your heart, what comes next semi colon. Look at it semi colon again, which is that is to say so those hymns and sounds and spiritual songs is to say what? That's 20 giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of Lord Jesus Christ and another cynical again, that is to say, submitting yourself one to another in the spirit of God, Amen. And after that comes what? Full stop, full stop. That's where it ends. So to be filled with the Spirit sounds, spiritual songs, hymns, humility, submitting yourself, being thankful and you see that you always have the Holy Spirit, be filled, be filled, be filled, be filled in your car, be filled in your shower when you are showering, be filled in your those of you are bathed outside by the onanka center over there or you are sleeping on the floor. Be thankful, be thankful, be thankful, be thankful. You know, one day Yongicho went to Australia. One day Yongicho went to Australia. I think it was Australia, somewhere in America, I forget where and when he got there, his secretary had put The mistake that his secretary had made was actually what had saved his life. Giving thanks always for all things. When I had it, I was amazed. Giving thanks always for all things. You get married and you find out that your wife doesn't know how to cook. When she entered the kitchen, she's like a carving. Thank. Giving thanks, the Lord. Thank you for what I have. You marry your husband. You realize that he's not romantic. Don't start catching you. This guy, you were looking spiritual in the chest. I thought that you're preaching it meant that you are spiritual. I'm not knowing that you are spiritual, but I'm not romantic. We don't need spirituality in the matter. We need romanticism. You may get a romantic brother who is used to rapping hi baby, but that hi baby, he's been staying the hi baby to a lot of babies. You are just #17 So the romantic brother is a serial killer. But this virtual brother who doesn't know the romanticism, it's actually the Dal 1 is a very safe brother that he doesn't know how to rap girls. I've seen so many girls bouncing brothers who don't know how to rap. What do you realize? That you have actually got a blank check that you can train. It's the brother that you need doesn't know much. And you get somebody who is experienced with girls, knows how to wrap you. Then you have a certain feeling, certain feeling as he's laughing. He's laughing in his head. He's thinking, because this one always works. Oh, they have some standard ground, so it seems I know you somewhere. You look familiar. You're looking really good today, huh? I like what you smell. Nice. What? What am I smelling? Is it is it Gucci? Is it? It's the Lavon. Is it the what? What? What is that? They are different. They are different atmospheres. They are. They are different. Hello. Yeah. What you need. You need to be thankful your so-called beloved so-called guy was swapping you. He didn't marry you. Better start thanking. You don't even know. You don't even know what you have been deleted from what? One day I saw a sudden sister. She was broken hearted. She was broken hearted and I said in my head, you don't know what you have been deleted from. You are a fool. I don't know. And I said in my head, I said in my head you have a chicken brain. A chicken brain has made you feel sad. You should not have been feeling sad. The chicken brain is caused by too much emotion without thinking. The thinking has been reduced to a chicken because chicken see the body in the head is very small and the brain is inside. The brain will be like small groundnuts or something or half of a gamma. He doesn't think this boy has broken your heart so you are sad. Will you clear up from there before stop that rock there and now re enter his gates with Thanksgiving re enter his gate re enter his presence with Thanksgiving and be grateful. So the guy has the guy has book in your heart is your heart is your heart made of glass? Is your heart made of glass? And you are taking that broken heart on so many issues. It's not right. It is coloring the rest of your life. One incident has changed you into an abnormal person. Be thankful you will not marry me. I will tell you what to say to somebody who says, you know, Are you ready to write it? Take your pen, take your pen. I should have said take your fingers, tap, but it is now that you are hearing that you are going take it out. So do you want to know what to say to somebody who says he doesn't want to marry? Do you want to know what Are you ready to write? Are you ready? Are you really, really ready? Tell the person you will not get food. You will not get food. You will not get the poop at the poop at the poop you will not get. You are joking. No, I didn't get somebody like me love somebody like you. No, you didn't get it. How can you allow one foolish boy to turn you into a bitter widow from this young age? You have changed into a bitter widow. From now, pardon me, you will not get hope and then another one. I ready to write it. You will not get something delicious like me to enjoy. You will not get something delicious like no, never. You not get something delicious like me to enjoy. I never get something delicious. Don't know how delicious I am. I'm coming to delicious atmosphere. Be thankful. Be thankful that he has done with his Valhalla. Look at you, I cannot even have accommodated somebody like you. Do not get food. Do not get something delicious like me to enjoy. You know how delicious I am. One more OK OK I will not shed even 1 tier. 1 tier for you but do not get even one of my tiers what said it in one single one like this. Do not calm down my cheek because of what? Do you mean not eating one drop, one tear drop calm down my cheek. Foolish boy like you because of Christ, I don't want to insult you. None. No one gets booked. Something delicious? Another one you have missed. Something exciting. You have missed something exciting. You have missed something exciting. You have missed something exciting. Now your life will be boring. You have missed something exciting. Another one. I don't have space. I don't have space in my numbers to keep your name. I don't have space. No. I don't have space for your number. That's why delete was created. Delete. Do you want to delete this thing? Yes. Do you want to delete this contact? Yes. Are you sure? Yes, I've missed something exciting. How many are going to stay in the presence of the Lord? Wonderful. Next one. What happened? It's broken. Totally broken. Lord of God, you guys are doing a great job. Atmosphere, The next one, atmosphere of praise. Enter his gate with Thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Some 100. There's four. So that is another atmosphere. Praise. That is why having the shots on the front row of a church is a very dangerous thing. So at our crusades, we don't allow the politicians often they want to come. We have a place downstairs for them. They always want to come. So no, only pastors on the stage, no politicians come and sit there and start sleeping and they'll kill the atmosphere. When we want to praise the Lord, they are all sitting there stiff salted soup in vinegar and you can't even dance. You can't even praise the Lord. That is why the older sometimes you see that sometimes the older the church and the less there is praises, the less of the presence of God. You see a hymn is restrictive in praising the Lord, because praising involves exuberant expression with your soul, with your mind and with your body. So praises is worshipping God with exuberance, with energy, with life, and it pulls your body in. With me.