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09- Prepare For Surprises
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - Principles of War. Machaneh Collection - 83. Preached in 2013, 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. 9. The principles of war number six. Have your food come now. I saw your car. I saw your car outside. It's not a food car. OK. IL Arif EC maintena. Wow, let me just give you the mistakes. And there we go. Surprise. No, Most, most, most of the, what do you call it? Wars are won by surprise. People are not expecting certain things. Do you understand now you are not expecting certain things and the enemy is also not expecting certain things from you. So when you make a surprise move, there is no defence at all once the enemy is preparing for you. Like Europe is now an armed camp. All the countries are heavily armed to the thief with wild armies. In Switzerland, everybody has a mortem gun for fighting. Every mailman, my uncle, my mother's brother had a gun. Everybody has a gun of our pastors who are there. So you have to have your gun. Yeah. Or they have nuclear shelters in their houses. It's now part of building code, nuclear shelters. So surprise always comes at a great price. So the surprise of Hitler invading the whole of Europe has turned everybody into has turned Europe into an armed camp or an armed city,
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Welcome to track number. 9. The principles of war number six. Have your food come now. I saw your car. I saw your car outside. It's not a food car. OK. IL Arif EC maintena. Wow, let me just give you the mistakes. And there we go. Surprise. No, Most, most, most of the, what do you call it? Wars are won by surprise. People are not expecting certain things. Do you understand now you are not expecting certain things and the enemy is also not expecting certain things from you. So when you make a surprise move, there is no defence at all once the enemy is preparing for you. Like Europe is now an armed camp. All the countries are heavily armed to the thief with wild armies. In Switzerland, everybody has a mortem gun for fighting. Every mailman, my uncle, my mother's brother had a gun. Everybody has a gun of our pastors who are there. So you have to have your gun. Yeah. Or they have nuclear shelters in their houses. It's now part of building code, nuclear shelters. So surprise always comes at a great price. So the surprise of Hitler invading the whole of Europe has turned everybody into has turned Europe into an armed camp or an armed city, an armed continent. Everybody is armed and ready and waiting. So it's a surprise that will work. The surprises are the things that work. Like September 11th, it worked because it was a surprise. Today, the pilots in the air, in the what do you call it? And then the doors to the what do you call it? The cockpit are different. They put different kinds of doors there. You cannot easily enter the cockpit in the 1st place there. And they have guns, more guns and more things on the plane ready, because they also have surprise, which we don't know. They also have surprises, you understand. So a surprise is a very important weapon of war. Very, if you can surprise your enemy or your enemy can surprise you. So what does it mean for you? It means that you must prepare for surprises because that's what's going to flour you like something you weren't expecting. So this is a surprise. I wasn't expecting this. This is the one I wasn't expecting. I'm shocked. So sometimes when I talk with people and I say, what about if this happens? They say, Are you sure? Are you sure? They look like you are talking about if you are trying to say something bad. What about if this happens, what would you do? What about if this happens, what would you do? If your wife dies? What would you do? You haven't thought about it, but you can't even imagine it. And you haven't. It has all occurred to you, but it has all occurred to you because it would be a surprise. And once you are surprised, you are vulnerable. Yeah, every September 11th was a surprise. Pearl Harbor was a surprise. Israel, Israel attacking was a surprise. And all the things were surprised. The nuclear bomb that they went to the trouble was a surprise. All are surprises, the surprises that work in war. So you have to now think through what are the possible surprises that could surprise me. I have thought of certain things, possible surprises, and you have to think of surprises. What about if this? What about if that one day I ask some people, So you are married, So what about if your husband goes to sleep with some people? What would you do? I've never thought about that. What about if your wife goes to sleep with somebody? The surprise. What about if you can't have a baby? You are surprised you have to discuss all those things. But those are things that have surprised people. And people end up having two wives, one who can have a child and one who doesn't have children. Yeah. And if your mind was ready for it, you may have. You may have. I said that, you know, one day I met an. I met an unbeliever. He told me I've never been unfaithful to my wife. He was about how old was he now? About 50 something. He said I've been married for about 30 years. He said we don't have a child. He said I have never been unfaithful to my His people have offered even his father, go and sleep with this person. Go and never, he said. Never. I've and this is an unbeliever. He said no way. He said. If not, not, what do you call it? Yeah, and the same goes for the ladies too. There are, there are, there are there are people. Some they go and bring a child, a child, but it's not a husband child when they do DNA testing. Now you see some of your mothers are not your father is not your father and so on. You'll be surprised your mother is your mother because you came out of her, her body, but your father is. You'll be surprised. I've had people come. So my I just found out that my father is not my father. When I did a blood test that the blood, the blood test was B, B or whatever. But my father is a A, there is no B in him and there is no O in him is a A and my group is Bo. Do you understand or you don't? I don't understand how it works because the man will be a A and then the woman is BB or Bo or OO or whatever. So by all means you take 1A from him and then something from the wife. But he didn't take even an A, it was just B's and O's. So it means that their father was not their father. So the one you've been calling Daddy all the time is not Daddy and so Moi, it's another. 60% of the time that happens in 60% of the babies born to mothers, the husband of the woman is not the father of the child. This was done by I, I had, it was done some years ago by a professor in calico by they were doing a project for blood group and babies. And that's when they found out that in 60% of the babies born to mothers that the husband of the wife is not the father of the baby. Death is always a surprise. What? Death? Anybody can die in life. Your father can die. Your mother can die. Your pastor can die. Your husband can die. Your wife can die. Your child can die. There are all surprises that throw people off into subject. I was not expecting this. Yeah. So the surprise is what wins the war. So sometimes when the enemy is being a good strike is surprise of death. It's one of the good surprises because when death comes in, they become disoriented and you can't change. When President Mugabe's wife died after that, a lot of people say that after that, it's when he changed. His wife was a Ghanaian. And after that he reminded it's like, yeah, so many things happen. So death is one of the Commons about an unexpected death from an unexpected corner, an unexpected accident, unexpected plane crash, unexpected Rd. traffic accident. And all these are moves, enemy moves, unexpected illness or a fall, a pastor can fall. I'm not expecting it. What would you do? All these are surprised. You see that before I realized you no more believe in God, you said, oh, I I know I can't hear an unexpected divorce. So how are they divorced? Mike Mellor said after 13 years of marriage. He was a divorcee and he was saying her hair. He married his wife. He had not had any girlfriend before. This was his wife. He never he never expected what was happening to her, but it had happened. So how would you respond? Are you marrying? Then when you after you marry Ash, you find out that what you thought you were getting was not what you got at home. You see how this Amati was behaving? Yeah. She changed so much. She was so nice. And did you see? She was she knew how to flow. She could bend. She she she she she chumped him. She won his heart. She then sang a song to him. Is it me you're looking for, Caleb? She knew the tone of voice. Wow, I see. One of the main things of an army is to prepare for a surprise. If there is a surprise, you will receive an equal and opposite surprise. One day armed robots went into a certain house at Tema. So I said like, not knowing that the guy, the guys there, they just look like ordinary people. Were U.S. Marines? Yeah, he slaughtered them. He slaughtered them and put their bodies outside. They were not expecting something like that. So any armed robber must come to get a surprise. So you must prepare surprises for armed robbers. Yeah. And see, when people have not prepared surprises for armed robbers, they are taken over by armed robbers. You must prepare a surprise as you've come to my house. It's it's something you shouldn't have done. It's something you shouldn't have done. Should have gone to another house. But this house, Father, you shouldn't have come here because there is a surprise for you here. Yeah. Everybody must have a surprise for for armed robbers and for any form of attack must have a counter surprise. When Hitler was going to fight with Poland, do you know what he did? He sent a message to Stalin and signed a peace deal with him that they were going to be allies. When he invades Poland, his Stalin shouldn't invade him because Stalin was Russia. Russia is east, Poland is east. So when he goes here, he said please Stalin don't come in fact. And Stalin said, oh, we can even share some of the land of Poland and all that. So they agreed we will not, we will not fight. Then suddenly in 1941, Hitler just forgot about that. They invaded him as a surprise and came up to Moscow. They were 20 miles from Moscow. Then you see, all Moscow was waiting for them. Then Stalin surprised Hitler, not knowing that he had special winter fighters from Siberia who go on skis. Yeah, Yeah. He was not expecting that one too. A counter attack. They also came, Yeah. And they and they fucked them there. So they were fighting them from here. They were defending from Moscow. And the guys have reached here. Here is Moscow, I cannot enter. And here come these forces from Siberia whom I was not expecting. So you have to prepare a surprise for every bad surprise. If you do this or if this happens, this what I will do. So that when you bring it up to people who are not mature, they they, they think that you are seeing bad things. So why are you saying that if this is oh, how it will never happen. It will never happen, but it can happen. It can happen. If it happens, this what I'll do If this happens, this what I'll. What would you do if you marry an AMA Tazan? What would you do? You do what I'll. Stay in the marriage. Stay. To the end, What about if you cannot have a baby when you marry? And I also thought about that. I said I would adopt one. What? Would you do if your wife dies? I I wouldn't want to remarry. Actually, I've thought about that before, but then when I thought about it, I didn't think of. Let's say you marry your wife dies after one year only. If she dies after a year, yeah, I would have to marry. But then right now when I thought about it, I don't, Especially if I really loved it, I don't think I would want to marry. You are an A1, isn't it? Are you an A? Is this an A1? The. What would you do if your pastor dies? That that would be a great tragedy. I have, if I say I've thought about this is bad, but I've thought about it like there will be a time when daddy will not be around, Bishop will not be around again and what will happen? And then when I thought of it, what I says that my relationship with God shouldn't be dependent if you're here or not. So I'll still serve God whether you are here or not. Their eyes are twinkling. Why they wish now the meeting they want to happen to him. What about if your beloved dies? What would you do if your beloved dies? You really loved her. If my beloved dies that I'll get another beloved. Would that? Be a surprise to you. That would be a surprise to me. I was in a relationship once and I discussed with her that she can die at any time and so if she dies she should know that I would get somebody else. What would you do if you were going to die? Your doctor diagnosed. You are going to die. You have two years. If I had two years at this age or. At this age. If I had two years, I, I really you'll be. Surprised. Isn't it very surprised? But then, then I wouldn't want to marry and I wouldn't want to have children because I wouldn't want to leave somebody a widow with kids. Those of you who don't have beloved, relax. Calm down, moron. What did you want to just enjoy marriage for like about two years of just having fan, you know, fan. I would I would like to, I mean it's one of the things I'm looking forward to getting married and having sex. But the the only, the only thing that will stop me is the leaving the woman and the children. But apart from not being sex and everything, I'm looking forward. I'm going to give you some surprises you can give the enemy. These are surprises. I want you to keep them in your, keep them in your pockets. From time to time, you can release a surprise, and that surprise is going to shock the enemy. Wow. Do you want to have some couple of surprises? OK, one, you can surprise the devil by saying sorry. That will be the greatest shock you see when you say sorry, somebody who doesn't often say sorry. Can you imagine if we wake up tomorrow, NDC, get up and say we, we want to say sorry? The truth is that the truth is that we rigged the elections. The whole election was rigged. There's no need of all this. Will it not be a surprise? Even the Supreme Court judges will be surprised. They will be shocked. So what? So now what do we do since one side has admitted that the thing was raped. What a shock, you see? And suddenly there will be peace. And that's why I'm saying to you that I'm giving you a tip. In life, one of the biggest surprises is to when I say sorry, I don't mean that it's just the word sorry. But it's like to admit him, to say, you know, I I was wrong and I'm sorry. I have a picture. My father had a picture in the in the House of a court case as a painting of a witness or a person who was accused of whatever in court. And when he came to court, he admitted everything. He just came and confessed. So the painting, you see the man standing and saying and all the lawyers and judge, everybody is coming. Oh, no, It's like, don't. It's like, I'm not expecting somebody to come and just say that thing clearly like that. Yeah, this is a shock to turn around suddenly and to say I'm sorry, I was wrong. Wow, you, you shock people. The enemy doesn't even know what to do with you because they they prepare themselves for a long fight. It, it, it, it, it, it, it confuses them. Even now, if NDC were to come out and say, yeah, we rigged the election or whatever, I don't think the country will know what to do. It took great a whole confusion. Oh, yeah, we have accepted that. Whatever should you remove? Have you been sworn in? I mean, how you know? Because, because as you have even declared that you rigged the election. You understand, We don't even know what is the step because that has not been proved that you stole anything. You are just saying that you, you, you you stole the election and we don't know what it means. Hey, there will be a problem in Ghana, a nice problem. Saint Sorian is one of the big surprises #2 confessing hidden lies when you have been standing on your life for years or for whatever, and coming out boldly to say, hey, I said I was a virgin. Look, the fact that I've given birth before, wow, it changes everything. And it's something the devil was never expecting you to confess, to come out as a move against him, to silence him, and to bring about a great confusion in the camp of Satan. They were not expecting that from you. Wow #3 I'm just giving you 3 surprises. Sudden U-10? Sudden U10US or C in your life, it's a shock. You see right now for instance, if you've been deciding that role. As for me, when I finish school, I'm going to work at the Bank of Ghana because my father worked there, my grandfather worked there and he's a family work. All the forces that are defending full time ministry and missionary work have all been redeployed because they, they know that they've succeeded in employing you in a nice secular place. So all of them have gone on leave. They've all left all those defending preparing to prevent you ever from going to work for they are all on leave because they know that you are. They've well secured you over there when you make a sudden you and come say, you know, here I am, Lord, there's no demon here in this area at all. But they were not expecting you to come on such a direction. Yeah, it confuses everybody. Yeah. They're not expecting. No expecting. They are not expecting the Israelis to just go at 9 O clock in the morning, go and bomb every what? What do you call? They were not expecting Hitler to invade. Nothing. None of these things were expected. That's why they were so successful. So in your fight against the government, stop expecting you to forgive. He's not expecting you to forget. He's not expecting you to change your mind. This is what you are going to do, as if you are going this change you? Yeah, I've made a lot of sudden decisions. Yeah, one time I was working and I took a sudden decision. I said this pastor over here, he's not expecting that he can even be moved because he's a lay pastor and he lives in that town and there's no other pastor there. I took a decision to remove him. I remember where I was standing. I was standing on the golf course, Ho 4I told Bishop Sake, I've decided. I just took a decision right there. I said I will move this guy from that. I moved him and I brought somebody that I never expected to come there because he was alone there. He was surprised and he was defenseless because he was an Orangu in making, in the making and he truly became an Orangu before he could say to our promise, here is your successor, move to this place, move, move, move from there. Now we were surprised when we were in Nigeria having a crusade. They deployed so many anti bomb policemen and so on because that was when the Boko Haram thing had really come on. They were expecting us at a town, what is it called or where or where already we expected that we're driving there for the next crusade in the morning. I got up, I said Accra, say what I said everybody to Accra, now leave now spark your car, spark everybody. We have table and we have straight to Accra. When you reach Ibadan, you turn right straight to Badagri, you are out of because the Lord spoke to me, I thought that suddenly go out of Nigeria. Now everybody was surprised. It did. The drivers didn't know where they were going. They just said start, we are going. When they got, they said, oh, when we got to the place where to tell right, they said, oh it's left turn right, turn right, you turn right. But then they saw that they were at the border and so they were not expecting that. I was also expecting something different. Yeah, even this last season, I woke up in the morning, I said to Accra, everybody home, I'm not expecting that we're going to Senegal, say no, go to Ghana, go to Ghana. Now everybody drive, drive, drive, drive to Ghana, come home. So occasionally enemy needs to but you know the first ones I gave you since sorry admitting things becoming becoming truthful suddenly when you are being secretive and lying. Just you know, look here I am a certain lady. She know because of her, her, her, her background. Her background for the her background. When when she mentioned her background to her brother. The brother said I cannot marry you. But she deployed again the secret of openness. She mentioned her background about the brother. Rather said I like you more. Yeah, that's what makes me love you. Your openness, your openness. It makes me. I'm so attracted. He was telling me I became so attracted because the person was so open. You'll be surprised. Like turning around or rather even like your openness rather makes you attractive. Not that your secretiveness and your life and deception. Dr. Somebody. So surprise the enemy, surprise the enemy. Somebody who is quarreled with you never thinks you will ever call. No, Suddenly you are there and you stand and you say here I stand. Tallyha, it's a long time. Let's be friends. Surprise. You know some people you've quarrel with, they don't. They don't expect you ever float with them, ever talk with them. You've marked them. You hate them. They know you don't like them. Suddenly you turn around and the enemy is thinking it's got you in unforgiveness. Demons are coming to enter. You remember yesterday I was showing you the doors through with the demons are going to come and then now suddenly here you are. It's like you are just flowing. One day I was quarreling with my wife and then the Holy Spirit said to me go to her and surprise her. So we we were all having a frozen atmosphere in the house. So when I went to her and I just touch her like that now then she look at me and she smiles. Smile is it? You're not expecting me to I mean like just I mean you are expecting to quarrel for a long time, long fight. And suddenly you suddenly you turn. They're surprised at you. How many are ready to deploy? Surprise, there were 42 attempts to kill Hitler. None of them succeeded till he himself decided to kill himself. He was full of surprises. Yes, one man documented attempts. This brings us to the next principle, unpredictability. After breakfast, we shall continue. It's a surprise, isn't it? Are you enjoying the principles of war? You want to learn how to fight more? All right, let's take a surprise offering. Please take out a good offering, a good surprise offering. Let the devil be shocked at the offering that you are giving this morning. Very powerful offering. Have you taken out your surprise offering? Let us pray. Lift up your offerings, Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we are grateful for another opportunity to give again. Please bless our offerings. Bless our lives in Jesus name, Amen. Right. Please let the baskets go round very, very quickly. Please. Move, move very, very quickly. Please let anybody here who has not yet registered, let me just see by wave of your hand. Admit it please. You know you are here, you are not registered. Just check your neighbor if your your neighbor is wearing a tat, your neighbor If you are not wearing a tat, please wave, wave to us. If you are not wearing A tag, why are you not wearing A tag? Geoffrey, you have not registered. You have not registered. Wow. So why did you? Why didn't you admit it when we asked? Please, Who else has not yet registered? Please? One more person, Ketis. Huh? What a surprise. And who again? Cameraman? What's your name? Elliot. The Elliot have you registered? Wow. Please just leave now. Those who have not registered will give you special surprise treatment. Please go out now. Now. Please, cameraman now. Please go and register now. Now please be seated number of an inquiry. Come, come back in. What are you going on for Bucky and where are you going? Registration. OK Ashes, if you are done, please bring the offering. Please somebody. Should come and help him to do his work and let him go and register now. Who else else has not yet registered? Please please please please check your neighbor. Check your neighbor. See wearing A tag? Were your tag at all times, all times OK? What time is it now? It's almost 11:30. So we are back at one hour. That's what, 1230. All right, Father, let's, let's pray. Father, thank you for this offering. Bless us, Lord Jesus name, Amen. See you at 12:30.