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10. What It Means To Be Called 2

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
January 9, 2025 33m 11s

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Camp Title - Lay Power. Machaneh Collection - 60. Preached in 2009, Ghana (Bonsu). 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 #10 of lay power. Yes, she was very. Helpful. I mean very handy around helpful helpful could ask her to do anything. You could ask her to do anything. Please write it. This one of the one of the head of departments writing a tribute. She was a she was also an ally. President. As president to schools, she president of a particular school. Yes. Which school? Winnieba Secondary school. Yeah. In fact, during her time, the Ally club in her school became very, very she. Built a huge. Big ally. She. Built her time the Ally of Winneba Secondary School became very large and she built what? A large a large Ally club. Ally Club. Very vibrant, very vibrant. Ally Club. Yeah. That is the the tribute by the Ally pastor. Is there any other person who want to give tribute? OK, OK, Mesa, you have any tribute for the Alphabo sister? I think she has a very good attitude. No, she was. You are right. She had. She had a very good attitude. You. Had a very good attitude. So this tribute by Uncle Mensa we've attribute by Erica, now tribute by occupants and more people are giving tributes. Yes, and then? Had a very good attitude. On st

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Welcome to track #10 of lay power. Yes, she was very. Helpful. I mean very handy around helpful helpful could ask her to do anything. You could ask her to do anything. Please write it. This one of the one of the head of departments writing a tribute. She was a she was also an ally. President. As president to schools, she president of a particular school. Yes. Which school? Winnieba Secondary school. Yeah. In fact, during her time, the Ally club in her school became very, very she. Built a huge. Big ally. She. Built her time the Ally of Winneba Secondary School became very large and she built what? A large a large Ally club. Ally Club. Very vibrant, very vibrant. Ally Club. Yeah. That is the the tribute by the Ally pastor. Is there any other person who want to give tribute? OK, OK, Mesa, you have any tribute for the Alphabo sister? I think she has a very good attitude. No, she was. You are right. She had. She had a very good attitude. You. Had a very good attitude. So this tribute by Uncle Mensa we've attribute by Erica, now tribute by occupants and more people are giving tributes. Yes, and then? Had a very good attitude. On stage, she puts life into what she does. She's fast. She puts life into what she did on stage, when she's singing, when she. Sang. When she sang, she sang with life, expressed herself very well, dancing vigorously. I mean, she's always someone. She was very sorry. I'm in heaven now. You are what? I'm in heaven now. I. Need to happen. Yes, I need to. Talk. I've forgotten. I'm in heaven. So she she. Prosper, prosper. When she was singing, she used to sing very well. She could dance. Very, very well. Express herself in the song if you want to choose. Dances you. Consider a face. OK. And then anything else, only one department with department, yes, come. She was my sheep. I want her. Pasta. Pasta of which I was saying. When I was in the car, I was then pastor of the choir. When you were the pastor of the choir. OK, she. Wasn't she was. One of the few people you wouldn't. Struggle to put the mic she was. Yeah, she was one of the few. People you wouldn't. Struggle to follow. Tribute by your name, please. Eugenia Jackson Davis. Yes, but former pastor. Former. Pastor a shepherd. Are you a her shepherd? Shepherd Wow sister, you know, good credits for your tributes. Now, are there any sheep? You say you were a chef. Are there any sheep who can tribute from sheep, tribute from a sheep camp? Is it aquatic camp? Tribute from a former sheep? So we have tribute from pastors and look at a big sheep like this very big and tall tribute from former sheep, somebody who was under her pastoria coming right there, coming I. Said I was a sheep. I just want to say one thing, just one thing. I want to say 1. Thing, but I think it's significant that which is the fact that she's been around for a very long time. She she was around for like she joined and she stayed because I just came recently. I've seen a lot of new faces, but I recognize her that she's been around. She was around forever. When you when you had sheep. No. NGO police, will you take him out of the place? NGO police, carry him out. He's filled with the grass. Oh, take him out. Orders. I'm calling for Chief. You are coming to give comment. NGO police are by us. OK, is there anybody who was a sheep? She was your shepherd. Why? PC? You see, she she herself is mentioning that thing. So the way you are in heaven, you'll be safe. Please. Why? PC? Headline I was. And headline I was. I wasn't this I wasn't this I was. Yeah, you will be. Hot beer, you say? I have a BMW. Your mouth like BMW. What are you going to do with BMW about that? She was. Yes. You'll be contributing to your tribute. Is there any sheep here who can say? She used to. She counseled me. She brought me up. You may return next time when they are calling for sheep get up. You are coming to give comments. Let this be your last time and this brother, which department were right here? But you, you could you write a tribute or he just wrote he was regular, he contributed to the laugh feast, that's all. But now we can't use it for a tribute to be so tribute by Pastor Max, whatever he contributed to the laugh feast, irregular meeting and praise, praise and paste tides and contributed to the last feast, about 32 lines. Sister will get your points now, brother, yours are very deficient. You see you, you see you. You don't know when it is your turn to be called. Nobody knows whether it is going to be you, whether it is going to be you. Look, when I got to the brother, his face changed. Come, come, come, come. When they say I know that it works. You think it's a joke? Tribute. Oh, your name is what to the late Jonas? What a Javon. Is there anybody who can any department or whatever that will give tribute to the Emilia? Yes. Jonas is a shepherd, was a shepherd. Was OK. Handled a fellowship he does. He did very well with deep sea fishing. He knows. He knew how to. Go right, right, right, right there, right there. Tribute Tribute to Jonas. Ability to catch fish from the sea. He was good at deep sea fishing. Do not swallow the fish. In this case, do not swallow the fish. Jonas. Pleasant and cheerful, personal. Pleasant and cheerful, he was into deep sea fishing. Yes, according to lay people and the ministry. According to the teachings of lay, the lay people and the ministry, he was into deep sea fishing. Anything else? Able to bounce back after correction. Able to. You've been correcting your ship. Got almost all attributes. He writes reverse full and able to bounce back after. Correct. That's a good sign. So yeah, good science, OK it. Has to be. Said anything else, Hallulu. He was an outcoming writing attribute about him. Oh, Charlie, it's working for you. One pastor now another pastor from a Polytechnic is also coming. Hello. Elder. Tribute by Alos, Tribute by ALOS pastors, Pastor from Alos and tribute from What Chapel? Genesis. Genesis Chapel, OK. He was an elder in Accra Polytechnic and he managed to get the church to work because the very it hasn't been working didn't work well, but in his time it survived. Charlene, Charlene. He tried very hard, he was always very willing and. Very willing. To to do his best. And what last words do you have to say for him as he's going? And so you pray that the Lord. The Lord would continue to. Continue. He has gone, and you will. Rest from. All his neighbors in a trap. Polytechnic and then Genesis Chapel. Deep sea fishing. And he left behind. You leave behind a beloved. You know he left behind. No beloved. The deep sea. What are you catching there? You couldn't get any beloved. What about did you leave behind? Any beloved she leaves behind, you should leave behind a beloved. Is that beloved? Yeah. Maybe he may also give a shepherd marrying a sheep. A shepherd who is marrying a sheep. Is it right? A shepherd is marrying a sheep. You see, when the finger puts on, it means that you are dead and you are going for judgment. Don't look at me. You look at my face and I'll choose you. I'm going to the back. Let's go to heaven. This day I require your soul. This day I require your soul Come. This day I require your soul. I. That is how that is all. The finger will point at you from heaven. Then they come for you. They'll come out of everybody that you are selected. Come. Sure, you think it's not you. You are very tall on earth. You were very famous. Your name and where you are, where you are calling from, your name and where you are falling from. OK departments. No man, you have to pray. Your members are dying too much. Many of the members are going. You have to pray about it. Can you say something about this Tributes bring? Ade was a shepherd, handled a fellowship. And was he bouncing back after correction? He has a he had a calm, quiet personality but very interested in the ministry and I chose him because of a glitter in his eye. A glitter in his eye. He had an eye for ministry. When the when the Word of God was being preached, he was he was very attentive and there was a certain glitter. So even though he was quite young in terms of joining the Chapel, I drew him nearer into the work and he loves to come to church, tries to attend as many services so. What do you pray as he's going? That he may find favor. Any other department? Yes. Ship. Are you one of his ship? Come tribute from a ship. A ship? Are you coming also to give a comment? He was my shepherd. Take your time. Amazing. Yes. Yesterday was my shepherd. I'd moved from the time I branch to join the Kodesh, and as I was on the campus at Central University, I was finding it difficult to balance my academic work with the church activities. And he kept on encouraging me. He kept on bringing me he he kept on calling me to be planted. He always made sure that he called me after service. To wait for after service meetings, take your. Time. Take your time. OK, you have to write it. On at a point at a point in time when I when I got to my final year and I was about complete and I. Saying that you that you cry a bit, yeah. To show some feelings of emotion. I, I think that I owe, if I'm a shepherd today, I owe it to him because I could have easily, I could have easily been somewhere else. I I had. I had. Always left services immediately. I came for first and 2nd services and immediately I finished, I run to the house. I just want to go and continue with my activities, that activity. But you call me and make sure that I came back for services. He was always on me. I, I, I, I I owe that to him anyway. And. And and today you are at a camp. Yeah, yeah. A day, a day, a day. You have done your best. At least there's one soul that we can point to this time. It will be a sister. The sister with the red hair French. You think a French cannot? A French to say cannot die, also die. French also die. Come where is her pastor? Anybody who can say something? Tribute Pastor Max. She she loved the church so much. She was like Anna. She was always in the temple, almost every day. Hey, she came to the Kodesh. Kodesh, she was. Singing in the choir. She had a very receptive attitude when during preaching and then she also sang beautifully. But one thing that I can say is that she was always in the temple, almost every day. Any last word last Any last? I'll miss. Her. So you miss her? Yes, Cry. OK, anybody else? You are her shepherd. You were her shepherd. OK, come there. You see some. Some. She's very she was forgive. She's a very quiet. She was a very quiet person, very receptive and is someone you are pleased to work with. She's like when she was I. Don't know how. To say it in French. They understand French in heaven. Continue. Let us say it. All in French. Like when I'm on stage, because I'm usually leading when I'm on stage. Anytime you are usually leading in prison worship. Yes, and. When I'm on stage and it's happened that I may not feel I'm not feeling well, suddenly I can call upon her to come and replace me. Wow. And I'm taking her more like a sister than I was taking her more than a sister. Then a shepherd sheep relationship. This is what come up. Yeah, she'll. Be crying, she cry a bit. Yeah, and she's very regular, punctual also when you tell her to do something, she will do. It Does she have a BMW? No, she's taking. Throat role actually. That's. All so you see, you see my brother, my sister, one day we'll stand before him and he will say, I know your ex. These are what they will say. And some of us will be nothing to say nothing. So pray that your resume will be getting longer and longer and longer and longer, so that when you are, when you are gone, we have to say no, no, no, no, we can't. Take the tribute from the choir and from the old chef, old choir and from the old group and that group and just the correct ones, just the three current one. But the old ones and all, there are too many. They are too many. Make the funeral service too long. When you get to heaven, they will read. There's time where time has finally reached an end. Sure. Are you on retirement or what? I'll change you just now. You'll be surprised. I walk through the gate, I lay down right beneath that tree of life and take my time 'cause time has finally reached an end. I'll rest in his arms, the king who brought his Kingdom with his life, And let the lullabies of paradise speaking Prince of Peace, not of God, bright and mourning, you built a Kingdom for the mansions in the sky. When life comes to an end, I'll begin to live again as I'm flying from to heaven, Heaven where I die. Walk through the gates, lay down right in the that tree of life and take my time. For time has finally reached your head. Rest in this long game is when it's alive. Let the light abide. When my life comes to one end, I'll begin to live again because I'm flying off to heaven when I die. All right. Hallelujah. Listen. To me, dear friends, are you there? God said to Ephesians. I know your words, I know your words. There is no mention of any physical thing that we have or do not have. Amen. That's a wax. The wax, and you can see some have. Is it some of them? They are saying good things about them, but not good works. He was patient, he came early. If you come early, it's not a work. Come here early, it's not a work. When you come and you work, then you have worked and you came early to work. So Cami Ali is not a work per SE. It can be a work, but it's not really a work. You get it. It was remorseful. It's not a work. So you see that tribute? But we are cancelling some, you know, this one is not zero. Cancel this one, this one, it doesn't work. This one is not. It doesn't work. You get it? Yeah. So brothers and sisters, that's the reality of what I'm saying. You may not want to think about it, but it's as real as like what I put my finger like that. I'm going. No one in that area knows who is going. Even I don't know that's from that, from having a point of that. That's all. It's coming Tuesday. No, you are gone. Finish that's how it is and as soon as it's over this is it OK, your works nothing nothing you say you are doing what SCCA you are doing course in this you are doing school done you are doing what well done this that that's all and it will be the church one That's when you see a real tribute. So Charlie those of you who are devoid of tributes. The rest of any works see it today Amen as something that God is showing you. I don't know any clearer way that I can preach what I've just preached by doing what I have just done and showing you clearly God. I've shown you clearly you'll be called What are your works Nothing a sentence this was forcing to create tributes for you. All right, you are blessed. You can see now Smerna, I know your works. Revelation chapter 2 verse 8. It says Unto the Angel of the Church in Smerna writes these things, say the 1st and the last, which was dead and is alive. I know thy works, and tribulation and poverty, but thou art rich. Amen, Pegamos. I know thy works #3 Revelations 2, verse 12. And unto the church in Pegamos I write these things, said he which had the sharp sword with two edges. I know thy works. Revelations chapter 2, verse 18. Thyatira, I know thy works, and thy works, and thy works. I know thy works. Amen. Sabbath Revelations, chapter 3. It said the same statement. And I know thy works, that thou has a name, that thou liveth and are dead. Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain and are ready to die. Number six Philadelphia, I know your works and the Angel in Philadelphia right. I know thy works. Behold, I've said before the an open door the auditions Chapter 7 number 7 and to the Angel of the church in Laudisha, I know thy works Amen. Now let me just share with you the reason why many Christians are fruitless in second Peter chapter one verse 8, why Christians are fruitless. And it says in second Peter chapter one verse 8 and 9, it says, For if these things be in you and abound, they make you, that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Have you found it? You need to tend to this one. Have you found it? For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you, that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see a Pharaoh, and has forgotten that he was perched from his old Saints, Amen. Now notice verse 8. It says that if these things are in you, they make you to neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind. Amen. So when you lack these things, that is the fruitfulness, right? And the things that make you fruitful. There are three reasons why that usually happens, and the first one is blindness. You are blind to the realities of hell and heaven. Amen. Are you there? So like what I'm preaching about now, the the reference to death and the reference to heaven is to open your eyes because it is the closed eyes that do not see these things that leads you to do nothing for God. Do you understand? It's the primary reason why people do nothing is because their eyes and their hearts are not set on eternal things. The Bible says that he is blind. He is blind. The second one says he cannot see afar off and the third one says that he has forgotten that he was pissed. That's these are the three things in that vest. In vest 9 it says that he is blind. He that lacked these days is blind. Amen.