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11. Atmosphere Camp - Atmosphere Of His Presence-1
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
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 #11 Top atmosphere. Do you see the atmosphere that is created by? Hey, what's this sane animal? Sure. You sure? I feel something moving? Now, now, take this away. Take this away and just take it back. Yeah. Oh, great. You see the atmosphere that is created by the light and the atmospheric. Yeah. So see, sometimes when you are going to pray, you need an environment like this. Yeah, yeah. Because the natural, it's the emotional tone created by a work of art. The emotional tone created by the work of art. So the the architecture of the room, what's going on? What's going on here? What's the problem? OK, You see the work of art, the architecture of the room and the work of art. It's all the work of art. And then the lights creates a certain kind of atmosphere where you can have certain things going on. All right, All right. OK, glory I got. Oh, can, can you put it on? Put on this other one. Put it down here. You may be seated. The next one is an atmosphere of His presence, atmosphere of the presence of the Lord. Now if you are digital you have lights, but with the old system you have no lights. The next one is an atmosp
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Welcome to track #11 Top atmosphere. Do you see the atmosphere that is created by? Hey, what's this sane animal? Sure. You sure? I feel something moving? Now, now, take this away. Take this away and just take it back. Yeah. Oh, great. You see the atmosphere that is created by the light and the atmospheric. Yeah. So see, sometimes when you are going to pray, you need an environment like this. Yeah, yeah. Because the natural, it's the emotional tone created by a work of art. The emotional tone created by the work of art. So the the architecture of the room, what's going on? What's going on here? What's the problem? OK, You see the work of art, the architecture of the room and the work of art. It's all the work of art. And then the lights creates a certain kind of atmosphere where you can have certain things going on. All right, All right. OK, glory I got. Oh, can, can you put it on? Put on this other one. Put it down here. You may be seated. The next one is an atmosphere of His presence, atmosphere of the presence of the Lord. Now if you are digital you have lights, but with the old system you have no lights. The next one is an atmosphere created by the presence of God. Now this presence is something that as you work with God, you begin to understand the effect of the presence of God. The presence of God is not synonymous with praises or worship. Some people feel when I worship, the presence of the Lord is there. You may pray, but the presence of the Lord will not be there. You may worship, but the presence of the Lord will not be there. But you can't enter the presence of the Lord through worship and praises. Enter His gates with Thanksgiving, with praises. But there is now a time you are not thanking God, but you are experiencing an atmosphere created by a presence. I said a presence of something of God. God is there. And you see, when we talk about an atmosphere of His presence, we are talking about an atmosphere where the presence of God is more multiplied several times. There are several levels of the presence of God. For instance, I may be present in your life by a video of my tape, but I may be physically present. You see, I'm more present in your life. I'm even touching you. You are sitting in front of me. So I'm more present in your life than I used to be a year ago. Do you understand me now? I can be even more present in your life. I can be involved in buying trousers for you. Yes, I can be involved in in your eating. I'm so, so concerned about what you are eating. I can get more. And my presence is felt in all your things. When you look at your shoes, you realize that this shoe is affected by your being with me. That is how come you have these shoes? Yeah. So the presence is increasing. So presence is something that increases and multiplies. Now, God is omnipresent, so it means it's everywhere. So if you go to the end of the garden there, he's there. If you go up a tree, he's there. Do you understand? He's there in a way that you cannot imagine, but then that is the lowest level of the presence of God. It's the omnipresence, it's the lowest. It's in the sea, it's on the land, it's upstairs, it's downstairs, it's everywhere. That's the lowest level of the presence of God. The next level of the presence of God is the level where Jesus said where two or three I gathered in my name, I am in your midst got the second level of the presence of God, Amen. When two of three I gathered in my name I am presence. Amen. I, I, I, I, I want to take you to the fifth level. So stay with me because we have just gone through 2. Are you there? Are you listening? I want to take you at least five steps into the presence. The second is where you are with a believer. The presence is multiplied. Once you are with another Christian. There is a greater presence than just the presence of God in the garden. Yeah, because Jesus said where two of them are gathered. I'll be there. The more Christians are together, the more the presence of God is there. Do you understand me? That's the second level. Most Christians end at the second level of the presence, most 80%. This is the maximum presence of God they ever feel. It's in a church service where two or three are gathered and there's worship. That is a second level. The third level is the level of presence found in an obedient person. Yes, there is a certain presence found in an obedient person. When a person is obedient to the Lord, the Lord has a certain additional presence in the person's life. And actually that is the way to know how whether even a man of God or a servant of God is doing the right thing is by the third level of presence. And Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him. Wow, If a man love me, my Father will love him, Amen. And we will come to him and make our abode with him. So this is in addition to what Jesus has said, where two or three are gathered, I'll be there. He's adding that if a man laughs with you, keep my way, He'll do what I say. Now the reward for doing what God says, The highest, probably the most important thing you should look for in your life as as as as a sign or as as a reward. Do you understand for following him, obeying him, doing his will is to look for his presence. That's a certain presence that follows people who are obedient and who keep his word. He said when you obey me, you keep my word. My father and I2 of us, we will join together and come and make our abode that will come where you are. Is is is is is is the dead level of the presence. Are you listening? How many want to go deeper, deeper, Hallelujah into the presence of the Lord? Amen. Where the presence of the Lord is found, you see that He is there. He is speaking ministry. Amen. Then the next level. It's the personal, intimate, personal presence. You see, I can be in your life. I can be in your life in a personal way, is all that people say. For she will call you daddy or father. That there is a personal way in which you can be involved in somebody's life personally. Are you listening to me? Yes. And that personal way, right, is found in the presence of the person's voice. So there's a certain level of the voice of God. Look, you, everybody has a house, but I, my voice is not heard in your house. I mean, I'm not talking about tapes or CVS. Your father's voice or your mother's voice or your friend's voice or your voice is head in your house. The one who lives there, his voice is the one that is here. When I shout, when I open my window and I shout, who is there? When I die, when I'm no more on this earth, That voice will be the first thing. The personal that you will notice is that how you will not hear that voice against Al Zinda, who is there, who is outside. This was gone. I'm talking about a personal involvement and a personal presence of the voice. Now, when that voice is there, you have frequent guidance, frequent inputs. You see, if I'm more in your, in your life, you have more things I will say to you. The less and the less you hear me speaking to you, that's it. So the more the voice is heard and the more issues the voice speaks into, the more the presence is there. Because in my house, you know what I say, what I do is, is from what I say, what happens there, from what I say, because I'm intimately present, how my bed is, how my shoes are, where they are rings. What is happening in the room is determined by my voice in a very personal way. So you can detect another presence level of presence and you notice it. Anybody who is the man who has the second point, you see that he will refer to something that God has told him to do. And then you will see that he has followed what God told him to do and it has worked. That's a sign of somebody who God is with in an intimate way. You what? There is no man. See one day I was looking at a, a, a guy, He has a white man. He has a big church and a country in Africa and he has another church in America. So he has 2, two big churches. He was in in, in in South Africa and God told him go to America and start a church. When he went, the church just became big. He just started the church in a big church. So as I was listening to that man, I said to myself that this man, there is something I don't know about him. There is something with him that I don't know. OK. So I was just watching him. I said there's something. Then he was invited to come and speak. I was in Korea. He was invited to speak at a dinner. When he spoke, then he he started to speak. Then he said, you know, he had a dream. In the dream this this. Then he said I had a vision and this. And I was saying this white man with visions and dreams, it sounds a little strange, you see. Then I realised I see there was an involved voice in his life that was guiding him on issues. And that's how come he was doing the things he was doing. You see anybody who is doing something, at a certain point you see that there's some involved presence. There's something involved. You see, say do this, do this and see another 10. Go left, go right. Do this when I when I was flying to Guinea Bissau, I was, I was actually flying to I flew to Gambia when our plane started to descend, you know, I fell asleep. I fell asleep. Then I had AI had a dream, just a short one. You see, you can pray for dreams and, and when you walk without that point, you know when you dream. Yeah. And you know that. You know the type of dream you are going to have. I have a certain type of dream. It's very short, very short. I can be sitting down and have it. I know it. It can come at this time. And suddenly the Holy Spirit told me something surprising, just as I was about to learn in Gimme Bissam. Yeah. Immediately when I arrived, I told the people, hey, plans have changed. Plans have changed. Yeah, plans have changed. This is what the Holy Spirit told me. He gave me a dream one time. I went to wait on the Lord, you know, and for me the main thing of the waiting on the Lord, that he would speak to me. So he had spoken to me. He had spoken that he had not given me any dream or vision. And all that time I have not slept on the bed. I don't, I don't sleep on the bed. I just sit. I don't sleep. I'll not sleep till I till I leave my place. I only sit in a chair. Then about the third day or the 4th day, I said, Lord, I have not had, I've not had any dream. I, I want a dream, at least one dream, 1 dream. Oh, a vision, something. So I went, I went, I went to the bed and I knelt down. I prayed, I said, Lord, I need a dream. And I, I lay on the that's the only time I lay on the bed and I slept and I mocked up. I had only 1 dream. I woke up exactly the dream, very strange dream strange. And that was I took, I took only that attack from the different forms of direction and guidance that was there because there was a presence in the house throughout till I left. But it was through a dream. I got one thing from a dream. Yeah. He speaks in the PESA is the level 4 presence. Then when you say something, but then I will say something and he's speaking if I'm with you or if I'm, if I'm going with you on the lawn. No, no. So let's stop here then you hear me? So why don't we go here? Oh, then I say, OK, I want to eat here. Oh, I say because I'm with you. So you always hear this. Those who are not with me in the car, they never hear those things. So once he's with you in the same car, in the same journey's movie, keep hearing. You'll say this, you'll say this, you'll say this, you'll say this. Like PP Higgins said I told you in the car, the Lord told him, you know, yesterday I told you, you didn't break your arm. Your arm is not broken and like it will be OK, but I'll speak to you. And he came into the hotel hospital room the next day to speak to him. So Level 1 is the only president. Like God is in the tree outside over there. He's he's on the grass, he's in Accra, he's on the sea, he's in the sky, He's everywhere. That's that's the lowest, that's the lowest form of presence of God. It is his universe. He created it. The second level of the presence. I'm talking about an atmosphere where the presence is there. You understand what I'm talking about. I'm talking about an atmosphere where the presence is is there. There's a presence. You can feel his presence. Yeah, His presence is there. Are you listening? Yeah. And then where two or three are gathered, this is the commonest and the the last point for most Christians go to church and then they sing Ababa, Ababa, sing it. And all the way you were there all the world. See this is this is level 2 because you can feel something has come into the room. Above all, kidnails. Above all wonders above all. This is level 2 we are experiencing. All wealth and. Treasure. There's no. Way to manage. Come on, but play behind the storm you live behind. No, you have rejected in the Lord. You put the ball. You thought of me. That's. All power. When you, when you turn it into, when you turn it into shouting and clunking and slapping and whatever, then the the presence just lifts and you must begin to become used to the presence coming and going like a dove. Presence of God comes and goes, comes and goes, lifts and stands like that. You will know it. You see, you, you are used to, you are used to using secular words that. Oh, and then the whatever. But it's the presence. Oh, the feeling that was the feeling was different. And then the feeling was. And then the feeling was different. Yeah. Like the drama. The drama was falling. The atmosphere just now, you know, just laughing, sound noisy, whatever. And this instrumentalist can do that often. Yeah, and you, you call it, you call it a feeling, I move. But actually it's the presence of God which create an atmosphere, an atmosphere of this presence. Wow above. All powers, above all, above all nature and all created things above all wisdom and all the ways of man, all the ways of you were there. Before the world began, you were there. Before. Oh, he's above all Kingdom, and he's above all throne, above all wonders, as the world has ever known, above all well and treasures of the earth. You were there before the wealthy guy. You were there before. Why don't? You. Come on. You are rejected and alone. You choose the ball. Oh yes, you took the fall and you thought of me 1 more time thing. You were used to die, Lay behind the soul all you let to die. Oh you were rejected and you were alone. Oh you were like you trampled on the ground. Yes, you do. Now, this is the second level, and this is where most Christians end. Yes. And then the third level is the presence you have in an obedient presence, someone who's obeying God, especially the bigger, the more you obey him, the more his presence is felt in your life. And that is, that is the main thing that a pastor, a man of God should look out for, not whether the offering is good. You don't have to look to whether the offering is good. You know that. Yeah. Now businessmen have joined the church. I know that the the the presence of God is God is with me or God is helping me or or so much money in the church. Every church has a lot of money at the point most vaccinating churches have been the richest churches in history. Yeah, when churches have grown and they are wealthy people even die and give their their houses to the churches. No matter at that time they are mostly vaccinating. They cannot do they form NGOs, do all sorts of things. You can't relieve organisations, but the ministry of the gospel is not there. Yeah. So it cannot be used as a measure when there is money that God is happy with you. Do you understand? But there's a presence, there is an aura and there's a carefulness. Such a person can say something to you and it will happen. It can say something and it will happen to you. And you, you can touch the person. And you, you find out that you touch God. Yeah, you touch the person and you find out that you touch God. I heard a story, I don't know if it's true, but Rollins was going somewhere those days that he was a whatever. And then when he got to a barrier, he was in another car that people didn't expect him to be and the police ran or the soldiers and say hi. Oh, Broni. Then he was whatever put that whatever. Then it was the president. What? Not even a Democratic one, but a turn of the military says. I think he started on himself immediately. So you may press the person and you find out that that person you have pressed God, pressed God. One of my close friends, my wife's friend, one day she went for a Christian program and I don't know how she thought that I was sitting behind her. I think she thought, remember this story, she thought I was sitting behind her and their chests were packed. So she thought I was sitting behind behind him. So she had a pencil and then she would prick. She thought she was pricking my knee. You know, she was like, Oh yeah, you know, it's like, you know how to be sending messages a person. It's like she was telling the person something, but she thought it was me throughout the service. Yes, practically it happened. She thought it was me, It wasn't me, it was somebody else. So when they finished the service, unless she looked and she was shot, it was stopped. It was stopped and she had been playing with the guy's me. So sometimes you think that you are dealing with the person. Perhaps you are bringing your pencil. You are passing to the presence. You are passing to the presence before you are touching the person. It's a mistaken identity. It's not who you thought it was. Yeah, it's not who you thought it was. Shanghala Basimamanda, I'm talking about the presence, the atmosphere, and I'll show you the sign of that presence. There's a sign that comes when the presence is there. All the 4-5 levels, all the 4-5 levels, and then the 4th levels, the presence, the voice, the kind of regular voice. The presence is always saying things that are always involved in your life. And you notice that presence now, the 5th presence, the fifth level, and that's a Harmony 1 going to level 5 of the presence is when the person physically seems to be present. You may feel the touch of the person. Yeah, where you start to feel like there's a person there physically. And Benny Hinn is somebody who has had that kind of level of presence. Yeah. Level 5, presence of God. Hallelujah. Are you listening to me? Yeah. Now how do you know that presence? What? What is the sign? It's beautiful. Psalm 16. Hello. Psalm 16. No, no problem. You can read your. You can read your, your your, your, your mamo. Psalm 16, verse 11. Psalm 16, verse 11 Thou will show me the path of life. In Thy presence is fullness of joy. At Thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore. In thy presence is fullness of joy. There is a setting joy. You see, when God speaks to you, there is some joy, there is some happiness that starts to come and you sense that God has spoken to you. You feel his presence. You know, you come to church, you are sad, you are depressed. Then I think you didn't have the problem. That's why the government tries to stop churches like they can't stop the church, because the government gives depression and you go to church and the depression is gone and there is joy. Yeah. When I was in medical school, a group of students went to see the Dean, about four or five of them, a representation from the school that we were not called light. I don't know what we were called them myself. And some people are disturbing the school and that they came to the school to learn. They were my seniors and they went as a delegation to make an official complaint and that the real vision that they came to the school to do was have been affected by us. We were carrying our drums through to the streets, through the hall, V block and R block. We're carrying our drums and our instruments to the other side to the School of Hygiene every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, we have meetings. Sunday, oh, we're happy. We're happy. We passed through the corridor, all of them, and they're looking at us, didn't mind them at all. They went on a delegation after they were like 2 years ahead of me, two years. We went serious delegation to the Dean, Professor Champo, as the Dean was considering their application. They also went to the principal of the School of hygiene that the school has now a disturbance because we are opposite them and we are disturbing the the the hostel. As for the principal of the school of hygiene, he just dismissed them. He said look as strong as I am the principal of this school. There will be church here on Sunday as long as I'm the principal of this school. But the Dean of the medical school's response, we were not so sure of his response. But before his response could come, the first attempt on of suicide in the school happened and it was unsuccessful. My next door neighbor attempted to commit suicide. He was found in the pool of blood and he was operated upon for about 5 to 7 hours to bring him back to life. My next door neighbor went out to school. This is my room, this is his room, this is my room, this is his room, and I wasn't there. Some people heard the South Pole as he fell to the ground. They took him, they operated on him, whatever. And before the second response, the response would come that we are disturbing the original vision with which they came to the school as medical students. The second attempt at suicide happened and this time was successful. Yes, this time he was successful. This was one of my the year behind me. And he looked at the method which my neighbor used. He was, he was, he was, he was on the second room. If if the room is 10105104103102 like that to 19 then he was either down there, I don't know what the number is at the end there the same 1. So his was the first room at the top and this guy's room was like the 6th room this way just below. At that time Rollinsdon had also arrested my father. So I I had to go to Sacra that was following the police Neema police station. My father was had been arrested and thrown into prison to pay electricity bill. Yeah. So I was I was not I was not on campus when I came. They told me this guy and he used to even came to church at the point. Yeah. That he used the method that my neighbor, my neighbor, my neighbor had gone to visit my Bin Laden at Ligon when he did that thing. So when I came back from Ligon, then I heard that he had done it. This one. My father was arrested. So I wasn't around as I was in. I was, I was in town trying to sort things out. Yeah. When I came, they told me that for two days the whole hostel was smiling and the guy had improved. He used a feather technique to improve on what my neighbor had done. And he was successful. And he was found after three days. The whole hostel was smiling. And they climbed through his balcony and they found him swollen. Yeah. So after this second suicide, the deed of the medical school now responded to these people. But listen, there is a need for a church for the students to be attending if you have them, because there's a lot of stress in the school, a lot of pressure, a lot of stress. But they can see that in thy presence there is fullness of joy. In thy present there is fullness of joy. Yes. Yeah. You could see. See, there is something that comes at least level 2 presents. You forget that you are even as students. Oh, above all lectures, above all exams, above all eyes, above all quizzes, above all assignments, above all vibes and people chases, above all clinicals and oral exams and final exams, Above all. You were there. They will come and they will go. Hallelujah. There is some joy that comes in His presence. Are you understanding what I'm talking about? I said there is some presence and joy. When there is a presence, you just know that the right thing has happened in some inexplicable joy, joy unspeakable, full of glory. Hallelujah. Wow, this an atmosphere. You know when I go and wait on God, when I go and wait on the Lord, that presence is not there and the joy is not there. At the beginning. Yeah, it takes time. But as it starts to speak to me, as I can sense these around. Yeah, sometimes demons attack me. I've been attacked by evil spirits whilst waiting on the law. Yeah, I'll be attacked. You see that? I'll be there. Then I'll. I'll start the cross. The blood. The blood of Jesus. It cannot work. Cannot wait. Yeah, because they don't want me to be. No. No demon wants you to wait on God. Do some other thing. Go on. I have rehearsal. Do something. But don't wait on God. Shah ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba dosembres samando sebela kibre sama devre samalanda membre de SE lembre. Have a primitive. Don't wait on God. Yeah, have a primitive, but don't wait on God. Yeah, don't for rehearsal, but don't wait on go. They are they are different. Each atmosphere is slightly deep. The atmosphere at 20,000 feet, different from 30,000 feet, different from 10,000. No plane flights at 10,000. There's must be a helicopter. We go up, a few 100 meters up. No, no, no. We cannot go far and fast. Wow. This is a presence I want. I want it in my car. I want it in my house. I see some of you have the atmosphere of praise and worship, but not His presence. His presence has not come as you live in disobedience. Also, it's no presence. May you enjoy this wonderful atmosphere of a presence. Wow, how many types of presences do you have? Only 5, huh? What is the number one presence of one? No, no, no. How many types of atmospheres? 10 you have Riverside. Wow, now.