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13.Serpents As Masters Of Survival
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - Wise As Serpents. Machaneh Collection - 85. 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. #13 of wiser serpents. Serpents, masters of survival. A serpent. Is a master of survival of all kinds of conditions. Now if you are going to do well for the Lord, thank God you are at this camp meeting. And if you go to Anakazu Bible School, thank God you are in Anakazu Bible School because you are learning how to survive all conditions. Now, snakes are by far the most successful of all animals, all predators, all right? They live anywhere. They live on the ground. They live under the ground. Under there are holes with 100 snakes together, rattlesnakes all of them. They are all staying there for the winter. Together they stay. They can stay in a tree above. They can stay on the ground, they can stay in the water. I never knew snakes. Like water? They like water and they swim. All snakes can swim. You will see here without arms and legs, you will see them. In the. Water. So all these rivers and all these, they are dangerous. Spaces to swim. You'll be swimming before I realise. Look at something that is coming the way you know about snake. You will even be a bit. Scared of some of them, even the sea they can swim in, the
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Welcome to Track. #13 of wiser serpents. Serpents, masters of survival. A serpent. Is a master of survival of all kinds of conditions. Now if you are going to do well for the Lord, thank God you are at this camp meeting. And if you go to Anakazu Bible School, thank God you are in Anakazu Bible School because you are learning how to survive all conditions. Now, snakes are by far the most successful of all animals, all predators, all right? They live anywhere. They live on the ground. They live under the ground. Under there are holes with 100 snakes together, rattlesnakes all of them. They are all staying there for the winter. Together they stay. They can stay in a tree above. They can stay on the ground, they can stay in the water. I never knew snakes. Like water? They like water and they swim. All snakes can swim. You will see here without arms and legs, you will see them. In the. Water. So all these rivers and all these, they are dangerous. Spaces to swim. You'll be swimming before I realise. Look at something that is coming the way you know about snake. You will even be a bit. Scared of some of them, even the sea they can swim in, the sea they can live on. Deserts that there is no animal to eat there. And deserts. You see them, you see the. Sun, the sand. Is like if you've. Ever seen? One time I was in Morocco and I saw the sands. It's like powder. There's no water. And you? See that there's snakes, are there? There's a snake under the sands. And it must understand the hottest 4550°, it's staying there. There are snakes and the coldest ice. Bags, they can. Stay in the heat, they can stay in the cold. So you see Snake. And I'll show it to you tonight. You see on. Top of the Himalayas mountains in the snow you see the the. Black snake in the. Middle of the snow still resting on a rock. What is he doing there? Is it not feeling cold? Is it not feeling cold there? But he can stay there. He can stay in the desert, he can stay in the cold. He can stay up in the tree. He can stay down on the ground. He can stay under the ground. He can stay in the water. There is no way that he cannot stay. He's a. Master of survival. Now when you become a master of survival, there is nowhere you see. There's a If you are wise as a serpent, there is nowhere God cannot send you to. Now you say this place, how can I go? I'm going to learn them. You are going. To learn them, it's only London. I can be. If you are wise as a serpent. You will say, send me to the snow. I will go. Send me to the. Desert I will go. Send me to the water. I will go send me to the sea. I will go send me to the desert. I can stay there. There is. Nowhere I cannot go. There is no. Place I cannot be. Yeah. That's why sometimes I tell some of these lay pastors who have made themselves I can only stay in America. I can only stay in England that you should have respect for somebody who has said where am I? Send me anywhere. And he says I will go. I can, I can go to Liberia. I can go to this country where there's war. I can go to Rwanda, I can go here. You should have a proper respect for that because you know in your heart that you said. That the only place I can be. After Ghana is the UK or Canada or America? Yeah, and those are the only and if I have followed those lay things. Lighthouse will be a limited church. Only in UK, Switzerland, America and Canada and Ghana, Yeah, that's what that is, what would have become of Lighthouse. And that's. Actually, what started to happen? We have only churches in England. And America and Switzerland, apart from Ghana. And one day I had a vision and the Lord showed me feces. Feces, you know. I've been in secondary. School. I've seen different types of feces that you have to clean. And it was there, and the laws. Tell me that's you. You are. Smelly, ugly, Horrible. To me, I said. Why? I said? Why? I said. Because now you. Wouldn't send anybody. See, it has to. Be financially OK, isn't it? The place has. To be a good. Place, isn't it? Before you will send people out, isn't it? Unless there's something there or there's money there, or there's something great for the person to get there, you wouldn't send anybody, isn't it? You are now divided. By this how good it is and how nice the place is, and that's what the law. Showed me He showed me myself in a vision. He said I smell to him. I'm arguing to him because I've degenerated and reduced into that kind of minister and that's why Jesus told us. Be as wise assassins look. Put me in the sand, Put me in the tree, put me in the. Jungle. Put me in the water, put me upstairs, put me downstairs, put me underground. You know, when you go down here, you see that we have filled a big hole, a big valley. There's a valley there. And I was thinking that maybe there is a snake under. You will see that it can come from that place. It will not die. It will find its way out from under and come out. Now, some of you don't realize you have been in a school where the toilet doesn't work. Tell the truth. Anybody who has been in the school where the toilet doesn't work, raise your hand OK #2 you have been in a university where the toilet doesn't work, raise your hand. Raise your hand. Toilet doesn't work, water doesn't run so my. Question to you is, what is the big deal? Why do you say you cannot go here? I cannot go to the desert, I cannot go to the mountain. I can only stay in the jungle. I can only stay here. Why but the toilet working at where you were and were you not able to be going daily to somewhere that doesn't work SOS. Shot put. What is it called? Catching through for what? Rapping through? You are cleaning other people's toilets now. Suddenly you are being. Sent on a mission or. Even the Holy Spirit is speaking. To you. The Holy Spirit is speaking to you do. You see? It's that you cannot hear it. You cannot. Hear it? I don't accept it. Do you accept it? Do you accept? It give your life to God's work. Anywhere, anywhere, God says. You tell the Lord, Lord, I'm as wise as a serpent, whether you send me to the snow or you send me. Where is Pachunata? Yeah, I see. I told her, I told her husband. I went to I went to a town called Bow in like in Sierra Leone when he when he got married, I told him go to Bow, you know Bow. I said go to Bow. I said I can't go there because wise as a serpent, he can be in Ghana, He can be in Freetown. That was the capital. But I said it's a town. Called Bow. Go to Bow, he said. I will go. He sent me a text. He said, oh, he's found a place. He's took him for another place. He's there, he has, he has arrived there. He's preparing the place so that his his dancing wife can. Join him in bow once he's dead. The Holy Spirit is dead. His dancing wife is dead with him. That's all. He doesn't need anything. I can stay in the snow, tell you whatever, I can stay in the snow. I can stay in the desert, I can stay in a tree. I can. Stay on the ground. I can stay under the ground, I can stay in the river, I can stay in the sea. I can stay everywhere. Everywhere God wants me to stay. I can stay there. I can fly. You see, they are. Masters of maneuvers, but they are also masters of survivor. Maneuver is deeper. I can move this way. I can also stay here. In any place you suggest, why don't? We have polar bears here. They cannot stay here. They are getting finished. Why don't we have, why don't we have lions here? They cannot stay here. Some of them cannot stay in this environment. Why don't? We have what, Penguins? They cannot stay here. Wow, are you tell you never. I can stay anywhere. I can be anywhere. I can go anywhere. What about that? Is it a good idea? Is it powerful? How many are wise as a serpent? After they come, when somebody asks why do you say you are wise, I say I can stay anywhere I can. Stay in the sea I can. Stay in the river I can. Stay On the sand I can. Stay. I'm a master of survivor. I can. Be anywhere I can stay under the. On top of the in a tree either before this camp, if somebody asks you to stay in a tree, you say oh how? What do you mean? You know who I am, but after this camp. You say, well, is there a tree? Is there a tree or in the? Desert. Why not? I can go there. And then you suddenly see if lighthouse. And the whole church becomes as wise as a separate It means that we are going to fill the hole anywhere, because that's the mind that we have. We have this, I can be and. That is the mind I have about the crusade. People ask me where do you stay when you go for the crusade? And my mind is that there is nowhere I cannot stay. Yeah, there is nowhere I cannot stay. I can stay there. You bring the place. I can be there. Yeah, I can be there. I can say a dormitory. I can stay there. I've stayed in a dormitory before. Why not? I can be there find anywhere we can be there. When you go to this place you do have so when you are travelling what? Do you mean? I can. I can go to toilet in the Hilton, I can go in Sheraton, I can go in my house, I can go to toilet in the forest, I can go to toilet in the water. I can go under the water. And do it there and come out. I can do it. I can do it anywhere. Is it amazing? Is it fantastic? So do you see that the church? Today has thrown away the wisdom of a serpent, and we have limited. Ourselves. That's why a. Pastor would preach and say. I see you. In Massachusetts receive it and a point to another one I. See a vision? I see an Angel, a messenger, holding a torch of fire. And it is you. And I see you moving to Berlin. In Germany. Receive it one. Receive it 2 Receive it. 3 and then. I see something in California. I see a light beginning to shine in California. God has raised up the lights. Take it one you take it two you take it 3 Wow. And then I. See you God has sent you to Togo and. Then you say, Tofi Aqua, let it Passover my head, set time I refuse and cut off the the head of the serpent. Set time. I refuse you now in the name of Jesus. God forbid. Yeah, why? Why has the church become like that? Because we have taken up. The. Wisdom of a polar bear that is the small. Place I can stay in the snow. In the Arctic Circle or. Antarctica I cannot go beyond, I cannot can wear the sunshine. I can only stay in snow, but a wise person who is as wise as a person, I can stay there, I can be there. I can do it to stay there. I can have a check there. Why can I not be there? Why? Not and. This wisdom is, you see that even black people. Have thrown away that wisdom even more. Yes, we, we, we where we, where we. Come from our hometowns. That is where we say we do not, we will not go there, Father Lord said to me. If you are serious. You have to go to Nigeria, any pastor who is doing churches and you don't go to Nigeria, you are not serious. You are not serious because Nigeria has a quarter of everybody is in Nigeria. You cannot ignore 1/4 of the whole population. And Congo, you cannot ignore it. You cannot ignore Ethiopia with 80 million people, 80 million people in Ethiopia and you say that. We are going to New Zealand, we are going to New Zealand, we are going to New Zealand. The spirit of the Lord has sent us to New Zealand and Australia and those type. Of regions. Are where we. Fill our callings. Amen. No, you can't be anywhere. Are you staying in the snow? Are you staying in the desert? Are you stay on a tree? Can you stay on the ground? Can you stay under the ground? I can stay in the river. I can stay in the sea. See, I can stay anywhere I don't have a crusade. Anywhere I don't have a crusade. Where there are people and where there are few people, where there are Muslims, where there are no Muslims, I don't have a crusade. Are there people there? Then you can be. There, don't, don't lift your nose, your proud nose and say I can't, I can't, I can't be there. This place the only toilet is latrine. It's a KVIP. Have you not started? Before I will. Let you come in front and do it for us to see. That I. Will know that. You are an expert. Professional, Is it today that you are lifting up your nose and saying I'm looking for people to send to Ethiopia? Yeah, Ethiopia today I was praying, you know, and I said, Lord, you promised me 100 churches in South Africa, 100. All these they are my. Reward too I need. More churches, more reward in heaven. So I was telling the Lord you. Promised me 100 churches in South Africa. I want all those churches, I need them. I need more churches. I need people to send to Congo, to Kisangani. I want to send somebody to Kisidugu, Guinea, all this place. I went to do Crusade Ganga. Ganga people, stupid, foolish. And who will go there? Who will go if you don't go? Who will go from today? From is it some of you? You couldn't even come when we were going to Cape Coast. You couldn't even come. Is that when will we stay? Where is the place? So what will we eat? Hey, me. I don't know. That's all. I can't stay. I can't. I can't fetch somebody. I don't know how to do that. Then you know, people like that who are students who are like that. You see, you have not even finished school. Look at how your attitude is. Tell somebody I can stay in the river. I can. Stay in the sea, I can stay in the. Tree. I can stay on the ground. I can stay. In the jungle. Wow. I can stay in the desert. I can. Stay on the mountain. I can stay in the snow. I can stay. Under the sun I can stay anywhere. I can't go anywhere. In Jesus name. In Jesus name, Amen. Wow, is it fantastic? No, the next one. Masters of contentment, one of the wisdom keys. They are masters of contentment. They're OK, They do not have to eat often, whereas most animal have to eat every day. Not having to eat often and being OK with one meal every four months or six months or sometimes in a year is one of the. Keys of success. For a snake, that is why it can stay for the whole year. Occasionally something will come its way. They are all matters of ambush. They wait. Yeah, they just wait. Not having to eat every day. He's a master key of wisdom. Like I don't need. I don't need. I don't need it. I'm OK. Are you OK? You need this. You need that. You need this before you can be OK. But a certain you. See that he needed it. He's just lying there since yesterday. Two months he's. Resting three months. That's that's why he's still there. He's OK, he's blessed. I ate in January. I'm blessed, I'm so blessed. I ate last year October. I'm OK now if you have to get. Up and go hunting every day and you have a lot of enemies, don't you think? One of your enemies will see you. And you go out hunting. You see, it is as. We go looking for things that we think we need, that we get into trouble, yes. When? You have a lot of enemies you. Don't just go to. Town. Easily. Anybody who sees you would like to kill you. So you may ask. Yourself that. I mean, lizards are not hated like that. Bears are not hated like. All these. Animals are not hated like that. The one that is hated more than anybody is rather the most successful. And most I mean it. It proliferates more than any other animal if they are. All around wild and. Dangerous animal that should not be free. They are all here. We have to go to this forest behind here to go and look at it. Imagine a master of contentment is just lying there waiting. I ate last year July when they were doing the construction around here. Some rats came to my area. I ate it and I'm cool. OK, I'm just waiting. Are you you? You need you need. You need to have. Conflicts. Rice Krispies you need. Fresh milk. You need You need orange juice. You need fresh fish from the sea. You need to live by the. Sea you need crabs. You need a Mercedes-Benz, You need a new car. You need so many. Things for you to be OK and that makes your life not successful and. This is. One of the master keys one day, one of my ask one of my pastors, am I rich? He said, oh, because he I know him. He knows me very well. He said you are just content. You are content. You are happy with a few things. Yeah, yeah, my mother built a house for me, but I've stayed in the house for 20 years and I'm happy I'm OK so that because. I used to stay in there. I said why not? Why not? You are just content. You are happy with what you have, Yeah. When you need to come. Let's say one of these or Nankasa out. They say this afternoon I'm going to look for something to eat. And it sees any Mason or. Carpenter in this area. Or a security guard or any of you. The alarm got to blow in the system. Hey everybody come what they are preaching about, there's one. Here, that will be it will cut you up into pieces. Does anybody have the picture of the snake, The one that we showed, the one that we had here, does anybody have a picture of it? It will be in an e-mail, some hundreds of emails away. I'll show you the snake that was living here. Wow, Pastor, what school would my child go to? I need an International School. I have had missionaries who left the missionary food. They said that I don't want my child to grow up here. Yes, I don't want my child to grow up here. I want my child to grow up here. You need it. And because you need it, you move and you move out of the will of God, and you move into danger because you need, you have to move and move out of the will, out of your safe heaven that God has given you that you will be there for. 50. Years nobody will ever see you. One day we killed a a snake mouse. The snake will be as long as from here to here. It must have stayed in the house for years for it to become so long. Like all the way up here. Yeah. And the the security guard was at around 2:00 AM and saw the snake moving. Yeah, that was the end of it. I don't know what he was trying to do that day. He needed something. Yes, he was successful and to the day that he needed. This for his life, because he must have. Stayed for so long to grow up. Look at this. Yeah, I can show you a picture. He must have stayed for SO. Many years eating so many. Mice and other things. And one day he said, you know, I need for my life. An International School to a downfall. I need a. Husband and I cannot see a husband at that place. I need money. I need America. I need this. I must. Have this, I must have this, I must have all these things. A downfall. Can you see why people do not go on missions, huh? I can't stay here. I need this. I must have this. Yeah. So, brothers and sisters, let us become happy with little and rejoice. You know, as we are here in our uncompleted. I'm happy. Were you not happy when you were in there big room here and they are happy in the other uncompeted one that you are in? It's not bad, not bad at all. And as it becomes more competitive, some people and one day some people will come and be complaining. The water is not running. Why is it? That this look at look at some people so masters of being OK, supposing I said my children must go to International School. I I never thought so. I found a school in the area and my son was the first member of that school. He was a founder. Wow, is it powerful, Founding member of the school. Because I'm OK with that school. I'm OK with that school. Yeah. Be happy. I am not content with my wife. I want something else. As soon as you start moving out of your house to go and find that new thing. Wow. So tell somebody I'm, I'm OK. I'm OK with what I have. Some of you always want money. You always want money instead of doing the hairstyle that can last you for six months. How many months can it last? Six months? One year? How long can the hairstyle last? Maximum. Six weeks. You are doing a special hairstyle that means money every week and there is a man or you make yourself a beggar. Everybody has to give you money because you have not learned how to use what you have, the bill that you have. Amen. Yeah, it's true. Some of you, you behave like beggars. Do you think the church will respect me if I'm asking everybody for money? Give me need something. I need some. You too. You are not also respected when everybody has to give you money and when you know that you don't have, you just cut your coat accordingly. Or you become a thief, or you become an armed robber, or you become a cheat, or you see somebody's money. You take it. Have a lot of thiefs in church? You steal offering and you eat your thighs. Your case is getting worse. You are a snake who move out to find something. You were OK. May you be content with what God has given you. Stand to your feet. Lift your hands and thank God for speaking to you this morning. The. 1120 God bless you and an offering. Take the offering when we come back next session, one hour, please. Thank you. Yeah.