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14. Atmosphere Camp - Other Atmospheres-1

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
February 28, 2025 37m 5s

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Camp Title - Atmosphere. Machaneh Collection - 80. Preached in 2012, Ghana (Mampong Akuapem). Bishop Dag Heward-Mills is a world-renowned evangelist, bestselling Christian author with over 100 books, and leader of the United Denominations, present in 100+ countries. Through his Healing Jesus Campaigns, thousands have been healed, and millions saved across Africa and beyond. As you follow this podcast, may you begin to know God in a way you have never before! Don’t forget to click the follow button and turn on notifications.

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Welcome to track #14. Of atmosphere. The next atmosphere, the atmosphere of great expectation. When there is great expectation, there is something different, Miraculous. Wow. The less people know about you, the more they expect. Some are when they don't know you, they expect more. More. Great. There's more expectation. Yeah. And the more they know about you, the less they seem to expect. So you are just. Are you not this and that. So you have to keep moving from. Even as a preacher, I I try to avoid atmospheres of familiarity. If I see that you are familiar with me, I will change you. Yeah. If, if I, if I travel with you, if I move with you and I see that you are bored with what I'm doing, I will change you very quickly. I will not, because your presence will prevent me from saying what I need to say. That would have been a blessing to somebody. And sometimes it happens with people. When you are with somebody, after some time, you get used to the person. Yeah. So you need to be careful. And also people that are close so that you can, you can, you can, you can take it for granted, but something that is very great for somebody you dear

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Welcome to track #14. Of atmosphere. The next atmosphere, the atmosphere of great expectation. When there is great expectation, there is something different, Miraculous. Wow. The less people know about you, the more they expect. Some are when they don't know you, they expect more. More. Great. There's more expectation. Yeah. And the more they know about you, the less they seem to expect. So you are just. Are you not this and that. So you have to keep moving from. Even as a preacher, I I try to avoid atmospheres of familiarity. If I see that you are familiar with me, I will change you. Yeah. If, if I, if I travel with you, if I move with you and I see that you are bored with what I'm doing, I will change you very quickly. I will not, because your presence will prevent me from saying what I need to say. That would have been a blessing to somebody. And sometimes it happens with people. When you are with somebody, after some time, you get used to the person. Yeah. So you need to be careful. And also people that are close so that you can, you can, you can, you can take it for granted, but something that is very great for somebody you dear is like you are with it all the time. It's true. People whose husbands don't look after them, they appreciate the smallest care. And people whose husbands care over care for them, they don't know what they have. And they don't, they don't even say thank you. They don't know. They don't even know what they have. Yeah, they don't even know what they have. It's true. So now you have so much, but you don't know what it is. There are people who have training to hear English so that they can receive with great expectation. So a preacher. So you will notice when I do camps, I, I, I, I keep shifting the people I do camps with because I cannot share what I'm sharing with sleepy heads, people that are bored and hoping for the time to go by. When we will be, when we will be, when we will be finished with this, when we, when we finish with me, finish with me. You want to finish with me. You know, you know how I'm feeling, you know how I'm feeling. You don't have an idea. You don't have an idea How? How I'll. I have been at this camp. Yeah. I didn't even know whether I can. I could work and come here today. Yeah. As you still as you still this year, Rich. You don't know how I'll. I have been. Yeah. You want to finish with me? You are waiting to finish? No. Yeah. You don't have any idea. I cannot. I cannot tell you. You don't know. Yeah. You want to finish with me? You are tired. If you were me, you would not. You would be on admission. I'm telling you. You would be on admission now. Yeah, as you see me here, you. So when you are moving with people in China, now this person wants to finish with you. That person doesn't appreciate what he's having. Yeah, because since I stepped out of Ghana, in fact since before homecoming on a daily face, morning, evening, morning, evening, all that say something when I even move, you see people are following me with things. And as as when I put my phone down, it's as if it is this thing, a nuclear detector, it is receiving. What do you call that thing? It's like a Geiger counter. It's counting something. Yeah, Geiger counter is receiving nuclear radiations and the the Teds are just adding as a project for me to come and reply all. So you see, you need to keep moving to the atmosphere of avoiding an atmosphere of familiarity and go to an atmosphere of great expectation. And it's because you have a great expectation. That's why I'm here. This is the third camp you're having. Yeah, you don't have an idea. So why you see people say you are tired? Yeah, you are tired. You don't know what what I have to do to be able to stand here. Fantastic. So be careful because otherwise the pillar just moves away from you and goes to another interested party. Esther will appear and Vashti will be set aside. Vashti the stiff queen, to beg. When they say come and come and dance more, you dance. You see something is this for me? This one is for me. All right, all right, glory to God. Now we are going to, we are, we are, we are going to a lighter atmosphere now and it's going to shake into a bad atmosphere. Yeah, not bad atmosphere, but going into some bad atmospheres, just like it's going to happen to the lion, the elephant just now on the film. The next one is the atmosphere of unmodified the atmosphere of nature or unmodified creation, nature. Now nature inspires. When you are in natural environments where you see nature's grandeur, nature's greatness, it inspires fear of God, the awe of God. Unfortunately many people don't remember God, but when you are in like this place, when you are here, natural environment here, you get a certain blessing. So there are times when I'm praying, I put on animals and God's creation, you see, like what we were watching yesterday. I can put on and be praying rather than rather than preaching or Christian music because I know, I know. I know the things. I know the fantastic. When you see how the egg is being transferred, the Penguin will come, then this one will go and do this and not say you say there's no God. He said there's no God. You know that there is God. Yeah. That is why everywhere in the world where there is a mountain, the house is more expensive. Where there is a lake, the house is more expensive. Where there is a river, the house is more expensive because the nature, the power of nature is flowing. Psalm 104, Ida, you got to sing. Psalm 104. Wow, Are you ready to Ida, sing to the people. Psalm 104. Bless. The Lord of my soul. Oh Lord my God, I'm done. And my chesty covering yourself with light, as with the Lord, stretching out heaven like a hands curtain, he lays the beam of his upper chambers in the water. You. Covered it with the teeth as with the garment. The waters were standing above the mountains. At your rebuke they plant. They'll lift up their boy sees among the branches. When when you watch birds, you will fear God more than any other animal. Yeah, birds are some of the most amazing animals to watch. Yeah, I can watch five hours on beds and praise God. Yeah, and I've been to, I've been to some of these places, this mountain, I've seen it one day I was in AI, was in a hotel in Switzerland. I looked out of my window and I saw a lake. Then I saw two Swans cutting and doing wedding dance on the van. And I was, I mean, 'cause I've seen it on the film and I saw them doing it. Yeah, they, they dance together, they move together and they do courtship dancing and it's fantastic. It's amazing that somebody say there's no, when you watch all these, you come, there is a God somewhere. In fact, we have nothing at all. In fact, it's something you really wonder that when you die, you know, just dead, like the Psalms. I mean, there's nothing to ask. Finish it. They lift up their voices among the branches. So that they bring food from the earth and wine which makes my heart so glad. So that he may make his face listen with oil and food, which sustains my heart. The trees are going to drink. The trees of the Lord drink, they are filled. The Cedars of Lebanon, which he blinded, where the bird spills that and the star whose hope is the fair trees. The high mountains are for the wild gold. The cliffs are a refuge for the he made the move for season. The Sun knows its plays of its setting. The next thing that I'm interested in is the solar system. Yeah, I don't know anything about spars, but I hear there are many, many galaxies. Where are they from? Who made them? Why is it that only Earth has the temperature and pressure to contain human beings? Wow. Why is there a magnetic field around us in an ozone layer? Why? And this is the only place where there is life of all the plenty things all around. Fantastic. If the earth was to move a few miles, couple of miles this way, or a couple of miles nearer the sun, we will freeze or fry just a little change in the distance from the sun. We go just a little this way, or just a little this. We go just a little this way. Everything will call and die. If we go a little nearer, everything will will just bend. Fantastic. The atmosphere of nature and as Africans this is an atmosphere we are going to have to learn about intentionally because we don't appreciate nature at all. A tree is of no value to a black man usually. Yeah, the beaches, so many things. You know when I went to Gambia, I had the half beaches and so on. When I went there I was disappointed. The beaches of Ghana are 10 * 20 times far better, nicer. No, no, no. What I mean, not in terms of at all like like a beach that you can swim, a sea that you can swim in. For those of us who are swimmers, there's some sea you can. And when we went, when I went, there were there were three flags there. There's a red flag. Nobody should swim blue, white, Blue Flag, only strong swimmers and up to me and then white flag. You can swim whatever something I mean after a point. And you see when you see the sea, just the sun is just small and then the sea star, you see that it's very dangerous sea. La Badi beach and all these beaches we have, they are far, far, far, far, far, far better. I've ridden horses and galloped from Jamestown. The the lighthouse have galloped, horses galloping. You know, we go sometime when we are training the horses, we take them and we gallop them to stretch the muscles. So we start from the lighthouse, you know the lighthouse at Jamestown. From the lighthouse, the beach straight to the castle. On the beach there's like open long sand like this. You can gallop at top speed going all the way right up to the castle, the rocks to the castle. You pass Palm Court, you pass Independence with full top speeds, free sand, beautiful beach. Ganga doesn't have anything like that. We have not valued it. It's fantastic and we don't value such things. Yeah, but if you value God's creation, God is going to judge those who are spoiling his creation. Sing about the Lions and then we are closing 21. The Young Lions roar after their prey and seek their food from God. When the sun arises, they withdraw and lie down in them. There, the sheeps move along. Wow. Listen, this is the psalmist praising God for all the creation. Yes. And by observing nature he was able to write a Psalm in the Bible. What have you been able to write? By observing, said the lions go to sleep in the day and they get up in the night and start moving around. The sea is full of swarms of fishes, different animals. Wow, what a great God we serve. So the atmosphere of nature, Yeah, it's a wonderful atmosphere. One day I saw a very rich man and I thought his house was in Accra, but I was brought to his house and his house was in the mountains here. Yeah. When he died, he was buried in a house here. When I came to the house and I saw that. You see, there are some people who value nature and what nature has to offer. We don't value it, you get it. But from now you are valuing wonderful things. Amen. All right. Thank you. So the atmosphere of nature, the next one is the atmosphere of the Isle of Patmos. It's also a combined nature and spiritual separation atmosphere. Yeah. Nature and something you understand, say nature and something. Yeah. It's like you've come away, come away, come away. There's a song like that. Come and spend some time with me. Come away. Wow is it beautiful. Sing it again. Come away, come away, come and spend some time with me. Come away, let your heart and mind steal, let your auntie cuff beefy. Wow. Come and spend some time with me. Come away. So come away, come away, come and spend some time with me. Come away, it's your heart and mind to still. It's your empty cup. Be filled. Wow, let your mind be filled and let your way to be filled. Come on, sing it. Now come on. Sing to go, ready go. Come away, come away, come away. Come and spend some time with these. Come and spend some time with me. Come on away. Let your heart and mind be still. Let your heart and mind let your empty cup be filled. Empty cup. We think we are joking, but you, you may be the first person to receive a Coca-Cola. So ready go for the last time, ready. Go, come. Away, come away, come and spend some time. Let's your heart. And mind feel. Let's your heart and mind. Let's your empty coffee. Feel. I love it. I'm going to the Isle of Atmos. I feel myself entering the island. I bought my ticket to the Isle of Atmos. I modified Nature. Now you see come away when you realize that on modified creation nature is often combined as a combined atmosphere of natural and spiritual. Like the coming away is the natural, but the coming away where away from the human place that has been formed. So if you ask me to come for a retreat at Kokomlemle Hotel, Lucy, I'll prefer to come to house at a coupon. Do you understand that at the Kokum, namely air conditioned hotel, I'll have a completely different experience if I am in a table or in some place. By Lake Bousum tree? Yes. By Lake Bousum tree, Yeah. Or by the river Prague. Yeah. Or by one of our good rivers. Yeah, I've come away to the Isle of Pat. That's why. That's why John introduced himself and told us where he was when he had the revelation. Yeah, say it again. Come away, come away, come and spend some time. With me. Come away. Let's. Get your heart and mind your. Sin empty cup. Get your empty puppy there. Come away. Come. And spend some time with me. How many light cord? How many water? Come away, come away. Would you like to spend some time with God? Let your empty cup. Let your empty cup top it. Up. One more time. Oh, Jesus. I feel something coming down from hell. No. I feel like it's sending pressure, God. Spend some time with me, it's your heart and life. Singapore, the last time. Jesus, Jesus, we are coming to where you are. Oh God, give us a fantastic experience. Something mysterious, something full of faith. Sit down. The next one, the atmospheres of Jesus 5 Atmospheres of Jesus #4 the Sea of Galilee atmosphere, seaside Sea of Galilee atmosphere Oh so many places Jesus came to meet is dissapled by the sea. Grilled fish for them. Grilled fish for them and gave them fish to eat. What an atmosphere. Not beach parties. Beautifulest #5 The mountain there was 9. Unto the great unto the mountains. Jesus went up into a high mountain and prayed. Mark 5 and Matthew 10 number six. Garden atmosphere. The Garden of Gethsemane, wow. And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said Sit here while I pray. Wow. Those who have who have cemented your houses, you have cemented all the garden. How can you have the Garden of Gethsemane when you have cemented? See, a lot of houses have cemented the whole house. Everywhere is cemented. It shows something in our way of thinking. We have cemented the whole house. How can there be a garden? Is it amazing? Is it fantastic? Wow, now the atmosphere is changing. Atmosphere of hatred. Are you there? OK, now, Joseph lived in an atmosphere of hatred. His brothers didn't like him. Yeah, and we all know where he ended up. So that's why God took him to be as far away from the people are despising. That's why God took me out of groups that I belonged to, where I was despised and not chosen and set me to work irrespective of people's liking or disliking of me. Amen. Is it amazing? And that's the atmosphere. You need to move away from where you are not liked. Some of you are forcing to be liked by somebody who doesn't like you, huh. If you if you don't belong to the group, don't force yourself to be. Come on now. If somebody says he doesn't like you or doesn't want you, that is a big deal. Even he will not get for something delicious. He will not get food. He will never taste something delicious like you. Wow. And the last atmosphere tonight is the atmosphere of sinful men. When you are in an atmosphere of sin, don't be surprised if you sin. Yeah, don't be surprised. People who live in the atmosphere of politicians and sinful men, wicked businessmen, thieves. Some pastors love to be with thieves. You know that your member is a thief, but because he has money and he brings money, you, you you caught him. And he, he sits at the front table with you because he's given money. He's the main person and become a major disciple. It's true. Haven't you seen it in churches? Everybody knows that this man is a thief. He's not a callback. He's your main man. Man, may we, may we not, never have such people as main men in the church. Amen.