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14.Prayer Marathon

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
April 11, 2025 1h 4m

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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 #14 of wiser serpents. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord. Wow, how many of you are becoming wise as a serpent? Yeah, it's really a blessing. I didn't know all this about snakes, but I've seen a snake before. I didn't know that all these things were there in a snake. Amen. So as we are here and we are hearing God's word and we are praying, we are also believing God that by the time the camp will be over for the rest of our lives, we shall be as wise as the serpent. Hallelujah. Ask your neighbor, do you want to be as wise as the serpent? I think the Bible also tell us if you are not as wise as a serpent then you can be as full as something else. I don't know, but I can be there. Hallelujah. OK, so we want to just continue praying. Yesterday our Father was sharing with us how to develop internal powers and how many want to develop your internal powers? You want to develop your internal powers? Can you lift your hand up for us to see those who want to? And one of the ways to develop your internal powers is to pray in the world spirit. Hallelujah. Yeah, because when bishops that I was, I thought s

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Welcome to track #14 of wiser serpents. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord. Wow, how many of you are becoming wise as a serpent? Yeah, it's really a blessing. I didn't know all this about snakes, but I've seen a snake before. I didn't know that all these things were there in a snake. Amen. So as we are here and we are hearing God's word and we are praying, we are also believing God that by the time the camp will be over for the rest of our lives, we shall be as wise as the serpent. Hallelujah. Ask your neighbor, do you want to be as wise as the serpent? I think the Bible also tell us if you are not as wise as a serpent then you can be as full as something else. I don't know, but I can be there. Hallelujah. OK, so we want to just continue praying. Yesterday our Father was sharing with us how to develop internal powers and how many want to develop your internal powers? You want to develop your internal powers? Can you lift your hand up for us to see those who want to? And one of the ways to develop your internal powers is to pray in the world spirit. Hallelujah. Yeah, because when bishops that I was, I thought something different, but I didn't know that the things that we do, the things that we do are the things that are, but we didn't even know. And when you are praying in the spirit, you are building your internal powers. So if you take those things lightly, that means that you are also taking your building your internal powers also lightly. Hallelujah. And then another one was protecting your heart, or protect your heart and meditate on the word. Hallelujah. Tell your neighbor, meditate on the word. Ask your neighbor, the one who just asked you, what does meditate mean? You tell that you meditate, what does it mean? Wow, OK, I know if we allow ourselves, we cannot finish. Let's take our Bibles and turn it quickly to the book of Hebrews, chapter 1. Hebrews one. All right, Hebrews chapter one, verse 9. You have a Bible, or it came with a notepad, so just write. But I believe you have the Bible. The Bible says in Hebrews 19 that thou thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Therefore God, even thy God have anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. Hallelujah. Yeah. That means that when you are being anointed, you will be above your fellows. Yeah, you'll be above your fellows. But one thing, as Bishop Ogo shared with us, we can be anointed when we do something, and that is we loving what righteousness and hating what iniquity? I'm not supposed to love righteousness and hate iniquity. Yeah, because I really know that you can love some can love and hate at the same time at this time. Wrong. You know, some can love righteousness and also love iniquity at the same time. Yeah, because you can even watch pornography in an atmosphere of worship songs. But is it not true? Yeah. Someone. Hallelujah. Yeah, someone is even saying that. Even bishops preaching. You can be watching or hearing and you'll be watching pornography. It's wild, but in that atmosphere, you are doing 2 things. You are loving righteousness. Maybe you are listening to the song and you are also loving iniquity. Yeah, but you know how how? You know how it has been done? I'm telling you because I was also there. I. Should I should not be truthful? Yeah, I have to be truthful. Yeah, we increase the volume of the music. And then reduce the volume of. You. Yeah, yeah. And there are. Hallelujah. Listen, you are standing as if you have not been bad before. Amen. And then those of you who watch it on your laptops or your desktop, you, you put it on the taskbar, you minimize the thing and then you put the pointer there. So when you put your pointer there, you can see it for the moment you switch the thing, it goes, nobody sees what you are doing. Yeah. Is it not true? Yeah, Hallelujah. Yeah, see, let's say we have to confess. Oh, yeah, I'm telling the way it is there. You have to confess. Yeah, I'm telling you. Last semester, last semester in Chief Erakadales Church Apache, there's some, there's some people over there. And whilst Chief was preaching, I, I sat by that person and the guy was listening to 1 Nigerian artist called Diband or something. He was Diband. Yeah, he was, whilst Chief was preaching, he was listening to that song in church. He was soaking in that song in church. So maybe, I don't know, maybe as Bishop is preaching. You have certain things in your. Ears. Hallelujah. And the Bible said that thou has loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore therefore because you have done this too, therefore God, even thy God have anointed thee with the oil of gladness. Isn't it not so amazing? We you see, most of the time we yearn for the visa pass Really open my eyes. We yearn for the anointing, we pray for the anointing, but the truth is that inside us we love iniquity and God cannot put His precious anointing over what you are doing. No. That is why you must first drain yourself off those things and then we will seal the bottom before God can put His anointing in you. I forgot to add on your to pornography. Hey, hey Messi, if you want to become an anointed pornographer, we will not do that. Hallelujah. So we just want you lift our voice and then pray and pray and pray because those pictures that you got from those movies, if you like, close your eyes, right, and start thinking about those times. If you don't see them, you see them right now. Yeah, you see them. Hallelujah. But what can wash away our sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can cleanse us and make us whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Hallelujah. I want us to lift our voices and then thank God for all that we are hearing, all that we are hearing, hearing the messages concerning we becoming as wise as the serpent or serpent. Lift your voice and begin to thank the Lord. Lift your voice and thank the Lord. Lift your voice and thank the Lord. Lift your voice and thank the Lord. Lift your voice and thank the Lord. Bless His holy name. Yes, bless his holy name. Bless his holy name. His holy name, His holy name, His holy name, his holy name. Bless his holy name. Which tells you what to do that you need to love righteousness and hate iniquity. It's not for the word of. God, what can we do? But Father, we thank you so much for your holy written word, your holy written word, your holy written that you have granted us, Oh God, that we are living our lives by that. As we read and we meditate and the words become part of us, Oh God, we depart from doing iniquities in the name of Jesus. Lift your voice and talk to your Father. Lift your voice and talk to your heavenly Father. He's been good. He will be good. He shall be good forever. He is good. The Lord is good to all. He is slow to anger. He is full of compassion, full of mercies. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Lift your voice and praise to God. Lift your voice and praise to God. Lift your voice and talk to him, Talk to him, talk to him, talk to him. Mamba, speak to your Father and tell him the Lord. Grant me the grace to love righteousness. Grant me the grace to love righteousness and to him iniquity. Yes, the grace to hate iniquity. That I will be. Far apart. From iniquity in the name of Jesus, men the Cavella, be Open your mouth and talk to God. Open your mouth and talk to God, for we shall call upon the Lord. Not just. In the morning, not. Just in the afternoon. Not just in the evening, but we shall call upon the Lord at all times. We shall lift our grudges to Him at all times. Man, the shame makeable me turn the label. Pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray to God, pray to God, pray to God. You know yourself and I know myself. Why don't you just go before your Father in heaven and tell him, Lord, this is who I am, please have mercy and grant me the grace to love righteousness and the grace to hate iniquity. In the name name of cheeses. In the name of cheeses Mehta cuca Bella Bella Bella Bella Bella Baba Baba Baba E ka ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba baa ba ba ba. Baa ba ba. Baa ba ba Baa ba ba ba Baa ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Ba Ba ba ba ba. He says that he. Does laborers laborers for? Himself, Why don't you open your mouth and speak to God? Pray, pray, pray. Mischa Bella Bella Bella Bella Bella Bella Bella Bella Bella Bella Bella Bella Bella. Baba. Lord, please help me to love righteousness. Help me to love righteousness. Help me to love righteousness and hate iniquity in the name of in the name of Jesus, Facebook, let's lift our voices and talk to him. Whatever that we shall say to him, he will hear. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Rubber value, Rubber value, rubber value, rubber value. Rubber value, rubber value. We don't want to walk on that street of inequity. Yoga. Father, please help us to walk on that path of righteousness in the name of Jesus. For the Kingdom of God is righteousness, Peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Help us to yearn for righteousness. Oh God, help us to crave for righteousness. God, help us to love righteousness in the name of Jesus. Talk to your Father and tell him the Lord. I want to love righteousness and hate iniquity, love righteousness and hate iniquity, love righteousness and hate iniquity, love righteousness and hate iniquity. But that is how you can anoint me with your holy oil, with your precious oil in the name of Jesus, man, Baba Kabaya Robaba ba ba ba ba ba ba. Everybody lift your voice and. You God, lift your voice and pray to God. Lift your voice and pray to God. May, may, may may may may my catapola Baba rasti compelliande. Oh yes, Oh yes, Oh yes, Oh yes, lift your voice and pray to God. Don't stand there and close your mouth. Lift your voice and pray. We are in an atmosphere of prayer and there is our and united prayer. We are joining our hands together and we are lifting our voices to God. That's what we want, to love righteousness and hate iniquity in the in the name of Jesus man. Taka baa mant taka baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa ba baa baa baa ba baa baa baa baa baa. If there is any iniquity that you are always puzzling with, you cannot stop watching pornography. You cannot stop doing certain things. Lift your voice right now and pray to God and believe God that He will help you. They will give you His grace and He will help you. Hallelujah. Ask your neighbor. Neighbor, are you praying? Ask your neighbor one more time, are you praying? Hallelujah. Can we stand to our feet? OK, let's stand to our feet. How many of you want to love righteousness? To love righteousness? Yeah, even to. I don't know. But you must even love to love. Love. Yeah, you must love to love. Love. I'm not saying it to your neighbor or your beloved is called love. I'm talking about the beloved. I'm not talking about one. Yeah, love. Yeah, because it is. It is a broad thing. And we say love if the Bible says that for God. So love the world that gives only begotten Son. Think of even the things that you have. Has your love left you to even give some to someone? Hallelujah. Yeah. But as we pray, God is going to help us to laugh, to even laugh. You see, because because we don't even laugh, that's why we don't even visit our people alone, because we want them to come to church. We expect them to come to church, but because we don't even love them to the extent that we can go and visit them. Yeah. Because last, if not last academic year, some time ago, I went to Wisconsin. By then there was an elder at Wisconsin, and I went there to do fast track. As we said. I didn't even know what it was, but I was being sent out. Go and inspect what happens in the chest. And I went there to the place. And when I went, the elder told him that oh, the people have not come, so I should just go with him so that we would we would go and invite the people to come to church. And I said, well, no problem. So I followed that then and we went and then in one room that we entered one room. Yeah, one room pornography, early Sunday morning, early Sunday morning pornography. So even even even myself and that elder us were in the room. We had been de anointed. Yeah. Because I saw something. Yeah. Sunday morning. Hey, Sunday special. Hey, Joker. Hallelujah. Yeah. And then just in Pentagon, where my church is, I went to call one of my church members to church. And you see those of you who have really studied movies, you see that there are times that when the characters are, they are talking and they are moving, they are making some movements. You can see where it is living towards. It is going somewhere whereby they will be close and they will be doing certain things, taking off and then something will happen. In fact, when I got to the guy's room, that was the part that the guys got into. And I said, brother, we have to go to church. Listen to what the guy said. The guy said if it is church, listen, if it is church, I will never post this thing. Yeah, he said. If I don't mind, I should sit down for him to watch just. Just that part. And then come go to church, Yeah. Just that part. Just that. I don't know if it was 20 seconds or what. Just that part, Yeah. Just that part. Hallelujah. So you could see that. To love righteousness if God does not have mercy on us and give us his grace. Yeah, because some of us elders cry. You can even see that even when you were so that you have become an elder, you have watched certain things. You watch and then you stand there and you're. Preaching powerfully. They're gonna have mercy upon us. Hallelujah. I thank God for our Father teaching us how we can be white like the serpent. Yeah. How can rice like a serpent? Some person, we cannot. When I when Bishop was talking about the snakes being able to stay everywhere, I realized that even most of us elders, OK, most of us elders, even if your church member is a weed smoker, you don't like to go into that room where he's smoking because you think that he cannot stay there. Yeah, but you must, yeah, you must go there and see what happens in his room. Because some of them may come to church, but because you don't actually visit them, you don't know what they do in their rooms. Yeah, Pentagon. The whole room was filled with smoke. The whole room, 4 people, four people with fire on their mouths. Yeah, Hallelujah. And this is the person that God wants you to go out there and reach out to you and love that person. Hallelujah. And I believe that we are going to do that. Amen. So I'm going to praise you God one more time, even to have that surviving power, to be able to stay somewhere, to be able to even stay with your church members and counsel them because some of us want to go. We are in a hurry to go. It's like I have been forced to go and speak, to go and face it. I just have to go and see it. But it's not about seeing. You must sit there and have an interaction. That's where the person can come up with the things that he's facing, see that the person is facing. Yeah, I'm telling you, it's really, it's really vibe. I know that God is really going to help us. Yeah, but it's really going to help us because it is not easy. It's not easy. We just look at certain things. When it comes to church, we are nice, but their room is there. We will not go. Some of them can start poverty. Poverty. Some are chewing gory. Yeah, I'm telling you, Pentagon, as you see their place tonight, they are paying millions. Go to their rooms and see. It's not easy. Yeah, but if someone is able to come to the Elder, please. This vacation there, I must tell you the truth. I messed myself up. I have fornicated. But I mean, I felt bad because at the time that Chief was facing us, I would not even visit them as it's true. And it's not just me understanding. I think I'm the only person, but you also didn't take your phone to even give someone a call during their vacation. Hallelujah. So we are praying to God to give us that grace to survive in certain places. Don't say that. My branch is far Wisconsin. I'm on campus. I cannot go. You must have that grace to be able to survive in the midst of guys. Yeah, you must have it. Hallelujah. Lift your voice and talk to God. Tell God to grant you the grace to be able to survive at certain places. Able to survive. The ability to survive of certain places. Yes. That you will not even despise certain places. That you will not say that these places are for guys. I am a lady. I cannot go. No, No, no, no. No. Not at all. No, not at all. Because we are now being taught how to be wise. Like a serpent. Yes, Lord. Yes. Lord. Let's Your voice and talk to God. Let's your voice and talk to God. Lift your voice and talk to God. Yes, the ability to survive. Mashamba ka ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. I don't know where your brush is. I go to the people in your brush. But the Bible says that you must be as wise as a serpent. And one of his messages is the ability to survive everywhere. Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. Let's. Pray that we can. Survive a. Places that we. Will be safe Let's. Pray that we will. Survive a certain. Prices that will be. Placed there let's. Pray, let's lift our voices. Let's lift our voices. Make it. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord, Yes Lord ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ika ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. Love the ability to survivor, the ability to survivor everywhere that we will find ourselves, that everywhere that we. Will find ourselves that in every point that. We have been playing oh God, for we shall be wise as the serpent of God. The serpent has the. Ability to stay everywhere and to survive. He's able. To survive in water, he's. Able to survive in trees. He's able to survive in the cross. He's. Able to survive in the cold places. Godfather. In the name of. Jesus, we as Christians. And we as elders. We are so asking you, can you make? Us have the same ability to survive in certain places in the. Name of Jesus, that we will not just be there, but Lord will be there with power and will be there with strength. In the name of Jesus, Mita Rabba Rabba. Lift your hair, sugar. And close your eyes. And point to God and ask for the. Survive. This time round, this. Semester. You will survive. I Will Survive. Like a snake, I will stay there. I will flourish. I will prosper in my brush, in my brush, in my brush, in my brush. My members shall do well. My members shall right. They shall love righteousness and they shall hate iniquity because I am there with them. I am there with them. Must in the Copa Lava. Shabayande, Ropanda Rabayande. God is falling out. He's great upon us. Lift your heads to God. Just survive in spirit. We shall survive. Lift your voice. In your brush. You will survive. In your brush, you shall survive. In your brush. You shall survive In your ministry. You will survive. This semester we shall be wise. This semester we shall be wiser. At the surface we will have the ability to stay everywhere, to evangelize everywhere, to go to everywhere. We shall do it. We shall do it because God is crossing us. His grace to do it. In the name of Jesus. Lift your voice. PPPPPPP. He can survive. We will survive. Lift your voice. I am I am I am I am I am I. Leave the name of your branch to God. Wherever you have been placed, the God is this semester. I want to survive. I may be handicapped, but I will successful in the name of Jesus just separated and he come. He has no, he has no yes Sir, but he's able to survive. He's able to survive. We shall survive this semester. We shall survive. Salvation shall come to a composite, Salvation shall come to a compass. Because we will survive. We will survive. Lift your voice, Leave your voice. Lift your voice. Meet Papa, Meet Papa. Meet PP. Video Video Prayasa are rising up to God like an insect right now. I'm Prayasa. They are rising up. Lift your voice up, open your mouth and prevail and prevail and prevail and prevail and persist up and persist up. Ika Papa ika Papa lava ba ba ba ba shaman deko shaman deko shaman deko shaman deko. Wherever you find yourself, wherever you find yourself as a pastor, you shall survive. You shall survive. You shall survive because you have the ability to survive. Like a separate PPPPPP. Oh God, we call on you, we call on you. We call on you, we call on you, we call on you. PP E Papa E Papa E Papa Do answer many shall love righteous sister Do answer, many shall hate her iniquity here in the name of Jesus. Mishaji Mishaji Mishaji. I am my daughter. PPPPP. You shall do well because God will give it that grace to do well. We shall do well as eldest this semester. We shall do well. We shall not sucker, we shall not sucker. We shall not sucker, We shall not sucker. But we are growing up as an army. We are a crypto into the nation, into the hosta, into the hosta. Every rumor. We shall not bring his salvation of the people of the of the people, because now we are wiser as the yeah, yeah. Maha, Maha, Maha, Maha, Maha, Maha, Maha, stop your prayer. Stop your prayer. One more question, one more question and understand it and understand it and understand it that you shall survive. You shall survive. She will not come up with excuse that I can't do it because God has not made you to be wiser. As a separate, as a separate, as a separate, as a separate, as a separate, as a separate. Mata Mata, Mata, Mata Mata. Whatever is your ministry, whatever is your pleasure, let's your voice and tell God that is terrible. I want to survive. Take away excuse this, Sir. Take away lazyness, Sir. Take away tiredness, Sir. We shall do it, Sir. Wow. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. House of Sound, please. Hallelujah. We are, we are continuing our prayer, We are praying for a master's degree. Master's degree. Normally we have to go to the university, we have to go to Wisconsin, we have to go to USC or Legon to get a master's degree. But right now we are going to pray for a master's degree. Now, how many of you want a master's degree? What is a degree? It's a master's in overcoming personal handicaps. A master's degree in overcoming personal handicaps. Amen. And that is a serpent. Its greatness is in this ability to overcome the handicap of not having legs, hands, ears. Hey, hey, listen. There is nobody who is great in this world who hasn't had to overcome personal handicaps, Amen. If you see anybody who is signing anywhere, ask the person, very well, you see that the person has had to overcome a personal handicap. Amen. And there is a time in life at a point, as we live at a point, it is not about what you have, listen carefully. It's not about what you have. Whether you have legs or eyes or ears, listen carefully. There's a time in life, there's a point where it is only about your ability to overcome handicaps. It's no more about what you have. Because when the snakes were around, they were dinosaurs with long legs, fat legs, long necks, huge animals tails. Their tail alone was the length of a snake. But dinosaurs have become extinct and snakes are still around. Because there is a point in life it's not about whether you have money, whether you have a car, whether you have a rich father, whether you have a rich uncle or whether your family name is a nice name. It's not about whether you are a beautiful girl or whether you even know scratches. There is a time in ministry. It's not about whether your building is large or whether you are in a good country versus a bad country. There, there is a point where it is only about your capacity to overcome handicaps. If you lack that ability, you will go nowhere in spite of everything you have. So you see that there are people, they have everything, but they still don't do well because listening, it is not about having something, but it is about overcoming handicaps. I'm saying that it is not about how so when you see somebody who hasn't done well in life and the person begins to sing a song or chant A mantra about my problems. My father died my and left the the cocoa farm with his brother. The brother sold the cocoa farm. I couldn't go to school and and also I had an accident. I lost one leg. You are just talking nonsense. Anybody who begins to talk by listening a litany of excuses and problems that I haven't been able to do this because of this, because I don't have money. You know, I don't have that masters degree. You have masters. I couldn't go to a university, but you have been to university. That is the reason why I haven't done well. But you have done well. When you hear such things, you are, you are. You are listening to a human being who is fit to be in a kennel with dogs. It is not fit to be among humans because the humans who are making things happen are people who have had to overcome. Something listen for my. Right here. Here is it Becky, Rebecca here. Oh, to this. What's your name? Frank. Listen, if you begin to talk and you begin to less your problems and how your father didn't take care of you, or your sister raped you, or your uncle ate your eyes or you didn't go to a good university, you are a fool. You are a fool, I'm telling you. Are you listening? Stop talking, I said. You are a fool. Why? We are going to the ministry. We are going to prosecute. It's not a ministry. We are going to entertain excuses, my beloved. Beat me or my heart is broken. Broken. Heart mended and start. Moving. There are people who should be great who are not because they have become fixated on their handicaps. As soon as she begin to talk, she will remove the hand and say, look at my. For Camellia and Amelia, I was born without hands. You were born without hands, Rick. You see people who don't have hands and legs who are. Doing. Great things in life. So we are going to pray 2nd Corinthians 12 Paul went to God to pray that you know you are in the ministry. You called me, but I've got problems, but I cannot do it because of these tons. Paul said nonsense, you will do it. You are going to lift up your hands and you are going to pray and ask the Lord for strength to overcome your your no arms, your no legs, your no father, your no school fees, your what, what, whatever constitutes a handicap in your life. We are praying. That God give me strength to overcome. Begin to pray right now. Begin to pray. Right now, pray. Yeah. PP. Bella. Yeah. He. I. My. I am BA. Ba ba, ba ba ba. Lift your hands up. Whatever is my handicap, whatever disability. Yeah. Yeah, hello. I am. None. My. Yeah. None. Woman. I see you shy. You are shy, you are right, you are precious, you are precious. You are going under Mission in spite of your handicap. You cannot be a pasta. A guy like you cannot be a pasta. You cannot be a hostile, but you watch it. You are receiving strength. You are overcoming the background. You are overcoming the history. You are overcoming the history I. Hey pray, something is changing. Something is changing about you. Something is changing in your life. No longer ruled by your handicap. No longer ruled by your witness. I. None. How with the storage? How could you do it? It's not possible, but it's just possible. You are. None. How I? Yeah. How kind of black. Fire, fire, fire, fire, fire. Hey. Yeah. You may be seated.