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16. Atmosphere Camp - Bad Atmospheres-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 #16 of atmosphere. All right, OK, what was the last atmosphere you had? Of what? Sinful man? Now that atmosphere, OK, is an atmosphere that when you live in and walk in, you'll find that you sin also. So you must avoid that group and that atmosphere. Don't think you are better, right? Don't think you are stronger, all right? You are not strong. You don't need an atmosphere of smoking, drinking, dancing, grooving. Groovy, brother. OK, Father, thanks for this great opportunity. Today, in the name of Jesus, fill us with the Holy Spirit and let us walk in your wonderful, wonderful will. In a special way we thank you Lord, in Jesus name, Amen, You may be seated. Glory to God. Now the next one is the atmosphere of mockery. Look at someone. Blessed is the man that will not work in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners. That is the atmosphere of sinful men. Nor sit in the seat of scoffers, the seat of scuffers, of the atmosphere when there are people who don't believe in you is the atmosphere of mockery. When they don't really think that you are great. You get it. When you are with such people, when you
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Welcome to track #16 of atmosphere. All right, OK, what was the last atmosphere you had? Of what? Sinful man? Now that atmosphere, OK, is an atmosphere that when you live in and walk in, you'll find that you sin also. So you must avoid that group and that atmosphere. Don't think you are better, right? Don't think you are stronger, all right? You are not strong. You don't need an atmosphere of smoking, drinking, dancing, grooving. Groovy, brother. OK, Father, thanks for this great opportunity. Today, in the name of Jesus, fill us with the Holy Spirit and let us walk in your wonderful, wonderful will. In a special way we thank you Lord, in Jesus name, Amen, You may be seated. Glory to God. Now the next one is the atmosphere of mockery. Look at someone. Blessed is the man that will not work in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners. That is the atmosphere of sinful men. Nor sit in the seat of scoffers, the seat of scuffers, of the atmosphere when there are people who don't believe in you is the atmosphere of mockery. When they don't really think that you are great. You get it. When you are with such people, when you are in such an atmosphere, you will never develop. OK, now you look at our stars who are singing. They are always getting better, but they are doing well, not because they are in an atmosphere where we don't like them or we don't really respect them. I call them stars from the beginning and I like all of them, all the people that are stars and I always training them, they know it and I'm always trying to make everybody do better. Where ship stands, everybody, somehow we can try, it can work. Do you understand? Yeah. Everybody can get to a point. At least you can do something. All right. Are you listening? But when you stand in the midst of people who are laughing at you, you will never, never do well, OK. So you need to move away from that atmosphere and be in the atmosphere of those who believe in you. All right. And I since I became a Christian and I've been, I've always noticed the atmosphere of mockery. People who don't think you have anything, they don't really believe in you, OK. And I found myself way atmosphere. I just, I just shift. I just move. I just move now it's a bad atmosphere. Your gifts will not flourish, alright. They'll laugh at you. And so because of that, I've always, always remember people who believe in me. All right, You always remember people who believe in you. And a pastor or a founder of a church will always remember the people that believe in you. Because when you are doing the work of God, especially from the beginning, people don't believe in what you are doing. And they, they find you funny. But you'll be surprised how great you are going to become. You'll be surprised. Yeah, you'll be surprised. You'll be surprised how wonderful you are going to turn out. Amen. Are you expecting to turn out well? I mean, there are some people when you tell them you are a pastor and they will laugh. They laugh, people that have been your boyfriend before, your girlfriend before, if you tell them I'm not a pastor, I'm not the girl I used to be, now I'm saved, I don't believe in you. Just move away. So the way to treat that is to move out of that atmosphere, move away. You just keep moving away from people who don't believe in you towards the environment where they believe in you. Just keep moving. Once you find, any time you find somebody who believes, stay near that person, stay near that person. People who believe in you are the atmosphere. It's the atmosphere in which you you flourish. You become things you never have become. You see, if we hadn't had the 1st last church, these people who have been called stars wouldn't even because not they wouldn't even be called star. They wouldn't even be. You will not even be seen. You will not even be known True. I mean, I don't know any stance in the in the church in in in tech USD. I'm sure there are, but they need an atmosphere that will make them disconstance and all over. If you don't have a certain atmosphere, you don't become anything. You really need an atmosphere where somebody likes you and believes in you and doesn't happen in the back of his head. It's not saying it, but it has at the back of his head that you are funny. Do you get it? Yeah. So these are wonderful atmospheres that you need to keep moving away from and moving towards a good atmosphere. Alright, OK, these are just a couple of bad atmospheres that we need to understand that you will never, never do well in such a negative atmosphere. The next atmosphere is the atmosphere of the delicious woman in Revelation chapter 18. Now Hallelujah, in Revelation 18 it says none belong the greatest fallen OK, and has become the whole of every unclean bread. That's three. For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her. My people come, don't, don't stay in air atmosphere, come away that ye be not partakers of her sins. So every brother needs to know anyway let me finish that ye receive not of her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven. God has remembered her iniquities. Reward her, even as she has rewarded you a double unto her double according to her works in the camp, which she has failed. Fill her to the double. In other words, punish her now it's given a reason how much she has glorified herself and lived deliciously. Just lived deliciously. So much torment and sorrow give her, for she says in her heart, I said a queen and I'm not a widow, Amen. She has glorified herself and lived deliciously. This is a very important thing. When you are in the atmosphere of this woman, the Bible says come out of her now. How will you know you are in? You have entered the atmosphere of a person who can 'cause you to commit fornication. You see, in the Bible, women are largely, mostly and almost 100% blamed for sexual sins. Did you know that? Yeah, through the Bible, all through the Bible, women are blamed. Not, not 100%, but women are blamed mostly. This is the one Baba says all the kings of death have slept with bed, slept with so many people, but they didn't they left the king. So the kings were standing afar off when she was being jazzed and they were watching her dad, they said dabble hair put on with their judgement on hair burn hair. Give her an example for what that she has done because a male, according to our design, you see, needs not much provocation to have sexual desires. Now you young ladies know what you feel. That is sex. It's not sex you desire. You don't have desire for sex much. And it is confirmed after you marry and you've got what you want. You've got to secure the man. You've got the ring, you've got the name, you've got a child. Then you develop what we call PDMS, post donation neglect syndrome, post donation neglect syndrome, where now he has donated his name, he has donated his ring, he has given you the status, given you the child, the sperm that you needed. And then he experiences PBNS from then onwards, post donation neglect syndrome. And you see that all that you were saying, no, I feel this, you know, actually feel that it's actually the desire to for a man to take you in, but it's actually not sex. So, so through the Bible, you know, you see in in Jeremiah, in Isaiah, Victor, they are facing women, the strange woman. I mean, the Bible really talks about him. Although a man went to his house here. He told the woman that said this woman, her house is the way to hell. She is this and that and that many mighty men she slain. She is called the Slayer. It didn't say many men have slain hair. She has slain the men the Bible says she haunted. She haunted for the precious life. So she's the hunter because for the man brother to have sex, there's nothing difficult about that. And brothers don't have unilateral desire for any girl. Brothers men have multi directional desires. It's a sacrifice for a brother to choose one sister. It's a big sacrifice. No problem, no problem. It's a sacrifice. You have to stay with only one person. And all the lions, all the dogs, all the leopards, all the elephants, all of them have multiple partners. It's a sacrifice that we we make, that we stay with only you and have sex with only you. And then that same fest has developed PDMS post donation neglect syndrome. Now you need to know as soon as you are in the environment, purpose is her house is the way to death, to hell. Her environment comes out of that atmosphere, but it has an effect. The effect is luring and hauling and driving, you see, leering and you'll be judged for that. You'll be judged for that one. One lady, she made her, she had a boyfriend and she was angry with her boyfriend and she went to tell another boy when she had that this guy was beating her. This guy was doing this guy was like this. And in the end she made the guy so the new boyfriend so angry that she made him decide to to kill the guy because it was like it's a monster. So she told the second boyfriend actually he was not the second. He was one in a long string. But anyway, that's the second one, that she would let the man come to a particular place in a big farm, OK, And there he could kill. So she went to the guy actually who was her husband, and she brought him to the place where they killed him, brought him there, you know, and then she came out of the car and came out of the car and the other guy came and it was all the plan, you know, the guy talked to them and then he pulled the gun. The guy said why? What is it? And he shot the new boyfriend, shot the old boyfriend, which was like that old boyfriend was the divorced husband. So anyway, eventually after those another boyfriend that came at this one also, she did a bit with him and went to another one and another and one of them that she was with the guy started to wonder who is who is she? She seems to have a history like when he asked about this was oh, who was this person? Who was this guy? Oh, whatever. You notice you see a lie, little changes. A lie is a window into a malignant soul. A window, yes. When you, when you share the lie, you see that they're giving you a lie. It's a window that reveals a malignancy to understand something evil that lies behind. Yeah. Anyway, the long and short of the story is that in the end this new husband that said I mean number of series of husbands found there was something wrong with her and eventually she was called and the whole murder came up because actually their husband, they buried him and they couldn't find 2 years. They didn't know where he had gone. I thought they had traveled. She just he hasn't also seen him because she was not with him. She was not married to him. Eventually when they went to court, she was tried and the guy who shot the lady was also tried. Now, the judgment this woman was given about 50, 50 years of life imprisonment without the possibility of ever coming out. Do you see? And then the man who killed, actually killed was given a much less sentence. He was given, I think 20 years or 50 years or I don't know, even if he was sexy. Now they, they were explaining, they said that the girl was feeling that she had been not being treated well because she didn't actually kill, but then she didn't kill the guy. They Sprint to her that you didn't kill him, but you lured him. You lured him to the place where he would be executed. You lured him. You were the wicked person. You see, you know what you are doing. So Brandes, you are being lured. You don't know you are being brought as an ox goes to the correction of the stocks. He called the way to her house. So I looked out of my window in the twilight in the evening I beheld a young man devoid of understanding, and he went away to her house. And she met him with an impudent face and kissed him. Now, now, listen, this is the judgment, This is why God was abroad with He said really, He said how she has glorified herself and lived deliciously. Now, to a man, a woman is like food. It's like something he eats and he to a man, the woman is like food we eat. That's why it's multidirectional. And that's why the woman is described as delicious. Yes, delicious. Delicious. Deliciously. Look, you're delicious. I want to have, I mean sometimes that my wife will ask me what what do you want to eat? And I want to eat you. You are what I want to eat. Yeah, you are the Stew that I want you. You are the chicken that I want to. You are the right that I want to eat so, he said. How she has glorified herself and lived deliciously. You see now when the sisters developed PDNS, they now no longer live deliciously. So I told you to bring. Have you brought your caps and all the things to wear? You brought it yesterday. I will give you a break. You go and you bring it. Then you see that? Then you are no longer listen. You see, you may think I'm joking. All the things I'm saying, you know, somebody told me that they are true. It's like in some way that they are true. It's true that, you see, you can have food that does not look delicious, that's not too delicious. So you see when they do their hair they they look more delicious. Then you find out that when you advise that you outside your head you are now Captain Haddock. No earrings or the earrings make you look delicious. Look at this one. Can you? You see these that sound look delicious. Delicious. Delicious, yes. And so to the brother. Yes, you look delicious, like something to eat. Then he says how she has glorified herself. That means glory. I always tell you glory means beauty, so glorify means beautified. You make yourself beautiful. So brothers, be be careful. You see in the end you are blamed. You are blamed when fornication you will be blessed. Oh that God does want to fornicate, but not knowing that she has glorified us and you, you were also. I'm talented. She glorified herself, and then she lived in a delicious way. When she spoke, it was gentle. Yes. And she was sweet and nice and soft. She adjusted her breasts. Wow. I brought them up. Here you are. Would you like some breasts? Yeah. Tea and breast, yeah. Meanwhile, when they married, they take the the bread that was served on the was served on the plate. It has the plate has been put aside. It is now pointing to the South Pole, Antarctica, Antarctica direction down Antarctica to the Penguin zone. So you see that for the brother leads no encouragement, slightest deliciousness. So every brother should be careful of deliciousness and glorification. When you see a lady that make up hair too much looking, whatever, be careful of that thing. It's an atmosphere. It's an atmosphere, it's an atmosphere. It's an atmosphere you are in. You are under influence. Yes. And then they put on perfume when they, when they, when they finish match. During PVNS there's no perfume. Yes, just buy powder from colegonal market and then you just yes, gentle voice, helpful sounding. You see that is why sometimes older ladies would tell their daughters I was nicer than you. I was also sweet. I was sweet. You think I've been I was always like this. I was also sweet. I was sweet. I've had a number of sisters that their mother told me I was sweet. I was nice. I was people like me, boy, Men would pick me with their BMW, sit in the car and tell us, wow, You Beautiful girl. You know, it seems I know you somewhere. Are you OK? I think it's not you. But you look like her. You look familiar. Wow. So brothers, the Bible says, listen, Bible says she hunts for the precious life. Anybody who is called a woman is looking for you. Oh, yeah. If you are called, it is a woman hunting for you. Any man who is called, what's happening? Is it a goat? Children. Children playing. Are you called? How many battles are called God? God is funny. Are there some battles sitting down who are not? Who are not called, who are not called? There is somebody hunting, you see, but the sisters don't look like they are hunting because when you talk, they were hunting. You think of someone with bow and arrow with but that's not how they hunt. Now listen, they are more like fishermen. Fishermen. A hunter chases you with fear, but a fisherman puts a bait on and lose you. They are like hunters of fish. They know what you want. This this lady I'm talking about who killed a guy, He she was giving life. I mean, never to come out of this prison. She was given that whatever she the the first said that the man testified, said that the type of sex that she had with me, I've never had something like that before. And and she said that she knew what made a man happy. Yeah, she was delicious. She knew what to do and the guy decided to marry her. So many people decided to marry her and abduct her. She had a child. I keep on adopting her child. So I like you and your child. You and your child, you and your child. Different people were adopting she and her child. She and her child. She knew what to do and they know what to do. They know what to do. They are hunting like hunting or fish like luring. You luring. Come closer. And you can never choose a Good Wife in that atmosphere. When I when I was going to enter a relationship, I said no. If I decide it may be, it may be last because the feelings are so are so many. I need to be detached from these feelings so that I think clearly. Because if your mind doesn't think clearly when you are in that actors, you come to that processor before you realize you have married Leah. You know Leah. Leah is the person you never intended to marry. When Jacob married, he had actually wanted to marry Rachel. But in the end, through circumstances and through deception, deception by the parent and then the daughter, the girl here has seen that in wonder Man was called richer, but she had an older sister who was not yet married. So in those days when they have the wedding, after the wedding or whatever or however they do it, you go into the chamber and they didn't have electricity. Electricity was recently invented. So when he went into the room, Pian was a female body and you want here is the man who has been wasted in here, no time for inspection to assist their sister. So he just held there and then and then Leah also followed the deception of the mother. You see, there are some mothers. They know that their daughters are bad. They know this. My daughter, the one who marries her, has made a mistake. They know she can't cook, she's lazy, she has a bad attitude. She's like this sister. They know it. But as they are giving their daughter, they are happy that there is a man who has been deceived. And then, yeah, so Jacob was given. He knew that Jacob was deceived, Leah's father. He knew that Jacob was and he was happy that he was being deceived. And then the girl also flawed in the deception. I know that you are deceived about me. I'm not what you want and I know that you are deceived by me. So as he, as he held, I said no, no, he couldn't wait. He couldn't wait. He has been waiting for seven years. He said, Rachel, I love you. Rachel I love you. Rachel, I love you. Rachel I love you. And she was is it. There are people that are flowing with their deception. They know you are not the one. You are not the one they want. You are not the type of person and they'll flow with it until you've signed that thing. I wonder how Leah felt in the morning when it looks like that. What? Who have I married that you are not Rachel, You are not what I wanted. I've learned something I didn't want. This is the very thing I didn't want. I have it now. The parents deceived the woman also. This has happened to so many brothers and because of the no exit policy, you are stuck. I've been haunted before. I've been haunted. I've met haunted. I said. I've step back. I said yeah, every precious life is haunted and you need to stay away from that atmosphere because you are not strong. In fact, it's the only thing in the Bible where you are asked to flee Bragas when you see the breasts that have been served. Does this not affect you, the sisters? You can't understand it because it is your body. You don't even look at it twice. You say it's like nothing. The sisters don't understand it. They don't understand it's delicious to us. It is food to us. Today I am giving you a rope. We are going to tie a rope between 2 trees. Yes, as we are walking through the forest, the hunter is coming. That is the hunter is coming for you. We are going to tie a rope here, a rope here. We are going to dig a hole here. When the hunter comes, the hunter comes answer because I'm going to get you. The answer is going to fall into the home Jesus name. What do you think? Neutralize their powers. Some of you brothers, you are so loving, you say to them, you say to the person, please stop it. You are a fool. You are down for sit down sisters. Stand up and say I know I'm delicious. I'm not. I'm not going to live deliciously and spoil somebody's ministry. You are. You are, you are a curse woman. I tell you, if you spoil somebody's ministry, Yeah, you can go back to your seat. You are curious if you are, you are spoiling somebody's ministry curse. I said you are curse if you are spoiling somebody's ministry. Person is coming through our atmosphere. Your atmosphere is enchanting. The eyes are going around. It's not thinking, I like you, I've chosen you. So that's when people choose whom they are going to marry in their mind. You look at the presence, realize that the mind is not working. Sisters, are you going to develop PDNS? You sure. Are you going to bring those caps and things? OK, next session, right. All right, wipe the makeup discount. Yeah, that's inside everything. We will take pictures. You don't want pictures. You don't want anybody to say, OK, we'll take pictures. We like to be on the video. Right Next one, the kings of the earth, who are committed fornication and live deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and laments for her mercy. Now the next atmosphere. These are all bad atmospheres. The next one is the atmosphere of unbelievable music. It's a bad atmosphere to live in. Cherish. Cherish the night you know how to sing it. Cherish the night we have. Cherish the night, we must cherish the night. Cherish the night, Cherish the night, Oh baby, we must cherish the night. What about the day? Some of these songs when you hear them. You'll be charged. Regina had a vision and he said that the people were going to play music and it would charge the crowds with evil spirits, immorality, drugs, all kinds of things. So unbelievable. Music, non Christian, you non Christian. Radio music, non Christian, jazz. It's an atmosphere. You must not have and be in simple and short, you understand. Ow don't listen to it. It's ow don't. Oh, the radio is on, so I didn't put it on. The radio is on. So it's just music. Music is non neutral. So even what we, what we have done using certain songs and so on, it's something that can be very controversial. Yeah, because music is not neutral. It it has some power. It's not. It's not like a painting that has been painted by an unbeliever. And the music has spirits and things with it have been used to charge cows and to commit evil and to do things and do wicked things. There have been instruments of wickedness when when Stevie Wonder had our stars singing because we sang Stevie Wonder. Listen to us one day we spoke to him in America. So we put it, we put him on and he was listening the comment he made after. He's so glad to hear this song, you know, the song that they sound being used in this way and being used, you know, like for God and all because he's also a Christian. So it's like the people have had music and that the music has not been used in a certain way. Do you understand? So we are sort of trying to use it in another way, in a completely different way, you see? But it's not something to do lightly. Yeah, it's not something to do lightly. You can't judge. You can't. You cannot expose yourself to those things. Very, very dangerous. In fact, when I was in Calvary Rd., one of the things that almost divided the whole group was when the song Jesus is Love, start the beginning. Come start at the beginning when that song came and then somebody brought that song that we should sing it. They said the group had fallen into total backsliding for this song because of the person who sang it. Because he's a person who signed the reaching. He was just an unbeliever. Song charging. What are the summer songs all night long? Hello, is it me you're looking? I can see it in your eyes. I can see it in your smile. You're all I ever wanted. Yeah all these seventy child alone. Is it me looking forward all night long at party when we brought the song that he also composed the sign Jesus last it was the point of defeat. He said no no do do this. We are following the because it's like to touch any contact with any related to unbelievable something. I mean, that's what brought out the purity, yes, that we had just say it. Help your children, don't let them fall by the side of the road. This song was it was controversial. And teach them to love one another. The heaven might find a place in their heart. For here ever in my heart. So we gotta walk on, we gotta walk on to temptation is love and his wisdom will be our helping hand. And I had know the truth that his words they'll be our salvation. So we lift up our voices and we're painful and and we won't let you die. And I know that I know that he's mine forever in my heart. Who's going? To let you out, who will let you out? Who live Jesus? Jesus is love and I I know so if you wake I will tell you so that love is the way forever and ever and ever Jesus. Is love. This song calls division that it was, that the fact that the person who sang it has been singing songs in discos and people are useful, that this song is unacceptable in Christian circles. That's the level of Don't Touch Me as far as unbelievable music is concerned. It's the touch me nuts. Yeah. And that type of character has also produced a lot of ministers of the gospel and people that are pure walking in the Spirit and serving the Lord. Yeah. Whereas people who are just mixing up things and so on, you get it. Have not become much. So there's a certain atmosphere that also, I mean, that dilutes your Christianity totally. Alright? So you cannot, you cannot bring in unbeliever music into your world, into your life, into whatever you are doing. Are you listening? Alright, So you need to really watch that out carefully. Amen. Glory to God, you guys are doing a great job. The next one is the atmosphere of bad news now, the atmosphere created by CNN, BBC, all right, and sometimes now our own GBC and so on, TV 3 and so on. Do not create a good spiritual environment. Are you listening to me? Are you listening to me all right now? You cannot. Some people just love to leave the news on all the time. You don't know, but you are being affected by it, It having an effect on you. And you are always afraid of things. OK.