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16.Walking Worthy

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
February 23, 2026 55m 5s

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Camp Title - God Requireth That Which Is Past. Machaneh Collection - 92. Preached in 2014, 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 God requireth that which is part Jen, is that you should walk worthy of the vocation which you are called. You know we have vocational schools, Yes. So vocation means like what? What does vocation mean today? Scale. Check it up. Rules of which one are we doing? Rules of what? Church work. Yeah. What does vocation mean? It's like your work, isn't it? Huh. No. Vocation means an occupation, OK, but in the Bible it does not mean occupation, it means invitation. Yes, the he the Greek word a divine call to God's service in the Christian life part of the definition. But in the Greek, a word just means one of the main meanings is like invitation. So it's walk worthy of your invitation. Wow. What have you been invited to? OK, walk worthy of your invitation. Worthy like, like live up to the, the, the, the the expectation of your invitation. Amen. Don't let us down. Amen. One day there was a sister in in terrible need. Terrible need of a beloved. No, I don't want to give you the details but believe me when I say terrible needs. It was it was a difficult situation. And a brother came to seek my help to locate a fellow belo

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Welcome to track #16 God requireth that which is part Jen, is that you should walk worthy of the vocation which you are called. You know we have vocational schools, Yes. So vocation means like what? What does vocation mean today? Scale. Check it up. Rules of which one are we doing? Rules of what? Church work. Yeah. What does vocation mean? It's like your work, isn't it? Huh. No. Vocation means an occupation, OK, but in the Bible it does not mean occupation, it means invitation. Yes, the he the Greek word a divine call to God's service in the Christian life part of the definition. But in the Greek, a word just means one of the main meanings is like invitation. So it's walk worthy of your invitation. Wow. What have you been invited to? OK, walk worthy of your invitation. Worthy like, like live up to the, the, the, the the expectation of your invitation. Amen. Don't let us down. Amen. One day there was a sister in in terrible need. Terrible need of a beloved. No, I don't want to give you the details but believe me when I say terrible needs. It was it was a difficult situation. And a brother came to seek my help to locate a fellow beloved, a Co equal beloved. Are you with me? So I knew the difficulty that this sister had. And I knew that based on the difficulty that she had, no one would be laredos her. Yeah, that's why I say terrible needs. I knew that nobody would be laredos her. Yeah, because her problem was not a was not a secret, but God touched my heart and I told the brother that this sister who had a terrible need, he should think about her. So he said, OK, you'll think about it now. He came and said to me, Bishop, I think I want to take your suggestion. So when I saw that he he was serious about it, I became afraid. I said, what about if this girl goes to disgrace me? Yeah. And goes to be in some way wife. So I called her. I said come sit in my car, I'm taking you somewhere and I took care. I want to talk to you, Charlie. You cannot disgrace me. You have to do this. You have to do this, you have to do this. Because I know how people behave after they put their ring on their finger and everything is said and done and you see that they have changed. Can't you see that I have changed? I'm not the girl I used to be. I'm the Madam of the of this life. Can't you see that I've changed? So I talked to her. I said you cannot let me down. You have to walk with me of this invitation because I am at the background of this invitation. And the guy knows. Actually, I am the one who recommended somebody like you in your situation. Yeah, so when they got married, I was saying Lord, Lord, don't let her disgrace me. Don't let her. I mean, be a beast to the husband. Are you understanding what I'm saying? Yeah, 'cause you can't tell they they changed. So can't you see that I have changed another girl? I used to be. And now the Madam X. We are Madam X. Sorry, Madam. Why? I'm the Madam here. Yeah. Are you listening to me? So the point that I'm making, my dear friend, is that, look, God has stretched out his hand with an invitation. I remember another sister, you know, and, and this, this the girl who was in terrible need. She did well. Oh, yeah. Sometimes when I hear of the good news that is prevailing there, I feel happy. And I say, oh, Lord, thank you. She's working wealthy. And one day there was a church, almost every member was a girl. And the pastor was a brother. And the pastor didn't have a wife. And he he had to choose a wife. So he came to my house and I sat in the sitting room and I said, let's discuss who would be suitable. We went through all the sisters in the church. Which one are we going to choose? And I went to the branch to see for myself the options. When the final option was chosen, I was part of the decision making body, but this one did not work. Worthy. Yeah, yes, because when the pastor was saying there were many, there were many were old. Oh, could he marry? Could he marry the the pastor was the only hope. It was called pastor, only hope. Last chance, last chance to marry. But he did not work well. She did not work well. Worthy of what? Of the invitation. So when there is a little gift, the smallest gift, you have to work worthy of this. This is this is the commandment to everybody who has a small gift, work worthy of your gift. If you are working worthy of your gift, you use it every week. Yeah, God showed me every week. Anything that is not used every week is not useful. It doesn't develop normally. Like if you are a preacher, you don't preach every week, you will not that develop well. If you are a singer, I don't a sing at least every week. You will not develop well. You, you have to work worthy and use your, your, your calling. Yeah, that's why we are having a camp next week. I'm having another camp. I have to use my gift every week. Wow. Are you listening to me? Yeah. And use it very well. Work with you. God has allowed me to be alive. I'm preaching to my pastor's children. Yeah, my pastor's children. Yeah. You're the children of the pastors in the church. Yeah, I'm still here. If God has given me such an invitation, I should be faithful enough to say to you what I said to them. Sorry. Yeah, you may not know, but many of you are the children of the people that I used to preach to. Yeah, when I was getting my heads, mother made a dress for my wife. The marriage day went to the house dressed as well. It was not yet formed. Fantastic. So if God has allowed you to be here, think about how bad you used to be. I can't imagine what you'd be doing on Friday nights some time ago now. Here you are. God has allowed it. You have to work worthy. Can I have an e-mail from a Christian now? 4 reasons why you must work worthy #1 You must work worthy because it is a privilege to be chosen. Second Corinthians chapter 4, verse one right there in the book. There's no need to write anything. Just look at the book. He says you must work worthy because it's a privilege to be chosen. Therefore, seeing we have this ministry as we have received mercy, we think not. In other words, we are not going to be tired. Amen. They are not going to be tired. Wow, some are tired. A little instruction, Everything. Just one thing. A lot. I mean a lot of talking for one thing. You'll be surprised how much talking goes into one person doing. Well. Somebody was telling me, he said where do you get all these people? He said that I am able to choose people. Like I have a lot of wild people that work for me. How am I able to choose all of them? Then when I started explaining the meetings that I have like one small thing that he will do, there's a lot of talking and meetings. He was very surprised. I said yeah, because one even relationship, how you should behave. There will be so many discussions. If you don't take care, you will faith because the people are singers. As I'm preacher, I'm using them as examples and somebody can say, ah, 1 singing that we came to sing. No, we are being used as examples of everything who the match when they say catching the anointed or not catching it, we are the ones just because of a song that we sang once. It is not that somebody can choose people, Pennsylvania, It is that people. It is a privilege to be chosen and it is just you are chosen in your raw state and a lot is work on you. And if you don't see it as a privilege, it will pass you by and you you'll be lost. So it's a privilege. You have received mercy. It's not any good. We are not a good person apart from the Holiness Club which came on. And even there we know that in secret there are sinners. Yeah, in secret we know there are sinners because I look in the place of righteousness and there was iniquity, mercy. Like God looks down from heaven and he looks right into the camp and looks there is iniquity. How many realize that it is you that they've seen? So it's a privilege. And every day you must thank. Thank God. Have you heard me? Pray? Pray before I preach often. What do I say thank you for? Watch the opportunity. Always. I see the opportunity to preach. I could be dead. I just dropped down there. PO. You are not there again. Yeah. I mean, this year, look at the people that have died. Yeah. One after the other. Of of of of of of of. Yeah, when I'm going to play golf, before we play, we pray. Father, thank you for the opportunity to play golf. Then we play. Then I'm going to pray. Thank you for the opportunity. Thank you for the invitation. Thank you for the opportunity. I tell you, Charlie, you people, if you listen to what I'm saying, when you marry, you'll be very nice wives and especially wives. Yeah, for the girls. You really need it. Thank you for the opportunity to be your wife. Thank you for the opportunity to be your wife and to serve you and to love you when your husband wants to have sex. So thank you for the opportunity to have sex with you. I'm so privileged. I'm privileged. So would it not be nice if your wife was telling you that too Powerful. Have you been hearing such words? Please come again. Have you been hearing such words? Thank you for this. No, no. Oh, there is one event unto all. So that they beg you beg. You have to beg before they give you the same. Instead of the person thanking you, thank you for liking me, thank you for choosing me, thank you for touching me, thank you for having an interest in me. Please, I'm available anytime. Please, thank you, please, thank you, thank you, please, please, thank you and thank you please for the wife for the privilege and opportunity. Wow #2 you must work worthy because you have a limited season of opportunity. Limited, limited, limited everything to everything there is a time and a purpose. Therefore the misery of man is great upon him. Like everything that you will do is going to end. That's why there's so much sadness. First love will end type of happiness that we have. Many of you are going to grow up and you'll be gone. Yeah, you'll be gone and we'll be gone. What's happening? Sure. The phone is freaking out. Are you listening to me? Yeah. Everybody say limited. You must add. You see, you know why companies write? They write Coca-Cola Limited. You know why they write Limited Ltd? You don't know why. Oh, you don't know why they have to write it? Because by law, people need to know when they are dealing with you that you are a limited liability company. That means that you're the liability like when you are dealing with the company. At a point you see that the company is different from the person you understand. So like these two guys could set up a company and their shareholders and all they have their houses and things are for them in their name. And then the company is this big name, but the company actually doesn't have any money. So as you are dealing with the company, you know that it's owned by this guy. So when the company doesn't pay, you say you are coming, I'm coming for your house. I say no, I'm different from the company. The company is different. I'm also different. It's limited up to the company. After the company, I'm not there. It's not me. So you can't come for myself. So the company owes you, not me. The company owes you, not me. It's limited up to a point. So that's why the bylaws are supposed to write it, so that you know when you are dealing with them that these people beyond a certain point, you cannot continue to to harass them for money. Are you understanding? Yeah. But really, your name should have on it. Blossom. Blossom what? Samsung Limited that your life is limited. You should rather have limited by your name. It's like it's just up to a point. Limited opportunity. Rebecca Assay limited. We are all limited beans. And between 25 and 50. You are the most juicy. Yeah, you are most delicious between 25 and 50. You are most intelligent. Yeah. I mean, to to marry you, you must be between 25 and 50. I mean, come on, be serious. From 50 upwards. I mean, please. Even from 40. I mean, these days you see that 40 is like even in the 30s. Is it not true? Oh Nala, not so young in the 30s. Wow. But the Bible said in Numbers 8, you see the verse right there. What does it say? Numbers 824 to 25. This is what applies to the Levites. From 25 years old and upwards they shall attend, they shall enter to perform service in the work of the 10th of Meeting. But at the age of 50 years, they shall retire from service in the work and not work anymore. Wow. From the age of 50, it's enough. And is it not interesting that it's around 50 that you have menopause? It's like your fruitfulness is over in a way. From around 50 or before or after, around that age, your menopause comes. Now people are getting around 40 because of this chicken that we have been eating. The hormones chicken that you've been buying, don't buy it or buy the one that grows a living one. Not a machine chicken, real chicken, not hormones chicken. Chickens without feathers. Wow. So tell somebody I'm limited. Not for long. I'll tell you everybody, you'll not be nice for so long. Check your neighbors flat stomach and say you will not be flat for long. #3 you must work worthy because the grace of God has worked for you. First Corinthians chapter 15 verse 10, the grace of God. By the grace of God I am what I am. Wow. As the grace of God and the grace of God that brings us salvation into all men, teaching us, denying the godliness and welling us, we should make somebody righteous and godly. That is why. That's why we must work with him. Yeah. Oh, Grace has appeared to you Pennsylvania. Do you know anybody just like you who doesn't even is not even interested in God is interested in boys? Yeah, person is interested in boys instead of interested in the church and a boy interested in girls. And even how you were just a year ago, he would not have been at a camp like this, Triu or not Triu. How many A year ago you would not have been here at a camp. You would have been here a year ago. You not have been here a year ago. Yeah. Grace of God has appeared to you. Wow. So let's work worthy. Amen. Whatever God wants you to do, do it. Do it. Look at Ebola virus. Now those countries, it's not easy to go there. Do you remember we were having first Lab Church and we were in Guinea, Kisidugu and some towns the same. The centre where there is AUS military lab at biological weapons in Kenema, Sierra Leone. That's where we were. That's the main place in Sierra Leone at Ebola virus. Yeah, some people believe that it is a created virus, biological weapon tested, that has come out all those places we didn't know that we were marching through. You get it with a limited opportunity. It was about to be trapped down with an Ebola epidemic, which it will not be easy to see that it's gone for a long time to come. Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, even Nigeria. Now I have more people dying in Nigeria. It's spreading in Nigeria. Wow. What do you think you see? You just don't know how short your chance time is. Yeah. Any time you go to a funeral of a young person, you see that? Wow, this person was actually immense to live only 35 years. This person was actually intended to live 32 years. 27 years. I buried a pastor, 27 years. He came from Cape Coos University, came to full time ministry and he died 27. He was gone, his young wife married for six months. Yeah, you even know that his life was going to be 27 years only and then it was over. So you just don't know. So because of that, you give yourself all out quickly and now start. Now. The way you're calling is you don't need to be full time. You need to be a layperson, flowing and climbing up so you get to the place. It will be natural, you know, that I have to come save God. Yeah. Wow. Now #4 It is more natural to live the life of an unbeliever than to serve God. It is more natural to live the life of an unbeliever than to serve God. So this I say, and affem together with the Lord, that you walk no longer, just as the Gentiles also walk, And the futility of their mind being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, and because of the hardness of their heart. Ephesians 4. This is the life of an unbeliever, a Gentile. Listen to this. Notice it says so this I say that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles walk. And it's very easy to walk as a gentile walks. It's more normal to walk as a gentile walk. How do they walk? A look at it in the book A They walk. To live as an unbeliever is to live in the futility of your mind, like just normal thinking, you just using reasoning, anything that happens. Oh yeah, sometimes there are good times and bad times. Oh, at the end of every dark tunnel there is light. I mean, just some kind of ideas or thoughts and ideas for men, not nothing biblical. And your futile mind is not going to take you anywhere. Then to live as an unbeliever is to live to be darkened in your understanding. You understand. It's like you cannot understand things very well, Amen. Limited understanding of spiritual things and C. To live as an unbeliever is to be excluded from the life of God. You can read the book later. Amen. The life that God has given to us. You are excluded. These are this go back to the vest at the beginning of that point. What it means to be lived like an unbeliever. It's found in Ephesians chapter 4 and look at the Scripture in the book write in the book he says so this I say and affirm together with the Lord that you walk no longer as Gentiles walk. OK, what are the three ways they walk? He says one in the futility of their mind life, the uselessness of just mind or just thinking. You cannot think your way to God. You have to believe at a point because you cannot think or understand or rationalize or even understand even death. They can't ever understand it. It doesn't make sense. You have to have faith. Then it says, are you in the scripture being darkened in their understanding? When something is dark, it's limited. Like right now it's dark outside. If I run, I have to be careful because I can see only up to a point. So when your understanding is darkened, you can't understand far. So that's why you start guessing and coming up with theories as nonsensical as Darwin's theory that this world was created with an explosion and then a very complicated being like U and I are formed by an A random explosion. I mean, the chances that we are a Mercedes-Benz brand new with the latest technology and everything came about by an explosion. The chances that such a a a wonderful car comes about by a random explosion with molecules joining themselves at different parts to form light, engine colour, everything, spray with glass and everything comes about by an explosion. What are the chances that a random explosion of molecules and gases and so on can lead to something as complex as a Mercedes-Benz brand new, latest technology that when there is a flat tire, it will just reinflate by itself? When you have a flat tire, it just, it just goes up. It goes by itself. Yeah, yeah. The car will tell you. There's traffic ahead. The car will be speaking. It tells you, do you want a male voice or a female voice? American accent, British accent, African accent, What accent do you want? It will come up and speaking to you as it's going are the chances that this car was created by a chance explosion very, very little possibility. Is it not true? Yeah. How can you more complex than a car? Those who have done biochemistry, they will tell you the complex reactions that are going on in the body all the time. What are the cycles? Who did biochemistry recently mention some of the cycles? Krebs cycle, yes, glycolysis cycle gluconeogenesis mention the the the things in the pathway just go through who is warm you Yeah, from this to this to this mention all the the the structures yes, I need 3. They are not warm, Daniel. Yes, give us one, one of the cycles and urea cycle. Urea cycle, tell us what? What happens in urea cycle? OK, mention four. Come mention 4-5 cycles that exists. Urea mention 4-5 urea cycle. Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. I want to explain something to you. I want to explain something to you. Do you see your heart beating like this? That one you can see, but inside the blood do you understand? And inside the water in you, there are also chemicals that are moving that you can see. This one is changed to this is changed to this is changed to this is changed to this is changed to this. And it comes back to this, several different types. So other parties we can't see by changing like that. Do you understand? So the one you see is there and the one you don't see, the reactions are taken from this to this, this, to this, this, to this, this, to this, this to this, and this to this. So that you rear cycle, Krebs cycle, gluconeogenesis, is it another cycle and then what again glycolysis cycle and then what else come and what else? Your name again. Solomon. Yes, Solomon, the hexus monophosphate pathway. Hexus monophosphate. Pathway and we also have the uric the getting rid of the uric acid cycle, the uric acid cycle and we also have an. So do you know any of the pathways? Yes, please. Which one? I know the glycolysis pathway OK. Tell us. OK. We have glucose. When taking complex like polysaccharides like starch, they are broken down to glucose. The glucose app is taken into the cell and it's broken down by an enzyme to phase to form glucosis phosphate. What enzyme? The enzyme is called hexokinase. Here hexokinase then glucosis phosphate is converted to fructose 6 phosphate by an. What's the enzyme? The enzyme is called glucose 6. Kinase. Isomerase is an isomerase which converts to the isomer. Then we have glucose, fructose 6, phosphate 6. Listen though, you are learning something. That is how they discover drugs because one reaction went from this to this. The new one that is from makes your blood pressure go up. So when they discover that the enzyme is causing that, then they find something to block that enzyme. So if that reaction doesn't happen then your blood pressure stays normal. That's how they find it. So I'm just explaining how complex the body is Fructose phosphate from. Fructose phosphate. You go to fructose 16 bisphosphate. Fructose 1/6. Bisphosphate and by the enzyme fructose phosphate, phosphokinis. Phosphokinis, yeah. Then from there we go to Aldolase from to. 6 Phosphate Phosphate go to. The enzyme is aldolase. I convinced it to I think glyceride 3 phosphate. Is it glyceride 2 phosphate? Yes. Bishop is glyceride 3 phosphate, phosphate 3 phosphate, Yeah, which is 3 sugar, a three sugar. Then from there it comes to yeah. That's it. And it's going one and there are several of these reactions. That's why we say biochemistry or biological chemistry. Biological chemistry. Are you understanding the school you went to better? You understand it better, isn't it? Yeah. What other cycle do you remember? OK, I can also I think I can also see the the Krebs cycle or the TCA cycle, the Tri, the Trica was a leak acid cycle. OK, yeah, it starts with pyruvate, which is the end put out of glycolysis. Yeah, it's broken down. Pirated 3 sugar is broken down to a 2 sugar called acetar Co A Yes and acetar Co is a 2 sugar. It combines with A4 sugar called oxaloacidate and enzyme mediates that pathway and. For the enzyme acetar Co A to. Acetar Co A+ oxaloacidate by the. What enzyme You see, when I was in medical school, like if I even go to church, I had AI had a paper with all the pathways in it and I put all on. I put a paper, I put it in my pocket. So when I'm going to say I set up Kuwait to put process prosper, something I checked to see I have remember and I put it back and I'm moving the pathways because you need it and you need to know how to draw each one. Bishop remember it's called secret synthesis because oxaloacetate plus acetapho a goes from cigarettes to the enzyme is called cigarette synthase. Yes please. And from cigarette is a six sugar because we combine the four sugar to a 2 sugar. So we are forming we form the six sugar which is cigarette. Now we we convert the six sugar with the cigarette to a 5 sugar called alpha ketoglutarate and the enzyme is called alpha glutarate dehydrogenase. Yes, please. Called Alpha ketoglutarate. No, it's not. For our practice it's called. Ignorant people, be quiet and learn. You are finished. You cannot remember what's your name again? Solomon. Solomon, Yes. Which year are you in? I mean level 300 now, Yes. I can't remember the answer, but I think I can still remember. Yeah, you have to remember all of them. Yeah. So you you get up and then you say that this was an accident. Alpha fructose 6 phosphate to adoles divided by something goes to something and you say it happens. Your your understanding is what darkened. Yes, darkened. That's what I'm saying, that their minds are darkened. Most of the the people in Europe and their minds are darkened. Limited understanding. Yeah, it's so complicated. And you say there is nothing like a God. Yeah. So well done. Those of you in MB two, you better be memorizing the thing so that when I see you, you tell me the pathway. Yeah. Are you there? OK, So tell somebody. Listen, my mind has been brightened by the Holy Spirit. Yeah. Wow. And what is the third? The last way that an unbeliever walks is read. Read it in the Scripture. Excluded. Can you see it from the life of God? Are you having a good life in God? Are you excluded from the life of God? Are there people that are excluded from the life of God? Are you glad that you are included in the life of God? Has the grace of God that brings salvation appears to you? Do you want that grace to appear to others as well? Do you want to lead many people to the life of God? Are you going to give your life to help people to find the life of God? Are you sure you are going to give your life to help people to find the life of God? Are you going to do your best to let people come into the life of God? Were you once excluded from the life of God? Are you glad that you are no more excluded from the life of God? Are you glad that you are watched by the blood of the Lamb so that you can be included in the life of God? Washed by the blood, your mind has been frightened. You can now include the concept of God in your mind. I mean the absurdity of saying something like there is no God. I will just take you to biochemistry. Then you will see that there is a God. Yeah, just to buy chemistry so that you see that there is a God somewhere. There must be a God somewhere. Yeah, there must be a God some. I mean, you can't put God out of your mind. Excluding God and tacking in your understanding the futility of the uselessness of just the mind. It's just too bad. Are you listening to me? Yeah. So thank God this is the opportunity God has given you. And This is why you must work worthy because you have been included in the life of God. So I want everyone of you, your life must, you must take at least 1000 people to heaven with you when you are, when you are going, I mean, you're coming to this world, at least 1000 people must go to heaven because of you. How about that stand up and pray that God use me to take 1000 people before I die. 1000 people more should come to know you. 1000 people, somehow, some way. The. Father, we thank you for using us to take at least 1000 people on this earth personally, personally to heaven. Thank you for this opportunity. Thank you for this grace in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated.