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17.Serpents As Masters Of Overcoming Demons

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
April 11, 2025 38m 1s

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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 number 17th of Wiser Serpents Masters. They are wiser Serpents 5 being. Masters at overcoming. Demons. Serpents are masters of. Serpents, yeah. Snakes, one of their. Favorite meals are. Snakes, they eat them like noodles or spaghetti, and I will show it to you tonight. You see a snake swallowing long he. Follows him through straits. I was so happy when I saw it, I said. You have seen your master. I mean, few animals eat snakes. One of the animals that eat snakes are snakes. So you take snake to be a. Serpent, A snake to be a demon, and you realize that one of the wisdom. Keys. Of a serpent is its. Ability to swallow and neutralize other snakes like just. Eating them. I'll finish you now, you see. A snake which? Has no poison. Eating a rattlesnake and swallowing it like spaghetti. It has no poison, but it's not the poison of it has. They are able to neutralize other snakes so easily. Another one that is. Able to. Neutralize rattlesnake. Is what we call a secretary bed. Yeah. Secretaries are very powerful. And there is a bed. Called a secretary bed. It stamps out snake that I just stamp on it by finished. By downfall

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Welcome to track number 17th of Wiser Serpents Masters. They are wiser Serpents 5 being. Masters at overcoming. Demons. Serpents are masters of. Serpents, yeah. Snakes, one of their. Favorite meals are. Snakes, they eat them like noodles or spaghetti, and I will show it to you tonight. You see a snake swallowing long he. Follows him through straits. I was so happy when I saw it, I said. You have seen your master. I mean, few animals eat snakes. One of the animals that eat snakes are snakes. So you take snake to be a. Serpent, A snake to be a demon, and you realize that one of the wisdom. Keys. Of a serpent is its. Ability to swallow and neutralize other snakes like just. Eating them. I'll finish you now, you see. A snake which? Has no poison. Eating a rattlesnake and swallowing it like spaghetti. It has no poison, but it's not the poison of it has. They are able to neutralize other snakes so easily. Another one that is. Able to. Neutralize rattlesnake. Is what we call a secretary bed. Yeah. Secretaries are very powerful. And there is a bed. Called a secretary bed. It stamps out snake that I just stamp on it by finished. By downfall now. If you are going to be a successful minister, you are going to need to be as wise as a certain and be able to deal with demons. You must be able to detect the presence of evil spirits and deal with evil spirits in your life. Amen. You cannot allow evil spirits to be present with you. You must fight them and you must pray for word of knowledge and prophetic experiences so that you can your eyes can open in a flash. Everybody should have. These experiences, you should have it. Your eyes open in a flash. You see. Spirit. Standing there or. Wherever it is. They say hey. What is that? And sometimes you should be able to detect. By word of knowledge. As a pastor or as a Christian, the presence of an evil spirit, By his presence. You know when there's somebody in the room, there's somebody behind you, you didn't hear a word, and you turn and there is ah. There was somebody. Here. When did you come here? So I've been here for some time. You can sense that there is somebody there, so you need to have. Birds of knowledge. From time to time. And when you become a. Full-fledged prophet. You'll be having these birds of. Knowledge and visions regularly, but just as an ordinary. Christian, they must be manifesting in your. Life, Kelothian said. Look, when he was not a prophet, God would give him. Fantastic dreams, Visions. You see things. He said one day he was walking on the. Road and there was a car parked. On the road and one of his church members was in the car, but. It was very dark. And he couldn't see anybody in. The car The car looked. Like an abandoned car. He said as he was walking by. And he looked at the. Car suddenly a light. Came on in the. Car and he. Saw his church member and another and another man. In the car, do you understand? A light came shine in the car and he saw. Them and then the light went off. Not the car light. Oh, it's like just the the just the inside of the car. Yeah, he saw them and then it went off. Yeah, I tell you, these are. The kind of experiences you are going to have. Yeah, you are going to. You are going. To say demons you see in the spirit. Frame we have. Angels we have. Demons we have. God we have. Jesus. So your eyes must be. Able to see and even if your eyes don't see, you have to use. Signs to see the presence of Satan. Wow. How many are ready to swallow all spaghetti demons in your life? Amen. How do you know when an evil spirit is working? How do you know when an evil spirit is working? How do you know I'm asking you a question? How do you? Know how do? You know when you have a dream, the meaning of the dream. One day God showed me 7 evil spirits that have been following me. Yeah, he gave me. He showed me that the spirits that were following me and I gave each one of them a name as a code, a coded name. I said this one, I'm calling him this, this one, I'm calling him this. I gave them names. All of them. Actually. There will. Be more than 7. This one wants you to do this. And I saw. When I, I realized I saw true. Hello. Hey. You don't understand. Hello. Yeah, I saw. I saw that These are the spirits. They're after me. One day, Kenneth Hagin saw his son-in-law walking, and he saw three. Dogs. Following him and the dogs were and the law showed that. These are. Activities of demons and your son-in-law there and he told him to speak up to them and when he did, he stopped, he said. He said bind the activities of the devils. In your son in law's life, the son who had married. His daughter, yeah. So friends, if you are going to do well, you must. Be able to detect. One way or another, the presence of an evil. Spirit, an evil spirit that are working. That are working, yeah. And. Spirits are working. Me, I know, I know, spirits. I I I can I can go into my notes right now and mention that, but I will not do that. But it doesn't. Concern you? Yeah, I know you want me to do, but I will not do it. Should I? Yeah, I said. Hey, it shows evil spirits are followed. And you do follow you. Yeah, and sometimes. Chronic. Sometimes it's about something and it's after you. It's after you, it's after, and one of the spirits you can be sure would. Love to have a. Go at you is the Spirit. Of death. Oh yeah. Satan would very, very. Much like you. To be dead. Satan would love. If I was dead, he would love it there. Will be nobody to send you to the missions again. Or maybe there would be, I don't know. You must. Be a child to. Think that an enemy? That you attack. All the time is just resting. And is just sleeping, no SO. You must. Grow up. And be conscious. Of. Spirits. Evil spirits. And be. Able to. Neutralize them. And swallow them, knowing that this is what the devil wants me to and that there is a. Spirit assigned. To make it happen to you. It will not happen in Jesus name. Now, how many are ready to? See into the Spirit. And see evil spirits working now. What you have? To do, if you want to detect the presence of spirits, all right is to. In the absence. Of wonderful visions. OK. I mean, I've not been having these kind of visions. You see, a light will come on under a tree. You see something? On the tree. And so on. OK. In the absence of that. You are left with the Bible and with the Bible. You see, what I would say is that. Your secular, modernistic. Life has. Made you not recognize evil spirits as quickly. As you should. Is he the same guy? Gun. Are you happy? Are you? Excited. Hey, it does not seem to be, it does not seem to be happy. You are happy. Special. Demons that every pastor must overcome. Special. What that every? What must do what? Amen #1 territorial spirits, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and against powers. And remember when Jesus was casting out the devils from the Nina, from the madman of Ghadara? Are you there? What did he say? He said the demon said don't send me out of this country. I'm used to this country. Every country has a set of devils everywhere. You. Go you. Have a peculiar demon that you are dealing with? Do you get it? Yeah. So what area are you in? If you are a pastor and you are in America, you must realize that the. American spirit is a spirit of. Worldliness and backsliding. And is a spirit of softness. American Spirit is a spirit of softness. All the wisdom. That I was. Talking about of a snake. Where the snake is it? Can maneuver. Can survive anywhere, all that kind. Of wisdom has been thrown. Out of America. Today, now, America is softness. Safety. Stay where you can and you. See that when you enter that system, you become. Like that? So I see even. My own church members in America. They are not Americans, but because they are there, the spirits are affecting them. You find them soft, you find them afraid of things. They cannot travel to places they is this safe? Is this safe? So what will you eat? Will you do this? And you see that they are, they are like softies and like, they are like softies and like people who are afraid of so many things just because they've gone into that territory and the territorial spirits have descended on them. And they become like the people, true or not true. Yeah, so you've got to be careful as soon as you enter into an. Area you must. Watch out the spirits in that area. If you go to a city like Tacorati, it's a city. Of fornication. Yeah, the. City of fornication, One city is 1 city now or one Yeah, for one rounds, one city. And they are, they are in, they they line up there and they have rooms. You go in one city, one city, one city, one city. Go, come, go, come, go, come. All. The girls and. It's so open. That they even. Testify of it. Opening chest. So this is what you do My but my uncle has traveled. So this is what I do. So this and that and that. And one day somebody came and gave me 10 cities. So because of that, I didn't have to go. They said, oh, it's. Normal. An open prostitute, so when you go to such a place. You don't take care. By the time you are finished, you have very wildlife. Go to America ready for spirit of divorce. Only they're just located at those. Places, if you go and live in Colegono or Choco can easily become a very quarrelsome person. One day I met an. A way? An A way lady. I would never have guessed that she was an A way lady. You know why? Because even though she was an A way, she had grown up in Colegono, so she only speaks like a gun. Well, there's a Airways. Don't behave like that. They are very gentle, very calm, very nice. Usually. But she has stayed there. So if you are a lady. Those parades can enter you and before you. Realize you are like a warrior. Getting married ready to address every issue and fight through every point. Switzerland there are evil spirits of madness. Yes. There are spirits of madness, mental illness, suicide and. Even pastors. Who go there, you see that? The spirit of lunacy wants. To affect them. Yes, it's like. As if they've gone mad from their original beliefs to what is happening to them. Turning against everything. That they believe. Now you. Can walk in Geneva and suddenly become afraid you. Sense fear and. Depression. And they commit suicide all the. Time they leave notes. I'm tired of whatever, Bye. Then they go. I'm tired of this. Bye. I've had pastors who have a spirit. Of lunacy and they went against. When I say lunacy, I don't mean. Mental illness. Spiritual. Madness. They went against everything that they were stood for. That'll be careful. Now you say, Ah, where is this thought? And idea coming entry, how can it enter you? Even the idea one pastor, he was living in a village. What town? Somewhere I called him and I said, let me, let me help you to go. I I I organized for him. To. Go there. When the Spirit came on him, he could not even remember. But he was not even. Living in Accra. He was out there. In the Bush and I organized. For I said come, I called him. I said come I will. Help you? Would you like to? Go. He could not remember. After today, he cannot remember. He has never seen abroad. Before except when. I called him. Organized for him to go and you realize. That is a guy. Is he normal at the point? As if? As if they are mad? As if you are mad. Because if you. Turn. Against the person. To whom? Even where you are. You are living there because the person help you too, not that he helped you. He. Organized for you. Never. You don't know anybody there. You don't know how to get a visa, you don't know about the opportunity, you don't know what and everything is. Organized for you. You learn, you go in church, it's because of the church, everything you do, the church, and suddenly you just go wow, go bonkers. And take over. Fight the church, fight your spiritual fathers, Fight everybody. It's the spirit of. Luna So you have to be careful of thoughts in Switzerland, you have to be careful of thoughts. And I just like why then against your own family and you see people going mad, you see people becoming afraid, you see people becoming depressed. One day I was in Geneva. There was a a brother, his brother. He was a he was a British citizen. He had a British passport and he had come to Geneva on a visit and he was inside the room A. Hostel. In a hostel and I. Came upstairs. And I went at the end of the corridor. His room was there, I was also there and I knocked on the door. Silenced. I knocked out and I knocked on the door. Then he. Opened the door. And when I saw him, he was. Terrified, I said why? He said Charlie, I feel I said why waiting? He said Charlie, come and see. We went to the window. There was a police car outside. I said when I saw the police car and I heard. The knock. On my don't think I was beating, the police are coming. I said why? Why are you afraid? I don't know. He's just afraid because in Switzerland you can't be afraid. You'll be driving. See the police. I've been arrested several. Times in Switzerland. Several times driving in the night. I'll see that the police. Cars behind me I'm driving for. Some of these. Drivers like. Police cars. In the middle. Of the night. Come to the side. Who are you? Passports. I've been arrested at the police station with men with AK guns with AK47. I'm just. Walking in the places come. Come this way. Passports, Passports. Different places camp passports come aside. This. Camp like that. You'll be afraid they are all. Spirits, they're not everywhere. They cannot rescue in the mountain. You'll be in the mountain. My wife was arrested 11 morning. She was. Just get. Up in the. Morning she was going and you were waiting for her there. Parked a car there. You pass here every day. Come. Yes, you can get. Arrested in the mountain. When you are entering the country. Everything about you, they know it. It's wonderful. So when you live there. Yeah. One day one of my pastors called me. President, how is that? I said fine. Then he said. Are you sitting down? I said, sitting down. I don't understand, he said. Are you sitting down? You are standing. I said I'm sitting. I said OK, I. Didn't know that. Traditionally, when you are going to give back, you have to ask the person. Whether he's sitting down or he's standing. Did you know that? So you are you are knowing? Are you sitting down? I said. I'm sitting down. Hello. Our church members are there though, I said. How? How are they there? The father of the church member took a knife called his wife. Stabbed her. I mean rich. People. Working in the United Nations. Stabbed. Her went to where a train is coming. A train is as big as from here to here. Huge matter when the train was coming or he just went in front of the train, the train. Turned into mincemeat, Yeah. And he? Had said it before. So I will kill you and I will kill all the children, Yeah. I said wow, 2 funerals. Straight away. One almost without a body. You are there, you know what is happening. So if you live. There you must be. Careful of the. Ideas that it? Didn't come to your mind. You see that an idea from Satan can enter you, and you are turning, turning, turning. What are you? Turning into. Watch out for every area that you are located, sometimes houses. You see that that house, when you move there, there's no peace, but something is in the house. Hey, are you listening? So you must overcome territorial spirits #2 you must overcome evil spirits in close. Your closest associates, especially your spouse, then Peter. Took him and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee. But he turned and said to him, Peter. He said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan. Wow. Your best friend can have Satan speaking. Your wife can have Satan speaking. Your husband can have Satan speaking. If you don't recognize it, you are downfall. I know a church which today has been dissolved. Because the pastor. Did not recognize Satan in his wife. Today he has. No church. He has lost all his members because he did not and all his. Top associate pastors. Told me the greatest mistake we made was to. Allow the wife. Of our senior pastor to be free as a Jezebel in the church and she sacked every important person. From the church. Until the final. Straws when she slapped one church member. And the remaining Czech. Members who have not yet been. Sank came together and said, is this enough? Out with you. All the stories I'm telling you are real stories with real people, yes. It is what I've seen it. It is what I have seen it before. So that is why you must be able to recognize, and that's the most difficult demon to recognize. Your spouse, your main man, you just appointed him in verse 14 #16 look at what he's saying. As a Bishop, I have to recognize demons. I have to recognize demons speaking through my wife, through my associates, through my pastors. I have to. Recognize when a demon is speaking and a demon is acting. And I've seen it a number of times. Are you going to be masters at swallowing demons? I'm waiting. To see the. First time you are going to identify a demon in your close associates. When? You do I'll. Also tell you mine. You can't. You must. Even your mother may be speaking. See that a demon is speaking. Your father. May be speaking. See that a demon is speaking. Wow, are you there? You are going home. Stand up #3 #4 stretch, stretch, stretch. Maybe today you're going to have a special visitor. Would you like that? The next one, to be successful you must overcome the spirit of pride in Co workers. The spirit of pride in Co workers. All right, for thou hast said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, yet thou shalt be brought down to hell. The signs of the. Pit now God. Was working with Lucifer as a worship Angel and he was. He became inflated and when you are proud, you cannot be called for meetings, cannot be told what to do anymore. This is some of you. You. We tell you what. To do you do it today, that tomorrow, when you become big in your own eyes, you will not want to do it. You will not even come for meetings. Then you become useless. To the ministry. So God is phasing out proud. People. And he's going to use the humble. But is it possible to live? And not become proud. It's possible. Many people gradually ascend into prank. It's like a natural thing, yeah. Difficult to. Call. Difficult to send, difficult to work with, difficult to use, difficult to rebuke, difficult to correct, difficult to say anything to anything. About you can't. Even make a positive contribution to the person because the person is too big. What do you think? Is it powerful? It's not powerful. The message is. Powerful at a pride. When Saul changed, he said. You have become big when you were small in your eyes, I. Was able to send you. So besides, I'm always going to be. Small in. My own eyes. Wow. That is why. I was talking to the Archbishop the other day and I told him and he said it. When he came to RSI, I said you don't have to call me, I will call you. He hardly ever. Calls me. I call him when he calls me. There's something that he wants me to do. I call him. He does. He doesn't have. To call me or remember that it is my birthday. I remember that. His birthday is. 12th of May. My birthday is 14th of May. Yeah, I remember his birthday. He doesn't. If he remembers my birthday, it's it's a grace. It's just. By Grace, are you? Listening to me. Amen. Just always be. Small. Don't be small. With your mouth. But in reality. Be small. So that. You can always flow with God and remember what I told you, maneuverability. When you are maneuverable, you'll be humble. Do you think a a man will be happy to be married to a proud, stiff queen when you tell her? Stand. See Stand where? Why? For how long? Do you think God likes it when he has somebody who is not maneuverable? He can't maneuver. I'm always praying. Oh God, I want, I want, I want you to be in your hands. I want you to do what you want to do. I don't want to do any. Particular thing I don't want to do anything. There is no particular like minister. I want to be a person or a prophet or no no. No, what is he wanting? What? Is he wanting it should be done? That's all and. What is he wanting today and what is he wanting tomorrow? It should be done. How many want to do what he wants? You to do. What a blessing it will be for you. Amen. Sit down.