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18-Give Yourself Wholly To Your Gift

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
April 11, 2025 53m 21s

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Camp Title - Give Thyself Wholly. Machaneh Collection - 86. 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 #18 of Give thyself holy. The next important point is, is what? The next important point is what? Because I want to finish this thing I tell you, give yourself holy to your gift. Yeah. Neglect not the gift that is indeed which was given thee by prophecy. Amen. Give yourself wholly to your gifts that your profiting will appear to all. So you must give yourself to your gift. Amen. Is it fantastic? What is your gift? Now you see, like Ida, she's got a gift, but she's been giving herself to her gift. And you see, my gift is all. I also have a musical gift. I also have a musical gift, but my gift is not singing. It's something else, you see. So as I give my gift to the Lord, my gift grows. So you need to give yourself to your gift and your gift. You always see traces of it when you are young. You see some of you your gift is that you can do 3-4 things at the same time. Some of you your gift is that you are slow but sure SBS. Some of you your gift is melancholism. Money will never get missing under your care. Some of you your gift is not money. You are sanguinos. Money will get missing under your care. Is it true or it's

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Welcome to track #18 of Give thyself holy. The next important point is, is what? The next important point is what? Because I want to finish this thing I tell you, give yourself holy to your gift. Yeah. Neglect not the gift that is indeed which was given thee by prophecy. Amen. Give yourself wholly to your gifts that your profiting will appear to all. So you must give yourself to your gift. Amen. Is it fantastic? What is your gift? Now you see, like Ida, she's got a gift, but she's been giving herself to her gift. And you see, my gift is all. I also have a musical gift. I also have a musical gift, but my gift is not singing. It's something else, you see. So as I give my gift to the Lord, my gift grows. So you need to give yourself to your gift and your gift. You always see traces of it when you are young. You see some of you your gift is that you can do 3-4 things at the same time. Some of you your gift is that you are slow but sure SBS. Some of you your gift is melancholism. Money will never get missing under your care. Some of you your gift is not money. You are sanguinos. Money will get missing under your care. Is it true or it's not true? Some of you musicians, you have a gift. Will you continue to use it? Will you develop? Will you give yourself wholly to your gift? Yeah, you must give yourself to your gift so that you are good at it. Yeah, that's why I also stopped some aspects of music because I realized it was not my gift. If I could play as well as you guys could play, you will not. You will never rehearse with either. I will always play for her. Sure. I will always play for her. Yeah, sure. Yeah, I'll play for her and I'll practice with her. I already practice with her, but a different kind of practice. But if I could play, I'll play and practice. Yeah, true. But you have to know your gift. And you always see traces of your gifts. A lot of people are not giving themselves wholly to their gifts. You see, one of my gifts is teaching. Teaching. We started at 6:30 in the morning. We ended at 12:30. So I'll be talking to you while you are not tired. Do you understand? Did you know that it was 6 hours? Yeah, you will not even know that six hours have gone back. Yeah. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah. So what gift do you have? No. When I was in school, when I was in school, before I went, when I was beloved dozing. I told. I told my beloved, you know, I said, you know, I have a dream. When you are young, you have idealistic ideas. I said, I have a dream. She said, what dream is that? I said, I have a dream that I'm standing on a mountain and a lot of people have come to the mountain and they are all sitting there and I'm talking to them like, oh, Jesus, but we are on a mountain in manpower, aren't we? This was my dream, 1983. I think that it really has such a dream. Yeah, No, when he said, someone said I don't have any of them. Most of you have some kind of a gift that you are good at doing, and you are, you are made for that. Let's say, for instance, acting. Some people have a funny face. They, they, they, they, they, they are not trying to be funny, but the face is funny. Do you know, do you know anybody like that? Most, most gifted people? Somehow you can see it at a point you see. And when it says give yourself holy to your gift, it would also mean give yourself holy to the encourager of your gift, because many times the the the encourager, your gift doesn't develop because there's no encourager of your gift. Like, let's say if you are a pastor, you know, and you don't have somebody who encourages your pastoral work, you may be a great pastor, but you never imagine. So you have to give yourself. That is why somebody like Asian wanted to be with Mourinho, you know, because he he to like him and always filled him and let him play because the encourager of your gift would make your gift come out. If I didn't want Ida to sing, she wouldn't sing. You just wouldn't hear her singing. That's all. Because it's entirely up to me. Every time she's saying I call her to sing, nobody tells me it's time for her thinking it's my choice. Are you with me? So you you have to also to when you are giving yourself to your gift, you have to who is the encourager of my gift? Who is, who is my coach? Who likes my, what I what I, I am or what I do? Yes, my manager, who, who, who is like that? And then you have to, you have to be closer to your manager because your manager will bring you out and you will be shining, but you will not. People will not know that the manager is managing the thing from behind because the manager is the analyst who can analyze why you are not doing well and why you are not working as a pastor. Even people who are pastor, you know, sometimes you can see. One time I went to a church and I saw the church. The pastor couldn't let the church grow because the pastor's gifts, the pastor was too melancholic. Yeah, when you are very melancholic, your church cannot grow, because when you are melancholic, you see, you see, melancholism is arranging things in the right place. And church members, they are not arranged well and they don't follow things as they should follow. Whatever you say, they will not do it exactly, you understand? Uh huh. So when you are melancholic and you say by this time someday come here, go, they will never come on time. You have to know when they say they will pledge and they say they will give. They don't give everything they say. They don't really do it. So when you are very melancholy, you kept as a you, you are not I'll never work with you. You are not listen. You are told you to come. You didn't come finish. You, you, you were you. I I are fired. I don't have anything. You are not called. None of you are called. I'm the only one who's called. None of you are. You are not serious and finished. So then I as the trainer of the person who appointed the person as a pastor, you get it. I saw. I can see that this person's gift, it's not bustering. So when I move the person from that to something else, the person begins to shine. No one else shines like that the way he shines because the trainer knows that look, you can score, you can defend, you can do at the right, you can do it. But you also don't even know that you are better at the side or the left or the right. Are you listening to me? And if you are humble, your, your, your trainer is going to take you high. Once I met a Brazilian footballer. He was my driver. I was going somewhere. This Brazilian footballer, professional footballer, Brazil, he told me, he said, look, when we are playing is when we are watching the match. You, you think it's quiet. There is this, he said. There is a lot of shouting on the fields and insults and things going on. And he said, we obey what the trainer says. He said except certain footballers who are very big, like Ronaldo, and this is Ronaldo very big, they have conflicts with the trainer, the coach, because they have their own mind. Yeah. And when they get there, it's like they don't listen to once they do this and do this and all that because they are so big. Yeah. But most of the others, they have to listen, otherwise they go there #11 come to the surface, it's finished. So neglect not your gift. Giving yourself holy to your gift is also synonymous with giving yourself to your trainer. Let your trainer be choosing things for you so that you shine in your room because there is no giftless person here, Babel says. There were 37, they gave 521. Everybody had something. What it is, is people are mistaken in one talent for no talent. Do you understand? It's like they despise the gift and say I have nothing, but it is not true. I don't have, I don't have, I don't have, I don't have, I don't have any. You don't have any because you are not around for us to even see that. You have no gift. Most of us were born without hair on your head, but you are going to have a gift anyway. There's a gift in you, for you, with you. Something about you is a gift. What do I mean? Something about you is natural and is unique, but you have to find it. Your coach can help you to find it and it comes out, but as you work, you find it out that if you become proud, you are not at the high level status of the top footballer. But you started quarreling with the coach. How would your gift be found? Yeah, I remember, you know, I used to go to America and every time I went there I would ask of a particular singer. Every time I said why don't you sing, then there was a particular key. But I also asked, why don't you play? I have asked them maybe not less than 10 times, Why don't you sing? Why don't you play? Why don't you sing? Why don't you play? Do you know why? Because when you don't have the ear to hear, you see, like when somebody sings something, somebody can sing it immediately. When you don't have it, you will know that you don't have it. So when because I don't have it, when I see people who have it, I am amazed that they don't use it. So I used to go to America and I know this man who has the ear. When he hears you just play like most of these guys have that ear. You just hear them play. So that's when they are singing and say, oh, change the key to C# D flat. They don't know what it means to C# D flat. This is very complex because in musical exams they will ask me to play a scale. The easiest is in C then to D CC there's no then to GG has one sharp, then F has 11 flat. These are the simplest you see. Then you go to D which has two F# and C#. These are the simpler. Then you go to F#, which are everything is in Black Keys, but just as they say, they just change to one whatever. And then the person is playing the same thing in only black notes is they are very, very, very, very gifted. But if you don't know what it means, you don't know that it's a gift that the person is using. So I used to go to America and I see the person with the gifts, something I recognize. I don't have to say why don't you use it? Or somebody who has dreams, the dream comes and it happens with the people in the dream. Some people have dreams like you see that maybe somebody's there and another person will die or they have a dream that this has happened. It will happen in another way. But yours, yours exactly. And it's like it's nothing to you. It's wonderful. See, when you don't have something and you see somebody has it, then you just find it fantastic when they don't use it. So instead of neglecting your gifts, rise up and take it seriously. Yeah, don't neglect it. Get yourself holy to these things. Neglect not the gift that is in being the small gift that I have small. Look at how I'm trying to use this small gift. Me, me. No, no one saw that I would have a gift. Nobody. True all to when I say people laugh, but I'm not medical school. No one ever chose me. All he want Mils, you'll be the coordinator AKFA. It will not even come up. He want Mils whatever nothing or in class in primary school or secondary school. Achimotas was seven years even when I was in when I you see when I was in Achimotas school, we had the western compound and the eastern compound and at that time they were not using the western compound for houses. It was after and our time they they brought, they created a new house and they knew how I was put in the new house. In that new house I was called House 18. I was the first person ever to be in a motor school for seven years completely in that house like from one to upper 6. And when it was sixth form, I should have been made a prefect. Yeah. No one. I mean, not even. I did what you have to do to be a prefect. They should do this, do this. I did everything they'd rather give to somebody from another school. Yeah. So I've never been chosen And. And. And so if even I. Who doesn't seem to have any gifts if working for God. How about some of you who've been chosen over and over and over and over several times over. People look at, you know, have you been a prefect before Sana? Previous of what? Primary. You see, I can see them when I see their faces. I can see this. This one is going to be a prefect. It's in primary. What at various stages of my life in primary school? Well, in class 6 I was a school prefect in JSS as well. Two and three. They were the prefects of the whole. School and then in. Chali Chali I'm blessed to meet a school prefect plus Chali, even ordinary prep prefect I wouldn't get. And which are that prepared again and. Then when I got to precinct first day, I was a gay student, so that eliminates me from vying for school prefect. But there was a lot of pressure to go to SRC president and I think I was shortlisted for 1234. We are 4. But at that point I was in SU as well and I I was doing a few things there. I was in the choir, I was a music director, and then I was, and then at that point I was also involved in the Presbyterian Students Union. I was the president as well. So my dad was like, I was getting involved in too many things and so I'd have to just choose one thing and stick to it. So I remember that they had my school. They wanted me. In fact, they pushed me out of. They wanted me not to SRC presidency, but to vie for the Greater Accra Regional. So I had to learn as one of the things I had to learn so that I mean in in their field in me, I had to learn the. Sally, I'm jealous. I'm jealous. Wow. Music director, president of Presby's students. You know, senior prefect, the whole school. Great. Accra SRC. Wow. So why should such a president not? You seem to have a gift of leadership or even a gift of being chosen. So why don't you use it? I've not been chosen. Wow. All the things that I am the leader of, I formed them myself. Yeah. Like that was a leader. It means that it means I formed it myself. Like Lighthouse or the National Association of Charismatic Churches. I was the leader of that because I formed it myself. All the charismatic churches in Ghana formed an association and there was Ghana Pedicosa Council and I formed my own association of Charismatic Churches and I brought in charismatic. I thought we have a different viewpoint from the Pentecostals. So we formed it, and that I was the leader. Then I handed over. But if I had gone to join, I would never have been chosen for anything for sure. So listen, those of you who have a gift, don't neglect it. What you are. Others don't get it. People are not chosen. So you see a person like this, Gerald, you can have a very big church. I'll show you why. Stand up. Let me show you why something about you makes people choose you. And when people have churches, the members in the church choose the person. Yeah. And usually it's like the person is seen to be like, this is an ideal. Like you look, you look gentle. Come, stand here. Come with your wife. Wife. Wow. So you see, he's like Joel Osteen. You understand? It's like this would be like a good type of pasta. He smiles like him. He speaks to the people, talk to the people. He's speaking to the people. The people will be coming. Wow. Do, do, do, do, do it. So that we see. Yeah, this is it. This is it. People will choose you. If you get the anointing, you'll be a great pastor. Yeah. With your wife, With your wife by your side. Put your arms around here. Come on. Is it fantastic? Is it amazing? Is it wonderful? Wow. Yeah. So you are likely to be chosen. So the people in the in this town community, they'll be chosen. So you want to go to that pastor's church and you take a picture, you know, like this, you and your wife, you smile, then she look at you lovingly. Then you put your picture out there. Then you say Pastor and Mrs. Geraldo, and then your preaching tapes will be called the Geraldo Tapes. Yeah, the Geraldo series. The name alone. The name will just put you out there. Geraldo. Wow. I see the anointing flowing on your life. How many things are going to have a nice big church? I think so. And there will be ministering to people. The love of God. He'll stand and say, my wife and I, my wife and I were discussing last night. My wife and I, we decided to do something. Wow. The people would say, oh, oh, it's so nice, faster when you message your wife. And it's so nice, so loving. True or not true? The Geraldo Tapes Geraldo podcast. That's too great, Saddam, What were you going to sing? Hey, we have to go for supper. Candle. Look at the candle. So you see, you come to the Lord, and you say, Give thy son. But it's not true. This is a gift thyself holy when you were fresh. This is the whole candle. This is the small part. So when we bring it and we put it by say, ah, I thought you said give thyself holy. It's only the small part that you are giving them, the fresh tall part finish. You are left to be short. Look at it, look at it. Look at the stomach on the side. Fresh, fresh. That's why you don't want to give it to the lawn. Light it again. Scars of life. Look at it. Scars of weather, beating for children, Two sets of twins that you never expected, or three sets of twins. Now you come and say, Lord. Whatever you say, Lord, whatever you say, Lord, I choose you. I choose you with all my heart, Lord, I like you. #20 give yourself wholly to meditation. Meditation is going to lead you to microscopic Bible study, isn't it? Isn't it? Yeah #21 give yourself to protecting yourself from evil. Shall he try power to protect yourself. You know when I started talking about backsliding, he says take heed to thyself, huh? And on to the doctrine. Continue in them. OK? So give yourself carefully to guarding your soul from falling away and from evil always. How? How can you protect yourself? What is the best way to secure your destiny? Always think of yourself as average. Never think of yourself as like very special or strong. Don't think that your your life is going to be different. Think of yourself as what I didn't hear you average. When you think of yourself as having like you are normal. What happened to this person can happen to you. What happened to this can happen to you. What happened to this can happen. Think of yourself as normal. When you do that, you always set up your protection properly because you assume that you are normal and therefore if somebody had a bad marriage, you 2 can have a bad marriage. If somebody marries an unbeliever and or a grifface, I care and the person has a problem, you too. When you marry a grifface, I care. It's not that it's going to be OK for you. If somebody is a grifface, I care. Look at what the person has come to and you are going to be grifface, I care. You want to be grifface, I care. Psychedelic Griffe Cycle. Wow is it amazing? Is it fantastic? It says give thyself to these things and by doing so thou shall save thyself. Charlie Way there is about self protection, security, security. There must be security, there must be security. Any bad thing you see that has happened to somebody, remember and think of yourself as average. That one can be me. And if it can be you, then start to do what you have to do. When Kamla du Mordai, a lot of people started doing exercises. You see them jogging on the streets. All those who are jogging are those who see themselves as average, those who think it can never happen to me. They are those who will never change anything. It's true. You see, an average person thinks that what has happened to this person can happen to me. So I have to take these steps so that what has happened to that person will not happen to me. An average thinking person looks at your father, looks at your mother, looks at people, marriage, everything and says what has happened to them can happen to me. So therefore I have to take every step so that that thing will not be my portion. That is how to protect yourself is to see yourself as happy. But those who think that oh, how death power, what are you doing? Tell me fire to die virtually. How, I mean how And when you look at it, do I look, do I look like I'm dying? I look dead. A five person like me, watch out. How many pounds a backslide? How can I backslide? Do you know how I'm into the holiness code? How can I backslide? Even my beloved is I mean, I've got a supersonic beloved. She's so spiritual. But what you don't know is that you have actually, your beloved is a nephalem, is a fallen Angel, but you don't know the origins. Did I tell you the key of how to find a fallen Angel? Yeah. Anybody who is a stranger can be an Angel, whether a fallen Angel or a real Angel. Once you don't know the person, it can be an Angel falling Angel. So don't belong to those strangers. People you don't know, know them well and let others know them. And others will tell you. Yeah. The mother will tell you something, the father will tell you something, the sister will tell you something, the friend will tell you something. Whosoever will tell you something whatsoever, tell me something, receive it once, but come thy sister to sing thy support. Jesus prayed 3 times in the garden. If it be thy will, O Lord. God, I will accept you're perfect with for my life today as you hold my destiny. You have a purpose for me. You have a plan for me. I want to work your way. I love your perfect will. I love the choice you make for me. I just love the mystery of your will. Take my hand and stay with me. Oh Lord. I trust in your will. I believe in your word. I will go away. Oh Lord, I will accept your perfect feel for my life today. Yeah, You hold my destiny. You have a purpose for me. You have a plan for me. I want to follow you every day, every night, real time, on my knees, right in here. I will listen to your voice. I hope and a plan to follow you. You hold my deck to see. You have a purpose for me and you have a plan for me. I want to follow your way. You hold my deck to see you have a purpose for me. Yes. You have a plan for me. And I want to follow your will. It's all right. Do what you've said. It's all right. I'll follow your will. It's all right. Do what you say. It's all right. Follow you. Follow your faith. Now that I know there's only one love in all of the earth, you're my only God and I want you to know my love for you. I'll never let go because I love you so. I love you. There's no one I love you. You gave a son, you gave your life. When you turn my life all around, you gave your life and slam me free, and I slam you for the rest of the day. My Lord and my God, I can't believe that you die for me. What's that great fight? And the Lord in return I'll serve you over best of my life. I've built your church all I want and serve you. If I live my life again choose you it's if I love what the living toward you. Lord, I love you. There's no one. I love you, You're gay. You gave all the heart after the fight. Water round game. Don't let me breathe and don't let me for the rest of the day. Hold on my mission to do your mission. Oh, hold on my work to do your work. I'll finish your work. I'll build your church and not do it again and not again. Time together you gain. When you turn my life over, you can't go alive. Let me read and I'll serve you for the rest of my day. Oh, oh, oh, you can't. You can't go alive. Oh, into my life all around. Day go night. Let me breathe. So I'm serving Father of my day. Wow, can you see the candle? Give Thyself Wholly is not going to apply very soon to this candle. Yeah, it's now 42. Look at all the difficulties he has experienced all round here. So it doesn't look as nice as it used to look. What a shock, right? We are going to take a break now. And how many points have I given you? 21 and I have 23. OK, so by the grace of God, we'll continue in the next session. Wow, who is this person? Who is this person? Whosoever, isn't it? Come for the camp. OK, OK. This person didn't come for the camp. This person didn't come for the camp, Right? I'm going to give you a gift tonight. So 2 gifts. 3 gifts. Are you excited about that? Wow, so we are going to start giving you a gift tonight. What a blessing. So we are going to come back at what time? Lou is going to tell us Nine o'clock 10:00. What time is it now? 8/30, 10:00, Because we close at 12:00 sharp. Yeah. So just a short session. So you must be here on time or you'll be outside. All right. You sure? Are you giving yourself holy? Wow. Are you sure you are giving yourself holy? I don't feel that you are giving yourself holy. I don't feel that you are giving yourself holy. Give thyself, give thyself holy. Give thyself holy to him. Give thyself holy. Give that the holy, give that the holy to him. Give that the holy. Oh, give your heart, give your heart. Give him your love and your treasure. Give him your personality. Give your bad time. If you're useful, give your life and professor. Give your money your time and man. Give him everything you've got. Give thy say, Give that the holy. Give thyself the holy, give thyself, Give thyself to prayer, give thyself to the world, and give thyself to godly. Give thyself to holy. Give thyself to. The. None to meditation. Give thyself to exultation. Give thyself to the world. The. None. The. None. The. Hallelujah. Wow, I. Tell you the devil is disappointed. All right. Amen. Hallelujah. OK, now we have our time. Is not enough, so we have to rush out. Some of you. You go out like you are going. It's your wedding possession. There's no time. This is not the bridal train. OK, so we are going to run down the stairs. I tell you, the faster you run, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. The faster you run to the cafeteria, the faster demons are going to run away from your life. So we are rushing. Let's say wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. We are rushing out straight to the cafeteria. We have our dinner and then we are back for the last session. Is it a good idea rush? Now there must be rushing. They are romantic. Russian. Please. What an husband. There was one guy who lost his dinner. Whatever from the Kodesh. If you are here, I don't know if you've sorted yourself out. I hope you have. If not, please come immediately. It's rush house, rush house, rush house. Very quickly, Very quickly, very quickly. The.