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19. Pastoral Individuality

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
January 7, 2025 49m 46s

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Camp Title - Breakforth & Become Who You Can Become. Machaneh Collection - 59. Preached in 2009, Ghana (Elmina). 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 #19 of break forth and become who you can become. The principle of pastoral individuality. Amen. Now it is very important not to compare yourself, for we dare not to make ourselves of the number or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves. But they measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves are not wise, Amen. Now there is a certain comparison, you know, which is not good, but there's also a certain individualness about all our callings. Everybody is different, Amen. And not everybody is going to have this or have that or have whatever, Air Force One or whatever. So you need to be yourself as you also copy and follow and learn. You must also develop yourself to be who you are. And in our church, we are trying to recognize the individualness of people as well. Amen. And I, I respect that. I accept that. So that's why I accept Prophet Kakra as a prophet. I accept Silas as a prophet. I accept Edifabian as a prophet. If you tell me you're an evangelist, I'll accept you as an evangelist. I accept Pastor Kinsley as an apostle. He told me the other day I had a vision to start a lot

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Welcome to track #19 of break forth and become who you can become. The principle of pastoral individuality. Amen. Now it is very important not to compare yourself, for we dare not to make ourselves of the number or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves. But they measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves are not wise, Amen. Now there is a certain comparison, you know, which is not good, but there's also a certain individualness about all our callings. Everybody is different, Amen. And not everybody is going to have this or have that or have whatever, Air Force One or whatever. So you need to be yourself as you also copy and follow and learn. You must also develop yourself to be who you are. And in our church, we are trying to recognize the individualness of people as well. Amen. And I, I respect that. I accept that. So that's why I accept Prophet Kakra as a prophet. I accept Silas as a prophet. I accept Edifabian as a prophet. If you tell me you're an evangelist, I'll accept you as an evangelist. I accept Pastor Kinsley as an apostle. He told me the other day I had a vision to start a lot of churches in South Africa. I believe it. Anything. I believe there's an individualness about your calling. Pastor Robert is an ambassador, a special apostle, you know, with gifted us to somebody you've sent on your behalf today. I'm known in Brazil because he's there. All the books everywhere in the country they are making DVDs, selling book buying. I mean, I'm famous in Brazil. I've never been there before, but I see that's how I see they are not there. Can I take it? Never came to Ghana or Nigeria, but he was famous here. Yeah. We mentioned the same as if he was born in Kolibu, but he has never been here. Those are the signs of the anointing, that the thing that your father carried. I see signs of it on my life. That's how I know that I'm anointed because I see the same thing. John the Baptist eating local, this one is also eating local. This one is doing this one is doing that very similar. So, brothers and sisters, there is something individual about you and your calling. You cannot. We are not the same. That is why every single person is an individual. Now, apart from that, every single person is either choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic, sanguine. You have to recognize these differences. Yes. Do you understand? You have to recognize these differences and there are so many little differences about us. You see, if I take Pastor Robert, for instance, he's good at international. He's very international because from Form 1, he has lived outside Ghana. I was with him in Form One. We were all in the same school. He was in House 12, I was in House 18. Then in the middle of Form 1 he was taken abroad and he has lived abroad all his life. He preaches in French, he speaks English, preaches in English, preaches in Portuguese, preaches in juice, preach in Spanish. His wife speaks in Spanish, German. Different language his wife can speak. His wife is equally international. Avita preaches in Portuguese, preach in Spanish, preaches in French in English. Very versatile German different, you know, So you, you, you, you are you like that? You say you are not like that. You are not like that. It is tree that you can speak. Do you say it's also a gift? Yeah. I believe that God had prevented me from speaking tree and gum because he wanted the ministry to be English. Yeah. And it was in this hotel. I was in the room. The Lord spoke to me to start churches in Ghana. That's where we started. The first new Ghana missions, new Ghana missions, the first guys who went out to break home here, David to Adrian, all that It was I was in the hotel here when the Lord told me about it to start. I don't have anything in Ghana. Ghana international, because I'm also more international. God, my mother is not a Ghanaian. My house, we don't, we didn't speak tree or gown or anything. My mother speaks German. You get it. Half of my roots are outside Ghana. And I'm not ashamed of it. I have no apologies for that. That's no shame. Yeah. Some people were once criticizing a Cufuador. And so on his days he drove in a Cadillac. His father days he was in French. He said, yes, I drove in a Cadillac. Yes. I was in Paris. Yes. And I have no apologies for that. I didn't grow up following your Karina whatever and so on. I said I have no apologies for that. What I'm saying is that you are an individual, Amen. And you must pursue the individual Ness of your calling and your abilities as well. Do you understand? So as I'm sharing this power thing, you see there are some of you who are more like Henry was saying, he has power ministry all the time. So you see, he may be an up and coming power. Maybe that thing is in his calling. You see that even though he may be teaching and preaching, I mean he may be more of a power person as time goes by. And I mean, he may be more invited as a convention speaker in certain places and later have a resident pastor to handle certain things for him and so on. You never know, but it's in there. So if that's how you become more like, fine. Nobody's against who you are. Pastoral individuality, we want you to be who you are, who you can be, become who you can become. Nobody's against it. What do you think? Is it exciting? So all the things we are sharing, we are trying to share them so that you can become great in which about however you are going to be great. And that's why we are doing the mature non dependent churches with little or no transfers very to be unusual for us to transfer you because you have to build and benefit from it when it's working. Unless there's some real reason why we need to transfer most of the mature independent, just be there, you understand, Unless you also want to leave. What do you think? Yeah, so we have the original interdependent church, which started at the point, has grown by depending on itself. Then now we have the new groups of churches coming out, which are the mature non dependent churches, you understand, and the original interdependent churches made-up of all these lay churches and so on that we have are supporting or have helped support to create these new mature non dependent churches that we have all over the world. How many understand what I'm talking about? Yeah. So your church falls under all of you. That's why we call the Maturity Conference Become Who You Can Become 2009 because this group is different from let's say the Kodesh pastors or let's say the late pastors in America or the late pastors in Switzerland or late pastors in the UK and so on. As part of the mature Become who you Can Become church churches connected but mature and not depending, Amen. And also, this is what I'm saying, non dependent by a time will come where to be mature benefiting churches because after not depending, you later benefit. You see, like me, I benefit from the church that I've built. I'm blessed, Amen. The church that I have has been built. It benefits me. I don't depend on action Central Royal House, Assemblies of God, I don't depend on anybody. Do you understand? So the church has been built, whatever there is in the church as the founder or the Bishop or whatever. Look, I can, there's more than I can eat from that. I cannot eat it. So you 2 if it is working one day and it's going to work, it's going to work. Receive any Lord of Jesus, it is going to work. And as it works it will be not just non dependent, but non dependent and benefiting because it is a case to sow and not to reap. It is a case to go to war at your own wages. It is a case to plant and not to see the harvest of what you have planted. Are you understanding what I'm saying? Yeah. So as you are growing and as you are doing this way, you know, and you remain faithful. God will bless you. God will honor you. Some of you, you can't even see your future. I just saw somebody in a jumbo jet flying somewhere. Hey, sit down. What do you think? So some of us, you see our the way we are, we have the ability to create a lot of wealth. I'm going to give you the characteristic of poor people so that you see whether that applies to you and the characteristic of rich people. And some of you recognize characteristic of poverty on yourself and and so when you recognize the characteristic of rich people, you will have to discard certain things so that you begin to take on the characteristic of rich people, the things that they do. And one other thing of rich people, they don't look to anybody for help. That's why I'm trying to make you mature and non dependent. Well, that would rather make you rich. Yes. When I come to visit you in your town, I want you to pick me in a new car. No, not not a hired car, not a rented car. I see you driving that new car. In the name of Jesus, sit down. Oh, you don't understand what I'm saying. Yeah. So it's very very important that we grasp what has happened the the way that its like the church is here is growing this way this one that is great. Its all non dependent, non dependent, non dependent mature non dependence are spreading more. That's it. All the new guys who are going to finish school this year. Where are you wave to me all of you yeah, we're all going to be mature, non dependent guy. Wild wild guys who are Satan is afraid of your coming Shama O sandal Bhabhareli. Is it powerful? It's wonderful. Come sing me something. I'm not looking behind me and mistakes I've already made, but hope is sleeping inside me. I believe that my debts are pain. Rest in you now. I know I can make it. I've made a vow, and I'm not gonna break it. Lord, I'm keeping my eyes on you. Following you. My Lord, I'm keeping my eyes on you. Following you, following you, my Lord. And there's no use in comparing with my friends who are serving you. Lord, All the grace that you're sharing is enough for what I must do to rest in you now. I know I can make it. I've made a bow and I'm not going to break it. Lord, I'm keeping my eyes on you, following you, following you. My Lord, I'm keeping my eyes on you. I'm following you, following you, my Lord. I'm keeping my eyes on you, following you, following you, my Lord. I'm keeping my eyes on you, following you, following you, my Lord. Yeah, continue. I'm not looking behind me at mistakes I've already made because hope is living inside me. I believe that my deaths are paid to rest in you. Now I know I can make it. I've made a vow. When I'm not gonna rake it, Lord. I'm keeping my eyes on you. Following you. Following you, my Lord. I'm keeping my eyes on you. Following you. Following you, my Lord, and there's no use in comparing with my friends who are serving you. Lord, all the grits that you're sharing is in the for what I must do so to rest in you. Now I know I can make it. I've made a bow and I'm not gonna break it. Lord, I'm keeping my eyes on you. Following you, Following you. My Lord, I'm keeping my eyes on you. Following you. Following you, My Lord, I'm keeping my eyes on you. Following you. Following you, my Lord, I'm keeping my eyes on you. Following you. Following you, my Lord, I'm keeping my eyes on you. Following you. Following you, my Lord, I'm keeping my eyes on you. Following you. Following you, my Lord, Keeping my eyes on you. Following you. Following you, my Lord, I'm keeping my eyes on you. Following you. Following you, my God, my eyes on you. Follow. Following you. Following you, my Lord, I'm keeping my eyes on you. Following you. And I'm following you, my Lord, I'm keeping my eyes on you. 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I'm keeping my eyes on you, following you, following you, my Lord. Hallelujah, you maybe see that. Hallelujah, you know, Marvel said. Then a shoot will spring forth. You are that shoot that is going to spring forth. Amen. And he said, behold, I'm going to stir up the meats against them. You see, there is a way in which God stirs up some people to go somewhere to do something. He said that I'm going to stir up the meats who will not value silver. That's the kind of person that is. I'm going to bring a type of person who will not value silver or take pleasure in gold, the type of person more deadly and more dangerous because they don't value silver and they don't value gold. And God told them you he was going to punish them, the Israelites. And he said I'm going to bring a particular kind of person. Yeah, he's going to be different from the other types. I've been sending this one. He will not value silver and he will not value you. See, that should send chieves down your spine. But the type of person that is coming is different from the type you have seen before. Certain towns are going to receive a kind of person and certain nations are going to see a kind of person that they have not seen that type before who does not value silver or take pleasure in gold. He said their balls will mow down the young men and they will not have compassion on the fruit of the womb nor will their IBT children. It was explaining the type of person that he was going to send somebody who doesn't value gold when you give him gold, say what is it? Somebody who doesn't value silver when you give him say, what is this? Somebody who doesn't have compassion on children, even children who use them, it's a type to kill them if they're the baby. You see, It's the type of person that is being sent. And God is showing me that you are that type of person that is being sent. Even if you die, you don't mind. So I'm going to send a type of person now, the result of such a person being sent, he said. And Babylon, the beauty of Kingdom, the glory of the child is proud, will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. Every satanic stronghold that you came to meet in the town and the country that you are going will be like Sodom and Gomorrah. It will never be inhabited nor live in from generation to generation. Demons and other powers that have been there, they will be driven to the forest, he said. Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there, will the shepherds make their flocks nor lie down there. Human beings will be removed, he said. Desert creatures will lie down there. He's explaining that when the type of person I'm sending camps, desert creatures will lie down there. Their houses will be filled with owls. There will not be two children or people. Owls, owls, ostriches will live in people's houses. Is it because of the type of person that I'm sending to come and fight or stretches? Hairy goats. Hairy goats will frolic there. You see a hairy goat jumping upstairs and owls in the house without stretches downstairs. And desert creatures, crabs and other animals. Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers, the towers which they used to fortify themselves. Hyenas and jackals in their luxurious palaces. Why? Because a type of a test. I will send somebody to you who doesn't value silver. He does not value gold. It does not pity children, I tell you. The world has been waiting for you to come. The demo. I was in my room when the Lord told me that Satan is afraid of these people. I tell you, you see, Satan fought against Lighthouse, thinking that our ministry will end with laypeople. Suddenly he saw another group coming through another door. So which ones are also this? Who can be sent to Owari and of Bomoso? Who can be sent from UST to Mombasa to Kinshasa to Lumumbashi? What type of people are these? Because we thought that the ministry would end directly New York, London is finished, Switzerland finished. Then suddenly a door open and he said, I will send you a type. I said a type, a type of person. It doesn't need that name. Martin Luther Blvd. or that is is staying at Buckingham Palace area or London. What do you call it? Tower of Land? No, no, no, no, no. I'm selling a type. Receive that type. And may you be that type in the name of Jesus. And his eye does not pity children. He doesn't have the usual compassion. You see, when Hitler came, he was our type. He had no pity. He believed you must die if you are weaker. That was his his philosophy. His philosophy was that if you are weaker, you will perish naturally. That was his philosophy, the survival of the fittest. They had museums where you see a crab and another animal and you show them fighting and one will always kill the other and one will survive. The survival of the fittest, they had museums that in the forest is the fittest who survives. So if you are weak, you must die. If you are mad, you must die. If you have any weakness, you must die. And he sent the people who did not pity children say your houses will be occupied by owls, hairy goats and desert creatures. Ostriches will be downstairs and jackals will be upstairs because of the type. By the time that type comes and he's gone, it will only be left with hyenas, hairy goats, shaggy goats, and hyenas. By the time you finish, you see, the song that you were singing is the It's what unites all of us. Today is Jesus Christ. I am not related to you by blood. It's Jesus whose our eyes are on. One day we shall see him and it will have been worth every struggle, every hassle, every fight. It would have been worth keeping our eyes on him and following him, following him to the very end of the age. If I will raise up somebody, a type of pest. The Bible is wildo and this hit like all these people. They were also a certain way money. I think they didn't value Sita never thought that by the side door of the church come out another group, another group and that group. So Oh no, we don't want to go to Toronto. Mention the town. We can be there. Why? Why is it? Where is it? What is the temperature there? What is there? Amen. I will send you a type. May you be that type. And you see that's full time ministry. It's that type, Shalamasapura and Alava of the Senate type of person never forget. You will never forget that person. I tell you person who does not value silver. That is why the the West is part of their nuclear weapon. Everything they have, they fear these terrorists. But when you see them, the guys, as they were doing this, September 11th, the night before they all went to K Man's a shop, They were just walking through the shop and up and down. They look at all the things on the shelves, the biscuits, the tea, sausages, butter bread, Coca-Cola, cornflakes. They look at all you. They have a film. They have a film out. I saw it. I saw that. You see them walking through that two guys, the bombers, nothing of that in the America is the most wildest type of people you can ever have. A person who does not value silver and gold. Yeah, that's why I said that. Somebody gave me a watch I need for more than 10 years. I went to tell the brand new beautiful. I went to see where they but they gave me the receipt and everything to go to the place because of guarantee. I look at it, I just took it. It has no value to me. If such things were value or value to me, we will not be here today. So God raised me up not to value certain things. Yes, that's how can we are here. May you be that that time ready to fight for the law and do his work in Jesus name. The lay people got finished. Suddenly another door opens. I'm bringing another type of person like Pastor Kingsley. Pastor King does not value silver or gold. He's more than 50 years old. He can witness more than all of us here. He doesn't value silver. He doesn't buy anything. I'm telling you, I've known him for many years. He's a very, very wild kind of person. Satan will not like somebody like that to be sent to an area. Shaggy goats and ostriches and jackals and hairy goats and desert creatures will will be all that is left at a time. Such a person comes and goes. That's why there are so many S Africans they saved. They also call me their father, even though I, I, I, I did not give birth to them in South Africa because such a person went there. Your city will bow to you in the spirit, in the name of Jesus it will bow to you. It will give up souls that God sent you there to collect Jesus name. Amen. God bless you and be seated. That is pastoral individuality. Amen. Is it powerful? Now we are going to the next principle, massive organized prayer. But before we do that, we are going to take a 5 minute break.