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Camp Title - Who Is He That Overcomes The World. Machaneh Collection - 91. 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. #19 of who is he that overcomes the world? Praise the Lord, let's stand up and pray for a couple of minutes to cleanse the atmosphere. Yeah. Hello. Yeah. Are you alert, alive? Please do something about the sound. It's it's it's it's quite hollow. But let's pray. Just just pray in the Spirit. Learn to charge yourself up in the Spirit. Just charge yourself up in the Spirit. Charge yourself up in the Spirit. I. Lame baby, lame baby, lame baby, lame baby, lame baby, lame baby. Papa. Ma kabaya samala bosin dala babaya mandele MI. Cotrono Bosun. Dala bakayaan de. Le le. Ramada baa baa baa baa. None name Billy, Billy, Billy Billy Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy. Billy, Billy. Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy. Billy, Billy, Billy. Mehdi, Mehdi. None. Thank you Jesus, Amen. You might be seated. Glory to God. Are we blessed? I was very excited by the the way Bishop presented first John 54 within the context of Precious. Were you blessed by that, by that verse? Yeah, let's go back to that verse. It's very nice. First, John 54 that the original is for whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world, and this is
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Welcome to Track. #19 of who is he that overcomes the world? Praise the Lord, let's stand up and pray for a couple of minutes to cleanse the atmosphere. Yeah. Hello. Yeah. Are you alert, alive? Please do something about the sound. It's it's it's it's quite hollow. But let's pray. Just just pray in the Spirit. Learn to charge yourself up in the Spirit. Just charge yourself up in the Spirit. Charge yourself up in the Spirit. I. Lame baby, lame baby, lame baby, lame baby, lame baby, lame baby. Papa. Ma kabaya samala bosin dala babaya mandele MI. Cotrono Bosun. Dala bakayaan de. Le le. Ramada baa baa baa baa. None name Billy, Billy, Billy Billy Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy. Billy, Billy. Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy. Billy, Billy, Billy. Mehdi, Mehdi. None. Thank you Jesus, Amen. You might be seated. Glory to God. Are we blessed? I was very excited by the the way Bishop presented first John 54 within the context of Precious. Were you blessed by that, by that verse? Yeah, let's go back to that verse. It's very nice. First, John 54 that the original is for whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world, and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Are you there? You have a Bible. Let's read the King James together. 1 Go God overcometh the world, and this is the victory that overcometh the world. Even you fail. Wow, that's fine. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the son of God. Now can we now push precious, precious or pressure? For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the pressure of the world. Pressure of the world. Let's start again. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the pressure of the world. No precious pressure. Oh well, precious should we do precious or pressure precious. All right, one go. For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the precious of the world. Wow. Let's go on. And this is the victory that overcometh the precious of the world. Even our faith, who is he that overcometh the precious of the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? Wow. I think it's a very important scripture. Not so. Yeah. And Bishop said that the force that the world puts on us is pressure. The name of the force. There are different types of force, different types of force. But this one, the name of the force you are likely to experience from the world out there is pressure. Pressure. Oh, yes, you'll put pressure on you. You'll see that, Charlie, you are being forced to do things. Amen. So, so we must believe God to be hard. We must believe God to be hard. You know one of the, the, the, the, the ark that Noah built, God instructed him to use goffer wood. You know that goffer wood and they are there's a reason why God told him to use goffer Gopher. It's in the Bible, Genesis X Goffer wood. And the reason why he, he, he, he instructed NOAA to use golfer wood is that golfer wood has certain characteristics that other types of wood don't have. And one of the characteristics of golfer wood is that it does not crack. Yes, it does not crack. It can withstand pressure. It can carry all the animals and still remain intact. Wow. So you must. It must also be like Gopher wood and not crack because you are going out. If you think Lagoon campus is putting pressure on you, then you got it wrong, baby. You got it wrong baby. You step out and see. Yeah, step out and see. Think you are on campus and these type of guys, 2 by 4 guys are always liking you. You know they don't even have money to buy. Check, check. They are putting pressure on you. Wait till you step out and the bank manager is coming after you. Yeah, with $50,000 down payment 50,000 and you 2 you are into luxury goods. You are, you are into luxury goods and comfortable shoes and you can see 50,000 pressure, pressure, but I see you overcoming that that pressure. Oh, yes. So I've, I've been greatly helped this morning, greatly helped with this revelation. You know, I I mean, I never knew that the, the force the world is exerting on me is pressure. I'm, I'm now beginning to understand my issues. Yeah, pressure. And sometimes it's not even just outside the church. Inside the church, there will be pressure on you to be this lawyer, pressure to to change, pressure to leave the church. But you will stay and you'll be great and you'll be a great pastor. When you see a pastor around who has been in the system for a while, his face precious. I I now understand. It's it's all pressure. Pressure, pressure. When you're offended, you're offended by your pastor, your sister, your friend in the church. Something happened. You're offended. Really. What is it? It's pressure. Pressure for you to stop smiling. Yeah, baby, you must overcome the pressure and smile. I think we can put our hands together for 2:00. This morning's world, a very, very powerful world. Bishop has really blessed us. Pressure to be passive. Yeah. Where? At the camp, Bishop was preaching and he just asked us that who would like to marry? I mean, if Prince, Prince, if I said if Prince William had proposed to you, he would have said yes. And you didn't even know that. It was about like, now you thought, oh, maybe previously or is it nice to be married to Prince William? And you raised your hand and they said you should come and stand in front. And now everything you said right now being used against you. So now when they ask a question, you wouldn't even lift your hand against What is that? What is that pressure? Pressure, pressure to be quiet. But you speak again, it was a joke. We all talked about Prince William, how nice it will be to be the wife of a Prince royalty and we all expressing our childhood desires that we we are into royalty and we like like I mean, I mean, who doesn't like luxury? Don't we all like luxury? So nearly I went to see that I like luxury. Now they are using everyday luxury. Everyday they are saying what is the royalty everyday royalty? I won't I won't come to any camp again. I won't come to any camp. They should take their camp. I won't come again. Nonsense. You will come to the camp. It's a beautiful message. Very, very beautiful message. If you understand things that way. I tell you, I tell you, it's, it is true. It's so true. I'm just enjoying the message. Oh, it's so true. It's so true. A lot of pressure. Until one day you buckle under the weight of the pressure. You see a guy in the church. He's in the choir touching you up. You don't like him talking. You go and come. So you don't like him. You don't mind him. You don't pick his call. He's texting. You don't reply. You deleted his name, cleared his number. The texts are still coming. You change your phone number. He managed to get it from your friend's sister's brother. Pressure. You know that the guy saw the correct guy, but he's putting pressure on you. Be the type of sister who does not buckle on the pressure. You're in your room alone. Pressure say pressure, pressure pressure. iPad, iPad, iPad that you, you you turn on your iPad, you go to the Bible, you read 6 chapters, still is 30 minutes. What else do I look at? Dictionary. OK, let me look at new words. Meanwhile, you know that www.mamadi.com Mamadi, but you're not going. You've not gone there is you see, even though it's mamadi.com, you are looking at dictionary. So you are learning the words, new words. You're finished. You're a load in your room. Dagyard Mills Dagyard Mills dagyardmills.com You check Wow crusade Bohicon wow Togo Lome killing Jesus well ISI Mama D. Then you delete pressure. Then you go and look at Ghana news my joy online. Now you come back. Mama dot C Some people are Googling mama.com right now. Look, look, look, look, look. Let's pray. Just pray. Let's pray now. Let's talk to God. Pray now and ask the Lord to to to make you strong sisters, pray, pray the pressure to exit the church or you are even in the church and you have combined the worldly things. You know you are in the church. You are fornicating all kinds of things. Pray, pray, pray pressure my God maka tolo bouzin gala bakaya pressure to stop the ministry not to serve God. You can hear a voice. The voice is telling you that you can't stop, it's all pressure. Pray. You can stop watching pornography. You can break away from wildly music totally You can. You can pray. Kamala BA SA tala Baba, Who is he that overcomes the world? Who is he that overcomes the precious of the world? Who is he? Ma catullo bosin delica la mada gagala gagala gagala gagala gagala Mama zinda Kalu de kalaba baala gaala baala baala baala baala baala baa pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure. Pray but you be like goffa wood. Goffa wood makataba singalambundegi talaba gambra ghasan dala Baba Ramada baka yandeli. The precious of the world are you Be strong, you'll be strong. You'll be strong, You'll be strong. My God. Mato Kalabasaka, Oh Lord, just just lift up your two ones and ask the Lord for grace to overcome. Overcome. I tell you, never forget this word, precious. You are under pressure. You are under pressure to fornicate. When you marry, you'll be under pressure to commit adultery. Don't joke with the devil. You put pressure pressure, then one day you crack, but it's not going to happen. In the name of Jesus, pray ketul ABBA bade ka bodaka karababasa in Jesus name, Amen. Amen. Is it a good message? And all of us are experiencing different types of pressures. The pressures I'm under. You are not going to face it. You may never face it in your life. No, I mean, I don't have any pressure on me at all to believe that I'm a man. He may laugh, but somebody in this room is under pressure. Yeah. When he goes to his room, he can see two testicles, but he still believes he's a woman. You don't understand what's going on. Somebody is putting pressure on him that you are a woman. You are a woman. Look at the way your body is. Have you seen a man with hips? Bishop O go, look at him. Does he have hips? Look at you. Look at your hips. Pressure. And when you brush aside the thoughts, it comes again. Then you meet the guy again. Now, now, now. Even though your name is Felix, he's calling you Felicia, Say pressure. You don't understand, You don't understand what's going on. But one day you understand. You remember this vest clearly. But I think that the way Bishop puts this vest will save us from many problems because some of you, you have been under pressure and you really know. I, I, I, when we read this, I realized that no, I am under pressure in an area. I am under pressure. I didn't know you. You wouldn't know you're under pressure. And once you know that pressure is a force trying to change your focus, a problem you have is the pressure and illness. Some some difficulty want you to stop doing this because you are not the type who must do this. No, when I when I became a pastor 20 years ago, I was sent to my branch. It went pastor. Now I can understand. The first difficulty I had was that you cannot be a pastor to be preaching on Sunday because you are a stammer. I'm telling you, when I take the microphone, sorry, there was no microphone there. When I start opening the Bible as I'm reading, I'm stammering. When I start talking, it's not flowing. Then I listen to messages. I listen to the, I mean camps, and our Bishop is speaking fluidly, smoothly. Listen to Bishop. That's a pasta. Stop it and play the keyboard. Hmm, stop it, stop it. Think you're talking about pasta? It's a Bishop, daddy. What meals? You must know that it's not your area. Concentrate on playing the keyboard. Concentrate at least. If you want something different, go back to Colegono and join the the the video team. You are good with gadgets. Say pressure. Pressure. At that time I didn't know it was pressure, but God showed mercy on me and gave me strength to continue speaking on Sunday. Yes, today I'm speaking to you also. Satan, he's bad. He's bad. He always let you look at that. You see how that sister sang? You see how she sang? That's good singing. Not, not your type. And also remember when you sang, few people clapped for you. Now you, you, you watching you. Next time she will sing again. Listen to the clapping and remember how they clapped for you. You are, you are not good. Step aside. I said no, I can't say. Then you come again sadly. And the voice of Satan's pressure. I tell you, it's not a loud voice. It's a romantic, soft, suggestive, appealing. It's not a Hetch. No, no, no. Oh, voice. Think about it carefully. Think about it. Yes. Listen. He's your pastor. Listen to his message. See how he introduced the camp. See how he speaks. Listen. Listen carefully. Can you hear any hitches? And listen to yourself. And you are there. In 20 years time you'll be a prophetess in the church. There will be a lady evangelist who gathers 50,000 people in the city. You'll be the one. Now when you hold the Bible, say Francis, put it down, put it down, put it down. Six months ago, you had opened your legs and a baby was being taken from it. They say you are what? Look at the lady pastors properly. They don't commit abortion. Look at them very well. They are all good. It's not your type. Look at my face carefully. You are the type. Yeah. You are the type who will be a pastor. You are the type. You are going to be lighthouses. 1 of lighthouses, best, fastest we have ever seen. I'm telling you, people will travel and come to listen to you. So, so, so remember, it's like how he came to talk to Eve. That's one of the greatest pressures. Eve was under pressure. I didn't come with a sword, you know, shouting, no shaft. Has God really said it? Oh no, it's not. It's not exact. In your case, because of your weakness, you can't continue fornicating. Not not as often as you used to. Just keep the guy at least once a week. Refresh yourself, you see? And one of the pressures Bishop taught us was the pressure to conform isn't not there, am I right? That's the first one, actually. They want to change you to be the way they are. Don't allow yourself to to to conform means to take the form of conform, to take the form. Con is a Latin word which means with con. Wait, your phone, you move with that shape, you move with that belief, you move, you know, like if if it's mortgage and say your pastor says don't take mortgage and you are if your clothes cry, you are doing mortgage clothes. So he's forcing you to to to live your life with that form. It's a form. Don't believe us? Their marriage is a shame when the husband is misbehaving. Just go and sleep with your former boyfriend. Just make sure you have his number. I mean, one of the most recent marital issues I had to solve in the church, it was, I mean, normally we think it's the men who who are the animals. And they came to sit in front of me. And then I said, what is happening? Even if the wife who who called was complaining, I want I said, bring your husband on the monster. And I said, pastor, let's, let's let's speak first. So why you, you, you are. No, no, no. Please let her speak. What is the real problem? This, this, this. She has gone to sleep with her boss. She said her baby was there. She was she she's not pregnant. So. So be careful. It it what her sister said. It's not an imagination. You can be married and be sleeping with some boyfriend or some boss. It all start with B Bernard, boyfriend, boss, banker. Are you here? Yeah. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't take on their form, the way they do their things. Some of you are here. You don't pay tithes. Yeah, because the unbelievers, they, they think that if there are even some Christians teach that tithe is an Old Testament. Yes. And you have, you have bought that nonsense, but you don't pay tithe. What you don't know is that you have set the pace for your for a dishonest living. Your honesty level has been markedly brought low just by the tithe. So. So it is very important. Your friends are not people. The people you know, they don't do ministry. They are not pastors. You want to follow them. Some of your friends are going to work at Echo Bank, Tigo and say, oh, these are real things. We just, we just want names to mention. Yeah, but you are different. You are different. First of all, are they at the camp you are different and even if you are the camp you are on that day 2 shall be together at the camp. One will be taken away and 1:00 will be one will be left behind. May you be the one God will take into the ministry. So my friend is not doing this this my sister is not involved or Dennis and I are best friends and we are both going to MTN. We are we want to all do Masters. Masters, think about yourself. Don't don't the Scripture he gave us. Oh, there's no scripture there, but but we know that Scripture. Do not be conformed to this wealth, but be you transformed by what? And your, your, your, your mind must really change. It's all a mind. Do you believe that you will be a pastor one day? Do you believe that God is going to use you one day? Can you see yourself preaching one day? You Do you see yourself preaching one day? You. No, no, no. The man where preaching. Where in China. I want to be a missionary to China since your infancy. You. You are. You've seen yourself as Chinese. Oh, you lived in China for a while. OK. You speak Chinese fluently. Wow. I see. Can you come and speak Chinese? Come on, come and tell us something in Chinese. Explain. Explain what? What? Bishop said. The fight against the pressure of conformity. Just explain it in Chinese. Pressure Joshi Yali. I have not said anything. So if you if if you make noise, then my Chinese people hear. They say my Chinese have become bad. So it's better you keep quiet and allow me to finish everything. OK, Woman woman die woman the woman, woman. What I just said was that in this world we have a lot of. Well, since that warrior you're yali ingredient touch that door butchered out don't win the man show. So national were just your mum, I'm sure. But anyway, Yoshi yes, sushi woman threw me out of the loop. What? Your your your your Yali your new height of the Yali. Taman Shiangdo AI Taman Bishop that he will miss the Luhin Jose Gabian Gabian Gabian what? Gaussian woman Chungoren Chuya Yesu Chungoren Chuya. I think it's been a while. It's been almost like seven months since I've been there, so Chinese is coming along a little bit so. Clap your hands, throat. But why don't you finish Chinese? What don't you show respect You must Katsu. Nakashi Trump hung the woman. So so so. So come. So you believe God is going to use you in China? Not the grace of God, Not the grace of God. All right. So advise all the future missionaries to obey the call and to resist pressure or not, and all the pressures that will come so they can serve the Lord. Advise. Them in Chinese, so Moody how they are shaking their head. It's actually affecting me. I don't know because. All I said was that the whole world needs Jesus Christ. If they have been given opportunity and they are sitting here, it's because Jesus Christ has called them. So they should go to the ward and tell people that Jesus loves them. That's all I said. Tele clap your hands for the guy. He's a missionary. It's beautiful. It's beautiful, it's beautiful. See. So the first pressure is the pressure to conform. Wow. But you must determine that you will not change. You will not be like them, say I will not be like them, say I will not be like them, say they are a certain way, say I can see cry, I can see cry and I will not be like them, say I'm determined by the grace of God. I will save God. I will be a minister. I will not be confirmed to their ways in Jesus name, Amen. Wow, precious. And the next is you must fight against the attractions, or you must fight against falling in love with the world. Amen. Isn't that practical problem? You are in the church, but you are falling in love with the world. I want to say the world. What do we mean? Wild people, wild places, wild system. Some of you, sometimes you'll miss the nightclub. You want to go back, Don't fall in love. Some of you, you are into film stars. These type of Hollywood guys. Since you're in fancy, you've had a dream that you'll be married to a Hollywood, the nearest sister. Are you into Hollywood? Wow. But you are going to fall in love with Jesus. You fall in love with the church. You spend all your time in church. Amen. You must, you must, you must break all the attractions. You must destroy them. Just slice them off. All kinds of attractions, unbelievable things how people are into into, you know, different types of women and you admire how is it possible for this guy to like different girls And, and still he's not caught. He's got three girlfriends at the same time, and you are admiring this way. Pressure #3 fight against the pressure of following the masses. Amen. Exodus 23, verse 2. You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute. So as you turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice, wow. You shall not follow the masses, even on campus, you said. There are things that a lot of people do, like what charging. They charge on their phones, different songs. I see they take gospel songs and change their words and it's called charging. Is it Commonwealth or now it's in all the halls, basically. Commonwealth, Yeah. How many of you are in Commonwealth? Yeah. So. So you can be there if that's where you are, but you must not be contaminated, you see? Yeah. What else are the masters doing on campus? Huh? Old school reunions? Is it a bad thing they'll come together and just pool parties? I see, so do you also go for the pool parties? Who has been to the recent pool party? People don't like raising their hands over. Are you sure there are sisters here who went to the latest pool party. But you see, it is listen, listen. It is important to make up your mind that you will not go the way of the masses and you must prepare yourself. Just just get yourself ready to see the masses moving in this direction and be the type of person who will not move. That's all. That's the verse. It says you shall not follow the masses in doing evil. Exodus to the three verse 2, NASB, New American Standard Bible. You shall not follow the masses. So any tendency and any temptation to follow the anything, when you don't follow the masses, you look odd. But that's the main thing. And what we must fight against is the fight to look odd. You must fight to look odd because you have to be odd. You must step aside. You must come out of their ways. Don't join them. Don't join them as they are going for the pool party. Don't join them as they are doing their things. I mean, in the all kinds of things. Go on. I'm sure you know all of them. Yeah. But the fight you must fight is is the fight to be odd. Odd means that a lot of people are like this. Only you. You are not like that. Are you prepared to be like that? Are you prepared to be different? That's a pressure. And there's there's a lot of pressure to be like everybody. When we were on campus, there were certain guys who were bright, rich, popular, handsome, had cars. And I could see that the ladies were under pressure to be seen with such guys. Yeah, That if if on campus, you are this guy's friend or you are you are a friend. Yeah, You are a friend of this guy. You still have such things Don't come. Yeah. And everybody is forcing to wriggle her way into his life. And you force and force and force only to realize that this guy, he only beats girls. And you come out with sore eyes. So. So if you want to do the work of the ministry in your class, be ready to be the odd one out. When they are all going to do masters and a PhD and all kinds of things. Be prepared to be different. If you are not ready to be odd, then that's not your place. Yeah, you must be ready to be odd. You must be ready to be odd. Among your family members, all your cousins are doing their masters. 1 is in London, 1 is in the States, one is in Stockholm. One is there, here and there. And only you say you are working in lighthouse. You are, you are, you are a priestess. Is it not odd? But Are you ready to be odd? The fight is a fight to be odd, to stay odd. But you see, one day the people you you chose not to join, they will they will be looking for you. They'll be looking for you. They will see that Charlie, this guy is great crowd that your, your, your, your choices are superior. Anybody who chooses God has chosen the best thing. Yeah, anybody. Any day, anytime, any hour, any, it's any choice. Anytime you choose, God know that you've chosen the best. It may not appear as the best one you are choosing, but you watch it. After some time, some years, you see that they, they'll be secretly discussing you. That girl is wise. Oh, that guy is wise. 01. You secretly in your heart decide that you will never follow the way the world is because now it's like when you finish school, the next thing is masters or it's not your time. Is it still the case? Yeah. The next thing is you must go here. You must go there. People are filling forms. Yeah, people are filling forms, all types of forms. And you, the form you are filling is a form for church employment. You look odd, but you must be ready to be odd. Once. Once your mind is that you want to be like them, you cannot. Anybody who is a friend of the world cannot be a friend of God. In fact, the Bible says if you are a friend of the world, you are an enemy of God. Do you want to be God's enemy? You don't need to say to yourself that you'll be God's enemy. All you need to do is become a friend of the world who is a friend of the world, someone who admires the world, likes their things. Once you go where everybody is doing masters, I'm with them, Everybody is going here, they are all going to London and everybody is doing and you to be. There's a major call on you by God to be a pastor. No, no, no, no, no, away with the precious. I'm going to serve echo bank. But you not become that type of person. Amen. Let's let's read that verse again. Let's read first John 5 for the, the, the, the camp edition, the camp edition one go, Oh, please, please everybody find your Scripture and let's read 1 go. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the precious of the world. And this is the victory that overcometh the precious of the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the pressures of the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God. That's the camp version of first, don't fight. Clap your hands for Jesus.