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20.The Blessing Of A Good Shepherd

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
March 14, 2026 38m 47s

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Camp Title - Fulfill Your Ministry. Machaneh Collection - 94. 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 #20 or fulfil your ministry and. I'll just sat aside the cares of this world. I got to fall in love with you again, and I'll just throw away the trouble. This world falling up with them. See, I'm falling in love. Yes, I'm falling. In love. And I'm falling love. And I'll just throw away the troubles of this world to fall in love with you. I'll just fall in love with you. I fall in love with you. Yes, I fall in love with you. Father, we lift our hands. We thank you for your blessing upon our lives as we go out of this place as the best shepherds, the best shepherds that you ever raised, Lord, are standing here today. Thank you for your power. Thank you for your mercies for the best shepherds, shepherds on assignment, shepherds delegated to go out there. What a blessing. We worship you, O God, in Jesus name, Amen. It may be seated Isaiah 51 hacking to me, ye that follow after righteousness, and ye that seek the Lord. Isaiah is a man of inspiration, speaking by the Spirit. How many here are following after righteousness? Look unto the rock whence ye are healed, and to the whole of the pit, whence ye are date. Look unto Abraha

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Welcome to track #20 or fulfil your ministry and. I'll just sat aside the cares of this world. I got to fall in love with you again, and I'll just throw away the trouble. This world falling up with them. See, I'm falling in love. Yes, I'm falling. In love. And I'm falling love. And I'll just throw away the troubles of this world to fall in love with you. I'll just fall in love with you. I fall in love with you. Yes, I fall in love with you. Father, we lift our hands. We thank you for your blessing upon our lives as we go out of this place as the best shepherds, the best shepherds that you ever raised, Lord, are standing here today. Thank you for your power. Thank you for your mercies for the best shepherds, shepherds on assignment, shepherds delegated to go out there. What a blessing. We worship you, O God, in Jesus name, Amen. It may be seated Isaiah 51 hacking to me, ye that follow after righteousness, and ye that seek the Lord. Isaiah is a man of inspiration, speaking by the Spirit. How many here are following after righteousness? Look unto the rock whence ye are healed, and to the whole of the pit, whence ye are date. Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bear ye. For I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. This is a wonderful instruction for those who are following after righteousness. Look unto the the rock from where you came. You see as you go out of here, we all need direction and that's why God says to you, look at the hole from where you were date, which hole was that? And he explains, he says, look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bear you as good shepherds on a mission. Learn to look to the fathers that God has placed right in front of you. They are a vision. Remember yesterday we were talking about their visions. The thing, the person is a vision. You see, God was saying that. Look at Abraham, he's a vision, he says. I called him alone. Do you see? Callings are often alone. Rarely do you see, I don't even know, but really you see God calling a group. So as you are here, you are an individual. So as you can call a group and bless a group, but usually you see that it just takes one person and doesn't really need anybody else. That is why when you are attached to such a person, you have to take it seriously because you may not have that calling. I called Him alone, and I blessed him and increased him. Everyone who is called here would be greatly increased in Jesus name. For the Lord shall comfort Zion. He will comfort all her waste places, and he will make her wilderness like Eden. In a desert like the garden of the Lord, joy and gladness shall be found therein. Thanksgiving and the voice of melody. Amen. That is why you are experiencing joy in the House of the Lord. It's a prophecy. You'll be happy to be in and around God somewhere. How many have enjoyed being in and around somewhere where God is located? Hacking unto me my people, and give hear unto me my nation, for a law shall proceed from me. And now make my judgment to rest for the people. My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people. The Isles shall wait upon me. Islands are waiting for you, I said. Islands are waiting for you for you to appear. You are appearing now in an island to deliver the laws of the Lord. Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look upon the earth beneath. For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner. But my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. All those who despise what we are teaching will vanish, and their salvation, the pureness of salvation, will be forever. It will not disappear. Amen. Verse 7. Hacking unto me, ye that no righteousness. At the end of this little passage, I'm going to give you something that I want you to keep close in your heart. That is why I decided to come and tell you, you know, I want you to keep something close in your heart about being a shepherd. Yeah, about how to be a shepherd. I want you to keep it close in your heart and decide that you will be that thing and you will be so blessed because of that. Already you are blessed hacking unto me, ye that no righteousness thy people is in thy in whose heart is my love. Fear ye not the reproach of man, neither be afraid of their revilings. Don't be afraid, medical students, don't be afraid of these people and their insults. For the mud shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool. But my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from generation to generation. Don't be afraid, I said. Don't be afraid. Awake, awake, put on strength, Oh, am of the Lord. Awake us in the ancient days and in the generations of old. Somebody said I'm an old fashioned preacher, like my message is old fashioned gospel. Somebody said I didn't know there was somebody who still preaches like you preach. He says awake us in the ancient days in the generations of old. I see you walking in the ancient gospel that cannot be superseded or improved upon. What improvement are you bringing to the cross of Jesus Christ? Do you have an improvement on the salvation that Christ has won for us? You will never be afraid again from today in Jesus name as if you were ready to destroy. Where is the fury of the professor of the as a professor of the oppressor? Perhaps it's a prophetic word. Where is the fury of the professor? They thought they could drown us, but we survive by the help of the hand of the Almighty, which strengthen the hand of his servants. You shall also be strengthened by Jehovah. The captive exile has hasteneth that he may be loose, that he should not die in the pit, not that his head should fail. I am the Lord that divided the sea, whose waves roared. The Lord of hosts is his name, and I have put my words in thy mouth. As you go forth, remember you are an anointed shepherd. Be excited about that word shepherd. When that word shepherd is associated with you, say, look, I am a shepherd. The Lord has put his words in my mouth. You'll no more be ordinary. One day I went to a a certain country. When I got there, a lot of people were at the airport sinking with a banner. Wow, I was amazed. Was it because I have a degree? MB CHI don't know where it is? No, it's because I'm a shepherd. Yeah. It's a privilege to be a shepherd. All honor that is ever given to you because of the shepherding thing. The shepherding thing is the main thing in your life. I said the shepherding thing is the main thing in your life. Yeah, being a shepherd is the main thing. Then I went to another country. I had people sinking and clapping. It has happened to me a number of times. Yeah, clapping. International airports, Another group thought this was an island somewhere. Yeah. I arrived in Trinidad. There were crowds there waiting, clapping to receive me arriving to Madagascar. Crowd lying up on this as if a president has come. Arriving Cape Town saw a lot of people sinking, clapping different places. Why? Why I've put my words in thy mouth. Do you think they were coming to see my stethoscope or my string to to check somebody's blood pressure? You have come to check our blood pressure. We are clapping for you. You've come to check our blood pressure. The shepherd is the main thing. You better be very happy about it. And I've covered the in the shadow of my hand You are covered and saved from every evil in Jesus name. Where's the amma? Where's Amma? Come and give your testimony. You are covered. That I may plan the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion down at my people. Wow, testimony time, I said what test? Your testimony is the next powerful testimony. When I say you are covered, always believe it. Say it. It is the professor you believe that happens. The one you don't believe is the one that doesn't happen. You are covered by the feathers of the law. Hallelujah. I really thank God for this camp, that we are learning a lot. But I've been literally saved. I feel my life has been saved in a certain way because we came for the camp on Wednesday evening and Thursday evening. This is a this is a medical student. She's a medical student. A lot, a lot of people, those, those of you who are doing Dundology and let me tell you something, if your medical students are serving God, don't, don't even try to. I mean, don't even try. Don't even try. You'll be surprised that the person next to you is a medical student or a law student or a doctor that is happy sitting here. OK, volume. On Thursday evening, in the course of the camp, I realized that people were texting me and people were calling me. So I didn't really understand. And then I received a text message that your room, your roommate has been attacked. And then so I was now checking my text messages and I found out that she wasn't around and she came back to the room to meet a gentleman in the room. And then and he wanted to take her once he asked for some money, a whole lot of she was come from the bathroom. So she went and came back and then the room was unlocked. Then this what happened? So the man asked for money, a whole lot of things. And she said, OK, eventually you take so he took the laptop. So she didn't have any money. So he took her laptop and phone. But he had he was armed. He was holding a knife up on her so he was leaving and then he decided he he stopped and turned around and said OK, he wants to have sex with her because she was and wearing her room. That is, that is her room. In her room. That's where she was. She would have been. Her bed is closer to the door. So, so she, she had to think twice and the man, when he first said the story, he was saying he was a Christian and things. So she told him that since you're a Christian, before we start, let's pray. The gentleman closed his eyes. And then she, there was no escape route because the room, it seems like the door was blocked. So she we're on the second floor. She just 12. Yeah, so she just jumped and then she started screaming. There's a rapist in my room. So the boys were able to, the boys climbed up and met him, and they met him too. He was like, oh, the guy has super somewhere else. But then and they figured him out and realized he was the one. So they caught him and then they sent him to the police station. But then I realized it's my salvation because at the time that the whole incident happened, that was around 6:15 on a normal day during this fasting, I'll be breaking my fast and I'll be sitting where I'll be sitting. Like if the gentleman had come to meet me, I would have been totally connected. And I don't know what would have happened. I really my room I met her there pelvic fracture and then since she was in calibu she was just taking to the hospital and as at the time I was speaking to her yesterday she was at accident center. But then she said she's OK. But I really found God for salvation, even for my roommate's life because. The story could have turned any direction at all. Any direction if if the guy met just me alone. It could have been worse If the guy met the two of us. It may have even turned bloody. I don't know what, but God has saved us and has preserved our lives. And even though she may have a broken if, I know God will heal her. I really found God that He saved me for by coming just for the time with myself. You are covered by the feathers of the Lord in Jesus name Father, thank you for your protection for your daughter and for all the children from am robust rapist, accident and at the dark spirits of wickedness in Jesus name, Amen. God bless you my dear. We pray for her roommate for healing in Jesus name. Can you imagine jumping from the top floor, not an upstairs or the 2 upstairs to escape an armed man with a knife trying to rape you as you are in your bathrobe? You will never be raped in Jesus name. Verse 17 I'm ending with this. This is it, this is it. Awake, awake. Stand up, O Jerusalem, which has drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury that was drunk in the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrang them out. Now there is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth. Now you see this is a great punishment. But in the punishment you see the blessing. And that blessing is the blessing of having somebody to do these things. And God is saying that the punishment I'm giving to you is to take away shepherds who will do this for you. That's the punishment. When there's no shepherd, it's a punishment. And the in the first punishment is that there is none to guide her. There is none to guide her. Among the sons whom she has brought forth. Many people have churches but among the sons of the churches, there is none. Who rises up as a guide? You are the next guide that is being raised up. So remember, what is the hope of a cow walking from Bogatanga to Accra? What is the hope of a cow walking from Kaduna to Lagos? There is very little hope. After six months, it will still be around Kaduna or somebody I've made into a kebab. If I take any of these counts and I say go to Accra and I put him at the gate, what is the hope after by next year, by now you see that he's still in this area because there is none to guide her. It's the wildest thing to be a sheep and to have none to guide you. So as I'm here speaking the words of the Lord and guiding you is the greatest blessing and guiding you to do the work of the Lord, you are the next person who is going to be a guide to somebody. This is the blessing of the best shepherd. Neither says, neither is there any that taketh her by the hand. Wow, of all the sons, there's no one who takes you by the hand. Let's go. You are the next best shepherd who will arrive in somebody's room, somebody's house, and take the person by the hand and say we are going. You see, it's one thing to guide and say this is the way. It's another thing to come and take somebody by the hand. You are the shepherd God has been waiting for among all the sons in the church. Yes. Wow, these two things are common to thee. Who shall be sorry for thee? There's nobody to feel sorry for you. You are the next shepherd whose heart is touched. God is sending you to feel sorry for somebody. There will be no. Is it that the punishment? There will be nobody to feel sorry for you. Wow. There is no one who feels sorry for thee. Yeah, this is the case a lot of people have. There is no one that feels sorry for thee now that they come here. I remember, I remember her, you know, one day she could stand by me. She was crying. Her heart was broken. Yeah, her heart was broken. And I said, don't worry, I'm going to get a welder to Weld your heart for you because God is sending somebody who should. I feel sorry for thee. Yeah. Who cries when he sees you there? Many times I cry you. You will not know. I feel sorry. I feel sorry for that person's, that thing that is happening in the person's life. It pains me for the person. And it is eighties, 80s. And when when I thought I said what I can do, what I can do, that is what I will do. Yeah. Feel sorry. If there is nobody in your life who feels sorry for you. Hey, something, something has been taken from me. Do you remember when you were crying? I remember like it was yesterday. I remember like it was yesterday. I was so devastated. It was fighting. I said wait, wait. One day I sent a message to her. I said I'm going to a carnival camp. Shabbaya, there's no one that feels sorry for thee. I am sending you to feel sorry for people. You have the feeling for the people don't detach. You know, people don't feel sorry. Somebody doesn't have a child. You know, you have to feel sorry. God is looking. People don't care. Especially fellow fellow sisters. Oh, yeah, they don't care at all. People don't care at all. Yeah. See, somebody meets a beloved. You see us doing everything, whatever the meat is, Mandy, this, whatever. I feel sorry for thee. Wow. That's how come a lot of pastors are not preaching about prosperity and marriage. A lot of deviant, deviant preaching comes from the pastor's heart. Look all the almost all if you ask me, God, pastors, prophet, to me I would say that almost 99% or 100% look they are genuine pastors and prophets. When you even see the needs of the people you even your message will even change. Wow, are you listening to me? There shall be no one who feels sorry for thee. God is sending you as you go from here with the shepherd's hat. When you see somebody going to hell, you feel sorry for the person. When you see somebody who is not working for the Lord, you feel sorry for the person. You are missing something wonderful. Yeah, and I felt sorry for her one day. A widow, she just became a widow. She just became a widow. And I was sitting with another widow and I called the other widow. I said talk to this one, the first one. And I think I put my hand around. That's why I put the hand around. It's not out of last. We are not lasting. It is not last. Do see it as last you are sick. If you see it as last you are sick. You are not well. This not last. And I called the the new widow and I said talk to her. She would advise, you know what she said to her. How would you survive the old widow to the new widow, the hand, that hand that is around, I don't know whether my hand was on hell, my hand was on the new or the old, but that hand that is that is what will help you. I was surprised. The hand that's the heart that feels sorry for the well, you realize, you know, if you look at funeral, one day I saw somebody who was attended from his his funeral. He said, look, these people are not feeling sorry. People don't feel sorry. When Bishopsaki's wife died exactly 9 months to the time people gave birth, that means that that that time that we were feeling whatever, it's like people were still having fun. And the people, yeah, you will learn that people don't feel sorry. You will discover that people don't feel sorry for them. Yes, everybody can make their face. As soon as they turn, they come, they shake your hand when they go and they start laughing and they start chatting. They don't have any. They don't feel sorry. But God is anointing people who has, whose hearts attached? One day I recommended someone to someone, you know, marry this person and then they got married. And then the marriage did not work because I felt sorry for the person and I was trying to help. Then the thing also didn't work. So one day I called the person. I said I'm sorry. She said don't say that, don't say that because I felt sorry. And then after I also felt sorry again. She said, don't say that you've done your best. Who shall feel sorry for thee? It pains you. That's a shepherd. If it doesn't pain you. You are, you are. I don't know. You are what? Yeah, you are just. You are not a you are not a real shepherd. Who shall feel sorry for thee? He said God told him, but not the punishment. There will be nobody who shall feel sorry for thee. Yeah. No, There will be no one. And that's the punishment I'm giving you. There will be no one who shall feel sorry for thee. And I kept telling her. I said you wait. You wait today. She's smiling. Wow. Why? Because she has somebody who shall feel sorry for thee. Yeah, I remember I was here. I was having a meeting here and I called and said call her to meet me somewhere, meet me there. I put it on my side and I said, what do you see? Do you see some mixing? Some mixing? God arranging something, what a blessing I see the blessing of a shepherd coming on you in Jesus name, Amen. Wow, desolation and destruction in the famine and soul. And by whom shall I comfort thee? Wow. So God is showing us these wonderful keys, none to guide her, none that taketh her by hand, none to feel sorry for you and none to comfort you. So these are four things that make you the best shepherd. One day I went somewhere, it was a funeral, and that's where the pastor must appear. The pastor is like a president. When there's a problem, you have to come. That's why President Bush, one of the things that went against him was when the September 11th happened, he didn't come there for some time and then the mayor rather came there. The mayor rather came to the scene one day. I appeared from the person said when I saw you, I just felt strong. Yeah. This person feels sorry for me. Really. This other one, they are just visiting. They are just coming. It's like to Mark register. Have you seen my face? I attended. Have you seen my face? I attended Wow. You are the best shepherd being released from this camp in Jesus name. Stand to your feet. How many are enjoying the camp? How many don't want to go home? Is it nice to be a shepherd? Is it nice to work for God? Are you going to work for him with joyfulness and with gladness? It's a beautiful job. Wow, you see, now you want to continue. Wow, lift your hands. Father, I thank you for these wonderful missionaries, Shepherds, boys and girls, raise up with a shepherd's heart. Thanks a million, thanks a million, thanks a million. You have done it. You have done great things. You have given us a new heart. Receive put your hand on your heart. Receive a new heart. Receive a new heart in Jesus name, the heart of a shepherd, the heart of a lover, the heart of a guide, the heart of someone who will take people by their hand, the heart of someone who will comfort, the heart of someone who will feel sorry for others. Thank you Jesus, what a great blessing and given to us. And through this shepherding anointing, many crowds will come and gather around you and listen to your words and listen to your speeches. Thank you Lord, for this blessing in Jesus name. And everybody shouted Amen. Let me hear your sustained Amen. I don't want to fail in my mission. I don't want to fail in my mission. I don't want to fail in my mission. Are you going to fail in your mission? Are you going to fail in your mission? You will never fail in your mission. I don't want to fail. You are going going out there when I'll see you feeling sorry. You see the pest? You see how little Solomon came and he said this girl look after me. You know it's something when you are a shepherd, all honor that will come to your life, it will not be from your cause. What causes you to do Spanish? How can it help you? How can Spanish help you today if it have not been that you are a shepherd? Do you think anybody will? Mind you, in this world, I don't want to fail in my mission. We hope you have been blessed and transformed by this camp. To get the most out of it, you will need to listen to it over and over again. Make sure you listen to all the other camps in the Machinaire. Don't forget to stop by our website at www.daiquidmills.org. Here you can download other messages, videos and find out about all the books and other resources available by Daiquidmills. May God bless you in your ministry.