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21. 7 Things That First Love Is More Important Than

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
December 18, 2024 35m 7s

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Camp Title - My First Love. Machaneh Collection - 58. Preached in 2009, Ghana (Accra). Bishop Dag Heward-Mills is a world-renowned evangelist, bestselling Christian author with over 100 books, and leader of the United Denominations, present in 100+ countries. Through his Healing Jesus Campaigns, thousands have been healed, and millions saved across Africa and beyond. As you follow this podcast, may you begin to know God in a way you have never before! Don’t forget to click the follow button and turn on notifications.

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Welcome to track number. 21 of my first love we. Appreciate your love. We appreciate your love. Full of the world, reaching every song in every corner. I appreciate your love. Shed abroad to love the world, Preaching every song in every corner. I appreciate your love. The. We appreciate your love. Preaching mercy, great in love, keeping us alive together in one. We appreciate your love, We appreciate your life. We appreciate your life. Sing a new song to our Lord. He has done great things for us. Sing a new song to our Lord. He has done great things for our lives. Live to God and praise His holy name. He desires always to be brave. Bow to the Lord and worship him. He has not great things for us. Bow, oh, to the Lord, and worship in me. He passed our greatest things more up. He made us. In his life now, he desires always to be brave. Let your bones even praise. Let your Lord, He desires always to be brave. Let your bones even praise the Lord, for He has done brave. All right, I know thy works. Amen. As to thy labour, thy patience, how thou canst not bear them that are evil, and has tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, an

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Welcome to track number. 21 of my first love we. Appreciate your love. We appreciate your love. Full of the world, reaching every song in every corner. I appreciate your love. Shed abroad to love the world, Preaching every song in every corner. I appreciate your love. The. We appreciate your love. Preaching mercy, great in love, keeping us alive together in one. We appreciate your love, We appreciate your life. We appreciate your life. Sing a new song to our Lord. He has done great things for us. Sing a new song to our Lord. He has done great things for our lives. Live to God and praise His holy name. He desires always to be brave. Bow to the Lord and worship him. He has not great things for us. Bow, oh, to the Lord, and worship in me. He passed our greatest things more up. He made us. In his life now, he desires always to be brave. Let your bones even praise. Let your Lord, He desires always to be brave. Let your bones even praise the Lord, for He has done brave. All right, I know thy works. Amen. As to thy labour, thy patience, how thou canst not bear them that are evil, and has tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and has found them liars, and has born, and has patience, and has. For my namesake has lived and has not fainted. Nevertheless, nevertheless, in spite of all this, I have somewhat against thee, because thou has left thy first love. How many understand a bit more. You have left your first love in it. Seven things that first love is more important than number one. First love is more important than your works so it is more important for us to keep our first love which has What are the character. 13 Characteristics of First love #1 is what I gave you at the beginning is the love you have when you are young. So your young behaviour isn't it #2 The one that you have when you are pure, you are what? Passionate. The love you have when you are strong, very strong. The next one. The love you have when you are pure. The next one Is the love that you have when you are innocent, the next one when you are fresh, and the next one when you have No Fear. The next one when you have no doubts. The next one, don't worry, you have a lot of faith. That's the love you have When you have a lot of faith. The next one is what? When you are full of zeal and it, The next one is what? The love we have when you don't know much about evil and it The next one is what? When you are full of what? Blindness and the next one is what when you are mad, the love you have when you are mad, the mad lover how many want to be a mad lover for Jesus. I'm sick of love. Tell your name. Actually, I'm sick of love. First love has made me sick. Now 7 things that it's more important for you to have. This madness, blindness, this love that you had when you were innocent and pure and the thing that you have when you are young. It's more important to have that than your the even the very works that you are doing. Yeah, you may do the works, but you are not that You don't have that flow with God. It's true, you may have a wife. She may cook for you, but there's no passion. She may open up for you, but there is no energy. There's no energy, there's no strength, there's no vigorousness, there's no zeal, no madness. There's no madness in the house. Then everything is too far, too difficult, too extreme, too tiring, too dirty. Have you understand? So you may produce it, but how many were like a wife who serves you the food without energy? Antelope feelings. No strength, no Zelu, no zeal. Just there. Bomb yoke Gary. But Sirikal. You know about Sirikal Botsay? Is that how you say boxing? Boxing is botserical? Botserical when you have become botserical. Not just that, no. You want somebody who's live she comes singing. There was a certainness hey, when she was doing her nursing, even when she comes to attend to you will get well because she sings as she's attending to you. Quesi, baby, what is wrong with you? Yeah, yeah. Chrissy baby, what is wrong with you? Fever, Doctor. Yes, Doctor. And you'll be talking about. Yes, doctor. No, doctor. OK Doctor and she will turn to the patient. Quesi Vedu, what is wrong with you? Yes doctor. No doctor. OK doctor. Hey. Singing Achima Achimata school hospital. Yeah. As she start telling him Quesi vedu, what is wrong with you Fever doctor. Yes doctor. No doctor. OK doctor. Hey, an Asian Zeal, faith, strength, antelopes, moving madness, sickness of love. Then a nice sweet car. I say, where's your card? Where's your card? Don't you know you have to make a card? We say let me swap. You have somebody who can question better what is wrong with you. Fever, Doctor. Yes, Doctor. No, Doctor. OK, Doctor. You know your sickness will be going. There are many ways to cure people. This is one of them. One day I'll tell. I'll tell you of the greatest miracle service I ever saw. Yeah. I've never seen a miracle service. Everybody got healed. Yeah. Hey, should I tell you? It is a certain story I'll tell you one day. Can you imagine a hospital, A hospital with drapes? People are dying. When even when you enter, you hear. You hear the sound of the people breathe. Everybody was healed immediately in the hospital. I tell you the greatest mirror, when I saw a true story, when I saw it I my eye, I said this is the greatest healing service. Yeah, a true story. They want to know. OK, I'll tell you last, the last, last story before we go. So first love is more important than what you are coming to do. Even the way you do it can bring about a great blessing. First love is more important than your works then. Because he said, I know thy works. I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know. Thy labor to first love. It's more important to have feelings than labor. Yeah. All the use of the person who is just doing all this food. You can get a maid or a chef to work all day without feelings for you, but you want to eat food which has feelings. May I could detect my wife's level of love for me by the food that she made for me When the food comes. I mean, in those days I knew when I taste, I know that the laugh temperature is at this level. When I taste that the laugh temperature is down by the taste of the food. Oh yeah. So say I know that I work. I know that I live up actually without the laugh. Don't bring me this. Even when somebody who does not love you breeze, we will not even eat the food. So it's more important than your liver. Amen. The next one, I know your perseverance. Some of you are going to persevere, persevere, persevere, persevere, persevere to serve God. But without that innocent, everything is possible. Nothing is too much, nothing is too far, nothing is extreme, nothing is tiring, nothing is dirty. I can do it. The love that I have when I have passion, feeling what a difference it makes preaching when you preach. I tried to practice crying and I I saw Jimmy Swaggart cry every time he did his other guys, he cried. I said, this is it. I've I have tried all my life to cry during preaching and it couldn't work because I wanted to be able to cry because you see, when you see feeling, I mean, you start to be moved. Yeah, it has. It has something more than all the things that are said. And it just couldn't come. So it's more important than your perseverance, than your patience. Some of you are patient, you'll be patient, you do this, you do that. But it says that I know thy patience, but I have still one thing against you. So #4 you may have patience, but God says I have got a problem with you. I got a problem with you, I'm fine. First, love is more important than you not tolerating evil. I tell you, come. And you don't tolerate evil. I don't stand for nonsense. Again, what am I to say? Here we are. We don't do such thing. Come on, I rebuke you. We are we are not sinners here, righteous man. But God says I, I like somebody full of passion. You see, one day a certain brother, his father, called him and gave him only one piece of advice. He didn't give him two pieces of advice, only one. Do you want to know the advice that he gave? Are you sure you want to know the advice that he gave? Are you sure you want to know the advice? This is the advice that he gave. And the brother told me himself. He told me, my father told me, he said. The only thing I would advise you is that do not marry a virgin. Yeah, because he blame the behaviour of his wife throughout her life on her virginity. Oh, you don't understand what I'm saying. What is crawling in my trousers? One day I was I felt something moving in my trousers. I said it cannot be. Then I said let me see I was dead. And I felt the thing move like this and said no, there is something there. And when I put my hand, I felt something more like a like maybe like a pen. And I realized that a lizard painted my trousers. You see, when I talk of miracle services, I began to jump, removing all my trousers. And there was the lizard came running out of my trousers. I was telling you something, dear brother. Yeah, because it would be better to even have a prostitute than to have somebody without feelings. Then he attributed a lack of feelings to lack of training, sexual training with other partners. Yeah, he has no hard tutorials. So that's the only I didn't give 2 pieces of advice, only one. I'm not saying I'm giving you that advice. I'm telling you that somebody advice because he he said anything. If only there will be some feeling in this person. Oh, feelings are gone. I regret. I wish I had married somebody was being trained about four or five people trained the person rehearsals. Let's see somebody to marry someone after sometime, he said. He gave also give advisor, don't marry somebody who has been trained by others. So by the time it is your time they are tired. So which life shall you obey? So first love is more important than not tolerating evil. So you may say I don't want this, I don't want this, but look at time because they give me somebody with feelings. And I think for me, I would also choose to have somebody with feelings. I would like to have somebody with if you, if you ask me what's my preference as you may not have this, you may not have that somebody who is real, not somebody who is just there. But Sir, call, give me somebody with feelings. Ask your neighbor Charlie, Oh, your feelings. You have feelings. Tap the antelope and see whether the antelopica number six first love is more important than laboring extra. Because in this verse Revelation chapter 2, verse two and three, he says, I know thy works and thy liver. Then he goes on and he says, And I know that for my name's sake thou hast liveth again twice. So somebody who works and works again, works and works again, works and works again, but there is no feeling, no flow, no energy, no kind of readiness. Yes, one day a certain man wanted a house help and the house help came. When the house help came, the house help said I am ready to do anything that you want me to do. I can clean. I can scrap. I will. I will wash every toilet in the house. I will scrap everything I'm ready to do. I can't even wash the car, clean the children's. You know, what do you call it? Toilet clothes, Poo, poo, everything. Even your panties. I can wash all told them, Madam, I can watch it for you also, Madam, they don't like washing panties. You are looking at my face as if you you don't understand what I'm saying. But then the house helps. But there is one thing one thing say that from 12:00 in the night up to five. I don't want disturbance tall. That's the time that I sleep, that's the time that I sleep. If you need me up to 11/30, 11:45, but from 12, don't call me because I'm resting. Would you like that house help? How many would not like that house help, even though it may be the most hard working house help in the whole world? Somebody who has come with some things that are too much, some things that are too far. This one you cannot do. I cannot be called at 1:00 AM. Don't call me. Why? You are the boss. You are now afraid of your servant because some things are too much, too far, too dirty, too extreme, too tiring to do as far as that particular house. So even though the person may be the hardest work is a person that I'm afraid of. You see, that's why you must not be somebody that cannot be shouted at, somebody who cannot be corrected. Because some of you, we are even afraid to correct when we say something or your attitude will come. Your attitude will come just now, I tell you. So you must flow with the Lord. Amen. Anything can be done. And how many would like a house who is not as has labour and has laboured again. But you can call out two AM 3:00 AM Foil me. The people that I work with, I can call them at any time. I've not, I've not had anybody who work for me. Like when I call the person, the person said how can you call at this time? I can call at any time. I can, I can call again. I can go. I can go to the house and break the break the house and enter. I don't think they will be angry with me. Yeah, that's not a problem. Do you get it? Yeah. So, Chale, you come with a lot of conditions, even though you are very good, your conditions are too many. No, this is too much, too far. So that's why, that's why I said that the Lord will say, give me the one without the conditions. The one who says nothing is too far, is too much. Is that is too. This is too. This is too that. This is too. I like that one, even though that one is not so good. Yeah. Are you listening to me? One day I had a certain worker and the worker was a thief. A lot of people say I should suck the worker, and I say I will not suck him. Do you know why? He's he's never angry. He'll never be angry. Midnight, morning, noon, 2 AM, 3:00 AM. If you want to shout, it's just as it was. Nothing is too harsh, too much to talk, too dirty, impossible, you see. So sometimes you see people have faults, but they are still kept. It doesn't even mean they are perfect. But once that first, last type of flu is there, sometimes that's the reason why some people are around because that thing alone that it's not too far to skip over the mountains. It's not too this it's not. That's why some of you, even though you may be young and without experience, you may be better to be used in the House of the Lord than somebody who has a lot of experience. But it's unwilling. It's unwilling to do certain things and to go to certain places. And in fact, coming to think of it, coming to think of it, who are the people that are working with me? Most of the people that are working with me, even in my office, even like Lulu and all that, they are more than 20 years younger than me, 20 years or about 20 years younger. This was about 20 years younger than me. Yeah, because those of my age group, do you understand who are 18 years, 20 years older than these ones, are not prepared to do some of the things they are doing. Look at her job just to stand here and sing. Someone said, well, it's 2, whatever you see. So you end up with people who are younger and who are more energetic and you would choose it and I would even choose it. And I've chosen it. And that's why when some sometimes people come, Am I imagining or what? Was that something that moved? OK, I'm imagining that something came out. The one you have had certain experience. Your first love is modified, your innocence, your purity. I have to remove my trouser now. It will not be good. OK. Hey, have you seen how people are chosen? Lack of experience, lack of anything. But only the person is ready to flow. That person is chosen, I tell you. Yeah. And that's how come many young people will replace so-called even bishops in the church. Yes. Or replace them. I tell you because God wants that thing and that's why I don't want it ever to go out of me and that's why I want to have you see younger people that these ones will be flowing. You flow you see you take your position in the army. That's because you are ready and you see so-called greater ones, experienced ones, righteous ones will be left out. He says, yes, you don't tolerate you labor, you labor extra, but still I don't like you because you don't have first love. And number 7 and the last point, first love is more important than not fainting. Even though you you never faint or you never give up on the work of the Lord, you've never given up before. I will still want somebody who's flowing Amen with my first love. Amen. That leads us to you. There's no other love that we desire. There's no greater love that we could ever Lord bless in Jesus. You are my pastor. There is no other love that can come now I'm. Going to give you the substitutes of first love, hey?