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22.God Has Anointed You to Do Good

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
February 23, 2026 46m 46s

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Camp Title - God Requireth That Which Is Past. Machaneh Collection - 92. 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 #22 of God requireth that which is past. Now I have some good news for you. This good news? Is connected to Acts 1038. It says now that you are. How many can say there's some kind? Of anointing, yeah. Now that the. Anointing is on you. You are about to start doing good. And Solomon has a comment to make about that. Do you want to? Hear his comment before we go home then. Sit down so that we can listen to what he has to say. Ecclesiastes 3, verse 10. I've seen the travail. Message Travail. I've seen the travail. Huh. Painful labour and exertion. I've seen it. See, I've seen it. See, I've seen it too. See, I'm looking for something better to do than this travail, this painful accession of my life on this earth. How many are looking for something to escape this travail? He has made everything beautiful in his time. That means that in the. Right timing of God. There's going to be something beautiful. Also he has set the. World in their hearts Ecclesiastes 311 so that no man can find out. The work that God maketh from beginning to the end, no one can find. Out about God. S work from beginning to the end, verse 12. I k

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Welcome to track #22 of God requireth that which is past. Now I have some good news for you. This good news? Is connected to Acts 1038. It says now that you are. How many can say there's some kind? Of anointing, yeah. Now that the. Anointing is on you. You are about to start doing good. And Solomon has a comment to make about that. Do you want to? Hear his comment before we go home then. Sit down so that we can listen to what he has to say. Ecclesiastes 3, verse 10. I've seen the travail. Message Travail. I've seen the travail. Huh. Painful labour and exertion. I've seen it. See, I've seen it. See, I've seen it too. See, I'm looking for something better to do than this travail, this painful accession of my life on this earth. How many are looking for something to escape this travail? He has made everything beautiful in his time. That means that in the. Right timing of God. There's going to be something beautiful. Also he has set the. World in their hearts Ecclesiastes 311 so that no man can find out. The work that God maketh from beginning to the end, no one can find. Out about God. S work from beginning to the end, verse 12. I know that there is no good in them. Now listen. No good. No good in what? In them you see in the works and the travail that God has given. There's nothing good. But. One thing is good. For a man to rejoice and to do what good in his life when the anointing comes on you, did you answer? I hear my question say when the anointing comes on you, what is the first thing that you start doing? Good. So the Bible is saying that there is nothing better for you to do in this difficult world. Than a man. To rejoice in, for a man to rejoice and I'm. Going to show you how to rejoice. And to do good in his life, that means you. To be. To to do good, you need to be anointed to do good and so once. You have been anointed. You have been set on a path. To do good. And there is nothing better in this world. For a man to do than to do good. Or to do what the anointing? Helps him to do Yeah, You can ask either. Is it not better to be singing than to What would you have been doing by now? You work at Zenith Bank. You don't even know what you will be doing. You don't even know what you are doing. But there is nothing better in this life for a man than to do good or to operate in the anointing, because God has anointed you to do good and to heal. So you are going to rejoice in this life and then enjoy the. Good of all his labour. Like, enjoy, good. The good of your labour. You see? There is so much travail in this world. But there is a. Small section where you can enjoy. Good. In your labor, yeah, there's a small section where you can enjoy good in the labor you are doing, and that is when you start to do something eternal. Amen. Now. If you look at. Ecclesiastes chapter 2, verse 17 he says. Therefore I hated. Life. Therefore, I hated life. Because what? Because the work that the. Type of work here. That is rot. Under the sun is grievous unto me. Mercy, yeah. For all of the work is vanity. And vexation. Vexation of spirit. Wow. Do you want to say I hate my life? No. So even Solomon came to the conclusion. He said therefore. Verse 20 I went about to cause my heart to despair, despair of all the labor which I took under the sun. I went about to feel depressed and discouraged about all the work every day after, after, after. Oh, therefore I hated life because all the labor under the sun was grievous. The word that is. Wrought under the sun is grievous. Therefore I hated life. I didn't invent the Bible. Wow. Listen on, we are about to end and we are hearing the last. Jesus himself commented on the wisdom of Solomon. That's why I said the Solomon in all his wisdom he made a comment that Solomon was very why he saw through the things. Therefore I hated that, because all the work that was brought under the sand is creepiest unto me. For all his. Vanity and vexation of spirit. That's why when you finish this. School, you see that? So what have I got? But listen on. Listen to the scripture. This is the end. Then he goes on. There's 23 or there's 22. For what has man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart? Wherein he has lived under the sun. All his days are sorrows and his travail grief school. Is it not sorrows? Is it not travail? Is it not grief? Yeah. His heart takers not rest in the night. Is it not true for you? Your heart takers not rest in the night. This also is vanity. So now you see, the book of ecclesias is not as hopeless. There are about. 3 or 4 verses that gives them hope in the whole book and we are about to read one of the. Hopeful verses. Wow. And he says then. There is nothing better, hey, nothing better for a man than that he should eat and. Drink. You see that eating and drinking confuses you. Immediately, because it's almost as if. Charlie. Fool around. No, not. True, but eat and drink. Very, very important. And that he should make his soul enjoy good in his. Labour this. I also saw that it was from the hand of God. Yeah, the hand of God can do that. Make your soul happy. In your labour, yeah. Now as I'm preaching, my soul is happy. Even though I'm laboring, my soul is happy. In my labor, I'm making my soul happy. Because spiritually, I'm happy. I'm happy that I'm bearing fruit, some of you. The anointing you're going to work in is. Too powerful? Finally, somebody was going to ask me. So where do you? Get these people from. Where do you get these? People from somebody will ask where do you get them from? So I'm making my soul enjoy. I'm I'm making my soul happy in my labour. And you can only find this in the ministry. Yeah, you can only find it in the House of God. There's nothing better than to do something that your soul will enjoy as well. Make your soul enjoy good in in your labor to rejoice in your works and enjoy the good they are different. Enjoy the good of your labor is different from make your soul enjoy good like make your soul happy like as I work, I'm happy as again. As I work I. Feel the futility of the things I'm doing, that this is useless, this is useless. Therefore I hated life, for all the labour under the sun was grievous, and it was all vexation and vanity. But now I can make my soul rejoice and goodbye, walking in the anointing and doing the works of the Lord. So I pray for you that you will not one day say I hate it, I hate, I hate my life. Recently, a young. Man sent me a message and I was surprised that he has already seen it, he said. I go. To work at a good job his contemporaries. Don't have the job that he has, he said. But the. Only day that I enjoy is when I get up and I. Rise, I'm taking a train to travel to this place to go and preach and come. I spend the whole day going and whole day coming. Yeah. This is the happy day. That's the day that his soul enjoys. Good. Yeah. May your soul enjoy happiness from today in your labor. Yeah. May you not rise up and say I hate, I hate life. I hate what I'm doing. Do you know this is how they punished during the Second World War? This is how they punished the professors, doctors, lawyers and the highly educated people. They gave them rocks to carry. Carry the rocks from here to here, make one heap. When you finish, you carry it back and after that they carry it back. That was their labour. It's like it doesn't their. Soul is not happy. It hates life, their existence. May you walk in the anointing and walk in the grace of God, and may your soul enjoy good. Those of you who are working in the House of the Lord, is your soul enjoying the labour that you are doing? Gaios you, you have been working in the House of the Lord for some time. How is your soul? It's, it's, there's every time I wake up, it's like something, a happy day, always going to work. It's my one day. My father asked me that, why do you come home so late every day? It's don't you get tired? And I told him no. It's it's a joy to be at work. Your father asked why you come home. Late, late at time and now why don't I close? Don't want to come home. I told him that it's always a joy to come and work for God. You know, one day a brother came to work. He used to work at Ashanti Goldfields at a high level. When he came to work in the church, he said to me, I've never done work like this before. I said why? Didn't you work? Hard at Ashanti Goldfields, I said yeah, he said. Ashanti Goldfields when you fill 5:00, we leave the work there, we fuck in five and we go on. Tennis. My time is up. It's about this. One, it never ends. We go home with it. We are home, we work it all the time and there is a joy in what we are doing. Wow mission mission. One day I travelled to a certain country and I met a pastor who I had known for many, many years. I mean I knew him many years ago. I was sitting by him. He invited me to preach in his church and he said you know if I was in Ghana, but he has lived abroad for 20 something years. He said if I was in Ghana today, I would join Lighthouse. He said because that was me saying the church, there is Misha in the church. You see, people think we are service. When do you start? When do you close? For how many hours? But there is Misha in the church. Are you start at the camp? Are you start? Is it by force to come here? Is it by force? Are they forcing you? I don't know why. Do you know why? They went and they poured water on us. And the people are happy. They are happy. Wow, what a blessing. I don't know why my. Soul is enjoying. Good in my labour. My soul is my soul is enjoying the good of my labour. I cannot say that I hate my life. Oh, no, no, no, no. I cannot. Say that because if I was working at my Probe polyclinic, I would say I hate my life. I hated life for all the labor that is right under the sun is grievous. I will hate my life too much. You have started working for the Lord. In the. Food you hate your life. That's all. I'm really enjoying the work. Is it a game? You are playing with work. It's work. It's more than what we even do in school. It's more than your four year course. It's more than your four year course. It's more than your four years. There's no time to close. Like lectures and all that always. I never closes no. Don't end it. What? Does your mother say? I tell her that this is what I want to do, so she's flowing. Wow. Do you hate your life? That's all. I really love this life. Yeah, it's a good life. It's a sweet life, you see, because Solomon Solomon is explaining that, therefore. I hated my life. Yeah, I hated my life because all the labor that is brought under the sun is grievous unto. Me. For all of it is varity and vegetation. Therefore nothing better under the sun than for a man to eat and drink and to make his soul like. Let the soul also be happy in the work that he is doing. Your soul must become happy. Your soul. Find a job that the soul is also happy. I said find a job that the soul is also happy. Find a job that the soul. Is happy and that's why it keeps on saying and to do good, that's when the soul is happy. When the anointing is working, the soul is happy. Yeah, when I go home, I may be tired. Whatever. My soul is rejoiced when I watch this time of funeral because one day it will be my funeral. Yeah, one day I'll be gone. And I pray that. And if I go, it will not be. It will not be because I hate life. No, I'm happy what I'm doing. I wish God would give me more time. Yeah. Can I tell you? When he was in the hospital, you know, they went to him. He, he the son. So I don't know if you heard it, he said. He asked the father. I mean, can we, should we let you? Go. And the father, I want to go. Yes, I want to go. He was in the hospital. Like, because, you know, I make her. They try to keep you alive. Should we should we go? And I want to go. Let. Let me go. I want to go. Yeah. Yeah, 86 let's leave it. The soul has been happy in the travel that he was doing. Yeah, I, I, I, I wish for you for the for your whole life that God will grant you an opportunity where your soul. Will enjoy good and your soul will be. Made to be happy. And you will. Find something that your soul will also be happy in this life. Father, thank you. I pray my very best prayer for these ones, that you will give them all the opportunity to work for you one day, that when they wake up in the morning up until the evening. They would never do. Even one minute of. Work that they would say. I hate my life, the work. That is grievous and full of vexation of. Spirit and vanity, but they will find. Themselves serving the leading God. The leading God. On Mondays, the living. God on Tuesdays. The leading God on Wednesdays, Jehovah Jireh on Thursdays, El Shaddai on Fridays, Almighty Creator of heaven and earth on Saturdays, and Almighty God on Sundays every. Day of the week. Lord, open the doors of heaven, open the doors on earth, that Lord, we may enter. Into the labor. That our soul will also enjoy. And our and our. Soul will be made to enjoy good. In this labour that we have to undertake. And understand, Lord, we have also seen the labour. That we have given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. We are begging for exemption. Not exemption that we will not labour, but exception that our labour will be the type of labour that our soul enjoys. Good in. Thank you. Thank you for every gift. Every. Opportunity. Every grace. Now, Lord, give grace to every child here. Every. Humble person. Here, send your gifts. This is the gift of God. This is the gift of God, as Solomon said. This is the gift of God to be able to work and make your soul enjoy good in your labour. It is the gift of God. Thank you, Lord. For this gift I pray for. Every. Child here, everyone here. I pray my best prayer that they will one day serve you from morning to evening, from Sunday to Sunday in your. House make a. Way for them. Open the door for them, give it to them, Lord, take them away from the life that. You hate. The life that you hate where you come as. I hate that coming to America, I hate that coming to England. I hate that working in Ghana, I hated my work. I hate that all that I'm doing. I hate marriage, I hate life. I hate this. Lord save us, save them. I pray and grant this great gift. This is your gift, Lord. This is the gift of God. Thank you, Thank you and father, now I ask in Jesus name for husbands and wives for all. Those who are here. Husbands and wife that are compatible with making our soul enjoy good in our labor. Lord give it to us. Grant every child direction by your spirits. Lead us step by step into the path of righteousness which you have determined for us 'cause each one to enter the right relationship and the right marriage. Yeah, God save us from being connected to vessels that will destroy and distract us and cause us to be deviated from the cause and the path that you have set for each one of us. Give us knowledge and wisdom. Open our eyes to see what you cannot see with the natural eye. Give us eyes that are beyond the two eyes. Fill us with eyes. Give us eyes at the back of our heads, eyes at the side of our head, eyes behind, eyes in the front, eyes everywhere. Surround us with eyes that we may see, that we may know, that we may hear your, your word and hear your voice, and walk in Your will. We are asking in the name of Jesus. Let none of your young daughters who are here beg for a beloved. Yes Lord, let none of them suffer in their marriages. Let none of them be lucky for somebody to say I love you. Let none of your children cry out in loneliness. But Lord, satisfy every lonely heart and provide all God what only You can do. Give us humility in the day of Your blessing, that we may be humble and we may say thank you, and we may walk in loneliness and weakness of heart. Force us, O God, to work worthy of your gifts and your calling. Now, Lord, bestow upon us your gifts. Bestow upon us your power. Bestow upon us your presence. Bestow upon us, Lord, your capital presence that surrounds us, that encompasses us, that guides us in every step of the way. Let our life be ordered. Your website, the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. Save your Angel to order our steps to guide us into the good Place, to guide us out of dark and slippery roads. Serve us from the rivers where we will drown. Save us from the lakes where we will fall astray and be swallowed by Dragons and sea serpents. Save us our love from dark creatures of the underworld, half animals and half humans and demonic entities and fallen angels. Save us from the wickedness and the evil that is planned and determined in the land and in our life. Let your mercy be granted to your babies, to your sucklings, to your children, to your little ones. Yeah, God send angels. Sell help to all those standing here. Listen to my voice. Let your power guide our very steps. Step us all out upon the rock. Save us from the muddy places, Save us from the slippery way, Save us from the sinking sound, Save us from the rocky places. Cause us not to stumble. Save us in the day of the stumbling rock. Let us not fall to the ground before our enemies, that our enemies shall have no purpose and no chance to rejoice over us for many a day that look upon us and say we shall not prosper. Confound them, Lord. Scattered the enemy. Defy them, Lord. Send them away, Lord. Disperse them, Lord. Confusion. Send it into their mixed Lord. We send fire into the hands of the enemy. Let every plan, let every decision, let every idea that is taken against us to distract us, to fight us, to hinder us. Let it be broken in the name of Jesus. Lord, I pray for your children. I intercede. Oh God, lift us up. Lord, lift up your children. Let them lock it down. Let them be up. Let them not be low, let them come up, take darkness out of their life. Let your light shine in your life. I pray for them. Let the candle of the Lord be lighted in the hearts of your children. And now, Lord, we ask for the Spirit of wisdom to descend upon each little one. We are not too young for your wisdom, Lord Michael. Let the superior wisdom of God being impacted to everyone cause us to think like mature men. Cause us to imagine like grown-ups, grandfathers, people who have seen 70 years, 50 years, 100 years on this earth. Those who know the future, those who know what is going to happen. Cause the little ones amongst us to be mature like grandfathers and grandmothers. Lord, cause them to see ahead, to see what is coming and to know what to do. I thank you and I pray for the spirit of knowledge for this. One's Lord. Let them let their knowledge be more than their. Teachers More. Than the electress, more than the appearance. Fill them with your knowledge and with the fear of the Lord, the humility, the fear of the Lord, the fear of the Lord. Fill them with it, Lord, that they may work in humility even as they. Work in great wisdom. And knowledge send good advice into. Our lives send good. Counsels into our lives. We rebuke the counsel of the wicked, the counsel of the scholar, the council of the bad friend, the council of bad company. We scatter and divide it in the name of Jesus. Let it be dispersed abroad. Let it have no power over us. Let the mocking eyes be put out in Jesus name. Let those who are planning to laugh at us be disappointed in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Father, for you have done all things and made all things. Beautiful in your time, I thank you. All those that are. Here today. Let there be a special covering. Lord, I pray not for today, but for. Tomorrow. For the years ahead, remember them, Lord, remember today. Father, help them. Lord, help everyone. Lord, hold us by our hands and lead us into the green pastures. Lead us to the still waters. Lead us to the good places of your plan. But we know you have a good plan for each of us. Deliver us from premature and sudden and early death, unexpected deaths. We cast it out and abort it. In the name of Jesus. We reject all forms of funerals and working things. In the name of Jesus. We reject sorrows and sadness, the shedding of tears and the deepness of sadness of heart. We refuse it in the name of Jesus. My God, thank you for giving us a. Good life. A better life. A life of service. To you. That we may not also. Say I hated life, that we may say that our soul has enjoyed good all the days. Thank you for full. Time, ministry, the Gifts. Of full time ministry. Into the old age. Granted. Unto many of us here today we are. Grateful. We are thankful. And we are worshipping you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. And everyone said Amen. Hallelujah. You may be seated well. God's grace has been given to you. You have been empowered with new gifts. And those were Solomon's last. Not his last words, but one of his words. He says this is the gift of God, a man to eat, to drink, and to make his soul enjoy good in his playback. This is a gift. May this gift be yours. May you never wake up at 5:30 to go to work and say I hate my life in Jesus name. May you not have travelled without rest in the night and say I hate it. But may you be able to work even to 1:00 AM and say, I love it, I like it, I like. It this is rather what I. Like but my. Soul is enjoying good. My soul has enjoyed good in the labor that it has found. Thank you Father for this blessed gift in Jesus name. Congratulate your neighbor on. Entering into. Full time ministry and service. For the Lord and entering into out of travel, tell your neighbor congratulations. You have escaped the travel and the vexation of spirit and the vanity that is found in this world. Congratulations, I'm proud of you and I'm glad God made me sick by a warrior like you. Tell your neighbor I'm ready to be fast. I'm ready to be. Strong. I'm ready to be wise, I'm ready to be full of understanding and I'm about to be chosen. I feel the choosing, anointing and the grace of God. I tell you, never watch my marriage. It's going to be good. Wow. And I tell you this, what I am even preaching is actually marriage counseling. But I don't want to go into that today. But we have what we call ecclesiastical marriage counseling. Ecclesiastical marriage counseling. What a blessing. For me, I just. Thank God, you know my salvation was enough. It was enough to be saved. But to be called to come and work for him I don't understand. Why? It's too much. I don't know why God honoured me to to serve him. Yeah. There's nothing like overtime in the House of God, and when you wake for fallen angels, you yourself will leave at 5:00. Whatever should happen. Should happen when I go. Yeah, yeah. Give the Lord a mighty clap off me, you. See. Because, Because. Because our soul. Because our soul is enjoying good in this labour. We don't even want to close the labour. Yeah, What is like, we are at work. Yeah. Because our soul enjoys good in this labour. It's like, are you about to close this labour? You, you want to send us into vexation? You want to send us into vanities, please keep us in the presence of the Lord so you you begin to understand what David said when he said I was glad, I was glad, I was glad, I was really glad when there was an. Announcement. I see an announcement coming for you, calling you, calling you, calling you. I'm calling you out of a dark place. Come and come and do something for him, the House of the Lord. What a blessing. Wow. Tell your neighbor, neighbor me that my soul is. Enjoying good in this level. You don't want to go. Isn't it wow but for Solomon that I hated my life I. Hated it, I hated life. Wow. That's why I feel like Morbid analyze his life. What's the conclusion? There is nothing better for a man that he should eat and drink and make his soul enjoy good inside the labour that he's doing. His soul is do a labour that the soul is enjoying something. Then you don't you don't become depressed. You know that it's I'm. I'm. Accomplishing something, What a blessing, somebody once asked me. So don't you feel sad that you have left medicine? I said. I would have been sharing. Chloroquine and paracetamols like you just be sharing. Yes. Headache, fever, headache, fever, headache rashes. Headache, fever rashes. Headache, fever, rashes. Cough and kata. Cough and kata Cough and kata Sharing, Sharing, sharing, sharing crew. Queen 2 paracetamol 2 times a day times 3 days. This antibiotic Amazon, Wow. Therefore I said. There is nothing better and this is the gift of God for a man to eat, to drink. That's why we will be eating at the camp. To make our soul enjoy. Recently I announced in the office. A special. I will not say it in the microphone special if when I read this scripture I said no, there is something we need to improve in this office. Yeah, make our soul enjoy cooking, the labor happiness. I told you that one day I travelled. Isn't it? And I was preaching and I sat down and the pastor was sitting by me. He has not been to Ghana for many years and he said if I was to come to Ghana today, I would join Lighthouse. Why? He said. He, he, he was just. He was just looking at the stage. He wasn't if he looked up. There is me sharing the church. I wish. He was here in the way he says that. If there is me sharing the church, yeah, I didn't know that he even he said look, I was looking in the Internet and my children were looking. He said, oh, Ghana girls. So we we were watching. He said, hey, I called my daughter, come and see. Oh Ghana girls, what is left of you? There is me in the church. He wasn't looking at me. I was sitting by him. He was just There is minshare in the church. Now you have minshare in in the. Labor and the work. That you are doing. I don't know why. Do you know why? You know why you are not tired? You don't know why you don't want to go home, isn't it? No. You have been away from your house for some time and the weather is cold. They are pondering you, but I don't know why I still want to be here. What a blessing. Hey, we got to go. We got to go listen. Did you see the video we watched? Yesterday, that was a very powerful part of this. Company yeah, because when we were watching it you know I'm I've watched this thing before many times, but I I just felt in this power at work and that power is also here. Oh yeah. Many of the testimonies that the guys given a lot of people can give those testimonies today about this ministry and do plenty yeah plenty. It's the same grace. So Charlie, you guys, there's something flying around on you. Must be catching. Start putting your legs in the face. Start putting your legs in the face. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Stop putting your legs in the thing. I tell you, I something around something very catchable. I said something very catchable. That's it. God required when Kenneth Higgin got out. Of bed. He became a minister straightaway. Yes, straightaway. 18 years old, he was ill and he got up and stuff. He never had a chance of being a Christian without being a pastor. He was just in the bed. After he got up, he started to be a minister. That's it. Some of you don't have any more chance to be unbelievers or to be now you are ministers from now you know some people that are appointed as pastors. Some of you may even wonder why you were made a pastor. I made you a pastor because I want you to get used to the idea, used to the idea of being a pastor. It's like I'm a, I'm a reverend minister. I'm a pastor. I mean, I'm I'm a man of God. Just get used to the psychology that I mean, that's what I am. Yeah. So we are going to be appointing more most. Most of the medical. Students will be pastors before they finish. Somebody there's mission everywhere. I don't know why mission everywhere. Tell somebody. Get used to the idea that you are a minister. Your life is going to be better than your mother's life and your father's life in Jesus name, but you are not going. To hate your life that's going to be main share in your life and you know when you come to camp and you you receive a lot of marriage counselling, you know we had. Yesterday, the people that were taken to court, I mean, they were being sorted out practically, yes. But they were identified by the spirit brought out of the congregation. And sorted out. It's more than counselling. Wow. Tell your liver. Listen, I got to go. I'll be back. I'll see you again soon. Wow. 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.daguidmills.org. Here you can download other messages, videos and find out about all the books and other resources available by Daguidmills. May God bless you in your ministry.