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27. 10 Qualities That You Need To Be A Missionary 4

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
January 16, 2025 56m 47s

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Camp Title - Why Are You Not A Missionary. Machaneh Collection - 63. Preached in 2010, United Kingdom (Bournemouth). 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 #27 of Why are you not a missionary? You must think you have the advantage. You see, if you think you are losing something, you do not do well. If you think you are being cheated, you do not do well. The Bible says that the servant said, you know that I reap where I sow not, and gather where I do not strong. So you can see that this gentleman had the mind that he was being cheated. Now, rather, you must have the mind that you are blessed and that you have a great advantage in being a missionary. Amen. That is the only way in which you can do well as a missionary. Are you listening to me? The mind that you are being cheated is a mind that galvanizes most of us into action. Sometimes active can steal from you. He doesn't even steal much. But the fact that you are being cheated, that's what makes you wild. He didn't know that sometimes they don't really take much, but the fact that they are cheating you, you know, let's say you've made a chicken Stew and when you come, you put your spoon inside the chicken Stew and you. Realize that the chicken. Is very small. It's just level the. Neck and the claws are in the Stew. And yo

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Welcome to track #27 of Why are you not a missionary? You must think you have the advantage. You see, if you think you are losing something, you do not do well. If you think you are being cheated, you do not do well. The Bible says that the servant said, you know that I reap where I sow not, and gather where I do not strong. So you can see that this gentleman had the mind that he was being cheated. Now, rather, you must have the mind that you are blessed and that you have a great advantage in being a missionary. Amen. That is the only way in which you can do well as a missionary. Are you listening to me? The mind that you are being cheated is a mind that galvanizes most of us into action. Sometimes active can steal from you. He doesn't even steal much. But the fact that you are being cheated, that's what makes you wild. He didn't know that sometimes they don't really take much, but the fact that they are cheating you, you know, let's say you've made a chicken Stew and when you come, you put your spoon inside the chicken Stew and you. Realize that the chicken. Is very small. It's just level the. Neck and the claws are in the Stew. And you call those who have been in the house and you say, where is the chicken in the chicken Stew? And they say. I haven't. Seen any chicken have? You seen me eating? Any chicken and when you you. Really, genuinely cannot find the peasants that. Every time you make. Chicken Stew and there's no chicken in the chicken. Stew, you start. To. Become wild not that you cannot afford more chicken, but there is a liar in the house and somebody who is cheating that you in the house who thinks he's smarter than you in the house. Are you there? And that all that drives you crazy because because. You feel. That you are being cheated now to do well in the ministry, you must rather feel that you have an life. As I'm in the ministry, I feel I have an advantage of those of you who are not in full time ministry. That's what I feel. I don't feel that I'm losing something. When I see my fellow colleague doctors, I don't feel that they are getting something that I'm not getting at all. I feel that I'm. Better off than them. I've always felt so from day one, the thing you can do and do well is the thing which you when you do, you feel you are getting the advantage. So to be a good missionary or very important quality and qualification of a mission. Is to actually. Come to the. Point where you actually believe, not that you are. Losing something or something is being taken from you, but rather. Than you have an advantage now and in fact. Because we don't advertise the ministry work with money. A lot of the people who have come into the ministry are so grateful just for that one opportunity. I remember a certain brother. Who was a doctor? And he had his own hospital and he wanted to be in the ministry. At first he was making all kind of arrangements and I told him brighter you are going to have to. Lose something? So one day he decided to dash his hospital so that he could come into the ministry. But he was trying to sell it and nobody would buy. I told him. Dash it. It's nothing. It's useless now recently. So he dashed the hospital away and he came into the ministry recently. I visited him in his church. I went to preach at his church and he was introducing me. When he was introducing me, he started to list a whole lot of things. So Bishop has done this for me, this for me. And he was this. I was, I remember when I first came, this, this, this. I thought that it was going to. Then he came to the dashing of the hospital. To thank me. To thank me for showing him that he has to. Dash that. Hospital away and come. In thank. You Bishop, all the things you've done was one of the greatest things. Help me to dash my hospital. Yes. That's what I'm explaining. That's why when when you talk to people so made a mission and you see the person as if, as if they're coming to withdraw your blood. Or one day some people were having a prayer meeting and they were praying for one of their brothers because their brother was ill. So they joined hands around in a circle to pray for him. Now, this brother had kidney failure. Yeah. And he needed a kidney transplant. So they were praying for a kidney. They were praying for a kidney, that God should provide a kidney and somebody who can donate a kidney. So they prayed and they prayed and they prayed. And there was nobody who could donate a kidney, like have an operation to remove his kidney. So in the end, the leader of the primary said, look, I'm going to do something. So he got a feather. And he said I'm going to lift the feather up into the air. Wherever the feather comes down, that. Person is the one. Who God has chosen. To donate his kidney. So he threw the thing. Up and. The thing started coming towards him in the name of. Jesus. He was. Casting away that he. He was expecting something different, not knowing that the father. Was going to come to him to donate his kidney. So the feather started coming towards him in the name, the name throwing the feather away in the name of Jesus. But the. Thing was coming to him so that he would donate his kidney. Now you see such prayer meetings that are held. For donations of kidneys, you can see how. It's like you are. Donating your your body, but when you are coming in to be a missionary. You have to. Have a mind that. You are not that they are coming to. Extract something from you or coming to. Cut out. Something from you or coming to? Take. You are getting something and that is why I say that to be a real missionary until your mind is formatted or formatted to. Have the concept that I am gaining something. I'm becoming superior. You are not ready for the mission field. Yeah, that is why the brother listing the things I've I appointed him as a pastor. I ordained him. I made him. This I did that. Different different, different things. To my surprise that I. Advised him to. Dash his hospital it's one of the things that he. Listed that I have done for. Him since I came into the world, yeah. Yeah, I tell you. You see that feeling? That I have. Got an advantage? That's why I wouldn't. I wouldn't ask. Danielle to come into full time ministry with the sense that. He is like he's. He's going to lose. Something but with the day that he's sensing that he's. Gaining by throwing away all these JP Morgans and what other places Royal Bank of Scotland and what have you. So that if I come. Besides, he's introducing me. He will. Say that Bishop, he made me a pastor. He did the city. But one thing. He made me. Cast out. Leave this without this. Thank you, but. I see. Until you get to that point, you are not ready. But you. Come and say you'll be looking at me and. Say if I had. Been at JP Morgan. By this time I would have been receiving, I would have become the manager and I would have received end of year bonus of $6.2 million. Yeah. Are you? Listening to me. Amen. So writers and sisters have the mind that. I have the. Advantage. See the advantage? That's what Michaela and Fallon or Falcon and Eagle were saying, that they would not want to come back. They feel it a. Blessing, even though they can't. Eat hamburgers and fresh. Milk with Rice Krispies everyday and cocoa pops. And they sit on Churchill's and their skin touches everybody else's skin. And they are spending CDs and they're not spending pounds. They still can see the advantage. But this guy, he thought that he was being cheated, that he was going to have. To make a farm. And somebody will. Come for the corn when it's ripes, he'll come for it and he doesn't start being. Cheated. All the time. Why do you think in that way of being cheated? It's not a good mind. That was a let. This man be you which was in Christ Jesus. Who thought it not robbery? He did not think he was being robbed. If you come to a chest, you are giving an offer. Do not feel that you are being robbed. If you pledge 1000 lbs. Five hundred pounds, 200 LB one and you feel. That you are being robbed, Do not. Give that money. It's not a blessing. Do not do. Not do you feel you are being cheated? It's not a good thing. That's what I I'll be raised if I said. That there there be no pressure don't feel that they being I rushed forward oh I I I I oh I beg you please God wants people who. Don't feel that they are being. Cheated. Or something is being taken from them, a kidney is being extracted and a feather has to be used to locate the person. You see, the guy told that the feather will go this way. Charlie, I'm more than Prince. You know Charlie put it. And I'm expecting something different now. Look. At what I got Oh. Man, let me expecting something different from this teapot and all that. Surprise packet. Pleasant surprise. Oh, now I'm expecting something different. A beautiful girl. It's a ballistic team. A zip zips up. Tell somebody I'm easily impressed. You see, when I saw the tip on Now, I was impressed. I was impressed easily. Because I'm young. Yeah, I'm young. I saw the teapot. I became ballistic. Ballistic means what? Increase in strength and power suddenly in a surprising way or. Unwanted number. 8 To be a missionary. Qualities that are needed to be a missionary. You need to be a good, kind, virtuous person. Yes. If you are not kind to people you know, if you are not kind to more than your husband and your children, you cannot be a missionary. There's more to life than you and your little your little group. What do you think? Yeah, Jesus told the servant, wicked servant. You didn't do anything. You are wicked. So you need to be kind and you need to be factious. You need to be nice, you need to love. People need to care. We see the people that we see. Are you ready with? The horror one. Sheep and goats, if you are not kind, you're not like the horror one. Yeah. You know, one of the ways that people are practice wickedness, they just close their eyes and they don't want to see. But it is there. When you close your eyes, it doesn't go away. It is there when you turn your head away. It doesn't make the thing go away. It is there So turning your head away does not make things go away. Are you listening to me? Turning your head away does not make things go away. Turning your head away, that's not making when you preserve. We don't. Want to see that? Oh no, no, let's what? Tell that let's. What this let's what? These people are there. When we finish the crusade, they will still be there. Did you see the woman with the thing in there? Man, There's an operation for 400 CDs that can correct that thing. Now you think, come. You come. Step out. Step. Come. Stand here 2 come you, you make your you've done your hair. Look at your hair and your hair. Have you put some on lipstick? You have some lipstick. You've got your your rings, jeans, what have you? What what not Supposing you are a girl and you have this thing in the in your mafia like that. You have this, this big hole here like this inside your mouth, you know, gone like that all the time. How would you feel that that? Is. Also a human being. Who has feelings? She's a lady. She's. Grown up from the time she was a child, when you can imagine. How? How people tease. And how people make fun of abnormalities on you with your mother that from the. Time that she was 6:00 and 7:00. Hey, they said they'll give her name. She said some, they'll give her name. They'll call a rabbit. They stuff something with the mouth and from a child, six years, seven years and they'll be teasing and 7-8 years when you go to that, she's a human being. And when you close your eyes, it has not gone away. It has not gone away. You are you. Are you are nice? When you close your eyes, it doesn't go away. Somebody's pain doesn't. Go away when you open your eyes and you look at it. But I said when I watched. This thing I caught one of my surgeons in Accra. I called him I, I sent. Him to ask him how does he know how? To do the operation because this woman in the time going to look for her who's Doctor Thomas. And this is Doctor Thomas. Yeah, yeah, I want to find that woman because if she keep coming to my mind and I think I saw a child too like that. We sent one and he did it. And even the girl, Can you imagine how she's going? Today we were having. Breakfast, you know, and then the pastors were laughing at each other. This one laughed at the they laughed at the mercilessly. And I was saying that, hey, boys schools. And they are very wicked, they are. Laughing at people and it's. Very wild though. I mean they can laugh at you messy. Like when they get one person. It's not easy for the person at all. I mean, the other day they were laughing at Pastor. Jerry, they laughed at him and he was just cooling themselves because I've also laughed at them so much yes, that he also specialized in laughing at people. So Can you imagine how it would be like when people. There are some things we don't laugh and some things when you laugh, it affects the person for the rest of his life. Yeah, I find the person for the rest of the life. You may laugh at this one. You laugh at this one. The person has been changed from that time. You supposed to make your mouth like this? Make your mouth like this. Come. Why? So who's that? Photographer. Why's the photographer come? I said. If you are not kind, it cannot be a mission. I said thou. Wicked. Seven come, I'm taking pictures. Just a face like this. You are too slow. What type of person is this? They are beautiful girls. And that. Person is also a. Human. Being. Can't imagine it. Don't you want me to take? My 404 hundred CDs. 400 cities 3 that's. 200 and something pounds I shouldn't find 2. 100 and something pounds to let somebody was probably being tormented by from the age of 767891011121314151617 to that age tormented by other fellow sheesh she. Cannot even imagine it. I cannot be imagined. Yeah, I. Cannot even imagine it, so I tell you A. Wickedness here you see without. Kind what is? What is kindness? Kindness is when you think. Of a person as also a person. If you see a lady, maybe. Everybody's mind, she is not married. She feels so she may feel I would some will somebody marry me or somebody who doesn't have a child? Will I also have a child? But you see, most people don't think about, so it takes kindness to think of. Another person as just a person, just just like you, just like you, just like you. So that that that person is a villager. It's the person. When you get your pictures. You will see how it it it is like for you to be this deformed like that. And if there's something I could even do, even if there's a scar, some like a little, I know somebody who had a little mark on the face, ish. I mean even her lectress. Would tell her, oh nobody will marry. You I remember which. Is oh, nobody you might. A mark. A mark on the face. Oh, nobody will marry you. Oh, you. Ugly girl that tastes like that. And see the person with the complex just. Because a lady. And the people we saw were women. But you see, none of you think about it because you, you don't have the spirit of kindness in you. That's it Didn't even catch you that she's just like that at the age of 6 and seven and eight. Her friends who laugh at us ugly. Girl ugly. And yeah, and you can't change it when you look at The thing is that my friend, I tell you, between you and I, if we have to. Sow all of. Them with our church offering personally, I will do it and I will take if you want to leave the church, if you want to leave the church because I'm I'm going to use some of the offering to sow somebody's mouth, then you can leave the church. Go and join another church and leave them. You can leave. And that's what Jesus said. I was hungry, I was sick, I was naked. I was like this. But you didn't, you didn't. And you just close to yourself. You see there was a girl. I was her hand this like this with some leaves on. That's called it's buli ulcer. The whole hand is on. So now you have a little child. It's just a girl. It's just one of the little nice girl without born and you hold the child go. Go, go. Nice, I said. The whole, The whole. Person is James and when you think of the way. People. Tease and give names. And mock you. So there's nothing, there's not a drop of self-confidence and you will understand. So, he said. I said without kindness you will never go anywhere. You stay in your world. So my world is OK, You know, I buy my Rice Krispies, I buy my Coco Pops, I eat my Burger King, I have my fresh milk. I go to Sainsbury's, I buy what I need. I go to shop. I buy my nice dresses and my nice jeans and my black socks with pink corners and I'm cool, man. I'm a London girl. I'm a woman of the 2000s. You've got to try a little kind. A little kindness. Shine your light for. Everyone. See and if you try. A little kindness. You can overlook the blindness. And I remind the people and I remind us. You've got to try your little kindness. Show a little kindness. Shine your life. For everyone. To see and if. You try your little kindness, you can overlook the blindness of narrow minded people. On. A narrow minded St. You see of narrow minded people, see all of us here are narrow minded. You are thinking of yourself. You didn't think that she's also a girl. It's also a girl. That's like one day I went to a church in a foreign country and they said it was Mother's Day. So they they said all mothers should stand and they gave all mothers a special cup. But as soon as they said all mothers should stand, I turn around and I saw so many of the ladies sitting there and they were no mothers. And I felt I. Felt very something I don't know what is the feeling for all of them who don't have children. So when we went back into the room and I just asked what about the people? And then the pastor's wife said to my wife, like your husband has a he, he lose very, he has a very soft heart for what I was even thinking. They the women, they don't think about that. Oh, most women. That's why women don't. That's why women don't even like other women. And that's why even you find that women will prefer a male doctor than a female doctor. So I prefer this man to come and look after me. This woman, she doesn't, I mean, doesn't have any, I mean, I mean any milk of kindness. Isn't it fantastic? I'm. Preaching the word of God. I'm preaching about kindness. It's about kindness. Narrow minded people in a narrow minded St. You've got to. Try your little kindness. Show a little. Kindness. Shine your light over everyone to see and make you try your little kindness. You'll get over a little kindness. So that when? People are teasing somebody, they don't know that. This teasing. It's changing the person's life. It's changing the person's life forever, I tell. You, they are laughing. Laughing. They just go away. Yeah, I said today I was watching the pastors they were laughing at. They'll pick one, but they'll laugh at them and they'll pick another. They'll laugh. So one of the pastors whom they were laughing at yesterday has become quiet today and yesterday's. Laughter. Then he became quiet today and. Today's room will be quiet. After that comes he will. Be quiet as he's going home. You've got to try your little kindness, show a little kindness, shine your life for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, you'll get over the blindness. Out of mind, out of my history, you've. Got to. Try your little kindness, show a little kindness, shine a light for everyone to see. And if you try your little kindness, you'll get over the blindness. I reminded you. I remind us. Come on. You. Got to try your little. Kindness. Oh. A little kindness shine your life for everyone, and if you try your little kindness, you'll get over love of blindness, I remind. The narrow minded person is not thinking of how. It is because it's. It's focused just on the small area that he. Knows. It's focused on just a small the world that he knows about narrow minded wickedness comes from being narrow minded when you stretch out and look around. You see the eyes of the person. Me, I read people's eyes only. One of the things that I read. Is the eyes of a person. Sometimes like I know whether. Somebody love me by? Looking at the person's eyes. It's true, I speak, that's why. Leah, Leah, Leah had. Tender eyes. You can see softness in somebody's eyes. You can see. Pain in somebody's. Eyes. You can see crying. There's inside the back of the eyes. Crying. Crying doesn't cry, only as I cries at the back Shakaya, I tell you, you see the the person is weeping and the eye is looking at you start. Looking at you, nothing is being said the. Person is feeling something, although you can see that somebody laughs. When the person look. At you mother. The person loves you. So please, I beg you, just don't, don't, don't say I don't want to see. I don't want to see to see it that you have to see and then do do what can be done. Oh, I went to a school of deaf and dumb. Oh, if you give. Birth to a deaf and dumb. Child. Before you will know that on this world there is something like we cannot speak. Or if you go to prison. Before you know that there is a place called prison. We are tired as. I've been here, I've been communicating. We are working on a prison. We are. Tiling the flight I said that. We are going to make. That prison as if Jesus is coming to stay tile posture like a hotel. We are making the. Toilet everything. New septic tank, new toilets for the prisoners with tiles. They are going to stay. It will be. More than a hotel, you don't have to go to prison before. A lot of people go to prison and they start prison ministries when they come out. They say. People are really suffering, but it's our narrow mindedness that sometimes God has to broaden it a bit by showing you some problems so that you see that you have you seen this one? Have you seen this one? Have you seen this problem? Have you seen this one? I went to a school. Deaf and done. All the children they were, they were all talking so this they said. What? Is your name. What is your name or how are you? Then they do this one means I'm fine. That's why I'm fine. So then the teacher will tell them take him upstairs, go upstairs. So my name is, then they'll give you their name. And you see them all walking like that. What is this? But you want to have a autistic child so that you understand it isn't it? Isn't it? I didn't hear you. I say, isn't it? For the last time, you've got to shine your. Little kindness show a little kindness. Shine your life for. Everyone and if you. Try your little kindness. All right, you maybe see that. #9 to be a missionary you must be hard working, hey? I said. To be a missionary. To be a man with a mission a devotee headed somewhere. To have one branch, 2 branches, 3 branches, 4 branches, 5 branches the man. Said thou slot for servant. He said thou. Wicked and slothful? Yeah. Lazy. So to be a successful missionary, you need to be. Hard working one branch, 2 branches, 3 branches, 4 branches, 5 branches. 6 branches. 7 branches, 8 branches. 9 branches. 10 branches. Excuse me, do you think it's going to come by relaxing? We are tired, we want to sleep. Is it going to come by now? No, it's not going to. Come by resting. Doing nothing. Are you there? Are you young? Are you young enough to work hard? I can't hear you. Are you young enough to be moving? Hard working? We are young, we are young. We are young, impressed. We are young, impressed, impressed, impressed, impressed, impressed. Go back, go back. Look. This is your last chance if you want. Go. I got any mature? I got any mature ones at the back? We the young ones, we are in the front. Are there any mature ones at the bar? This is for the. Last, listen now The thing is going to make us as if we are possessed. How many are possessed? Are you possessed by the Holy Ghost? OK. OK, OK, OK, OK. The instrumentalists are not possessed. The instrumentalists. The instrumentalists are not possessed. Come on. One branch, one branch. 3 branches, 4 branch. Are you possessed? OK, we are going to write come on one branch height house 2. Come on, come on, come on. Give a lot of trot. We need more. But OK, now the people are going to see that we are truly possessed by 10 branches. We are going to fall down and are the Holy Ghost. Are you ready to be possessed by the Holy Ghost? Are you ready? 2 bounces, 3 bounces, 4 bounces, 5 bounces. Are you ready to fall? Down. They think we are joking. Are you? Go back, go back, they said. We are young, Hey, they said. They said what? And what they said, we are what let us add one. We are young, it's really impressed and we are possessed and we are ballistic. Are you ballistic? Hey, Barbara Lighthouse Barber. They said. They said we are young, we are now ballistic, we are beyond. We are more than young. We are more than impressed. Give me way. Do you have faith? You take a step this way. We need more branches. Bye bye. I need to leave next time. Next time don't say something like that. It will get worse. Sit down, sit down. Sit down. Now listen. Listen, listen. Surprising, Surprising. Surprising, surprising, surprising. Next time, next time they shouldn't say something they are not sure of. When we are not sure of something, don't have to say it. It will get worse because we have moved from being young and impressionable to being ballistic, processed. Sit down, sit down, agents. Next time, next time when I'm not sure of something, don't say it. But why you say it, it will get worse. So we are young. Sit down, sit down #10 #10 #10 the last point of the camp. We need more points. Ballistic, ballistic, ballistic OK, you may take your seat #10 #10 To be a missionary you need to be productive, useful and ballistic. Matthew 25 verse 28 Take that form from him and give it unto him which has 10 talents. Are you sweating in the winter? Next time when you are saying something, you should be careful. You say something like I get worse and we sweat in the winter and you see that we are young and more than easily impressed. In winter we sweat in the winter, we sweat in the winter we sweat in the winter. In the winter we sweat. In the winter. We sweat. In the winter we sweat. In the winter, we sweat in the winter. When you don't understand what you are saying, when you don't, when you don't understand what you are saying, you should just be quiet. When you say something, it may get worse. Have you got your pen? Have you got your pen #10 We won more points. We won more points. We won more points by listing, points by listing. OK, take therefore the talent from him, the one who said we are. Young. Take it from him and give it unto him which has 10 ballistic talents. For unto everyone that has shall be given, and he shall have abundance, but from him that has. Not shall be taken away. Even that which he had and cast you the unprofitable, unprofitable servant. That is the servant who is not a devotee, the servant who is not an indoctrinator, the servant who is not an errand boy, the servant who is not a propagandist, the servant who has not been sent by a religious organization, the servant who has not been sent abroad by his church. The. Servant. Who is not a career? The servant. Who is not young. It's not. It does not have a virus. It's not a converter, it's not an admirer, it's not a fan. It's not a backer. It's not a bullet, it's not an arrow, it's not a rocket, it's not ballistic. Take it from. Him and. Cast him away into outer darkness. So to be a missionary, it must be. Useful. Ballistic. A converter indoctrinator propagandist. Errand boy, follower, disciple, an arrow. A that a rocket. A projectile, a converter, an admirer, a fan, an agent. There. Shall be weeping and gnashing. Of teeth.