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03. To Be A Missile

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
February 2, 2025 1h 7m

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Camp Title - The Volante. Machaneh Collection - 70. Preached in 2011, USA (MaryLand). 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 #3 of the Volante time. Time is running out in your life. You're shy until and die. Well it's all up to you. Anything you say or do, will you face the truth? I'll be lost and 3rd and die. Are you ready? Are you ready for the Lord here? He comes in the night. Are you ready? Are you ready for the Lord here? He comes in the night for you. You. You are playing with fire if you choose. If you choose to waste your time. For the day of the Lord is a day that's close ahead. So don't they anymore. This could be your final chance. Now Are you ready? Are you ready for the Lord? Here we comes in the night. Are you ready? Are you ready for the Lord? Here we comes in the night. Are you ready? Are you ready for the Lord? Here we comes in the night. Are you ready? Are you ready for the Lord? Lord? Here it comes in the night Lord you. For the day of the Lord is a day that flows ahead, so no way anymore this could be your final play. Hands, Are you ready? Are you ready for the Lord? Here we come since the night. Are you ready? Where's the offering when you finish taking it off and always bring it to the front door. Keep it with you a

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Welcome to track #3 of the Volante time. Time is running out in your life. You're shy until and die. Well it's all up to you. Anything you say or do, will you face the truth? I'll be lost and 3rd and die. Are you ready? Are you ready for the Lord here? He comes in the night. Are you ready? Are you ready for the Lord here? He comes in the night for you. You. You are playing with fire if you choose. If you choose to waste your time. For the day of the Lord is a day that's close ahead. So don't they anymore. This could be your final chance. Now Are you ready? Are you ready for the Lord? Here we comes in the night. Are you ready? Are you ready for the Lord? Here we comes in the night. Are you ready? Are you ready for the Lord? Here we comes in the night. Are you ready? Are you ready for the Lord? Lord? Here it comes in the night Lord you. For the day of the Lord is a day that flows ahead, so no way anymore this could be your final play. Hands, Are you ready? Are you ready for the Lord? Here we come since the night. Are you ready? Where's the offering when you finish taking it off and always bring it to the front door. Keep it with you at the back. Just put it in the front when you finish, right? Glory to God, never keep offerings with you. OK, ashes, somebody may have a bad thought. Put it in front of you. Forgive. Father, we thank you for this offering in Jesus name, Amen. All the offerings we take at this camp for healing Jesus Crusade secret project that I told you about mission. But I have to come back for another camp. Shall we? I shall inform you at a camp about but that's if we accomplish it. We have to accomplish it. Amen. We are closing now. We return at 7:30. All right, all right, Father, we are so excited this morning in Jesus name, Amen. Sit down please. Now another meaning of the word, the third thing that it means to be a missionary is to be a missile. So you can be a missionary or messenger, you can be on a mission or you can be a missile. So to be a missile means to be a rocket, a rocket. Now the the difference between a rocket and an aeroplane is the speed with which you can be sent. Now most successful missionaries are rockets. They go very fast to where they are going. All those who try to go like a helicopter are unable to go in the end. Because when we have meetings, you understand. OK, Can I see you on Friday? I want to discuss something. My wife has opened a hairdressing kiosk and I wanted to discuss with you whether we can take the kiosk or whether the church would like to buy the kiosk for the branch pasta. And then also I'm doing my masters. I have to finish something and I've I've finished the masters, but it's not just the thesis I'm writing. But they have assured me that by June I can finish everything. Such people never go on a mission because a missionary is a rocket. It goes fast. That's why you can go to the moon, because the moon is very fast. Several times going round the earth, hundreds of times going round the Earth. A plane will take 12 hours to go halfway round. A rocket will just go in. I mean 30 minutes. He's gone round the whole earth. So a real missionary is a rocket. So now, Bishop, can I see you about something? What is it? It's it's my wife. She's not willing to go. But I think with time, by that time, the Rockets, all rockets that are going have gone. I want to pay these bills that have come. I got into this project, into that project. We have to pay this, settle this, pay this, pay this, pay this. It's not possible. In the end, usually you get it. So one of the things if, if you're going to be a lay missionary, you see, one of the things you must believe in, you know, 10 years, exactly 10 years ago I came here. I think it must have been this same Sandy Cole. 10 years, exactly, exactly 10 years to today. We had a camp and I preached and you are the only group in America that I shared about mortgages. There was a camp called What is Your Life? The reason why I know that is exactly 10 years, because it's exactly 10 years ago that Doctor Yongicho dedicated the cathedral. And then shortly after that, September 11th happened. And shortly after September 11th, I came here and some people didn't come for the camp. And it really pained me because I had flown through the September 11th atmosphere to come to the camp and I was really scared as I was coming this year. And then I came so people couldn't come from here to here. I said wow, what a shock, you know, are you there? And I was sharing about the mortgage system. You know, the mortgage system is a very dangerous thing. And I personally still think that it's a very, very dangerous system. But you may never know Limited. There's a company, somebody established a company called, you may never know Limited. And they even got a loan from the bank. They got a loan and I was talking to the manager of the bank who who was involved in giving the loan. I mean, who knew about who about about it. And you see all the debts. You see one, one of the things you must realize either about the Western world here is that it's based on high level calculation. They've calculated and calculated and calculated and then they have had several experiences with several. So they've set up never to lose, but you wouldn't know anybody who works in a bank. They they make their money by having somebody not clever enough to understand what they are doing with a lot of words. So this is just a formality. You just sign. This is just what is normally done. Everybody who takes the money assigns all these what you are signing. There's so many things you don't even know. That's why most of the people cannot even pay and you are tied down forever and you pay a very large amount. Actually, what it is is that they have employed you. Yeah, if you go to buy something that costs 200,000, I saw a bank doing it once. I actually saw the calculation they did. The thing was 200,000, that the total that you were paying was 750,000. That's how much. Not that, not that they say. I saw it with my eyes and I saw that this is something that I saw recently. I said even I've never seen these calculations before, but I saw that it's a very bad thing because now when you spread out 200,000 times divided by that you could have paid. Let's say 5000 * 12 months is 60,000. So you could have paid 55555. That's how much 60606064 years you could have paid us if the rent was even the the rate the interest was even 40,000 on the 200,000 you took a loan of 200,000 to pay and you end up paying 240 thousand. You could have paid 5000 a month times 4 years. So 5000 a month is 5 * 1260 * 4 is 240. You understand but that's not what you pay. You pay 750,000, so you're going to pay 5000 times. How many years is it going to be? If you can earn 5000, that is 5000 * 60 into 750 is how many years? 10 years will be 600,013 years. Is 750,000 that that's actually what it was 13 years or 5000 a month for 200,000 And that's with the interest and everything. And they calculate it and you will, they will never. Well, they've signed so many in case you get sick, in case of this, in case your wife, in case this, in case this case, the thing should come back. But you don't know because you are new, but they've been doing it. You are the 78 thousandth customer that they are. They are dealing with you. This is your first time. Yeah, You see, when white people came to Africa many years ago, they came with a mind which is calculated, which is the white man's mind is more calculating, the black man's mind is more relational. So when you are doing business with them, you have to understand what you are doing. You see, because the black man feels at all. It's my friends, this is my friend. When I come to America, you look after me. When you come to Ghana, I look at. It's not that. It's a calculation. They signed the contract with Congo and entered the jungle 200 years ago and signed contract with villages that all this forest is forming 200 years ago. But their mind is calculating sign and they sign, they sign, sign, sign, sign. That's a bill. There's all these places sign. You would wonder that, but if a, if a villager signs in the forest 200 years ago, what we've signed, they saw in Central African Republic, they saw 5 meters below the ground and five meters above the ground. They've been sold to France, which includes all vegetation, all whatever. And they signed it. They sold. It's called all kinds of contracts. Yeah. So you as you are going, you know, you may think, oh, this is my my brother. So take my brother with you to America as you're going. He goes in the ship. So when I come there, so next time I come, you bring greetings for me. So no, you. So you gave me, I gave you salt. I gave you a mirror. You gave me 3 three of your brothers. I gave you this. This is the deal, you know, and all these things you don't know, but you are innocent. You think you are just doing whatever. Often when I'm dealing with my, my employees are buying things or doing contracts. I have to always tell my friend, don't think of this person as your friend. He's not a friend. He's doing business. That is his mind. He's calculating. You have to think in that way so that it also helps you to know how to relate because the person doesn't see, he doesn't see anything about it's just you are doing this, I do this, you pay this finish. We have bought so many things from Europe and America and so on all the time. We have to deal with them so many things, all that. So sometimes you have, they have to mature because they say, oh, it's now you are so nice to us. It's not like that. It's so nice to it's, it's look, this is how much it costs. So as you are sitting there signing your life away for the next 30 something years, you don't know. But that is the reason why many of you cannot do anything for God because you didn't understand what you were signing. And I said it 10 years ago, nobody knew their credit. Whatever is coming, it has come. But it's even coming again. Yeah, you, you, you will see something, you know, all the things artificial because a 28 year old person cannot suddenly prosper and live in a $1 million house because it takes years to, to, to, to prosper. So suddenly you are in a $1 million house with a $1 million car with a $1 million everything and you are moving. It's like, OK, how, what did you earn? Where did you get it from? My people don't believe it. That is why people don't prosper. Amen. And As for me, I refuse to be a person of debt. I don't want it, especially monthly commitments. You have to be there. You have to pee, pee, pee, pee, pee. That's why you can't do much for God. That's why you can't leave. That's why you can't go on holiday. That's why you are a slave. But you don't know that you are a slave. Yeah. I don't care what you think. I don't. I don't really care what you think. I don't care what you think. The Bible says if thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself. Only that if thou scorn, thou shalt bury it alone. So you may scorn at me. Say, oh, Bishop doesn't live here, He doesn't know how I decide. Oh listen, because when I left here September 11th, after the September, as soon as I left, I know some people who immediately entered into mortgages and lost all the I know some people who had savings of X amounts. Eventually, when they finished, they had nothing. Up to today, they still have zero. Yes, they had savings in hundreds of thousands. They lost everything. I met your brother. He asked me the wisest question I've ever asked I've ever been asked. He said what would you do if I was here? And I told him. He didn't listen to me. I lost everything. So if thou be wise, thou shall be wise for thyself. And if thou, Connor, thou alone shall bear it. It's true. So anyway, I'm not, I'm not saying that you don't have to do this or you don't have to do that. You're just, you're just here. But I'm saying that that's why many things, you can't even to move just from Philadelphia to Maryland. You cannot. And there are ways to get a house without doing that. That is a humble way. People don't like that way. So we are now here. You see, I know what you are saying. It's based on the African perspective, based on the African perspective over here. You see we have a different thing going here. We work in the bank, so we understand. But actually those who work in the bank and did you work in the bank? What I'm saying, is it true, Stana, is it true? Tell us what is true about it. It's it's very. True. Which bank do you work in? I work. For one of the American banks. You work for an American bank. What do they? What do they do? What do the American banks do? They, as you said, they make money based on people's ignorance, even dealing with. Corporations. Even dealing with corporations, we we make money based on people not understanding the products that we offer them. You make money based on people not understanding the products. Explain it. So, for example, if a government wants to raise money, they'll come for a loan and we'll Add all these provisions and terms in the loan documents and it's such a bad deal for them, but they don't understand it. So on a loan, like, I don't know, government comes to raise, yeah, exactly like Ghana comes to raise $100 million or something, the company will make about $10 million from it and they're not really doing anything. The company will make how much? Like about $10 million. OK for doing nothing, the bank? Yeah. And they're making that just based on the people not really understanding the terms of the loan, what they're getting themselves into. And it's the same in in consumer credit. Wow, so you may never know what limited incense. Thank you my dear. So I'm just saying, you know, when you are dealing with a system that is grown and it's, it's that calculative mind that has developed the Western world into a very beautiful place. Yeah. You see, because black people are not so calculative. They, they don't develop. Well, it's both good and mad. If you are on the other side of it, the negative side of it, you, you lose everything. You sign your whole life out. But if you are on it is your side. You see you, you become rich and you develop it. Is that mind up? If you are an African, you have to learn to be calculating as well. What does it really mean? Yeah. What does it really boil down to? You know, in your signings and the things you are doing, try to just understand it because every group of people have some things like if you go to French West Africa, they are more easygoing. They have lunch break from 12:00 to 3:00, you know, every day they have a good time, drink wine. They like sex. I mean sex. There's nothing like a virgin in a Francophone country. There's nothing like a virgin. There's no, there's no virgin there, you know. And it comes from Luis Catos, the king Louis the 14th fashion. And all those things came from him and his wife Marie Antoinette. That's they started the fashion. And all these names we have, the French names we have. What are the French names we have in there? The Saint Dior. And what? Jean Pierre Louis Vuitton. Yeah, there. It's all. It's all from Louis Caratos. But they were so extravagant and so rich, and they made clothes and dresses pegged to everything. It has gone all the way through. You can never believe the Palace of Versailles. If you were to see what is a palace, It's like, I don't know which, where to describe it. How large? Maybe a whole section of Manhattan, if not the whole of Manhattan. It's one master one's house. If you see it, you will not believe it. It just extends and expenses his gardens. That is fantastic. Yeah, but from that this past period came in. It's all Francophone countries. So every group of people have their things. That's why the happiest countries in the world, the happiest people, you have countries like Nigeria, Jamaica, Ghana, We are all the sad best countries, the richest. Japan, Switzerland, they are all under the rich, very depressed and very suicidal. Yeah. So every group has something that they have. And I'm saying that calculated mind is what brings development in a certain way of progressing financially, you see. But you, you you've cancelled. The manager was very nice at the bank. He was a very nice guy. But he said, oh, we should just say that he himself has got one of these. So we signed it. You are finished. OK. All right. So tell somebody I'm going to be a Rocket. I I need you see, you can't be a Rocket with your mortgage. It is 30 years to be 30 years to come out of your mortgage. How can you be a, a rocket with your, with that kind of mortgage? Yeah. And let me tell you, some of you, you will be better missionaries in certain places. You know, sometimes, like I said, your prosperity or your success in your ministry is connected to some things, some places. So we are going to say how many young people are free? You can be a Rocket and then people here can be raise your hand. Please don't be so that I know how many people are left that I'm preaching to and I know the rest. I'm wasting my time. Only 5 people can be want to. Oh, raise your hand if you can be a rocket. There's a rocket right here I didn't see. Is this a rocket? OK, on this side? Oh, there are no rockets here. So what are you skyscrapers? You are solid on the ground. Wow, it's amazing, isn't it? It's amazing. One day I wanted to send a couple in America somewhere. I wanted them to be rockets. They had so many deaths. I tried my best to help them, even to come out of their debts. But at the point they got angry, you know why Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah. So they they took off a rocket in another direction you see. But as they launched in the Astra Astra direction, they, they only came to understand what I have been saying because they move deeper and deeper and deeper into crisis. You see, because people don't realise that death is an evil thing. I'm telling you it is an evil thing. Yeah, believe me, I'm telling you. And I'm more experienced than some of you now. I'm more experienced than some of you and, and you can easily say, oh, you are at least you are an African. You see, you are African pastor from Africa. I'm more international than most of you here. Yeah, sure. I'm more international than most of you. Yeah. Because I see this here, here, here, here, different places. And you can that thing they are doing here is trying to come to Ghana one day. The one of the managers of a big French bank in Ghana. She's a member of our church. She was talking to himself, Bishop, I think we should see the people because we now have loans for television, for car, for. I said don't, don't come and start this thing here. Don't come and start. Yeah, loan for everything. Look at everybody. And then the staff. I said we don't want it at all. We use the old one like that. So be a rocket. Young people, listen, if thou be wise, thou shall be wise for thyself. If thou scholar that if you laugh at me, you alone will bear it. And, and I've come to see that you can even prevent yourself from being rich, but it doesn't make others also become rich. If I save and I I say OK, I will not spend, I will not eat first. I'm in America to help the American Church. I will not it till I leave to save money for you. It won't make you richer. I found that out too, because when you are wise, you are wise for yourself. And when you scorn you, you alone bear it. Are you there? Number two, it means to be a projector. Now a projector is aimed in a direction. Wow #3 it means to be an arrow #4 it means to be a bullet #5 it means to be a dot. Now all these give you about 3 two or three characteristics. 1 is that it's aimed in a direction and #2 it goes fast, you see. And #3 it seems not to be hindered by anything. It's not affected by anything. It just goes. We've all seen James Bond film. A missile is coming to bomb everybody. It goes through the air, nothing stops it mountains, rivers, it just goes projected and it goes into a direction. Are you listening to me? What do you think? Can we aim you? Can we aim you in in the direction of California and can you go fast in the in the direction of Los Angeles, Oregon? We have a church in Oregon, Portland, Arizona. Can we can we guide you to that place? Phoenix, AZ. Can we guide you towards Texas, more places and and Florida? Can we or you're already guided by something else? So that's what I'm saying to you. I'm offering you the best chance to be a missionary. You know, now Doctor Gong, when he was preaching earlier, he was telling you that if you really want to be a missionary, come to be, come to the village somewhere. But I will tell you that at this camp, God is giving a special opportunity for us to be missionaries right here without going to be choir, without leaving America. Think about it, think about it. Where will you get such an opportunity? Take, where will you get such an opportunity? You are, you are aware, Colorado. Can we aim you in another direction and press fire? Will you rise? Will you rise from the ground and head to California? Will you? Can we? Maybe you are in a place which is by the fields, in fact, that you cannot bear much fruit there. OK. It's like snow, Snow. You can't grow flowers in snow. So we want to head you, head you towards where there's a lot of rain and it's warm. Can we and you go fast? This is what we want and we are going to have it in Jesus name and all of you who are skyscrapers planted with deep foundations because half of the skyscraper is under the ground. When you are a skyscraper, it means your foundations are so deep. Doctor Nosh, Can we project you and aim you? Yeah, it will. It will bring new life, youthfulness to your life. Add 1020 years to your life. Yes. To be able to be aimed in this direction. Press play. Then it's going with speed, with strength. Yeah. Because you look, one day we are all going to die. You know, I don't know whether you, you have not been thinking about it. Ask your neighbor. It seems you don't think about you don't think about death much, you see? And we will all go out of America. We'll go out of this world. OK. And our plan is to leave a church behind. Amen. And the church is not for anybody. It's a church that we can't do the work we came to do in this world. It's not for anybody. And you, you, you, you may not know what God will use the church to do. Is he the church? You know, one day I was preaching, I was saying, you know, I'm an evangelist. I'm an evangelist. And you, the Lord was saying, look, number one is the church. It will never change the apostle. The church is always God's first. Is that I will build my church. It's a God has set in the church first, Apostles. It comes before evangelism. So building the church is even more important to me than doing evangelism. It's true. The church is very precious. That's what I think. People don't realise how important the church is to me. Yeah, that's why I don't. I don't joke with somebody coming to spoil the church at all. If you want to see another side, then spoil the church and see. Yeah, as I'm nice with you now you see that something will change. Yeah. Don't. Don't spoil it. You can do anything. You can leave. You can have your own ministry, you can obey your calling. You can do everything. Just leave the church. Because otherwise, if, if you start and we start approving of you spoiling the church, then everybody just gets out and starts spoiling, we will not approve of it. Oh, we'll defend it. A Bishop is a defender of the church. He's a defender of the church. Yeah, Yeah. I'm telling you, if I say that, I say, OK, Doctor George should spoil this part. Pastor George should also spoil the Doctor O go should spoil the laser. Everybody is talking. We say, oh, we have changed the name to Goobly Gob. We have started a church. If Doctor O Go, Doctor O go, is whatever in Adenta in a part of Accra, you know, supposing the next day he just comes to inform me that he's got a as I'm with him now, he's quietly planning that he's got another land at Adenta. Do you see? And then yes, just nearby, not more than not more than three miles from where the current churches, the big cathedral of about 1000 people come there on Sundays and he gets it quietly. Why? I don't know. I don't know anything. Then, sadly, one day I'm in my house, I receive a note or an e-mail, one I've resigned from your organization. Meanwhile you have informed everybody because I've left you in a dental. I don't know. I don't go there. I don't remember the last time I went to that place. You have won the hearts of the people. Talk to individuals asking them, are you committed to God? Are you committed to me? God will text you. You will soon see. Time is going to see whether you are how your heart is. And so as a pastor and shepherd and so on. Some, I mean all kinds of things. Then suddenly I preside from the organization. God has also called me not knowing you have your land, you have everything just by us. Then when I go to the adventure church, I'll see that the building is there. I've built everything. There's nobody in the church. They have all followed daughters of God. They love as he's preaching. Now you fall in love with him. So the church that he's preaching, they like him. So we leave all the pastors to be to be in their churches. The the children in the church like the they don't even know when he was appointed or how he became whatever or what is he doing. They don't know how he came about because we have have left them with him. What did they ask, David? Where have you left those few ships? I have left you with a keeper. Now you steadily take and make an announcement when you have been preparing underground. So if this one also does that, this one also does that. What is going to be then I might as well. I should stop. And I'm. I'm tired. I'm going home. I'll see you all later. There's no point in what we are doing. It's useless. So to go. Isn't it useless? You can do the announcements. Yeah. Just take over and do announcements. Yeah. Turn up and tell them there's no. There's no there You. Know, I think because of the way things are going and we spent money with Cam year year after year 10 years ago we were here. Every year we come we are teaching, talking spent time privately, publicly. And this one has left. This one is going avoid this one has brought his papers signing some paper. Sally, it's OK, let's go. Let's turn off the lights. And it's useless. Let's go. But it's not happening. In Jesus name we will build it Bishop. In Jesus name we will build it. Yeah. And and and and and years and years are going to go by and our aim is that when we are dead, that's the aim. So we want a type of child that lives beyond our lives. It's not something that whilst we are living, it's disintegrating. It's disintegrating whilst we are here. We've left the ship with you. You are a keeper. We didn't say, don't say. And that's what sometimes when people leave, it becomes so difficult because we don't say. I don't say anything bad about my pastors. I don't say, I will not say even when sometimes I go to a church, I know the pastor is not a good pastor. Sometimes I know that he doesn't even preach. Sometimes I know that he's not prayerful, but I don't say anything. And when I, I will say, all of you listen to your pastor. You have to obey him. What he says. I don't. I don't say anything bad. If my pastor goes to commit fornication, I will never turn. I will not turn against him in front of him. Never. You, you see me, see me. See me. I will be in front of the pastor. Never. I will never leave my pastor for you. We don't we don't sacrifice pastors. You know, it's not easy to be a pastor. I know somebody has made them say I will never leave the person to fall into your hands. Yeah. So what I'm saying to you is that after all this, when that pastor now turns against because we are, we have been silent even on the person's problems, then now you suddenly look odd. You have to explain. Oh, it has been this has been going on for some time. Are you sure? The people all look confused and it takes a long time for people to get out of their confusion because we don't say anything. But even when you leave but don't say anything. I can show you so many passes who play. You know what I'm saying? Just go quietly. There are passes. They left. I know one pastor his name comes from and his name starts with AY. He left the church. He didn't tell us. Nobody done anything but to the church. I have not said that only. I always think of him and I feel sad that he left. That's all he has nothing. I can mention his name now. Many of you here will know. Yes, they just walked out of the church, said he wants to go and that's it. Yes, it's not Tom Edwin a nothing. No, I just feel sad that the person left. So if you want to go, God has called you God. You to do this. You want to join another chair? Christ and the statue. Fine, fine. But I remember that. You see like this. You see, I'm talking to you. What is your name? Bernice. Hey, can usually get Bernice with an American accent like this. You. She's a powerful singer, singer and dancer. It's not easy to get a singer and a dancer, you know. So the church is, is is is very important. We would be building it by the grace of God. Amen. I don't even know how we got into all that. What is this? Amen. So the church very important to us. Amen. We'll be building churches all the time and defending the church. Number six, if a missile is a self propelling device, to be a missile you must be self propelling. You must have your own engine in you. So if you're going to be a missionary, you must be somebody who has your own inside engine. David has a self propelling engine. David Saki sitting here, stand up, stand up. He was a missile. We sent we sent him to Minneapolis. We had a camp just like this. He, he resigned his job, changed his whole life and went to, I know some of his people from Minneapolis. Yeah. He was projected towards Minneapolis and then fire. He was not disguised. He was not deeply rooted in wherever that he could not move. And he went after that camp. He's one of the people. What was the name of that camp? We had a lot of mission missionaries after that camp. No, no. It's beautiful. Amen. Sit down, my brother. I I want you to see these examples. These are good examples. They are missionaries. They gone and self propelling. I never came to seek for a job for him in Minneapolis. So how do you get a job? Bishop, please, can I see you? There are some difficulties. I've applied for certain job but I'm not seeing anywhere. And do you know how I can rent a house there when you are coming to America? Did I rent a house for you? How come when you are going as a Mr. I have to rent a house for you? You are a self propelling device now. The engine is within you. Nobody will tell you that. You have to have your quiet time. You have to pray within you. You know you must pray within you. You know you must do the right thing. Self propelling, self propelling device. The engine is from within. It guides you, you know that you must pray. That's that's the only way to be a real missionary. You have to have an engine inside that. No, this is the right thing to do. Amen. Are you listening to me? Yeah. How many are going to be self propelling devices? Wow. What a blessing. And then if you've got to be a missile, it means you are designed to be thrown forward, forward, forward. Wow, Amen. You are projecting forward. Hallelujah. The next one, if you're going to be a missile, means you can move swiftly and suddenly. Swiftly and suddenly. Amen. Everybody says swiftly and sadden. Swiftly and sadden and it is self propelling. Nobody will tell you to contact Reverend Joel, Pastor Nosh, Dr. Lindsay and others, other defenders that we have in the church. Nobody will tell you yourself will not have to keep in a good relationship. Yeah, you have good relationships, self. It comes from within and you can move swiftly. Suddenly you're moving. What do you think all of you who have a good relationship with Reverend Joel and amongst ourselves, it's good. You have to have a good relationship. You yourself should know. I I only deal with Bishop. I don't deal with the small. The the the the secretary's and the small bird. You are you are a fool. You are a fool. I don't deal with apprentice. Amen. Wow, how many are getting within you a good vision and dream for church planting and being a missionary? The next one and the last one. It means if you're going to be a missile, you are moving with an exploding warhead. Something with an exploding warhead. You are trouble for the devil going somewhere to happen with an exploding ballistic warhead. Yes, you are. An explosion going to happen in the enemy's camp. Through you, many enemy things will be destroyed. Jesus, that I've come to destroy the works of the devil. You are going to be a source and a reason why the works of the devil will be destroyed. And that is what I'm trying to help you to see, to have a vision and a dream. To be a missionary, a projectile, a rocket, a self propelling device, somebody that can move swiftly and suddenly. Somebody who can go far and do a great thing for the Lord. Somebody who can go to your destiny where God called you to be and accomplish a great thing for the Lord. Lord, let me have a dream. Lord, let me have a dream without being a dreamer. Oh Lord, let me have a vision. Oh yes, let me have vision in the spirit and let me work with diligent, always knowing that you're the heart and the end of it. Oh Lord, everything I do remind me of my love for you. Oh my Lord, teach me how to love, for so many are in need of this love. O Lord, teach me how to give, for it's in giving, Lord, that we learn how to live. And let me work, let me work. Let me work with diligence, always knowing that you're the star. You're the star and the end of it. And Lord, let everything, everything that I do, remind me of my love for you. Let me work with diligence, always knowing that you're the start, the start and the end of it. Oh Lord, let everything I do remind me of my love for You. Oh my Lord, Lord and everything, everything, everything I do, we might be a my love for you. Powerful Amen To be on a mission Are you believing God to go on a mission for real, whether you are a rocket Christian or a skyscraper Christian? Amen. To be on a mission means to be on an assignment, Amen, an assignment. And as a pastor. And I believe that this is something that shepherds must also really accept as part of part of your work or your existence in the church. Because sometimes when a pastor is moving to a place, they say, oh shepherd, that shepherd that, let's go, Amen. So if you think you are a shepherd and what you are saying doesn't concern you, you may easily find yourself moving into eject mood, Amen. But I believe God is going to give us assignments, Amen. And that also means you must be the type of person that work can be designed for you. Amen Assignments means when we're in school, assignments in America, I don't do assignments. Well, where where I came from, we have assignments. So someone has created work and given it to you to do. Amen. And sometimes, you know, there's a type, there's a type of pasta, there's a type of shepherd who is not used to doing things that have been set out for him or for her. There's a type of pastor or shepherd who wants to do what he wants to do, Amen, who wants to be where he wants to be. But that is changing, Amen. Is it not changing? It's changing. And so let us be comfortable with places being assigned to us, Amen. People being assigned to us. And the next one is to have a task or a job. I think, I think Bishop thought very powerfully on this. And and what I what I really enjoyed was how a lot of evil arises when people don't have jobs, Amen. And that is why, you know, pastors, this this message sometimes must be applied to certain shepherds in our churches. Yeah. Certain people. I I remember I had a shepherd like that some years back. Yeah. He was. Well, he, he was trying to make himself unemployed because I remember I gave him some work to do in the church and he wasn't really flowing. When I'm preaching, he's in the church. You know, it's like some people have their eyes darting around, moving up and down. I examine him for some some two or three weeks. Then one Sunday I told him, I'm sending you to a branch. So hey, you are going to a branch. And today he's doing very well, very well. So. So sometimes some people don't have what it takes, you know, to even know what to do. And we as pastors, our shepherds and you know, there's some ministries in our churches and so on which, which, which have a lot of problems because big gurus have gathered there. This is I am. But coming back to the point of going on a mission, a point that Bishop made. I, I think we'll get there, you know, about the fact that work sometimes must be created by you yourself. Amen. I mean, it would be nice for some of you to come and say, oh, I, I think I would like to go to this place. Even though it's your suggestion when, when it comes from you and it's also accepted and you are moved in that direction, it's also equal to a mission. Amen. The next meaning is to be part of a delegation, Amen. To be part of a group of people. And we thank God for the family we are in, Amen. We thank God for the for the family, the LCI family. But understand that sometimes when you fail to move on a mission or to go on a mission and you are in a place where a long time and you rust, you can actually lose your place in the family or the delegation you are a part of. There are people who have lost their place. You know, the, the, everybody has a place. Even though it's a big church, very large church, many continents, many countries, everybody has a place, Amen. And all of us are a part of a delegation moving here. We are doing this. We are in this group. But within the larger group, there can be smaller groups that you can decide to be a part of, Amen. Especially if you are, if you have been part of a very bad group before. Even in the church, there are bad groups. Amen. Yeah, there are. There are some way members, some way shepherds, some way, some way. And it's a group. It's a group with a, with, with names, Amen. But one of the powerful things in their Bible is that people actually moved. They moved from bad groups and joined good groups. Amen. And the current great group we are creating in the church is the group of lay missionaries. Hallelujah. Amen. So instead of being there as a pastor who has been in a place for a long time, you don't know what to do. The tech is not working, you are struggling. Why don't you join a fresh group with fresh energy, with fresh direction? Say I'm moving to this area to work as a part of a delegation. Hallelujah. How many of you are believing God to be part of a delegation, A delegation? Hallelujah #4 to be under a charge, to be on a mission means you are under a charge. Hallelujah. And we are going to charge you. Paul used that word a lot. I charge you, I charge you. Are you the type who is chargeable? Can we charge you to move and you move? Amen. And, and it and it takes humility to even be defined by some of these things. Yeah. Depending on your bank account or your size or your social status, you can decide, no, I won't be charged to move this way. And then something else can charge you to move in that direction. May we not allow ourselves to be charged by something else. Hallelujah. To carry out an undertaking. Amen. An undertaking, an agreement. We we agree that we are going this way and you agree that you are going this way. But some people agree and in the middle they make some midstream utens. Are you with me? They make some midstream utens. But we are going to move on. Hallelujah. It also means to carry out a duty. Hallelujah. What is our duty? Our duty is to win souls as a church. Amen. Our duty in this church is not job creation or wealth creation. There are churches with that duty, but our duty is to win souls, to build churches, to to to to grow churches and to plant churches. Hallelujah. And you are going to be part of that group. You know, sometimes until you move from an area, you will never be part of this this, this vision, the vision of planting churches, the vision of moving. I mean, I mean, being being someone who, who, who builds Christians, grows new converts, makes them into pastors because where you are, you know that you don't have much you can do. But if you move to an area, the privilege to even play this role will be given to you, Amen. And as Bishop said, many of us will sign and do better in certain areas, Amen. And if you think you are signing where you are, I'm telling you that you are yet to see the real ministry God actually cut out for you. Hallelujah. And I pray that God will help you to find that ministry. Hallelujah. To carry out an operation. Wow. There are many operations. Sometimes you see some guys around you don't know what they are doing, but they are part of an operation. Yeah, recently I was somewhere. I'm in that cry. I was surprised that the guy I was talking to fell in a public place in his jacket. He had a gun on him. Then later somebody said, oh, this, this guy's, this guy's a church member. We thought, oh, he's a church member, he's a shepherd and so on. Not that he works for an agency for the government and he's in the church. Yes, he's an agent. So later he came to me to explain to me who he is and so on. I said, but how come we are all here? We think we are building the church. We are shepherds. We are Christians moving you. You are here. You are carrying the gun on you. Now. Now we are we we are you may never know what. Yeah, but we are having a new a new, a new type of lay ministry where we have operatives. Operatives. Yeah, as we are around you got on spiritual guns on you. Hey, they will ask Saleh, are you on any operation or, or you, you, you have made yourself the owner of the Bronx church. Oh, I think it's a very powerful point to be on an operation, operation, an operation and and such people as they are there, they are magic as we are all here, as I'm talking now, you are very focused. You are listening, you are flowing. There's feedback. But those amongst us who are on an operation, they are looking at other things. Yeah, they are looking at other things. So as we are all in America, we are looking for dollars, getting a job and so on. Some, if you are on an operation, you are looking for something else. You are looking for an area. You can build a text. You are looking for an area you can get separates. Where is that next place where they are Gambians or they are they are, they are Gambians or they are what? What? We are French people. Liberians. May you be on an operation. May something else occupy you. I said may something else occupy you. Oh, clap for Jesus. It's a very beautiful point. Amen. It means to have a vocation. It means to have a purpose. Purpose. And many people have lost the real purpose for their lives. Amen. And I really want to thank God for Lighthouse. See, because of Lighthouse, people who travelled from Liberia or Ghana or whatever with the wrong motive have found the real purpose for their lives. Isn't that powerful? Yeah, because of the church, because as you know, we are still looking for the dollars. We are still looking for it, but because of the of the ministry, there is now a better reason to live. But we are saying that as we move into missionary work on this continent, you are going to have even a better reason. I said a better reason, a more, sometimes even the church we are in the church, your branch, you are passing, and sometimes our churches can make us feel as if we are not called. You know, if you are in a place which is very rock solid, things are not working and so on, you can easily feel useless. But it's not so. You are not useless. I tell you, you are not useless. Anybody. God has anointed anybody. God has called. You are a great person. I am a great person. She is a great person, but where you are is the problem. That is why this door which has been opened you are entering is straight. I say you are going into a straight like a missile so that there can be a reason. Some pastors even feel that they are not called or they are not. I mean they are not the type who should be passing a check. The reason is that you've not found the right place for yourself, but through this camp, God is going to speak to you. Amen. And he will speak to you through a man, through your pastor. And we are, we are being blessed already as we are being directed. And I pray that you remember some. Yes. Well, Bishop, to the story of these three frogs who were put in water, one was covered. No, no light died after mine, sorry. Mine died after some time and one also had what A little light and lived for a little longer than the one which didn't have any light. Then one also had more, maybe a wider aperture, and more light came, and that that mouse lived longer, which means that the more light you have, the more hope you have. And your hope cannot be on an economy which is headed for, for, for, for, for somewhere. Amen. But the ministry, the wake of God can be a little light that can come into your darkness. Hallelujah. The wake of God can be a not even a letter light. Many of us here. It is this work we are doing that has kept us. Yeah, me in Ghana, as I've been there in Ghana, I have received not less than two or three people retainees with mental problems. Yes, it's not a joke. They. They came back with psychiatric full blown problems because the problems here, you don't know. You see, you are being cushioned by the church, by the ministry, by the anointing, by the grace of God, by your pastors who are preaching all these things. So you may, you may not really know what is outside there. I'm telling you, if you are left on your own outside there for the sun to smite you by day and the moon to smite you by night. That's why you see that the church is a is a powerful covering for you. I'm telling you, many of you would have lost your minds by now. Even even with the church Grant, how is it like? Even with the church, Reverend Joel is preaching teaching Sunday after Sunday even. How is it like? Do you see? But the mission, if you give yourself this work, if you give yourself this, this privilege to move out there and start something, something that will be called your own, your child, you are you are giving birth to. I tell you your pimples will clear from your face. I said your pimples will clear from your face. A smile will come again. Some of you $4000 a salary 2000, still you are not happy. You can go to a place and earn 1500 and you'll be the happiest person in the system because man shall not live by bread and butter and doles alone. Yeah, there's something called the word of God with camps, and this is this camp is giving you that word and it's going to change your life. Put your hands together for Jesus and let's receive Lady Pasta Ida to bless us with a path. Stand to your feet and clap your hands for her. Wow. You may be seated now.