Stir It Up

By Dag Heward-Mills

God has given you many abilities. You have the gift of God in you! Do not let this gift lie dormant and unused in you. Remember that the world is waiting for the manifestation of these gifts in you. You need to stir up these gifts, which are already in you, and make them manifest. Many people will be saved! Many people will be healed! Many people will be blessed when the gift of God in you is fully stirred up into action. There are also many gifted people around you. Unfortunately, many will live and die without using their gifts or showing you what they are capable of. Many gifted people live their lives without stirring up their gifts. If you stir them up, you will find out that you have the most talented people around you. This precious book is about how to stir up your gift and the gifts of those around you! After reading this insightful work by author and pastor, Dag Heward-Mills, you will become a surprise to the world! Many will be amazed at the greatness of the gift of God in you. You are anointed! You are called by God! You have the gift of God! Many things are lying dormant in you. The world is waiting for you to manifest the power of the Holy Spirit. Stir up the gift of God!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dag Heward-Mills
• Release date: Jan 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9781643306346

Dag Heward-Mills

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills is a medical doctor by profession and the founder of the United Denominations Originating from the Lighthouse Group of Churches (UD-OLGC). The UD-OLGC comprises over three thousand churches pastored by seasoned ministers, groomed and trained in-house. Bishop Dag Heward-Mills oversees this charismatic group of denominations, which operates in over 90 different countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, Australia, and North and South America. With a ministry spanning over thirty years, Dag Heward-Mills has authored several books with bestsellers including ‘The Art of Leadership’, ‘Loyalty and Disloyalty’, and ‘The Mega Church’. He is considered to be the largest publishing author in Africa, having had his books translated into over 52 languages with more than 40 million copies in print.

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CHAPTER 1

Stir Up the Gift of God

Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou STIR UP THE GIFT OF GOD, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

2 Timothy 1:6

You are anointed! You are called by God! You have the gift of God! Many things are lying dormant in you. The world is waiting for you to manifest the power of the Holy Spirit.

It is important that you stir up the great things that are already in you. Many people will be saved. Many people will be healed. Many people will be blessed when the gift of God in you is fully stirred up into action.

Unfortunately, many people live and die without using their gifts. Many gifted people live their lives without stirring up their gifts. This book is about how to stir up your gift.

After reading this book, you will become a surprise to the world! Many will be amazed at the greatness of the gift of God in you.

1. Stir Up the Lion.

I can best describe you as a great lion full of power and glory. You are a capable lion with muscles, strong teeth and a strong bite who is lying down quietly. Your potential is huge. Notice how Israel is described as a lion waiting to be stirred up.

God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows. HE COUCHED, HE LAY DOWN AS A LION, AND AS A GREAT LION: WHO SHALL STIR HIM UP? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

Numbers 24:8-9

When you are released into the world, and when your gift is stirred up, many will be saved and changed. You are going to affect the world for Jesus Christ.

2. Stir Up the Eagle.

You are like an eagle in a nest that has never flown. All you know is life in the nest. As an eagle, you have great potential. You can fly long distances. You can hunt and kill four-legged animals. You can eat fish, reptiles, mammals and even other birds. You are very powerful. Indeed, you are the most powerful bird. Yet you need to be stirred up otherwise your greatness will never be known. Notice how Israel is described as an eagle that needs to be stirred up to manifest itself.

For the LORD’S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

AS AN EAGLE STIRRETH UP HER NEST, FLUTTERETH OVER HER YOUNG, SPREADETH ABROAD HER WINGS, TAKETH THEM, BEARETH THEM ON HER WINGS:

So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

Deuteronomy 32:9-13

As you read this book, your great capabilities and gifts are going to be seen. You will fly for long distances along the contours of this earth. Eagles are not troubled by the contours of this earth. Your ministry will not be affected by the highs and lows of life on earth. The financial ups and downs will not control or determine your output.

You are described prophetically as an eagle that can soar to great heights and cover great distances. You are going to the heights of ministry! You are going to cover much ground in a short while! Many will be amazed by the heights that you will achieve in ministry as you allow the gift of God in you to be stirred up.

It is amazing what both a lion and an eagle can achieve. A lion is king of the beasts on the earth and the eagle reigns supreme in the air! Yet, both of these need stirring up! Beginning from today, your ministry will assume enormous proportions and great heights. By the stirring up of your gifts you will become the lion you are born to be. By the stirring up of your gifts you will become the eagle you are born to be.

3. Stir up Supernatural Gifts.

Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou STIR UP THE GIFT OF GOD, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

2 Timothy 1:6

You must stir up the anointing that is in you. You must stir up the gift that is in you. Without stirring up the gift of God, the manifestations will not happen. All through the ministry of Jesus you will see how He stirred up the gift and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ performed the greatest miracles ever seen by mankind. Jesus operated and manifested the greatest anointing ever seen by human beings.

How did He do it? How did He stir up the anointing that had been given to Him by God? Remember that Jesus put aside His divinity and took on the form of a man. He therefore needed to be anointed and empowered just like every other human being needs to be.

4. Stir up the Anointing.

After being anointed, Jesus needed to stir up the anointing. The anointing on Him could be likened to a sleeping lion that needed to be stirred up into action. He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? (Numbers 24:9) The anointing on Jesus could also be likened to an eagle that could be stirred up to fly at the highest altitudes. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings... (Deuteronomy 32:11).

You must see how the anointing is stirred up in the ministry of Jesus and stir up the anointing in yourself. You must understand what stirs up the anointing by looking at the ministry of Jesus. A closer look at the miracles of Jesus will reveal what stirred up the anointing in every single power encounter.

5. Stir Up the Works.

I MUST WORK THE WORKS of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

John 9:4

Jesus said He would work the works of God. The works of God are worked out by doing things. The great works that Jesus did had the characteristic of being worked out. Jesus did not just sit and wait for things to happen. He worked the works of the Father. There are great works in you! There are sermons you must preach! There are buildings you must build! There are churches you must plant! There are miracles you must do. None of these will happen naturally. None of these will happen just because you are anointed. You must stir up the works of God.

6. Stir Up the Miracles.

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the WORKING OF MIRACLES; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

1 Corinthians 12:7-11

Indeed, you don’t wait for miracles, you work miracles!

Stir up the supernatural part of you or it will not be stirred up.

Stir up the gift of God otherwise it will remain dormant.

7. Stir up the Power.

Jesus stirred up the