FLOW Sunday Service LIVE | Dag Heward-Mills | Sunday 4th Oct 2026

Overview of the Service

The service opens with high-energy worship and repeated prayers for God’s presence—especially emphasizing the “Spirit” moving, people being anointed, and the Holy Spirit flowing “like a river.” The atmosphere is Pentecostal and emphatic, featuring calls and responses such as:

• “anoint me”
• “Spirit, Spirit, Spirit move”
• “fill me”

This builds toward a more extended prayer segment.

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Key Service Themes and Standout Moments

Thanksgiving as the Foundation

The bishop leads repeated collective worship centered on gratitude, anchored in Psalm 92 (“it is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord”). The congregation is encouraged to lift holy hands everywhere—at home, in cars, or wherever they are watching.

Prayer for Purity and a Clean Heart

A focused prayer centers on Psalm 51:10–12, asking God to:

• create a clean heart
• renew a right spirit
• remove the “heart of stone”
• give a “heart of flesh”

This portion becomes highly participatory, with everyone praying for spiritual cleansing and renewal.

Seeking the Holy Spirit: Obedience and Willingness

From Psalm 51:11, the group prays:

• “Cast me not away from your presence… take not thy Holy Spirit from me”

This is reinforced by Ezekiel 36:27, emphasizing that God puts His Spirit within and enables obedience. The sermon culminates in the petition for a “willing spirit” (Psalm 51:12, including ESV wording).

• The bishop emphasizes that people can be obedient but not willing, and he prays for willingness so people can truly walk with God.
• Obedience and willingness are framed as connected to receiving “the good of the land” (including practical blessing like provision), while still grounded in spiritual transformation first.

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Praise, Dancing, and Music

The worship continues through several upbeat songs, with encouragement to shout, clap, and even dance with a partner (“find a partner… let’s dance”).

A repeated motif highlights praising God “in the good and in the bad,” culminating in a celebratory, chant-like musical closing run.

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The Offering Moment

A teaching-style offering segment references 2 Chronicles, explaining the church’s purpose in sustaining:

1. incense/praise
2. continual “bread” (spiritual provision)
3. regular offerings (morning, evening, Sabbath, new moons)

The bishop humorously contrasts the devil’s desire to keep people in “dark places” with God’s pleasure when His people dance and worship joyfully.

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Main Sermon: “Faith” (and How Faith Makes You Advance)

The message explicitly focuses on faith—why it matters and how it advances believers.

Why Faith Over Fear

Faith is presented as the answer to negative thoughts and especially fear. Fear is described as something that can “change your personality” and lead people toward harmful choices.

Faith in What You Say

Using Mark 11:22–23, the bishop stresses that speaking with belief can produce results—even “moving mountains.”

He also warns against saying things like:

• “I’m finished”
• “it’s over”

if you truly believe God is still working.

Desires Are Spiritual

He argues that desires are not neutral; they have spiritual origins. He includes a humorous aside about how desires can draw people toward the wrong spirit realm (with a warning about evil desires), then counters by urging believers to choose and thank God for good desires.

“We Walk by Faith” = Advancement

Walking is taught as advancing. Progress in life and ministry is framed as something that happens by faith.

He shares a personal testimony: being stuck in a mid-life/work situation, reading 1 Timothy (“Give thyself holy…”), and deciding to fully give himself to ministry—believing a verse caused him to move forward.

Faith Shapes Your Whole Life

He pushes back against reducing faith to surface claims (e.g., “just keep saying I have a BMW/house”). Instead, faith is described as how you live—your whole manner of life reflects what you believe.

Faith Gives Life and Pleases God

He ties faith to Scripture including:

• 2 Corinthians 5:7 — walk by faith
• Hebrews 10:38 — live by faith
• Hebrews 11:6 — without faith it’s impossible to please God
• Romans 10:9–10 — salvation by confession and belief

“Four Withouts”

A memorable list is highlighted:

• Without faith you can’t please God
• Without holiness you can’t see God
• Without the shedding of blood there’s no forgiveness
• Without Christ you can do nothing

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Light Humor / Memorable Asides

• He jokes about “dignity/placidity/equinamity” not impressing God, and teases how some people behave differently when alone at home.
• A food example is used humorously (Ghana jollof vs other jollofs; fufu rejected) to illustrate that for God, “without faith it’s not working.”
• He tells a story about an exam-day chant (“baby come…”) he claims was used to cast spells—contrasting spiritual words and participation.

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Communion + Strong Closing Declarations

Before the end, communion is shared with emphasis on Jesus’ body and blood, highlighting life, healing, and forgiveness.

There are intense prayers for:

• protection and deliverance
• binding evil and blocking “unexpected events”
• claiming rest
• prophesying that no evil or plague will come near

The service closes with encouragement, a “Flow Grace” benediction, and songs declaring that Jesus is the “recommended love,” repeated with “Only Jesus” refrains.

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Notable Personalities (As Referenced)

• Bishop Dag Heward-Mills — main preacher/leader
• Tahila — appears at the end, leading to close out the service