YOUR PROBLEM IS IGNORANCE

Romans chapter 12













Today we are walking in: YOUR PROBLEM IS IGNORANCE







1 Chronicles 28:9




And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind H3824: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

























MIND













Today we look to the word-MIND-H3824 lebab--mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory















The Torah testifies...............







Genesis 23:8




And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind H3824 that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,




Leviticus 24:12




And they put him in ward, that the mind H3824 of the LORD might be shewed them.







Numbers 16:28

And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind H3824.



















The prophets proclaim..................




Isaiah 26:3




Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind H3824 is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.







Ezekiel 11:5




And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the Lord; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind H3824, every one of them.









Habakkuk 1:11




Then shall his mind H3824 change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.















The writings bear witness..........................







1 Chronicles 22:7




And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind H3824 to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:













Lamentations 3:21




This I recall to my mind H3824, therefore have I hope.







Job 34:33

Should it be according to thy mind H3824? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.











YOUR PROBLEM IS IGNORANCE (Hebraic / Scripture-First Version)




Good morning, good afternoon wherever you are watching from around the world. I bring you greetings in the name of Yahusha the Messiah, King of kings and Master of masters. Today I want to talk to you about the problem behind every problem. Because what I’ve discovered, my friend, is that MOST PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING SYMPTOMS, NOT CAUSES. THEY ARE BUSY CUTTING THE BRANCHES, BUT NEVER DEALING WITH THE ROOT. You see, every problem in your life—financial, relational, emotional, professional—is simply evidence of ignorance somewhere.




The greatest enemy of man is not the devil. Let me say it again. THE GREATEST ENEMY OF MAN IS NOT THE ADVERSARY. It is ignorance. Hoshea 4:6 declares, “My people are destroyed… because they lack knowledge.” The adversary is not your biggest problem. Misunderstanding is the absence of understanding, is the presence of confusion. And where there is confusion, there is failure.




SO TODAY, we are not going to fight the adversary. We’re going to fight ignorance. WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT THE LIES THAT KEEP YOU IN BONDAGE. And we are going to expose the truth that will set you free. Because hear me well: life is governed by laws. The Kingdom of YHWH operates by order—by His Torah, His instructions, His judgments—not by luck, not by chance, NOT BY EMOTION. Everything Elohim created, He designed to function by principle.




The bird doesn’t need to pray to fly. It obeys the law of lift. The fish doesn’t fast to swim. It obeys the law of buoyancy. And man doesn’t need a miracle to prosper if he understands and applies the laws of success.




YOU DON’T NEED TO BEG FOR WHAT LAWS ALREADY GUARANTEE. The problem is not that Elohim has hidden success from you. IT’S THAT YOU’VE IGNORED THE KEYS THAT UNLOCK IT. So the problem behind your problem is not your situation. It is your system. You’re praying for Elohim to change your circumstance, but Elohim is waiting for you to change your understanding.




Listen carefully. Nothing is mysterious to the person who understands principles. Once you know the law, you can predict the result. You can live life intentionally, not accidentally. You can wake up every day and say, “This will be a good day.” Not by emotion alone—but by understanding the laws that make it so.




That is why Mishlei (Proverbs) 4:7 says, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom.” The word principal means first in order—priority—foundation. Elohim is saying if you miss wisdom, you miss everything else.




You can pray, you can fast, you can shout—BUT IF YOU VIOLATE PRINCIPLES, you will still suffer consequences.




So today, I want to teach you 70 Kingdom lessons, 70 principles that will fix 93% of your problems. Why not 100%? Because YHWH will always leave a small margin to keep you dependent on Him. But if you learn and apply these lessons, 93% of the things that frustrate your life will disappear. Your marriage, your business, your faith, your career—most of what is broken is not broken by the adversary. IT’S BROKEN BY IGNORANCE.




You don’t need a new season. You need new sense. You don’t need a new environment. You need new understanding. Change doesn’t begin when you move. It begins when your mind moves.




So today, prepare your heart. Open your spirit. This is not entertainment. This is education for elevation. Because when you understand how the Kingdom works, you no longer live by luck—you live by law. And the moment you grasp that truth, your days of frustration are numbered.




Now let’s begin.




Before you can fix your problems, before you can build your future, before you can walk in purpose, there must be understanding. Mishlei 4:7 says, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom, and with all your getting, get understanding.” Notice it doesn’t say get miracles. It doesn’t say get emotions. It says get understanding because understanding is the womb of success. Everything you fail to understand, you will inevitably abuse.




Lesson one




Ignorance is the greatest enemy of mankind. The adversary thrives on ignorance. He doesn’t fear your prayer if it’s uninformed. He doesn’t tremble at your worship if you don’t understand why you’re doing it. He fears knowledge because knowledge exposes his deception.




My friend, you can’t rebuke ignorance. You must replace it with truth.




Say this after me: The absence of understanding is the presence of error.




Every failure in your life is the result of a principle you violated knowingly or unknowingly. So if you want to fix your life, don’t ask what went wrong—ask what law did I break?




Lesson two




Where purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable. If you don’t know why something exists, you will misuse it. That includes your time, your relationships, your gifts, and your body. Purpose protects function. A car is designed to drive on roads. If you try to drive it across the ocean, it’s not the car’s fault when it sinks—it’s your ignorance of its purpose. In the same way, when you violate your design, you damage your destiny.




Lesson three




Elohim created everything to function by principle. Everything in creation has laws that govern it. The seed obeys the law of sowing and reaping. The planet obeys the law of gravity. The mind obeys the law of focus. The moment you understand and align with those laws, success becomes predictable.




The Kingdom of YHWH does not operate by miracles as much as it operates by management of principles. Miracles are temporary solutions. Principles are permanent protection.




Let me say it again: Miracles are for emergencies, but principles are for living. If you keep needing miracles every week, it means you’re living outside the laws that make miracles unnecessary. The goal of Elohim is not to keep rescuing you. It’s to teach you how to rule.




Lesson four




The Kingdom operates by understanding, not emotion. You can cry all night. You can shout all day. But until you understand, nothing will change. That’s why Yahusha spent more time teaching than healing. Healing fixed the symptom. Teaching fixed the system. He said it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom. He didn’t say it has been given to you to feel.




Knowledge establishes dominion. Emotion without revelation is frustration.




Lesson five




Change doesn’t begin when you move. It begins when your mind moves. Some people think if they change cities, change assemblies, change partners, things will improve. But if your mindset doesn’t change, you will recreate the same mess in a new location.




The children of Yisra’el left Mitsrayim, but Mitsrayim never left their minds. That’s why they wandered for 40 years.




You don’t escape failure by relocating. You escape failure by renewing your mind.




Sha’ul wrote in Romans 12:2: “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” That word transformed means a complete inner turning—a total change from the inside out. It’s not about patching the old. It’s about becoming new. You cannot have a new life with an old mindset. You cannot step into a new season with old systems of thinking.




So I ask you today: what do you understand about your own life? Do you know the principles that govern your purpose, your success, your relationships? Because until you do, you will continue to repeat cycles that prayer alone cannot break.




Understanding is light, and light exposes hidden traps of darkness. When you gain understanding, you stop reacting and start responding. You stop guessing and start governing. You stop surviving and start succeeding.




That’s why Yahusha said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Not shout the truth. Not sing the truth. Know it. Because knowledge of truth produces freedom.




So as we move forward, remember this: your greatest deliverance is not from spirits—it’s from deception. Your greatest victory is not over people—it’s over misunderstanding. When you understand, you regain control.




Now that we have laid the foundation of understanding, let’s go deeper to the law of purpose and design…




Now that we have laid the foundation of understanding, let’s go deeper to the law of purpose and design. Listen carefully. You were not born to exist. You were born to be essential. You did not arrive on this earth by accident. You were sent with an assignment, carrying within you a solution that the world is waiting for. You are not a mistake. YOU ARE A MESSAGE FROM ELOHIM TO YOUR GENERATION.




Lesson six




Purpose precedes creation. Elohim never creates anything before deciding why He needs it. Before Elohim made the sun, He had already decided there would be day. Before He made the fish, He had already created water. Before He made the bird, He had already formed the sky. Before He made you, He had already prepared your purpose. You were not created to find something to do. You were created to finish something Elohim already began.




That’s why the Scripture says in Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 1:5, “Before I formed you in your mother’s womb, I knew you.” The word “knew” speaks of design, appointment, assignment. Elohim didn’t guess about you. He planned you.




YOU ARE NOT A PRODUCT OF YOUR PARENTS. YOU ARE A PRODUCT OF ELOHIM’S PURPOSE. Your parents gave you a body, but Elohim gave you meaning.




Lesson seven




You were sent to earth to release something heaven placed within you. There is something you carry that no one else can deliver. There is a seed inside you that the earth needs. Your gift is your assignment in disguise. If you die with it, the world remains poorer because of your silence.




The tragedy of life is not death. It is dying without fulfilling purpose. So I challenge you today: stop asking Elohim to bless your plans, and start asking Him to reveal His. Because success is not about doing more—it’s about doing what you were born to do.




Lesson eight




Success is not comparison. It is completion of purpose. You are not in competition with anyone. When you compare, you corrupt. Elohim did not make you to copy anyone. He made you to complete something. The only person you are meant to outperform is the version of yourself that wasted yesterday.




Yosef did not try to be like Pharaoh. He became valuable because he operated within his purpose. Dani’el did not compete with the wise men of Babylon. He excelled because his wisdom came from purpose, not popularity.




You will never find peace trying to live someone else’s calling. Say it with me: I am unique by design. That means you must stop measuring success by other people’s applause. Measure it by Elohim’s assignment. When you fulfill what He sent you to do, you will hear the only approval that matters: well done, good and faithful servant.




Lesson nine




Your purpose is discovered, not decided. You don’t decide what to be. You discover what already is. Purpose is not something you invent. It is something you uncover. It’s like a seed—the tree is already inside. You don’t pray for the seed to become a tree. You create the right environment.




Likewise, your purpose is already within you. Your job is to cultivate it through discipline, learning, and obedience.




That’s why I tell people education is not the source of purpose—it’s a tool to refine it. You can have a degree and still live a life of confusion. Education gives you knowledge, but revelation gives you direction. The question is not what do I want to do. The real question is: Why was I born?




Lesson ten




If you don’t know your purpose, others will use you for theirs. When you don’t know where you’re going, anyone can take you anywhere. When you don’t define your priorities, people will define them for you.




The greatest tragedy in life is not to die. It is to live without knowing why you live.




Many are busy but not fruitful, active but not effective, visible but not valuable.




Let me remind you: everything Elohim created, He created to fulfill a purpose. The bird was designed to fly. The fish was designed to swim. The seed was designed to grow. You were designed to lead, to manage, to influence, to create—to manifest the nature of Elohim on earth.




Purpose protects your time, directs your energy, and defines your relationships. But without purpose, you waste your years chasing everything and catching nothing. But once you discover it, you become unstoppable—because purpose gives pain a reason and success a mission.




So today, stop trying to be successful. Seek to be purposeful. Because success without purpose is failure in disguise. Your value is not in what you do—it’s in why you do it. And when you live for purpose, your work becomes worship, your vision becomes legacy, and your life becomes a testimony of Elohim’s design.




Now my friend, let us move to the next great pillar of kingdom living: the discipline of value. You see, in the Kingdom of Elohim, you are not remembered for being busy. You are remembered for being valuable. Many people are everywhere but they are not effective anywhere. Value—not visibility—determines significance.




Lesson eleven




Value is the magnet of destiny. People do not follow you because they like you. They follow you because they need you. Purpose attracts attention, but value attracts opportunity.




When you become valuable, you never have to chase anything. Opportunities begin to chase you. Promotion looks for you. Favor finds you.




Say this aloud: I don’t need to chase success. I must become success.




That’s what Yahusha meant when He said a city on a hill cannot be hidden. When you are valuable, you don’t need to advertise. Your excellence becomes your announcement.




Lesson twelve




Excellence is witness. The greatest witness to the world is not your words—it’s your work. When Dani’el served in Babylon, he didn’t preach sermons in the palace. He displayed wisdom, discipline, and integrity. And the king found him ten times better than all the others. That’s testimony through excellence.




Excellence is not perfection. It is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Whether you are sweeping a floor or leading a company, do it in a way that reflects the character of your King. Because Elohim never rewards mediocrity. He blesses mastery.




Lesson thirteen




Be valuable, not just visible. There are many people in the crowd, but only a few make impact. Presence without substance leads to irrelevance. Some people spend their lives trying to be noticed, while others develop themselves to be needed.




Visibility can be achieved overnight, but value takes years of development. Social media can make you visible. Discipline makes you valuable. Don’t live for likes—live for legacy.




Lesson fourteen




Don’t pray for promotion—prepare for it. When you develop your value, you don’t need to beg to be recognized. Mishlei (Proverbs) says a man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before great men.




Notice it doesn’t say his connections, his money, or his emotions. It says his gift.




Your gift will make room for you if you make time for it.




Some people are praying for doors to open, but Elohim is saying, “I can’t open the door for you until you have something to carry inside.”




Promotion doesn’t come by prayer alone. It comes by preparation. The throne belongs to those who are ready for responsibility.




Remember Yosef in Potiphar’s house—he didn’t complain. He developed competence. When he was in prison, he didn’t waste time. He worked on wisdom. And when Pharaoh called, Yosef didn’t need time to prepare. He had already prepared in private. That is why Elohim could trust him in public.




Say this after me: Private preparation leads to public promotion.




Lesson fifteen




People pay for value, not time. The world does not reward availability—it rewards ability. There’s a difference. You can be available all day and still remain broke. But when you invest years to build skill, character, and excellence, you can accomplish in minutes what others can’t in years.




Remember the story of the consultant who charged a high fee for fifteen minutes of work. He said, “You’re not paying me for fifteen minutes. You’re paying me for the years that trained those minutes.” That’s value.




Value compresses time. When you become valuable, one hour of your work can be worth what others earn in a month. Stop trading time for money. Start trading value for reward.




Hear me carefully: your gift is Elohim’s deposit, but your discipline is your development. Elohim gives potential—you create performance. Heaven gives seeds—you grow fruit.




The tragedy of our generation is that we want results without refinement, influence without investment, and recognition without readiness. But the Kingdom doesn’t work that way. Elohim will not give you what you pray for—He gives you what you prepare for.




So invest in yourself. Study. Learn. Practice. Grow. Excellence is not an act—it’s a lifestyle. When you become excellent, the world will find you. When you master your craft, doors will open by themselves. And when your value increases, your voice will carry authority—because value is louder than talent. Value speaks without words. And when you develop it, even your silence will be respected.




Now, let’s move into something every great man and woman of purpose must learn: the power of boundaries. My friend, hear me well. Even Yahusha had boundaries. If the Son of Elohim needed to withdraw, so do you.




Many people are exhausted not because they lack opportunity, but because they lack order. You cannot pour into others when your own cup is empty. You cannot fulfill purpose if you are constantly distracted by people who do not share it.




Lesson sixteen




Availability without focus leads to irrelevance. Some people think being always available makes them valuable. No—it makes them ordinary. When you are everywhere, you are effective nowhere.




The more available you are, the less people appreciate you. Because what is common becomes cheap, and what is always accessible loses its worth. Even favor has an expiration date when abused.




You cannot be available for everyone and still be aligned with your assignment.




The adversary’s greatest strategy is not to destroy you. It is to distract you. He will not attack your purpose directly—he will overload your calendar until you are too busy to hear from Elohim.




Say this with me: My time is holy. It is the currency of destiny. If you waste time on the wrong people and the wrong places, you will bankrupt your future.




Lesson seventeen




Every yes is a no to something else. When you say yes to every request, you are saying no to your own growth, your rest, your prayer, your preparation.




Learn to measure commitments against calling. Ask yourself: does this align with my purpose? If it doesn’t, have the courage to say no.




Saying no is not rebellion. It is wisdom. It means you understand that obedience to Elohim sometimes requires disappointing people.




Lesson eighteen




Protect your priorities. Purpose needs privacy. Purpose cannot grow in noise. Every seed needs soil and every calling needs solitude.




Even Yahusha, surrounded by crowds and loved by multitudes, often withdrew to lonely places to pray. Why? Because He understood that public power is sustained by private prayer.




If you don’t learn to pull away, you will eventually fall apart. If you don’t create time to listen to Elohim, you will start echoing the voices of others. And when your life becomes too loud, your purpose becomes too quiet.




Lesson nineteen




Rest is a Kingdom law, not a luxury. Rest is not laziness. Rest is renewal. Elohim Himself worked six days and rested on the seventh. If the Creator rested, what makes you think the created can survive without it?




Burnout is not a badge of honor. It’s evidence of poor management. Shabbat was not made for religion. It was made for rhythm. You cannot keep producing if you never pause to refuel.




Rest restores revelation. When you are rested, you think clearer, decide wiser, and create better.




Lesson twenty




Boundaries are not selfish. They are stewardship. Boundaries protect blessing. When you set boundaries, you are not shutting people out—you are keeping your purpose in. You are protecting what Elohim entrusted to you.




Nechemyah understood this when enemies tried to distract him from rebuilding the wall. They said, “Come down and meet with us.” But Nechemyah replied, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down.”




That must become your declaration. Say it with me: I am doing a great work and I cannot come down.




You don’t need to explain your no. You don’t need to justify your limits. Purpose is reason enough.




Stop feeling guilty for protecting your time. Stop apologizing for your focus. Boundaries are not barriers—they are bridges to effectiveness. When you master boundaries, you gain authority over distraction. You move from reacting to leading, from exhaustion to excellence, from being busy to being fruitful.




Now my friend, let’s move to a principle that separates dreamers from achievers: the secret of discipline. If there is one thing that determines whether you fulfill your destiny or merely admire others who do, it is discipline. Desire is cheap. Discipline is expensive. Everyone wants success, but few are willing to pay its price.




Lesson twenty-one




Discipline is the bridge between vision and reality. Vision without discipline is illusion. You can have the clearest dream from Elohim, but if you lack the discipline to follow it through, it will die in your imagination.




Elohim gives vision freely, but He reserves manifestation for the disciplined.




Sha’ul said in 1 Corinthians 9:24–27, “Run in such a way as to obtain.” Then he said, “I discipline my body and bring it into submission.” What does that mean? He’s saying: I don’t let feelings lead me. I let purpose lead me. Discipline means you act based on principle, not emotion.




Lesson twenty-two




Your habits predict your future. Your destiny is not decided by your dreams. It is decided by your daily decisions. You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.




Your habits are the prophecy of your future. Show me your routine and I will show you your destiny.




Every great man and woman of Elohim developed discipline. Yahusha prayed before dawn. Dani’el prayed consistently. Yosef worked with excellence even in prison. Dawid wrote psalms in caves. These were not random acts. They were habits of greatness.




So ask yourself today: what habits are building or breaking your destiny?




Lesson twenty-three




Self-control is self-respect. The inability to control yourself is the fastest way to destroy yourself. If you cannot manage your emotions, your appetite, your time, or your words, you will sabotage your own potential.




Discipline is not punishment. It is protection. It guards you from self-destruction.




Mishlei says a man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls. Without discipline, you are defenseless. The enemy doesn’t need to attack you—your own habits will do it for him. But when you control yourself, you honor yourself. Because the highest form of respect is mastery over your impulses.




Lesson twenty-four




If you cannot control your appetite, you cannot control your destiny. Esav sold his birthright for a single meal. A moment of pleasure cost him a lifetime of purpose.




Discipline means saying no to the temporary so you can say yes to the eternal. Every time you deny the lesser, you make room for the greater.




That’s why fasting is not just about food—it’s about focus. It reminds your flesh that your spirit is in charge. You can’t lead others if your stomach leads you. You can’t manage people if you can’t manage yourself.




Lesson twenty-five




Consistency turns ordinary into legendary. One act of discipline won’t change your life, but daily discipline will. Small consistent actions compound over time. A drop of water falling on a rock every day eventually breaks it.




Likewise, a disciplined person will accomplish what the talented person only talks about. Discipline turns momentum into mastery. Talent may open the door, but only discipline keeps you there.




Say it with me: Discipline is the womb of greatness—because discipline births destiny.




Success in the Kingdom is not luck. It is law. Elohim does not promote wishes—He promotes workers. Mishlei says the soul of the diligent shall be richly supplied.




Stop waiting for perfect conditions. Stop waiting for motivation. Motivation is temporary. Discipline is enduring. Motivation gets you started. Discipline keeps you going. Motivation is a feeling. Discipline is a decision.




Discipline means you do it when it’s hard, when no one is watching, when you don’t feel like it—because purpose demands it.




Remember this: discipline today is deliverance tomorrow. When you live with discipline, you no longer chase opportunities—you attract them. Because discipline is what Elohim can trust. And Elohim only empowers what He can trust.




Now we move to the next great key: the principle of faith and obedience. Faith is one of the most misunderstood concepts in the assembly today. Many treat faith like magic—something mystical that makes Elohim do whatever they want. But true faith is not manipulation. It is cooperation.




Faith is not manipulation. It is cooperation with divine principles. Faith doesn’t make Elohim move—faith moves you to align with what Elohim already said.




Lesson twenty-six




Faith is not mere belief. It is obedience under pressure. Everybody believes something—even unclean spirits believe Elohim exists. But faith is not proven by what you confess on the gathering day. It is revealed by what you obey the next day.




When Elohim told Noach to build the ark, there had never been rain. When Elohim told Avraham to leave his homeland, there was no map. When Yahusha told Shim’on to cast the net again, he said, “We’ve toiled all night and caught nothing, but at Your word.” That’s faith.




Faith is not waiting for evidence. It is acting on instruction. The proof of faith is not your shout—it is your step.




Lesson twenty-seven




Elohim blesses instruction, not intention. You can have the best intentions and still live in disobedience. Elohim doesn’t reward what you mean to do—He rewards what you do.




Intentions are good, but instructions are divine. When Elohim told Yehoshua to march around Yericho, He didn’t ask him to understand the strategy—He asked him to obey it. The walls didn’t fall because of volume. They fell because of obedience. The miracle was in the method.




Say this after me: My obedience is my access. Obedience gives you access to promises that prayer alone cannot unlock.




Lesson twenty-eight




Every miracle is a result of obedience to a principle. Elohim does not violate His laws to help you—He uses His laws to bless you.




When Yahusha multiplied the loaves and fish, He first told His disciples to seat the people down. Why? Because order always precedes increase. Elohim will never multiply what you refuse to manage.




The woman with the oil in 2 Kings 4 didn’t receive overflow just because she cried—she received it because she followed instruction: borrow vessels, shut the door, pour.




Miracles are not random. They are the reward of alignment.




Lesson twenty-nine




What you fail to obey, you forfeit to experience. Revelation without application is deception. You can hear teachings every day, but if you do not act on what you know, you will live like you never heard it.




Elohim’s promises are conditional—not on His power, but on your participation. When the children of Yisra’el refused to enter the land, it wasn’t because Elohim was weak—it was because they were disobedient.




Delayed obedience is still disobedience. So I ask you: what has Elohim told you to do that you are still postponing? Your next level doesn’t require more prophecy—it requires more obedience.




Lesson thirty




Faith without discipline is fantasy. Faith is not reckless—it is responsible. Some people claim faith but refuse structure, ignore preparation, despise process. Real faith walks with order.




You say you have faith for abundance—do you have a plan to manage it? You say you have faith for marriage—are you preparing your character for it? You say you have faith for influence—are you developing the integrity to sustain it?




Faith without discipline produces disappointment. Faith with obedience produces destiny.




Ya‘aqov (James) says faith without works is dead. Dead faith doesn’t move heaven—and it doesn’t move you either. Faith is action in the direction of trust.




When Elohim gives you an instruction, don’t delay. Don’t debate. Don’t doubt. Just do it. Because delayed obedience is disobedience disguised as caution.




Faith obeys even when it hurts. Faith acts even when it doesn’t make sense. And faith keeps going even when nothing changes because it knows obedience is never wasted.




When you live by faith and obedience, miracles stop being occasional—they become natural—because obedience is heaven’s favorite language.




Now that we have established that obedience activates faith, let’s look at another law that determines how far your obedience will carry you: the law of relationships and influence. You cannot fulfill purpose alone. Even Yahusha did not complete His mission without disciples. Purpose is personal, but destiny is communal. Elohim never sends a man into destiny without relationships to shape, sharpen, and sustain him.




Lesson thirty-one




Wrong company cancels destiny. Your environment is more powerful than your intention. You can have the right dream in the wrong crowd and end up in destruction.




Samson didn’t lose his strength in battle. He lost it in relationship. Delilah wasn’t his problem—his disobedience to principle was.




The wrong people will drain your vision, dilute your discipline, and distract your focus.




Say this with me: Who I walk with determines where I arrive. If your friends are not going where you’re going, you’re not in fellowship—you’re in conflict.




Lesson thirty-two




Your friends are prophecy. They predict your future. Mishlei says whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.




You don’t even need to pray to know your future—just look at your circle.




If you spend time with gossip, you’ll soon become one. If you walk with thinkers, you’ll begin to dream higher. If you walk with worshippers, you’ll become more sensitive to Elohim.




Your friends are mirrors of your mindset. You can’t soar like an eagle if you keep nesting with pigeons.




Lesson thirty-three




Relationships must be purposeful, not convenient. Not everyone around you is assigned to you. Some people are in your life for a reason, some for a season, and some for a lesson. Learn to discern the difference.




Purposeful relationships stretch you, sharpen you, and strengthen your assignment. Convenient relationships comfort you, but rarely change you.




Look at Dawid—he had Yonatan not for pleasure, but for purpose. Yonatan protected the prophecy over Dawid’s life.




Who in your circle guards your destiny? Who challenges your weakness? Who corrects your drift? These are the people Elohim uses to mature you.




Lesson thirty-four




You cannot fly with people who love the ground. Some of you are trying to take off, but you’re surrounded by those who have no wings. You talk about vision—they talk about entertainment. You talk about purpose—they talk about problems. You talk about building—they talk about blaming.




You can’t rise above the environment you tolerate.




When Elohim called Avraham, the first instruction was leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s house—because sometimes separation is preparation. Elohim will remove certain people not because they’re evil, but because they are not built for where you’re going.




Lesson thirty-five




Honor attracts favor. Relationship is a currency in the Kingdom, and its value is measured by honor. When you honor people, you create access. Dishonor closes doors.




Yosef honored authority, and his gift made room for him. Dani’el honored kings, and wisdom promoted him. Yahusha honored the Father, and He received authority over all.




Hear this: you can’t receive from someone you don’t respect.




When Elohim wants to bless you, He sends people. When the adversary wants to destroy you, he also sends people. Your discernment will determine your direction.




So guard your circle. Choose your confidence wisely. Not everyone deserves access to your mind or your time. Love everyone, but not everyone should lead you. Forgive freely, but trust slowly.




Be kind to all—but connect deeply only with those who fuel your fire, not those who drain your oil. Because relationships are the garden where your influence grows or dies.




If you want to multiply your impact, multiply the right alliances. If you want to guard your destiny, prune the wrong attachments.




Remember this: isolation prevents growth, but infection prevents destiny.




Choose carefully. Stay teachable. Stay humble. Stay surrounded by greatness.