KINGDOM THEOLOGY OF THE BIBLE

Matthew chapter 13






Today we are walking in: Kingdom Theology Of The Bible










Job 21:14




Therefore they say unto El, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways. IYOV (JOB) 21:14 את CEPHER










KNOWLEDGE







Today we look to the word-KNOWLEDGE- H847 da'ath--knowledge, perception, skill, discernment













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




Genesis 2:9




And out of the ground made Yahuah Elohiym to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. BERE'SHIYTH (GENESIS) 2:9 את CEPHER







Genesis 2:17




But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die. BERE'SHIYTH (GENESIS) 2:17 את CEPHER







Exodus 31:3




And I have filled him with the Ruach Elohiym, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, SHEMOTH (EXODUS) 31:3 את CEPHER




Exodus 35:31




And he has filled him with the Ruach Elohiym, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; SHEMOTH (EXODUS) 35:31 את CEPHER




Leviticus 4:23




Or if his sin, wherein he has sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish: VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 4:23 את CEPHER




Leviticus 4:28




Or if his sin, which he has sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has sinned. VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 4:28 את CEPHER




Numbers 15:24




Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the assembly, that all the assembly shall offer one young bullock for an ascending smoke offering, for a sweet savor unto Yahuah, with his oblation, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering. BEMIDBAR (NUMBERS) 15:24 את CEPHER




Numbers 24:16




He has said, which heard the words of El, and knew the knowledge of El Elyon, which saw the vision of El Shaddai, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open: BEMIDBAR (NUMBERS) 24:16 את CEPHER




Deuteronomy 1:39




Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. DEVARIYM (DEUTERONOMY) 1:39 את CEPHER































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




1 Samuel 2:3




Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for Yahuah is an Elohiym of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. SHEMU'EL RI'SHON (1 SAMUEL) 2:3 את CEPHER




1 Samuel 23:23




See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Yahudah. SHEMU'EL RI'SHON (1 SAMUEL) 23:23 את CEPHER
















Nehemiah 10:28

And the rest of the people, the priests, the Leviyiym, the porters, the singers, the Nathiyn, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the Torah of Elohiym, their women, their sons, and their daughters, everyone having knowledge, and having understanding; EZRA V'NECHEMYAHU (NEHEMIAH) 10:28 את CEPHER




Isaiah 8:4




For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Shomeron shall be taken away before the king of Ashshur. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 8:4 את CEPHER




Isaiah 11:9




They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yahuah, as the waters cover the sea. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 11:9 את CEPHER




Isaiah 28:9




Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 28:9 את CEPHER




Isaiah 32:4




The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 32:4 את CEPHER







Isaiah 33:6




And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times, and strength of yeshu`ah: the fear of Yahuah is his treasure. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 33:6 את CEPHER




Isaiah 40:14




With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding? YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 40:14 את CEPHER









Jeremiah 3:15




And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. YIRMEYAHU (JEREMIAH) 3:15 את CEPHER
















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



1 Kings 9:27




And Chiyram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Shalomah. MELEKIYM RI'SHON (1 KINGS) 9:27 את CEPHER




2 Chronicles 1:10




Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this your people, that is so great? DIVREI HAYAMIYM SHENIY (2 CHRONICLES) 1:10 את CEPHER




2 Chronicles 1:11




And Elohiym said to Shalomah, Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor את the life of your enemies, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king: DIVREI HAYAMIYM SHENIY (2 CHRONICLES) 1:11 את CEPHER




2 Chronicles 1:12




Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto you; and I will give you riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been before you, neither shall there any after you have the like. DIVREI HAYAMIYM SHENIY (2 CHRONICLES) 1:12 את CEPHER




2 Chronicles 8:18




And Churam sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Shalomah to Ophiyr, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to King Shalomah. DIVREI HAYAMIYM SHENIY (2 CHRONICLES) 8:18 את CEPHER




2 Chronicles 30:22




And Yechizqiyahu spoke comfortably unto all the Leviyiym that taught the good knowledge of Yahuah: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to Yahuah Elohiym of their fathers. DIVREI HAYAMIYM SHENIY (2 CHRONICLES) 30:22 את CEPHER




Ruth 2:10




Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in your eyes, that you should take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger? RUTH (RUTH) 2:10 את CEPHER




Ruth 2:19




And her mother in law said unto her, Where have you gleaned today? and where wrought you? blessed be he that did take knowledge of you. And she showed her mother in law את with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought today is Bo'az. RUTH (RUTH) 2:19 את CEPHER













Job 34:2




Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. IYOV (JOB) 34:2 את CEPHER




Psalm 119:66




Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 119:66 את CEPHER




Proverbs 1:7




The fear of Yahuah is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. MISHLEI (PROVERBS) 1:7 את CEPHER










Today I want to do something very interesting. I want to talk about what they never talk about in Bible schools and in seminaries. I have a degree in theology from a university, a very famous one here in America. I completed three bachelor’s degrees from that university all in four years. I obtained a master’s degree with honor, I’ve never heard any school, no seminary, no Bible school, make that statement. You see, they just don’t teach Kingdom theology. Matter of fact, the term is not even mentioned. And as I sat in my classes in university—four years studying theology—they made me read German writers, they made me read Catholic priests like Saint Augustine, they made me study commentaries by Calvin, John Wesley, they made me study the deep thinkers that dealt with eschatology and rapture and all this stuff, but no one talked to me about the Kingdom, and it’s the only message Yahusha preached.

So I am challenging all schools. I don’t care how famous they are. If you claim to be teaching and preparing people for the ministry, or for life, why don’t you focus on what Yahusha focused on, which is the Kingdom? So I call it the original purpose of Elohim. Let’s talk about theology a little bit because most of you—just like me—you are laymen. You are a business person, you are a retiree, you are an investor, you are a housewife, maybe a secretary, or maybe you are just a student—whatever you are. Big words like theology frighten you, so I thought it would be good to talk to you a little bit about some of these misconceptions about what things mean.

First of all, make this statement—write it down: Christianity is a religion. That is a very sad statement, but it’s true. If you ask anybody to name the first four great religions of the world, the answer would be Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism. In other words, Christianity is thrown in with the rest. If you look at a form that you have to fill out and it asks you, “What is your religion,” and there’s a blank, you’ll probably put Christianity because that’s what it is. You meet somebody from another religion and they say, “What religion are you,” what would you say? Christianity. You see, that’s what it is. So if Christianity is a religion, it’s important to define what a religion is because Hinduism is a religion too, Islam is a religion too. So if you are in that category, you are no different or better than them. This is why there are clashes between Muslims and Christians all over the world, because they are competing for the same market. They are religions. This is why the Hindus are burning Christian churches in different parts of Pakistan, and Muslims are burning Christian churches in different parts of North Nigeria, because they are all religions.

What is a religion? Write this down. A religion is the worship of a deity through a set of beliefs expressed through a set of rituals and customs and rites, producing a sectarian distinction on a unique group of people. That’s a religion. And that’s what you are if you are in a religion. If you are a Christian, or a Buddhist, or a Muslim, or a Hindu—that’s what you are. All of you are the same. You are simply a group of people who worship a certain deity.

The Muslims chose Allah. Allah is the god that the pagans worshiped in the land where Abraham was born. Abraham’s father and family group in the land of Ur worshiped a god of the moon and the stars—Allah was their god—and Elohim told Abraham, “Leave that place.” This is why when you look at Islam, the symbol of Islam is a moon and a star. They claim they worship your Elohim—ask them if it’s the same Elohim. Tell them, prove it.

So all religions worship a deity, and from that worship they get certain beliefs. The Muslims believe in their religion—they got their beliefs all worked out. Hinduism believe in their religion. Christians believe in their religion. Buddhism believe in their religion. Yoga believe in their religion. Mormons believe in them. Everyone got belief systems. So having your belief system is no big deal—everybody got them. Doesn’t make you better than them. So if you are a religion, you are already in trouble. You are in competition—that’s all.

And then that belief system produces what? Rituals. The Muslims’ ritual is—three times a day, they gotta find where the east is, and then they put their mat on the ground and they pray in airports, anywhere—they pray as a ritual. They’re supposed to face Mecca and pray. Christian ritual: we have to meet every Sunday morning, we have to have so few songs, we gotta have some testimony, we gotta have some offering, got a little sermon for 10 minutes, and then you have a little altar call—you go home. That’s our ritual. Hindus—they got to go to that temple, bow to six million gods, light an incense candle, burn it before the lord, cross their legs, and they gotta send their prayers up for a good harvest—ritual. You’re no different.

Our theologies must be checked. Customs and rites. Rites are important. Rites, for example—yes—all religions have rites. Sometimes you see the Hindus bathing in a certain river in India and they wash themselves in the water because that’s one of their rites of passage—they got to cleanse themselves. You got Judaism—they got to go bathe in a certain type of pool to wash themselves before they go into the synagogue—it’s all rites. Christians got rites, right? Says you’ve got to be baptized after you make a confession of faith—it’s a rite, a passage. Everyone have rites. It’s religion.

The worst part is the last part: all religions create a sect—a sect that distinguishes them from others—and this is where the fight comes. The fight comes when the sense of being different from you clashes. You know, if a Muslim build a synagogue right next to your church, I wonder how you would feel. And by the way, it’s coming to a town near you. It’s a different sect. Therefore they distinguish themselves by the way they dress. The Hindus dress differently, the Muslims dress differently, the Christians dress differently. I mean, what’s your problem? They wear their tie, you wear your tie—ain’t no different. Everybody got their little sectarian distinctions. It’s all religion.

Here’s the good news: a Kingdom is not a religion. I could go home now. I could quit. I’ll finish my lecture. A Kingdom is not a religion. Yahusha Ha’Mashiach never introduced a religion to earth. First of all, He never joined one. He was never a Pharisee. He was never a Sadducee. He was never a Herodian. He never was a member of the central council. He never submitted to Caiaphas the high priest. And He only went to the synagogue so He could expose His message.

The Bible actually said He went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day as was His custom. In other words, the word synagogue is important here. The word synagogue is actually pronounced synagogue. Synagogue means place; a gog means meeting. The synagogue was not a temple. It was a meeting place. There was only one temple in Judaism—it was in Yerushalayim. All the villages of those Jewish people had a synagogue, and the synagogue was kind of a replica idea of a community center because that’s where the people went on the weekends—Shabbat, Sabbath. And they went there not just to worship as people think. They went there because that was where the community met every weekend. If you wanted to know what’s going on, you go to the synagogue. It was like a center of media—like this, you know—explanation for news, what’s going on, you know. That’s why women and men went, because everybody wanted to know what’s happening. You go to the synagogue. And of course they would read the Torah in this community center because the whole life of the community was built on the laws of the Torah—that was really their political center.

Ha’Mashiach went there because everybody was there. He didn’t go there because He believed in what they were doing. It was called marketing. That’s why you advertise on TV—you go where the people are. The people in their houses with a remote. If Ha’Mashiach was here today, He’d want to be on CNN. Why? He want to get His message out: the Kingdom of Elohim is here. You go where the people are. He never joined the religion. As a matter of fact, the truth be told, His number one opposition was not sinners—it was religious people.




Because His message was completely opposed to what they taught. They’re the ones who instigated His trial. They’re the ones who called for His death—religious people. Think, think—how do we get like this?

Write this down: a Kingdom is a country. And this takes a very strong paradigm shift. To shift you from religion to country is difficult. To help you change your thinking from rituals to rights—R-I-G-H-T-S—is difficult. To change you from membership to citizenship is very difficult. Religion has members; countries don’t. Countries have citizens. And they’re completely different creatures. Members have no power; citizens have power. They got rights.

So if you are in a religion, you are already in trouble because you have positioned yourself to be completely powerless. Rituals keep you busy. Customs keep you busy. That’s why you go to the meetings all the time and you have programs all the time and you’re going through all these motions all the time, and yet you’re broke, sick, and depressed. Why? You get busyness but no power. The power comes from citizenship, not membership.

What is a Kingdom? It’s a country governed by a King with all the components of a nation. That’s why Yahusha’s message was difficult to understand because He was speaking to a community of people first who were ruled by religion. This is why His first word in His entire ministry—the first word He used—is in Mattithyahu 4:17. Make a note of that. His first public statement is Mattithyahu 4:17, and the first word of that statement is this word: repent. Repent means to change the way you think. He was attacking concepts first. He said, “The way you’re thinking is wrong. You have to change your thinking. Your thinking is corrupted. You think as a religion. You think in terms of rituals and customs and traditions. I come to give you something completely different. I come to give you the Kingdom of the Shamayim has arrived.” He says a country is here. It’s tough to teach there. So this is our challenge.

There we go. What we ended up with is a century of conflict. I want you to make a note of this: the theology of the 20th and the 21st century is not the principles of theology in the Bible. How’s that for a shock? I dare anyone to challenge me. Anyone watching this CD—call me, argue with me. As a daring statement: that the theology of the 21st century and the 20th century—the one you lived in and the one we just came to—the church in those centuries have produced the principles of the theology that are not in the Bible. Do you know why? Because they are products of Catholicism.

Don’t forget that a Protestant is a Catholic. Oh, there you go. I gotta explain that, right? Okay. The founder of Protestantism is a little Catholic priest whose name is Martin Luther. He’s a German. He lived in a monastery. He died as a Catholic priest. He never stopped being a Catholic priest. What he did was, he read the Bible himself one day. Now in those days, no one was allowed to read the Bible except the priests. People were not allowed to touch the Bible. It was illegal to read the Bible in the Catholic church. The Catholics believed that only the pope and the bishop had the will of Elohim—and they still believe that today—so the people were not allowed to even touch the Bible.

And Martin Luther one day—a little priest in that monastery—began to read the Bible himself, and he read Romaiym chapter 1 and he read verse 17. That’s all he did. And it said, “The just shall live by faith.” He read that and he realized that his church—the Catholic church—were actually justifying people by penitence. In other words, they had to come and give money and then to get their sins forgiven, and the Catholic priests would, you know, let them confess their sins before him, and then they would be free. And they had to pay penance—penance. They had to come, you know, and bring some offerings, and then it was kind of like buying your salvation. And he said, “This is amazing. This can’t be right.”

So he went to his bishop and he says, “I read this.” His bishop says, “What are you doing reading that?” And he said, “Something’s wrong with this.” The bishop says, “Are you crazy? We can’t talk about this.” Why? The whole machinery of Europe is built on penance, man. We the most powerful church with more money and even government. Brother, you can’t challenge Rome. And that’s how it began. He began to protest against—Protestant. He was brought on trial and he refused to recant, so he remained a Catholic priest in exile. He loved the Catholic church to his death. He was a Catholic.

A few years later, the king of England—his name was Henry the Eighth—they were all Catholics. All of Europe was Catholic. Henry VIII was a Catholic. He still is, even his grace. And Henry VIII had a problem with women. You all know the story about him. Henry was married eight times. He had eight wives. And his first wife that he had couldn’t bear him a son, and he wanted an heir to his throne because kings’ needs is to carry their legacy on, and his wife could not conceive. So he was in a dilemma. The Catholic church did not allow divorce—it’s against the Catholic laws. So he was a Catholic, and the king was actually the president over the Catholic church in England—he was the leader of the church. So what do you do? You need an heir. Your wife can’t conceive. Your kingdom is about to be lost because you can’t pass it on, and your religion says you can’t get a divorce.

So Henry decided, “I’m going to change this myself.” So he passed a new law. First he appointed his own bishop who he called his pope. He named him the Bishop of Canterbury. That’s the name of the little city that he established for the head of his church. And the Bishop of Canterbury became the pope of a fraction of the Catholic church controlled by Henry VIII. So even today, the bishop of England is a pope. That’s why they can’t get together with the Italian pope, with the pope in Rome, because they are in competition. This is the problem. Henry created his own pope and then told the pope what to do.

He told the pope to rewrite the theology and get permission for divorce. Of course, if someone hire you, you got to do what they say. So the British Canterbury wrote a new theological amendment, and divorce became possible. Every day he got rid of his wife, married another woman, and he called his church the British church—the Anglo-Saxon church. That’s Britain. That’s where we get the word Anglican from—Anglican. When they moved to the west became known as Episcopalian. They are all Catholic still.

So the creed of all western religions—Baptist, Methodist, Anglican, Pentecostal, Church of Elohim, Church of Elohim in Ha’Mashiach, Assemblies of Elohim, Charismatic—they are all Catholics. Check the creed of your church. Go read it: “We believe in Elohim the Father and Elohim the Son and Elohim the Ruach Ha’Qodesh, we believe in the Ruach Ha’Qodesh…” All that was written by the Catholic church. You don’t know your history.

Here’s my point. My point is, you think you are all right. A Protestant is simply a Catholic who believes you are saved by faith. And Anglican is simply a Catholic who believe you can get a divorce. Don’t complicate it. And Yahusha came and preached something completely different. The theology is wrong.

Write down this number two: the Kingdom concept is the foundation of all Scripture. If you don’t understand the Kingdom concept, I guarantee you will misinterpret the Bible.

Sometimes I feel so lonely out here by myself. Sometimes I ask Elohim, like the apostle Paul, “Why me? Why’d You do this to me?” I feel like a spectacle because I’m going to be attacked by everybody. How do I—I’m like a voice crying out all in the world by myself saying, “Don’t you get it? Go back and check it.” I’m not trying to impress you. I’m afraid for you, because you can live your whole life on a lie.




Yahusha told the Pharisees, “If I had not come and spoken to you the truth,” he would have an excuse. He said, “But because I have told you the truth that My Father gave Me, you will die in your sins.” He told that to the religious leaders of His day, and I’m saying the same thing today. You don’t need to believe me, please—just go back and read your Bible yourself. What you’re hearing in this room today, great prophets and righteous men wanted to hear and didn’t. The Kingdom of Elohim has come back. It has re-emerged, and you are alive to see it.

Write this down: the Kingdom concept—it is necessary for correct interpretation and application of Scripture. What I mean by that is if you don’t understand the Kingdom concept, you can never apply the principles in the text of the Bible correctly. I sit many times and listen to preachers preach, and because they don’t have the Kingdom concept, their conclusions and their applications are erroneous, and therefore they don’t get the results Elohim promised. You got to follow the right—not just instructions—but the right concepts to get the results promised by the manufacturer.

You turn to any page in the Bible—any page—and show it to me, I’ll find the Kingdom there. Any page.

Forty-three years of struggle. My father was a Baptist preacher—still is—but he sits in my church on the front row now taking notes. I grew up in a pew. I was a member of the Brethren church assemblies. I became a Baptist. Then I moved my mother to Pentecostal church, and I went to the Methodist, and then I went to the Church series of Elohim. I went to Church of Elohim. I’ve been to all that stuff—Anglican. My wife was a pure Anglican. We’ve been through all of this. So I’m not bashing religion—I’ve been in it. My father was a pastor. Some of y’all were pagans—you grew up on the block drinking liquor, man. I grew up in the choir.

I’m an expert at religion. I used to play the piano for the choir. I was a Sunday school teacher. So I’m speaking with authority here. I know what it isn’t.




I ran into Yahusha and He tripped me down, and when I looked up He says, “Get it right.” And I started reading Mattithyahu, Mark, Luke, and Yochanan for the first time in my life as a teenager, and I read them seven times in one sitting. I didn’t move the whole day, and Ha’Mashiach jumped up the page and I saw the Kingdom, and I became a revolutionary in my country at age 17. All the churches attacked me at age 17. I was in the papers every day. The pastors called me a cult. You can’t criticize me—it’s too late. When you get the Kingdom revelation, it’s impossible for you to be accepted by religious people, just like Yahusha. The message is so revolutionary, it shakes all the rites and customs and rituals of religion, but it’s the only one that’ll set you free.

Write this down the best you can: the Kingdom concepts are the main subject throughout Scripture. The Kingdom subject provides the foundation for understanding the motivation, purpose, plans, promises, and actions of Elohim. If you want to understand what Elohim is doing and why He’s doing it all through history, you have to understand the Kingdom concept. Elohim is a King. He’s not a prime minister. He’s not a president. He’s not a mayor. He said He’s a King. The concept of King doesn’t exist in America, so you begin at a disadvantage right away. You never lived under a king, so even the rules of kingship is unknown. Your democracy is completely opposite to a king. So if your concepts are democratic, how are you going to read the Bible properly?

So Ha’Mashiach says, “Repent.” What repent means: change the way you think. That takes a fearful transition. We are afraid to change our thinking because we are so comfortable with our thinking. We don’t want to disrupt our thinking, so we refuse the message. “Hey brother, I’m a Baptist—I’ll die a Baptist.” “And I’m a Catholic—I’ll die a Catholic.” That’s how people talk. “But I know what you’re saying is true, but brother, it’s too late.” “I’m a Seventh-day Adventist—I gotta get stabbed…” But I don’t see. And we got this whole block—this block—this hard, callous heart because it’s so frightening to change your thinking.

And yet the Bible teaches, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” So you will never change into another man until your mind change. You can’t understand Elohim.

Number five: without the Kingdom concept, biblical understanding and theology is defective, and that’s where we are right now. I’m teaching with great respect, please. I’m not attacking any one of you, but I have to challenge your thinking—that’s my job. We have defective theology.

If I was to reveal some of the defects to you, you think I’m a heretic. For example, let me give you just one and then you’ll see that I’m a heretic. Watch this: Calvary is not the gospel. But you got me a heretic by saying that, because your whole church is built on Calvary. Yahusha never told us to preach His death. He told us to preach: “As you go, preach this message.” He says, “The Kingdom of the Shamayim has arrived.” Very specific instructions. Distinctive instructions. How can we miss this?

We close our eyes. Our eyes are not closed—we close them. We’re not blind—you know—we just closed them. Take a deep breath. Should I show you that in Scripture that we close our eyes? I better show that to you because you look at me really funny.

Turn your Bibles to the 13th chapter—13th chapter of Mattithyahu. Mattithyahu 13. Take a deep breath. Tell your neighbor something’s coming. Say, “Neighbor, hold on to your religion—you’re about to lose it.”




Chapter 13 of Mattithyahu is one of the most important chapters in the Bible. You should memorize it. In this chapter, Yahusha Ha’Mashiach is talking about the Kingdom. Mattithyahu 13—get the pen. I want you to underline some things here.

Verse 1: Yahusha went out of the house and sat by the sea. A great multitude of people came to Him, and He sat in the boat and told them to listen. So He’s about to teach them a big seminar. He’s in the boat sitting there, and they’re on the shore, so there’s probably hundreds of thousands of them—I don’t know—but He’s about to have this big class. It says in verse 3: then He spoke many things to them in parables. How did He speak? Okay—very important words—you know He spoke to them in parables. And He began—one of the parables was this: “Behold, the sower went out to sow.” So He’s explaining the Kingdom, but He’s using all kinds of symbols to explain the principles of it. He says the Kingdom of Elohim is like a sower who goes out to sow.

In those days, sowers—you know, farmers—they would sow by putting the seeds in a big basket, put it around their neck, and they walk through the fields. And the field was not like the fields today where you have big combines to level the field. They had fields with soils and rock. If you go to Yisra’el today, it is still the same way—rocky country. So they had to throw the seeds out over the rocks, and wherever there was a little soil between the rocks, if a seed fell there then the plant would grow. If it fell on rock it wouldn’t grow at all. If it fell on thin soil with a little bit of rock, it’ll grow up and then die. So the seeds are being thrown out and they land on different types of ground.

He’s teaching the Kingdom. Watch this.

And of course all of you notice the story—He talks about, you know, this different type of soil, and then He says one fell on good ground, and of course it bring forth—let’s just read that for some of you because some of y’all messed the Scripture up and preached about money, okay.

Mattithyahu 13:8. Read it. “But those that fell on good ground yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, sixty, thirty.” Okay. We use that to collect offerings. He ain’t talking about money. I want to prove it in a minute, but we use it as a gimmick because we don’t know the Kingdom. We manipulate people. Remember, we’re Catholics, okay? We know how to make money.

Verse 9: He ends it by saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” He who has ears—hear—say hear—let him hear.

Now, He spoke to all of them in parables. Remember that. Look at the next verse. Later on, His disciples came to Him and says, “Why do you speak to the people in parables? They are confused.” You see, He never spoke to the people plainly. Just tell them—why all these stories? And He answered them—now read verse 11—“Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of the Shamayim, but to them it has not been given.” He’s talking about the Kingdom—a country—but not given to them.

He says—that’s a whole new teaching altogether I could give you on that, but let me explain summary what he means: a parable is designed to conceal truth. Write it down. Parables are designed to hide truth until the listener is ready to receive it. Why? Because Elohim doesn’t waste seed.

Some of you are trying to convince your atheist brother about Elohim—you’re wasting your time. He ain’t ready yet. So just tell them stories. That’s what He means. These people, He says, they don’t want to hear the truth yet, but I’ll teach them the Kingdom in stories and I’ll leave the stories with them. And they go to their farms and their fishing companies and they take it with them, and then later the story will make sense and they’ll say, “Aha.” That’s what parables do. Parables allow you to discover truth for yourself. Why? Because nothing is really yours until you discover it.

Some people take my books and they read them and they try to preach my books—you don’t get it yet. You read the book until you say, “Aha.” Now it’s yours. That’s why you study. You study to make things yours.

He said it’s been given to you to know the mysteries, but not to them.

Now here’s a second explanation. He says only you I tell the plain truth to about the Kingdom, but to the people outside I say it in parables. Now what makes the group different from the people? Here’s the answer: Elohim does not volunteer information. This is important principle. Elohim only gives you what you want to know. He’ll only tell you what you want to know. He’ll only show you what you desire to see. He hides everything else. And this is why most people can’t see the Kingdom. Why? They don’t want to. He hides it. And that’s the purpose for a parable—to hide it. Why? Because Elohim only responds to hunger. Write it down. If you are hungry you’ll attract Elohim. If you really want to know something, Elohim will run to you.

You know, some years ago I was shocked. As a teenager, I’m reading the Bible and I got confused about two verses in the Bible. One verse says, “I am Yahuah Elohim, and I fill the earth. If you make your bed in She’ol, I am there. In the highest heavens, I am there.” I’m reading the verse and I’m thinking, Elohim is everywhere. And then I read another verse—confused me—it says, “You will find Me only if you seek Me, and that with your whole heart, then I’ll let you find Me.” I’m like, wait a minute—you everywhere, but then I gotta find You. Yes. What He’s saying is, I am everywhere, but I only reveal Myself to those who want to see Me.



Your cousin, your uncle, your brother, your sister—they are not atheists, they just ain’t interested yet. One lump in the breast and some colon cancer—they come look for you. You know, right now they got some money, they’re doing fine. One slap from the devil—they’ll run to you: “Please, where’s your Elohim?” And then Elohim—He reveal Himself to them. He said, “You’ll find Me if you seek Me with all your heart.” Not casual interest.

That’s why He said to you guys, I’m gonna tell you all plainly. Why? You left your business, your fishing company, your wives, your children, and you have come and attached yourself to Me. You are personally running after Me. You gave up everything for Me. I’m gonna tell you all everything. But then people—they’re interested—they just want fish and bread free. They come for miracles. They don’t come for the message. That’s the problem. Amen. HalleluYah.

You being in this conference—please don’t take this lightly. The Kingdom of Elohim is everywhere, but He says, “Seek first.” It doesn’t just show up in your life—you discover it. You gotta look for it. You coming here this morning, driving away from your house, your camper, your job—already made Elohim excited. When you entered that Glory Road Avenue there, Elohim was saying, “I’m so proud of you. I’m gonna teach you some stuff today,” because you abandoned some things to come learn the Kingdom.



Don’t take it lightly that you’re here. That’s why when you try to explain the Kingdom to your family they think you’re a foreigner. They really think you’re crazy because they can’t see it. He said, “I hide it from them.” He says, “You don’t believe Me? Read the next verse.” He says, “For whoever has, to him will be given more, and he will have abundance; but he who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.” He’s saying, look, if you ain’t got no interest, gotta make sure you never get it. But if you got a little interest, a passion for it, I’ll give you more.

He said, a lady came to me in Naples yesterday before we left. She said, “Dr. Munroe, when I first heard you speak on the Kingdom,” she said—matter of fact, this would be a good story for you, Pastor Phil, the Bible—she told me, she says they drove from Naples up here because they heard I was coming here and they saw one of my YouTube messages on the Kingdom. They never heard the Kingdom—very wealthy people. And she said she drove up here with a friend and came to Christian retreat—that’s where I was at the time—and she came in here and she said she sat in the back right where you’re sitting in the back there, and she sat and wept the whole session because her father—very wealthy, powerful, multi-millionaire—said to her as a daughter, “This Elohim thing ain’t real,” and he almost convinced his kids. And she said she knew there was something missing in my life, and she heard one session on YouTube that I taught on the Kingdom, and she made a decision: I gotta find that man. And she just so happened to receive a flyer that I was going to be here in Bradenton, Florida, and she made her way here—drove all those hours to get here—sat in the back. She said on—she said she had never heard such things about a Kingdom. She said it felt so sweet, it was so real. She said, “That’s what I’m looking for.” And then she said she was on crutches—she said, you know, she had broken her leg—she said she hobbled outside after the session and bought everything on the table—everything—spent almost eight hundred dollars. She went on, she said, with boxes and bags of the books on the Kingdom and books on relationships and books on marriage and books on leadership, and she said every CD on the table on the Kingdom. She said, “I bought it.” She said, “And for the next six months I soaked myself up.”

She now owns a hotel right on the water—beautiful hotel like the Ritz—she owns it. She’s not 40 years old yet. In the hotel she has what she called the Kingdom embassy. It’s a beautiful hotel. People, guests come—you know, beautiful hotel—but she has a place called an embassy, and every Sunday they tune in to our service live, and she got the guests coming in to get teaching, and then she teaches the Kingdom herself. And now they got a beautiful little community in that hotel expanding. I went to speak there for the first time two days ago.

I wonder if you get that kind of hunger for the Kingdom, or do you just run past and go buy lunch? “To him who has,” He says, “more be given.” She had a desire—Elohim give her all. Some folks ain’t got no interest—Elohim takes away the rest. He even takes away the interest.

Verse 13: He says, “This is why I speak to them in parables: because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.” Verse 14: “And in them the prophecy of Yesha’yahu is fulfilled, which says: Hearing you will hear and not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; for the hearts”—that means minds—“the minds of these people are grown dull, hard.” “I’m a Baptist, I’ll stay a Baptist, I ain’t never gonna change.” He said, see, that’s the problem—hard mind. “I’m a charismatic, I’m a…” faith teacher—faith, faith—what about the Kingdom? “I’m a charismatic man of Elohim”—what about the Kingdom? Your mind is just as bad as the Catholics—callous, callous.

Verse 15: “Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have…” sorry, there it is: “Their eyes they have closed.” Underline. He doesn’t want you to see. He didn’t say they are blind—you know what’s amazing? He said what? “Their eyes they have closed.” When you close your eyes, you impose your own blindness. Imagine telling Elohim, “I appreciate that, but I don’t want to see it. I know what he’s saying is true. I can see it in the Bible. But brother, I gotta stay with my religion.” You’re closing your eyes. No wonder why you will die in your sin. He says self-imposed ignorance is the height of stupidity and foolishness. You don’t impose ignorance on yourself. They close their eyes.

He says, “Lest they should see”—in other words, we don’t want to hear what you’re saying, Dr. Munroe, because we’re going to change what we believe. It’s all there. “I don’t want to read your book.” Why? “You can make me leave my church.” I didn’t say that. That ain’t my decision. My job is to expose you to the Kingdom. They are afraid to see. Says because if they do, then their eyes will be opened, their ears will hear—watch this—and then they’ll have to understand, and their minds will understand it, and they’ll have to turn—read it—and then I’ll have to heal them.

Oh, Yahusha Ha’Mashiach says, I want to fix you, but I can’t fix you until you want to be fixed.




It’s too late for me. You can’t convince me to change this. I’m a Kingdom man—it’s too late.

Listen, I’m having a good time. I flew here in my own jet—never prayed for it—it parked right over there. And I don’t preach prosperity because it’s not the gospel. That stuff comes with the Kingdom. Oh boy, I’m in trouble again. Look at that face. See—halleluYah.

Let me give you a word that kingdoms have. I was born in the kingdom, okay? In 1954. So I know what I’m talking about. I lived in a kingdom until 1973. Write this word down: commonwealth. That word is a kingdom word. I was born in a commonwealth in 1954. Look at the word. It’s actually two words, isn’t it? What are the two words? Common wealth. In a kingdom, the wealth is common. That’s why you don’t talk about prosperity—everybody’s rich. Oh dear—too deep.

That’s why Yahusha Ha’Mashiach said, “Seek first the Kingdom of Elohim and His righteousness”—that means being in right standing with the government’s laws—“and all the things you need shall be added.” You don’t go pray, bind, loose for them.

That’s why Christianity has so much stress, man. You gotta—you gotta believe Elohim for a car. “Yahuah, I believe in You for a…” “Elohim, I’m believing in the name of Yahusha, I need a car…” Believe—that’s hard work—stress. That’s why most Christians are sick—stress. High blood pressure. Free radical cells in their bodies under stress create tumors. A tumor is a good cell that has been under stress and it begins to multiply uncontrollably. It’s called cancer. It comes from stress.

Ha’Mashiach’s first word to you: “Why do you worry what you will eat and what you will drink and what you will wear and how you will live?” He said, “Stop this. Only pagans do that.” He says, “Don’t—look now, there’s one right behind you. If you pray for food, you are a pagan.” Yahusha says, “Take a deep breath.” It’s important, you know, because you’ll choke if you don’t. We are not supposed to pray for clothes—we’re in the Kingdom. The King is responsible for His citizens. In a democracy, the citizens responsible for themselves. Two different thinking altogether.

So when you ask Elohim for money and food, you insult Him because you are telling Him He’s a negligent King. So what does He say? He says, “Take no thought of these things.” He says, “Don’t even think about food and clothing. Don’t insult Me.” He says what? “Because your Father knows what you need.” Help. He says—Mattithyahu 6—all this in Mattithyahu 6. Either all you supposed to do is seek to get into the Kingdom—seek it, study it, pursue it, understand it, go after it, make it your passion—get into it, understand that. He says, and everything will be added to you.

Thank you, Yahusha. Someday I’ll come back and teach on faith. I’ll really show you what faith is used for in the Bible. It was never used to get clothes and car and house. Faith is used to move mountains—that means things that are in the way. It’s to curse trees that don’t bear—not to get things. You live by faith in the Kingdom of Elohim—it’s your currency. You believe what the King says and the King does what He promises—that’s faith. But if you’re going to use faith in the Kingdom, He pointed at mountains. Want to get a meal? The meal comes with citizenship.

HalleluYah. Lift your right hand. Say, “Yahuah, I repent. I change my mind. I will never worry again about my life—what I will eat, what I will drink, what I will wear, how I will live. I surrender everything to You. I am Your servant. I am Your citizen. I am under Your government. The Kingdom of Elohim is my jurisdiction. I receive protection, provision from my King from this day forward. I have peace, love, and joy in the Ruach Ha’Qodesh. This is the Kingdom. Welcome home.”

Yo.




Oh, let me just finish this before we go get 13. I want to show you something. Look at verse 16. Take a deep breath. These last two verses are the important ones. Then He begins to talk about you in the verse—that’s the ones who are here this morning. He says, “Blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear; because assuredly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to hear what you are hearing and to see what you are seeing and they didn’t hear it.” He made you more important than Mosheh, Yirmeyahu, Yechezqel, Dani’el, Yoseph, Iyov, Amos, Ovadyah, Yonah, Miykah, Chabaqquq. He said they wanted to hear what you hear today. What were they hearing? About the Kingdom.

You don’t believe me—read the next verse. “Therefore let Me explain the parable to you.” He says—I like that statement. Ha’Mashiach didn’t explain many of His parables. This one He did. So please, pastors, don’t invent messages from this passage. Don’t make up sermons that He didn’t say. Don’t use this to raise money. He’s about to explain the Kingdom—the parable.

Now remember that it’s about what? Sower, sown, seeds, seeds falling in different places, etc. So He said, “Let Me explain to you what the problem is.”

Verse 18—verse 19 rather. Go: “When anyone hears the message about what?” The Kingdom. So what’s the parable about? The message about the Kingdom. “And doesn’t understand it fully, the devil himself comes to snatch it away.” Now you begin to understand the devil is so afraid of this message, the minute you hear it he comes to snatch it away. Now you know—you Assemblies of Elohim brother—don’t get caught up in that. I mean, on your way out the door he tells you that snatching.

Read the verse again. Verse 19: “When anyone hears the message about the Kingdom and does not understand it fully, then the wicked one comes to snatch away what was sown in his heart.” Heart—mind. “This is he who received the seed by the wayside.” And he goes on to talk about the fact that there are these two different groups—in every group when you read the whole chapter it says the seed is the message of the Kingdom, not money. And the soil is the minds of the people. Some will get it, some will hate it, some will refuse it, some will get excited and it’ll die and they’ll go back to their own ways—four different groups. And every group I speak to—that’s what He’s talking about. And He says the devil is after all of them to snatch that message away from them, because the devil knows if you ever capture the Kingdom message he can never control you again. HalleluYah.

That’s why I’m glad you’re here, my brother. You know, you’ve been in church for a long time—you and your wife been in church all these years, hundred—you know, 50, 60 years—and Elohim says, you know, at the end I want you to get the right one. He says, and He brought you here. He don’t want you to retire with the wrong thing.

Nicodemus was an old man and he was the pastor of the synagogue all his life. Pastor came by night to Yahusha. His question: how can I enter this Kingdom? That was his question. Ha’Mashiach was 30 years old—young fella just like me—young. “Are you going to be Pastor Miles? You know, I’m 70 and you young friend.” Yes—56, you know—you, uh, but tell me something—teach me this, please.

See, in order to keep your rituals, the Kingdom challenges your history. You got two choices: open your eyes wide and go look for it, or close your eyes and say, “I wasn’t at the conference. I don’t know what you’re talking about. I wasn’t—I didn’t hear a thing.” You got a choice: either go and seek it, or pretend it never existed, and you go back to your washing your hands.

Tonight we’re going to talk about ideas because theology is about ideas. That’s why you use the word ideology. What are the source of your ideas you believe? Where you get them from? Henry VIII, pope, Calvin, Matthew Henry, Martin Luther—where’d you get them from? Saint Augustine. The source of your ideas is the source of your ideology. Your ideology becomes your theology. Your theology becomes your philosophy. Your philosophy becomes your life. And there you have it. So if your ideas are wrong, your whole life is wrong.

Ready for this: and the word for ideas in Hebrew is the word word. In the Greek it’s the word dabar. And thus it says, “In the beginning was the word”—idea—“and the word was with Elohim and the word was Elohim. All things were made by dabar”—Elohim’s idea—“and Elohim’s idea became flesh.” So Ha’Mashiach was Elohim’s original idea coming back to earth. When an idea is exposed, it’s called a word. Prove it: you don’t know what I’m thinking till I speak. So Ha’Mashiach is called the word. He’s Elohim’s idea expressed. That’s why He is called dabar. So whatever He says is Elohim’s idea, and His first statement: “Repent, for the Kingdom of the Shamayim has arrived.” Have a good lunch today. His ideas.

WHO PLANNED YOUR WEEK

Proverbs chapter 29
















Today we are walking in: Who Planned Your Week













Habakkuk 1:11




Then shall his mind change H2015, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.










CHANGE






















Today we look to the word- CHANGE- H2015- haphak- a primitive root; to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert:—become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow overturn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).




























The Torah Testifies…………….










Genesis 35:2




Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that werewith him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change H2015 your garments:




Leviticus 27:10




He shall not alter it, nor change H2015 it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change H2015 beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.







Leviticus 27:33




He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change H2015 it: and if he change H2015 it at all, then both it and the change H2015 thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.




























The Prophets Proclaim………







Jeremiah 2:36




Why gaddest thou about so much to change H2015 thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.










Zechariah 3:4




And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change H2015 of raiment.










Malachi 3:6




For I am the LORD, I change H2015 not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.






















The Writings witness……………







Job 14:14




If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change H2015 come.










Psalm 102:26




They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change H2015 them, and they shall be changed:










Proverbs 24:21




My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change H2015:





















WHO PLANNED YOUR WEEK




Let me begin with a statement that may disturb you, but disturbance is often the doorway to deliverance. Most people alive today are not living their own lives. They are existing inside a life that has been designed, scheduled, influenced, and controlled by someone else. And the tragedy is not that this is happening. The tragedy is that many of you never knew it was happening at all. I want you to hear me carefully because what I am about to share with you is not motivational. It is governmental. It has nothing to do with how you feel and everything to do with who is in control. Write this down because this is a law. Whoever controls your time and manages the changes in your life is designing your future. I will say it again because repetition establishes authority. Whoever controls your time and manages the changes in your life is designing your future. This means that your future is not something you accidentally arrive at. Your future is something that is intentionally engineered either by you or by someone else.




The Bible says in Proverbs 29:18, where there is no vision, the people perish. The word perish there does not mean to die physically. It means to lose restraint, to drift, to live without direction. In other words, a person without vision becomes vulnerable to control. Now listen to this carefully. Elohim never created man to be managed by circumstances. He created man to have dominion. Genesis 1:26 says, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion.” Dominion means governing authority. Dominion means responsibility for outcomes. Dominion means the right and the power to decide how resources, including time, are used.




So if dominion is your original design, then loss of control over your time is not a small issue. It is a violation of your creation mandate. The danger is that many of you think the problem is sin, or poverty, or lack of education, or bad leadership. Those may be symptoms, but they are not the root. The root problem is this. You have surrendered authority without realizing it. You have allowed other people, systems, emergencies, expectations, and cultures to plan your days, define your priorities, and dictate your responses. And when you give another entity the right to plan your time, you have given them permission to design your destiny.




Let me make this very plain. Time is the raw material of life. Life is measured in years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. When Elohim gives you life, he gives you time. Psalm 90:12 says, “Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Notice what the scripture does not say. It does not say, “Teach us to count our money.” It does not say, “Teach us to count our blessings.” It says, “Number your days.” Why? Because wisdom begins when you understand the value of time. So if time is life, then whoever controls your time controls your life.




That means this is not about productivity tips. This is about sovereignty. This is about who is ruling your existence. Yahusha said in Matthew 6:24, “No man can serve two masters.” Many of you think that verse is only about money, but it is broader than that. You cannot serve Elohim’s purpose for your life and simultaneously serve everyone else’s agenda for your time.




Now, here is where it gets serious. When you do not intentionally decide how your time will be used, someone else will happily decide for you. Employers will decide, media will decide, social expectations will decide, crisis will decide, even good people with good intentions will decide. And none of them were sent by Elohim to design your life. Jeremiah 29:11 says, “For I know the plans I have for you, says Yahuah.” Elohim says, “I know the plans.” The question is not whether Elohim has a plan. The question is whether you are living by his plan or by someone else’s.




I want to warn you about something the church rarely talks about. Drifting is dangerous because it feels normal. You do not feel rebellion when you drift. You do not feel evil when you drift. You simply feel busy, tired, and overwhelmed. But Hebrews 2:1 says, “We must give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should drift away.” Drift is not a decision. It is the absence of one. Drift happens when no one is steering the ship.




Let me say this with clarity and love. If you do not consciously take responsibility for your time, you are volunteering to become a victim of other people’s priorities. And Elohim did not create you to be a victim. He created you to be a steward. 1 Corinthians 4:2 says, “Moreover, it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.” Faithful to what? Faithful to the assignment. Faithful to the time entrusted to him. Faithful to the purpose that heaven invested in his life.




This message, therefore, is not an attack. It is an awakening. It is Elohim calling you back to yourself. It is heaven reminding you that your life is too valuable to be lived by default. You were not born to merely react to the current of events. You were born to govern your days with wisdom, clarity, and intention. Ephesians 5:15–16 says, “See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” Redeem the time. Take it back. Buy it back. Reclaim authority over it.




So before we go any further, I want you to sit with this truth. If you don’t like where your life is going, you must first ask who has been designing it. Because change does not begin with effort. Change begins with ownership.




Now that we have established the danger, we must identify the real enemy. Because if you fight the wrong enemy, you will lose the right battle. Many people are exhausted not because life is hard, but because they are ignorant of what they are truly up against. Let me say this clearly. Your greatest adversaries are not people. Your greatest adversaries are time and change. Write this down because this will frame everything else we discussed. Every human being exists in two unavoidable realities: time and change. You did not vote on them. You did not negotiate with them. You woke up one day inside them. Job says, man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. Few days, time. Full of trouble, change.




You cannot escape either one. Time is the environment of human existence. Change is the force that operates within that environment. Ecclesiastes 3 tells us plainly, “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.” Notice Elohim did not say there is a season for every feeling. He said there is a season for every purpose. Purpose is fixed. Seasons change. The danger comes when you allow changing seasons to redefine unchanging purpose.




Let me help you understand this with an image. Imagine that you are a fish. That fish lives in an ocean. That ocean is time. The fish did not create the ocean. The fish cannot drain the ocean. The fish cannot vote the ocean out. The fish must live in it. Now, within that ocean, there are currents. Those currents are change. They push, they pull, they shift direction. Some are gentle, some are violent, but the fish must deal with them.




Here is the problem. Most people live like dead fish. Dead fish float with the current. They offer no resistance. They have no direction. They simply go wherever the water takes them. Living fish, however, must learn how to swim. They must learn when to move with the current and when to resist it. Wisdom is knowing the difference.




Time and change are not evil. Let me correct that misunderstanding right now. Elohim created time. Elohim allows change. Hebrews 13:8 says, “Yahusha Ha’Mashiach is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” But everything else is subject to transition. Change is neutral. It is neither good nor bad. What determines whether change benefits or destroys you is whether you are prepared for it.




Here is a principle you must never forget. Change does not ask permission. Change does not knock on the door and wait for you to be ready. Change does not respect your comfort. Change does not care about your emotions. Change arises because time is moving forward. And if you are not prepared, change becomes traumatic. But if you are prepared, change becomes an opportunity.




The Bible warns us about this. Amos 3:7 says, “Surely Yahuah Elohim will do nothing, but he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.” Why does Elohim reveal things in advance? Because preparation is the antidote to fear. Elohim never intended his people to be shocked by life. He intended them to be discerning.




Now listen to me carefully. The real danger is not time and change themselves. The real danger is being unconscious while living in them. Yahusha warned about this in Luke 21:34. Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. Unaware. Unprepared. Unalert. That is how lives are overtaken.




Most people are not defeated by sudden disaster. They are defeated by gradual neglect. They do not lose their future overnight. They lose it one day at a time. They keep postponing intentional decisions. They keep assuming tomorrow will be like today. But the Bible says in James 4:14, “You do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are even a vapor.” A vapor exists briefly and then shifts.




So here is the law. If you do not learn how time works, time will work against you. If you do not understand change, change will overwhelm you. Hosea 4:6 says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” Not lack of prayer, not lack of church attendance, lack of knowledge. Ignorance is expensive.




Let me say this with urgency. Time does not heal anything. That is a lie. Time only reveals what you have been managing or neglecting. Change does not ruin people. Change exposes people. When pressure comes, it reveals whether you are living by design or by default. Elohim expects you to grow in understanding. Ephesians 5:17 says, “Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand what the will of Yahuah is.” Understanding is your responsibility. Elohim will not manage your calendar for you. He will not organize your priorities for you. He will not cancel distractions for you. Dominion requires decision.




So before we move forward, you must accept this truth. You are not fighting people, and you are not fighting circumstances. You are fighting ignorance about how time and change operate. Once you understand the laws, you can master the environment. And once you master the environment, you can fulfill your purpose without panic.




Now listen to me very carefully because we are about to cross from information into revelation. There is a law operating in your life right now whether you acknowledge it or not. Laws do not ask for agreement. Laws function regardless of belief. Gravity does not ask you if you believe in it before it pulls you down. In the same way, there is a law governing human experience, and it is this. Whoever controls and manages time controls experience in time. Write that down. Don’t paraphrase it. Don’t soften it. Whoever controls and manages time controls experience in time. That means your joy, your frustration, your peace, your stress, your growth, your stagnation. None of these are random. They are the predictable results of how time is being governed in your life.




Now let me take this deeper. Time itself does nothing. Time has no personality. Time has no agenda. Time is neutral. What gives time power is management. That is why two people can live in the same year, the same country, the same economy, under the same government, and have completely different experiences. One prospers, one collapses. One grows, one decays. One advances, one regresses. The difference is not time. The difference is control.




Yahusha made this clear when he said in Luke 16:10, “He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much.” What is the least? Time. Minutes, hours, days. Faithfulness is not proven in public miracles. It is proven in private schedules. If you cannot govern your mornings, you cannot govern your destiny. If you cannot manage your days, you cannot manage your future.




Now here is a statement that may offend your comfort but will liberate your life. Every experience you repeatedly have is being permitted by how your time is structured. Stress is not a season, it is a system. Confusion is not spiritual warfare. It is poor management. Chronic exhaustion is not humility. It is a lack of boundaries.




The Bible says in Proverbs 4:23, “Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it flow the issues of life.” The word issues means boundaries, exits, directions. Guarding your heart is not an emotional exercise. It is a strategic one. What you allow access to your time gains access to your heart. What occupies your schedule eventually occupies your thinking.




Now hear this. Whoever plans your time plans your change, and whoever plans your change designs your future. This is why planning is not optional. It is a spiritual responsibility. Proverbs 21:5 says, “The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.” Poverty here is not just financial. It is poverty of peace, poverty of progress, poverty of fulfillment.




Let me say it another way. If you wake up every day reacting instead of directing, you are not living, you are responding. And reaction is always inferior to intention. Elohim never reacts. Elohim plans. Isaiah 46:10 says, “Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times, things that are not yet done.” That is divine governance. And since you were created in his image, reaction is beneath your design.




Now, here is where the truth becomes uncomfortable. Many of you are not victims of oppression. You are victims of permission. You gave people authority over your time because you did not want conflict. You surrendered your schedule because you wanted approval. You allowed emergencies to dominate your days because you never defined priorities. And now you are angry at the outcome, but the law is working exactly as designed.




Let me make this plain because clarity brings freedom. If you give another person the right to determine how you use your time, you have given them the right to determine how you use your life. That is not loyalty. That is not kindness. That is abdication.




Galatians 5:1 says, “Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty by which Ha’Mashiach has made us free, and do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” Bondage is anything that controls you without your consent. Now listen, this is serious. When you allow people, systems, or circumstances to plan your time, you have effectively stopped existing as a designer and become a respondent. And respondents never leave history. They endure it.




The Bible never celebrates endurance alone. It celebrates obedience, wisdom, and dominion. I want you to think about this question slowly. Who planned your last week? Was it your purpose, or was it pressure? Was it assignment, or was it interruption? Was it intention, or was it demand? Your answer would tell you exactly who is in control of your life right now.




Yahusha said something very powerful in John 10. “The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy.” We often spiritualize that verse and miss its practicality. Theft rarely happens violently at first. Theft often happens through neglect. The enemy does not need to destroy your life if he can distract you from governing it.




So hear me clearly. Time mismanagement is not a personality flaw. It is a leadership failure. And leadership always starts with self. Until you govern your time, you cannot govern your experience. Until you govern your experience, you cannot shape your future. And until you shape your future, someone else will gladly do it for you. This is why the next step is unavoidable. We must confront a truth that many people resist because it removes excuses. We must confront the reality that an unplanned life is an authorized invasion.




Now we arrive at a truth that explains much of the pain, confusion, and frustration in the world today. It is a truth most people resist because it removes excuses and demands responsibility. Hear me clearly. An unplanned life is an authorized invasion. I will say it again slowly because this sentence alone can change your future. An unplanned life is an authorized invasion.




When you do not plan your life, you have not created a neutral space. You have created a vacuum. And nature hates a vacuum. Systems rush in to fill empty space. People rush in to occupy unclaimed territory. That is not evil. That is law. Yahusha himself said in Matthew 12:43–45 that when a house is left empty, swept, and unguarded, other spirits return and take residence. The problem was not the presence of intruders. The problem was the absence of an owner.




Many people are praying for deliverance when what they really need is design. They are asking Elohim to remove stress while refusing to establish structure. They are rebuking the enemy when the enemy is simply exploiting disorder. 1 Corinthians 14:40 says, “Let all things be done decently and in order.” Order is not optional in the kingdom. Order is protection.




Now listen carefully. The tragedy of an unplanned life is not that things go wrong. Things always go wrong in life. The tragedy is that anything can go wrong at any time and take over because there’s no governing framework. When your life has no agenda, every agenda becomes urgent. When your life has no priorities, every demand feels important. When your life has no boundaries, every interruption feels justified.




The Bible gives us a warning about this. Proverbs 6:6–11 speaks about the sluggard, not a lazy man necessarily, but an unintentional one. It says, “How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?” Then it says, “Poverty comes like a robber.” Notice poverty did not knock. Poverty invaded. Why? Because there was no preparation, no structure, no foresight.




Now let me correct a misunderstanding. Planning is not control-freak behavior. Planning is stewardship. Elohim is the greatest planner of all. Before he created man, he prepared the environment. Before he introduced Adam, he established systems: light, seasons, vegetation, boundaries. Elohim never creates purpose before preparation.




So if you say you trust Elohim but refuse to plan, you are not spiritual. You are irresponsible. Unplanned lives are dangerous because they feel spiritual. People say things like, “I’m just trusting Elohim,” when in reality they are avoiding decision-making.




But the Bible says in Proverbs 16:9, “A man’s heart plans his way, but Yahuah directs his steps.” Notice the order. Man plans, Yahuah directs. Elohim does not direct what you refuse to plan.




Here is another truth you must accept. Busyness is often the evidence of a lack of planning. The busiest people are not always the most productive. Many are simply reacting all day long. Yahusha was never rushed, yet he changed the world in three and a half years. Why? Because he lived by assignment, not demand. John 17:4 says, “I have finished the work which you have given me to do,” not the work people demanded, the work Elohim assigned.




Unplanned lives eventually produce resentment. You begin to resent people you said yes to. You resent responsibilities you never evaluated. You resent opportunities that pulled you away from your assignment. And slowly bitterness grows not because people are evil, but because you never decided what mattered most.




Let me say this plainly and lovingly. Everything that keeps interrupting your life has permission because you never removed it. Boundaries are not punishment. They are clarity. Even Yahusha had boundaries. Mark 1:35–38 shows Yahusha leaving a crowd that was looking for him, saying, “Let us go to the next towns, that I may preach there also: for this purpose I have come.” Purpose determined his movement, not popularity.




If you do not define your purpose, you will be defined by emergencies. If you do not set priorities, you will live by pressure. If you do not plan your days, your days will plan you. And at the end of your life, Elohim will not ask how busy you were. He will ask whether you were faithful to what he assigned.




So understand this: the tragedy of unplanned lives is not failure, it is misuse. Lives are not destroyed because they lack potential. They are destroyed because they lack direction. And direction only comes when someone takes responsibility to design the life Elohim entrusted to them.




Which brings us to a sobering reality we must confront next. Because unplanned lives do not exist in a vacuum. They exist in a world full of systems. Systems that already have plans, goals, and agendas.




Now we must confront a principle that governs nations, corporations, cultures, families, and individuals alike. This principle is operating whether you acknowledge it or not. And ignoring it does not neutralize it. Write this down carefully because this is a law. Every system exists to fulfill an agenda. I will say it again. Every system exists to fulfill an agenda.




An agenda is simply a planned intention. It is a predetermined outcome. It is the reason something exists. No system is neutral. No institution is accidental. No structure is innocent. Education has an agenda. Media has an agenda. Governments have agendas. Corporations have agendas. Religions have agendas. And if you do not understand this, you will become a servant of purposes you never chose.




Now let me say something that may disturb you, but disturbance often precedes clarity. If you do not bring your own agenda into a system, the system will assign you one. You never enter a system empty and remain empty. You either influence it or it influences you.




Yahusha said in Matthew 12:30, “He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.” Neutrality is a myth. There is no middle ground in governance. The tragedy is that many people think avoidance is wisdom. They say, “I don’t want to get involved. I don’t want problems. I don’t want conflict.” But hear me clearly. Avoiding engagement does not protect your values. It surrenders them.




Proverbs 1:32 says, “The complacency of fools will destroy them.” Not rebellion. Complacency. Not wickedness. Passivity.




Let me explain how this works. Systems are patient. Systems think long term. Systems plan years ahead. While individuals are emotional, systems are strategic. While people react, systems calculate. So when you wake up every day without an agenda, you are stepping into a world already designed by people who woke up with one.




The Bible warns us about this. Romans 12:2 says, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” The word world there is cosmos, systems, order, governing structure. In other words, if you do not renew your mind, you will unconsciously adopt the agenda of the system you live in. Conformity does not require agreement. It only requires exposure without resistance.




Now listen carefully. The most dangerous thing about other people’s agendas is not that they are evil. It is that they are intentional. And intention always outperforms indifference. Yahusha said in Luke 16:8, “The children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.” Why? Because they plan, they strategize, they execute. Meanwhile, many believers are praying for outcomes they refuse to plan for.




Let me make this personal. If you do not decide how you will use your mornings, your mornings will be consumed by urgency. If you do not decide what information you will allow into your mind, media will decide for you. If you do not decide what you will pursue in life, culture will tell you what success looks like. And none of these systems were designed with your Elohim-given purpose in mind.




This is why Proverbs 4:26 says, “Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.” Ponder means to evaluate, to think deeply, to plan. Elohim never told his people to drift. He told them to be deliberate.




Joshua 1:8 says, “This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it.” Observe to do. That is intentional living.




Now here is the most sobering truth of this section, and I want you to hear it without emotion—clarity. Systems do not care about your potential. They only care about fulfilling their agenda. If your life is unplanned, you will spend your strength building something that does not belong to you. You will exhaust yourself advancing visions that are not yours. And at the end, you will wonder why you feel empty despite being successful.




Elohim never called you to be anti-system. He called you to be salt and light within systems. But salt must be applied intentionally. Light must be positioned deliberately. Matthew 5:13–14 does not describe passive people. It describes people who know who they are and where they stand.




So understand this clearly before we go any further. The greatest threat to your future is not opposition. It is the absence of a personal agenda aligned with Elohim’s purpose. When you do not define your direction, you will inherit someone else’s destination.




Now this raises a critical question, and it is a question most people are afraid to answer honestly because once you answer it, excuses lose their power.




Now we come to one of the most tragic realities of human existence, and I want you to listen without defensiveness because truth does not accuse, it reveals. Most people do not lose their lives suddenly. They lose them quietly. They lose them gradually. They lose them without noticing. And by the time they realized what has happened, years have already been spent on things that never mattered.




Yahusha warned us about this danger in Luke 9:25 when he asked, “What profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?” Notice the word lost. A person can be alive, active, productive, applauded, and still be lost. Lost does not mean inactive. Lost means misaligned.




Let me explain how this happens. People lose their lives not through wickedness but through permission. They allow small things to take priority over important things. They allow urgency to replace purpose. They allow convenience to override calling, and slowly the center of gravity of their life shifts away from Elohim’s original intent.




Write this down carefully because this will save you years of regret. Life is not stolen in chunks. It is leaked in moments. You don’t wake up one day and decide to abandon your purpose. You simply postpone it. You say later. You say when things calm down. You say when I have more time. But Ecclesiastes 3 reminds us that time never pauses. Seasons change, but time keeps moving.




The Bible describes this subtle loss in Hebrews 2:1. We must give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should drift away. Drift is dangerous because it feels natural. No resistance, no effort, just movement away from where you were supposed to be. Drift does not require rebellion. It only requires neglect.




Now let me identify some of the primary ways people lose their lives without realizing it.




First, they live in constant reaction. Everything they do is in response to someone else’s demand. Emails determine their mood. Messages determine their priorities. Crises determine their schedule. But Proverbs 19:21 says, “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but the counsel of Yahuah shall stand.” If you never slow down to hear counsel, you will live reacting to noise instead of responding to purpose.




Second, they allow emotions to lead decisions. Feelings were never designed to be leaders. Feelings are indicators, not governors. Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” When emotions control time, discipline disappears. And when discipline disappears, purpose collapses.




Third, they confuse activity with assignment. Just because you can do something does not mean you were sent to do it. Yahusha said in John 5:19, “The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do.” Even Yahusha restricted himself to assignment. Many people are exhausted because they are doing things Elohim never authorized.




Fourth, they fear disappointing people more than disobeying purpose. This is subtle bondage. Galatians 1:10 says, “If I still please men, I would not be the servant of Ha’Mashiach.” When approval becomes more important than obedience, your life becomes fragmented. You begin to live multiple lives instead of one focused one.




Fifth, they never review their lives. They live forward without reflection. Lamentations 3:40 says, “Let us search out and examine our ways, and turn back to Yahuah.” Examination is not condemnation. Examination is correction. Without review, errors become habits, and habits become lifestyles.




Now here is the painful truth. None of these losses feel dramatic. They feel normal. They feel like life. That is why so many people wake up at 40, 50, 60 years old and say, “Where did my life go?” It did not go anywhere. It was given away one unexamined decision at a time.




But hear me clearly, and let this give you hope. Anything you became unconsciously, you can undo intentionally. Elohim specializes in restoration. Joel 2:25 says, “I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten.” Restoration begins the moment you regain awareness.




So if you are uncomfortable right now, that is a good sign. Discomfort means consciousness is returning. Elohim is waking you up to yourself. And once you become aware, you are no longer a victim. You are a candidate for transformation.




Which brings us to the turning point. Because awareness alone is not enough. Awareness must be followed by a shift in posture, a shift in identity, a shift from merely existing to actively governing.




Now we arrive at a dividing line. A line that separates those who merely occupy space on the earth from those who shape history while they are here. This is not a matter of age, education, or opportunity. It is a matter of posture.




Hear this clearly. There is a difference between existing and governing. And most people exist, but very few govern. To exist simply means to be present, to breathe, to survive, to respond, to wake up, go through the day, and go back to sleep. Existence is passive. Governing, however, is intentional. Governing means taking responsibility for outcomes. Governing means deciding in advance what will and will not be allowed to control your life.




The Bible makes this distinction very clear. Proverbs 25:28 says, “Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down without walls.” Notice the imagery. A city without walls is not empty. It is exposed. It is inhabited but unprotected. It is active but undefended. That is the picture of a person who exists without governing themselves.




Elohim never intended man to merely exist. Genesis 1:28 says, “Be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, subdue it, and have dominion.” Dominion is not survival. Dominion is management. Dominion is authority exercised responsibly. Dominion begins first with self before it ever extends to territory.




Now hear this carefully. You cannot govern anything you do not take responsibility for. Many people want influence without accountability. They want impact without discipline. They want authority without structure. But in the kingdom of Elohim, authority always flows from order. Even Yahusha lived under authority before he exercised authority. Luke 2:52 tells us he grew in wisdom, stature, and favor with Elohim and man. Growth preceded governance.




The reason many people feel powerless is not because power was not given to them. It is because power was never organized. 2 Timothy 1:7 says, “Elohim has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.” A sound mind is a disciplined mind, a governed mind, a mind that does not drift aimlessly through the day.




Let me say this with clarity and compassion. Ungoverned time produces unguided lives. If you wake up every day without intention, you are not leading. You are following whatever is loudest, closest, or most urgent. That is not leadership. That is reaction.




Yahusha demonstrated governing in his daily life. Mark 1:35 says, “And in the morning, rising a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.” Prayer was not squeezed into his schedule. It shaped his schedule. That is governance. Purpose decided his priorities, not people.




Now listen to this principle because it will change how you see leadership forever. Self-government is the foundation of all leadership. If you cannot govern your habits, you cannot govern a business. If you cannot govern your emotions, you cannot govern a family. If you cannot govern your time, you cannot govern influence.




Yahusha said in Luke 16:11, “If you have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who will give you that which is your own?” Time is the first trust.




Governing your life does not mean controlling everything. It means deciding what matters most and protecting it. It means building walls around purpose. It means saying no without guilt. It means recognizing that not every invitation is an assignment, and not every opportunity is a calling.




Psalm 127:1 says, “Unless Yahuah builds the house, they labor in vain who build it.” But notice someone still has to build. Elohim gives purpose. Man gives structure. Elohim gives vision. Man gives discipline. When structure is missing, frustration follows.




So let me ask you a question that requires honesty, not emotion. Are you governing your life, or are you merely surviving it? Survival focuses on today. Governance prepares for tomorrow. Survival reacts to change. Governance anticipates change. Survival is tired. Governance is intentional.




This distinction is critical because the next step in reclaiming your life requires a quality many people admire but few practice. And without it, governance collapses quickly.




Now, we must dismantle one of the most dangerous myths of modern culture because this myth has crippled more destinies than failure ever could. The myth is this: If I feel motivated, I will change. That is not truth. That is deception. Motivation is a feeling, and feelings are unreliable servants.




Discipline, not motivation, is the engine of a governed life. Write this down because if you forget everything else, this one principle can rescue your future. Discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you decided long after the feeling has left.




Motivation comes and goes. Discipline stays. Motivation visits. Discipline lives with you. The Bible never commands you to feel like obeying Elohim. It commands you to obey. Yahusha said in John 14:15, “If you love me, keep my commandments.” He did not say, “If you feel inspired.” Love in the kingdom is proven through discipline, not emotion.




Even Yahusha himself operated by discipline. Hebrews 12:2 says, “He endured the cross for the joy set before him.” He did not enjoy the cross. He endured it because of purpose.




Now hear this carefully. A lack of discipline is not a lack of desire. It is a lack of decision. Many people want change, but they have never decided. Desire wishes. Decision governs.




James 1:8 says, “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” Instability is not caused by lack of talent. It is caused by lack of discipline. Discipline is how you protect your agenda. Without discipline, your plans are suggestions. Without discipline, your values are negotiable. Without discipline, your calendar is open territory for invasion.




Proverbs 12:1 says, “Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.” That is strong language, but scripture uses it deliberately. Discipline is wisdom in action.




Let me say something that may challenge your theology, but will align you with truth. Elohim will not discipline your life for you. He disciplines your spirit, but you must discipline your habits. He gives you conviction, but you must give yourself structure.




1 Corinthians 9:27 says, “I discipline my body, and bring it into subjection.” Notice the language. Paul did not say, “Elohim did it.” He said, “I did it.”




The reason many people keep repeating the same cycles is because they are trying to feel their way into consistency. Consistency does not come from emotion. It comes from standard. Standards remove daily debate. When a standard is set, decisions are already made.




Daniel did not wake up every morning debating whether to pray. Daniel 6:10 says he prayed as he had done previously. That is discipline. That is governance.




Discipline is also the bridge between vision and manifestation. You can pray all you want, but prayer without discipline produces frustration. Proverbs 10:4 says, “He who has a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.” Diligence is disciplined effort over time, and time always rewards discipline.




Now listen closely. Discipline is freedom. Culture tells you discipline is restriction. That is a lie. Discipline is what frees you from chaos, distraction, addiction, and regret.




Yahusha said in John 8:32, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Truth must be applied to be effective, and discipline is how truth is applied daily.




Let me make this practical. When you discipline your sleep, you gain energy. When you discipline your schedule, you gain clarity. When you discipline your words, you gain influence. When you discipline your thoughts, you gain peace. Discipline is not punishment. It is alignment.




So if you are waiting to feel like changing your life, you will wait forever. But if you decide once and build discipline around that decision, your life will begin to shift immediately. Not emotionally, structurally. And structure determines outcomes.




This brings us to the next essential step. Because discipline without direction can still exhaust you. You must know what you are disciplining yourself for. You need a governing document for your life.




NOW WE move into one of the most neglected yet most powerful principles of human governance. What I am about to say may sound unusual to you, but it is absolutely necessary if you are serious about reclaiming your life. Every serious person must write a personal constitution. I will say it again slowly because this is where transformation becomes tangible. Every serious person must write a personal constitution.




A constitution is not a wish list. A constitution is a governing document. It defines values. It establishes boundaries. It determines priorities. It clarifies authority. Nations collapse when constitutions are ignored, and lives collapse when personal standards are undefined.




Proverbs 29:2 says, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked rule, the people groan.” Authority always produces atmosphere. The question is, who is ruling your life?




Now hear me clearly. If you do not define your values, culture will define them for you. If you do not define your standards, pressure will negotiate them away. If you do not decide what matters most, everything will matter, and you will be exhausted.




Elohim is not the author of confusion. 1 Corinthians 14:33 says, “For Elohim is not the author of confusion, but of peace.” Peace comes from order, and order comes from design.




A personal constitution begins with values. Values answer the question, “What do I believe is right?” Joshua stood before Israel and said in Joshua 24:15, “Choose this day whom you will serve; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahuah.” Notice Joshua did not call a meeting to vote. He declared a constitution for his household. Leadership begins with clarity.




The next element of a personal constitution is standards. Values are beliefs. Standards are behaviors. Standards answer the question, “What will I allow, and what will I not allow?” Daniel had standards. Daniel 1:8 says, “Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself.” Purpose preceded pressure because the decision was already made. Temptation had no leverage.




Then comes priorities. Priorities determine where time goes. Yahusha said in Matthew 6:33, “Seek first the kingdom of Elohim and his righteousness.” First means first. Not convenient. Not occasional. First. Anything that does not have priority status cannot demand primary time. This is why your calendar must reflect your constitution. Your schedule is the visible proof of your inner government.




Boundaries follow priorities. Boundaries are not walls of fear. They are lines of protection. Even Elohim has boundaries. He told Adam which trees he could eat from and which one he could not. Boundaries do not restrict life. They preserve it.




Proverbs 4:25–27 says, “Let your eyes look straight ahead… Do not turn to the right or the left.” That is boundary language.




Finally, a personal constitution must include assignment. Why are you here? What problem were you born to solve? Acts 13:36 says, “For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of Elohim, fell asleep.” David served his generation. Not every generation. Not every cause. Assignment brings focus. Focus brings impact.




Let me say this with authority. A life without a personal constitution will always be governed by emergency. But a life governed by clear standards becomes stable, peaceful, and productive. You stop explaining yourself. You stop apologizing for obedience. You stop negotiating your destiny.




Now writing a constitution is not enough. Documents must be enforced. Laws must be applied. And this brings us to the most revealing practice of all, the practice that exposes who is truly in control of your life.




Now we come to the most honest moment in this message. This is where theory meets truth and excuses lose their voice. Because no matter what you say you believe, your calendar is the most accurate confession of your values. Not your prayers. Not your songs. Not your intentions. Your time.




The Bible says in Psalm 90:12, “Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Numbering your days means accounting for them, evaluating them, respecting them. You cannot manage what you refuse to measure.




And this is why many people live frustrated lives. They never audit their time. A time audit is simply the act of asking hard questions and refusing to lie to yourself. Questions like: “Who owns my mornings?” “What consumes my best energy?” “What drains me without producing fruit?” “Who benefits most from my exhaustion?” These are not questions of condemnation. They are questions of clarity.




Yahusha said in Luke 14:28, “Which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost?” Counting the cost is not pessimism. It is wisdom. And time is the greatest cost you will ever pay for anything. Once spent, it cannot be recovered—only redeemed.




Let me say this plainly. Whatever you do not schedule intentionally will be stolen by urgency. If prayer is not scheduled, it will be crowded out. If rest is not scheduled, burnout will replace it. If learning is not scheduled, stagnation will settle in. Order does not happen accidentally. It must be enforced.




A time audit often reveals painful truths. It reveals misplaced loyalty. It reveals hidden addiction to distraction. It reveals fear of solitude. But revelation precedes restoration. Elohim does not expose to shame. He exposes to heal.




Proverbs 20:27 says, “The spirit of man is the lamp of Yahuah, searching all the inner depths of the heart.” When you audit your time, you are reclaiming authority. You are saying, “I will no longer drift.” You are declaring war on chaos. You are stepping back into your original mandate to rule.




But here is where many people stop, right at awareness. And awareness without action only increases guilt. So we must address the cost of redesigning your life. Because this step separates hearers from governors.




Now let me tell you the truth that few preachers will say plainly. Designing your life will cost you something. And that is why most people never do it. They prefer comfort over clarity, popularity over purpose, approval over obedience.




Yahusha never hid the cost. Luke 14:26–27 says, “Whoever does not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.” A cross is not jewelry. It is an instrument of death. What must die? People-pleasing. Fear of rejection. Addiction to busyness. The illusion that you can do everything.




Redesigning your life means you will disappoint people who benefited from your lack of boundaries. It means you will say no more often than yes. It means you will be misunderstood. Even Yahusha was misunderstood. Mark 3:21 says his own family thought he was out of his mind. Purpose often looks like madness to people who live by convenience.




Let me say this with clarity. Popularity is expensive, but purpose is priceless. If everyone is comfortable with your decisions, you probably have not decided anything significant. Galatians 1:10 reminds us, “If I still please men, I would not be the servant of Ha’Mashiach.”




Redesign also requires patience. You will not see results immediately. Structure precedes harvest. The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 11:1, “Cast your bread upon the waters: for you will find it after many days.” Many days. Discipline is rewarded over time, not overnight.




So do not be surprised when redesign feels lonely. Loneliness is often the sound of alignment taking place. Elohim frequently removes noise before he releases clarity. But I assure you, the peace that follows is worth the cost.




Which brings us to the final charge, because this message was never meant to end in information. It was meant to end in decision.




Now let me bring this home, and I want you to hear this not with emotion but with resolve. Whoever controls your time and manages the changes in your life is designing your future. If you do not like the direction your life is heading, change the designer.




Elohim has already given you authority. Genesis 1:28 has not been revoked. Dominion was not cancelled by culture. Responsibility was not removed by pressure. You are still accountable for your time. You are still responsible for your direction.




Joshua said, “Choose this day.” Eliyahu (Elijah) said, “How long will you halt between two opinions?” Yahusha said, “Follow me.” Heaven has always respected human choice. Elohim will not force you into purpose. He invites you into governance.




So stop drifting. Stop reacting. Stop apologizing for obedience. Stop surrendering your calendar to chaos. Take responsibility. Write the vision. Set the standards. Govern your days. Protect your assignment. You were not born to survive the current. You were born to master it. You were not created to be managed by time. You were created to steward it.




And if you will make that decision today, not tomorrow, not next year, today, then your future will begin to change immediately. Not emotionally—structurally. Because when structure changes, destiny follows.