GOOD THINGS CAN KILL YOUR DESTINY

Proverbs chapter 29
















Today we are walking in: GOOD THINGS CAN KILL YOUR DESTINY













Genesis 27:8

Now therefore, my son, obey H8085 my voice according to that which I command thee.





OBEY






Today we look to the word OBEY --H8085 - shâmaʻ, shaw-mah'; a primitive root; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, attentively, call gather together, carefully, certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, make a proclaimation, publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.















The Torah testifies.........……



Genesis 27:13

And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.







Exodus 23:22

But if thou shalt indeed obey H8085 his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.







Deuteronomy 13:4




Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.














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



Joshua 24:24

And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey H8085.




Nehemiah 9:17




And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.




Jeremiah 7:23




But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.















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



Joshua 24:24




And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.







Job 36:11

If they obey H8085 and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.







Psalm 18:44




As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.















GOOD THINGS CAN KILL YOUR DESTINY




Let me begin by making a statement that may shock some of you, but I want you to write it down, underline it, and think about it very carefully. Because if you do not understand this principle, you will live a very busy life and still miss your destiny.




The greatest enemy of your destiny is not bad things.

The greatest enemy of your destiny is good things.




Most people think that the adversary comes to destroy your life by getting you to do evil. But that is a very shallow understanding of spiritual warfare. If the adversary can get you to do bad things, he has already lost, because bad things are obvious. Bad things expose themselves. Bad things convict you quickly.




But if he can get you involved in good things—things that look right, sound spiritual, appear productive, and even make people applaud you—then he has successfully delayed your assignment without ever attacking it directly.




This is why many gifted people die frustrated.

This is why many anointed people burn out.

This is why many sincere believers end their lives saying, “I was busy for Elohim,” but heaven says, “You were distracted from your purpose.”




The enemy is not after your activity.

He is after your alignment.




He is not trying to stop you from moving.

He is trying to stop you from arriving.




The Scripture says in MISHLEI (Proverbs) 29:18 – Cepher, “Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint.” That word cast off restraint does not mean to die. It means to lose discipline. It means to live without order. It means to live ungoverned.




In other words, when vision is absent, people do not become inactive. They become uncontrolled. They do many things, but nothing meaningful. They move a lot, but they make no progress.




Vision, therefore, is not a dream you talk about.

Vision is a law that governs your life.




Vision is not inspiration.

Vision is regulation.




When vision enters your life, it does not make you excited first. It makes you selective. Vision begins to eliminate options. Vision begins to say no to many things that are perfectly acceptable simply because they are not assigned.




Let me say this again slowly.

Vision does not come to give you more to do.

Vision comes to tell you what not to do.




And until you understand that, you will keep mistaking movement for progress and activity for effectiveness.




Yahusha said in YAHCHANAN (John) 4:34 – Cepher, “My food is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work.” Notice, He did not say works. He said work.




Yahusha understood that life is not about doing many things for Elohim, but about finishing the one thing Elohim sent you to do. That is why He could say at the end of His life, “It is finished.” Not everything was finished, but His assignment was finished.




Hear this carefully.

Anything good that pulls you away from finishing is an enemy, no matter how noble it looks.




Anything good that consumes your time, your energy, your emotions, and your focus, but does not move you toward your Elohim-given future is a distraction in disguise.




And distractions do not announce themselves as enemies.

They announce themselves as opportunities.




The Scripture tells us in IVRIYM (Hebrews) 12:1 – Cepher, “Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily besets us.” Notice the Scripture separates sin from weight. Sin is bad. Weight is not necessarily bad. It is just unnecessary.




Weight is anything that slows you down.

Weight is anything that burdens you.

Weight is anything that is not evil, but is also not essential.




And Elohim says you must lay aside both, because destiny requires speed, clarity, and focus.




Vision is Elohim’s protection system against weights.




Vision is the filter that determines what stays and what goes.

Vision is the reason disciplined people look strange to undisciplined people.

Vision is the reason focused people appear rude to unfocused people.




Vision is the reason you will lose friends—not because you are proud, but because you are precise.




Yahusha made this clear when He said in LUQAS (Luke) 9:62 – Cepher, “No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of Elohim.” He was not talking about sin. He was talking about distraction.




Looking back is not rebellion.

It is misalignment.




And misalignment over time will cost you your future.




Let me say something that may offend your emotions but will save your destiny.




Elohim is not impressed by how much you are doing.

Elohim is impressed by how accurately you are doing what He told you to do.




Heaven rewards obedience, not enthusiasm.

Heaven celebrates completion, not busyness.




This is why the Scripture says in EPHESIYM 2:10 – Cepher, “For we are His workmanship, created in Mashiach Yahusha unto good works, which Elohim hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” Notice—prepared beforehand.




Your assignment existed before you were born.

You were not created to figure life out.

You were created to discover what was already decided.




And when you discover that, vision becomes dangerous—not to you, but to everything unnecessary.




Vision begins to cut away good things.

Vision begins to offend people who benefited from your confusion.

Vision begins to discipline your calendar, your relationships, your finances, and even your emotions.




So hear me clearly as we continue.

The most dangerous enemy of destiny is not evil.

Evil is obvious.




The real enemy is good things that are not Elohim things.




And until vision governs your life, you will keep saying yes to things that heaven never assigned you to carry.




Vision is not about what you want to do.

Vision is about what you must finish.




Vision is not emotional.

Vision is governmental.




Vision is not excitement.

Vision is enforcement.




Vision does not motivate you first.

It regulates you.




Vision is an internal, Elohim-given picture of a preferred future that produces discipline in the present.




Vision is not something you see with your eyes.

Vision is something you see with your spirit.




That is why two people can look at the same environment and see different outcomes.




The Scripture says in CHABAQQUWQ (Habakkuk) 2:2 – Cepher, “Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.” You cannot run without vision.




Motion without vision produces exhaustion.

Motion with vision produces momentum.




Vision is not a wish.

Vision is not a prayer request.

Vision is not a New Year’s resolution.




Vision is the revelation of why you were created.




And when vision enters your life, it immediately imposes restrictions.




Vision always limits in order to fulfill.




Vision does not consult your feelings.

Vision governs your time, your associations, your decisions.




Where there is no vision, people cast off restraint.

Vision is the source of self-control.




People without vision do not lack willpower.

They lack direction.




But when a person discovers vision, discipline becomes natural.




Yahusha demonstrated this when He said in LUQAS 2:49 – Cepher, “Wist ye not that I must be about My Father’s business?”




Vision introduces necessity.

Vision says I must.




Vision is not democratic.

Vision does not negotiate.

Vision demands obedience.




If your vision does not discipline you, it is not vision.

It is fantasy.




Fantasy entertains.

Vision imprisons.




Fantasy makes you talk.

Vision makes you act.




Vision produces conflict before it produces results, because vision threatens disorder.




Vision forces one governing question:

Is this necessary for my assignment?




If the answer is no, vision demands elimination.




Many sincere people misunderstand spiritual opposition.

Evil is loud.

Good things are subtle.




The adversary does not need to destroy you if he can delay you.

He does not need to corrupt you if he can distract you.




Yahusha made this clear in LUQAS 10:41–42 – Cepher with Martha and Mary. Martha was busy, productive, responsible—yet distracted from what was necessary.




Destiny is not a stroll.

It is a race.




Anything Elohim did not assign will slow you down.




Many people are tired not because the assignment is heavy, but because they are carrying things they were never called to carry.




Good things appeal to compassion.

Good things appeal to ego.

Good things appeal to fear of disappointing people.




Yahusha understood this.

That is why He said no to crowds.

That is why He refused premature promotion.




He said in YAHCHANAN 17:4 – Cepher, “I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do.”




Elohim will never judge you for not doing what He did not assign you.

But He will hold you accountable for neglecting what He did.




Vision must be ruthless.

Vision must be unapologetic.

Vision must be uncompromising.




Vision does not debate distractions.

It eliminates them.




Vision is not sentimental.

Vision is surgical.




Yahusha set His face like flint.




Vision hardens you against persuasion.




Vision narrows your life so your impact can expand.




If your vision does not force you to say no regularly, it is not vision.




Destiny belongs to the focused.




Now hear this clearly.

Every distraction steals time, and time is the currency of destiny.




Vision is proven by decisions, not declarations.




Does this decision move me closer to my preferred future?




Yahusha said in YAHCHANAN 5:19 – Cepher, “The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do.”




Vision governs reactions.

Vision produces peace.




Peace is confidence in alignment.




Every yes is a no to something else.




Destiny is preserved by refusal.




Narrow is the way that leads to life (MATTITHYAHU 7:13–14 – Cepher).




Saying no is stewardship.




Time is sacred.




Vision teaches you that you do not have enough time to do everything—but you have enough time to do what you were born to do.




Ignoring vision produces frustration, burnout, loss of joy, delayed fulfillment, and quiet regret.




The greatest tragedy is unused potential.




Vision can be recovered.

Alignment can be restored.




Alignment begins with honest evaluation, intentional elimination, and restored discipline.




Elohim finishes what you protect.




And I declare today that clarity is returning, distractions are being exposed, courage is rising, and vision will govern your life.




You will finish.




That is destiny.

That is fulfillment.

That is vision governing a life.