Ignorance is a disease, and every disease is a discomfort. If you do not know and are unaware that you do not know, it is very dangerous. One can live amidst riches and still be poor. What destroys the poor is their poverty.

“The toil of fools wearies them, for they do not know the way to town.” Ecclesiastes 10:15

The fool works and works hard, but their real problem is a lack of knowledge on how to reach the next level of their life; because, according to the previous verse, the city is where things happen. What exhausts fools is working hard without having the adequate knowledge on how to export their products.

“My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge.” Hosea 4:6

“Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; their nobles will die of hunger, and their masses will be parched with thirst. Therefore Death expands its jaws, opening wide its mouth; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers. So people will be brought low and everyone humbled, the eyes of the arrogant humbled.” Isaiah 5:13-15

“Surely my people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.” Jeremiah 4:22

All the above scriptures indicate what lack of knowledge can do. Nowadays, in Africa, the first giant and the killer spirit is ignorance. What we don’t know can easily kill if we are not careful. IGNORANCE is slavery; it is the greatest planetary problem, even more than AIDS.

Ignorance simply means a lack of knowledge or information. Many people in Africa and in our churches are misshaped because they are uninformed. If you are not informed, you cannot be formed. The lack of information is the lack of inspiration, and if you lack inspiration, you will expire in life.

Many people no longer live but simply exist. And if you ask their opinion on Africa, they will tell you that Africa is bad or poor. Ignorance is the mother of self-destruction and rejection. What can destroy a people is the lack of knowledge.

“People who have wealth but lack understanding are like the beasts that perish.” Psalm 49:20

A man who is honored and doesn’t know it is like a beast that perishes. Someone can live with millions of dollars without knowing the money belongs to them. Did you know that one can be a professor and yet be ignorant? What kills you is what you do not know. A doctor who knows that smoking is dangerous and continues to smoke is ignorant of the damage the devil is causing to his health.

Thus, one can be educated and yet be a foolish person, knowledgeable only in intellectual matters and not in matters of the heart. The Bible says the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. If you are a professor and do not profess wealth, you may die poor. You have no excuse! It is your choice because prosperity is a choice. Read Proverbs 11:24; Deuteronomy 30:15 and 19; Isaiah 1:19-20; Job 36:11-12. The book of Proverbs 21:16 says:

“A man who strays from the path of understanding comes to rest in the company of the dead.“

What are the “living” doing among the “dead”? A life without distinct and qualitative progress is a dead life. Why should you always continue telling stories every year without any visible achievement while your peers make great exploits in life? It is stagnation at the highest level.

You must now leave this camp and position yourself among the greats of this world by force. May God deliver us from ignorance! If you do not know what you have, you will always live in lack. Listen to me, one can be in the midst of abundance and be in want.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is very dangerous to be in a place where things are happening without anything happening in your life, for your life, or through your life. I heard a true story of an African who went to London by ship to study back in the day.

This man had taken his travel ticket without knowing that his food expenses were included. Throughout the journey, he only ate gari and peanuts that he had carefully prepared for the trip. While the others gained weight, he lost weight every day.

One day, he met a friend traveling on the same ship and…

This text is an excerpt from the book “ The 12 Giants and the Killer Spirits in Africa ” written by Victor Charles OKAFOR.

We invite you to read the next article, “EXCUSES“.