You need to be stubborn in the face of challenges and never desist. Do not simply accept your challenges or problems as signs of fate or destiny. Face every challenge with rigorous effort, strength, power, vitality, and force. Do not die like a fool.

Some challenges are meant to take you directly to the door of success, glory, victory, blessings, wealth, and eternal fortune. It is often discovered that victory and success may pose or disguise themselves as problems and challenges in order to test our strength, power, and determination—our capacity to handle fortune in life and to pass that fortune to the next generation.

Never pass failure or weakness to future generations.

Indeed, do not immediately begin looking for enemies whenever challenges confront you. A child may put his hand into the fire before discovering through experience that the beautiful, burning furnace is not a toy. In the same way, many of us are facing challenges today in order to break away from generational curses and limitations.

My advice is to look inward. Think positively. Take the proper spiritual, mental, and intellectual steps necessary to ward off problems. Become strong and hard to break. Whatever does not break you builds you and makes you stronger.

Do not read the stories of sages, saints, saviors, deities, divinities, and famous souls as mere fairy tales. Read them as lessons of life: the greater the challenges, the greater the opportunity to develop strength, power, wisdom, recognition, and greatness.

No one worships, reveres, or honors a weak soul, but a strong, wise, and disciplined soul shall be blessed, honored, and favored from generation to generation.

A student should understand that he must be tested and examined before he can be respected, become resourceful, and move to the next level of blessings. Remember that every soul must be tested in the school of life before it can be honored and blessed.

Do not allow circumstances to change you from good to bad. Never allow your challenges to cloud or block your vision of future blessings.

Respect your Ori, your soul, and the divinities. Stand firmly for what you believe and trust. Other people will benefit from your success, your wisdom, and the good experiences you have gained through overcoming your challenges, while the fool smiles when others fail.

May Olodumare bless you today and forever.

Òrìṣà Ògún is ogun—war or battle. In this sense, Òrìṣà Ògún teaches us that life is a battleground, and the world of matter is a jungle where the weak and the foolish may be consumed. Never allow life and its challenges to consume you like an animal or a sheep taken to the altar of sacrifice. Fight to attain victory.

May Òrìṣà Ògún Onírẹ̀ support you always.

May all Irúnmọlẹ̀ bless you.

May Olodumare exalt you now and forever.

Àṣẹ Òrìṣà.