Yeshua speaks about the importance of gaining knowledge, which is one of the principle reasons we came into a life of mortality.

1 And it came to pass that Yeshua and those who walked with him journeyed north toward Tyre.
2 As they traveled, they stopped at towns along the way, but at no place were they welcomed except at Ptolemais, where there remained some who remembered Yeshua fondly from his previous visit.
3 But even among these, there were none that desired to follow him, for they considered that their life was good enough as it was, and the way of life that Yeshua taught was more difficult.
4 Experiencing the rejection of the people in town after town and the reluctance, even of those in Ptolemais who welcomed Yeshua to live his teachings, Toma asked him, “Is there not some miracle you can do to arouse these people from their apathy? If they will not take action other than nodding their head, even to you, how will we ever cause them to move beyond the meager comfort they cling to?
5 In truth, why do we even bother to travel all these days? Would it not be better to remain among our family and friends and those who have accepted to follow the Celestine Light in our communities?”
6 Yeshua answered him, saying, “Have you swallowed a bitter herb this morning, Toma, to make you all grumbly?”
7 “Nay, good Yeshua,” Toma answered. “It is merely my frustration. I worry about my family and friends when we are away. And to stop in these towns oftentimes seems pointless for the people are deaf and blind.
8 To hear your words each day is a treasure, but we could hear them as easily and in more comfort with our families at any of the communities of Gennesaret.
9 Please do not misunderstand. If you desire us to go from city to city and have the gates shut upon us, so be it. I will follow you even when I do not understand.
10 But it would give my heart more peace if I could comprehend somewhat more about why we travel abroad and why you simply do not cause a mountain to fall into the sea to awaken these people out of their sleep, that they will listen and heed your words.”
11 Yeshua answered him, saying, “When you physically lift a boulder from the ground and walk with it even a small distance, you must focus your strength and continue to exert it until the task is done. The effort, however small, takes some of your vitality.
12 Were you to thus move several boulders, enough of your vitality would be taken that you would need to rest for a time and renew yourself before resuming your tasks. So it is with miracles big and small.”
13 Many of the others had been listening as Yeshua answered Toma, and now he beckoned them all to come closer that they might hear the rest of his answer.
14 “Many things are called miracles simply because of ignorance. If you know how to make fire and another does not know how, then when you make fire, it will seem as a miracle to them because they cannot fathom how it occurred.
15 These are simply miracles of greater knowledge, and I exhort you to gain greater knowledge at every opportunity for it will free you from the chains of life by which you would otherwise be bound.
16 A true miracle occurs not from employing secret knowledge of the fundamentals of nature, but when you give up some of your own life essence, such as when you heal someone by calling forth your love and passion within the arms of faith. Though at the time you will feel only peace, afterward you will feel the loss of essence you have given.
17 Other miracles come from Elohim and the power of Celestine Light that Elohim has given to the worthy, to flow through you. You are the bridge between Heaven and Earth.
18 Your earthly body cannot long endure such powerful aeons, and it will be both energized and exhausted by the flow of power. This is the type of miracle that moves mountains, for the mortal body does not have such power on its own.
19 When a great healing is to be done, such as to give sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, walking to the paralytic, you must give of your essence with love, passion, and faith and also call upon the greater powers of Celestine Light to flow through you.
20 So you see, Toma, though it takes only a small amount of pure faith bundled with love and passion and a call upon the powers of Celestine Light to move a mountain into the sea, doing so also takes some of the essence of the worker of the miracle for a time.
21 Therefore miracles, other than miracles merely of greater knowledge, should only be given to the worthy or in defense of life and never simply as a show of power or divinity.
22 In truth, even if I were to stand at the gates of the city and call a mountain to fall at my feet, almost all witnesses would still deny the source of that which their eyes had seen, for to admit the truth would compel them to accept changes in their lives they do not desire.
23 It is not outward miracles that bring people to the light, but inward. Only someone who is seeking a greater light will find it. Most are not seeking. They may be in misery or luxury, but in either, they are more comfortable than in change.
24 Only when a person accepts in their heart that their life is more than a few decades of toil in mortality and honestly desires to learn of the eternity to come and the truth of God, can a miracle of truth and light begin to expand within their heart.
25 Someone may be awed by a miracle for a day or even a week. Maybe it will even hold them in its spell for a month or a year. But unless they were seeking to find and live a greater light, they will soon cease to give credence to the miracle. Rather, they will accept every other explanation given by the ignorant, that they may be justified to continue to live their life outside the light.
26 We go from city to city, town to town, preaching the Celestine Light, for the few who seek it and are willing to walk down the path it illuminates.
27 But we go as much for ourselves as for others. As we journey together, we teach one another by our words and our actions and the experiences we share, which are different and more challenging than the experiences we have amongst our friends and families in the Communities of Light.
28 By this, we grow and become more than we were. As we bring the Celestine Light to the world, we draw greater light to ourselves, even if all the doors of the world are closed to us.”
29 “That is a wonderful explanation you have spoken,” exclaimed Mattayah. “But what of our own lives? Can we use the powers of Celestine Light to enrich our lives? Not with worldly things, but with boons such as long life and health, peace from the Romans, and bounty in our lands?”
30 Yeshua answered him, saying, “As I said before, there are miracles of knowledge, and to gain greater knowledge is one of the principle reasons you come into a life of mortality.
31 Elohim has put upon the Earth all of the plants and herbs, minerals, and animals needed to benefit man in every way. But to know which plant is food and which is poison and which that is poison is also medicine when used in small amounts, these are among the things you must invest your life, learning.
32 When you heal a man of an infirmity using an herb, it is no less a miracle than if you had given of your essence or called upon the powers of Elohim. Knowledge is as much a part of Celestine Light as a miracle given from your essence.
33 And for the person healed, it may be a greater miracle to use the herbs than to give of your essence, for most infirmities come from poor choices of food and wrong habits in life.
34 If you take away a man’s infirmity by giving of your essence, but he does not change his diet or his habits, his sickness will return or its cousin, but where will you be to heal him again?
35 Hopefully, not at his side, for if he was healed by love and faith, but loved himself so little that he returned to his weakness, then he is not deserving to be healed again by a Child of Light until his heart changes to a sincere love of Elohim and of himself.
36 But if you had previously given him herbs to counter his sickness and showed him that which you gave, when you are gone, he can continue to treat himself, even if he is too weak of spirit to change his habits that brought the infirmity.
37 So it is with your own lives. Seek to gain all that you have asked: longevity, health, peace, and bounty of your lands by gaining greater knowledge of the things you seek and then employing your knowledge wisely, for this is one of the principal reasons you are in mortality.
38 You can ask Elohim in prayer to bless you with all of the things you have asked: health, longevity, peace and bounty, and much more than this. But know that Elohim will not answer you with a miraculous wave that immediately brings about the things you seek and desire, for how would you grow by that?
39 In truth, if you went up to a man and asked him to give you ten gold coins and he immediately complied, you would have little respect for the man, and the value of the gold to you would only be in proportion to your effort required to obtain it.
40 But if you had to labor by the sweat of your brow for a year to obtain the same gold coins, they would have great value to you because you would have exchanged a year of your life for them in toil.
41 Therefore, when you ask Elohim to bless you with the things you have spoken of, do not look for an immediate effect without effort, for that would be contrary to the very purpose for which you are here upon the Earth.
42 Rather, look for a door to open to knowledge that you can gain and employ that which will bring the blessings you seek, for it is that door that Elohim will open for you in answer to your prayer.
43 By knowledge, you may gain all of the things which you have spoken of as you exercise the will to live that which you know.
44 Let knowledge be the miracle that brings health, longevity, peace, and prosperity, living the word of Elohim that blesses your soul and loving of one another that enriches your lives.”