Problem Finding

The more creatively you think and act, the more likely you don’t see problems as problems.

In fact, if you simply respond to problems by fixing them, it points to your skills set as being more like a maintenance person than a builder. That is not a failure – we need both, but identifying your place and doing good work in it is important.

When you see a problem that needs to be solved, try looking past the problem to the other problem that is the source of it. If your teachers are quitting because they have no power to discipline their students, ask why they don’t have that power. Find the first place in the path that there is a divergence from success, no matter how many steps you have to track backwards. Fix the source.

If someone is sick because they have a demonic problem, find out why they have the demonic problem. If you just cast out the demon without solving the source problem, it looks the same as killing bugs but leaving the door open at night.

Ask the Spirit of God what is causing something to be a problem. Ask Him how to deal with the source. Pray for prophetic revelation to be brought into the situation, and words of wisdom and knowledge.

Don’t avoid problems. David’s destiny was behind Goliath. His years of preparation as national leader were behind Saul. His son Solomon, who built the first temple for Yahweh, was behind Bathsheba.