This document discusses problem solving and networks. It provides examples of how Jesus and other influential figures solved problems to gain influence. It emphasizes that culture wants its problems solved and will follow those who solve problems. The document also discusses how God works through networks and how Satan attacks believers in the areas of their God-given inheritance and calling. It encourages readers to respond to attacks with "suicidal faith" like Abraham and Jesus.

1. Session 5
Problem Solving
& Networks

3. Problem Solving
The reason the Son of
God appeared
was to destroy the
devil’s work. 1 John 3:8

4. Josephs are often "problem
solvers” through invention
and entrepreneurship.
Problem
Solvers

5. Why was Jesus
Influential?
He solved
Problems!!

6. • He solved Peter’s fishing problem
• He solved Peter’s tax problem
• He fed 5,000 people when there was no
food
• He solved the blind man’s seeing
problem
• He solved the prostitute’s problem &
kept her from being stoned

7. Peter’s fishing problem

8. ...the people who know their
God shall be strong, and
carry out great exploits.
- Daniel 11:32
Culture doesn’t care who solves their
problems; they just want their problem
solved. If you solve their problem
you will gain influence.
Culture change is fruit, not a goal.

9. God is looking for those He can entrust a
problem to who will manifest a God-given
solution to that problem.

10. God is waiting for his change agents
to step into their destiny.
The creation waits in eager expectation for the
sons of God to be revealed-Romans 8:19

11. In the last days…
"In that day," says Yahweh, "I will assemble
that which is lame, and I will gather that which
is driven away, and that which I have afflicted;
and I will make that which was lame a remnant,
and that which was cast far off a strong nation:
And Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion
from then on, even forever.”
Micah 4:6,7
“Beware of any Christian leader Who does
not walk with a limp.” –Bob Mumford

12. If you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul:
then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the
noonday; and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in
dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered
garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail.
Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall
raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be
called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.
Isa 58:10-12

13. God had to prepare this man with
13 years of broken dreams and
humble circumstances in order to
break every ounce of pride and self-
will. God could not afford to have a
30-year-old steeped in arrogance
and pride running an entire nation.

14. The process of circumcision can
be dependent on our level of
cooperation with God.
“If my people would but listen to
me, if Israel would follow my
ways, how quickly would I
subdue their enemies and turn
my hand against their foes
(Psalm 82:13,14).

15. Every servant of God who
had great anointing also had
great adversity -- Abraham,
Moses, Elijah, Paul, David,
Peter. Many business leaders
who made a difference in the
Kingdom also experienced
great adversity.

16. Live such good lives among the pagans that,
though they accuse you of doing wrong, they
may see your good deeds and glorify God on
the day he visits us.
I Peter 2:12

17. David’s
Big
Audacious
Idea
What will be done?
• Kings daughter
• No taxes
• Great wealth
• Understood covenant
“Uncircumcised Philistine?”
From delivering food to delivering a nation

18. Becoming a Change Agent
“Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the
spirit of God?”
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, ‘Since God has made all this
known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as
you. You shall be in charge…” Gen 41:38, 39

19. Joseph, a Change Agent
You shall be over my house, and all my people shall be ruled
according to your word; only in regard to the throne will I be greater
than you." And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over
all the land of Egypt" (Gen 41:38-41).

20. Joseph Case Studies

21. Johannes Gutenberg
inventor of the printing press 1455
60 years later - Protestant Reformation 1517

22. Johannes Gutenberg
“Let us give wings to Truth in order that she may win every
god that comes into the world by her word, no longer
written at vast expense, but multiplied everlastingly by a
machine which never wearies.”

23. Johannes Gutenberg
“It is a press, certainly, but through it, God will spread His
Word; a spring of pure truth shall flow from like a new star
it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light
hitherto fore unknown to shine among men.”

24. George Washington
Carver
• 300 marketable products – peanut
• 100 sweet potato
• Transformed southern economy

25. George Washington
Carver
“Man, who needed a purpose, a mission,
to keep him alive, had one. He could be.
God’s coworker. My purpose alone must
be God’s purpose.
As I worked on projects which fulfilled a
real human need, forces were working
through me which amazed me. I would
often go to sleep with an apparently
insoluble problem. When I woke the
answer was there.”

26. Abraham Lincoln
• Failed in business at 31.
• Defeated for legislature at 33.
• Again failed at business at 33.
• Elected to legislature at 34.
• Sweetheart died at 35.
Nervous breakdown at 43.
• Defeated for Congress at 46.
• Defeated for Congress at 48.
Elected President of
the United States at 51.

27. J.C. Penney
• In 1910 his first wife died.
• In 1923 his second wife
died
• In 1929 the stock market
crashed - lost $40 million.
• By 1932, he had to sell out
to satisfy creditors and was
broke. Penney lost virtually
all his personal wealth, and
borrowed against his life
insurance policies to help
the company meet its
payroll.

28. J.C. Penney
Mental breakdown:
Penney wound up in a Battle
Creek, Michigan
sanatorium
One morning he heard the
distant singing of
employees who had
gathered to start the day
with God: Be not dismayed,
whete'er betide, God will
take care of you...
• Began to rebuild at 56.
• By 1951 there was a J.C.
Penney in every state.
• Sales: $1 billion.

29. RG Letourneau
• Inventor of earth-moving
machines-300 inventions
• Gave 90 percent of his income
to the Lord after major
adversities led to full
commitment
• Founded LeTourneau
University

32. Lynne Ruhle
Reclaiming the Gymnastics Mountain - Sports

33. Visions & Witty Inventions

34. Key Objectives of the Process
To be trustworthy of a
large vision
“Not every man can carry a full
cup. Sudden elevation
frequently leads to pride and a
fall. The most exacting test of all
to survive is prosperity.” –
–– Oswald Chambers

35. Culture doesn’t care
who solves their problem.
They just want their
problem solved.
The way to have
influence is to solve
a problem.

37. Networking

38. God believes in teams
Father
Son
Holy
Spirit
Each
member
has a role
to play

39. Networks - Change happens by a small number
of change agents banding together

40. England’s William Wilberforce
“Clapham Group”

41. “The key actor in history
is not individual
genius but rather the network
and the new institutions
that are created out of these
networks. And the more
'dense' the network
- that is, the more active and
interactive the network-the more
influential it could be.”

42. "I do not pray for these alone, but
also for those who will believe in
Me through their word; that they
all may be one, as You, Father, are
in Me, and I in You; that they also
may be one in Us, that the world
may believe that You sent Me.”
John 17:20-22

43. And the Lord said,
“Indeed the people are one
and they all have
one language, and this
is what they begin to do;
now nothing that they
propose to do will
be withheld from them.
-Genesis 11:6

45. Satan Attacks Josephs in the
Place of their Inheritance

46. Satan Attacks Us in the Place of Our Inheritance
Faith choices often require “suicidal faith”
• Abraham
• Abraham
• Land
• Seed will
bless world
• Split w/ Lot
• Hagar -
Ishmael
• Gave
choice to
Lot –
Mamre
• Isaac –
Promised
son
Person Inheritance Attack “Suicidal Faith”

47. Satan Attacks Us in the Place
of Our Inheritance
• Jesus
• Os Hillman
• Power to bring
salvation, the
Kingdom on
earth
• Lk 19:l0
“reclaim”
“Relationships”
Coalitions
Kingdom
networker
Writer-speaker
• To receive
power from
Satan
• Betrayals
• The Cross
• Forgiveness,
“always choose
grace to
forgive”
Be aware of
attacks
• Shut down
words, poor
student
Person Inheritance Attack “Suicidal Faith”

48. Satan Attacks Us in the
Place of Our Inheritance
• Entrepreneurs • Business deals
to bless God’s
people.
Kingdom of
God in
business
• “Good vs
God”
• Greed
motive
• Gibeonite
Ruses
• Consumptive
lifestyle
• Faithful
Steward
• Be a channel
Character Inheritance Attack Faith Response

49. “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to
be tempted by the devil.” Matt 4:1-2
Tempted in three specific areas.
1) His Identity – “If you are the Son of God…”
2) His Authority - by using His power inappropriately
and at the wrong times
3) His Strategy - to accomplish His assigned mission.
“All this I will give you… if you will bow down and worship
me”

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