There is no one on the planet who has no problem; no family, no organization, and no government that has no problem. There is no challenge-free life. The difference is that while some are determined to solve their problems, others are occupied with celebrating their problems. According to Scripture, everything you celebrate multiplies (see Jeremiah 30:19).
Did you know the difference between the developed and developing nations? The developed nations are committed to solving their problems while the developing nations are busy talking about their problems.
How Do You Solve Your Problems?
Problems are stepping stones to success. It’s scriptural to be challenged, it’s ‘unscriptural’ to be defeated. You can solve all your problems by implementing the following guide:
The number one way to solve problems is to have a vision
The root cause of most of the problems you face is a lack of vision. A life without a bearing is a burden. Having a clear vision will save you from many troubles. The Bible says, Where there is no vision the people perish (see Prov 29:18-27). Life is an experiment without a vision. Don’t get lost in activism. Activity does not equal productivity. Because you’re busy does not mean that you are getting results. There are too many busy people in life with no results. Make daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly plans and set long-term goals and run with your goals. Find out who you’re and where you’re going from God with the help of the Holy Spirit and most of your problems will disappear in automatic.
Not everything that glitter is gold. Not all opportunities are from God. Some opportunities are graveyards which add to your problems. It’s easy to avoid distractions when there’s vision. It’s easy to say no to any opportunities that won’t take you there.
Lack of vision is a problem. It’s the reason many are confused, living by the law of accident. They live their lives as occasion serves them. They change jobs like chameleons now and then. Every field is their field. No area of specialization. If you don’t know where you are going any road may look like it. You need to find out from God where you belong. Seek help from the Holy Spirit and be committed to staying on your calling.
Life is so simple, but it becomes complex and problematic when too many irons are in the fire. Jack of all trades, master of none.
“Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee before thou come forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto nations. “
Jeremiah 1:5
Nelson Mandela, an exemplar of a visionary. Though his body was dying, his vision was alive. He said: I will become the president of the nation someday and he became it. All true visions always put the visionary on the run (see Jer 20:9).
The Second way to solve problems is to find solutions to problems instead of complaining
While complain complicates your problems, murmuring mess it up. Fault-finders don’t go far in life. Even God hates murmurers: neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.” — 1 Cor 10:10
Do all things without murmuring and disputing — Phil 2:14
Most developing nations are problem talkers and that explains why some nations have conquered the moon while others are yet to conquer the earth.
You can’t blame people for your predicaments: your brothers and uncles have their families and bills to take care of, so you must take responsibility. Hannah blamed everyone but no result: but when she was joyful, the miraculous exploded if you are not joyful you will be fretful. You are the light of the world. The world needs you to solve her problems.
The third way to solve problems is to never give up
Everyone who has tasted success in life in every field has tried and failed quite many times before they succeeded. For a righteous may fall seven times, and rise again (Proverbs 24:17). Thomas Edison, tried and failed nine hundred and ninety-nine times to invent a lighting bulb.
The Bible did not say that you’ll not go through trials. Trials are not punishment for sins but a test of faith. Before a primary school pupil could move from his or her current class to the next, he or she must write and pass an exam, even if his father was the school principal does not exclude him from writing the exams. Everyone has a private trial that they’ll pass through in life to hit their success marks.
Abraham passed the test of faith when God told him to offer Isaac as a burnt offering. And again he waited for the promise for 25 years and did not have a fainted heart but he was giving God the glory till fulfillment of the promise. No matter what you are passing through, press on. Your breakthrough shall arrive.
Most vision speaks at the end; most breakthroughs happen at the end. The wall of Jericho fell down flat when the Israelites went around it seventh times on the seventh day, in the other six days they went around only once (see Joshua 6:15).
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: thought it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely (come to pass); it will not tarry.”
Habbakkuk 2:3
The last day you set for your goal could be the day that all your goals are accomplished. Because you set a deadline along with your goal and it’s almost getting to the time it elapses, and nothing seems to work, don’t give up, believe it shall speak even at the end, and work on your vision. God works mysteriously, the result of one day can supersede a lifetime achievement of somebody else’s life.
Within three months a cup-bearer became a governor. In one night, famine was over in Israel and food was sold for one shekel as prophesied, no scientific or economic calculation can explain that – not even Harvard could explain.
Number four: think big and don’t despise little
It is important to note that you should have a lion’s heart to take a lion’s share. Your thinking faculty has a way to determine what and who you become in life. The superhuman project the Pyramid of Egypt, was accomplished through the power of imagination. Any good thing you can imagine from Genesis to Revelation could become yours.
When God told Abraham and his seeds all the land he saw, He didn’t expect him to see all his seeds with his physical eyes but his mind-eye. If you can picture your greatness with your mind-eye, you shall have it. You only feature in a future that you can picture.
“Moreover the word of the lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seeth thou? And I said I see a rod of an almond tree. Then said the Lord unto me, thou hast seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.“
Jeremiah 1:11-12
Don’t despise the days of little. Overnight success has become a big problem among the youth nowadays. The get-rich-quick mentality. Everyone wants to climb the trees from the top. The best place to begin is the beginning. If you’re starting a business and the first thing that comes across your mind is money, you may fail. Get the ideas first and start from somewhere.
Last, make sounds
When you are quiet you become dumb, when you are dumb you become stupid. Mountains are problems that only move by speaking (not by crying or watching). Speak your miracle into being. David defeated Goliath by speaking and God overcame the ugliness of darkness by speaking. The mountains you see are the ones you have not spoken about.
The richest pastor in the world has been professing his prosperity since when the ministry was a reference to poverty. But God has turned things around, the ministry now owns five planes, two best-in-class universities, and many other investments. Understand this is what you cannot despise, you cannot dominate. If you keep saying you are sick, you are empowering the sickness to dominate you.
If you keep going about telling everyone how poor and misfortune you are begging for cash and borrowing here and there, you’ll suffer a lifetime of humiliation and disappointment. Again, whatever you celebrate magnifies. Put your trust in God and not in men for your prosperity, healing, and breakthrough.
God is a jealous God, He delivers only those who have confidence in Him and not those who run over the legs of men in favor. “They that know their God shall be strong and do exploits.” – Dan 11:32. Men can only lift you where their hands could reach, but God will lift you according to His capacity. Continue to make bold declarations of your breakthrough into being.
“For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.”
Luke 21:15
In conclusion, never worry when problems set in. God makes everything beautiful in His time — not in your time. The most unproductive activity on earth is worry. Instead, channel all your energy into praise and thanksgiving. If you’re not depressed, you cannot be oppressed. God does not owe anyone something; we owe Him praise and thanksgiving.
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12 responses to “How to Solve Problems”
Knowing our identity as children of God who rule and reign is important. Love how you say to have a vision and go for it. Sitting and doing nothing will never see the vision come to pass. When we have Holy Spirit help and do what he says, problems are solved and become the fodder for realization. Faith in God and walking by faith brings results.
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Yes, I also thought as much. Thank you for your valuable contribution. God bless your heart💕
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You are welcome, Chris! I receive the blessing.
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A welcome reminder to write down my vision for my life, with the Holy Spirit’s assistance.
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You’re welcome. God bless you🙏
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“The developed nations are committed to solving their problems while the developing nations are busy talking about their problems.”
I have to disagree with this.
Developing countries are labeled as such because they have limited industrialization, low standards of living and poor economies. Because of this, it is difficult for them to afford to change it. And if you go to some of the poorer parts of America, it is rarely any different than what a developing country offers; I’ve been to both, and in many cases, below poverty line in America basically means “worse off than nearly anyone in developing countries.”
America is a developed nation; they do nothing but blather and argue, fuss and fight. They manage to get very little done in the way of solving real problems (think gun violence or global warming). Just because we have a bigger output of pollution and have bigger national debt, we are considered developed… but then again, the countries that made this labeling system are also the ones that previously called individuals from these countries “savages” and used them for free or cheap labor.
So, on this point I do disagree. I’m sorry for that.
Otherwise, I agree with the remainder of what you wrote. A problem is an exercise for your mind – like a maze with lots of dead ends, and you have to find your way through. Don’t spend too much time worrying, get to making it to the center and back out the other way. But for me, the complaining has a purpose. It allows me to have my full on worry and anxiety about a problem while it also forced my brain to kick into gear and simplify said problem. Financial woes can feel overwhelming and bigger than you – waaaaay bigger than you, and is if it will simply crush you. So I whimper, complain, and let it out. As I do, my brain figures out exactly how woeful the situation is. First reaction: “I can never do this! Who can work 5 14 hour days and then get a fourth job? I’m going to die of exhaustion!!!” While complaining: “well, it is only X amount of money. If I calculate the realistic amount of how much it costs per week, I can actually take a weekend a month off and sleep, so I won’t lose my mind as fast.” After complaining: “ok. I’m to tired to be stressed about this. What is the solution?”
And complaining to other people helps. Sometimes, they can assist you in unexpected ways, such as requesting company on their weekly shopping trip where you end up buying groceries too, but less wastefully than usual because you are sharing a cart. Or they offer to take you out for a pointless drive which is fun and it short circuits your freak-out. It’s not beg, borrowing and stealing your way to a solution, but ways you solve it yourself. And other times, when you complain about it, you are just speaking of it out loud as you suggested, so that it can work out.
Lovely post which made me realize some things about myself. Thank you!
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🙂Halo Marla, I love your overall comment and I am also glad to know that the post has helped you to discover some things about yourself.
However, the comment you made about developing nations is not 100% true. I understand that the developed nations also have their own challenged and shortcomings from the governments but of their leaders are committed to change. Take Nigeria for example, we are blessed and endowed with natural resources, one of the top oil producing nation in the world, we are blessed with agriculture and we are rich. But sadly, there is wide gap between the rich and the poor, our economic growth does not translate into development due to bad leadership.
The wealth of the nation does not go round. Despite the wealth, we lack basic infrastructure as power supply, good road networks and pipe borne water with sanitation problem. Not as if this country is poor or lack the resources to effect a change, but there are issues of bad governance where politicians siphons public funds to their personal accounts. And the judiciary system is being compromised to the extent that criminals are allowed to walk free in the public and even participate in electoral process. Thuggery and religious violence are being sponsored by the leaders at the helm of affairs. Most of the leaders here are not competent. They are only there to make money at the expense of the masses. With all these problems, you’ll see that one is better than the other. I am not trying to make us look pitiful, I am only trying to express the reality on the ground. I have also learned one or two things from your comment.
Anyways, whichever school of thought you belong to, diverging opinions are welcome. Thank you for reading through and leaving a thoughtful comment. God bless you 🙏
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Thank you for your reply, I appreciate the time you took to express where you’re coming from.
Sadly, I see much of what you were talking about here in our nation, despite the overall difference.
The wealth here does not go around either. The rich get richer, prices go up but income doesn’t. People can’t afford basic necessities anymore. Our most basic infrastructure is in place though, although barely maintained, and there are places here that do not have drinkable water as a result, places that have an extraordinary number of cancer patients because of pollution in the air, ground and water supply – which they are told IS potable because they have been told to say it by their donors, and they don’t care it’s not true because the people it’s killing are poor. Politicians here siphon money, and accept bribes. It’s been all over the news that one of the individuals in the highest court of our land has been accepting huge donations and gifts from people bribing his decisions. We had a person in power who believed that money was everything and used it to silence issues while simultaneously accepting gifts and assistance from a country that was trying to control our government enough to keep them out of their business. The judiciary system here is constantly pulled into question, and true criminals are allowed to walk free because they have a good lawyer. Once they are free, they can vote as well. Only some people convicted of certain crimes are banned from voting, and it’s almost always those that can’t afford the best lawyers and who legitimately made a mistake; the wealthy do it on purpose to become more wealthy and then can continue to vote. Thuggery and religious violence is being supported by the leadership here. We had someone in power for four years that would actively tell their followers that they would pay for their defense if they created mayhem and caused bodily harm and property destruction. They even incited a riot to get what they wanted by promising that they would protect those that did it. Currently, many of our leaders are not competent to be in charge of a kid’s aunt colony, but they are in charge of running entire states. They use the emotion of the masses to sway them toward violence and rallying against their neighbor. Breaking into homes and bearing people nearly to death for disagreeing with the person that they support is no longer unheard of at this point. Guns are rampant, currently the number is something like 2 guns for every person in the country, but they are not owned by every person in the country; a good number of us want nothing to do with them. But the leadership get money from the people who sell guns, so obviously, more guns are the answer to too many guns. There’s no decent change, only huge battles where change should be.
That is, unfortunately, the reality on the ground here. If I’m being honest, truly honest, the differences are not that different. The same evils plague both, they’re just different in detail and scale. ONE bad politician can negatively impact over 300 million people here. I admit I do not know your governmental structure, and it could be quite similar to here where that is the case for you as well. If it is, I understand your frustration better than you could ever know.
Whether our countries are labeled developed or developing doesn’t matter much. What matters is that we both found a way to communicate with each other here in the blogosphere, so it’s never all bad, and that’s worth remembering for both of us. We both have access to Internet, and that’s worth something as much as the others put us in a mental deficit.
I wish you well my friend; be well
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I am sorry to hear that you also go through the horror of bad leadership over there. Nevertheless, unlike here, some of your past presidents had paid the sacrifice for building a better nation. For example, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Woodrow Wilson, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama. That is the story we were told here. You may have a better version of it. All those who want to pay the sacrifice here are not allowed to enter into power. They are either killed or bought. I judge that developed nations solve their problems while the developing ones celebrate theirs, not only based on the current happenings but also history. It does ’t matter who is right or wrong what counts is that which we share in common, the ability to communicate via the internet on the blogosphere which has empowered us to learn from each other. Thank you for your valuable contribution. You are always welcome to my world, Marla. God bless your heart💕
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It is interesting, the disconnect in information, between our nations. The individuals you named did work diligently in an attempt to make the nation better… depending on who you ask. The benefits they had put into place to help all are being stripped away now. I can only speak to those that have been in power since my time, and Reagan was not horrible, but he was the bringer of Trickle Down Economics, which has been the biggest issue. A simple idea, the top people are able to create companies and get richer, they then pass the riches down to keep the lowest of employees content. The reality is that the top get richer and pay wages that are just enough that their employees are terrified of leaving because they can’t eat if they don’t have that paycheck. Give the employees just enough that without the job, they would lose their homes, food and security because it took them a single week to find another job. The really fun part is that every company basically does this, and you MUST have a physical residence to get a job. So you are in a constant state of being on the verge of homelessness, but can’t leave your job because in doing so you can’t pay those bills. Not being able to pay those bills means you will lose your home, and any future potential to get a job. I know too many people who have to work two jobs (or three in my case) just to keep a roof over their heads, and those benefits that were set up 60 years ago haven’t changed with the times. Not really. The worth of money has changed as has the cost of money, but those benefits still kick in at stupidly low. You qualify for government assistance if you make less than a certain amount of money, but you have to work two jobs to keep a roof over your head, so suddenly you make over that amount and no longer qualify for the help that you need to also eat.
The news coming from my country isn’t much better than what you describe. Some people are eager to help others, but they are blocked from power by fear-mongering. Someone thinks that everyone should be able to see a doctor and afford it, suddenly the opposition put out tons of false information saying that it’s an attempt to kill your grandmother and prevent YOU from seeing your doctor. So the person trying to make a change is blocked. And those that do get into power are promptly paid off not to; or the opposition is paid off to never agree so that those great ideas remain nothing more than ideas.
That was much of the story with Obama. He had great ideas, but was blocked on many of them. He couldn’t get things done. Same with Jimmy Carter.
When another someone was in power, they repeatedly said things that could convince someone who was not all there mentally to kill the opposition. Literally to murder them in cold-blood, rather than allow the people to actually have a say and maybe for the opposition to gain power. When that didn’t work, they called for their followers to stop the thing that got them into power, and this did happen. Their followers attacked, trying to overthrow the results of a free election.
That is what I find endlessly fascinating. I admit, you clearly learn more about our history and government than we are taught about yours. I will not pretend otherwise. However, you are taught about very specific things, and the negative is not taught or explained for you. It’s a selective education. I remember the last time I visited Africa. Here, things were in terrible turmoil. There was an election approaching and the vitriol was heavy, the cruel labels in full force. The government had nearly been stalled for over a year by needless battles and blocking from both sides. I went to Africa and everyone knew about only the positive side of what we were living through at home. I couldn’t purchase a bottle of water without someone telling me they loved Obama. It was extremely interesting to me because here, people who had loved him had started to not like him, and people who had not liked him had started to despise him. The contrast was very interesting to me.
I also realized that across the world, many people do not really understand our system. It is not taught accurately in many places. Having a President that wants to make change is not something that the President can just do. That’s not how it works.
A law has to be proposed in detail. Once it has been proposed, it must pass into law. To do this, it must be voted on by a committee, and if it passes there, it goes on to the House of Representatives which has over 430 people in it. 218 must agree to this bill for it to pass. If it passes, it must go to a committee in congress and repeat what the previous committee did, so it can go to Congress, where 51 of the 100 people must agree for it to pass. If it passes there, it goes to the president to sign into law. Once the president signs it, it will be interpreted by the Supreme Court, which has 9 justices, of which five must agree for a law to be interpreted a certain way.
Every step of the way, people add or remove sections for it to pass, so the original bill might look completely different than what it was originally supposed to be.
If a president proposed a bill, and in any step of the way the opposing side was in the majority of the vote, the bill would just not be a bill anymore and go to the trash pile, unless there was a lot of room for changing it. So for example, a bill that was proposed to increase every person’s income by $10 an hour, it would have to pass all of those steps to become law. Ultimately, the big companies don’t want this to happen, so they buy off the politicians to kill it. A president might come in with every good intention of giving the people enough money to live, but if they are not able to be bought, the companies will find others that are. The bill doesn’t pass. It can be changed and altered throughout the way as well; which means the bill that once said every employee gets $10 an hour more is no longer that. Now, the employee gets $0.05 more an hour ONLY IF the company thinks they can afford it (which shockingly, they never, ever can). The company doesn’t have to prove they can’t afford it, they only have to think they can’t, and the workers see none of it.
That is how it actually works here. Every bill that is proposed is not voted on by the people; the people vote on the representatives who then vote based on what they think. So all it takes is a good bribe to the right person and nothing will ever pass. As far as the Supreme Court, the people don’t vote for them. Basically, the people vote for president and for the officials in the Senate. The president then picks someone they want and the Congress votes to put them in or not, and they are put in for life. There is no term. So you can have a very liberal president and a very liberal house and congress, and that bill that gives everyone $10 more is actually passed. Once the Supreme Court is asked to interpret it, you have to hope that 5 justices of the 9 were put in by liberal presidents, otherwise they will say “unconstitutional” and tell you that it’s only constitutional if the businesses think it’s affordable. And they won’t. So it’s back to square one.
I only explain this because it is sometimes hard for people who don’t live here to understand why someone who is voted into presidency can’t make the changes they promise. This is the reason why. A president on one side of the spectrum facing a house and congress with a majority on the other side can’t pass what they promised. I also explain it because I have also found that most people have an idealized version of how our government works, and leads them to think that we have it all figured out. The reality is that we don’t, not even close. And currently, every stride we have made in the past is slowly being eroded and removed. Over 17 million people woke up and found out that the one benefit they had, medical insurance, was just… gone. Covid was deemed not an emergency anymore, and people who were able to qualify just lost their health insurance. And medical bills here are astronomical. In countries like England, a simple scan can cost less than £400 (less than $500US; in America, that same scan is charged at $12,000. That is not a typo. Twelve THOUSAND dollars. In other countries, if a woman gives birth in a hospital, they hand her the baby while they clean her up so she can start bonding right away. Cost to the mother: nothing. She’s holding her baby. In America, they charge $40 to hold the baby. Without health insurance, there is no way to afford the medical bills. Literally NONE. People have come out of the hospital and lost everything. There is literally a woman who had end-of-life care, and her family received a $9.2 million dollar bill from the medical care facilities; or 4.2 billion NGN. Just to die comfortably. No one could ever pay that off, and yet, her family may lose everything because she was terminally ill. The doctors couldn’t save her, they didn’t even try. They made her comfortable and then decided to hand her family that bill after she passed.
So, we are far from where most other people think we are.
You are absolutely correct. As far as who is right or wrong, that matters not. We are not arguing who is better or worse; we are discussing the similarities and differences so that both can walk away from the exchange knowing more about the other’s countries than they did before the conversation started. Using the Internet to cross the world in a moment, so that we can both be better in the end. For me, it is interesting to see the difference in what you say about your country and what I have heard and learned of it (which is pitifully little, I dare say). I know more than most (even worse, in my opinion), as I have set foot there. I have seen it. I understand it better. I understand there is a Head of State, and that there are government officials. Other people in my country believe that Nigeria is simply full of starving people, there is no real government to speak of (corrupt or otherwise), and the whole country lives in dirt huts. They know there is little infrastructure, and are also surprised by the fact there is Internet in a place that doesn’t even have showers. That is the education we receive here about other countries. How they are bad, horrible and lawless simply because America is the greatest ever. Go ‘Merica!!!
May you be blessed today! 💖
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Hmmm! It has been quite so interesting reading your comments. I must admit that I have learned a lot from you today. God bless you. Do enjoy the rest of your evening 🤗
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You having learned something from me at any point, is the most I can ever hope for from any exchange. And I have learned from you too, which means we did it right!
Have a phenomenal day!
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