REAL LEADERS (Part 3)

REAL LEADERS (Part 3)

Adesina Abegunde

Ask Questions and Seek Answers

Hebrews 11:26 (AMP)

²⁶ He valued suffering in the Messiah's camp far greater than Egyptian wealth because he was looking ahead, anticipating the payoff.

Real leader are seekers. Seekers of answers to peoples’ or organizational plights. Real leadership as Bill Hybels will define leadership is “taking people from here to there.” Real leaders know that there is always a THERE better than HERE, so they seek it eagerly and do everything needed in the right direction to take people there. A very good way to see a better future is to ask questions about the present conditions, real leaders raise good questions and seek answers, not minding what it takes to get the answer. You are not a leader unless you are eagerly looking into the future to see a better tomorrow and do everything today to move there.

What are you looking ahead to? What are you anticipating? What is your driving force? What cause are you leaving for?

David said in 1 Samuel 17:29 “Is there not a cause?” (Am I not just asking a question?). He conquered because he questioned, wise questioning brings great conquering. The quality of your life depends on the quality of the questions you ask. Michael Hyatt said “Leadership is less about having the right answers and more about having the right questions.”

Influencers ask questions that have the following characteristics:

    1.      God-glorifying

    2.      Others-centered

    3.      Potential-tapping

Somebody is asking, why are Nigerians jobless? Why can’t I, not the government provide a million jobs to Nigerians in the next ten years? Ask questions that will make you depend on God, which will benefit millions of people and cause them to glorify God. Ask questions that will stretch your abilities and that of others around you, questions that will tap dormant capabilities or potentials. One right question that is acted upon can release the grace of everyone around you as a leader. David asked one question, acted on it and destroyed the intimidation that has destroyed the strength of all Israelites. Moses also must have raised questions on the possibilities of ending the slavery of his people. What question are you asking? What answer are you seeking?

Influencers don’t live for ease, they live for a cause. They bear a “burden” in their heart in order to be a blessing. What problem are trying to solve? Very few people are problem solvers, many are problem themselves waiting to be solved by someone else. For example, a graduate who is jobless and is not thinking is a problem waiting to be solved, while a graduate who start a business, empower fellow jobless graduate and even employ one or two persons is helping to solve a problem.

What problem are you trying to solve? You can solve the problem of ignorance by providing knowledge as I am trying to do. You can solve the problem of shelter, transportation, feeding, refuse disposal, even management and many more.

How to ask good questions;

      1.      Be prayerful, it will activate your prophetic intelligence

      2.      Be studious, become intelligent through study

      3.      Be curious

      4.      Have a thinking time

      5.      Don’t settle for assumptions, don’t assume you know. In fact, challenge what you know

      6.      Don’t ask Yes or No questions

      7.      Don’t give up if the answer is not in view

  Even when there is no problem, you can ask questions to see if what you have can be better.

Real leaders ask questions and seek answers.

You will not live a wasted life in Jesus name.

You will not be a problem waiting to be solved, but a problem-solver in Jesus name.

Every confusion in your life is cleared in Jesus name.

You will not disappoint destinies hanging on your leadership in Jesus name.

God bless you.