Breaking Creative
Codes
Introduction
The need for creativity.
Life’s unsolved problems are not solved because
the creative code and combinations are not
found yet.
Churches, individuals, organizations do not take
off, or do not come into their full potential
because the creative combinations are not
found yet.
Levels of Creative Challenge
Level 1: Everyday Creativity –
Level 2: High Value Change – Results in significant
improvements in the way things are done, and the results
obtained. Eg changing from traditional evangelism to TV
evangelism
Level 3: Breakthrough Innovation: These are game-
changing innovations that redefine the path of history. Eg.
Google. Computer. Writing
Creative Combinations
What is a creative combination?
Except in the most simple of all organisms (the one-celled
creatures) the creative capacity is shared amongst two or
more carriers.
Creative Combinations are found in male and female
species… and God!
God delights in hiding the creative combinations:
You have to search for YOUR spouse.
Hidden Codes
Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things
revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may
follow all the words of this law.
PROV 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is
to search out a matter.
What separates one king from another is the WEIGHT OF HIS
GLORY.
The key to your greatness and celebration is in your ability to
find and use the creative codes.
What is a Code?
In communications and information processing, code is a
system of rules to convert information—such as a letter,
word, sound, image, or gesture—into another form or
representation, sometimes shortened or secret, for
communication through a channel or storage in a medium.
Or
In computers, a code is a Program: A set of instructions
that must be executed in a particular manner to gain a
specific outcome.
The BIG QUESTION
Is there a code for creativity?
Is creativity learned or naturally endowed?
The scientific research shows it is 20% Inheritance
80% Learned.
What is Creativity?
Creativity = Wisdom
Creativity = Inspiration
Creativity = Invention
Creativity is divine expression through human channels.
The measure of your creativity is the measure of the
expression of God through you.
Creativity is not the same thing as originality
How then do I break creative codes?
How do I activate the creative program in my life?
Ans:I need to remove the things that resist the flow of
God through me.
WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT RESIST THE FLOW OF
GOD?
The Box Defined
RELIGION
KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE
RELIGION
Religion is a system built by man that determines how you
interact with God. God does not respect or regard
religion. God will always break the religious systems to
bring new levels of creativity to mankind.
KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge is a system built by man to determine how you
interact with people, things, ideas and the environment.
This system is so powerful that it has taken the whole of
humanity captive. Everything outside of this system is
considered impossible and unwise!!!
EXPERIENCE
Experience is the name you give to religion and knowledge
combined!
Experience is the repository, the storehouse of Religion and
Knowledge.
So of these three, which is most powerful?
IN THE BOX, OUTSIDE THE BOX
These three concepts are so powerful, they have guided
humanity from the dawn of time. You and I cannot say
they are not important. But the truth is if you have to
break the creative codes and be reckoned as a creative
giant, then you must jump these hurdles.
YOUR CREATIVE SKILLS:
MEDITATION
You become what you meditate on.
You cannot be a lover by praying and fasting. You become a lover by
meditation.
Prayer addresses the environmental factors and spiritual manifestations
in your life. But prayer does not make you BECOME
The process of becoming is a creative process. It requires intercourse.
Through intercourse you become one flesh (sexually)
Through intercourse you become one spirit (spiritual fellowship)
Through intercourse you also become one knowledge (Mind fellowship)
You tune into to Inspiration (which is the breath of God) through
meditation
COURAGE:
Courage to be different. Courage to become a non-conformist
Courage to dance against the music and see what no one else
sees. It takes a lot of courage.
You need courage to look into the light. You need courage to see
the things that be not as though they were.
A man with a vision is a mad man until that vision is actualised,
then he becomes a hero.
How do you develop courage?
First redefine courage: Courage is not the absence of fear. It is
the DECISION to move ahead towards your goal in the face of
the fear.
Motivational speakers like defining fear as FALSE EXPRESSIONS
APPREARING REAL. The person that coined that definition has
not been faced with fear! I want to be real.
You can’t take the fear away, but you can make a choice like
soldiers at war.
I choose to go on! I am unstoppable!!
COURAGE
Another name for fear is doubt. Fear and doubt are
offsprings of Knowledge, Religion and Experience.
They reside in the realm of the mind, but you
conquer them through the realm of ACTIVITY.
Every time you are afraid, DO SOMETHING
COMMITMENT
Commitment is an irrevocable decision. It is driven by courage.
You won’t go back on your goals no matter what life throws at you.
COMMITTED VS CONTRIBUTION
A lot of us are contributors. We bring our best ideas to the table.
We bring our best resources to the table, but we do not bring
ourselves to the table. We are playing safe. We are contributing
The chicken contributed egg to your breakfast, but the goat
committed his life.
Creative codes don’t yield to contributors, but they can’t resist
committers.
OPTIMISM AND POSITIVITY
Optimism drives commitment, and fuels courage.
Every prospect or suspected prospect gives us energy to
continue the pursuit.
Every time you tell yourself there is no way of doing this,
your mind immediately shuts down.
If you are positive of finding a solution, you will stay
committed. If you stay committed it will build your courage.
As you become more courageous you realize that you have to
depend more on a higher power so you meditate more.
DESIRE
Prov 18:1 (KJV)
Through DESIRE a man,
having SEPARATED himself,
SEEKETH and
INTERMEDDLETH
with all wisdom.
JUMPING THE EXPERIENCE HURDLE
Experience is collective knowledge and wisdom. It is the
BOX.
To think outside of the box, is to step outside of these.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; a big knowledge is
a limiting thing.
BEWARE OF KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE
BEWARE OF FAMILIARITY – The Brain Trap. You provide
solutions you have used before.
The Look-back and solve approach. Is this a fresh, new,
and original approach, or am I simply replaying a Pattern
from the past?
OUT OF THE BOX SKILLS
ASSOCIATING
QUESTIONING
OBSERVING
EXPERIMENTING
NETWORKING.
ASSOCIATING
This skill involves creating links between seemingly
unrelated items. The best innovators are able to connect
concepts, things, and people in imaginative ways.
To increase your capacity, you can increase your exposure
to more and different ideas and then force yourself to
think about ways in which they could be linked.
Questioning
Questions are at the core of creativity.
Three Magic Questions (Why? What if? Why not?),
the best creative minds ask any number of open-ended
questions.
What could. . . ?
How might.. .? If. . ., then what about. . .?
Have you thought about. . .?
The specific content of these questions isn't as important
as the process of asking and answering them.
Ask! Matt 7:7
Observing
This skill involves raising your level of awareness,
observing in great detail what is happening in the world,
and then imagining what could be different.
Experimenting
The most effective creative minds are not afraid of failure.
Instead, they experiment and dabble until they stumble
upon the best solutions.
Thomas Edison generated thousands of versions of the light
bulb before creating the one that changed the world.
Networking
In the creative process, networking is about finding diverse
people whose ideas challenge your own thinking and
expand your perspective.
SERENDIPITY
In last night’s dinner…Kellogg cornflakes
In a failed product…Post It Notes, Viagra
In everyday things and misfortunes…
Wherever you turn – be it Christopher Columbus’ misadventure
in trying to find a new route to India that eventually resulted
in the discovery America, the accidental discovery of penicillin
by Alexander Fleming, or the discovery of the potency of
Viagra – there is always that hand of the unseen playing games
with human destiny, placing clues for the open minded and the
observant to stumble on something fortunate while looking for
a completely unrelated object.
That is the definition of serendipity.
ONE CREATIVE EXERCISE TO CHANGE YOU
FOREVER
What is this?...
What Can this be?
Conclusion
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take
your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-
to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God
as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the
best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-
adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even
thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be
changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he
wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the
culture around you, always dragging you down to its level
of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops
well-formed maturity in you.
Go Unleash your Creativity
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