How Do You Survive When Trouble Comes?

To survive trouble when it comes, you have to have a will to carry on through the processes you can’t change . When circumstances come your way, you have to lean upon what you already know, the skills you already have. Now these things need to be put to the test under the situations that you face. Check the mental conditions, if it is being weighted down, you need to remove the confusion that has put up a block in your normal way of thinking. Instead of having a negative attitude behind the matter, look at the situation and see if you can find a positive within the trouble. You need to reach down in the sack and pull out your creative problem-solving skills. Find a way to make improvements that will boost you up, so that you can remain strong in the face of the giant.

When you are forced into a survival mode if you can, try to remain calm, so you can survive. Troublesome situations makes the heart starts to work overtime. The body become full of stresses to trigger the fight or flight response. You have to gather ourselves by taking a moment to collect your thoughts. Make your way through the wind and the rains. Surviving can be a struggle, when you just barely getting by. Surviving then can be a drag when you are trying to make it through. When the way of life has been only full of trouble, survival becomes the name of the game. Trouble come and trouble goes, some last longer than you what them to, and some seem as if you are permanently stuck there. It is as if you are drowning in trouble in every area of your lives. This is when you must dig in our treasure of abundance and pull out your thinking cap to change the story you see.

It might be frightening, there may be no-one to help, but when you are forced to the edge, this is where you start to appreciate and find gratitude. You start looking to the horizon seeing that it is time to clean up the baggage that you are carrying around. Realizing, what you don’t need anymore. You began to rearrange the inner and outer world of your lives. You start making your paths clear, no more complaining, ready to reap the rewards that is waiting for you to take the necessary actions. When clarity comes through the dark clouds of the unknown, reach for the wisdom and step into the joy that is presently waiting for you to grab hold to. Trouble will come but there is provision if you just look up to the one that is holding his hands out to each and every one of us. Don’t be afraid when the trouble comes.

Do not let your heart be troubled, we tend to try to figure out why, who, what, where, when. We become a wreak, but Jesus left us His peace. We need to rest in that peace when the trouble comes. This is the action step needed to be taken. When your heart begins to race, and worry makes it seems like you are suffocating. It is in that moment to not let your heart be troubled over the circumstances. Pour out the fear don’t hold the worry in, take a deep breath and get yourself back together. No need to stay up, not able to sleep. When that thought pops back up in your mind and goes on a rampage. Talk to that thought and let it be known that fear does not live here only a sound mind. In that moment surrender the trouble, throw it out and go to sleep. But tomorrow, remember that you have a sound mind and don’t pick the fear back up. The greatest defense against trouble is speaking the word of scripture. It will help us renew our mind from being troubled to walking in peace. Only if we let it rest within the trouble. This is a way to survive when trouble comes. Night will fall, and we will get terrified. But, we can make it, and we can survive it, because there is a man walking on the waters that is raging telling us to come, “Don’t be afraid, it is I.”