5 Mentalities You Need to Survive Lockdowns - S.H.A.R.P
We all know that a lockdown is an emergency protocol restricting access. It is set in place by the authorities as a security measure. The past year 2020 was an eventful one for everyone and because of the global pandemic, we had to experience a global lockdown which impacted negatively on people. We lost the freedom to move around and go about our businesses while it was necessary to curb the spread of covid-19 in our world. Right now, the Lockdown is back in many countries of the world. How will you survive it should your country decide to lockdown? You need a great mentality.
A lot of people went through all
of these and more. For some, loved ones were snatched away by the cold hands of
death as the virus spread rapidly.
I have news for you. The acronym
S.H.A.R.P is a collection of 5 ways for you to stand tall despite the
lockdowns, or whatever leads to them.
S – the ‘Stay Calm’ Mentality
When you don’t know what to do in
life, the first step is to stay calm. When you are faced with what you never
bargained for, the first step is to stay calm. When the devil hits at you and
your family real hard, the first step is to stay calm.
Why should you stay calm?
You need calmness to know the
most accurate steps to take in response to what you are faced with.
H – the ‘Hear God’ Mentality
When you are calm, you can ask
God for direction. He alone knows the way. He is not just ‘A Way Maker’, the
Bible says in John 14:16: “Jesus says l am the way, the truth and the Life”.
You need to hear the divine
instructions needed for the next move. You cannot afford to take a step that
will cost you everything. How much of
the future do you know? Science fails to curb the spread of the virus.
Technology, with its height of advancement couldn’t reliably decipher the
characteristics of the virus. It became guess work. Would you want to throw
away your years of labour and dreams to such? You see why you need to hear Him
that knows the way?
You hear Him by asking Him to
speak to you and be expectant that He will speak if you are ready to hear. Hearing
Him might be through direct study of the word of God, listening to messages
preached by a seasoned man of God and/or through books that will inspire you
and keep your faith in God and your belief in who God has created you to
become. This will flood your mind and spirit with peace and will sustain you through the difficult time.
A
- Act on The Instructions; the ‘Act’ Mentality
It is not enough to just hear
Him, you’ve got to be ready to act on the instructions you’ve heard. This step
will pull you out of your comfort zone because God will always ask you to do
the unusual. While others are lamenting, He may ask you to praise him. You may
not find any physical reason to do so, given the facts that are glaring;
businesses stopped, some love ones are no more, jobs taken away, lifestyles
suddenly changed and dreams seemingly eluding. If you obey and act on the
instruction(s), you are half way through the process of the miracle that heaven
is cooking to serve you and your household.
John 11:25; “Jesus said unto
her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me shall never
die. Believest thou this?” (KJV)
While
you sit and mourn your seemingly dead business, dead job, dead opportunities,
dead ambitions, Jesus says, I AM THE RESURRECTION. The resurrection is not an
EVENT; it is a PERSON called JESUS CHRIST. Where
He is, things don’t die, not even your loved ones because the Bible
says so. DO YOU BELIEVE and will you ACT on His instruction(s)? The facts
remain; things are falling apart but the truth supersedes the facts. Miracles
do happen to those who believe and act.
Luke 1:45; “And
blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things
which were told her from the Lord”.
It could be a physical or a
spiritual instruction. Just hear and act.
R – Resound the Promise, the Mentality that
Never Forgets the Promise
Oftentimes, when we are faced with
negative situations, we forget the prophecies, the promises and perhaps
specific instructions we received from God. This is the trick of the enemy to
rob us of our inheritance and to compromise our belief system. You need to build
a sound, word-based belief system that is hard to crack or penetrate by
situations and happenstances that are not favourable at the point in time.
Learn to resound what you were
given by way of instruction(s) and keep a positive attitude towards the
situation because where fear does not exist, the enemy cannot triumph.
It may feel like you are trapped;
no movement, physical restrictions everywhere enforced by the authorities. Do
not restrict your mind from exploring the many possibilities around you and
hoping for the best.
If you have to keep pictures of
positive possibilities around you as a reminder of the future you desire,
please do so. The mind is such that holds unto whatever it is exposed to. You
must learn to shut negativity out so your brain doesn’t interpret it and send
pain into your body. On the order hand, you must also learn to open up your
mind to positivity, even when your mind/body is not experiencing the euphoria
that comes with a positive atmosphere. If you do it long enough, it will master
only what it is exposed to and as such your spirit will be shielded, not be
broken by the happenings around you.
Things may not return to what you call ‘the state of
normalcy’, you simply have to be ready to face “The New”. This is one thing
that happens to all: change. You must anticipate it and prepare for it or else
you will need ages to be able to adjust. Acclimatization is only possible where
receptivity of the “New” has been consummated. You may never have it going as
it were before the shutdown or what led to the shutdown. So you have to be open
to new opportunities, new contacts, new networks, new resources etc. This will
help you transition into another realm or a new level of operation(s) and will
help you pick up the pace again.
Be ready to make the
shift.
There is still hope, even after a prolonged season of
restriction that has affected global economy and the general well-being of people
on earth.
BE INTENTIONAL ABOUT
LIVING LIFE!
Selah!
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