Seeing that everyday in our lives comes with its own package, mostly not as we planned them, and we are left hanging without knowing what to do nor how to do it, we only hope and believe that things would turn out for the better.
Hopefulness comes with positivity, hopefulness is seeing beyond the situation anticipating and belief for a better outcome of every difficult or challenging route or situations, even when it does not look like it. That's my definition of hope. Hope is one thing that needs to be strengthened on daily basis as far as life is concerned. Hope is not strengthen by just sitting tight to profess it, but it requires work as well. As much as it's important to profess what we hope for it's also important to work towards to direction to see that thing come into actualization.
I recalled several times I was faced with tough situations and I had nowhere or no one to talk to, I only hope and believe a better outcome of it. I recalled vividly on two occasions where God came through for me because I hoped and believed for the better.
It happened in my first year in the university, there is this course that everyone was scared of, even the students that were ahead of us complained bitterly concerning the course, with the excuse that one needs to pay before anyone passes that course. I was scared as human because I made up my mind not to indulge in that, so it became a trait to me, so to overcome that i can only hope for the better, while i do my part by reading like never before. So after that semester examination everyone rushed in to subscribe for the course, my friend approached me trying to convince me, but I didn't see myself doing it, the result came out, I was told that I didn't passed the course, but shockingly I was not moved but I just told them that it wasn't my result because I knew what I wrote I went back home returned to school the following day and the result was posted, and to mu greatest amusement i passed the course and even some that subscribe failed. Another were a date was fixed for the submission of a project yet my project topic had not been approved, I only hoped everyday that the lecture would approve the topic bur to no avail, but i never give up i kept professing that i would finish the project before the deadline, and to the Glory of God i did.
That left an important lesson in my spirit, which were; in the face of challenges and difficult situations we can overcome if we don't give up in the process, Nobody can strengthen your hope better than yourself, we may not have full control of some difficult things we face, but we have full control of how we want the outcome to be. There is power in what we profess and believe in. And that power can you manifest if we don't give up in the process.
Some ways to strengthen our hope
a) Surround ourselves friends of like-minds: The Bible states that "Iron sharpens Iron, so a friend sharpens his friend's contenance ........." I believe that the Friends we keep determine how far we go in life. When we surround ourselves with friends who see difficult situations as a stepping stone to better heights and being positive about situations, With That hope will be strengthened with ease.
b) Professing what we want to see; There is great power in what we say, If we profess a positive outcome and hope for that outcome, it will definitely come to be, but if we profess negativity and give up that change we so desire will never come.
c) Be Active, Work towards the achieving what we hope for: It's one thing to be positive and it's another thing to see it manifest. What we hope for will never come and meet us on our bed of idleness, but it's on the bed of hardship and dedication.
d) Never Give Up Easily: There is this saying that "Winners never quit, and quitters never win" so in that storm never give up, be hopeful and the change will come. At first it may not look like it, but with hopefulness, perseverance and determination the change will come.
e) Encouraging ourselves: The extent to someone's encouragement can be limited, no one can encourage us better than ourselves, so in everything we are to strengthen ourselves with encouraging and motivational words, and we should have reasons to proceed, seeing every phase of life as a training ground that will sharpen and shape us into a better person.
This is my response to today's julyinleo daily prompt.
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