We all experience situations when it’s hard to keep hoping. What if’s? How to’s? And Why’s? flood our minds. Visions of possible catastrophe dance before our eyes. Hope plummets with every ticking second.
I’ve learned some things through the darkest seasons that I would never know had God not allowed me to walk there. And my faith was sustained by God’s grace by putting these five things into practice.
Here are five ways to keep hoping when hope is waning:
1. Pray
Sometimes the hardest places are where it’s hardest to pray. But I’m learning these are the times I need it most. Realize prayer is talking to God openly and honestly and giving Him room to speak. Share with Him your heartaches, struggles, doubts, and fears. Yes. He already knows it all. But He asks us to bring our cares to Him, roll them onto Him, and allow Him to carry us through.
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of…
