How to Get a Different Perspective in a Difficult Circumstance

What are you choosing to magnify in your life? Does everything around you seem heavy, weighted, or stressful? Have you believed the enemy’s lies that tell you things like, “it will always be this way,” or “this problem will never end?” Chances are if you are magnifying the stressors in your life or challenging circumstances, you have believed the lies of the enemy that speak words of defeat. You just might need a new perspective. When you encounter challenging circumstances, the enemy is right there ready to whisper lies that God is not good, God does not care or the trial that your going through will never end.

A definition of perspective is a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.

Ways to change your perspective:

1.      Choose thankfulness over complaining and grumbling. Look for your blessings and speak them out or write out your blessings. Don’t just focus on the injustices and suffering in your life but choose to magnify what is going right.

2.      Meditate and study the Word of God. Replace all the lies you are believing that your circumstances or the people in your life will never change or that whatever is troubling you will go on forever. Walk by faith, not by sight. Keep declaring the Word of God and His promises over your situations and loved ones, no matter how dark it looks. The enemy wants you to quit and give into self-pity and defeat, but if you don’t give up and keep pressing on with a good attitude, God will come through.

3.      Step back and get a clearer picture when needed. If you are confused or feel anxious about a situation, get before God and be still and allow the Holy Spirit to give you Divine wisdom and clarity. Do not make decisions based on emotions, including guilt or fear. Wait upon the Lord and allow Him to speak over your circumstance. Pressure, guilt, condemnation, fear, and/or worry never come from God. You will need God’s perspective in situations that are too difficult for you to handle. See and hear what God wants you to see and hear. Silence your flesh so that you may hear the Holy Spirit.

4.      Don’t speak out what you are encountering that is difficult, instead choose to turn away from all that is distracting and pulling and pressuring you and declare the Word of God instead and speak out loud faith-filled declarations.

5.      Worship and praise will change your perspective. Take some time and sing and declare God’s goodness, faithfulness and mercy over your life.

Changing your perspective begins with confessing and believing that God is in control, God is good, and God is faithful. Resist the temptation to believe the lie that your situation will never change. God never brings loads of heaviness, despair and heaps of stress-check the source and move along in faith believing that your situation must obey to the will of God.