Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 130: In the Midst of Crisis!

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Hello friends!!

What does the phrase “In the midst of crisis” mean to you? Share your understanding in your own words

In the midst of crisis simply means when you are currently going through an unpleasant situation lets say a heart break, the death of loved on, homelessness, sickness, inability to pay your bills and many more. When you are presently in these situations, it's said to be in the midst of crisis.

Been surrounded by troubles, challenges, pressures of life at a point in ones life is tagged as in the midst of crisis. Crisis is anything that makes you uneasy or anything that tries to steal your peace, joy, happiness or anything that makes you helpless.

When in the midst of crisis, what do you usually do, like the first thing you do? How do you handle it? (It can be personal, academic, financial, or emotional.)

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Crisis is something that everyone on earth at one time has been there. Whenever I find my self in crisis there are certain things I do. Sometimes I find myself crying helplessly at night or when am alone, sometimes I think deep on how to fix it, others times I pray and meditate, sometimes I speak to close friends about the crisis am in.

But guess what the first thing I do when am in a crisis is to ask God for help. I think God knows me better than anyone can, so he knows the right way to fix anything in my life. I ask God for help through prayers. Sometimes I make those prayers silently in my heart, other times I pray the words aloud especially when it has overwhelmed my heart.

After I have prayed, sometimes he gives me an idea on what to do next. He could tell me to call someone or lead me anyways. Other times after the prayers he encourages me with his word of my Grace is sufficient. And at that moment joy is restored. I could start playing music to get myself back.

If it's financial crisis, I may have to work harder and believe him for supernatural supply. That's how I handle the crisis.

Do you believe crises make people stronger or weaker? Explain your view

Normally crisis doesn't make any stronger or weaker, it's your choice to decide what you make out of it. Someone once said to me; Pressure produces power! I think it's true but there are many who do not know how to handle pressure and it has destroyed them.

When crisis comes to us, your problem solving ability is what determines if it makes you stronger or weaker. When your problem solving ability is low, you would run away from the crisis, avoid it or do nothing about it until it swallows you up. At that point the crisis has made you weak.

But there are other people who when they encounter crisis, their problem solving ability is intact, they try to find solution to their problems no matter what it cost them. At that point they get even better at problem solving and that's how they get stronger.

What lesson(s) did you learn from that experience, and how has it shaped you today?

Going through crisis and learning from it is something most people forget to do. I seriously believe that if we learn from the things that happens to us, there won't be another occurrence.

One of the vivid lessons I learnt from one of the crisis moment I went through is that in this life money is very important! Don't allow anyone deceive you. Money makes life much easier.

Another thing I have leant is that as long as you don't give up and keep pushing and learning you can achieve greatness

Next is discipline. Sometimes it is not even the devil that is stopping us or causing our problems, it is you. It is because you have not leant self discipline. So I have leant this very well.