1. Refuse to panic—refuse to let your circumstances dictate how you will respond with your thoughts and your actions.
2. Pray for God to show you the roots of unbelief in your heart that are feeding your fear. What are you really afraid of?
3. Attack unbelief! Repent of any unbelief in your heart that is warring against trusting God.
4. Pursue truth! What does the Bible say that correlates to your situation?
- What has God promised in the Bible?
- Who is God (which attributes of God correlate to your situation)?
- If you need help, find a friend who knows the Bible well enough to you help you find relevant truths.
6. Affirm that God fulfills good purposes for your growth and His glory even through affliction.
7. Rejoice in the Gospel! Remember the temporal nature of your circumstances and remember your eternal hope. Even in the worst circumstance (death), we have hope.
8. Celebrate God’s faithfulness by practicing gratitude.
9. Focus on fulfilling today’s responsibilities in the power of Christ, loving God and others more than focusing on yourself.
10. Adopt a Philippians 1:21 attitude for life: “to live is Christ and to die is gain.”