Will You Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone? Series

And in our comfort zone, we can choose to ignore God, we can hide ourselves so deep we ignore His voice,

or worse we get to the point where we believe that we are trapped in our comfort zone and that there is no escape from a prison we have created.

Have you put walls around your comfort zone?

Have you put a fence around the wall,

so even if you try to escape your comfort zone there are additional barriers which prevent you from heading in the direction God is calling you to take?

Has your comfort zone become a prison?

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During the war a spy was captured and sentenced to death by a general in the Japanese Army.

Before carrying out the sentence the general gave the spy a strange choice.

He told him he could choose between a firing squad or a big black door.

The spy thought about the choice and chose the firing squad and within a few moments he was dead

The general turned to his assistant and said, “They always prefer the known way to the unknown.”

The assistant then asked the general, “What’s behind the black door?”

“Freedom!” Replied the general. “Behind the big black door is a passageway that leads outside, but only a few have been brave enough to see what was behind the door!”

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What is the Big Black Door in your life?

Is it the fear of the unknown that keeps us trapped inside our comfort zones!

To be free from what has imprisoned us,

we only need to open the door!

Then we can get out of our comfort zone and step into the destiny that God has planned for us.

We can be a part of the great adventure that God has planned for us.

When we step out of our comfort zone,

when we leave the prison we have created,

when we leave behind the things that bind us and cage us - then we are in a place where we allow the Holy Spirit to fully work in us and through us.

We need to leave behind the prisons of fear, failure, responsibility, routine, assumptions and guilt.

We need to leave our comfort zones and step into the life that God has called us to live.

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Where is your comfort zone?

Where are you this evening?

Tonight I want you to really look at your own spiritual life and where you are in your spiritual walk…

Are you stuck in your comfort zone or are you stepping out in faith?

Are you missing out on the blessings and the abundant life that Jesus promised because you refuse to leave your comfort zone?

Throughout history God has taken people out of their comfort zones.

God has proven time after time that He is able and that He is willing.

God has guided people on the paths He has made for them.

God has guided and enabled people to do what He has called them to do.

All it has taken is a step of faith.

A step of faith that has led to blessing.

A step of faith that has led to changed lives.

A step of faith that has made the impossible possible.

A step of faith that has brought glory to God.

A step of faith that leaves the comfort zone behind.

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