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Friday, October 21, 2011

Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone


Do you have a favorite seat in your home, at church, or maybe in the lunchroom at work? Have you ever gone to sit in your favorite seat but someone else had beat you to it? If you’ve experienced this, you know what it feels like to be forced out of your comfort zone.

While it’s normal to want to be comfortable, feel safe and secure, those times come when you have to get out of your comfort zone. How uncomfortable will you allow yourself to become? When you’re faced with making a relationship change, a change in doctors, a change in jobs, how uncomfortable are you willing to become?

Well, believe it or not, people who are willing to become uncomfortable are those who have found a key element to living a successful, prosperous life. It’s impossible to grow, mature and transform your life without stepping outside of your comfort zone and allowing yourself to become uncomfortable.

REASONS YOU‘RE APPREHENSIVE ABOUT STEPPING OUTSIDE OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE

1. Fear
Fear is the greatest obstacle to getting out of your comfort zone. There are those who would be doctors, nurses, lawyers, business owners and much more. However, fear has caused them to put their dreams on hold; kept them from stepping outside of their comfort zone.

The way to overcome fear is to replace it with faith. The more faith you have in God, the easier it will be to get out of your comfort zone. Think about what God has already done for you. Recall how you’ve seen His hand working in your life; providing for you, protecting you and opening doors for you. This should strengthen your faith. Study God’s Word and your faith in Him will increase. Spend time in the presence of God in prayer and meditation and watch your fears decrease, and faith increase. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7).

2. Failure to Recognize Your Value and Worth
A person who does not recognize their value and worth is the same person who can’t see why it’s necessary to endure some discomfort in order to achieve personal growth and development. This is a person who will make all kinds of excuses. Excuses are not real reasons. You make excuses when you want to conceal what’s really going on.

When you recognize that your life has value and worth, instead of making excuses, you’ll step outside of your comfort zone because you know you have something to offer the world and you’re not going to allow a little discomfort to cause you to make excuses and keep you from stepping out on faith, taking those risks, doing something you haven’t done before and experiencing the growth and development necessary for you to get where God wants you to be.

3. Lack of a Healthy System of Support
Sometimes all you need is a little encouragement to take that first step outside of your comfort zone. It’s amazing what encouragement can do. There are people who are skilled at encouraging others. It’s their gift from God. A good encourager will know just the words to say to make you feel comfortable about becoming uncomfortable. Seek out those godly individuals in your life who have a healthy boldness about them; those who are confident but not arrogant and prideful. Learn from them. Find that person who will hold you accountable for your actions and remind you of who God created you to be.

Conclusion
One of our greatest problems is instead of depending on God, we depend on ourselves. We have more faith in ourselves than we have in God. Stop depending on yourself. Move yourself out of the way and let your destiny unfold at the hands of God. As a child of God, you are entitled to every achievement God has planned for you. It rightfully belongs to you, and He would never give you something and not give you the power to possess it as your own and fulfill it to His glory and honor. You simply need to trust Him, step out of your comfort zone and possess it!

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