The obnoxious alarm wakes you from a deep sleep. The first thought you have is, ‘it can’t be time to get up.’ Hitting the snooze button with a smile, you dig down in the covers. It is so comfortable there in the big fluffy bed. Dozing off you have a smile. Ten minutes later the same obnoxious sound only it is a little more urgent this time. Dragging yourself from the bed you make your way to the coffee maker. The last thing we want to do when cozy and comfortable is to get out of bed and fight traffic going to work. Oh, how easy would it be to stay in the comfortable place of our bed.

None of us want to step outside of our comfort zone. How many times have we done something that terrified us? We didn’t want to step outside of our comfort zone? But when we did, our boundary to our comfort zone expanded. We were no longer afraid of something we had overcome. Everything God asks us to do stretches us. It gives us more confidence in our ability to overcome.

If we are comfortable, we are normally able to do things within our abilities. God wants to do extraordinary things with our lives, but we have to be willing to follow his lead. Sometimes we want to fill our time with the same thing as yesterday. We get into a comfort zone.

God has so much more for us if we could push beyond our comfort zone. He wants to make us warriors for the cause of Christ, but we have to be willing to be bold. He is wanting us on our faces before him, praying for our country. We need alone time with Him in order to be used by God. Pray for deep roots, we will need them to stand strong against what is coming our way.

Jesus didn’t want to go to the cross. He asked God to let that cup pass from him. He was also a good son and said not my will but yours be done. He pushed past his comfort zone and gave in to the process that was set before him. Because he pushed through his comfort zone, many were able to have a right to salvation.

We will never become all that God wants us to be if we are not willing to say, “I trust you, Lord.” Yes, stepping outside of our comfort zone is scary. Yes, the life of a warrior is not an easy road. But he needs bold people in this time to say, “I am a child of God and I will follow where he leads, I will go where he sends me.” If we don’t go, who will? If we want to stay comfortable, who will sacrifice for the gospel?

I often think of my grandfather and how he traveled all over the east coast of the US, in the fifties and sixties preaching the gospel. Without even a vehicle sometimes. He hitchhiked, not knowing if he would get enough money to get home. He truly lived by faith. He gave up a good paying job to preach the gospel. Sometimes he would even have to pick up odd jobs to get to the next town. But he didn’t let that discourage him. He preached the gospel anyway. Countless people were saved, healed, and delivered from demons, sickness and sin. They have passed that faith on to the next generation of their bloodlines. All because of his willingness to step out of his comfort zone.

What will be my legacy? How many lives can I touch if I am only willing to go where He leads? How many lives can you touch by stepping out of your comfort zone? Together we can be a great army of faith-filled, spirit-filled, word-filled warriors that will not allow the enemy to have one more person, NOT ON OUR WATCH.

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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