The Story of Your Life (Busting Out of Comfort Zones)

Comfort Zone 
Breakers

How do you break out of your comfort zone?  I mean it is called a comfort zone because it is comfortable and it is a nice place to be.  It just doesn’t create the best life possible.  It just creates a life.  So how do you bust through your comfort zone and see your life become all that it was made to be and all that you want it to be!  It is a process it is a journey.  Like with any journey you have to take the first step.  So what is the first step?  Decide you want to change, make a commitment to change.  Then take the first step.  Get rid of your excuses and go for it.  Take a look at this awesome verse a great promise to us from God!  Joshua 1:9  Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”  Now that is a power verse if I have ever read one.  God is talking to Joshua right before he was to lead God’s people into the promise land.  A land filled with giants.  They were supposed to go in and defeat all these different people and claim the land for themselves.  Now get this the people that Joshua was leading were very comfortable in the place they were.  They have been hanging out in the desert for forty years and God had been providing everything that they needed to survive.  Water from rock, breakfast from the ground, and dinner from the sky in the form of falling birds.  They were comfortable. Yet they were not living the full live that God created them to live, so now it was time to step out and God gave their leader the promise in Joshua 1:9.  So you need to remember that that promise stands for you today and you can move past the normal life that you are living at this time, and move out of your comfort zone and take the life that God made for you to live!  So back to the steps, Step one get rid of the excuses and decide to change.  Step two understand this God Works Through our weaknesses to Accomplish His Big plans.  Your weakness can become an excuse to keep you in your comfort zone.  But God works through our weakness.  Step three realize this Courage is not the Absence of Fear.  We talked about that last week and how we were not given a spirit of fear, and that is true, but you still may have fears to work through.  Courage does not take away all fear, but it does give you the strength to defeat the fears that you have.  Step four is simple to read but not simple to understand, but every successful person who has step out of their comfort zone understand it.  You Can’t Get To Success without Risking Failure.  Yes that is true.  Every successful person has experienced failure on the road to success.  Many of us are only one failure away from success.  We just have to give it one more try and not be afraid to make the jump, and risk possibly failing again.  The fear of failure has kept many people from being all that they could every be.  These are the top four steps to breaking out of your comfort zone.  I Chris personally challenge you to break out of your comfort zone and do all that you can do to be all that you can be every single day!  The days of hiding in the shadows and living in the comfort zone are over…

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