Comfortable.
Are you willing to get uncomfortable enough to do what Jesus has called you to do?
How is God moving you out of your comfort?
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FEAR, DOUBT, LUST, SECRETS, YOU’RE NOT ALONE..
Are you willing to get uncomfortable enough to do what Jesus has called you to do?
How is God moving you out of your comfort?
my wife and I are praying for our neighbors. we are praying that God would open doors for us to share Jesus with them. some of them are interested in God. some of them are still bitter toward Christians. we know that God is the only One who can change their hearts and draw them toward Himself. we are willing to get uncomfortable to do what Jesus is calling us to do.
grr… God keeps bringing this up. i know i need to start a prayer group at my school. its a chrisitan school so it seems like that souldnt be so hard. but no one acts Christian only like a few . its reallly sad. im reading the bok jesus of suberbia and its talkinga bout the same thing. the revolution. Jesus Didnt do what people expected. he hung out with “people not like him” He calls us to do the same .. so im gonna need prayer thanks
I have asked God to show up in my life SO many times. It seams that his relationship with me has been one of quiet education and frequent emotional “episodes” in which I renounce his effectiveness and decide with much gusto that I am better off without him. After coming out of one of these “episodes” last year and finding myself in the state of an emotional whipping boy for every negative and emotionally abusive person within ear shot, I began the slow and somewhat sheepish return to the arms of God who, as it turns out, was there all along. I imagine how upsetting it would be to tell someone how much you care for them and invest so much love and support in their well being and then watch as they quite smugly throw it all back in your face and announce “i would rather wallow in masochistic squaller!!!”
Well, as it turns out.. God was not disappointed or disgusted with me and when I finally came to Him he, as always, scooped me up and made me feel whole again. Unfortunately, I had fallen in love with my shackles and had become extremely comfortable in the world of my abusors.
I asked God one night, as I often do, to remove whatever it is in my life that I have managed to pull into priority above Him. I told Him about my feeling of helplessness in my current job and of my guilt for allowing the outside representation of me to become starkly different than what lies at the core of my being. The outside layers had become jaded and covered in a shroud of judgments and anger, of grudges and pretense, of negative self-talk and horribly low self-esteem. As my confessions rose to the ears of the heavens I expected God to react in the way that has been signature of our relationship since it’s debut in my early adolescence.
I expected God to sigh a breath of comfort into my heart and put me to sleep, content in knowing that someday I would understand the master plan. This is NOT what happened. The next day, GOD SHOWED UP….talk about shaking my world and making me totally UNCOMFORTABLE. A great and powerful courage rose inside me, I decided..after months of indecision to quit my job. I was free….and….unemployed…then, without warning, God slammed shut the door that once lead to cruel and twisted relationships….he locked the passages so firmly that even my considerable attempts to re-open them were squelched. At first I felt shocked…my entire life had changed, and all of what had defined me had been stripped away. I was alone, exposed, and without prospect. God had, in a moment, destroyed my life.
The funny thing about this destruction is that in my brokenness I found my way back to an overwhelming grace. God has become my everything and in this unmistakable place of discomfort I am whole. I may be rebuilding, but each brick of this new life is forged of refining fire and in my soul burns, once more, the passion and true heart of my KING!
Hi Stirring community. Just wanted to let you guys know that Renee’ and I miss you guys. I’m preaching on the same theme at my church right now. It is cool to see how God leads hearts across the nation in the same way. Continue to step out in faith and take risks for God.
I’ve been really stepping out of my box lately, but through it god has shown me, yes, each time it seems risky, but the blessing follows every time. Mainly, god has me speak to certain individuals, whether a word of encouragement or whatever he shows me about them. I am some what shy and am not known to be the type of person to do this, it has been a major step for me.
Secondly, my dad pastors in cottonwood, I preached my first sermon no more then a month ago which was a hugggggeee step out of my box, again im giving my testimony this sunday night, and following Later this month I will again give my testimony at a youthful worship service I play drums at in Red Bluff. God has been working tremendously in my life and everyones life around me, but it has taken me getting uncomfortable enough for him, to allow him to be able to do this.