Break Out of Our Comfort Zones—Part 6
In chapter 1, I introduced this prayer:
Lord,
Daring to dream again sounds so good,
But sometimes memories of broken dreams haunt me.
Help me let go of the pain
That keeps me from responding to Your gentle nudgings.
Your presence encourages me to set aside fear
And to become a spiritual risk-taker.
I want Your dreams for me to be my dreams as well.
AMEN
Don’t overlook the value of this prayer. When prayed repeatedly, it will keep before you the desire to risk all to see God’s dreams for your life come true.
I’d also suggest once again that you figure out what represents your comfort zone. Get an actual picture of it that you can put in your Bible. The bank account, the new home, the family, the position. For me it’s my calendar, my daily planner. That may not make much sense to you, but with all my deadlines I find that my life is almost slave to a schedule. If the Holy Spirit has a message for me, it’s almost as if my response is, “I can talk Thursday at 2:00, Lord. How’s that?”
So my comfort zone picture is a sheet from my calendar. This is the entrapment from which I have to break free. I put the calendar sheet in my Bible so that the Scriptures can stretch me. Have you noticed they do this if we let them, if our comfort zones don’t crowd out what the Lord wants to say to us through His Word?
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Sunday’s coming. Do you have your sermon ready? Is it relevant? Will it effectively motivate your congregation to walk more in step with the Master? What about that Sermon Series you’ve been thinking about?
Or, if you’re someone who plans well ahead, have you asked yourself what you will preach for your Easter Sermon, your Advent Sermon, your Christmas Sermon?
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