Stepping out of Our Comfort Zone

Genesis 12:1-5 New King James Version (NKJV): Now the Lord had said to Abram: Get out of your country, from your family, and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.  Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan

Obedience to the Call

Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

A big part of stepping out of our comfort zone requires putting our trust in God and obeying His Word even when we don’t have all the answers.

Are you willing to step out and trust the voice of God to go where He is calling you even if that means leaving your current comfortable environment to do?

The Promise of a Blessing

There are special blessings and greatness that accompanies obedience to the will of God.

Missed Opportunity

Numbers Chapter 13 vs 1-3 (NKJV): And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one, a leader among them.”

So Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

Numbers Chapter 13 Verse 27-28: Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly [a]flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.

Numbers Chapter 13 Verse 30-31: Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.”

Numbers Chapter 14 vs 2-4: And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the Lord brought us to this land to [a]fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.”

Who are we listening to? The doubters with their Bad Report or will we listen to Joshua and Caleb, and allow God to lead us through obstacles and defeat the giants standing in the way of our destiny?

There is Still Hope

Philippians 2:5-8 (NLT): You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, He humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.

© Jeff Hogan., 2023