Chained to Comfort - with Chase Glisson

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Message podcast from st. Augustine Florida.

Now enjoyed this message. Pastor, all had asked me to

minister tonight while he was out.

It's always an honor to get to speak anywhere but it's just a

huge honor when you get asked to speak.

At your home, right at where you're from at the vision you're

connected to at the place you love.

So, you know, I want to thank Pastor Earl and Marci for the

opportunity to speak tonight. You know, I think it's kind of

great to how it works sometimes because I'm gonna be honest, a

couple weeks ago, I had a couple little conversations with my

wife about some stuff and then, you know, mention it to Pastor

Earle. I'm just kind of like, you know,

have been chewing on a thought and then, you know, I get asked

to speak and I was like, you know, I think this was for this

time, right? Pastor only asked me last week

we've got at something on my heart.

But before that. Anyway so I'm pretty excited

about this word tonight and I'm going to take just a little bit

to set kind of a foundation before we really jump into the

meat of what I'm wanting to get to so bear with me for a second

as I kind of jump through a couple different stories but

we're gonna tie this all together and it's going to make

a lot of sense here in a second. Alright Genesis 12:1 Genesis

Genesis 12:1 Genesis 12:1

12:1. Alright Genesis 12:1 says now

Genesis 12:1

the Lord said to Abraham go forth From your country and from

your relatives and from your father's house to the land,

which I will show you and I will make you a great nation.

And I will bless you and make your name great.

And so you shall be a blessing. And I will bless those who bless

you and I will curse those who curse you and in all the

families of the earth will be blessed.

So Abram went forth as the Lord had spoken to him and lot went

with him now. Abram was 75 years old when he

Departed from the place. Now, let's jump to Exodus 3

Exodus 3:7

verse 7, Exodus 37 says the Lord said and this is this is Moses.

Obviously following, you know, the burning bush.

I didn't wasn't gonna take time to read all of it, but

obviously, we know the story most walks out, there's a bush

burning, you know, calls him over, he goes to check it out,

takes off his sandals, walks up in the Lord says, I have surely

seen the Affliction of my people who are in Egypt and I have

given heed to their cry because of their Masters for, I am aware

of their sufferings. So I have come down to deliver

them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them up

from that to a land, that is good and spacious to a land

flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, and

the hit side, and the Amorite and the rest of them.

Now, behold the Cry of the sons of Israel has come to me.

Furthermore, and I have seen the oppression with which the

Egyptians are oppressing them. Therefore come now and I will

send you to Pharaoh so that you may bring my people the sons of

Israel out of Egypt but Moses said to God, who am I?

That I should go to pharaoh and that I should bring the sons of

Israel out of Egypt and he said certainly I will be with you and

this shall be a sign to you that it is.

I who have sent you. When you have brought the people

out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain.

Matthew for we're going to go to Matthew for Matthew 4. 18 says,

now as Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two

brothers Simon who he called Peter and Andrew.

His brother, casting a net, into the sea for they were fishermen

and he said to them, follow me. And I will make you, Fishers of

Men immediately. They left their Nets and

followed him going on from there.

He saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee and

John, his brother, and the boat with their father, mending,

their Nets. And he called them immediately,

they left the boat and their father, and followed him.

And I could continue to go on, you know, there's Esther, right?

You know who was called in, you know, to visit the king when she

Wasn't supposed to, and then you've got David who had to

serve underneath King Saul, who tried to kill him?

You know, you had Mary, who is called by God to obviously, give

birth to Jesus Ryan. And all these cases of calling.

There's one thing that I noticed that brought them all together.

There was a calling out of the comfortable place in which they

were in at the moment. Right there was a calling out of

the comfort that they knew and had there was a calling out of

their comfort. Downright.

There's a calling out of all of the things which they loved and

were used to and had built up around them and then God showed

up and said, now, I need you to leave all that and go do when

I'm calling you to do. Right.

And there's a long list of, you know, that we could go through

and I could have spent the whole night, just reading the stories

of people God called out of their area.

To go do something great or to do something else.

But ultimately, you know, I want to get to a specific person

which was on my heart to talk about.

But obviously, when we talk about Comfort zones, what we're

talking about is, those tangible things in which we built up in

our life, right? And these things can be money,

that can be education, it can be clothing, it can be, you know,

anything you Put as like, this is my comfort, right?

This is something right because we all have something in our

mind was like, man, I need to take a break and this is what I

go do, right? We have we all have our own

little Comforts. Like I said, pastor in March

there on a vacation, they decided to go camping.

I don't take vacations to go camping.

That is not comfortable for me. Like right, I do not want to do

this. I do not find enjoyment that I

don't want to build my life around doing that, right?

But we all have something that we can say.

Man, these are things, we don't need.

They Don't Really necessarily help us in any area, but they're

really nice and they're really things that make us who we feel

like who we are and they make, you know, the sum total of maybe

you know, my Persona or what I have built up, you know for

myself it's those things that make us feel good, you know when

I first got married, you know what 12 years ago?

Now 11 years ago, now 11 years ago now in September, right?

So when I first got married, my wife, Like the greatest thing

ever she was like gonna be the best wife in the world and she

is and she was like you know what Chase his favorite meal is

country fried steak fried okra and mashed potatoes and gravy,

right? I don't like that meal much

anymore but at the time it was my favorite meal.

So what did my wife do? She learn how to make it and she

made it really well. So well in fact that she made it

like two to three times a week A week.

You know, and so we're having country fried steak and I'll be

honest, I was loving every second of it, you know I'm

saying like this is my mail, it tastes good.

She learned how to cook it. It's amazing.

This is my comfort food. I love every second of being

there. But what I didn't realize was

this comfort that I had, you know, had in my life started to

have an effect on me. Because one day, I went to a

pool party. And, you know, I just want to

say you're the person who takes pictures out of pool party,

shame on you. Nobody wants to see pictures of

themselves, out of pool party. There's no place for cameras at

pool party, right? Just keep that one locked inside

your heart and mind and move on. Nobody needs that posted.

Right? And so I'm sitting there at a

pool party and we're doing that, you know, stupid thing that you

do in pools where one gets on and one shoulders and how high

of a tower. Can we make?

Which is Even just the worst as you're all like, hunched over on

someone's back. Right.

I see a picture of myself and I realized, man, I have gotten too

comfortable. This Comfort has gotten to me

and it is now very evident, right?

And so that Comfort crept up on me to the fact that I was like,

man, you know, I need to do something about this.

And how do we do something about physical?

You have to get a little uncomfortable to go to the gym.

If start breaking out of what you were doing out of.

Tell my wife look, I love you, but man, we cannot be having

country fried steak. Learn another meal.

Like we gotta make something else, right?

And so, you know, that's why I want to jump down to Judges and

this is really kind of where I want to, you know, start honing

some stuff in here because you know, we all talk about Gideon

and a lot of people talk about getting getting, you know, has

like two chapters and judges you know, you know, always talked

about and obviously if you know the beginning of the story, the

Israelites did evil in the sight of God.

So God, let them fall into the hands of Midian they were

basically, you know, going around worshiping, other gods,

the god of bail, they got comfortable in the place.

They were in and let other people's God's seep into their

place, right? And so then for Seven years,

they were, you know, having issues when them.

Then finally, in chapter chapter 6 verse 11 it says this, then

the angel of the Lord came and set under the oak that was in

this place which belonged to a lot of names as Gideon was

beating out the wheat in the winepress in order to save it

from the midianites, the angel of the Lord appeared to him and

said, the Lord is with you. O Valiant Warrior, then Gideon

said to Oh my Lord. If the Lord is with us, why then

has all this happened to us? And we're all his miracles which

our fathers told us about saying, did I not did?

Not the Lord bring us from Egypt but now the Lord has abandoned

us and given us into the hand of Midian the Lord looked at him

and said go in this your strength and deliver Israel from

the hand of Midian have I not sent you he said to him O Lord

how shall I deliver Israel behold.

My family is the least and all of them.

NASA. And I'm the youngest in my

father's house, but the Lord said, surely, I will be with you

and you shall defeat Midian as one man.

Now, see, obviously a lot of times we talk about Gideon and

there's a lot of good stuff here, right calling, you know,

calling them out, you know, call them a mighty warrior even

though he doesn't see himself, is that right.

He goes and picks. What is the least of all this

whole place and says, look, I'm gonna ride you up from somewhere

so no matter where how low you feel like you are, God can do

something great with you. But what I also love about this

Story is he took someone who was just, you know, taking care of

Wheat and said, look, you're doing your job.

But now I'm going to get you out of your comfort zone and I'm

going to make you a warrior. I'm gonna make you something

that you didn't see yourself as but I'm also going to make you

something. That is not easy to do.

Right? Because it's one thing to take a

soldier and say, I'm going to make you a leader in your going

to do this thing. It's another thing that takes on

him as no practical, knowledge of fighting Wars and just takes

care of wheat in and say, you're going to raise up an army and

lead them. Right?

And how many of us, right? We start looking at our gifts

and talents and what we're good at and try to place ourselves in

a calling based upon what we think we can do probably like,

and I'm really good at this. So surely God wants me to use

this and this is how I'm going to do it.

And this is part of my calling this one I'm going and so we

start looking at all these things we can do and all these

things. We are able to accomplish and

start trying to fake God's calling and purpose of our life

into where our Sr. Right.

When if we look at all of these stories listed, they all get

called out of those environments and place somewhere they didn't

see themselves. And if we're not careful, then

we can let our comfort start limiting, our possibilities, or

we can let our comfort start to chain us to something, right?

I got a chain up here, it's really heavy and greasy.

Sorry, Bradley right, we've got this chain up here.

Why? Because if we're not Careful

will start building. Comforts.

That keep us locked in. Because as long as I'm connected

to this chain, there is a limitation on how far away I can

get from this poll. And I will never be able to do

anything outside of this circle. As long as I have the Shane, and

what we do, a lot of times as we call God and we say, yes, God

use me, use me God's right there saying.

Yeah, let me use you in like, no, man.

I gotta pee. God.

Use me. Come on, God.

Use me. I'm really good at doing this.

Use me, I'm really good at Photography.

Use my photography God. And guys, I don't care about

your photography. I want you to do this.

I want you to let go of those things that make you

comfortable, and come seek me out and get where I am, and

where your calling is. Right getting was called out

from harvesting wheat. To go battle something, right?

Because by Design faith gets you out of your comfort zone.

Faith is designed to get you out of what you know can be

accomplished and start trusting in God to achieve it.

And this is why I love the Gideon story when it comes to

this, because we're going to keep going here.

And we're going to see just how uncomfortable things get for

Gideon in this calling, right? So obviously, you know, after

that getting is like, hey, you know, God tells them, you're

gonna go tear down this thing Gideon, still scared.

Still not really. Fully accepting this goes and

does it at Right then they're like, hey, you know, go to his

dad, they're like, hey your son tore down the, the statue of

Baal burn it down, took it down like you need a bring him out

here so we can take care of it. Father wisdom here, Major Dad

points. He's like let bail defend

himself all right this is good dad dad of the year, right

there, saved his son. He's like let bail defend

himself and they're like, you know, that makes sense.

Sure. Yeah, we'll do that.

You know, we'll take, we'll let that happen, right?

So then Gideon throws the fleece.

And I'm Going to talk about this for just a split second because,

you know, I was chewing on this, you know, and I was like, you

know, God, you know, I feel like getting out of comfort zone but

then like God, throws a fleece and like gets all these signs

before he goes and does something right.

But just so, you know, the fleece that's thrown is because

Gideon's in a different dispensation Right.

Gideon does not have the Holy Spirit living inside of him

Gideon. Only knows this.

Right. So there's no unction from the

holy spirit that can lead him and guide him somewhere and I

know in our minds are like, yeah.

But how much easier is it? If I can throw out a fleece,

it's not easier. It's easier to just learn to

hear the Holy Spirit leading and guiding you and come.

Because we have the advantage of that being with us getting

operated and what he knew. But we have something even

better. So we're not sitting here

looking for signs and looking to throw fleeces and God if the

wind blows from the north at 1 a.m. and a purple dust sprinkles

me than I know. It's, you know, we have an

inward witness that will tell us what's going on, right?

And you can see that you know, in John 14:26 John 14:26 the

John 14:26 John 14:26

Amplified classic says but the comforter counselor healer

intercessor, Advocate strengthener, stand by the Holy

Spirit. Whom the father will send in my

name in my place to represent me and act on my behalf.

He will teach you all things and he will call us things.

He will cause you to recall and remind you or bring to her.

You'll remember it's everything I have told you.

That's the advantage we have over Gideon.

Right? So we're not trying to throw

fleeces. Here.

The fleece wasn't to get him out of his comfort zone.

The fleece was, he's leading and guiding It's all right, we're

looking for God's leading and guiding on the inside.

So let's jump down to judges, 71, judges, 71.

I'm going to skip a lot of these names just know it.

Then Jay who is Gideon and all the people who are with Him Rose

early in Camp beside the spring of Herod, and the camp of median

was that at the north side of them, by the hill of this place

in the valley. The Lord said to get in, the

people who you are with, sorry, the people who are with, you are

too. Time for me to give median into

their hands. For Israel would become boastful

saying my own power has delivered me now therefore

Proclaim in my hearing of that of the people saying whoever is

afraid and trembling let him return and apart from this from

Matt Gilead. So 22,000 people return, but

10,000 remain. Then the Lord said there are

still too many people. Bring them down to the water and

test him there. Therefore it shall be that whom

I say to you this one shall go and this one shall go with you.

But everyone whom I say to you, this one shall not go with, you

shall not go. He brought people down to the

water and the Lord said to getting you shall separate

everyone who laughs the water with his tongue, as a dog, as

well as everyone who kneels to drink it.

Now the number of those who kneeled putting their hand to

their mouth was 300 men but all the rest in the old to drink

water the Lord said to get in I will deliver you with the 300

men who laughed and I Give the midianites in your hand.

So let all the other people go each man to his home.

So the 300 men took the people's provisions and their trumpets

and their hands and Gideon sent all the other men of Israel each

to his tent but retain the 300, and the camp of Midian was below

them in the valley. Right.

So we take a guy who's a farmer, who takes care of wheat, we let

them know, hey, you're gonna get out of this wheat farm, you're

going to lead an army to set your people free from the

midianites you're going to leave this thing and he's like this is

an awesome not super excited. God makes your eye you know.

Like am I really hearing this right?

He takes care of some stuff putting manages to Rally roughly

32,000 people which you're like, hey man, get on you like there

you go you know that's gotta be something a lot of people would

That is a sign. I got 32,000 people with me.

God's doing this. Okay?

I'm gonna say it one more time. A lot of people would take that.

As I got, 32,000 people with me, there must be God here, because

there's so many people in this place there must be got here.

Now that's not what God Said. God said no 20, you know,

30-something thousand of them are completely useless to me and

what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do With the 300 who

are faithful and do what I need them to do.

Does not looking for numbers. He's looking for you to be

faithful. He's looking for you to show up.

He's looking for you to answer the call.

Right. So God called these people out

and it would have been easy for getting to be like, oh man, like

yeah, I got all these numbers, man, God's here.

He's moving like, clearly. Look at this, you know, I have

so much peace. Now, in this situation, I've got

God's peace. You know, there's a lot of

people who are confusing, peace and comfort.

There's a lot of people who are getting who are hearing, oh,

I've got peace in this situation when the Is you're comfortable

in the flesh with it? Because there's a difference

between peace and comfort because I can have peace.

When I don't see the answer, because Comfort keeps me here,

Comfort keeps me change, but P says, man, I feel just as strong

here as I did over there, when I don't have the finances for my

bills and Monday's coming. I feel peace in this situation

because I'm tired and I'm offering I'm giving to God and I

know he's gonna be beside me when I don't have any answer,

but the situation is coming. I can have He's that God will be

there and God will follow through, no matter how it looks

in my mind, no matter how it looks in the natural, I can have

peace in those moments because the comforter is with me.

We like to strap the Holy Spirit into our Comforts and try to act

like, oh, I got peace about it. You ain't got piece.

You're not chasing a calling, you're chasing your comfort.

Because what do we want the American dream or God's calling

on our life? Right?

I'm not looking to just build up my comfort zone.

The more I read the Bible, the more I realized man, if I'm

doing God's calling, I should probably be a little

uncomfortable. I should probably be looking for

situations that made my flesh. Go man, this makes no sense.

I don't see how these, you know points are gonna connect.

But I know because God is with me and God's leading me and god

in me, I ain't gotta see it to take the step.

I don't have to know what's next, right in any situation.

God's their, right? So, so getting gets down to 300

people. The 300.

A number. That seems so insignificant no

way these people could defeat this thing.

I mean you got to think not only is Gideon, probably

uncomfortable. The other 300 are probably

uncomfortable as well. They're like man ithe I signed

up with the other 30-something thousand to come here.

You brought us all to this Valley and then you kick them

out for. There's a little bait-and-switch

here, man. You know everything.

I'm real good on the travel but now it's like, man, this is

uncomfortable. I must have missed it.

I should go back. I'll say it one more time.

A lot of people can get comfortable.

I heard God, I'm going somewhere then they get their gets hard

and they're like, oh well God obviously wasn't here.

I missed it, let me go back. Comfort is not the sign that God

is with you. Faith by Design, get you out of

your comfort zone. And if we are to live Faith to

Faith, then that means we should constantly be looking for

situations to be uncomfortable, but no, God will see it through.

Giving this number doesn't make sense.

Working this much doesn't make sense.

You know, I'm going to be honest when I when I when I first moved

back here from Valdosta, you know, and I started working with

a church and there was like a bunch of different things

happening and ultimately I started working a lot more and

we were going to have Scotty, our third daughter and I knew I

was gonna be real busy and I set down my wife and I told my wife,

I was like, look this season is gonna be crazy.

There's gonna be a lot of hours. It's a lot of stuff going on and

I'm going to have a newborn baby.

You know, this is like not the best timing but I know I'm in my

fit, right? So I started praying that God

when I get, you know, 30 minutes of time with Scotty.

Let It Be magnified or multiplied, so that one hour,

seems like four hours, you know? So my two hours feels like eight

hours. Let's get some Supernatural time

here because even though I'm going to be a way more, I need

you to now show up in this place, that might be lacking.

And and if y'all know, my family situation in my wife can attest

this and probably the majority of Staff anyone around me.

Scotland is the closest of all my kids to me of every kid we

had. Scotland has the closest

relationship to me, you know, whereas every other kid

obviously grew up in that, you know, they want Mommy, until you

know, I got old enough to really play with them and all that kind

of stuff. Scotland at every Point, wanted

me. Why it wasn't because I was

spending more time with her. Because by all accounts, I had

significantly less time with her during that time of development.

But God meant that need because I was in his purpose.

And that relationship was strengthened and less amount of

time, right? So instead of saying, oh, man, I

can't be working these hours, my wife's got a newborn baby.

I'm not comfortable with all that.

No, I asked God I said if you're calling me to do this then

you're going to have to make something up here.

That's putting trust in God, because in the natural that

makes no sense that my daughter would be the closest to me when

I've spent the least amount of time with her in that season.

But we have to put trust that if we're going to come out of this

comfort zone and out of everything, that makes sense to

us and where we fill the best in life.

Then everything we do out here, God's gonna make up for whatever

we were missing. Good writing.

So those three hundred men have the opportunity in their minds

even even though we don't have it documented.

You know, they could have thought all sort of things.

I don't see how this is gonna work Gideon.

Anything could have came up, this doesn't make any sense.

Right? But we have to ask ourselves.

Are we chasing after God or are we chasing after comfort?

Are we chasing after God? Or are we chasing out of

comfort? Jump down to verse 16, judges

716, he says, he divided 300 men into three companies and he put

trumpets and empty pitch, pitchers into the hands of all

of them and torches inside the pictures.

And he said to them, look at me and do likewise and behold, when

I come to the outskirts of the camp do, as I do, when I and all

who are with me, blow the trumpet.

Then you also blew the trumpets, all around the Camp and say for

the Lord, and for Gideon. So get in and the hundred men

who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp and began

in the beginning to up the middle watch, when they had just

posted the watch and they blew the trumpets and smash the

pictures that were in their hands.

When the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the

pictures, they held the Torches in their left hand and the

trumpets and their right hands for blowing and cried a sword

for the Lord. And for the hands.

And the The trumpet in the right hands for sorry, stored for the

Lord. And for Gideon each stood in his

place around the camp and all the Army ran crying out as they

fled, when they blew 300 Trumpets.

The Lord said a sword of one against another even throughout

the whole Army, the Army fled, as far as, you know, these

places from these other places, then the men of Israel were

summoned to this other place at the edge of the Hill, you know,

and Gideon sent Messengers. Got all the place come down

against median and take the waters before them.

As far as you know, all these places are and they captured the

two leaders of Minion, right? So with the 300 men, God set up

a thing and this is what I love about this, right, God took a

wheat farmer. And said I'm going to make you

the leader of an army Gideon's freaking out in his mind, I'm

not a soldier, I don't have this but all along God's like you're

not even gonna fight. You're not even gonna fight.

I told you lead an army naturally went somewhere.

And so many of us are like God's call me here and so then we

start naturally trying to connect all the dots.

Oh God, call me this place. Will let me find a job.

I've got to find a job. Obviously of God's called me

here. No.

God called you there. Unless God said, find a job then

go there then God just called you there right.

He took a wheat farmer and said, you're going to lead an army

getting didn't run out and start practicing.

We need might have, I'm sure he probably didn't is 10.

I bet she held a sword employee, but, you know, gives a speech

and goes into a sensor. Figure out how this thing works.

Right. But ultimately, he took someone

and then delivered them without them even having to actually

fight you're gonna blow trumpets, you're gonna smash

pots, they're gonna get confused and scared, which is obviously

the spirit, you know, God moving because that makes no sense.

They lower how loud noises, what do we do?

Like what these are warriors? These guys are used to this.

These are guys that are trained for these things and the loud

noise like, ah, I'm out of here in the ran very far apparently,

you know, as far as those two places are from each other,

should have got a map so you could have seen it right?

Well, the thing is, we will never reach our full potential.

If we don't even try to obtain to it, And for some of us, our

full potential is right over there.

And we're staring at it and we're longing for it while I

God. Come on.

I'm so ready for this. Make it make sense.

If you give me these answers then I can build my chain long

enough to get here when Gods like I don't want you suck to

something, I want you to trust in me.

I want you to trust in me for your answers.

Don't sacrifice your calling for comfort.

We don't want to sacrifice everything.

God has in store for us to feel better for a short amount.

You know, it's so funny and opportunities.

I have to administer to youth because it's like, you know, and

everyone can relate this. When you're in high school, high

school just seems like it's the biggest deal in the world, like

every decision matters, so much those for insignificant years in

your life, just seemed like everything.

And we make so many stupid decisions in those four years

acting. Like it's really gonna, you

know, do something for us, man. Like, we talk to me know, I've

talked to, like, literally the two other people who graduated

with us that come to this church.

But yeah, so many decisions were made about like, when we get out

of high school, what are we all gonna do?

Literally nothing. You're probably going to see

next to none of them, right? But a so many times we make we

try to make such big decisions for such an instinct.

You know, insignificant amount of time.

Even our time on this planet. Compared to Eternity is so

insignificant. So, why would I sacrifice my

eternity to be comfortable right now?

I don't want to give up what could be just to feel like I've

accomplished something now. All right, so how do we break

our train? How do we get ourselves out of

just realizing what we have? Because Comfort comes in, in so

many ways. And, like I said earlier, you

know, with like the country fried steak, it's like, you

know, anything is sneaky man. It's like, you know, unless

you're like an actual Fitness person, which I wasn't at the

time, I had no concept of calories in calories out, I know

concept of like I need to actually burn some of this off.

Riley's just all calories. And I was a skinny guy.

When I got married, I wait, like 140 soaking wet fully dressed in

the winter, and I did nothing to stay that way.

I drank so many, I drink so many Mountain Dew's, I ate so many

fudge rounds, and I just stayed skinny.

So when I got married, I obviously did not assume it was

going to magically change my metabolism, just because I'm

eating home-cooked food now. Right?

But it sneaks up on you little by little Until you get to and

see, here's the thing. It would have probably been,

okay? If I was working out to eat

every once in a while. Some country fried steak, no big

deal. I'm taking care of myself.

I'm being healthy. I mean, Fitness, I can have

this, it's fine. And two, if something starts to

get off, it's easy to tweak, small changes.

But if we let the Comfort set in, then we gotta get really

uncomfortable to fix something and some of us have gotten so

built in our comfort that in order for us to get out, it's

going to take some really uncomfortable moments.

It's going to take some time of trusting God and putting things

out there that we don't see answers to to start building

those things up. So how do we break the chain?

Obviously we gotta trust, God, Proverbs 3:5 and 6, Trust in the

Proverbs 3:5

Lord, with all your heart and do not lean on your own

understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will

make your path straight. Trust in the Lord, with all your

heart and do not lean on your own understanding, in all your

ways acknowledge Him, right? There's so many verses and so

many biblically, you know, biblical stories of historical

accounts in the Bible that let us know that man.

If you just get out there and start following God, he's gonna

show up. you know, I get the privilege to teach in our

kingdom Institute, you know, Bible study here and one of the

classes I teach is Authority and in that class one of the one of

the principles we pull out is we have to understand that the word

works every time always And if we feel like it's not working,

it's never God. It's always us.

And you have to become so firming your belief that the

word Works always that we can then be real with ourselves when

something goes wrong and no, no God wanted have done this.

I obviously need to change something to get where I need to

be. So I David said, search my

heart. Oh, Lord, let me know.

When is the last time we really took time to say God, is there

something else I should be doing?

Because Comfort comes so quickly.

I mean, half of you looking out here, sit in the same spot every

time. Whether we need me to or not

what we get it, this is my seat. This is where I sit as far as

like, funny, you go to places like, in high school and they

had like a sign. Seems like you got a signs.

He's after two classes. Everyone's gonna have a sign

themselves to see, right? And you do it all here, you

like, I'm gonna sit in this spot because I'm comfortable right

here. I know this chair, this is my

chair. I'm used to this one, right.

But then, it can also go farther.

Somebody, you've been here so long.

Maybe you've just got comfortable with the people

speaking. do we still value all the word being taught, no matter

how long you've been here and how much, you know, No matter

how many dinners you've had with Pastor Mike and Angie or Pastor

Brandon or Pastor Earle or no matter how often you've come

here and helped out or no matter how much this is going on or

what you've seen outside of things or what you've been

involved in, do we still value this?

Speaking of the word that can change my life, Because if we're

not comfortable, then it's just another message from Pastor

Earl. Why would I come to a genome

browser, Revival? It's just another anchor for a

church service is not like they're having a different

worship team. It's not they're going to have

so I was Pastor Daryl again. we get comfortable and then we

don't receive anything from it because we're not even trying to

we're just sitting in our see you show up to serve because I'm

scheduled I've been doing this position for a long time.

I know how to do it, then a little change comes and it's

like the end of the world. Let's never how it's been done.

Moses was 75. He did a lot of things before he

was called out to go do something else.

He's a God. You've never asked me to leave

before. Are we willing to step out and

trust God Philippians 4:19 says and my God will supply all your

Philippians 4:19

needs according to his riches and glory in Christ Jesus,

right? We trust in God and then all

these other things are going to fall into place.

How do we break chains? We have to trust.

God, how do we break chains? We have to stay righteous.

I noticed a righteous First Timothy 611 says, but flee from

these things, you man of God and pursue.

Righteousness, Godless godliness, Faith, love

perseverance and gentleness. Pursue righteousness.

Matthew 6:33 says, so above. All, we know this constantly

Matthew 6:33

seek. This is the passion translation.

Constantly seek God's kingdom. I like that constantly seek.

Are we constantly seeking or have?

We gotten comfortable, Where We Are?

I guess it's one thing to show up.

It's another thing to have in your mind set, God.

What are you gonna say to me tonight?

What do you have for me tonight? What do you, what are you going

to bring tonight? You know, even if it's someone,

you know, dip if it's not pastoral, if it's not Pastor

Mike, they're not my style. I just get more from this other

person, open your ears, because if you've been called to get

connected, then anyone who takes this, this is got something for

you. Stay righteous, right?

Don't let sin creep into your life.

Don't let your guard get down. You know, this is always been

crazy to me and this is something obviously, I think of

a church you've been coming here for a while.

You definitely know about, right?

We do a Bible reading plan. If you serve with us, you have

to be doing the Bible reading plan, right?

We do every single year, we put out a Bible reading plan and we

give it to people and encourage them to read the Bible every

year because you'd be blown away at how many churches Don't do

that. And then things get exposed on

documentaries. You like read the word every day

because I can tell, when I haven't been in it, I know the

difference when I've been two weeks removed from it.

And it's because I value it. And I value what it can bring to

my life and to those around me. So you have to stay in it

because when you get off that's when those things creep in when

you get out of the word that's when things got a creeping.

You want to break change? You gotta be righteous because

if I'm not living righteous then I'm no right to try to get God

to move in my life. I'm calling on God but I'm not.

I'm sitting on the side. God, why aren't you helping me

guys? Like, why aren't you doing my

word? And then it doesn't happen like

oh well you know obviously God didn't want me to do that.

He wanted me to be here. No you didn't apply the word to

get through that trial that came.

Apply the word, right? We have to have faith.

Hebrews 11:1 says. Now, Faith is the Assurance of

Hebrews 11:1

things, hoped for the conviction of things not seen, right?

We have to believe that no matter what's going on, God's

word will work every time. Like we said, we go from Faith

to Faith and by Design, it's to call me out, which means, man.

I should be looking for opportunities to step out into

the unknown. I should be looking for

opportunities to step into an area that doesn't make sense to

step somewhere that I didn't see myself to step somewhere that,

you know, maybe maybe I is the farthest from me, right?

Moses is like, I don't talk. Well, I was like, finding your

brother can help you but he still had to go talk.

I mean, regardless, he still had to show up in front of pharaoh.

And he still had to do that thing.

Right? We look for opportunities to

step out in faith. That's how we grow in it.

Because if all I've done is just creating this environment of

comfort than how am I ever going to grow?

For those of you who do work out, you know, it's the stress

of the muscle. It's the breaking down its

trying to wait. It's the pain of being sore that

builds that thing up. That get you to that next level.

It's the accomplishment that comes when you add a new plate,

flight. Finally But out of those things,

come, they come by getting in there, but getting it done by

doing something uncomfortable, either, you know, opportunity

wants a bunch of us guys, went up to Ohio, and we got to see

some of these, like, strong men, you know, just lift ridiculous

numbers. I don't remember what it was.

It was like, it was it a thousand pounds that he got

under that day it was like 1,200 or something like that and

everyone like gathered around the squat rack because he's like

at 12:00 is like I'm just getting under it.

I'm not going to squat because I need to Feel the weight.

Before I can do it. He's got to put the weight on

his back and say no just to feel that pressure.

So when he does it for the first time, it's not some Shock of

all, I never felt this before. No, I understand that.

Wait now because I put myself out there Raisa.

We're looking for opportunities by faith and say God, where can

you stretch me? Where can you grow me?

What's this next level I can get to it, don't have to make sense,

just give me a word to go on and I will stick to it because all I

need is one word, and I know you'll fill in everything else.

So we can't be afraid and be fearful of failure.

Joshua 1:9 says, have I not commanded you be strong and

Joshua 1:9

courageous do not tremble or be dismayed for the Lord.

Your God is with you wherever you go.

If we're too afraid to ever step out then will never accomplish

the things God set before us. Because like I said, when you go

through the Bible, you're gonna see, God isn't just gonna hand,

you your calling on a silver platter because it makes sense

for you. Just like he did with Guinea

where said, no, you guys are too comfortable with this number.

If you win, you're going to think you did it with your own

strength. And I need everyone to know that

it was because God was here that this thing was done.

And how many of us have capped are calling because we've done

something, but not all the way because we got 32,000 people,

and then we went in and fought our battle in one or like God

was here and gods. Like, no, that's not how I

wanted it done. Because God, he's he said in the

verse he goes, you'll win and then you'll say it was by your

own might. And so, we can get to a place

where we've done something. Well, I go look, God was here

and I was like, no I wanted so much more from you.

You kept yourself here because you will comfortable with doing

it that way. And it achieves something, but

it ain't cheap, the fullness in which I wanted it to.

So I'm telling Hank if a church, we gotta be willing to step out

like I've said so many times before always love, you know,

and you know, bottom mama has, you know, you'll Peter stepped

out. There's an account in the Bible,

you walked on water. Jesus Peter Noone else and I

want to focus on the wind and waves that sunk them but the

dude took steps on water and that account is to him.

And you know why I think so many people focus on the fact that he

failed in the water Rose because we're not willing to get up the

boat ourselves. But if I get out the boat, I'll

sink. But what if you don't?

But what if you don't? But what if you do?

Maybe you take one more step than Peter did and guess what?

You have taken one more step. And that will be accounted to

you. So uh, here's our challenge you

tonight. So start looking for areas in

your life. That may be our only there

because they're comfortable but they don't need to be there

anymore. Start looking banging, come up,

start looking for areas. That you can say, man I want to

make it to the next step. I want to excel still more.

I want to do greater, how do I do this?

I've got to let this Comfort go and start stepping out into the

unknown. and start trusting God to put all the rest of these

pieces together and start trusting God to see everything

else through Because like I said, we can sit back and look

at other places and think they're going to do something

great. Look, how many people they have

but God only wanted 300 Are you a part of the 300?

Or will you find your place? Will you turn around?

And I challenge you tonight. So find yourself in the 300.

To find yourself stepping out and doing something great for

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