Out of Your Comfort Zone: Live the Life God Intends

Again and again, we read about people in the Bible who did extraordinary things for God. Presently, see I didn't state incredible people — yet people who did awesome things.

Do you know what these people had in like manner? Every last one of them had a major heart for God. Like Nehemiah.

Nehemiah's story, which is recorded for us in the Old Testament, is one of the colossal ages of Christian history. Not exclusively is Nehemiah's story a manual on initiative, association, and how to achieve objectives, it demonstrates to us what God can do through a man whose heart is absolutely and totally His.

I'd urge you to take some time in the following month or so to peruse the whole story of Nehemiah. However, today there's one section of his life that I'd get a kick out of the chance to concentrate you on… when Nehemiah removed a stage from his usual range of familiarity and had an interminable effect for God.

Nehemiah was an uprooted Jew living a thousand miles from Jerusalem in what's referred to today as Persia, or Iran. He had ascended to unmistakable quality as the cupbearer to the ruler of Persia, and he lived a significant agreeable life in the lord's castle. He thought about silk sheets and down cushions. He was carrying on with the great life!

However one portentous day, some Jewish companions of Nehemiah came back from a trip to Jerusalem. What's more, he made an inquiry that wound up changing his life: "How is it with the general population of Jerusalem?" And they stated, "Nehemiah, it's bad. The dividers are down, the entryways are scorched with flame, and the general population are living in disgrace and disfavor."

At the point when Nehemiah heard this, it resembled a shot to the sun oriented plexus. It clasped him. It impressed him and onto his knees! What's more, he started to shout out to God… however not for one minute. For four months he supplicated until the point when God demonstrated to him what to do!

Nehemiah declined to disregard what God was doing in his heart… which was to backpedal to Jerusalem to remake the divider. He could have kept on living in extravagance in Persia, yet Nehemiah's heart was a thousand miles away… in Jerusalem. His heart was the core of God.

I trust God is doing the very same thing in the hearts of His kin today. What's more, that incorporates you! He's mixing your heart to help out His wonderfulness.

God is getting you to venture out of your usual range of familiarity… to do the irregular thing… to do the counter-social thing… to make His kingdom awesome!

Presently, kindly, don't misjudge me. You don't need to be a minister, a preacher, or a super-otherworldly star or legend! You should simply show at least a bit of kindness for God… and an eagerness to escape your customary range of familiarity.

It might be something as basic as simply strolling over the room at a gathering to converse with somebody you ordinarily would have overlooked. Or then again welcoming your neighbor over for tea. Or on the other hand taking a colleague to lunch to perceive how they're doing.

Whatever it is, don't be reluctant to advance out of your customary range of familiarity… like Nehemiah did… to do awesome things for God!

God is searching for people who show at least a bit of kindness for Him… who need to end their lives to the following level… who need to venture out of the labyrinth of average quality and live to something greater than themselves!

It's my supplication that this will be the energy of your heart and life!