Is your comfort zone keeping you from fully stepping into what God is calling you to do?

It’s easy to stay where life feels safe, familiar, and manageable. But sometimes our desire to stay comfortable becomes the very thing that keeps us from obeying God, growing in our faith, and experiencing what He wants to do in us and through us.

In this episode of Confident Christian Influence, Pam shares her own journey from being terrified to speak in front of a handful of women to speaking to hundreds and even thousands, writing a book, becoming a Christian leadership coach, hosting a podcast, and now stepping outside her comfort zone again to launch a nonprofit.

You'll discover three important truths about stepping outside your comfort zone:

• The good stuff often happens outside your comfort zone. When God calls you beyond what you can comfortably accomplish in your own strength, you have the opportunity to depend on His strength and experience Him working through you.

• It's not about you—it's about Him. Instead of focusing on whether you're qualified, afraid, or capable, you can shift your focus to God's plan, His purpose, His strength, and His glory.

• Your comfort zone expands every time you choose courage and obedience. The things that scare you today may become the very experiences God uses to prepare you for what He asks you to do tomorrow.

You don't have to make one giant leap. Sometimes God is simply asking you to take the next small step of faith and trust Him to meet you there.

Today's step outside your comfort zone can become tomorrow's evidence that God can be trusted.

So ask yourself: Where have I gotten too comfortable? What is my comfort zone costing me? And is fear keeping me from something I know God is asking me to do?

If you've been struggling with fear, stepping outside your comfort zone, trusting God, finding courage, following God's calling, Christian leadership, or taking your next step of faith, this episode will encourage you to stop allowing your limitations to determine your obedience and trust God with what happens when you say yes.

• How to step outside your comfort zone and trust God

• Why obedience to God sometimes requires getting uncomfortable

• How fear can keep you from following God's calling

• Why focusing on your limitations keeps you stuck

• How to depend on God's strength instead of your own

• How small steps of courage expand your comfort zone

• What it means to “do it afraid” as a Christian

• How God uses uncomfortable situations to grow your faith and leadership

• How to recognize when comfort may be keeping you from your next step

If you're ready to be stretched, grow in your faith, and become the leader God is calling you to be, learn more about Called to Lead: Clarity, Confidence, and Christ-Centered Influence at pampegram.com/calledtolead.