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Let's Talk : Being Comfortable · Fostering Faith

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  Hello and welcome to fostering today's episode. Episode five will be about
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  comfort. So I have a couple questions for you mom. So the first question is why do
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  you feel like people don't step out of their comfort zone? I mean I think there
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  is a lot of reasons. You experienced that just the other day whenever we were
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  coming home from our trip and I said hey let's stop and do something and you
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  said no I just want to go home and I said why why do you always want to just
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  go home and you're like because it's comfortable and I said well what we can
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  explore we can go do whatever we want to do and you said I know I just don't I
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  just don't I just don't feel comfortable with that I just want to go home I know
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  like we're what I have at home I'm more comfortable and that's what sparked our
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  conversation for today's topic so why why do you feel like kids don't want to
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  get out of their comfort zone? Because I feel like if trying something new and you
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  fail at it if I feel like it just be kind of better if you don't try because if
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  you know you're gonna fail then why even try it? So comfortable with status quo like
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  just being like the same old day in and day out and I think that's what a lot of
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  people adults they get stuck in the routine of not living their best life
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  people get in the routine of you know eating an unhealthy diet they get
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  comfortable with not going to the gym they get comfortable with being
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  uncomfortable and then it just it's so overwhelming to people that they don't
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  know where to start and so they just remain where they're at and they don't
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  drive themselves out of a vicious pattern. Okay my second question is what is
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  your definition of comfort? Comfort would be something that is relaxing that is
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  peaceful brings you joy yeah that's it. Okay my question number three is what
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  brings you comfort and why? A lot of things I think bring me comfort now I
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  think a lot of things did not used to make me comfortable I mean versus like
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  yeah a comfortable pair of shoes a comfortable pair of pants the sofa is
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  comfortable going to and from work is comfortable like just living an everyday
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  life is comfortable like your dad brings me comfort you know having good friends
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  can bring you comfort but I think that when we look at like true comfort we
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  have to look at Christ because he is our comforter he is our redeemer he is the
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  only one that is going to be there no matter what and so finding comfort in
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  the Lord resting in his arms and just knowing that you're taking care of I
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  think is it's like you can't even describe it like once you fall into his
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  arms and just realize you're sitting at his feet and he's just taking care of
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  you that's comfort. I feel like comfort would be Jesus and you because you have
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  done a lot in my life that has comfort me through like everything like all the
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  sports I've done when I'm sad when anxious and everything you're just there I
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  feel like you bring God into everything which makes me feel more comfortable with
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  it. What do you feel like how could kids find comfort in Christ in a tough
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  situation? Christ says that in the Bible it says that he's always with you no
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  matter what even if you send you he still loves you and everything so if you
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  don't have a guardian or a parent or someone that doesn't make you comfortable
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  just go to God he's just right there with you he listens to everything that you
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  say he is right with you all like all the way. I mean and we also too I think
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  that we need to point out that walking as a Christian is not comfortable
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  sometimes the majority of your decisions are not going to be comfortable to your
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  flesh so you are going to have to make those tough decisions of how to speak
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  what to do what to watch what to listen to what you're going to allow yourself
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  to do whenever you're out in public and so making those tough decisions and
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  being uncomfortable in that situation I think is really important and second
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  Corinthians 1 through 1 4 it says that who comforts us in all of our
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  afflictions so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any afflictions
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  with comfort with each we ourselves are comforted by God and so we may be able
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  to comfort and that's one of God's promises and purposes and suffering of
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  Christians is that we will experience direct personal comfort from God and then
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  from that experiences and administering God comforts us and the most in
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  whenever we have afflictions because he says that we're gonna have hard times
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  we're gonna have afflictions we're gonna have things happen to us people are
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  gonna die people are gonna get sick you know we're gonna have things in our life
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  that bring us sadness and just despair but the one that brings us comfort is
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  God is Jesus and so really turning to him for our comfort I think is is just
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  really the best answer while you can have people here on earth but people here
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  on earth can let you down and so you know turning to Christ I think is a great
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  idea okay my fourth question is why do you think Jesus is comforting because he's
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  never let me down he has always been there
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  because we have scripture to turn to and you know this he can speak to you
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  through the word and we have to realize that what we want and what his ways are
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  our his ways are so much greater than our ways and we have to rely and know
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  that he's never been late he's never been wrong and we have to be uncomfortable
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  while we wait on the Lord because if we're doing things out of his will and
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  we're walking in our own way and we have that right he gave us free will and so we
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  don't have to follow him we get to he wants that relationship with us and so
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  during those times and we don't understand why you know choosing to be
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  uncomfortable and waiting on God to answer the prayer about the next step
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  about what to do next about who to talk to you about what words to say and so
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  allowing yourself to be uncomfortable I think will only grow you in maturity as
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  a Christian as a follower but as you get into real life situations I mean eating
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  habits exercising not giving up on yourself I think that we as a society
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  need to be more uncomfortable and and choosing the past that many don't go
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  down what do you feel kids struggle with more about not being comfortable what
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  are situations that kids need to be uncomfortable with
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  can you like elaborate that and so like what are situations where you just
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  choose comfort over pushing yourself I feel like a lot with like grades and
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  sports I feel like that's my big thing sports okay for the listeners that are
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  listening what do you feel like do you feel like youth they struggle with diet
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  do you feel like they struggle with exercise and not knowing where to start
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  and just being comfortable sitting on the couch watching TV eating the bag of
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  chips I feel like that those kids really don't worry about that I just feel like
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  we struggle a lot with what people think and like our comfort zone with like
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  talking to people I feel like that's a big one too okay what do you how could
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  you bring Christ into conversations about comfort to kids um if they were
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  struggling with comfort I would just say that Jesus brings you comfort he is
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  always just listening do you how could they approach that and and tell their
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  parent that what do you mean do you feel like they can have a conversation with
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  their parent what happens if you have a teen that is a believer and their
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  parent is not I would just say try to push your parents to where they feel
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  kind of not uncomfortable or you feel uncomfortable telling them and making
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  them try like kind of feel comfortable and then where you can talk to them
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  about more about Christ and start to be comfortable the first thing you gotta do
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  is to be uncomfortable to be comfortable mm-hmm I yeah I often tell my
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  patients that I want you to be comfortable being uncomfortable because
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  you're never gonna see change without being uncomfortable like whether that is
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  with a diet with an exercise with a new agenda with reading a book or spending
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  more time outside or whatever it is you have to get uncomfortable I get to grow
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  my muscles my muscles have to be uncomfortable to run a half marathon I
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  have to be uncomfortable I had to be short of breath I had to spend time and
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  time and time again being uncomfortable to run to play basketball you have to be
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  uncomfortable we sweat a lot in practice you know you have to be
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  uncomfortable to change how you're how you eat you have to get uncomfortable and
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  learn the the behaviors that you've learned and so I think that maturing in
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  your faith maturing in your your habits that you have in life if you really want
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  to see change you're gonna have to be uncomfortable mm-hmm okay my last and
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  fifth question what makes you uncomfortable like nothing really
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  specific but like what makes you uncomfortable talking in public I feel
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  like I get really nervous and I'm uncomfortable doing it mm-hmm but once
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  I'm up there I love it height I'm scared of oh yeah so it makes me
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  uncomfortable and roller coasters yeah yeah not being in control makes me
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  really uncomfortable that's why I drive everywhere yeah control but then also to
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  realizing that we really don't have control and God's in control so that
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  brings me comfort knowing that he has my back and so I can have a an agenda but
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  resting in him and just knowing that he has my back brings me comfort mm-hmm what
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  would be something that brings what makes you uncomfortable clouds clouds oh
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  they're so creepy and probably like worrying about the future too much like
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  not having enough money not having a good family that like we have I feel like
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  and I would want my kid to be like close to me we like and tell me stuff like you
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  and dad yeah I just really like how this family is so I won't like my family
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  would be like this mm-hmm what do you feel like a closing statement would be
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  to bring someone that is an unbeliever into knowing God and knowing that Jesus
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  is for them is there anything that you could tell someone to make them a little
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  uncomfortable to bring them close to Christ wait do like so if I was asking
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  someone so if I was asking someone if they believed in God and like they're
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  like I just don't believe in them I feel like one of the main questions would
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  make me feel uncomfortable as why mm-hmm like because what they don't know why
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  and they're just saying that cuz I feel like another thing that would be
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  uncomfortable during that conversation is they don't want to be wrong if Christ
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  isn't real but like the thing is if Christ is real and you say he's not and
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  you just don't go to heaven you just don't get a live on the good area of
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  everything but if you do choose to believe in God but you're not sure yet
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  just keep on reading the Bible and just talking to him because he will answer
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  you it's just that simple and yeah just just simply just start asking and just
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  talking to him before you even open up scripture and just having those
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  conversations because you have to take that first step that first step that
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  first awkward conversation can make that person feel really uncomfortable and it's
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  just that first step of really becoming and knowing your heavenly father and
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  knowing him as a person that listens that can really bring you comfort in the
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  midst of all your trials and tribulations and so I think as we close
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  this podcast I think that let's pray let's pray for our listeners for comfort
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  and your heavenly father thank you so much for today thank you so much for
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  yesterday thank you for allowing us to be in your presence thank you for your
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  arms thank you that you wrap us in comfort with your words open our hearts
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  open our minds this week as we walk into a new journey with you that you allow us
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  to be in your presence and we thank you for that thank you that you are bringing
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  us comfort and understanding thank you for the peace that only comes from you
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  thank you for everything that you do and Jesus in my pray amen and so as we turn
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  into next week we want to ask you to like and subscribe into this podcast we
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  love hearing all the positive feedback that we have from you guys and so have a
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  great week and we'll see you next week