When Comfort Becomes Captivity
In my thirty years of walking with the Lord, I have learned that fear doesn't flee because we wait.
Our minds will always try to keep us in the "safe zone," because the brain's job is survival. It wants us to stay where it's familiar, predictable, and controlled, so it can protect us. But the truth is, that same protection can become a prison.
Comfort can quietly become captivity. Safety, when driven by fear, can keep us from the very life God is calling us into. Faith will always invite you beyond what feels secure. Growth lives outside the lines of what's familiar.
Our destiny isn't found in the shallow end; it's found on the water. I can honestly and confidently say that my life has been a walking-on-water, living-by-faith-not-by-sight kind of journey—not just once, not just in one season, but constantly. It began with my move from Italy to Canada, with zero security except God's Word.
"Trust Me and Step"
My life has been marked by one radical God-led decision after another. I took steps that didn't make sense to the natural mind, and made choices that defied logic. They were moments where everything in the natural said, "Stay safe," but Holy Spirit whispered, "Trust Me and step." And even right now, in this very moment,
I am standing in another one of those faith steps, another call to walk where only trust can carry me. (Photo via Unsplash)
Why do I keep saying yes? Because I have history with Him—deep, miracle-marked, tear-soaked history. I have seen His hand too many times,
heard His whisper in too many desperate nights, watched Him show up in too many impossibilities to ever doubt His faithfulness now. I know Him, not just the idea of Him, but His nature, His character, His heart, His Father faithfulness, and His covenant loyalty.
"If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself." (2 Timothy 2:13 NKJV)
When you truly know Him, trust isn't a struggle; it becomes a reflex of relationship. If you have seen Him do it before, you will see Him do it again. Because this God—the one who parts seas, provides rams in thickets, and turns gallows into freedom—is still the same today.
"So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, 'On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.'" (Genesis 22:14 NIV)
Step Out on the Water While the Storm Is Still Raging
Sometimes the Holy Spirit doesn't calm the storm first. He calls you to step in while it's still raging. Fear bows when we move, when our feet say "yes" to what our mind is still trembling about. W. Clement Stone said, "Thinking will not overcome fear, action will." And I'll add, faith-filled action breaks the paralysis of fear.
"For we walk by faith, not by sight." (2 Corinthians 5:7 NKJV)
Think of Peter stepping out of the boat. The storm didn't calm first. The waves didn't shrink. His confidence didn't magically appear. He stepped while it was still scary, and in that trembling obedience, the supernatural broke through the natural. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
"Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus." (Matthew 14:29 NIV)
You Don't Have to Feel Brave to Be Obedient
Sometimes God doesn't part the waters before we move; He parts them as we walk. You don't have to feel brave to be obedient. You just have to trust Him and move with Him, and Heaven meets you in motion.
"As soon as the priests who carry the ark of the Lord—the Lord of all the earth—set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off and stand up in a heap." (Joshua 3:13 NIV)
Friends, if you're stuck, paralyzed by fear of the unknown, hear me: The same God who opened the Red Sea, the same God who provided a substitute for Isaac, the same God who overturned Haman's evil plan (and always at the eleventh hour) is the same God who will do it for you.
"Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek You." (Psalm 9:10 NIV)
So step out of the boat. Lay down what you've been clinging to. Sacrifice the thing you've depended on more than Him, because God has already prepared the answer. Your obedience is the key that unlocks what has always been waiting.
"By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going." (Hebrews 11:8 NIV)
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Rosangela Atte
The Shift Her Coaching
Email:Â theshifthercoaching@gmail.com
Website:Â www.theshifthercoaching.com
Rosangela Atte is a prophetic voice, Christian life and brain coach, wife, mother of four, and grandmother who carries a deep passion for seeing women set free and walking in their God-given identity. Originally from Italy and now living in Canada, Rosangela knows firsthand what it means to overcome rejection, fatherlessness, low self-worth and fear—and to step into freedom and purpose through the healing power of Jesus Christ. Through her ministry, The Shift Her Coaching, Rosangela empowers women to renew their minds, regulate their nervous systems, and break free from survival mode so they can rise into wholeness, confidence, and spiritual authority. Her prophetic writings and encounters flow from an intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit and a desire to see the Bride of Christ prepared, healed, and equipped for this significant hour in history. Her heart beats for transformation—helping women reframe their pain as fuel for purpose, and guiding them into the fullness of life, freedom, and destiny in Christ.
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