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Hey, I hope you’re having a beautiful blessed day? What are you up to today? I don’t know what I’m going to do today right now; I’m going to watch t.v. and I’ll come up with something to do later.
Hey, Happy Wednesday. I hope you are having a great day ☺ Today is one of my favorite days because I have #Lifegroup tonight! I love meeting up with my friends and having deep conversations. We all need people that we can be 1000% honest with.
In other news this morning, I had two cups of coffee because my dad accidentally put my first cup, which I was half done with, in the sink, so he made me another full cup.
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Samson was an incredibly strong man with a dangerously weak will.
He was:
- Selected by God
- Set apart by God
- Strengthened by God
New info about Samson
1. Samson was emotionally driven not sprit led.
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.
Galatians 5:16-17 NIV
Two Emotions That Ruin your life
1. Anger
So before sunset of the seventh day, the men of the town came to Samson with their answer: “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” Samson replied, “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have solved my riddle!” Then the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him. He went down to the town of Ashkelon, killed thirty men, took their belongings, and gave their clothing to the men who had solved his riddle. But Samson was furious about what had happened, and he went back home to live with his father and mother. So his wife was given in marriage to the man who had been Samson’s best man at the wedding.
Judges 14:18-20 NLT
2. Samson was filled with Pride
Then he found the jawbone of a recently killed donkey. He picked it up and killed 1,000 Philistines with it. Then Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, I’ve piled them in heaps! With the jawbone of a donkey, I’ve killed a thousand men!”
Judges 15:15-16 NLT
What lead to Samson’s downfall?
1. He rejected Godly counsel
2. He refused to honor his comments
3. He relied on his strength instead of God’s spirit
Memory Verse
This is what the Lord says: “Don’t let the wise boast in their wisdom, or the powerful boast in their power, or the rich boast in their riches. But those who wish to boast should boast in this alone: that they truly know me and understand that I am the Lord who demonstrates unfailing love and who brings justice and righteousness to the earth, and that I delight in these things. I, the Lord, have spoken!
Jeremiah 9:23-24 NLT
Hey, Happy Tuesday. I hope all is awesome with you today! What are you up to today? Later I’ll be recording a new episode of #encouragementnotes. It’s week two of our Samson series. This week’s message is called When Emotions Rule Your Life.
I hope you’ll join me.
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Hey, I hope you’re having a beautiful day. What are you doing today? Right now, I’m finishing breakfast. As a #boundlessbabe, we are asked to take on a chosen goal. My goal. Is to keep up my independence by using my wallet basket.
I’ve had this goal before, and I have fallen away from it. What will make it’s time different is that I have good friends to check in with.
Samson was an incredibly strong man, with a desperately weak will.
His Great potential: Samson was Selected by God, Set apart by God, and Strengthened by God
His Fatal Flaw: Samson was a man of faith, but he wasn’t a faithful man
Attitudes That Can Cause THE Good To Go Bad.
1. Lust: I want it
Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. When he returned, he said to his father and mother, “I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”
Judges 14:1-2 NIV
2. Entitlement: I deserve it.
Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.
Judges 14:8-9 NIV
Pride: I can handle it.
Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was customary for young men.
Judges 14:10 NIV
Attitudes That can Keep The Good from Going Bad
- I want God
- I deserve death
- I can’t do anything without God
Lessons Learned from Samson:
- Spiritual failure is seldom an explosion. It’s usually an erosion
- There will always be the temptation to rely on our gifts and not the giver
- The beginning of Strength is an awareness of our weakness
Memory Verse
But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
Luke 12:48 NIV
It’s hard to see a lot of stars in Los Angeles, but on a very clear night, when I do see stars, I know that the one who. created them also created me, and he is looking out for me.
Biblical Hope
1. Hope is the confident expectation that God will do what he says he will do
2. Hope shines brightest in Darkness and is not based on our mood or circumstances
But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 MSG
Memory Verse
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 NIV
3. Hope is a form of resistance
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
Romans 5:1-2 NIV
4. Christian Hope is not in going to heaven when we die but in all of creation being renewed and filled with God’s Glory
How Do we grow Hope?
1. Pray for hope, as God to renew your hope daily
2. Practice Hope, it’s a muscle that you have to exercise
3. Gard your hope, when things look bad remember that God is in control and when people and circumstances are negative, keep on talking to God through prayer and reading his word.
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