READ:
JUDGES 16:16-22
Samson was
a very special person before God. His coming was announced to his mother by an
angel. Right from the womb he was filled with the Holy Spirit. At birth, he
became a powerhouse who could do practically anything normally humanly
impossible. He was an achiever.
However, Samson had a problem. He could not abide by rules. He broke all the rules that surrounded his Nazarite consecration. He was not to touch a corpse, but he took and ate honey from the carcass of a lion. He was to abstain from wine but he refused. He was expected to be pure but he slept with harlots.
God was watching him. Then God became dangerously silent until Samson married Delilah, who discovered his source of strength and revealed it to his enemies. They caught him and shaved his hair and plucked out his eyes. Israel’s deliverer and hero became a fool in the company of his enemies. God could have left him like that. But through his mercy, Samson’s hair began to grow again. His sun began to rise again.
Are you sick? Your sun will rise again. You will be healed and restored to good health, because 1 Peter 2:24 says you were healed by his stripes 2000 years ago. I am reliably informed that there are 39 classes of illness all over the world. Jesus received 40 lashes, one for each class of disease and an extra one to cover any other new classification that might evolve.
Have you been in captivity? Isaiah 49:24-26 says the captives of the mighty will be taken away and where you were preyed upon, you will be delivered. That sad news will turn to joy. Your account will be full again. Your business will thrive again. It will be well with your family. Your country will boom again. Come to God and make your crooked ways straight.
However, Samson had a problem. He could not abide by rules. He broke all the rules that surrounded his Nazarite consecration. He was not to touch a corpse, but he took and ate honey from the carcass of a lion. He was to abstain from wine but he refused. He was expected to be pure but he slept with harlots.
God was watching him. Then God became dangerously silent until Samson married Delilah, who discovered his source of strength and revealed it to his enemies. They caught him and shaved his hair and plucked out his eyes. Israel’s deliverer and hero became a fool in the company of his enemies. God could have left him like that. But through his mercy, Samson’s hair began to grow again. His sun began to rise again.
Are you sick? Your sun will rise again. You will be healed and restored to good health, because 1 Peter 2:24 says you were healed by his stripes 2000 years ago. I am reliably informed that there are 39 classes of illness all over the world. Jesus received 40 lashes, one for each class of disease and an extra one to cover any other new classification that might evolve.
Have you been in captivity? Isaiah 49:24-26 says the captives of the mighty will be taken away and where you were preyed upon, you will be delivered. That sad news will turn to joy. Your account will be full again. Your business will thrive again. It will be well with your family. Your country will boom again. Come to God and make your crooked ways straight.
MEMORIZE:
JEREMIAH 31:17 –And there is hope in your end, says the LORD, that your children
shall come again to their own border.
