Satan tries to come with these things to sap the
very anointing from your life. He knows your weaknesses
and he’s had over 6,000 years of working on man to know
your shortcomings. He knows just what buttons to push.
He knows how to get you to react and he knows how to
get you to walk in a place where the anointing of God can
no longer rest upon your life. He wants to make you
ineffective.
As long as Samson had his long hair, as long as
Samson was under the anointing of God, he was
unstoppable. City gates meant nothing to him; he would
walk away with them. When you’re under the anointing
of God and you’re walking in that place of the call of
God, you are unstoppable in that which God has for your
life.
But Samson had a big weakness in his life. He
loved the world and he loved the things of the world. You
can’t have both. You can’t have the anointing of God and
the world. This is what people don’t understand. They
want to come to a meeting where the anointing of God is
and the power of God begins to move and then go outside
the door and carry on living like they did before.
You Cannot Live in Two Kingdoms
You cannot keep one foot in the world and one
foot in the kingdom of God. If you can sit in a church and
live a lifestyle that does not exemplify a child of God
without feeling convicted then I want you to know the
Holy Ghost is not a part of that place.
Samson was in bed with the world. Even though
the anointing of God would rest upon him, the desire for
the things of the flesh was greater in his life. Because of
the awesomeness of the presence of God, he thought he
could play with the world and get away with it. And he
began to compromise.
Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of
the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not
that the Philistines are rulers over us? What is this that
thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As
they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
And they said unto him, We are come down to bind
thee, that we may deliver thee into the hands of the
Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto
me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind
thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely
we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two
new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted
against him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily
upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms
became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands
loosed from off his hands.
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth
his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men
therewith.
Judges 15:11-15
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