Samson had the Holy Spirit. Roughly only about 100 people in the Old Testament had the Holy Spirit, that we all now have access to.
Whatever your calling is in life, you are fully incapable of doing it, without the Holy Spirit.
Every believer is enormously gifted and empowered.
Guard the gift
An unguarded anointing is an accident waiting to happen.
It is not IF, but WHEN. If you aren’t deliberately guarding your anointing.
There’s nothing on earth like the rush of the HS, but sometimes we get more addicted to the RUSH, than the Holy Spirit.
Regular warfare will often be an attack on our weaknesses. Seduction is different. It comes for your strengths.
His strength was in his anointing, but the hair was a symbol of his set-apartness.
The enemy makes you look like a fool but you’re the last one to know it.
We are not just vessels of the anointing, we are stewards.
It’s not just about who we are...it’s about what we are going to do with what we’ve been given.
No one can steward your gift for you.
Conceit is the lazy, gifted persons anointing. If I don’t wanna go through the trouble of being full of the HS, we can just be full of ourselves!
Do we want a puffing or a filling?
Sometimes the reason we have a thorn in our flesh is because it pops that puffing of ourselves!
The enemy wore him down. “He was vexed to death.”
The enemy flirts and then he torments.
“But the hair of his head began to grow again.” Hair grows back. The anointing can grow back.
Get back up.
The enemy would have you lose your salvation, because you lose your vision.
Read Judges 13-16.
Are there any ways in which you identify with Samson?
Where else does the Bible talk about anointing?
Do you think you are anointed to do something in the Kingdom of God? What is it?
”Extra credit”: read Judges 10-12 too, before the weekend! :)