This is a Colour Conference teaching, which means it’s a women’s conference teaching, but MEN, I trust you can try to ignore that and apply to yourselves! :)

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SERMON NOTES:

Judges 13-16

Samson had the Holy Spirit. Whatever your calling is in life, you are fully incapable of doing it, without the holy spirit.

  1. Every believer is enormously gifted and empowered.

    1. Guard the gift

  2. An unguarded anointing is an accident waiting to happen.

    1. It is not IF, but WHEN. If you aren’t deliberately guarding your anointing.

    2. There’s nothing on earth like the rush of the HS, but sometimes we get more addicted to the RUSH, than the Holy Spirit.

    3. Regular warfare will often be an attack on our weaknesses. Seduction is different. It comes for your strengths.

    4. His strength was in his anointing, but the hair was a symbol of his set-apartness.

    5. The enemy makes your look like a fool but you’re the last one to know it.

  3. We are not just vessels of the anointing, we are stewards.

    1. It’s not just about who we are...it’s about what we are going to do with what we’ve been given.

    2. No one can steward your gift for you.

  4. 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!

    1. Do we want a puffing or a filling?

    2. Sometimes the reason we have a thorn in our flesh is because it pops that puffing of ourselves!

    3. The enemy wore him down. “He was vexed to death.”

    4. The enemy flirts and then he torments.

    5. “But the hair of his head began to grow again.” Hair grows back. The anointing can grow back. 

  5. Get back up.

    1. The enemy would have you lose your salvation, because you lose your vision.

DISCUSSION:

  • What was your biggest takeaway from this sermon?

  • Where else does the Bible talk about anointing?

    • As a group, try to define Biblical anointing.

  • Do you think you are anointed to do something in the Kingdom of God? What is it?

  • What does it mean to be a steward of anointing?

  • Beth said, “The enemy flirts and then he torments.” Have you ever experienced this first hand? How did you break the cycle?

    STUDY AT HOME:

  • Read Judges 13-16.

    • Are there any ways in which you identify with Samson?

    • How can we apply Samson’s story with God to our own lives?

  • How do we properly care for the blessings God gives us?

    ”Extra credit”: read Judges 10-12 too, before the weekend! :)

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