Acknowledge And Deal With Your "Delilah"
on November 22nd, 2024
Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, "See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver." So Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me the secret of ... Read More
God Will Quench Your Thirst
on November 21st, 2024
Then Samson said, "With a donkey's jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand men." When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone; and the place was called Ramath Lehi.Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the LORD, "You have given your servant this great victory. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"Then G... Read More
Be Empowered By The Spirit
on November 20th, 2024
The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, spreading out near Lehi. The people of Judah asked, "Why have you come to fight us?" "We have come to take Samson prisoner," they answered, "to do to him as he did to us." Then three thousand men from Judah went down . . . and said to Samson, "Don't you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us? . . . We've come to tie you up and hand you over t... Read More
May The Spirit Of God Stir You Up
on November 19th, 2024
The woman gave birth to a boy and named him Samson. He grew and the LORD blessed him, and the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him . . . 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." . . . Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mothe... Read More
God Is Beyond Understanding
on November 18th, 2024
Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he said, "Are you the man who talked to my wife?" . . . So Manoah asked him, "When your words are fulfilled, what is to be the rule that governs the boy's life and work?"The angel of the LORD answered, "Your wife must do all that I have told her. She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, nor drink any wine or fermented dr... Read More
We Need Divine Guidance
on November 17th, 2024
Then the woman went to her husband and told him, "A man of God came to me. He looked like an angel of God, very awesome. I didn't ask him where he came from, and he didn't tell me his name. But he said to me, 'You will become pregnant and have a son. . .'" Then Manoah prayed to the LORD: "Pardon your servant, LORD. I beg you to let the man of God you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring... Read More
May God Surprise You
on November 16th, 2024
A certain man of Zorah, named Manoah . . . had a wife who was childless, unable to give birth. The angel of the LORD appeared to her and said, "You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son. Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drink and that you do not eat anything unclean.You will become pregnant and have a son whose head is never t... Read More
The Spirit of A Trouble Maker
on November 15th, 2024
The Ephraimite forces were called out, and they crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, "Why did you go to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We're going to burn down your house over your head."Jephthah answered, "I and my people were engaged in a great struggle with the Ammonites, and although I called, you didn't save me out of their hands. When I saw that you wouldn't... Read More
Don't Give Up Your Territory
on November 14th, 2024
Then Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king with the question: "What do you have against me that you have attacked my country?"The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah's messengers, "When Israel came up out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, all the way to the Jordan. Now give it back peaceably."Jephthah sent back messengers to the Ammonite king, saying: "This... Read More
Are You Living A Great Life?
on November 14th, 2024
King Xerxes imposed tribute throughout the empire, to its distant shores. And all his acts of power and might, together with a full account of the greatness of Mordecai, whom the king had promoted, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Media and Persia? Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews, and held in high esteem by his many fellow... Read More
Our God Is Able To Do Exceedingly Abundantly
on November 12th, 2024
King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Because Haman attacked the Jews, I have given his estate to Esther, and they have impaled him on the pole he set up. Now write another decree in the king's name in behalf of the Jews as seems best to you, and seal it with the king's signet ring -- for no document written in the king's name and sealed with his ring can be revoked."At onc... Read More
God Can Reverse Your Fortunes In a Heartbeat
on November 11th, 2024
That same day King Xerxes gave Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came into the presence of the king, for Esther had told how he was related to her.The king took off his signet ring, which he had reclaimed from Haman, and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed him over Haman's estate. Esther 8:1-2 Haman had risen to great heights in the administration o... Read More