DO NOT BE WEAKENED
I got some really bad news after we had spent quite some money on a process for the ministry. That afternoon, I took a break from work and drove home. I remember how tears were dropping from my eyes at a point. I stayed in the kitchen with Irewamiri as we discussed. She noticed my tears and said, ” Darling, God brought it this far, He will surely do it”. It took some months but it eventually got done.
The devil aims to weaken you- He will use anything at all to do it. He knows that a weak believer will make bad choices. Once you are weak, your decisions are impacted.
“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!
Isaiah 14:12 NKJV
The secret of Samson came out after he had been burdened with the nagging words of Delilah. The devil weakened him before taking him. A weakened adversary is easy to defeat.
And it came to pass, when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, so that his soul was vexed to death, that he told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.” Judges 16:16 – 17 NKJV
• *Weakness will make you say what you are not meant to say*: When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the Lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up once more, for he has told me all his heart.” So the Lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.
Judges 16:18 NKJV
• *Weakness will make you stay where you are not meant to stay*: Then she lulled him to sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him. Judges 16:19 NKJV
• *Weakness will bring people into your space who will take advantage of you*: Then she lulled him to sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Judges 16:19a NKJV
• *Weakness will make you lose valuable things*: “…and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him” Judges 16:19 NKJV
• *Weakness makes you lose discernment. Once discernment is lost, the devil’s agenda of destruction has a smooth ride*: And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” So he awoke from his sleep, and said, “I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free!” But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.
Judges 16:20 NKJV
Guard your strength. It is priceless!