It's a Trap!

Judges 14-16

Hosea 7:9a

The Holy Ghost "came upon" Samson to give him victory over his enemies as long as he was walking in obedience to God. The obedience was in not cutting his hair and following the additional rules given to those of the Nazirite order. When he gave in to the temptations of the enemy which resulted in his hair being cut he experienced sudden destruction. The Holy Ghost represents the Spirit of God and it can not move when it does not recognize Holiness or obedience to God.

Many that are filled with the Holy Ghost today are in Samson like situations, lying with the "tempter" too long. Their heads are lying in the wrong laps. When you continue to lie with the tempter you are building up the flesh and not your inner man ( the Holy Ghost) and the desires of the flesh will eventually overtake you. When Delilah advised Samson that the Philistines were upon him after she had cut his hair, he went to shake himself as in previous times but the Lord had departed from him (Judges 16:20).

What was so devastating is the fact that Samson did not even recognize that the Holy Ghost had left him . The Bible states that enemy comes to steal, kill, and DESTROY (John 10:10) but it also says that we are not ignorant to satan's devices (II Corinthians 2:11). When we build the flesh and not our inner man, where the Spirit lives, we will not be able to recognize nor overcome the devices that the enemy has laid to distract/destroy us. I thank God for his mercy! Samson was given another chance when he called upon the God of his salvation (Judges 16:28)! God still received the glory and won the victory over the enemy! I thank God for being a merciful and kind God today! If you recognize that you are lying with the tempter, I advise you to turn to Jesus and repent today. You never know when you may arise and the enemy is upon you to destroy you and the Holy Ghost has departed.