* A lot of us want to change but a lot of us are struggling to change is because we're trying to change at a fruit level vs. the root level
* Store of Samson & Delilah - a lot of us don't even recognize that Samson was already in trouble way before Delilah came on the scene.
Judges 14:1-3
Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. So he went up and told his father and mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, get her for me as a wife.” Then his father and mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your brethren, or among all my people, that you must go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” And Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
>>> God already gave an instruction not to intermarry with them because they would turn your hearts after their god
* We already see Samson with an issue of lust, issue with wrong picks. Wrong picks create wrong cycles.
Judges 16:1
Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.
Judges 16:46
Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.” So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and with what you may be bound to afflict you.”
* The spirit of Delilah will always visit you in the valley - in that low season, season of uncertainty.
* The spirit of Delilah is anything that tries to attack where you're strong; wants to hit your strong spot and make you in bondage there. This is why we hear the enemy the most in the area that we're most effective
ENTANGLEMENT (Ensnared) - compromising relationship (example: relationship that you know won't last long but you're still tolerating it)
* Pleasure
* Possessions
* Power
* Unaddressed pain
WEB OF PLEASURE
- they'll be intoxicated with things that are killing them and they don't recognize I'm killing them softly
CHASE POSSESSIONS
- caught up with chasing things (cars, houses) but the enemy wants things to have you. You'll lie, compromise, forget Jesus to get them because I want more which helps me engage in idolatry
WEB OF POWER
- doesn't matter whom you'll hurt or destroy (chauvinistic, narcissistic, dictator)
UNADDRESSED PAIN
- not talking about your pain so that pain can add layers to you
Phases of Entanglement:
LURE - DRAW - HOOK
We have preferences for God. We have ways we want God to do it. When He doesn't do it, we think He's silent. Some people stopped praying because they think God is not answering them, but He is. He is just answering in a way that you don't want Him to. God does not have to do it the way we want to do it. We're not in control, God is.
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