If you feel like your life is unstable right now, these 5 keys will help you brace yourself for whatever life throws your way.
I want to check your stability today
okay I want to check your emotional
stability are your emotion stable I
should probably ask your kids I should
probably ask your boss oh man Samson was
a drama queen operated not just by
emotion but he operated for most is the
difference you need to have emotions I
mean come on
what kind of preacher would I be if I
didn’t have emotions what can you
imagine like you know the band’s
finishing a song and I walk up with no
emotion how I just killed the whole
thing I’ll praise the Lord if you want
to I mean you don’t have to don’t feel
like this all right I’m glad God gave me
my emotions but he gave them to me that
means I get to use them for his purpose
and some of you you don’t have emotions
they have you must scan the room real
quick yeah yes about fifty fifty men and
women see when I say emotions you think
I’m talking about her I think men are
ten times more emotional than women
oh yeah oh yeah governor haki
oh yeah yeah you are too because look
Samson’s wives would cry but Samson
would kill who’s more emotional I mean I
need my emotions and you need your
emotions to do what we’re called to do
if you’re gonna preach you need to feel
it when you preach I don’t care what any
of y’all say you need me to holler every
once in a while when I’m preaching you
know you do you need me to holler at you
one time nothing more than to wake you
up and and and you need me every once in
a while when I’m preaching bring it down
with the hushed forced with intimacy
emotions in it crazy though the same
emotions that can make me a good
preacher can make me a crazy driver cuz
I could get just as loud behind the
wheel as I can behind the mic it’s what
you do with them and and I believe God
gave Samson if you want to read a story
this week from judges 13 to 16
that would be your homework and read how
how God called him to deliver the
Philistines and he gave him the
emotional passion to do it but but but
Samson took his passion and spin it on
his preference instead of applying it to
his purpose so instead of delivering his
people from the Philistines he reacted
out of rage and married the Philistines
are you stable in your emotions and are
you stable in your commitment because if
you consult your emotions to determine
whether or not to keep your commitment
you’ll never be stable three things
Samson was told not to do and he did all
three of them
because he wasn’t committed now I’m
gonna tell you something I didn’t tell
any of the other worship experiences if
you want to hear it say oh yeah say I
totally want to hear this pastor Steve
Anna when the angel came to tell
Samson’s mom that he was supposed to be
a deliverer of Israel she never told his
dad that and I wonder did anybody ever
tell him or did he just grow up knowing
that he was strong and not know what he
was strong for because when you have a
strength that you don’t give an
assignment to it turns into apathy and
you spend it in all kinds of crazy ways
so I want you to check your ambition
that’s the third thing your ambition are
you stable in your ambition because of
what you want isn’t what God wants even
if you get it it’ll destroy you and all
I can find in the Bible that Samson ever
wanted bad enough to do something to get
it was revenge and women so he had the
strength to accomplish it but he didn’t
have the ambition to point the strength
in the right direction Elijah asked me
regularly if I think he’s gonna be a
great musician and I tell him honestly
cuz I’m a dad mom can tell him yeah baby
you’re gonna be the best uh-huh that’s
not my job my job is to say it depends
because what one coach that I had said
there’s three things you need to be
great in sports and I believe it applies
to anything in life he said you need
talent and Elijah’s Got Talent he’s
always been beaten on something in
rhythms and she was like he’s beating on
Holly when he was inside of her and feel
him kicking and stuff and he’s got that
second thing you need which is
opportunity because I bought him two
instruments and I put him in the classes
but he said the third thing you need is
Drive and nobody can put the desire in
you
nobody can can put it in you to want it
can I tell you the problem with a lot of
us we don’t want enough we don’t want
enough we just want a job we don’t want
to make a difference there
we just want enough for us we don’t ever
ask God God would you give me more than
enough and I’m not just talking about
money I’m talking about
other resources as well I need I need
more opportunity to be a blessing I
don’t just want to be blessed I want to
be a blessing Samson was only strong
enough to get what he wanted nothing
more and he underperformed his potential
because he didn’t have stable ambition
he saw a woman he wanted her he took her
took what he wanted but if your ambition
is not aligned with your assignment even
your achievements will be empty and he
lost his strength he lost it in stages
with every compromise and eventually
came to the point where he felt weak but
he wasn’t weak he was unstable an
unstable man in an unstable nation and
you know what I think Simpsons big deal
was and maybe this is just a breakout
session for the students in the church
is are you stable in your relationships
Sampson got into all of his trouble
listening to the wrong people wanting to
be around the wrong people he was
hooking up with the Philistines that he
was supposed to kill I’m not telling you
to kill anybody but I am saying that in
this season of your life if God is to
stabilize you so that you can be
stronger you can’t keep leaning on weak
people
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thank you thanks for the applause I feel
the love there’s very little of it what
little there is I feel it because if you
get around the wrong group of friends
and you think I’m just talking to
teenagers I’m talking about some of us
that live in isolation it’s not that we
have the wrong people we have nobody
Samson wouldn’t listen to his parents
who told him don’t marry that Philistine
woman he wouldn’t listen to the ones who
really loved him he fell in love with
the ones who hated him so if you keep
leaning on weak people don’t be
surprised when they let you down if you
put your head into Lila’s lap don’t be
surprised when you wake up Paul come on
in this season you might need some new
people you might have to join a new
group you might need a new squad touch
somebody say I got goals
I got squat goals and in this season of
my life I need somebody who’s stable I
can’t just be around people who are this
way one day and the number way the next
I need to be around some people who have
thing check your neighbor and say are
you stable come on check out my plush on
them a little bit take can you take a
storm and stay with me can you put up
with the trials of life and persevere
and some stable people stable stable
stable stable it means that you know it
can’t just be pushed around see this
camera is on a tripod you can’t see it
but the reason that it’s able to hold
steady is because of what’s under it God
said it’s not what’s happening at the
surface that’s causing your life to go
up and down you’ll just need
a stable foundation are you stable and
so he’s gonna stabilize this to fit
thing my belief
how many believers do I have but but
belief belief belief in what you can’t
see they they cut Simpsons hair and
after they cut his hair he had forfeited
his strength because he had lost his
stability and then so once they took his
stability they took his sight they
gouged out his eyes but when they took
out his eyes physically it was only an
external indication of what had already
happened internally because Simpson
hadn’t had vision for twenty years and
he and he became a slave a strongman
became a slave his strength was turned
into weakness and they let him out one
day to the temple of Dagon that was
their grain God
the Philistines this oppressive people
they brought him out and they had 3,000
people watching him and the one who had
made a laughingstock of them they were
now laughing at and I want to show it
show it to you real quick because it
says while they were in high spirits 25
they said let’s bring out Samson to
entertain us so they called Samson out
of the prison and he performed for them
but then they made a mistake what they
did next was their downfall because the
Bible says that they stood him among the
pillars what do pillars do to a building
they
stabilized the building so they put him
among the pillars and when they put him
up among the pillars see he can’t see he
doesn’t have his eyes anymore and I want
you to watch with me how it was in his
most vulnerable state that Samson
accomplished his greatest victory
I came to preach this message today for
somebody who needs a second chance maybe
your strength has seen very low lately
maybe you’ve collapsed under the
pressure of an unstable life but Samson
now Samson is standing there and he
doesn’t have his sight and they saved
this here but another mistake that they
made when they shaved his head is when
they shaved his head they should have
taken his scalp because one thing about
hair is see that’s when Holly sometimes
she’ll say I’m thinking about getting a
haircut what do you think and I say try
it if you don’t like it it’ll always in
a wife and so Samson now it’s been a
while and they cut his hair and he gave
up his strength but guess what it’s
growing back I came with an announcement
or so
under oppression your strength is common
that’s three people telling me scrolling
back it’s gone back I see you scrolled
back you said to the servant well the
sermon is a blessing to me thank you
Lord for second chances
thank you for a new strength thank you
for renewing my I thank you for placing
me among the pillar
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you said put me where I can feel the
pillars so so they put him where he
could feel the pillars everybody say
dumb move they put him where he could
feel the pillars and he’s with us with
his eyes gouged out he said I want to
feel the pillars that I may lean against
them
and then I want to go to verse 29
because I think it brings full circle
what I’ve been trying to say to you
today then Samson reached okay
he can’t see but he can reach he’s
reaching to Samson reached toward the
two central pillars on which the temple
stood now the next two words I’m gonna
need your help with cuz I can’t see but
the Bible says that Samson did something
in this momentum that created his
greatest victory and when I say three I
want you to shout out what he did next
what did he do one two three
he did what he did what what you’re
gonna do in this next season what you’re
gonna do in the storms rage what you’re
gonna do when it seems like hope is lost
what you’re gonna do when friends
forsake you what you’re gonna do when
you don’t know what to do I’m a brace
myself
raise your some I has not seen ear has
not heard
to the hearts of man what God has
five spirit it was when he couldn’t see
that he believed and Sampson prayed to
the Lord in his weak state now I
understand it he turned weakness into
strength because he believed when he
couldn’t see and he he did in his death
what he was never able to do in his life
he braced himself and when he braced
himself he pushed the pillars and when
he pushed the pillars with all of his
mind because he braced himself he found
out his strength never left him it was
there all along and you’re about to
discover today this is a stabilizing
word God sent me with a message to
stabilize you today
you’ve been tossed and driven like James
says you’ve been like a wave of the sea
tossed and driven with the wind a double
minded man is unstable in all of his
ways and you hadn’t been strong cuz you
hadn’t been stable but if you brace
yourself
well look there’s my sermon points look
how that turned out would you do me the
proud honor of locating 12 people Andrey
preached in my sermon and tell embrace
yourself would you do it would you find
him right now and tell him brace
yourself for what God’s about to do in
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