BEFORE YOU STEP OUT TODAY TUESDAY 17/01/2023

TOPIC : ITS TIME FOR A NEW BEGINNING

TEXT HEBREW 12:1 

[1]THEREFORE THEN, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us,

SIN WILL CRIPPLE YOUR JOURNEY THIS YEAR.

Judges 16:1-4

[1]THEN SAMSON went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.

[2]The Gazites were told, Samson has come here. So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They were quiet all night, saying, In the morning, when it is light, we will kill him.

[3]But Samson lay until midnight, and [then] he arose and took hold of the doors of the city's gate and the two posts, and pulling them up, bar and all, he put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is before Hebron.

[4]After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah.

Samson was anointed to be a deliverer for God's people.

Samson's mother was warned of things to avoid while Samson was yet in the womb to avoid contamination.

She was also warmed by the Angel what Samson must avoid although his life.

The reason for these abstinence is because certain things can hamper our focus and destroy our direction.

There is a difference between motion and momentum.

A car can role down a slope, it will be moving as if it's in motion yet the engine has long been put off.

That was the case with Samson, he could come off the bed of adultery and still perform wonders with his strength but he did not know that the engine had been switched off.

Do not try to run this year with a car whose engine has been switched off.

Sin can knock the engine of your destiny

When Samson tried another of that stunt with another daughter of the devil Delilah, he met his Waterloo.

Be warned.

God bless you.

With the God I serve, nothing shall be impossible.

Your case is not bigger than God.

May you have a God filled day in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. 

Your Victory is already guaranteed

It is well, do not give up, with God all things  are possible

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For further reading,   

Genesis 17,18, Matthew 17,18.