Desperate Joy

  So Delilah asked Samson, ‘Please tell me what makes you so strong and what it would take to tie you up securely.’Samson replied, ‘If I were tied up with seven new bowstrings, I would become as weak as anyone else.’  Source: FreeBibleImages.org , Samson's Hair Before there were kings in the nation of Israel, judges were religious and political leaders who organized the scattered tribes of Israel to fight their enemies. One such judge was Samson. Samson is well known for his Holy Spirit-empowered physical strength and ability in battle. He single-handedly killed hundreds of enemy Philistines and at one point pulled out the gates of a city and carried them away. There are not too many people that the Bible says were filled with the Holy Spirit like Samson was. He was uniquely gifted and used by God. He is honored in the "Hall of Faith" in Hebrews 11, alongside many other people of great faith. But Samson had a problem. As much as he was able to defeat nearly every Ph...

  In 2 Kings 6 in the Bible, we find the king of Syria waging war against the nation of Israel. When the Syrians would plan an attack, the Hebrew prophet Elisha would tell the king of Israel where and when they were going to attack, and they were able to outflank the Syrians in every battle. The king of Syria would attempt sneak attack after sneak attack, and every time Elisha would spoil his plans.  The king of Syria started to think that he had a spy in his court. One of his advisors told him that it was not a spy, but Elisha was telling the king of Israel "the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber."  They discovered that Elisha was in the town of Dothan, and the king of Syria sent a mighty army there. Here is what Scripture says:   "...When the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host compassed the city both with horses and chariot. And his servant said unto [Elisha], Alas, my master! how shall we do? And he answered, Fear not...