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Judges chapter 16, verse 20. And she said, philistines are upon you samson and he awoke from his sleep

and said i will go out as at other times and shake myself free but he did not know that the lord had left him

what a verse samson being attacked by the Philistines, thinks he has strength,

just like he's had in the past, to overcome them. But he did not know that the Lord had left him.

The very next verse says the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes

and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. Oh, there's a lot we could talk about here,

but the main point seems crystal clear. We need the presence of God in our lives at every single

moment. From the moment we wake up, we are totally dependent on his presence with us. To the moment

we go to sleep and even after we go to sleep, and even after we go to sleep, at all times, we are

totally desperately dependent on the presence of God with us. So let's live like this.

Let's, from the moment we wake up, fix our eyes on God, to the moment we go to sleep, fixing

our eyes on God as the one we need for

strength and peace and help and wisdom and everything, everything good comes from him and from

his presence with us and the beauty is in a way that was not true in judges for us as followers

of Jesus. We have the presence of God in us, the Holy Spirit in us.

So let's live in communion with God's spirit in us, walking and step with His Spirit, not grieving His Spirit, living in total dependence on,

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