FAITH CAPSULE: Samson slips into a careless sleep to become a victim of his enemies. 

Judges 16

Samson became a target for his enemy to destroy his life.
Judges 16:1-2 records, “Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there and went into her. When the Gazites were told, “Samson has come here!” 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 daylight, we will kill him.”  
The enemies of Samson failed could not kill him because he was hiding in the living word of God with command over his life. 
Before the birth of Samson, God sent His word through His angel that declared that Samson should be a Nazirite (not to drink wine, not to eat anything unclean, and no razor should touch his hair) from birth for the rest of his life.
Samson could not become a victim of his enemies. 
With a lion, Samson tears up the lion like a young goat (Judges14:5-6). 
The power demonstration in the life of Samson was uncommon because the word of God was intact over his life as his hiding place. 
The spirit of God constantly kept and delivered Samson from trouble. 
He was a mighty man of God that was hiding in the word of God. 
Are you hiding in the word of God for your preservation?
The living word of God that is keeping one from evil agenda must be jealously secured, and there should never be a careless sleep for one hiding in the word of God.
A careless sleep over the word of God is the avenue to slip up to fall into the hand enemy for an untimely death.
Samson later exposed himself to the wicked world as Delilah, his wife, penetrated his life.
Samson should have seen the warning signals when he engaged Delilah, whose name means lustful. 
With lust comes temptation. 
Delilah, the lustful one, brought temptation to Samson in an attempt to terminate Samson before his time. 
Samson entered a careless sleep after revealing the source of his hiding in the word of God wrongly to Delilah. 
Judges 16:20 records, “And she said, ‘The Philistines are upon you, Samson! So he awoke from the sleep, and said, ‘I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free! But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.’” 
The slipup of Samson was a careless sleep which made him a victim of his enemy.
Samson had a careless sleep; the word of God vacated him, and he became a victim of his enemy.
Are you having a careless sleep that keeps one as a hiding place? 
A careless violation of the word of God is a violation to become a victim of an evil agenda. 

Prayer for today: Ask that you will not become a victim of not hiding in the word of God.