FAITH CAPSULE: A careless sleep over the word of God is a slipup that will expose man to untimely death. 

Judges 16

Judges 16:1-2 document, “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 word of God over the life of Samson made it impossible to be killed.
Before he was born, God sent His word through His angel that declared Samson shall 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. 
Repeatedly, Samson could not become a vessel of the forces of the wicked. 
Once, a lion caught up with him by surprise, but he teared it up like a young goat (Judges14:5-6). 
Power demonstration in the life of Samson was uncommon because the word of God was intact in his life. 
The spirit of God constantly kept and delivered Samson from trouble.
He was a mighty man of God.
He was above all that attempted to take his life because the hand of God was upon him to keep Him awake and alive.
Know to engage the delivering word of God that will keep you above or beyond any evil agenda. 
One of God that delivers must be jealously secured, and there should never be a careless sleep over the word of God.
A careless sleep over the word of God is the avenue to slip up that will expose man to untimely death. 
Despite all that God deposited in the life of Samson, he overthrew himself when he had a careless sleep. 
Samson revealed what was to be kept secret from Delilah. 
Samson should have seen the warning signs when he engaged Delilah, whose name means lustful. 
Lust and temptation are combination avenues to fail before God.
Delilah, the lustful one, brought temptation to Samson in an attempt to terminate Samson before his time. 
Indeed, Samson entered into a careless sleep after revealing the source of what God had deposited in his life. 
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 sleep by Samson is a slipup, a careless sleep that made him a victim of his enemy that took victory away. 
Samson had a careless sleep; the word of God vacated him, and he fell for his enemy. 
Are you having a careless sleep? 
Whenever one violates the word of God, such will become a candidate for the victim of an evil agenda.  

Prayer for today: Ask that you will be constantly awake in the word of God for your deliverance and preservation.