Love Connections
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Transcript
Dealing with people who love connecting to the wrong things, and how to connect to the right one.
Scripture
Judges 13-16
Relationships
Habits
Social connections
Story of Samson
God will always regiment our lifestyle that can help us determine our ability to connect to the things He desire for us to connect to.
God planned for Samson to marry the woman from Timnah which the place in and of itself’s literal meaning was forbidden. (Judges 14:1)
How many time have we found ourselves knowingly in forbidden places and you have been told not to engage these people, places, and things yet you did anyway?
The very thing we want to connect to typically if we have not consulted God it doesn’t want us and God has a way of showing us even when He presents it to us to show us that it means you no good. (14:4) What you think is good to you, is not always good for you. We have to be careful of what we are so passionate for and about. Samson was super aggressive of pursuing this woman.
How many times have you talked to your friend about a potential interest and they give you their genuine thoughts concerning a thing only for you to go against the very thing they told you to look out for full throttle?
You better be careful of who you call “The One” when you have not consulted God nor those that genuinely care for you, you could be connecting to somebody that is about to make the holes in your life LARGER! (Judges 14:7)
A bunch of people connecting to WiFi, it will eventually slow it down and hinder its performance.
Is this a distraction or is it a connection?
Society has completely watered down the meaning of friend. SM is now the new definition of friends, which is NOT. A TRUE CONNECTION….
Prov 17:17 now are they really friends….. we should allows HS to choose our friends and not us, because we are incapable of choosing the ones that won’t interfere with the trajectory of our purpose. Half of your friends can’t keep their mouth off of you, and a quarter of you keep them around because you don’t want to be alone while the other quarter of you are trying to figure out the proximity of those connections.
You have to be careful of the connections you expose to other connections that have not been tested through these adversities, they very well may come along and steal the very ones you desire to connect to. (Judges 14:19-20)
Samson’s best man was the one his just married wife went on to be with. Now what kind of friend is that? What did I tell you last week? Some things you need to just flat out keep it to yourself! You cannot trust everybody with your decisions! You are out here trying to connect with this one and that one and as soon as something bad happens they run along and take you for all that you have leaving you with little to nothing.
9 Things To Remember
Connections must be sacred
Pursuing the Wrong Connections can cost you Your life if you are not careful!
Don’t call somebody your Best Friend until they have gone through Worst Times with you! #labelsmatter
What is your motive behind the pursuit of these connections and those pursuing you? #checkthemharshly #HolySpiritIsYourCheatSheet
Choosing your connections with the wrong sight can cost you, your vision of what God truly has for you. #yourspacematters #whoisinit
Emotional Connections are toxic connections, stay away from them at all cost they never end well. #whimsNmoods
Unhealthy connections only thrive on transactions that only benefit them. Every woman that Samson pursued would only stay connected to him based off of what they could give them.
Unhealthy connections are strategist they wait for the right time to trap you and are RELENTLESSLY IN PURSUIT!
9. You are not allowed to blame God for the connections that you created, nor should feel entitled to Him helping you get out of them. (Heb 12:1-3) #DropTheWeightYourself
Samson was insecure, because who else would run after somebody that was told no good for you, on a consistent basis? Think about it.
Being alone until God connects you to the right people ain’t a bad thing. It’s a great thing.
The space of being alone, will ALWAYS be occupied by the One Who Can Fill. El Dios Pourenti di Extremitous aka the God who Pours into my Extremities!!!! Excuse me I just made that up.
Social media, video streaming, conversations that came via text/email.... these are all mediums that can Tain your ability to connect. If you know that person, place, or thing is unhealthy, then why would you entertain it? Samson knew that where he was in an ungodly place, yet he found no fault in finding a female or a fight and engaging in it recklessly.
God doesn’t make a mistake with us ever Psa 100:3
3 Know this: God is God, and God, God.
He made us; we didn’t make him.
We’re his people, his well-tended sheep.
There are times where you will have to lose your sight of what you were once connected to, to gain God’s vision of what that connection did to you and why you needed to be disconnected from it to begin with.