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Welcome To Hope C Hopkins Website |
Secretly I am a galactic warrior from another planet but don’t tell anyone, I am here to save earth from those pesky aliens
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Continuing on in Judges 16 chapter and 20th verse, but he did not know that the Lord had left him. And the Philistines seized him and gouge out his eyes and bought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison but the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved. Samson had lost his freedom. He was bound in shackles, never able to see the rising of the sun. His strength from God was gone. His future uncertain, his direction no longer having a path and he had no one to love. He was by himself, alone. He had lost it all, reduced to slave labor. He was just an ordinary man now. He was made to go round and round a large grindstone to grind grain for his enemies. This was normally the work of an animal. All hope seemed lost for Samson. Continuing on in Judges 16 and the 23rd verse, now the Lords of the Philistines gathered to offer great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to rejoice and they said, our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand. And when the people saw him, they praised their god. For they said our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country who has killed many of us. Now sticking another pan in there, their god Dagon was the fish god. His priests sang praises of the greatness of their fish god or little fish. It had the body of a fish with the hands and head of a man. It was the Philistines god, it might’ve come from Babylon or Nineveh. At this very moment the Philistines think they have won because they captured Samson. Continuing on in Judges 16 chapter and the 25th verse and when their hearts were marry they said call Samson that he may entertain us. So they called Samson out of prison and he entertain them. They made him stand between the pillars and Samson said to the young man who helped him by the hand, let me fill the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them. Now the house was full of men and women, all the Lords of the Philistines are there and on the roof there were about 3,000 men and women who looked on while Samson entertain them. Then Samson called to the Lord and said, oh Lord God, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once O God that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes. And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other. And Samson said with his final words, let me die with Philistines. Then he bowed with all his strength and the house fell upon the Lords and upon all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he had killed during his life. Thanks guys for stopping by and liking my posts, you guys are AWESOME!!! Until next time. Hello everyone my new book is available to buy. It is available on smashwords, barns and noble, amazon kindle, apple ibooks, and kobo. It is called Run Cassie Run and here is the synopsis as well as the links where you can buy it: No one plans the day they die But I did every day I knew every day could be my last Each hit Each punch Could end it all But somehow I keep surviving Peter’s abuse I can’t take it I want it to be over So today is my last day This is it This is the day I die… -Cassie Walker Cassie Walker at the age of 16 was captured and forced into sex trafficking for eight years by the man she thought loved her. Peter Doyle a Wolf in sheep’s clothing appeared to be her knight in shining armor but he deceived her making her fall in love with him then he imprisoned her into his sex trafficking business. In the grueling eight years of her life stolen from her Cassie can’t handle the abuse, rape and drugs they forced her to take any longer. All she wants to do is end her life, it’s the only answer, the only solution… But when the opportunity presents itself will she be able to escape Peter Doyle? Will she be able to have a normal life? Even have a chance at love? True love? https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/749062 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/run-cassie-run-hope-hopkins/1127133808?ean=2940154558416 https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/run-cassie-run Run Cassie Run by Hope Hopkins https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/run-cassie-run/id1287733492?mt=11 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B075S6LR3C/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1506096708&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=hope+hopkins&dpPl=1&dpID=51x52-FswFL&ref=plSrch So, Delilah went to work trying to find out Samson’s secret to his strength. When they were in bed she whispered, do you truly love me? Samson said, sure I do. So, Delilah said, Samson please tell me where your great strength lies and how you might be bound that one could subdue you. Samson played with her for three times, telling her she could bound him with seven bowstring’s that have not been dried and he would become weak like any other man but that didn’t work. Next, he told her to bind him in new ropes and he would be weak but again that didn’t work. The third time came close to the truth. He told her if she weaved the seven locks of my head with the web and fasten it tight with the pin then he should become weak like any other man but again it did not work and she became frustrated with Samson telling him how can you say I love you when your heart is not with me? Again, Delilah was living up to her name because her name also means frustrated one. So, she pressed Samson day after day trying to find out his secret and finally he told her. He said a razor has never come upon my head for I have been a Nazirite to God in my mother’s womb. If my head is shaved, my strength will leave me and I should become weak like any other man. When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart she sent and called the Lords of the Philistines saying, come up again for he has told me all his heart. And the Lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hands. She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. And she began to torment him, and his strength left him. And she said, the 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. As a note, always know Samson’s strength wasn’t in his hair, his strength came from God, and God alone. His hair represented the covenant he made with God as a Nazirite he was never to cut his hair but he disobeyed God and broke his covenant with him. Once that covenant was broken God left him. 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