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GIVING PERMISSION FOR AFFLICTION (PART 5)

Engr. Benjamin Olamijulo Season 3 Episode 51

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We reflect on Samson and Delilah to show how pressure, compromise, and money can open the door to affliction. We pray for recovery and share practical steps to guard destiny with discernment as a new year begins.

• defining permission for affliction through Samson’s story
• the erosive power of repeated pressure on conviction
• how money incentivizes betrayal and distorts love
• prayers for reversal, restoration, and justice
• cultivating discernment to separate friendship from access
• setting boundaries that protect calling in the new year
• preview of how warriors become slaves and why vigilance matters

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Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. We bring to you good tidings, cavalry greetings, and the living word of God. We pray for his abundant blessings for all our listeners in the name of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Amen. Let us pray. Our loving Father and our God, we praise your name. Thank you for the grace to see the last Sunday in the year. You have been our help in ages past. You are our hope for tomorrow. We pray for a great and prosperous new year. Please, Lord, remove every hurdle that may make 2026 a challenging year and grant us a ride on your shoulder. In your words today, Lord, please grant us access to deep understanding and wisdom to be able to see ourselves through the mirror placed before us. Let it be so, Lord, for we have prayed in Jesus' wonderful name. Amen. The topic of our message is giving permission for affliction. Giving permission for affliction. We read verses 16 to 21. Judges 16, verses 16 to 21. And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death. And he told her all his heart and said to her, Eraser has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazarite to God from my mother's womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man. When the lion 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. Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hands. She made him sleep on her nails, and she called a man and had him shave off the seven logs of his head. Then she began to torment him. And the strength left him, and she said, The Philistines are upon you, Samson. And he awoke from his sleep and said, I will go out at other times and shake myself free. But he did not know that the Lord had left him. And the Philistines seized him and gulped out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the meal in the prison. Brethren, we are so thankful to our living God for his inspiration in the last four series. May the name of God our Lord be glorified forever. Amen. We are not just interested in storytelling, no. The essence of our discussion is to be able to identify and flag such signals when they happen around us. Nobody is immune. People come around daily to seek permission or not to harm us. It's the grace and the wisdom of God that will help us to overcome. I therefore pray that anyone and everyone in bondage, by any means similar to or even different from something's circumstance, God will arise in his power today and start the process of liberation and restoration in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen. In the previous discussions, we have seen the power of putting pressure on somebody and the power of measured pressure. We also discuss the power of audacious approach. People will confidently face you and ask from you, the unthinkable. May the Holy Spirit raise the game and shut them out in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Today we will be talking about the role of money in betrayers. In Judges chapter 16, verse 18. Judges chapter 16, verse 18, from where we read, the Bible says, When the lion saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the Lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up once more, for he has told me all his heart. So the Lord of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand. Delilah virtually sold her husband and love her to his enemies. This lady did all that she could do to destroy her husband for money. Let us check people around us and their behaviors once money is involved. I pray that those who live and die with us and all that they think of is how to sell us to the enemy. God will expose their plans and frustrate it in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen. For money, Judah sold his master Jesus and all the stewardship in the journey of faith. Many are looking at you just the way a goat owner is looking at his goat. May they themselves become the article of trade in the kingdom of darkness, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Now our prayers. Prayer number one. We say, Father, anyone and everyone, trading my destiny or that of my family in the kingdom of darkness. Let power change hand, Lord, and exchange them as the articles of trade. Let their lives, their heads, their children, and comfort be traded for penotes in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Prayer number two. Anywhere and everywhere that my possessions have been traded, let the power of the Holy Spirit arise and recover for me all my possessions. I declare total recovery and restoration for me in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Prayer number three. Every trader and exchanger of destiny, life, favor, good health, success, and every good thing operating around me. The fire of the Holy Spirit exposes, disgraces, and destroys you now, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. You are from now rendered powerless and impotent by the power and the blood of Jesus Christ. Every exchange or trading done in the dream of physical realm, they are reversed and I'm restored in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Thank you, everlasting Father. For we have prayed in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Brethren, let's be always mindful of those around us. That a sheep doesn't eat tiger. Doesn't make a tiger not to love eating a sheep if he sees one. I pray that in the new year and years ahead, evil traders of destiny will not prosper around us in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. The Lord of hosts, in his mercy, we make our environment to host for evil traders to stay in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen. We also have a road of discernment. We need discerned spirit not to confuse enemies by virtue of relationship with friends. We dare not live a life of carelessness. May God keep helping us in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen. In the next episode, by the grace of God, we will be discussing how unfortunate a warrior can become a slave. It can be a humiliating experience. Many heroes of yesteryears are today hiding because they dance to stupid songs of praise. In the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 10, verse 7. Ecclesiastes chapter 10, verse 7, the Bible says, I have seen servants on horses while princes walk on the ground like servants. The Bible describes it as an evil thing under the sun. May none of us experience such a calamity in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Let us all be sensitive to what goes on around us and run from evil setups. We want to appreciate you for your patience and interest in listening to this broadcast. We believe that you have been greatly blessed. Please help us share with as many people as possible. You can also listen to this message and several other previous ones on our podcast streaming codenamed Voice of Trinity. God bless you richly as you do so. Amen. My name is Benjamin Olasukami Olami Julom. Let us pray. Our Father and our God, we give you praises, we give you adoration. Thank you for the grace to see the end of yet another year. Thank you for your words that has been serving as lights unto our feet. Father, we pray that as we approach the new year, you will go ahead of us to make all crooked ways straight. You will smash with your iron rods all the plans of sin and Satan. The whole world will testify to your goodness in our lives. The new year will speak favor and mercy unto us. We will see you more clearly, love you more dearly, and follow you more nearly. Let it be so, Lord, for we've prayed in Jesus' mighty name. Amen.