Moving Forward - What's Holding You Back

It's hard to move forward in your walk with God when you have things in your life that are holding you back

1. WHO AM I

2. MY PHILOSOPHY OF YOUTH MINISTRY

3. MY PHILOSOPHY OF YOUTH MINISTRY POINTING YOU TO CHRIST

4. MY ASSUMPTIONS FOR TODAY

5. I NEED A STRONG MAN

6. KEY POINT: It's hard to move forward when you have things in your life that are holding you back.

7. SO WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT SAMSON?

8. SAMSON’S STORY

9. SAMSON AND DELILAH

10. SAMSON AND DELILAH -- WITH TIM HAWKINS

11. SAMSON AND DELILAH -- WITH TIM HAWKINS

12. SAMSON AND DELILAH

13. “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you.” Judges 16:6

14. “ …bind me with 7 fresh bow strings that have not been dried” Judges16 : 8

15. “If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man” Judges 16 : 11

16. “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and fasten it tight with a pin, then I shall become weak and be like any other man” Judges 16 : 13

17. “And she said to him, “ How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies.” Judges 16 : 15

18. “And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death. ” Judges 16 : 16

19. “And he told her all his heart, and said to her, “A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite 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.” Judges 16 : 17

20. "Samson and Delilah" - Rembrandt - c1625 She made him fall asleep on her knees. She called in a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head.

21. "Samson Captured by the Philistines" - Guercino - 1619 She woke him up as the Philistines were about to get him. He thought he could break free like before…

22. "Samson Captured by the Philistines" - Guercino - 1619 The Philistines seized him – gouged out his eyes and brought him to Gaza to work as a slave.

23. LETS THINK ABOUT THIS… He was set apart – a Nazirite to God He gets himself into a bad relationship He tricks Delilah 3 times while she is trying to trick him She finally wears him down He gives into her and looses everything

24. SAMSON WAS PLAYING WITH FIRE

25. SAMSON’S LUST HELD HIM BACK FROM ACHIEVING GOD’S PLAN FOR HIS LIFE

26. SO WHAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK?

27. BAD RELATIONSHIPS

28. PORNOGRAPHY

29. DRUGS OR ALCOHOL

30. TIME WASTERS

31. NOT DOING THE RIGHT THINGS

32. BODY IMAGE

33. BEING ACCEPTED OR POPULAR

34. ???

35. SO NOW WHAT!? WHAT ACTIONS CAN I TAKE?

36. BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS

37.   “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go…” Joshua 1:7 (NIV)

38. MOVING FORWARD MEANS FORGETTING THE PAST AND STRAINING FORWARD TO WHAT LIES AHEAD

39. …Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it…

40. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead , I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Philippians 13 :12-14 (NIV )

41. GETTING HELP

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