When the Holy Spirit comes on you, a damp squib, a WlNh-out, will become a stick of dynamite. The impossible Will become possible.
I Samuel 8:4 tells us that Israel wanted a King:
So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. They said to him, "You are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint a King to lead us, such as all the other nations have."
Samuel was displeased, that the people did not recognize the LORD as their King. When the people of Israel persisted, the LORD let them have their desire.
The Bible says there was a man in Israel called Saul (1 Samuel 9:1-2), whose duty was to look after his father's donkeys. Taking care of sheep is one thing, but taking care of donkeys? What a job! He was given this work by his father, Kish, who evidently thought Saul was useless.
And he didn't even make a success of that job. He managed to lose two of his father's donkeys. So he took a servant and went to look for them. After combing the entire territory of Benjamin without finding the donkeys, Saul wanted to return home. But his servant said (verse 6):
"Look in this town there is a man of God; he is highly respected, and everything he says comes true. Let's go there now. Perhaps he will tell us what way to take."
Saul agrees and the story continues in verses 15-21
Now the day before Saul came, the LORD had revealed this to Samuel: "About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin. Anoint him leader over my people Israel, for their cry has reached me"... Saul approached Samuel in the gateway and asked, "Would you please tell me where the seer's house is?" "I am a seer," Samuel replied. "Go up ahead of me to the high place, for today you are to eat with me, and in the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is in your heart. As for the donkeys you lost three days ago, do not worry about them; they have been found. And to whom is all the desire of Israel turned, if not to you and all your father's family?" Saul answered, "But am I not a Benjamite, from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why do you say such a thing to me?"
When Saul heard that Samuel was talking about him the leader of Israel he just listed all the reasons why It Couldn't happen: his tribe was the least in importance, his family the lowest-ranked in that tribe, and he was the most unless member of his family, which was why he was a donkey boy. "Oh prophet," he would have said. "How can I be a King, with my lack of ability?"
But once again we see the same answer to an impossible situation. In 1 Samuel 10:6, Samuel says:
"The Spirit of the LORD will come upon you in power, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person."
Did you know that when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you become a different person? In my own life I have proved the truth of this.
Today I preach before thousands. But if you had met me before I became a Christian you would have noticed a vast difference. I could not have stood up to speak even to two people. I went to a school in which medium of instruction was Telugu not English. I could not even put together a simple sentence in English before I was born again. I spoke Telugu and Kannada fluently, but no other language.
Then in 1983, I gave my life to the Lord Jesus Christ Within a week I was baptized with the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit came upon me, I became a different person Today I stand before thousands of people and preach the good news. And this former Telugu medium schoolboy even went to England to preach to the English people.
Whenever I meet former classmates of mine they arc staggered at the change in me. They ask what has made; mt such a different person. They are right - I am a different man! It happened when the Holy Spirit came upon me.
We read the story of Samson, a judge of Israel, it Judges chapter 13. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Samson was muscular. The great strength for which he is famous stemmed from the Holy Spirit coming upon him. In chapter 14:5 we read:
Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring towards him. The Spirit of the LORD came upon him in power so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor mother what he had done.
When the young lion came roaring towards Samson h tore it apart so easily not because of his own strength, bu because the Spirit of the Lord came upon him.
When the Spirit of the Lord is upon you, if your enemy the devil is getting at you, or you face massive problem,
you will not turn and run. In the might of God's Spirit, you Will march straight up to the problem and tear it to pieces!
It is time that the church of Jesus Christ roared back at (He devil. The devil has roared for long enough. Problems, sickness, poverty - all these scourges have intimidated the child of God like lions. Let's not run away, but face them with a roar and tear the enemy into pieces!
But I can almost hear the familiar question: "How can I do that, Rambabu?"
You will roar back at the devil when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and the power of the most high overshadows you. When Samson returned to the spot where he had torn the young lion apart, he found a swarm of bees and some honey in the lion's carcass (Judges 14:8).
Just like the honey in the lion's carcass, when you roar back at the enemy in the power of the Holy Spirit, you will tear the problem apart and from the problem will come a blessing for you.
In Judges Chapter 15, the Bible says that Samson Clucked the Philistines viciously and slaughtered many of (him to get vengeance because they had burned his wife and father-in-law to death. Then Samson hid himself in a cave. We read in verse 9-11:
The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, spreading out near Lehi. The men of Judah asked, "Why have you come to fight us?" "We have come to take Samson prisoner," they answered, "to do to him as he did to us." Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the Rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you realize Ihat the Philistines are rulers over us? What have you done to us?"
When Samson looked at 3,000 Israelites coming toward him, he must have thought his people were coming lo support him because they recognized the anointing on his life and would stand with him against the enemy, the Philistines. But sadly that was not the case (verse 12):
They said to him, "We have come to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines."
Here was a man anointed by the Holy Spirit. But instead of backing him up, instead of standing with him, they were ready to give him over to the enemy.
Friend, when you see an anointed servant of God, stand by him, support him, and never work against him.
Samson made them swear that they would not kill him themselves (verse 12). Though there were 3,000 of them, they hadn't have the guts to arrest Samson without his permission. They knew that he had the anointing of the Holy Spirit and if they turned against him, he would tear them all to pieces.
Play with fire, play with electricity, play with a nuclear missile, if you like. But don't pl
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