Femi Lazarus warns that negative thoughts are bullies designed to wear you down, using the Samson and Delilah story to show how persuasion saps strength. He argues premature death and suffering require your permission, and urges you to refuse the deal that hands your agency to despair.
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Thoughts are not as simple as you think. Thoughts are bullies. Bullies. The devil is trying to bully you by bringing the same suppressive thing again and again. You may die young. You may have cancer at some point. You may have a sickness that can't be cured at some point. You may have. And you— it gets to a point where— look at what Delilah did to Samson. She wear him out with sweet persuasion. He became tired. So the devil tries to wear people out. If those things are automatic, why are they passing through your thoughts? Even sicknesses— people get sick to a point that they begin to say something like 'Let me just go.' At that point, there's almost nothing you can do to help them. Everyone that was snatched off, you will see it in confession. At some point in the statement, they always signed the deal. May I tell you this, that even if you have a dream that you see yourself in a coffin It is waiting for your permission. The issue is there are some of us around town who have refused to take anything else but what the world says. Don't take it, it's not yours. Don't take it. Premature death is not yours. Lack is not yours. Don't take it. Do you understand what I'm saying?