Samson never prayed for strength.. Not once. The strongest man in the Bible — the man who killed a lion with his bare hands, who toppled a building with his arms — never asked God for what everyone remembers him for. Because he didn't have to. Before Samson was born, Jesus showed up to his unnamed, barren mother and spoke over him. Not his strength — his consecration. His set-apartness. His dedication to God from the womb. And out of that consecration the strength came naturally. He didn't pray for it. He lived from it. Judges 13 is the Christophany most people completely miss. Because most people read Samson's story as a cautionary tale about a toxic relationship. But it starts with Jesus appearing to a woman nobody expected — barren, unnamed, considered unclean — and speaking a calling over her son before he existed. Same pattern. Same Jesu ...